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As it happens, you don't have to raise your heart rate, or sweat, to burn calories. And NEAT, Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis, is far more important to long term weight control than any other thing you could focus on. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12468415 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5709/530.short

Why would you burn calories doing something you don't HAVE to do and not when you DO have to do it? How would your body tell one from the other? This makes absolutely no sense to me.

I'm always on the "log it" side so I'm not sure there's any reason for me to answer but... One group of these people condescendingly says the equivalent of "You're only cheating yourself." It's a sly way to imply cheating, when sedentary is defined by MFP as "mostly sitting," (not lying in bed, as you claim, but that's…

Me neither. Not all parks and/or beaches are government funded, and the government funded beaches in Iowa (I didn't say they were great beaches, but we do have some), like at the Coralville reservoir (which is a federal park--Army Corps of Engineers), DO allow alcohol, so long as it isn't in glass containers. No glass is…

It doesn't matter if that's what she thinks overweight people do. He11, half the people here think that's all overweight people do. What matters is that a drunken mom does a lot more harm to her children than a fat mom, and you have every right to tell her so.

I foresee a return to times pre-computer, internet, and reduced health in our future if people keep believing science is bad. We can blame computers, the internet, and the fact that we live to be closer to eighty years old as opposed to the twenty years our ancestors lived, thanks entirely to science and scientists. Sorry…

And Crystal Light is different from diet soda...how? It's water, flavoring, and sweetener, just like diet soda.

And I'm supposed to take your word for all this, right? You can't provide the experts' studies, and I'm to assume the methodology is good and you've related it all accurately? Because you can't spell carcinogenic, and didn't bother to look it up. Why would I assume you got your other facts right? It's REALLY easy to look…

Everything is a "chemical." Water? That's a chemical. Again, what evidence do you have that non-caloric sweeteners raise your insulin levels, make you crave sugar, or store fat? If you're eating at maintenance or below, how could you possibly store fat?

Of course, it's the carbonation that makes soda acidic, so I assume it's the sweetener you object to?

Care to provide expert sources, or are we to assume you are an expert? If so, what are your credentials? Tomatoes can also eat through metals and concrete, etc, as can oranges, and pretty much any citrus fruits. They are all, like soda, acidic. Less acidic than the inside of you stomach though. Can we assume digestive…

You are mistaken. Clear urine will occur if you are hydrated, regardless of what you drink or how you get the water. For all practical purposes, "pure water" doesn't exist. Your bias as to which impurities your water has are just that--biases. "Excess water in your system?" WTF is that supposed to mean? Water goes in and…

What studies have associated these things with diet sodas, and is it a correlational link or causal? Can you point me to those studies that associated diet soda with "high blood pressure, water retention and killing of good bacterias in the intestants," please? I'm not familiar with these studies.

The pain medications, if they contain acetaminophen, surely were the culprit in your liver problems. Even low doses of APAP, taken regularly are know to cause liver damage. I'd need to see evidence that the diet soda contributes. I haven't seen any studies to that effect. Can you provide links to them?

Actually, most diet sodas have little sodium and many have no sodium. When they were primarily sweetened with sodium saccarine they had a lot of sodium, but now, not so much. If you don't like the fizziness, that's great for you, but many people really like the fizziness, and it's really just impure water. "Pure" water,…

Please define "lots of crap." The vast majority of what is in a diet soft drink is water. Pretty much 97% of it is water. Then there's a tiny amount of sweetener, color and flavor, and sometimes a preservative. For all intents and purposes, diet soda is impure water. What comes out of the tap and what you buy in bottled…

If you're not hungry from the heat, and it makes you feel ill, then don't eat. You really should moderate your workouts when the heat is intense as well. You need to go easy and keep cool in this weather.

I'm with your sister, sounds like an eating disorder to me. At least make an appointment at a community mental health center and get a professional's assessment. I doubt you'll find "alot [sic] of people" doing this. Also, I'd question if there actually is a "polite" way to spit food out.. I wouldn't want to eat at a table…

I'm with you.

I find that completely eliminating anything just ensures failure. Everything in moderation.

This just seems so backwards. That nothing comes AFTER makes life matter MORE, not LESS!

I disagree and stand by my assertion that "meaning" has nothing to do with religion, god, or atheism. You are attributing a lot more meaning to religious people's lives than they actually have. IMO, if you believe in god and an afterlife, life is absolutely completely meaningless. If you believe life is a tiny bit of time…

Can't happiness be purpose? "There's probably no god...now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Good advice, I think.

I guess I'm not sure why this has anything to do with atheism. I mean, would your life have a "purpose" if you professed a belief in an imaginary omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent creator of all things, heaven, hell, and the like? How would this impart any "purpose?" And what is "purpose" anyway? I suppose I don't…

Ironic, isn't it. I've said little about my battle with bladder cancer because the idea that one gained weight during cancer treatment seems absurd, yet that's what happened.

If pushing water made you sick, you didn't need the extra water. "Getting sick" in such circumstances is the body telling you something is WRONG. It isn't usually necessary to "push water" in a healthy adult. You'll dring enough naturally. The idea that everybody needs to push themselves to drink lots of water is simply…

You need to talk to your doctor about 1200 calories while nursing. At the very least you should be closely supervised if you really have need to be that low.

Sorry. Misread.

Misread.

Oh you made that up! You did NOT get that! Seriously? I hope you called the police!