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For the same reason Olympic swimmers do cupping: people will believe anything.

I can't figure out why people are agreeing with this ridiculous statement. Many (most?) people continuously gain throughout their lives by "listening to their hunger signals." If "listening to your hunger signals" were at all useful, this site wouldn't exist.

I cook in bulk and eat the same things every weekday. Almonds for breakfast, salad with chicken for lunch, turkey tacos for dinner, and a green drink w/ protein for a snack. This means that once or twice per month I cook a sh!tton of chicken breast and ground turkey, which I weigh out and put into individual containers. I…

Set point = (weight at which you're comfortable with your eating) - (your level of discipline). If your level of discipline is zero, your set point is comfort.

Nothing can "make" you feel anything. If you feel pressure, you've chosen to feel pressure. This is Adulting 101.

Controlling weight is too easy to bother going to see a doctor about. * Figure out how many calories you should be eating to reach your goals. This site will help. * Count calories religiously for 3 weeks. This site will help, but you also need a $12 food scale. * After 3 weeks, check your weight to see if you're eating…

The numbers given to you by any given service is irrelevant except as a vague starting point. You think your TDEE should be around 1400? So eat that much religiously for a few weeks and see what happens. Then adjust as necessary. This whole thing is shockingly easy.

I'd argue that it's not hard at all. It just requires effort, and people hate that. We live in a point in history and a place in the world where even many poor people live lives of extreme comfort that royalty of even 100 years ago couldn't have imagined. The idea that not everything is just handed to you -- that you might…

That's fine, as long as you aren't responding to someone's request for advice by giving them ridiculous, terrible advice that you "read somewhere." There are times when spewing incorrect "facts" can be legitimately harmful.

Your "research" is based on terrible information, and what you've "learned" is false. Please share your sources so that we might help you figure out where you went terribly wrong.

Some people have excuses. The rest succeed.

The whole point of the HAES and FA (Fat Acceptance) movement is to settle with what you have. If you attempt to improve yourself, those communities will absolutely shun you. Be happy with your body. Or not. As long as you're working on self-improvement, you're on the right path. I am Random Internet Guy, and my opinion is…

If you're eating to reach a goal, then what you "enjoy" is irrelevant. I don't enjoy getting out of bed in the morning, but I do it because getting to work gets me closer to my goal of early retirement. It's up to you to decide if the struggle of eating more is worth it to reach your goal. If it's not, then fine -- but…

No one should be happy with how they look, even if they look great. No one should be happy with how "healthy" they are, even if they're super healthy. We should all be working towards improvement in all things. Looking better, feeling better, treating others better, knowing more, being better educated, being better…

This isn't a weight loss question; it's a relationship question. You're obviously very unhappy based on the initial post. Here's my advice, which will probably differ significantly from others here: Start with you. Ask yourself why you're willing to stay with someone who doesn't value your opinion. Figure out the root…

a) You're in the wrong forum. b) Trying to lose weight with exercise is a terrible strategy. Want to lose weight? Eat fewer calories.

YouTube is your friend here. There are TONS of channels devoted to working out at home with minimal equipment and/or bodyweight exercises.

That's ridiculous.

I weigh myself every day, but only actually care about and track my weight on Friday mornings.

I'm 44 and take creatine when bulking (which is right now). It works just like it did in my early 30s.

The amount of protein/fat/carbs you eat is irrelevant to weight loss. Figure out how many calories you should be eating, and eat that many. If you don't lose, adjust your calories downward. If you lose too quickly, adjust your calories upward.

People who say that are marketers who want you to buy their breakfast products. Or they're just parroting what they heard on a commercial.

No one's being penalized, and as someone else mentioned, the ACA explicitly forbids it. This thread is built on a false assumption. (But it is fun to see people whining about "nanny state!!1!" when in fact the law specifically forbids the "nanny" part of OP's incorrect assumption.)

Forks Over Knives: bad film-making based on a terrible and utterly debunked "study." If I had one wish about MFP, it's that people weren't so gullible as to think that the crux of Forks Over Knives (which gets cited here a lot) is anything but fake.

You're not listening. You don't need healthier choices; you need to eat less. If you don't weigh your food, you have no idea if this is true.

a) that's not how things work here. b) you still haven't defined your problem, explained what you're looking for, or outlined anything you've done to fix the issue to this point. c) if your question has nothing to do with your diet, why did you bring it up? But I'll give it a shot: I think you're asking how you can not pee…

I can easily lose 1 lb/week when I want to. More than that isn't necessarily unsafe, but it's pretty miserable. But weight loss/gain and general fitness should mean life-long lifestyle changes, not "I need to lose for my wedding" or "I want to look good on my vacation." Otherwise, you're setting yourself up for failure.

You're either lying or have never been on a farm. Literally everything here is incorrect, other than the part about mama cows getting upset when the babies are taken from them. That's why they aren't.

People *feel* differently and may *react* differently to different foods or types of foods. But all people lose weight on a deficit. It's simple physics and cannot be altered, no matter what "conditions" people believe they have.

There are people who consider any discomfort - no matter how minor - to be horrifying and life-threatening. Those people will fail after surgery the same way they failed before surgery. The people who will succeed after surgery are the people who could accept a lifestyle change and succeed the way the rest of us do, and so…