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Well no. By definition, anorexia is disordered and therefore not healthy. The boards can be mixed. There are ones that aren't really pro, but rather than trying to force anyone to change, try to encourage change and minimizing harm. Other ones are literary encouraging it, and luckily those ones tend to get shut down for a…

Don't listen to the haters OP. The opposite of oil is water. Now, a lot of people are saying shallow is the opposite of deep, but see how shallow frying is just using less oil or air? The opposite of deep is actually "high" - oceans are deep, and skies are high. So look up getting high and fried. You'll see there are all…

Most of the other suggestions about water weight are decent explanations for what's going on right this moment. Do you have a rough idea of what your net carb intake is daily? I personally don't tend to recommend low carb because it tends to be overblown, and I dislike the woo (some of which got me when I was younger)…

There's also a moderation pressure that keeps anyone from really seeing much of threads with numbers below 1200. Unless there is a very specific medical context, most of those threads get cleaned up. If you had the misfortune of viewing a pro-Anna board, you might be left wondering how so many people can have a 0 calorie…

Pretty much that MFP bottoms out at 1200 calories for women. You won't see many men asking on here asking about 1200 calories, even accounting for the difference in number of posters and users. The other part is that people think there are two speeds they should be losing weight: done tomorrow or done yesterday. No one…

Any particular reason for the carnivore diet? Most bodybuilders love their protein but aren't that against carbs.

And that is kind of why I explicitly do not use strength mode when working out on my Garmin. If you are going through sets at a rate that you don't need to pause, chances are you aren't building any strength, you're building aerobic capacity using weights. You're probably at best lifting more over time (if you are) because…

True resting heart rate is supposed to be the rate just before waking, so a device worn overnight is going to be one of the most accurate. It might not represent, though, what your heart rate goes to when you are in a relaxed state at other times. I've found changes in my RHR the most interesting, more than the actual…

His knowledge becomes severely lacking in applicability to anyone doing natural body building. There are people in foreign countries where PEDs are legal (or decriminalized for personal use at least) with a high cost of protein who use them because of the changes in protein breakdown and nitrogen balance - thus reducing…

What? The same guy who needs to shaker cups of protein and intra-workout carbs for his 8 hour arm workout says protein powder is garbage? What was he putting in the shaker cups, liquefied chicken?

It is kind of how clothes sizing works - most clothes are designed around average proportions at that size. Almost anytime I size something to fit my waist, the measurement on chest and arms or calves, thighs, and hips will be off. Some clothes will have an athletic fit style which will change the cut some.

So you're saying IF causes chest hair growth? :p

Totally disagree with this for two reason: First, a 400lb squat, 1 rep, burns about 1 kCal. I don't think anyone circuit trains with 400lb levels of squats. Second, while not determined, it seems that around the point of something that's less than 45% of 1rm, or more than 30 repeatable reps, something will no longer cause…

Can't say as I could recommend the eating plan of someone who markets it with such dishonesty towards other options like counting calories. Bailor's books on the subject blatantly misrepresent CICO and conflate it with calorie counting.

We do see some lines of evidence across multiple species (both humans and rodent) that there are probably some mechanisms of sensing and having some response to weight. Loading a rodent's body with a metal weight implanted internally causes spontaneous changes in calorie flux that leads towards maintaining the "normal"…

The comment was on a source that would refer to what Socrates recorded because, truly, we have nothing directly written by Socrates. It isn't even an out there theory in history to question if there was a real person called Socrates, or if instead he was invented by his famous students, either whole cloth, or…

Might depend on how long post obese. I believe low leptin changes the rewards signals, definitely increases attention to food cues on people in a diet. It might sadly reflect a lifetime learning. And sure, both probably explain obesity. Just to make it clear if it wasn't was about how it is true in naturally lean people -…

As compared to people attacking your family? Ad hominem means "to the person", generally being the speaker. So as you're using it as a qualifier, that's what it sounds like you'd be differentiating if you're trying to talk about someone attacking you. Normally, the connotation of referencing ad hominem instead of saying…

Like Jane said, there's a balance. Chances are you don't want to end up like the bodybuilding pros who don't leave the house besides going to the gym and the grocery store for fear of putting unmeasured calories in their mouth (this isn't a joke, there are ones literally living like that). Luckily, you also probably don't…

Well on the plus side, you'd have probably 2 to 5 years of progressively increasing resistance volume to stop increasing if you didn't want to be there. I'm not sure if I'd want to look like a Lee Priest, Lou Ferrigno, or Arnold, but I am sure I would not be willing to do (or more specifically take) what they have to get…

I would challenge that at some level, normal weight, or at least thin, people do count "calories". It might not be that they explicitly use calories as a measure, but people who maintain a lighter weight and people who are formerly overweight have both been studied with fMRI to note what parts of the brain they use before,…

Yeap, look like total fatties in those pants:

As Doctor Nick says, "Sure, you can burn what you want. It's a free country". Most people take MFP's calorie burn numbers with a pinch of salt and learn to use accurate intake tracking and weight loss rate tracking to eventually figure out an accurate number for what they're actually burning. That's where that eat half…

First thing that sticks out to me: How are you coming up with 1,000 calorie burns? For me, burning 1,000 calories for me is an 8 or 9 mile run, which takes an hour to 90 minutes. How long have you been stuck? Water weight fluxations can happen, particularly when changing exercises. How sure are you about your intake? Are…

A DEXA scan tells your composition, roughly. Is the BMR a calculation based on lean mass, or was some kind of metabolic cart done at the same time as a DEXA?

The probability of your basal metabolic rate being particularly varied is low. 96% of the population (2 standard deviations) follows within 10 to 16% of the average BMR, and I believe that is even before factoring in for common components like sex, weight, and height, or even more detailed things like actual lean tissue.…

Your own link says I think being muscular and engaging in the activities that maintain that state might fall under physiological, health and lifestyle characteristics. Are you really under the impression that there aren't any studies or guidelines in nutrition / dietician literature with different protein recommendations…

I'm not trying to be hostile, just factual. It isn't an area I've develed into as much in the last few years, but last I read, the reduced calorie life extension research looked like it had a pretty bad hook in it: the extended life span is one filled with decreasing mental capacity and dementia like symptoms in animal…

Don't give him ideas, have you seen Jesus's abs? Divine. Probably used them to grind the flour for the loaves when he fed the 5,000.

First, not basically, we just are mammals. More importantly, that doesn't mean everything in a rodent study or even anything in one applies to humans. Off the top of my head, I know research on de novo lipogenesis was dead ended - we thought it common because rodents do it, but humans can better store glycogen and have a…