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Edy's toll house cookie dough is pretty awesome. *Gulp* Turkey Hill (one of my fave brands) has a sweet potato pecan pie ice cream?! I love sweet potato pecan anything. I've never seen this dream flavor! I do love their pumpkin pie flavor though, it's unbelievably good. I just saw eggnog TH in my neighborhood two weeks…

Yes the original recipe, which consisted of almost no preservatives, was the closest to homemade ice cream you could get from one of the bigger commercial brand; the texture was very much like something out of an ice cream maker. Nothing like the fluffy texture now. And technically almost all of the flavors are now not…

Have you eaten those Breyer's before? If no, potential warning: that samoas frozen dairy dessert is, by far, the most disgusting "ice cream" I've ever had the displeasure of eating. It was so horrendous we decided to trash it after the first taste.

Basically most of the Breyers line up since it went from ice cream to "frozen dairy dessert". The recipe changes under Unilever have basically destroyed most of the appeal of one of my once favorite brands. It use to be that no other commercial ice cream tasted anything quite like Breyers; it had a wholly unique taste, and…

I literally can't imagine my life without intermittent fasting. It's how I've lost well over half the 110+ pounds I have shed. And without any counting, logging, tracking or weighing. I've done a loose, unstructured IFing program up to this point with no "rules" at all. But I'm now recommitting to getting the rest of this…

Congrats bro. You look incredible. Must feel amazing.

I loathe calorie counting. That's why I prefer other methods. However I'm glad I became calorie aware back as a teenager. It helps immensely to have a general working knowledge of the energy value of food. But I'd recommend it in a heartbeat to a lot of people, hell even most. I wish my wife would come on MFP and truly…

My wife did WW for years. She loved it for community support and all the supportive, soft serve language they provided. But the bottom line was that she was spending lots of money to basically run in place. She wasn't working the system well. I was surprised at the stuff she'd talk about coming from meetings, and some of…

The first time, no. I maintained for about five years. And regained, knowingly, and it had nothing to do with not calorie counting. This time? So far, so good. Over 100 pounds lost, which started 3.5 years ago. I haven't used calorie counting to shift this weight. Your question however is irrelevant. The overwhelming…

I've lost massive amounts of weight before without relying on regular exercise or tracking. No pennies were used in said quest.

Of course. Fat/muscle ratio can vary from sport to sport, as well it should. But for the overwhelming majority of sports, particularly at the professional level, high body fat levels are unnecessary and rare. The larger athletes might be medically overweight or obese according to BMI, but as outliers that's coming mostly…

Yes. But when your eyes are opened it becomes damn near impossible to unlearn what you have learned. I've come pretty good at guessing people's weight, even the well carriers, if I know their height. You no longer walk around thinking of obesity as the massive, mobility challenged people oft associated with the word. I can…

That's because some American football players are overweight. Like sumo wrestlers, some of the larger players have an extraordinary amount of muscle, but also a lot of fat right along with it (though not to typical sumo proportions).

I grapple with that one. Self delusion is more understandable, but I can't fathom how some parents are so blind that they can't see the excess fat bulging off their kids' bodies. Right. Even for those of us who legitimately carried our weight "well", it's almost shocking how visually deceptive fat is. I never cease to be…

I never have (at least with clothes on). The very few people who I've told my high weight to were shocked. It's because I gain weight all over, have pretty soft fat and always dressed to suit my size; I was the king at masking my weight as best I could. I wasn't ever one of these dudes, like my dad, with a huge, hard…

Lots of people stalled out on WW with their dumbass "free" foods. Take a look at WW boards after they made that last change. Dozens of people wondering why they're stalling, despite admitting 5, 6, 7 or more pieces of "free" fruit.

Stagger your calories and look at your calorie goals in weekly, not daily, terms. That way you can save up more calories for your running days and cut back on your rest days, just making sure you have the same caloric deficit at the end of the week as you would have before. If not postpone running for now, reach goal, then…

You can have lean meats, organic grains and veggies on Atkins too. Looks like you're the ten millionth person who didn't bother to actually read the entire plan before undertaking it.

A piece of advice has always stuck with me, and I've heard it from a few people who are super lean; when it come to having a really low body fat level most people will end up being much lower on the scale than they ever thought they'd need to be. A lot of times our goal weights seem light from a distance, but it's possible…

I've read the list of ingredients. It sounded like artificially flavored ice. I can't fathom it being good. But for 150 calories a pint the winner is anybody who genuinely enjoys it. I can't imagine enjoying it, but more power to you if you do.

This is a lie. What structured low carb diet "says fruits and veggies aren't good, but pork rinds are"? I'd love to know. My initial experience with low carb back in the day was that I saw a vast increase in my vegetable consumption...and I'm far from a fan of pork rinds.

Almost every human being in the history of existence has been on a restricted diet consisting of a limited amount of food options, eaten regularly across the entirety of their lives. This whole idea that humans need incredible variety, and indeed even historically have access to immense variety, is a first world myth.

Umm, no. I've lost over 100 lbs. I lost the first 40 or so almost 4 years ago, low carbing, and made the switch. That 40 is still off. I wish people would stop pushing this lie that if you lose eating a specific diet that you'll automatically, like magic, gain weight if you eat in a different way later. The only reason…

And, at what point do you imagine the risk for "cardiac events and death" occur? As I never advocated aggressively cutting to the point in starvation when the body would begin to consume vital organs and muscle tissue in order to survive.

I'm well aware of the process. And the fact that this literally has nothing to do with what I said.

Extremely effective for some people. It was for me. If it wasn't for my massive sweet tooth, low carbing would be my natural way of eating at this point; doing it off and on for years literally killed my cravings for almost all high carb foods. I have never gained weight while low carbing, and that's without counting…

Wait, are you serious? You do realize that I am not talking about starvation, right? The vital tissues, including cardiac, will be catabolized in actual starvation, but that none of my posts are even remotely referencing starvation?

I'm aware of the process of muscle building. I never said it was "easy". I'm saying the fear mongering often associated with weight loss regarding muscle loss is often overblown and treated as a permanent condition. It's plausible that somebody would take a more aggressive cut, sacrifice muscle, and then turn around and do…