DapperKay Member

Well said, and I would add that at the bottom line food is information. What that information contains is vital for our body to learn, heal and move forward. Why we choose to ignore this and assume eating anything goes is beyond me. Weight loss that follows this mentality will do so much harm. It has harmed me personally…

I have been Paleo for around 9 months now. But I dont think of Paleo as a diet or a lifestyle, I think of it as a barometer that I use to *kitten* my fitness and nutrition choices. It is NOT a cult and certainly not a challenge you do once, it is common sense. You basically eat the stuff your body can handle very well and…

Almost all of the injuries are tendon related, and these dont swell unless they are completely ruptured (luckily not the case). There are tender areas which when I touch and poke generate various degrees of pain. I only managed to locate these areas after working with the most recent PT who showed me where the tendon ends…

depends at which point? over the last year it has average 1700-1900 depending on factors, Macro 45-50% carb, 25-30% protein, 20% fat most of the time.

Thanks all, really appreciate the support! I think you are both onto something and I have personally suspected this especially as I also sometimes suffer from fatigue without much cause. Problem is and I hate to say it, doctors just do no want to hear about this. All doctors I have seen just kept saying it is over…

*kitten* yo, that is scary!! :worried:

Not ridiculous at all and very valid question. Didnt do a surgery but I did take miltivitamins yes. Calcium/magnesium on and off but still taking it.

No i think you misinderstood. At that point I completely stopped all, even walking was minimized. Ive been inactive since then until i see the doc.

Oh guys thank you all so much for your super warm and encouraging messages, really made me feel better. Injuries totally suck you are right, it has been a very difficult period, but your encouragement really helped me! I will post some progress updates as when I know them, especially if others are in the same boat and…

I hear you, same feelings here. Everyday is a battle on an emotional level. Friends and family think Im irrational, but when you lose all your workout momentum, the very thing that put a smile on my face every day it becomes very hard not to feel sad. Walking is okay in small chunks of 2k tops and slowly, so I do 5 of…

Thanks for the input. I see your point. It was more of a "substitute" workout as I had no gym access for a while. You are right, I was indeed pushing myself on the last 10 of that 100. Possibly pushed a bit too hard :'(

Its been my achilles heel - eventually I just decided I needed to make a choice and I went for health. Now I drink once every 3 or 4 months and its normally one or two drinks. Big contrast with the guy whose idea of fun was hanging out at whiskey bars and smoking cigars. That being said - the main problem that I find is…

<3 That's the stuff - champ!

Your opinion. But I wasn't just referring to myself - I speak to people day in day out with the same issue. Anyways, it isn't just a theory anymore, many in the science community are starting to accept it as a fact. Studies back it up: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673773/.

Agreed again. This is a universal problem unless everyone has a bomb calorimeter at home. I think if you are accurate and methodical about this you can reduce error down to say 10%. It is still big relatively speaking and might go to explaining my (and other people's problem). Science is getting there though - it is in its…

I tend to agree thought I would say I am quite strict in logging everything I eat (including things like chewing gum lol). I also use my kitchen scale to the gram! On the whole though you do make a point, and if the data is saying 1900-2000 is maintenance I am leaning towards just accepting this and using that as my new…

Adaptive thermogenesis. It's controversial but I see its effects everyday. Can't refute pure data.

Trash food as you call it has existed for centuries. Humans discovered the joys of comfort and sugary foods ages ago. We're not living in an age of decadence and excess, we are living in an age of consumerism in general, and food is just one of the many outputs of that consumerism. It's not all one big conspiracy to make…

The future is for an increasingly logged world where we track tons of metrics about ourselves. All part of the big data world and internet of things. Theyve already got things like cups that can determine the calorie content of liquids. Only a matter of time before logging will become much easier and 2nd nature to us...

It's debatable, but biologically speaking you will never be able to eat like a person of your current metrics would at an intuitive level. And the catch 22 is that logging calories should in theory help you to learn eating better so that you can one day move off counting, but it becomes the act of counting itself that you…

Lol - I'd just 250 cals worth of chicken or turkey breast. Saute them with half an onion or a shallot...

Nothing special. Tried a free box a while back. They're tasty but not really healthy (depends on what you select). I also didn't really know when to slot them in as I normally don't do snacking, more about the controlled desserts and odd biscuit with coffee. But if nuts is your thing then go nuts for it! :smile:

I don't get that logic. If the point is to track weight loss, then you have to pick a reference point, pick a setting and replicate over time to see change. It doesn't matter that at some other point you might be 10g lighter, your main interest should be the weight loss amount. I'm not judging, to each his own, but…

Salts, eugh, its the enemy when it comes to water retention. What's worse is that its hidden in nearly everything. Generally speaking anything that is in cans or sealed plastic bags that gives the impression that it should have died ages ago but hasn't would be filled with sodium. Also anything in the frozen aisle. We…

Doughnuts and donuts are two different things. I chose the latter, the former tends to be filled with lots of jams and heavy stuff. Btw a new place opened near my work that does 'baked donuts', really cool and taste great. He says its 40% less fat, he might be right...

That's a bit excessive lol - do you mean a week?! Weight varies quite a bit day to day due to many factors including water retention, glycogen and what's in your belly at the time of weighing. Best thing to do is pick a setting and replicate that once a week then record. So for instance a setting would be your living room…

Good point.

Love all the different inputs on here. It seems that it might not be a problem if you are in maintenance, but might be if you in deficit, and of course that would be the case, because then the tracker is the ideal maintenance state and the deficit you get should tie in with the deficit you set for yourself more or less on…

True, Person 1 should do that, but the fact that every day they will see an extra 2-300 calories in their dairy will at a sub concious level get them to eat more, because that's just the way things are. Of course, they can always switch synching off and hence this whole debate is pointless. :)

I don't understand why people feel the need to eat all the cals for a day. It's a balance on long run, some days you'd eat more others you'd eat less, you want to keep a consistent trend to meet your goals. Having said that, you would worry about it if it was a daily thing because then your goals would need re-adjusting. I…