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I don't cut corners. I eat real food (though I do generally avoid bread) What did I eat for less than 1500cals yesterday? Breakfast 2 eggs (scrambled) 2oz sausage Coffee (w/ half-and-half) Lunch 4oz NY Strip Asparagus stir-fried in olive oil and lemon 1/2 cup raw carrots Snack (s) 1 Babybel cheese 1 cup watermelon Dinner…
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This sounds like the path to an eating disorder.
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^This. It's a combination of genetics and the OVERALL composition of diet, not just one part of the diet.
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You have days logged in with less than 700 calories. So whether or not it's your 'goal,' that's what your diary is listing, so there are two problematic issues: you aren't losing weight and you are listing a very low calorie intake. If you are eating 700 calories and not losing weight there is a problem somewhere. There…
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\ Your ticker says you're trying to drop 160lbs. You're capable of eating more than 600+ calories in a day (truthfully, anyone is capable of eating more than 600 calories a day). You don't have to eat all of your calories at once. Eat them spread throughout the day. Eat a meal. Eat a snack. Eat another meal a few hours…
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Do you HAVE to? No. You make your own decisions, and if you don't want to, you don't have to. Period. However, you need to think about what your goals are here. Is it simply taking off weight? Then, yeah, you can do that with calorie counting alone. I can't say whether it would be easier or more difficult. There's…
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Except on the cover of People Magazine, Enquirer, OK magazine, etc. WTH?
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Thanks for going to the trouble of looking all of that up and explaining it.
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What I don't really understand is someone becoming a vegetarian but then not eating vegetables. They've cut out meat. They don't eat vegetables. Are they living off of starch and sugar?
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How does that work?
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Yeah, fructose is something that some researchers are looking into. Having done a lot of reading on the subject (I can be geeky that way) the issue with fructose doesn't seem to be saying to run screaming from fruit. It is perhaps a good reason to start wondering about high fructose corn syrup being placed into so many…
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On the other hand, if you have a career where you work in an office at a computer for ten hours a day, have to commute home, cook dinner, clean the kitchen, etc, you may not have the hours a day necessary to deplete glycogen stores resulting from consuming 300g of carbs a day. Different people have different lifestyles,…
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If it's the study I think you're referring to, then it showed that participants on all the different diets ended up deviating towards the median in the long term (the low-fat/Ornish folks added fat back to the diet by 6 months. The low carbers upped their carbs by 6 months. That sort of thing. When the data was analyzed in…
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Calories are (always) a factor. That said, limiting carbs does help SOME people maintain their required calorie load and avoid some trigger foods without having to be hyper-vigilant about counting calories. There is a certain satiation factor that many people experience. If someone is insulin resistant or carb sensitive,…
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If the question is whether pre-agriculture humans ate carbs, of course they did! They weren't going to pass up edible watercress or berries. They didn't even pass up daylilies and cat tails (the plant variety, not actual cats... although there were probably some actual cats eaten as well). But if the question is whether…
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You can add the Massai (also cultural low-carb and also human.)
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Because it's easier. For the first ten pounds, sure. After that... exactly how much water weight does the average person have? They aren't losing huge amounts of muscle because there's plenty of protein in the diet. Personally I don't do extreme low carb because I like to consume more fruit and vegetables than something…
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There's no such thing as a "pre-agriculture" edible potato (actual yams aren't the same species and are not actually potatoes, so they have a different history). Anyway, all forms of edible potato trace back to a single species of night shade that was created through domestication by humans in the Andes mountains somewhere…
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Unless they lived in the Americas, where humans domesticated edible potatoes from normally deadly night shades +/-7,000 years ago (give a hand to the native Peruvians and the Bolivians. Modern researchers still aren't certain how they did it), people had to wait to make french fries until post-Columbian exchange... (Poor…
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You got me. Water won't make you gain weight. Any other details you'd like to add, Sir Boner Fart?
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Anything can make you fat if you eat too much of it. (However, reducing sugar intake to actual recommended daily allowances -- which Americans and many Western countries commonly exceed by a great deal-- doesn't hurt... and (theoretically) may help reduce risks of developing Type II diabetes.)
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I eat chocolate regularly. I just count it in my calories. Sometimes it's 1 square of Lindt "Touch of Sea Salt" (mmm!) or a dark chocolate truffle. Other times it's a square of Ghirardelli 72% melted and mixed with plain yogurt (yum!), but I haven't given up chocolate.
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Whey protein or the seaweed based kind?
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The closer you get to your goal the more difficult it will be to lose 2lb a week. It'll help to think long term rather than the quickest solution.
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory, which states that this has already happened ~ Douglas Adams
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How long before someone posts a Game of Thrones jpeg of Lyssa Tully breast feeding her eight year old.
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All mammals are milk drinkers at birth. It comes with being a mammal. Humans drink milk at birth, always have. But, as pointed out repeatedly in the thread, in nature after infancy there's little cause to continue production of the enzyme that digests milk because milk was not readily available for most mammals beyond…
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Mutations aren't and don't have to be labeled as a GMO. GM in GMO is specifically "Genetically Modified", a process that deliberately introduces changes to the DNA. On the other hand, mutogenesis (intentional mutation breeding) does NOT have to be labeled GMO. Mutogenesis is WAY more trial and error and haphazard than than…
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Hmmm... Good to know, but I'm not sure how good it is to know. Which is to say, yeah, I know that there are some dangers associated with articifial vitamin A, but those studies were done on people who were receiving a substantial amount of artificial vitamin A in the form of vitamin supplements. I'm not sure that the…
