SteveJWatson Member

"light" beer is like "lo-cal" butter - utterly pointless. I believe spirits are a lo-cal option. I drink bitter, I just make sure I "sport" it off, why do you think my calorie goal is only 2000?:drinker:

This what happens when you give up drinking - when you come back to it, you go at it like an amateur. The answer, of course is not to give up drinking in the first place. Oh, and abstinence makes the baby Jesus cry.

Except that its rubbish. I used to work a hard, manual job outside (was fish-farming) used to live on the farm, miles from town so couldn't pop in for junk food. I lived on wholesome, home cooked meals with plenty of veg etc. Problem was I ate a shedload cos working in the cold makes you HUNGRY. Guess what? I ended up at…

Shes 10 - as long as her diet doesn't contain too much sugar she'll be fine. Sounds like she gets plenty of excercise etc. If you can, try and guide her towards more complex carbs (brown bread, pasta etc) but don't sweat it too much if you can't. As you said - growing kids sometimes get a bit chubby. Its life.

At the OPs stats, burning 500Kcal per workout is highly unlikley, for starters.

Er, no - what you are driving at is that the greater your % LBM, the more calories you need to maintain. However, this is not the same as "the leaner you are" in this example. You are talking about two individuals at the same mass, but with differing muscle percentages. SS was meaning the same individual having lost mass…

Just because humans didn't get the majority of their carbohydrates from grain until we started to cultivate them for that purpose (although we would have eaten wild grains before that - its probably why we wanted to cultivate them) - does not mean they did not eat a carb-rich diet, its just that modern humans have…

Just for balance - I started at 230lbs (before MFP) am now 173 lbs - I have at least 4 pints every Friday. It has not hindered my weightloss, I just allow for it. I see this as a life change and I wont be giving up booze in the long run so why do it to lose weight?

I know people hate them, but I used the assisted chin-up machine at the gym and worked fine for me. Did it till I could do 5 unassisted of whatever I was working on (chins, pulls, dips) and then worked on adding reps.

More knowledgable posters feel free to correct me, but as I understand it, maintaining muscle requires energy, fat is stored energy. Muscle mass does not 'burn fat' - it takes more calories to maintain. If you are eating at a deficit those calories might come from your bodies fat reserves, they will also come from whatever…

So......what are you selling? :huh:

British version: NB - I am not the one dressed as a scarecrow, thats my dad. Can you get more 'agri' than working with your dad?

Begin with William Godwin, then read Proudhon Then you might want to move on to Bakunin and Most. I'm not setting you a syllabus, those names should be enough to get you started.

As an interesting (or not) aside - I have only ever got one job in my life by seeing it advertised, responding to the advert etc etc - all the others have been by me approaching the company saying - I like what you do, gissajob (heres my CV).

I was interested until I got to the part in bold - actually what you are describing is a more tradtional form of Anarchism and has been well described - perhaps with slight leanings towards mutualism. You haven't invented anything. :bigsmile:

Blimey - more flavours of Anarchy on MFP...

But thats Socialism! *gasp* And apparently that would lead to economic meltdown. Glad nobody told the Chinese....

She was in a way - Her Op reads to me along the lines of "Look at how I have created a job, for which I have offered x salary" (expecting praise) and then Because the 5 applicants I have chosen to interview have all been lacking *all* youth are idle layabouts. I generally take more issue with the second part because I…

Anarcho-captalism or 'market Anarchism '(and 'true' Anarchists would be annoyed at me for even calling it that, because they refute that it has anything to do with Anarchism) is the advocation of the elimination of the state machinery in favour of individual sovreignty within a free market society. Basically - it is the…

Anarcho-capitalism on MFP....now I have seen it all.....

The point is this: There is no such thing as altruism within the workings of capital. You do not build up a business in order that you can employ people because it is a 'nice thing to do'. You do this because (hopefully) you have done your sums and you have worked out that having employees would generate more revenue for…

If your business is profitable......

I see you have nicely avoided my point about surplus value......

Why should the OP get any praise or otherwise - the main person to benefit a business owner when he or she has grown a business enough to be able to employ people is the owner of the business, her employee will earn her money through her surplus value, without her having to do any extra labour. Thats basic economics. To do…

Its an answer based on no real understanding of basic economics or the workings of capital, its based on an ideal - the ideal that if we all work hard then we will definitley be rich. Its horse****. Capitalism would collapse in an instant if that were true.

I hope that is meant to be sarcastic - the real answer on how to be rich is to have money to begin with. Capital begets capital.

That is because of this crazy notion that the baby they are having should not have to suffer because of the choices of their parent. Good for you for working, but it isn't the be all and end all. I have worked either part-time alongside study or full time since I was 14. I don't think it makes me better or worse than…

Except that you can't earn more money on benefits (£60/week). The dispondency comes when a wage is offered that is little different to claiming JSA. You are still poor, but you spend your time at work. The actual problem is that todays youth then think 'bollocks to this, Id rather have a little less and my time is my own"…

If, like the OP you want to start a 'generation war' this would be the place to start, IMO. The 'baby boomer' generation came out of the war with all the benefits that the pervious generation fought for in the war itself and in the labour movement. They were brought up in a time of massive labour shortage - so you could…

Except that its bollocks. I have been out of work once in my adult life for two months. Do you know how hard it is to claim JSA? I had to go to Ringwood to sign on (thats about 8 miles away - my nearest bus would have been 3 miles away, so I would have had to walk three miles, get on 2 buses at a cost of over a fiver to…