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Good question. I don't know. I have gone into serious credit card debt to pay for chemo for two of my dogs with cancer. And you can never even be sure how much, if any, time is going to be bought (no pun intended) by pursuing expensive medical or surgical treatment. Personally, I would have to take it on a case by case…

Agreed!

I can sort of do this, but not to the exact minute. Pretty cool!

You guys are all weird. Whenever I make eggs I have to touch them to my forehead before breaking them. If anyone is around I will just pretend like I am scratching my head so they don't notice.

When you want to change a behavior you have to redirect them to an alternative behavior, so it's not enough just to say "no barking", you have to ask them to do something else instead. Maybe you could ask them for down-stays or some other command which could then be rewarded. Over time they will present that behavior…

Of course it's real. Has nothing to do with the topic under discussion though.

The question is, which would make a better Halloween costume? Sugar would probably be easier for me because I don't own anything yellow. But I don't want to scare the kids too much.

:drinker: Thank goodness alcohol isn't evil!

No way. Whiskey is clearly better.

I don't understand why either one has to be evil. Surely there are better ways to think about and understand food.

This is not true. In fact, eating at or over maintenance now and then is a good strategy to help avoid plateaus. Trust me, unless you suddenly start eating over maintenance on a regular basis, you will keep losing weight. Food should not make you feel guilty. And saving your splurges for when you reach goal weight is a…

I agree, and the calorie cycling has worked great for me compared to eating around maintenance every day. I feel more satisfied and strength gains have increased since I started doing the cycling. I'm in no rush so I'm planning to do this for a year or so and see how it goes.

Bump to follow, thanks for the topic. I am trying to recomp with the leangains protocol, have only been doing it for a few weeks so too early to tell. Sure beats eating at a deficit though.

You may be hungry because you're not eating enough. Have you ever calculated your maintenance calories or TDEE? For instance on a site like this one http://www.fitnessfrog.com/calculators/tdee-calculator.html Your maintenance looks like it's going to be between 2000-2300 a day. Have you read all the info regarding how to…

The protein and fat targets are recommended minimums, not maximums. Once you have calculated those minimums, the rest of the calories can be distributed according to your preference. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

I agree it's a matter of personal preference. I workout in the morning before breakfast because I don't like to eat as soon as I get up and like to workout in the mornings. If you have energy for your workout and aren't hungry I wouldn't worry about it.

Awesome. How much would you charge to do mine? :smile: I could write you a haiku in exchange.

I'm the same way. I like Garden of Life (blend of sprouted grain, seed, rice and bean) and Nutribiotic rice protein powder. NOW egg white protein is also good and contains only powdered egg whites.

When you spend a lot of time trying to help someone out with their TDEE or plan or whatnot and they don't say thank you. I'm always surprised by the number of people who never bother to come back and say thanks when people have really tried to help them out. Gratitude is a lost art.

Yes. The point of the "8 glasses a day" recommendation is for adequate hydration, not that water alone has magical properties which are immediately destroyed by flavoring, etc. Water = fluid. However, the 8 glasses a day thing has pretty much been debunked. http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

Love the story -- very cool! Really makes me want to go running! :)

Who knows. Maybe she meant she had a more muscular physique than you so it was more "natural"? Honestly the things people say are 99% about them and 1% about you so it's not worth worrying about.

Awesome! Way to represent! Hopefully he'll refrain from saying or maybe even thinking those things in the future.

I think this works for a lot of people but for some it doesn't work as well because eating multiple small meals never leaves them feeling satisfied. For me, I find that different things work at different times. Sometimes I want multiple smaller meals, sometimes I want few large meals with long periods between them.…

Different things work for different people. The world is a wonderful place that way. :) Glad you found something that works for you!

Good point, sorry, I didn't think of that...

Yes, try it and if you lose around a lb a week (or slightly less since that should be around a 400 cal deficit) then you know the TDEE estimation was pretty accurate. If you lose faster, your TDEE was higher. That said, personally I wouldn't force myself to eat if I wasn't hungry but that's not a problem I tend to have...

No, because exercise is factored in ahead of time instead of afterward the way MFP does it. The 400 is already accounted for in that 1690. When you use the TDEE method, you tell it how much you exercise in a week and it calculates your maintenance needs accordingly. Your TDEE or maintenance needs are 2100 (I plugged in…

Lol, it's not really that controversial. The eat to lose stuff is just about having a more moderate vs a large deficit.

Do you have -20% (fat loss) as step 6? The 1690 is what you should eat total, not net. TDEE doesn't use net since exercise is factored in to your overall calorie needs. How does that compare with what you've been eating?