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That is not what EE means. EE is not the energy to process calories. EE is Energy Expenditure. Far more than digestion, called TEF, the thermic effect of food/feeding, EE's primary component after BMR is NEAT. People eating earlier in the morning may indeed move more. That isn't a violation of the calorie model of obesity.…

For the first part on alcohol, I believe I've heard Lyle McDonald discuss some of the papers cited by the linked one. Of note is that the calories "count less" in alcoholic women than in men. The best explanation is actually that at a lighter weight, able to carry less alcohol, and having just different social behaviors in…

The thing that will treat fatty liver is stopping alcohol if a drinker, and otherwise, overwhelmingly, lose weight, as fast as safely possible. The body tends to use up liver fat first. One of the reasons surgeons try to get get patients to lose weight before bariatric surgery is the reduction in liver the diet causes,…

This is countering misinformation with misinformation. An increased heart rate isn't an increased calorie burn. That would mean watching scary movies would help with weight loss if you kept the popcorn in check. HRM to calories relies on using a relationship that generally holds between heart rate and calorie burn for…

So who are these unmotivational women? I mean, just so I don't accidently friend them, of course. :D

Probably someone that started Elle's program and searched for it when their own New Year's resolution resolve was waning.

How do you know it's not ideal? If you just drop the value-laden term cheat day from it and call it a higher calorie day, the pros and cons just become math. Pro - you eat a food you want to eat. Con - you spend longer getting to a given goal weight. That's really about it. It is your own life and time. Do which ever you…

Got any uhhhhhhh metabolic ward studies? Seriously, every study done on free living subjects is subject to the whims of who wanted to buy a Snickers bar and not tell the stern people in lab coats. Note: it really is much more a matter of not realizing / recalling than actual lying about intake.

I don't think the food industry really has an interest in normalizing obesity. I think they are actually better served by the guilt eating that can come from feelings of shame at being overweight or obese.

In the thread itself, he admits the goal of the diet is not for overall health, though given his exercise, and weight loss, he was probably seeing improvements in his health markers. I believe that when he had a thread here on MFP, it included him doing about an hour a day of running at a 7.5 or 8 minute per mile pace - I…

They could, but be serious about normal curves - they will describe most people. Saying they make zero difference - even in the case someone's an insanely strong beginner - towards programming is too absolute. There's also almost no chance someone is 70x5 in lb and not a beginner. If they actually have been training for a…

Doubts about what?

At 57 kg bodyweight, a 70x5 lb bench is around untrained, while a 70x5 kg bench is into intermediate, and close to advanced. There is a ton of difference in programming between the two. Someone coming from untrained doesn't really need to be doing any bulking to make strength or even muscle gains.

To expand on what others have said about it being a problem to get too much iron - more specifically, excess iron can block or interfere with the uptake and action of other vitamins and minerals. Free iron will compete with transport bindings for some other minerals like zinc or copper. By trying to treat an iron problem…

Caffeine will make you a bit fidgety and result in burning a few more calories, that's about it. The thing to consider is what metabolism is, including that it regulates everything that happens in your body. Anything that could truly cause it to use more calories is essentially guaranteed to uncouple some rather important…

This is adulthood. You have a bag full of plastic store bags, you have a favorite spatula, you have a favorite cooking pan / pot, and you have back pains. You can stay up as late as you want, but you kind of feel like going to bed at a sensible time. You're boring. This is adulthood. :'( :'( >:)

Clarification, when initially starting insulin, yes it can cause some weight gain. It isn't violating thermodynamics, so calm down people. What happens is previously, glucose was free circulating in the blood. Insulin will increase uptake into fat cells for esterification, it will increase muscle tissue uptake, and it will…

Except, as an etiology, diabetes's first sign is not a carbohydrate metabolism problem, but actually a problem of lipid metabolisms. It is just that it becomes glaringly obvious and diagnosiable once the glucose metabolisms issues how up. If it was easy to detect early that people have ectopic fat distribution issues,…

And, for the time wine tasting is more than tasting, and more than a little wine: https://mennohenselmans.com/science-binge-drinking/

Perhaps this will ruin your results, but... Studies have actually been done on what happens when someone is told they have a genetic disposition for "x" whether they actually do or not, and the effect of being told "you have x" is far more influential than what "x" is some genes. The particular study I recall was about a…

It was a rather jarring typo.

Do you want to get the most buzz from the wine? Then skip the shake. Protein will inhibit the uptake of alcohol. Primary concern is the muscle protein synthesis and gains? Then the last time you ate a protein rich meal will be a factor. Ideally, there should be a 25g+ protein intake of some kind within 2 hours before or…

Did you ask them about resuming exercise / resistance training? Did you ask any of them about pain when trying to do any loaded activity? I was thinking that with pins and plates, you might still be in recovery. You might want to ask for a referral out to a PT. If you're cleared for actual resistance, you might want to…

What did your medical team overseeing you say about it?

I have a set of large plastic containers that I use for storing things I batch cook for meal prep. I've worked with it so much I just know they weigh 46-48 grams.

Depending on the type of press setup, it isn't as straightforward as having the weight to have half the actual resistance. You might have done a heavier set than you meant to... I believe glutes are activated as overload happens to the quads in squats, so this might be similar on the leg press.

I believe that's the pattern for most people, even non diabetics. Exercise tends to cause the liver to release glycogen stores for any active muscles to uptake. Exercised muscles increase their insulin sensitivity, and end up increasing insulin uptake. Are you currently losing weight / in a calorie deficit? How steep a…

It depends on what you mean by efficient and on how trained you are. If you are relatively untrained, there isn't much to suggest you'll build muscle any faster lifting more frequently than hitting a body part once per week - for an untrained person, you could be gaining muscle with as little as 1 workout a week hitting…

Interesting, I was just listening to Iron Culture podcast's most recent with Danny Lennon, discussing chrononutrition. None of it violates CICO. There might be benefits to avoiding anything besides protein a few hours before bed. More so in how it will impact appetite and glucose regulation. Or... it is possible to use a…

To be fair, a bariatric surgeon isn't really concerned about the sustainability of the weight loss they recommend for a patient pre-surgery. They also are looking in general to get a liver reducing diet, which getting rid of the spare glycogen in the liver is a pretty effective method. Post surgery, a bariatric patient…