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Here's my tip - Tea. Start with a black tea, sweeten to your liking with milk and sugar (or honey if you prefer). Slowly wean yourself off of the sugar and milk. Take your time. Maybe cut half a teaspoon every month or two and start to switch to a milder tea like green or white tea. The lighter teas won't be as bitter and…

Can you be mentally healthy and overweight? Sure! And in much the same way, aspects of your body can be in perfect health while others wither and die. In fact, being overweight likely fends off a disease or two. But being healthy DESPITE your weight is not the same as being healthy because of your weight.

I remember those days, OP. At my school, it was basketball instead of football, but it was all the same. A couple of people would get outside, grab the ball, and start shooting. As each person came out, they'd join in on whichever side needed player until you had a full set. It even naturally happened that you'd end up…

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I read an interesting study about how women prefer fit men for a one night stand, but that they tend to think they are bad in relationships. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same for men.

That's what I tend to do. My favorite meal is dinner by a lot, so I just cut back a little during breakfast and lunch so I can do whatever I like (within reason) for dinner and dessert. The only problem I have is that sometimes I will cut too far and then binge later, eating far too much.

Not just fat storage, but muscle. While you don't think of walking as exercise, you've had to get up and walk around at 190 lbs for a while. You've built up the lower body muscle to do that. In four months, you've still walked, so while you haven't gained any muscle, it's slowed the loss of muscle in your lower body (which…

I don't even lock it. Though we try to make a point not to go through each other's things. It's not so much for the phone logs as the browsing history. Doing so would have ruined A LOT of good surprises. And potentially many more to come. I guess that would be a good thing, right? We don't feel compelled to look because we…

#3. Interesting, so he lost 68 pounds in a year by... what? eating his wife's cooking? Somehow I doubt that. So what are you basing the assumption on? Him being male? When he said Daddy, you think he was talking about his wife? Next time, trying reading what someone wrote, instead of what you want to read so you can hate…

"Too big" is anything outside of the bedroom. Honestly, I kid. I don't generally care what people wear. Unless your a swimmer, usually it's the more concerning type of gent that wear these things.

Potentially, yes, you could lose weight doing this. However, when you remove blood from your system, you're not really in a healthy state of being any more. It's kind of like healing from injury or sickness - you want to eat extra and drink extra to compensate. I'm not entirely sure that something bad would happen, just…

I'm indifferent about them. My wife has a couple small ones. They are small and out of the way but I think of tattoos much like I think of make-up. It's a way of enhancing your appearance and identity but it also simultaneously obscures a purer essence/image of who you are. You are broadcasting to the world who you are…

First things first - if you want to improve at basketball then there's two things you need to do. 1) Realize that 5' 10" is not particularly short (5' 11" is average for a full grown man and if you're still in college, you could still get an inch or two before you are done as men don't really stop growing until 21-22). For…

Weighing yourself every day doesn't really give you any useful information. You're supposed to drink about a half gallon of water a day which averages about 4 lbs just in water. If you retain some of that water then your body weight can easily fluctuate a few pounds every day just because of this. And if you ran 3.3 miles…

I don't disagree with what you're saying but I'd rather just eat for two people, end up with some extra baby fat at the end and be sure that the baby is getting what it needs. If this is BAD for the baby then that's different but if it's because it's not "optimal" for you, that's hardly a good reason. Having a baby in the…

It's actually quite literally possible that you're making yourself pee. If you're constantly worrying about it, you'll be constantly thinking about it and your body will do what bodies do when you keep thinking about peeing. If you aren't having problems at night, it might simply be that you're spending too much thinking…

Why do you need to get married? And what does it matter if you get divorced? The reason we got married was because we were planning on having kids and it makes things easier. It (theoretically) creates a more stable unit for the raising of children. Other than that, it doesn't really change much. We already lived together…

I was going to say something witty but the wittiest thing I can think of is... talk to him. Be like, "What was that? How is that supposed to help me? Things like that undermine my weight loss efforts. Would you prefer that I stop and start putting the weight back on?" Put in terms he understands. He wouldn't want you to…

I wouldn't be surprised then. You may not have lost anything but 135 is also not unreasonable for someone your height if you have a good amount of muscle. You may not be there yet but if you maintain 135 and work towards a muscular build then you'll probably end up healthier than what your original goal was.

Like all things... sort of. Your muscles will only maintain what they use. If you stop lifting and you don't need that much muscle for your daily life then you'll lose muscle mass slowly over time until your muscles reach equillibrium. This mass could potentially turn to fat if that energy isn't burned (is my guess anyway)…

Errr... Well... I write them. Does that count or disqualify me? =)

Almost certainly this. Generally, bad foods tend to also be loaded with sodium causing high water retention. One gallon of water is about 8.5 lbs (on average since). If you drink 8 cups of water in a day then that's over four pounds alone, not counting water taken in by anything you drank for pleasure (even soda counts)…

Very true. Don't worry about it so much. You may find that if you do some light exercises that work the muscles around your hips (flexors perhaps?) then you'll actually cover the bones up with muscle. Just think that since there's no fat there, you've got a head start in that area on the look you want.

I love the ideas but... well the first thing (and this is small) is that we already have a $0.05 tax on soda because they all come in cans and bottles. It doesn't seem to have had a significant effect on recycling and I can't imagine it would have an effect on drinking habits. In fact, if cigarettes have taught us…

Selective reading is selective. They were saying that they don't believe such actions are fair or right and (basically) that part of the problem with being objectified is that many women frequently welcome it when it benefits them. Then you restate their position as your own, going so far as to call that behavior repugnant…

I don't know that "sexism" is the right word. I don't think that your femininity was necessarily the target so much as you were. That's not to say that it would have happened if you were a man (almost certainly not). In fact, this type of behavior almost gives sexism (and feminism by extension of what it stands for and…

I don't think you have a whole lot to worry about. It has always seemed to me that food is a habit. If you look at your own food intake, it's all based on habits. You eat all the same things you did when you were little, and you eat in a manner consistent with how you ate then. Don't get me wrong, we pick up other habits…