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Thanks for this great thread... I am a long way from goal weight range yet but I am hooked onto the fitness benefits I've been having with lifting and now running and a recomp is definitely in my future. Particular thanks to @cwolfman13, yours is the kind of story I came looking for in this thread. I am not interested in…

I think a lot more people read these threads than is apparent from looking at forum thread topics. It seems to me a lot of people do (did) begin by reading the stickies, or are directed to them, they are just not so visible as the waist-trainer-kiskstart-my-diet type of poster - they don't have that many questions…

Thank you for this list. Apparently I'd better limit my tuna and switch to a different type too - the one I have now is not fished in a sustainable way :) Too bad because it was my cheapest source of protein.

Fitnotes for tracking my lifting. Impetus interval timer for my walk/run program. I do a slower program than most C25K ones out there, but I got it from a book so no app. On Impetus I can program my walk/run intervals and it doesn't drain battery or interfere with my music player. S Health pedometer because it came with my…

Wow, what a rude passive-aggressive lady... First insinuates that other poster is dumb or uneducated, then implies that they're unable to use critical thinking skills... And overall only supplies one type of argument - from authority (that being herself) - hardly an indicator of advanced critical thinking skills at all. It…

This is great, a lot of the threads were old favourites but I actually discovered some I hadn't read. Thanks a lot @diannethegeek !

...and we know how awesome the MFP search function is... In.

Oh, I quite agree... But to make a comparison between two things (i.e. two sources of sugar) there is this little thing called "all other things being equal" that the life-force person apparently has trouble with. That's where the having-met-your-macros-and-micros comes from.

I don't think I agree with that. From the wording the OP used it seems to me they do care about the sugar content of their snacks, so the argument was quite relevant. And I also think bad science shouldn't go unchallenged, let alone personal opinions passed on as holy truth and not what they are - opinions. We have yet to…

We're spiraling in yet another straw-man argument. Nobody is saying "refined sugar is nutritionally equal to fruit". People have been trying to explain that sugar from refined sugar is nutritionally equal to sugar from fruit. It was explicitly said that if someone meets their macros (carbs, protein, fat) and micros…

He said "if they are hitting their micros" and that includes vitamins, iron etc . So why wouldn't they be equally healthy is a very legitimate question. The only reason I can think of is if there were any harmful chemicals one person is ingesting and the other is not, and I mean harmful chemicals not safe to be eaten, not…

Eat what you love in the boundaries of common sense (i.e. not something that gives you a bad reaction or indigestion and not something so tricky for you personally to eat that you spend your date worrying about not making a mess instead of enjoying yourself). About catering to the guy's ideas of what women should eat…

I second that. People often don't realize that food gets compacted when you measure it with spoons/cups/etc so even if you get the most precise level edge that can be, it will still be more than the weight equivalent stated on the pack.

A pear followed by coffee, before breakfast, for me. Certain yoga/stretch poses seem to help - anything lying down where you twist the torso and legs sideways, for a start. In general, after you ensure that you are getting enough of: - water - Fat - Movement - Fiber, The next step before looking for medical solutions seems…

Thank you Orphia for a great idea! I love the original post and I get the frustration with all the broscience/urban mythology circulating in the forums. (Edited out a paragraph here because in my ore-coffee state I missed 4 pages of the thread and was getting irrelevant) I am off to hunt on the interwebs :) I can also see…

I think elliptical trainers are commonly used for low-impact cardio, including after injuries? You should talk to your doctor first but it should generally be less stressful on the joints than walking. That's what I used when I had severe plantar fasciitis and I occasionally still use it when my PF flares up enough that I…

I am losing weight by eating at the sedentary level of my goal weight, or a little under it. So so if I can sustain this, I'll be OK in maintenance. I wouldn't mind eating like that for the rest of my life.

For sure some gets evaporated, but that's the closest estimate you can get I think.

I did vent out in the sticky nomination thread. The stickies by SideSteel and usmcmp and the other great folks on here are what changed my mindset about weight loss and fitness, and consequently my life. I can't believe somebody decided stickies should be "rotated" like the articles in a fad magazine.

I measured the oil before cooking, then after. The difference is the oil used for all fries. Then divide by number of fries or by portion to get oil per fry/portion. I don't repeat this every time, so there will be small differences, but since I make fries may be 3-4 times a year it works for me.

My thoughts exactly. May be it was for literary purposes - it just doesn't sound as good if you say "Today I learnt that 1 tablespoon of olive oil has the same calories and 1.567234xyz oranges" :) I think we're comparing, ahm, olives and oranges here ;) Not sure how useful that is.

Why is this not a sticky any more? Not to make place for the tips and tricks thread?!

Nobody is saying that. You asked a specific question with very restrictive parameters and people are doing everything they can to help. You don't have to like any of their suggestions, but to ask for opinions and then snark at the ones you get looks childish.

The more threads about this the better... Considering the amount of gullibility I have seen on MFP and in the population at large, you can never draw enough attention to this. Ever.

Did I read that right, 50% body fat? Wouldn't focusing on reducing body fat bring you more health benefits than losing weight? Some kind of strength training may be? ETA: saw you don't want to lift, may be calistenics?

I don't see any point, health-wise or taste-wise, to eating them, so I don't.

This week, I upped the weight of my dumbbells for all exercises save a couple. Decided I wanted a second portion of peanuts and after eating half of that, ended up returning half of it to the jar because I didn't want any more. My two biggest NSVs to date though happened last month - I started running (never ran in my life…

A one-dice-sized portion of cheese isn't a portion, it's a penance :)