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Expectedly, I figured there might be some kale lovers. Without adding ingredients, additional flavor, or changing its texture via cooking, could you eat it alone and say you love it? If so, bless you because you're on your own. I can't help you. I'll be at the carving station :lol: Also, this may be the most appropriate…

Many thanks! And I wish him well! The lesser of two evils would be medication induced liver damage, and while it sucks, it's a helluva whole lot better than lymphoma. Keep us updated. Here's an unholy union that was created by a fake AI program for his travels :D

To both of these sentiments, there's a predominant theme which likely applies to the majority of dieters: there was a habit formed to create and stay within a deficit by eliminating or reducing the intake of hyper-palatable foods; as soon as the holidays came around, that habit was broken with reckless abandonment and now…

Lol have you seen Snickers? He denies the existence of energy balance. He's got the build of a powerlifter. Mario seems to be auto-regulating his activity much better :P

Yep, that would be me who said that. It falls in line with Aadam's email that crash diets can work, however, if you're trying to learn long-term sustainability, then fast results don't do 3/5ths of jack for training someone to manage their habits in the long run. In context, the initial phase of fat loss is actually quite…

It depends on what you set your deficit to. There are multiple ways to create a deficit and it doesn't need to be a large deficit. Either refer to the revised opening post or you can see my refresher on page 157 or 158 in creating a minimal deficit that allows for weight loss, but enough calories to not feel deprived. The…

I can take a stab at it if you want. @Nony_Mouse can confirm my blatantly objective assessment lol. Full disclosure, I'm not an expert by any means, but I will do my best to be as accurate as possible.

Will file under "guilty pleasure" shows to watch then! Lol. @Orphia is it possible that you still carry your phone around with you while you walk around and do stuff? Before I start speaking like I know wtf I'm talking about, my thought is that even deleting the app from your phone and disconnecting the pairing of Fitbit…

209x11 is the lower end of activity to create the deficit with 209x13 being on the higher end of an active deficit. I should also mention again, being in a low carb/glycogen depleted state is going to fall on the lower end of the spectrum for scale weight (and to a degree body fat percentage) maintenance, so depending on…

+100 for the milkshake rendition :D If not in a deficit, you can get away with 0.7-0.8g/lb/lbm if carbs are high enough as @VintageFeline mentioned. The underlying reason being that the hierarchy of substrate oxidation is always in place: alcohol > carbs > protein > fat (protein/amino acids actually always get broken down…

2050 is absolutely a deficit. RMR shouldn't be considered maintenance. This is the minimal activity done when binge watching Netflix and getting up to go to the bathroom (I know @heybales has a better definition of it and can explain it much better). At 209 lbs, using the rough estimate multiplier for maintenance, yours…

I've also had an unintentional whoosh of 3 lbs putting me into my lightest post-holiday/beginning of the year weight in the past 7 years Several reasons explain why: 1) I haven't consistently hit my assumed maintenance calories due to time constraint reasons; 2) my workouts coming back post-xmas food poisoning have been…

Probably a good time to insert the new reminder for 2018... Use your new settled weight as your baseline calculation for creating the deficit. Rough rmr baseline is going to be current bw x 10. Maintenance is around a multiplier of 14-15. If you are active at all, the multiplier is anywhere between 11-13 to create your…

Condolences to you @nexangelus .. he's a handsome little guy. Just for some smiles, I'll bestow the result of a quick insanity banter with Lyle.. ultimately, this is where we end up with our respective research habits. Every. Damn. Time.

I get like .. <5k steps per day.. lol

"Duh" moment of the year is the *sudden* realization that I've been collecting stupid data re: resting and active energy expenditure for the past couple years with my Apple Watch. Resting is on average 1869kcal with active being an average of 555kcal for the entirety of 2017.. which puts me squarely at 2424kcal as…

I've definitely gained fat .. up 3% according to my skulpt which puts me at 12.2%. Which realistically might be 15-16% in the real world if I take margin of error into account. And I'm at 176.8 today, so the controlled surplus is going well. I have another 2 full months of this surplus with a focus on Olympic weightlifting…

Happy new year, people. Seems everyone has had a good holiday break/new year celebration. Here are some random captures that I don't believe I've shared here. Yes, there's a gratuitous calf vascularity shot at the end because it caught my eye as I was gorging on food. Ha! Note, that giant Snickers flapjack is the size of a…

I'm a spoiled southern Californian so anything below 60F is cold to me :smiley: The coldest it gets around here is about 45F in the morning. And thanks for the broth reminder. I've been upping the electrolytes (mixed in plain water) gradually since a bolus shot of sodium had the opposite effect, though it really was too…

Thanks! I'm gradually getting better. I haven't reverse digested food since Monday, so that's good. I'm sure it's a combination of the cold weather, slight dehydration, and actual gastric infection, but my skin is itchy and dry. A minor inconvenience that's preferable to the worse alternative of food poisoning lol. On the…

Thanks! I'll be honest and didn't even think of it being norovirus. If it is.. I've contaminated several people quite easily. Haha. Whoopsy-daisy. What happens in Vegas is going home with them now :D

So, it's turning out that I can barely stomach the thought of anything "heavy" in terms of volume or fat content. Incidental deficit is happening. I'm contemplating working out tonight, but we'll see how I feel. Let's hope I don't spill my guts on the barbell lol

I've done 18 lbs in 4 days. You're completely fine lol. Obviously, there's going to be some mind-fornication happening as the scale shows spikes, but if all (or at least most) of your calories were accounted for, it's not bad since you know you didn't magically eat 35k calories over TDEE to gain >10+ lbs of fat. Even those…

No way in hell I'm catching up with the pages missed lol.. just as an update, I'm alive and back from Vegas. I mentioned it to Nony, but I spent my Xmas eve and day feeling like complete dog crap from food poisoning that I may have gotten from the last buffet day prior to my return. I can't imagine from what since I ate…

Hey, we have hugs now. Hugs all around. Lol

The way I see it, Metformin for PCOS is the equivalent of being put on BPC for menstrual regulation. It doesn't mean anything other than it's a measure to counter dysfunctional hormone secretion. For PCOS, incidence of insulin resistance is high which is a precursor for metabolic syndrome like diabetes, so Metformin is…

Like magic, I tell ya :smiley:

Excellent job! You can ask for a fasting insulin blood draw at the same time you get a fasting HbA1C draw, and fasting glucose. Then you can plug insulin and glucose into this calculator to determine your IR score: https://www.thebloodcode.com/homa-ir-calculator/ The A1C is just going to be a measure for long-running…

Time to use the MFP database for gardening lol.. good luck