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Whew. Hopefully it's dead for good now....

Not to be all like.. but... *facepalm* How do all those study participants lose any weight at all when undergoing 10 day fasts, university controlled VLCD's, and other cited works which show the effects of less than 1200 calories per day? I'm not saying they're a good idea, but.. try to say things that are supported by…

Furthermore, WebMD clarifies it in another way: Says Robert H. Lustig, MD: Leptin is not our obesity hormone. Leptin is our starvation hormone. Leptin is a protein that's made in the fat cells, circulates in the bloodstream, and goes to the brain. Leptin is the way your fat cells tell your brain that your energy thermostat…

This is from wikipedia, I was going to put the citations in directly, but it just clutters up the writing. Human leptin is a protein of 167 amino acids. It is manufactured primarily in the adipocytes of white adipose tissue, and the level of circulating leptin is proportional to the total amount of fat in the body. In…

QFT. Like word for word.

I know they work too, and it just.. I'm the guy who has to know everything, my curiosity knows no bounds. If I can know something, understand the process, I can make it better, in the way that humans always do. We created fire from trees, then learned about combustion, created cars, and made rockets to the moon. Hopefully…

No, I get where she was coming from, I was glad to read that someone had the same thought I did. Why should it be glorified? I love Melissa McCarthy, I think she's phenomenal, but I think it's a cruel joke to have her play a role where the whole premise embraces, pokes fun at, and glorifies the main character's sizes. Why…

Thanks! I'm glad I could lay it all out there in a way that everyone can understand!

USE MFP's recommendations. Srsly, these guys didn't put together a half assed site =)

No no, I meant, the difference between a McDonalds angus bacon cheeseburger, fries and a coke, which clocks in at 1600 calories, or any other comparable high cal meal. I didn't mean high fat foods in the way that calorie cutters use it - to us, high fat includes things like avocados, a decent slab of meat, rich cheeses and…

Your diary isn't open, so we can't really evaluate what you're eating, and identify any pitfalls you might be falling into. It is much easier to lose eating high volume, low calorie foods than it is to lose eating a couple small handfulls of high calorie foods. Also, a lot of the calorie counts that you might be running…

Sorry! Carry on.. FLAME the OP for spousal control! DOWN with the controlling wife who feeds you till you burst! She sucks harder than a collapsed star!!

He was being facetious for Christ's sake

make sure you don't mix those two up.. wait-a-minute... OO, on second thought, switch them up!!!

This whole thread reminds me of the old bud light radio commercial... So long as your husband cherishes them, you can make them look any way you like! Bud Light Presents Real Men of Genius (Real Men of Genius) Today, we salute you, Mr. Push Up Bra Inventor (Mr. Push Up Bra Inventor) Never before has one man done so much…

Wow.. this DID die back in June... and a couple of the same posters are still posting after it was rezzed.. HOLY **** IT'S AN UNDEAD THREAD! KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Thank you so much!! I didn't really care enough to look through the study, but seeing the data set here - it still means NOTHING without a control group... however the differences between 41-60 micrograms (millionths of a gram) to 58-86 micrograms of cortisol fall within the normal range of urinary measured cortisol for…

LOL YES!! the outliers get kicked out of my real estate appraisals too!! But there is always a range in any of the data sets when you compare different individuals, whether it is different individual people or different individual farm land sales.. and I'm betting that compared the the other 14 people in the study, the…

Fine, but every study should be reviewed and scrutinized by peers for errors, omissions, and misinformation... and I'd have to contend that ANY information from a study is better than NO data - or parenthetical suppositions or deductions based on logic, intuition, or inference - (which is to say.. guesses without any data…

ETA: loved the article, and love the OP, I just have an issue with ABC "news" if that's what the definition of news is these days. THIS is why articles like this are dangerous and stupid. I wonder by how much a low carb, high protein diet increased those "markers" for stress and inflammation... because I'm willing to bet…

See, when I read a sentence like that, the meanings of the words arrange themselves like this in my head: "Any researcher may take a cherry picked handful of data, ignore important aspects of it, and use their conclusions to support any theory or hypothesis they like" In other words, If it ain't peer reviewed or published…

Absolutely amazing work - I'm floored!!! you look spectominal!

waffles.

bump for later!

ROFLMAO x 10

Weight loss truly is 85% diet and 15% exercise. Essentially the exercise helps to keep your metabolism from slowing while you reduce calories and trim off fat. So to answer your question, it depends on your cut. If you're an average sized woman, and have a BMR of somewhere in the neighborhood of 1600, then with insanity…

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http://www.myfitnesspal.com/groups/home/11724-the-1200-club

ETA: Sorry, I was just WAITING for someone to say crack so I could bring up Dave Chapelle