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Its about $250 per week for two of us. But thats buying meat from grocery stores instead of local. When we get into that habit i expect it will be more expensive Austalia, woo!

are you logging what you eat? it might be an eye opener, it makes you accountable for everything you put in your mouth. You have such a defeatist attitude, calling it 'impossible' - it's really not.

everything mikeflymike said is perf.

what do you mean by 'eat like a man'? That phrase makes me think its encouraged to eat huge amounts of food in your family. I have family members with unhealthy attitudes towards food too. Its all about educating yourself and recognising why you're eating so much//making bad choices//whatever the problem is. Its all on you…

factors such as what kinds of food you're eating......? :ohwell: Nah, I know you'll disagree because of reasons. The argument just goes in circles. I just think that its very much a close-minded approach, to use a vague term like 'cals in vs cals out' to disregard ANY other theories, personal experience-based opinions,…

when people say cals in vs out, they generally mean it as in 'you need a bigger deficiency to get better results'. I see it used most when people say 'help, why aren't I losing weight?' if you say that my increased weightloss still comes down to cals in vs cals out, you're using the phrase in a different way. You're…

I wish it was that easy to lose weight. I imagine it wouldn't be very pleasant to do that in one go though.

are you saying I pooped out 4kg?? :laugh: i wish. my poop is just fine regardless of what i'm eating :ohwell: didn't notice a significant difference in that regard when I switched. edit: also agree with the middle bit, its so hard to explain that all food is not equal, all people are not equal. though with that last bit,…

every day... just as a habit really. I dont take much stock in the figures so long as theres a generally downward trend.

I completely disagree. Please let me bore you with my story so you see why. I will try to keep it pretty brief. I work at a very sedentary desk job. I spent 3 months eating lite n easy, a diet meal plan that's delivered weekly. I alternated between the 1500 and 1200 plans, hoarding snacks so that I was at 1350cals per day.…

'at its core' does not mean 'this is the sole reason any diet works ever and therefore they are all the same' Do you believe that eating say, 1300 calories of vegetables & meats would yield identical results to eating 1300 cals of mcdonalds?

Oversimplifying. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates (because there are none). It is not merely cal in/cal out.

if that's true then ketosis wouldn't exist. Low/No-carbers are aware that the initial fast loss is water weight. But how do you explain them continuing to lose weight after they've shed the easy part? Oh right, the way you guys explain everything - it must solely be calories in/calories out. Except that isn't what ketosis…

eat more protein and good fats!

I suck at following the program. So far i have done: W1d1 W1d?- made up own intervals as i left my phone at home W2d1 - on monday W3d1 - just now, thursday I found the first two weeks of intervals not challenging enough.... i didnt think i was very fit at all but i feel good about this! It was hard to keep going through…

god yeah, KFC was my go-to hangover meal. The box I got came with a burger, chips, potato & gravy and a piece of chicken. They're 1000 calories a pop. I genuinely can't remember the last time I ate there. I remember the last time I desperately wanted to; we ended up having chicken kievs and some homemade potato wedges in…

I deliberately said the word correlation instead of talking in absolutes. So your comment was unnecessary. The idea (from original quote) that people living below the poverty line are stuffing their faces & are therefore obese is... an ignorant one, to say the least. However, in a forum where people insist that different…

from the looks of things, you're not logging your exercise. So it makes it hard to say if you really are eating enough! also from a 'clean eating' pov, maybe switch the mac & cheese for food like homemade guacamole with carrots/celery sticks? avocado is full of good fats, very filling and satisfying. But I know that loads…

1. They didn't give stats on weightloss except those two extreme cases. So we can't say what the other inmates have or haven't lost. And your question is stupid because it isn't a study on fat people dieting, its a hunger strike in a prison. You can't use it as solid evidence for or against any diet theories. 2.…

It's not that I don't like it, its that I don't feel the need to keep it in my house. Like I love plain salty potato chips. But I don't stand in the aisle gazing longingly at the rows of chips, it doesn't even cross my mind. Just saying. There are other ways to look at it beside 'oh she likes chips and doesn't have them in…

not at all, but I'm dead sick of eggs :laugh:

so, so wrong. most paleo friends on my list eat 1500+ cals. atkins promotes drinking diet soft drinks and using sugar-free versions of everything. it is nothing like paleo where the general rule is 'if you can't pronounce/recognise the ingredients, don't eat it'

I think this is probably my favourite part of eating paleo. I've discovered how much better locally grown produce really is. And I feel better for supporting them rather than the big evil supermarkets.

this sounds great! most of my food comes from paleo blogs though, or isn't strictly paleo. ho hum.

So glad I'm not the only one feeling this! They're so smug about eating poptarts. I don't even like poptarts, I don't understand the obsession with them. I also really hate: 'help, i'm doing 3 hours of exercise and eating 1200 calories, why aren't I losing any weight?' 'you're not tracking your food properly // just stick…

We've been engaged for about 18 months now, i've only recently gotten motivated to get fit because I want to do things like Tough Mudder! But its such a stereotype, if I turn down cake I get comments like 'aw come on you've got ages til your wedding, don't bother dieting now' *scowl* so many assumptions. Having a set date…

What is with the obsession with losing weight just for the wedding? I hate it, its all you see in wedding magazines and forums. I'm getting married in March, but it is not the reason i'm getting into shape. I want to be a healthier and fitter person fullstop. That will not suddenly end when the wedding is over.

The catch-phrases dropped into his/her posts make me think OP has been brainwashed by the diet industry. Junk food junkies? Manipulated chemicals? OP, if you're going to spend the money, you'd be better to go to a dietitian than a nutritionist. At least the dietitian has qualifications, I get the impression that the…

I'm a little weirded out that OP hasn't tried Indian before! Its delicious and so easy to cook. <3 <3 but yeah, hurts the tummy.

or perhaps there is a correlation between not being able to afford a nutritious diet and being overweight...?