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I'm also going to recommend a bigger lunch. IMHO, snacking is a habit that keeps you focused on food too often during the day. We should eat to live, not live to eat.

What's really sad is that for not much more money you can buy chicken tenders, beans, carrots, potatoes and some fruit and make many meals instead of just one. Chicken tenders you can usually pan fry within 10 minutes - they're the long pole in the tent. Beans and carrots are actually OK with being nuked for a minute or…

The #1 most common problem for beginning runners is running too fast. You need to SLOW DOWN. To that end, I'm going to recommend something that is very often anathema to most runners: The treadmill. Yes, I know, it's heresy to even suggest it but I found it to be an invaluable tool when starting out. The advantages of the…

Just make Google your default search engine instead. :smiley:

I thought we were talking about maintenance, not stopping. All bets are off when you stop. On Atkins (at least when I did it), all phases, including maintenance, required you to track and stay with your carb limit. Assuming you follow that restriction, the plan says to eat until you feel satisfied.

Air resistance is directly proportional to velocity so the faster you go, the more force you need to overcome air resistance, and therefore the greater energy expenditure you need to maintain your forward velocity.

I like food processors too BUT: they take up quite a bit more counter space than just another knife in the block and they're a pain in the neck to clean.

"Too spicy for me!"

When I did Atkins, the maintenance plan was simply to find the level of carbs that didn't cause weight gain or loss. You never counted calories, ever, just carbs, and you always ate until satisfied, so essentially Lexicpt would be correct in her understanding.

Strange. When I went to school back in the 80's teaching basic nutrition in Health class was not even slightly a problem. Is this really a thing now where hordes of parents are complaining about teaching nutrition or is it the just usual few gadflies who complain about everything?

Love this. What's sad is that even if the Food Babe does get sued into oblivion, there will be a half a dozen more like her waiting in the wings to take her place. We need to go after the head of the snake: Dr. Oz, we're coming for you!

Yes, that should be the take away from the study, however that is not what was generally reported. A typical article from a year ago looked like this: dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2582867/Saturated-fat-DOESNT-cause-heart-disease-all.html And perhaps there should be, but that's a discussion for another day. You seem to…

Good does not necessarily cancel out bad. If you ate a generous amount of olive oil and nuts but then ate some wild almonds (which contain toxic levels of cyanide), all that good wholesome food isn't going to matter. All nutrients are fine within limits. Too much of anything, even water, can be unhealthy. Saturated fat is…

"bad" and "good" are relative terms. Very small amounts of arsenic and lead paint are not harmful while too much of something as vital as water can be fatal. So it is with carbs and saturated fat. You can consume a certain amount of them with no problems at all. That doesn't mean there is no limit. The typical first world…

Again, this is not in dispute. Disagree. It is premature to draw such a conclusion based merely on the observation that substituting saturated fat for carbohydrates is not any better. It would be akin to claiming that just because replacing arsenic in your diet with lead paint did not result in fewer deaths, we can…

The study's finding about replacing saturated fat with starch or sugar is not in question. There is no benefit in doing so and this should finally put to bed the "low fat" diet fad from years past. However, there does appear to be a benefit with replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat, at least if the unsaturated fat…

Yes, but remember I am linking a criticism of the meta-analysis study on saturated fat. It's not a separate study, it's a criticism of the conclusions from another study (which itself was just a meta analysis of many previous studies). As to the "much evidence", the next couple paragraphs read: "The meta-analysis of…

I'll help you. I'm referring to this from the link: "This paper is bound to cause confusion. A central issue is what replaces saturated fat if someone reduces the amount of saturated fat in their diet. If it is replaced with refined starch or sugar, which are the largest sources of calories in the U.S. diet, then the risk…

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Please. Enlighten me.

Older doesn't always mean safer. Long term analysis has shown that our increased intake of sugar over the past century has led to a massive increase in diabetes among first world populations. Perhaps we would have been better off consuming Splenda or Sweet N Low instead.

Bumping this post in the hopes that people will actually read it. When the landmark meta analysis study came out last year giving the green light to saturated fat, the media jumped all over it. You can find scores of articles online proclaiming butter and bacon to be AOK now. What got very little attention, however, was…

Find something similar in the database and use that.

And when most everyone inevitably fails or gets bored and the money stops flowing in, the people running these schemes will close up shop, meaning no more miracle shakes and pills for you. But don't worry, they'll just reinvent themselves with a new name and new spin on their overpriced powders to dupe the next wave of…

* Join a gym for a month and take your ten year old there. Most gyms have a supervised area for kids. * Call the parents of your ten year olds friends and offer to watch their kid(s) for a few hours in exchange for them doing the same for you. * Send her for a long overdue visit to grandma/aunt/cousin. * Hire a teenager…

I lot of good advice here. I'm going to chime in with one that gets short shrift around here: cardio. While weight training is important to build muscles, don't neglect the most important muscle in your body: the heart. Not to be too depressing, but heart disease is still the #1 killer in America, accounting for more…

Guess I should have mentioned that. On the positive side, I never felt hungry on Atkins and your cravings really do subside. Like you said, all that meat and all those eggs really makes you feel full. But in the end I think it worked too well in that regard. Eating became monotonous and given that I had to also make my own…

Yup. Here's one that is apropos to this time of year: On the right is the version from about a decade ago. On the left is current incarnation. They must be underfeeding those bunnies...

I did Atkins for about a year and a half but it was before I discovered MFP so there was no logging involved, just counting carbs. It worked in the sense that I lost 40 lbs. but I eventually found it to be unsustainable and I gained everything back - and then some. The biggest problems for me were the monotony of the diet…

Not in the US. The cinemas make most of their money on the concessions, not on the tickets, so no outside food or drink is allowed.