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Pre-log your food for the day.

Yup. And at 150 calories each, they're hardly low calorie.

It's not quite that black and white. Frying implies the use of fats in preparation. Consuming trans fats, in particular, has been shown to increase LDL levels which are in turn are a strong predictor of cardio vascular disease. Consuming saturated fats may also play a roll although much of the research is contradictory.…

I generally just avoid fast food altogether now. The calories are rarely worth it and I don't want to restart my old habit of eating out too often. It's all too easy to find an excuse multiple times per week why should just go there. When I do eat out I want it to be a special occasion, not some typical Tuesday evening.…

As if we don't already have enough to obsess about, MFP gives us one more that is pretty much meaningless. It's important in the same way that perfect attendance was in school, except you don't get an award at graduation. And after all, who could ever forget good ol' what's-his-name who won that award? That's how inspiring…

Nope. Meats are the most nutritionally dense foods out there and since they are all protein and fat, they are quite filling too.

The plants and animals we consume today have already been altered substantially over the centuries so much so that there really is no such thing as "natural" food anymore. Mankind has been selectively breeding plants and animals for desired traits for so long, that most of the domesticated species could not not survive…

Atkins was the closest thing to a fad diet for me. Yes, I lost weight but good God, that diet gets really boring and I found it very hard to maintain for the long term, especially when the rest of my family was not following it. I found it to be too much of a chore to have to make my own "special" food every single night.…

The non-linearity of weight loss and plateaus. It's very demotivating to be so disciplined for weeks and then not see the scale budge, or worse, go up.

People are having way too much fawn in this thread.

Double this. Olive Garden drowns their salads in dressing if you don't get the dressing on the side. There's more calories in one serving of their overdressed salad as there is in a bowl of the minestrone soup.

Yup and with breakfast all day, you can get a 300 calorie egg mcmuffin any time now.

This. It is oh so easy to give up when you don't feel motivated so don't let that be what keeps you going. Same goes for workout buddies, friends and family. They won't always be there for you so don't use them as an excuse. Weight loss requires you to be a little bit selfish. You're putting your needs in the forefront.…

If both of those options are available, weighing is always better, however since most of us don't walk around with cups and scales, I find I do a better job estimating a food's volume rather than its weight. I can usually eyeball a cup of a half cup to within maybe 30%. Not great, but good enough for a ballpark estimate.…

A: People who want to keep the weight off for the rest of there lives. There's a reason folks on MFP discourage people thinking they need to go on this diet or that diet and instead try to emphasize making lifestyle changes that will last for the rest of your life. Counting calories isn't really that onerous of a thing to…

The point is moot now but my suggestion for next time is: Ask to see the dinner menu and split an entree with somebody or else just eat half of one by yourself.

The apple "nature" makes is typically small, hard and sour. The apple you find at the market is the product of intensive agricultural domestication, all courtesy of homo sapien ingenuity. Apples were the last major fruit crop to be domesticated because normal breeding techniques usually didn't work: Even if you carefully…

And all this time I though it was only me. For me, stevia either takes bland or bitter. Whatever sweetness is supposedly hiding in there is mostly masked by so many other unpleasant tastes.

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Peanut M&M's? no Peanut Butter M&M's? oh yesssssssssss!

The money for research has to come from somewhere. It's pretty much impossible to find authoritative advice from one group that isn't funded by another group that has an interest in the outcome. At least with AHA, they are consistent in limiting their endorsements to food that is low in saturated fat. Yes, they take money…

The EU member states banning GMOs is just plain old protectionism hiding behind phony health concerns. It's certainly not based on any credible science.

As always, what works for some people is useless to others. I've seen people buy a FitBit, wear it for a week and then never put it on again. I've also seen people who love the on-demand feedback and find the FitBit to be a great motivating tool. "I'm going for a walk around the block to get in the 500 more steps I need to…

As other have said, nobody notices you. Pretty much everyone is focused on their own workout. And if they have headphones, they're REALLY tuned out to anything else. Holding on to the treadmill is a bad bad idea. It messes up your form, ruins your posture and worst of all, it reduces the calorie burn somewhere between 20…

No. It's the combination of the weight loss surgery with the lifestyle change that has proved more successful than anything else. Everyone who starts any diet is motivated to eat at a calorie deficit to lose weight but more people are successful at maintaining the required lifestyle if they've also had surgery. Those are…

It's on page 2 of this thread and it's trivially easy to find with a google search but I'll repost here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470459/ The conclusion: "At present, weight loss surgery is the most effective and sustainable treatment option for severe obesity as long as the individual is motivated to…

There's this awesome website out there called myfitnesspal - you've probably never heard of it - but they have a ginormous food database that contains many verified entries, including menu items from Cracker Barrel. You should totally check it out. ;)

And yet the fact still remains that more people are successful keeping weight off with bariatric surgery than any other method. Most people who try to lose weight "the normal way" fail. Surgery should not be anyone's first resort but if repeated attempts at weight loss have not been successful, surgery is better than…

My company offers PPO health plans that are entirely funded by a fixed company contribution per person plus an employee premium that varies from year to year. Next year's premium costs are entirely dependent on this year's costs. Also, the deductible is lower for people who submit to weight, BMI, cholesterol, blood…

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