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If you're having a tough time limiting fast food, perhaps your 'detox' can be a week without fast food whatsoever. That should prove to yourself mentally that life doesn't end when you stop eating McDonald's.

Well, the intelligence level of the conversation on MFP aren't generally very high, so I might as well get some pictures...

Yup, elitist and condescending.

THIS! I find it hard to believe a thread of Victoria Secret models can be so lacking in pictures! Need moar pictures! :bigsmile:

That is rather elitist and condescending of you. There are many people out there who spend years of their life training ballet every week and perform in local theaters once or twice a year. These local companies are not the Bolshoi, but the people and kids have actual jobs and go to school AND still train 2-5 times a week.…

I read somewhere that gluten-free diet helps with crohn's. An acquaintance of mine has crohn's and she can't have gluten.

Bear in mind that the effect is slight, so slight that the International Olympic Committee lifted the partial ban on its use. You can counteract its minor catabolic effect with exercise, while taking advantage of the increased metabolism to burn more fat.

Packaged food with barcoded container is the easiest and fastest to add using the app.

These are the studies: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-010-1620-6 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18458357 Caffeine seems to increase testosterone while delaying the increase in cortisol level. However, when cortisol level eventually raises, it is higher than normal. Testosterone builds muscle while…

For most people the belly is the hardest part to lose fat from. My pants are down 3 sizes, probably 4, but the circumference at the belly button is only down by an inch, if that.

You used to take a lot of sugar throughout the day, which probably means you were riding the sugar high. I suggest you start eating complex carb foods like whole wheat bread and the like; they take longer to digest so they'll provide a constant level of sugar for a longer period of time. You won't get as high strung, but…

If you actually have to have salt, you can always take salt tablets...

Actually I'm rather sad of your narrow view that borders on denial. Dancers that make it to the top are most likely to be genetically gifted, which is true for any physical profession. However, the world of ballet is not limited to the top performing theaters. There are many, many schools out there populated with ballet…

Do you know all the ballet dancers that have ever lived to make such an absolute statement? I find it really hard to believe that a profession that REQUIRES a woman to weigh less than 110 lbs doesn't push some into anorexia. You have to be 5'4" or shorter, otherwise at 110 lbs you're underweight according to BMI. With…

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Competitive bodybuilders use cut-bulk cycle as described by lilawolf, because it works. I'm cutting until I completely lose my belly fat, then I'll begin the cycle.

This. Even the most accurate BMR formula is just an approximation based on statistics. To get to your exact calorie expenditure, you will need to experiment. Up your TDEE one notch and try it for a couple of weeks. If your weight loss stalls, reduce it by 100 cals two weeks at a time until you begin to lose again. By the…

I wouldn't kick any of them out of bed, that's for sure.

Interesting idea, but not fully backed by science. If you eat slower you tend to eat less, that's true because there are several scientific studies supporting the notion. The mechanism that signals your brain that you're full is slow, so it's easy to overeat when you do it quickly. The rest is questionable, but I don't see…

Life is tough, but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne

When I was holding down two jobs, going to grad school full time, and keeping a family, I relied on one of the first smartphones to hit the market: a Handspring Treo. Now my gadget of choice is the iphone. It was hard to imagine going through it without the help of an electronic calendar.

I actually believe him when he said sometime the women asked for sex. If you're a prisoner it's in your interest to curry favor with your captor, in the hope that he would not kill you, would beat you less, or let his guard down and give you a chance to escape. Given the circumstances only an idiot would consider the sex…

Your profile is closed. I can't figure out if you want to lose weight or simply maintain it while lowering your cholesterol. I have had success in lowering my blood cholesterol level by exercise and caloric deficit. Fructose (a.k.a. fruit sugar) is associated with higher level of cholesterol. Since basically all of our…

Not so long ago my way of drowning my sorrow and the accompanying depression was by playing computer games. Today my poison is posting on the internet. Hey, communicating on the forum is much better than blasting random strangers in an internet FPS game...

In before the 'fat acceptance' crowd.

Skip breakfast, buy the smallest 5 Guys burger without fries, and have a light dinner. The next day is a new day.

I don't know about the other 48 countries, but the size of traditional dinner plates in mine is tiny compared to US ones. US-sized plates were used for serving food, not to personally eat from. In short, we eat less. While on average Asians are still lighter, and healthier than Americans, it's changing. A classmate of mine…

I have had luck with plain old bottle brush, hot water, and dishwasher soap. No amount of soaking alone worked, I gotta spend some elbow grease.

You always burn some fat while running any good distance. However, your body starts burning fat almost exclusively when your glycogen stores run out. How long depends on the person, but it's typically longer than a half marathon or a couple of hours.

In before the "I'm too busy to notice" people. Rats, too late...