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Between all the "you shouldn't eat" advice I've heard, all that would be left for me to eat at a grocery store are toilet paper and shampoo.

Difficulty digesting milk is insanely common, especially considering that there's this thing that claims it to be an entire food group. I always chuckle when I see one of these threads because they consistently get dogpiled by people with lactose/allergy issues and it's so predictable.

Base your protein on activity level and weight, not a percentage of the total calories you eat, and bump that by ten percent to compensate for inevitably being shorter on your lysine. Your protein intake is only as good as the part you're shortest on.

I just order off the kids menu and get lots of knowing smiles. Life is short and I value being able to spend it doing crazy things that require me to keep my body capable of doing them over eating larger plates of food.

I slice and saltwater soak, then nuke before either grilling or frying it. If frying, use spray oil instead of pouring oil in the pan to keep the texture.

The key part here is that it's your mentality concerning you. Mind you, choosing a healthy diet and lifestyle in some communities is virtually guaranteed to cause conflict... and people trying to do that in said communities aren't distressed by their own goals and most of them know where their frustration belongs. Try to…

The last time it got like that here, I wore a winter coat with wool military surplus pants, windbreaker pants over those, bunny boots (as in those white rubber horrors - they do work!), and wind resistant stuff for my face plus a scarf. And I got on my bike and went out.

Why macros as percentages of the whole don't work. Protein should be based on weight and activity, and fat and carbs based on how much needs to be eaten beyond that. Fat takes initial priority but with higher calorie needs the carbs should increase more.

Creatine is part of the body's quickly accessed energy stores. It's a part of protein, and not even an "essential" part of protein that must be eaten - bodies can make it from other amino acids. Do bodies create less and/or break down creatine into its building blocks in order to bring supply in line with need? Possibly,…

If you've had it to here with it, the thing that needs "flushing" is the drug pushing. Consider asking them point blank how many drug company mugs they currently own and informing them there will be no statins going down your throat, possibly followed by shopping for a new doctor. This will likely not be the last time they…

Here's what went into the egg bake in my fridge... the ingredients can be added in different quantities and used for a skillet meal if you need it done now, though the effort per serving is tons less for it as a bake. 1 dozen large eggs 1 lb ground beef 1 lb carrots 2 cans tomatoes with green chilies salt to taste Cut…

One of these things is on par with actual saturated fat, and the other is even worse. Unless you're opposed to eating animal products, you might as well substitute back in your butter and tallow and lard.

Added note to the bit about water gains being driven by replenishing glycogen stores: your body's "full" point will shift with exercise.

This is probably the delayed effect of eating a high carb diet and skimping on protein for an extended period of time. Gas is made by gut bacteria eating carbs. A solve for this is eating less carbs long enough to reduce the gas-producing bacteria. Eating too many carbs again after that will eventually bring you back to…

The weather is fine. Get something with knobby tires and disc brakes and layer up. There are enough layers to bike almost anywhere. If you live somewhere like North Dakota and have truly nasty weather, order up some military surplus wool pants and bunny boots and raid the local thrift store for oversize windbreaker bottoms…

I prefer to bang out my own in the winter and only order up groceries when all my staple items go on sale. Staying indoors alone makes it worth the effort, plus you can make it however you want.

Sodium is an unsexy mineral that gets attention because there's a lot of heart patients out there. Some kidney patients too, but mostly heart. It's used for the body's electrical signals and to maintain the amount of water in cells. More than enough is more for the kidneys to do and less than enough can land people in the…

The sweetened stuff is either nasty or made with fake sugar or concerning amounts of the real thing. I once compared a few cups of it to a so-called "splurge" and put the better mousetrap in the cart. Cashier probably looked at the rest of my choices and went 'one of these things is not like the others' haha.

Your tracker is set to have you lose a pound a week of fat and going by what happened the last week, it's likely working as intended. The other 21 pounds you've lost so far were probably water. Expect the tracker to continue functioning as intended and be patient.

Baby cows are among us!

It's my high-fat spread of choice and sometimes cooking grease. As far as smoke point goes, it holds up for stir fry and pretty much everything else I've used it for. Most of the fat won't be released by cooking into the rest of a dish unless mashed up to some extent so remember to do that when planning to use it as a…

The most sensible foods are the ones that will be eaten. Shake powders and bars are those things you stash in your bag and remember are there that night when everything goes wrong at once. Fast food as a last resort is completely optional. That being said, I pay for packaging and choose something single serve and a little…

Do you need to do anything afterward, and I mean anything at all? For my multi-day bike trips, it's invariably a heap of carbs for the sake of being able to keep riding. Manually do your protein and fat based on weight and activity type and fill the rest with carbs. Eat at maintenance for at least that day. Take in carbs…

If there is a food that doesn't raise your risk of something, you probably can't survive on it alone anyway. Junk science is probably one of the unhealthiest things you can take in.

Sanity check your input/output numbers. If they check out (and they may do), drink calories if need be so you're not crazy tired tomorrow.

Get your hands on some sports nutrition resources of the "let's not bonk" variety. Pick ones that promote food and choosing a balance of food that keeps you going even if everything you find like that is old. They're not outdated, I promise.

Marketing. I'm pretty sure that's the only reason they're not stocked next to the Little Debbie snacks by now.

Learn to like pumpkin for a week and render one of those giant ones people usually buy to stick on their front porch. Everything but the skin and stringy part of the guts can be eaten. Pull the guts and save the seeds. Cut into chunks with the skin still on and bake at 300 degrees in deep baking dishes until the skin can…