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Yeah - when I track what I'm eating when I'm eating within my calories and eating healthy, satisfying foods - my natural macros tend to fall closer to 40-40-20. I don't accept the default MFP macro breakdown as the necessary starting point.
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A lot of current "Low Carb" and/or "high fiber!" prepared foods use cellulose as filler. Ironic - a century after we outlaw ersatz foods because they were starving poor babies (see also the history of milk regulation), we're back to adding wood chips to bread and water to milk, because our surplus calories are making kids…
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I have a cupboard full of spices and herbs and I use them all the time in everything. And yeah, I salt things in moderation. I also extract flavors into fat: don't just throw onions in a soup, sautee them in some olive oil first. Same with garlic. Many flavor compounds are fat-soluble, meaning that if you cook spices and…
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And so often? The Foods of Penitence turn out to be not even all that good for us! Our bodies need balance, and we respond to our fears of fat by banning whole families of food. As humans, our cultures use food to celebrate and make peace - and we try to deny that.
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And the idea that losing weight or maintaining healthy weight requires massive changes and the adoption of an unpleasant diet - then gets passed on to kids. I see so many posts that are variations on "but! what will my kids eat?" "How can I lose weight when I'm cooking for my family?" "I can't make my kids eat diet food!"…
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Barcodes on vegetables, fruit, and meat will only get you to a very generic entry. It's not the same as scanning a very specific thing like a packaged cookie or a frozen dinner.
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If you want to fast for spiritual benefit, you do it for that. Not for weight loss, not for some kind of mythical "system reset." Several religious groups in the US have issued a call to a monthly fast to respond to efforts to cut anti-poverty programs. Many people are responding positively. But to try to turn that into…
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Note that I"m not arguing against CICO. I'm a big proponent of it. I'm not arguing for woo or clean diets or any of that crap. I'm arguing that the math on both sides is based on estimates, as most research in complex systems is. Biochemistry at the cell level is pretty straightforward; biochemistry at the organism level…
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The first refers to "influenced by processing," and refers out to several other articles in which "processing" includes breaking down particle size as well as heating. Here's another:…
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Don't "eat clean." Make better choices and eat better portions of what you regularly eat. If you cannot maintain a diet for a lifetime, its not going to work. Figure out what works for you, gets you the nutrients you need AND the pleasure in eating that you need but still keeps you at a calorie level to maintain the weight…
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There is no affordable home-use scale that is actually accurate to much more than +/- a couple of pounds. They make you THINK they're super accurate with their decimal points and their digital readouts. The digital readouts actually will "lock" in and give you the same weight so that you don't see what you see on a…
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It changes the availability of carbohydrate and how fast we respond to it: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0268005X11000725 Cooking and breaking down cell walls changes how much nutrition we extract from food:…
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The problem with doing the math yourself is that everything on both sides of the = is estimated. We know more and more about the values that we're estimating, but we also know that they're not exact, and they vary enough that people have to figure otu their own balance. But yes, science approximates. Math approximates.…
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When you find me 10 people who totally agree on what it means to "eat clean," maybe it won't be meaningless. But as I've heard it described as everything from vegan to paleo, I'm going to say it has very little actual meaning. I've seen people say that you MUST give up dairy and wheat to be "eating clean," or that only…
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Our bodies are not computers or smartphones, and we don't "reset." Not eating for a day, or more, is not some magical "Press the home key and the power button" answer to whatever we feel is wrong with our lives. Why do we choose THAT metaphor, anyway? Why is it all "we need to RESET" like a computer? You're depriving your…
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You can also look up "bodyweight exercises" and do some of them to help maintain muscle while losing weight. You could even get a set of adjustable-weight dumbbells to work with at home.
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Someone mentioned Secret Eaters - which is hard to find to watch here in the US, but did a pretty good job of showing how people can be eating more than they think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYJrC3RTtgQ And then I 100% agree with the point raised above about the accuracy of database entries. I've got some unlogged…
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n clinical trials, people taking Xenical/Orlistat/Alli lost about 2-3 kilograms more than people who didn't take the drug. That's just not a lot of weight. That's 4 to 6-ish pounds. In exchange for losing that tiny amount (relatively speaking), people taking it have to deal with really horrifying, grotesque side effects. I…
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1) You can only compare weights taken on the same scale. The gym scale and the home scale have different accuracies and precisions, as well as maybe having been calibrated slightly differently. 2) Even on the same scale, a 3 pound difference is not that big a difference and is within the tolerance (meaning accuracy and…
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Yeah, I was looking at some recipes on his site just now -- trying to get all the fat you need from nuts and seeds, while eating a mostly-vegan diet -- would not work for me. (as a side note: the minute I saw his post to the parents of a child with Type ONE diabetes telling them to bring her to him and they could cure her…
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How long have you been in recovery? Did you heavily restrict during your ED? How long did you maintain a healthy weight before you gained to where you are now? Is it possible that you are still dealing with metabolic damage from the ED?
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But I think there is a common perception that "eating healthy" is somehow DIFFERENT and requires special foods, special budgets, special ingredients. Over and over, you'll see people posting "I can't afford healthy foods," or "I want to eat healthy, but my husband and kids don't need to lose weight." We've demonized not…
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Cheap food isn't inherently unhealthy - and healthy food isn't inherently expensive. (though if you decide you MUST do it through paleo or something, I suppose it can be). In fact, any "Diet" that's sold you in a book or via a formal plan is likely to be more expensive, because their meal plans don't take leftovers and…
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I have no desire to eat only their packaged food or cook their recipes, and the "points calculators" I've seen for food cooked from scratch the way I cook are just like ... arcane wizard magic. Why do I have to do special proprietary calculations to get some arbitrary "points value" when I can just look up the calorie…
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Some people's bellies have a curve, even when they're not overweight. It may not even be fat. It may be your internal organs. And everyone -- even people wtih the miraculous "bikini bridge" or whatever they call it when your hipbones stick out -- will have a pooch when they sit down and bend over. Long story short: Even at…
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In the 1980s, most poeple weren't using computers all day at work. Even office workers. There was a lot more getting up and down during the day, walking to the next office to talk to someone, running physical papers around the building. My first few jobs had "computers," but there were a couple of stations that we all…
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I can say that while many of the traditional "gassy foods" (broccoli, Orange juice, etc) didn't bother my kids? Textured vegetable protein (aka: vegetarian fake meat product) apparently did. The only times I ate it, my normally-not-fussy baby screamed all night.
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Nope. I just put on an old bra from last year accidentally. The band is now way too lose, but I still fill out the cups. But every mammogram I get results in a warning that they can't see anything because of "Dense breast tissue." I've got very little fat in my breasts - its all glandular tissue. So: It depends on what's…
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I've said this before - but breastfeeding my second kid made me a believer in the idea of set point. She was a big baby and gained very quickly on no calories except what she got from me. I lost weight very quickly without any effort. And when I got down to a weight about 15 pounds below my pre-pregnancy weight (about my…
