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Sure. But it's in the wording. I don't feel my wife "owes" me anything. We try to work things out with every aspect of our relationship: time together, time apart, vacations, money issues, desires to visit family, vacation, career stuff, etc. It's a partnership. If the partnership doesn't work, you try to fix it. If you…
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It totally depends. Hard workout, very soon? Liquid calories. And hope they don't come up (has happened to me during a race). A few hours for a long, steady workout? Peanut butter jelly toast work for me. There was a rule of thumb - 100 calories per hour or fraction before workout up to 4. I can go over this if the workout…
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I love kashi, but for low-calorie situations puffed corn, puffed kamut, puffed rice. 60 cal / cup.
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Well, this gets derailed every time. There's plenty of reasons to eat or not whatever. You don't like the colour pink? Don't eat beets. Eating fresh shrimp inflicts pangs of regret on your belief in Dagon? Don't. And so on. Plenty of successful vegan athletes out there... if you find the idea of eating meat so repulsive,…
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Not the same ingredients in general. The "rinsable" softeners are different from the "heat-in" fabric softeners. Essentially, odour in clothes are from bacteria and material build up - remove them and you're good. Many ways to do this: mild acids (vinegar), mild bases and oxygenating/bleaching agents (bleach, or oxygen…
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you're going to get such a diverse set of responses based on the athletic goals for the individual. In my case, anything from 45 min (recovery ride) to 6 hours (150 km on gravel roads with climbs). Then again, I am a cyclist and my only interest in weight management is for athletic performance. And for what is worth, I…
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My coach told me there's one thing to be hurt, and another to be injured. You can train through the former, depending on your goals. If you're aiming to "peak" for something, resting might be better. If it's general fitness or weight loss, as long as you're not getting injured moving around helps. For what is worth, I can…
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Feeling off is the best indicator that some changes are needed. My wife is about your height, and most of her life she's been around 110 (before two pregnancies, now 115 with a one year old). Very healthy, and physically active. Simply a very small person! Of course her BMI is out of whack but that thing should not be…
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Meh. She hasn't even checked back. Not that she has that much to lose so her balances may be more susceptible to the little accuracy errors here and there.
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The diet part - I find that hard because I truly love food, and have some discipline issues when tired/stressed. The exercise - I have no problem there because I love it, and even at my least motivated I can still conjure the idea of competing to my level of expectation. I think the key there is that I found an activity I…
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Not necessarily. Depending on the algorithm used by the specific piece, this might be "additional" calories burned in excess of base. My bicycle meter does that. If I don't pedal for a bit, the calorie count doesn't increase (in fact, it doesn't even measure calories, it measures kJ of work performed. Approximately…
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Well, I did it through reduced income :) And I learned to cook. But since I was lazy and the "flavour" of junk food was not comforting (international student), I ate lots of fruit. Never had I figured bananas could be so expensive!
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I'll go with NIN's version. Also, NIck Cave's "The Weeping Song" Soundgarden's "Zero Chance
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Another thought: This case is probably evidence of why people THINK they are making reasonable assumptions for moderate weight loss and not getting results. The OP claims to track things with reasonable accuracy, uses an exercise monitor, etc. And while the results indicate a moderate/sustainble caloric deficit, the claim…
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A different perspective - proof is in the results. The undebatable (if unverifiable, we don't weigh each other here) fact is that the OP as lost a significant amount of weight over a period of time. The OP seems to report being healthy. Doing the math, It appears that the caloric deficit over this weight-loss period is a…
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I actually lost weight during grad school! Went from 185 lb to about 175. Not much over a year, but was completely unstructured. It derived from having less income to splurge eating (e.g. less beer). I did force myself to work out by trying out and joining a varsity team. That also allowed me to access other resources like…
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Weird. But hey, maybe it applies. Why not experiment with yourself and see how it works for you? Worst case scenario, you are not eating wonderbread for two weeks. That's not catastrophic. I do things like this from time to time- I did a workout on a water flavour solution (like Mio/Clight/etc.). I was doing a moderate…
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It's very hard to get much leaner than a pork loin... so much that they fare better when you marinate them or address this issue to avoid dryness.
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All of this, yes - Genetic Modification is not evil, antinatural, or heretical. It's a tool. And as every tool, it sometimes is misused. Smartphones are great. Texting while driving is not. Funny enough, where I live country of origin is mandated in all goods (feel free to boicot all Iranian tahini or israeli dates if it…
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What about a "Made in USA label"? Don't you have a right to know where your goods come from? What about the fiber content on a shirt? It's a shirt. What about the use of ethoxylated alcohols in cleaners? They are safe to use, but I'd rather not buy them because they present, in my opinion, an unnecessary risk - not to the…
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A different perspective - not scary, but perverse. I don't think they will make me grow a third eye, or get massive tumours or something like that. But they present perverse incentives for damaging practices. How perverse? Most GMOs (in economic terms) are modified so they can survive massive amounts of pesticides -…
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The French olympic track sprint team reported faster sprinting by doing weights immediately followed by the sprint session - kinda like a "superset" of weights+sprints. Something to think about!
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I do it regularly. Sometimes it's two easy workouts, since I find I recover better with activity than just lying around. Sometimes it's one light workout on the AM and a hard one on the PM (I have kids, so I have more time after they go to bed). And infrequently, one really hard and one moderately hard workout. Why?…
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100%, if exercise expenditure was assessed with full accuracy. It rarely is, so some build a margin of error. 75% is common.
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Only 6' 2" here :) At that end of the size and weight chart, you're bound to find a lot of weird stuff on the size/weight charts. Basically, all are outliers! Why not go by body fat % ? At any rate, when you say " I'm 265 lb" you could look like Lebron James. Or like John Goodman!
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Whenever you process a food (not the evil "industrial" processing, any preparation) you change its caloric profile, mostly through density changes. As long as you eat that portion fully (and there are no losses or additions like cooking in oil or de-starching potatoes by soaking in water), it doesn't matter if they are…
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Yikes... my "clan" lives and die by conversion. 14 g of butter is a serving because that probably is around a tablespoon :) So that's the sense this is supposed to make. 3.9 g is about a third, or a teaspoon of butter. And yes, until we actually measure things, most of us underestimate our servings considerably.
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Because for some people and exercises, it actually makes you feel better to work out. I will do an easy bike ride when I have a cold and feel much better afterwards, from increased body temperature, heart rate and ventilation rate. I doubt I get any large fitness benefits, but it makes me feel better. And some of my best…
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barter then for something better? Seriously, someone is bound to like them.
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It's really simple. Either your caloric intake is higher than you think, or your daily burn rate is lower than you think. I don't mean to be disrespectful here - I don't think you're stupid or negligent. Just personal experience: my BMR (and all derivatives such as TDEE, etc.) is lower than the average from the models. I…
