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It's an excellent way to temporarily lose weight and then gain it all back. I've never seen it work permanently, since it does nothing to teach or promote intelligent lifestyle changes that could lead to actual fitness. My old office did a weight loss competition every year for money, and every year it was the same people…

GMO food is not bad. Handing over control of the majority of our food supply to a handful of multinationals -- including Monsanto -- is very, very bad.

I'm happy to post sources for any facts I "claim." But I don't WTF claims you're talking about, since there aren't any in the thread you're commenting on.

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Neither of you posted sources, so both of your posts are pointless.

If that kid had been a poor American, he'd have died a long time ago thanks to our idiotic, expensive system. But by all means, keep parroting dumb talking points based on .000001% of cases while ignoring the other 99.999999% of outcomes. I consider myself a conservative, and looking at the data from literally every…

Some ice water and a little stretching.

WTF? People constantly *kitten* on smokers. Smokers pay a ridiculous amount in extra taxes compared to non-smokers. Smokers pay extra for their health insurance. Smokers aren't allowed to smoke in most restaurants anymore. When was the last time a fat person wasn't allowed to eat somewhere?

Then you're a short-sighted fool. These are public services because a single house burning can lead to a whole block burning, which can lead to an entire city burning. Use your head.

Fixed.

There is no reason for you to think this. Cutting out simple carbs will probably help keep you from getting hungry as often, and eating more often is sometimes an effective strategy for controlling hunger (but this varies from person to person). But forget about "boosting you metabolism"; that's marketing BS from people…

My retirement goal: Become a decent piano player. The key to a happy retirement seems to be a) have hobbies; and b) have people around you.

No, but you should teach them to eat sensibly. Obese child = abusive parent.

This is not a sensible statement. Optimum Nutrition protein powder with almond milk: low in calories, great tasting, mixes easily, and cheap. I prefer the vanilla ice cream flavor, but YMMV.

Like most changes in behavior, logging food sucks for a few days, then it becomes very easy. I eat mostly the same things every weekday and don't count calories on weekends, so I rarely even need to log anymore.

On pregnancy: You're not eating for 2; you're eating for 1.1.

I take vitamin D (2000 IU) every day because I'm rarely in the sun. With a good, varied diet, other vitamins shouldn't be necessary for the average person.

The fact that she does this "every year" shows her lack of commitment to a healthy lifestyle and a poor comprehension of how weight loss works. You're not being a stick in the mud by not getting involved, but if you don't want to do it, then it's none of your business what your friend does. I wouldn't, because I hate group…

This. I used to have a problem with drying out my grilled chicken. I solved the problem by using far less charcoal and letting it cook slowly.

I get why it's confusing, but believe me when I say that you're overthinking this incredibly easy process. Here's all you need to do: Pick a number. Eat the much. Adjust every 3-4 weeks as needed. Within 3 months you'll know precisely what your number is and you'll be well on your way to your goal.

I make pizza at home every Sunday night, and the gf and I split it. It's pretty big, but I've never tried to figure out how many calories it is -- I don't count calories on the weekend.

Cutting, gaining, or maintaining, I eat the same number of meals every day (which is 2, unless you consider my morning 1/3-cup of almonds a meal). The only thing that changes is the size of those meals, and potential snack choices. I should add that I only count calories on weekdays; on weekends I eat whatever I want…

Limiting something you enjoy should increase, rather than decrease, your enjoyment of that thing, because you look forward to it and savor it more.

By that measure, I do dozens of workouts per day back-to-back, because I count each set as its own workout.

The cafe at my work sells muffins that are 800 calories of sugary, buttery deliciousness.

I never, ever eat back exercise calories. Calorie counting is already very inexact. Eating back exercise calories adds yet another layer of pointless inexactitude. Be consistent with your diet and your workouts, and it will be clear within a few weeks whether you're eating too much, too little, or just enough.

You are wrong, and that's ridiculous. It's not possible to "eat too little" and then magically gain weight as a result. This is simple physics: Fat is stored energy, and storing energy requires an intake of energy in the form of calories. If you actually gained weight by eating too little, you'd be a mutant unbounded by…

You can actually find many, many pics of women who are obese but don't have fat rolls, because those are the obese women who become models. It's almost like obese models aren't at all representative of what actually obese women look like, just as most "average" models aren't at all what the average woman looks like. Oh,…

Survey data often isn't useful, depending on what's being surveyed. Survey data regarding dietary and exercise habits activity level are totally useless. And the fact that one of the author's of the "study" clearly has an axe to grind, based on her comments in the linked article. Some people go to great lengths to blame…

You get to 10% for the same reason you get to 14%: So you can humblebrag to strangers about it.