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You may not be a scientist but here you are exercising the kind of critical thinking about correlates & confounders that marks a scientific mind.

You're not wrong. It would be less crazy if I wasn't also getting my PhD.

Love stouts on Saturdays (Sunday is usually a 1/2 day :D). Avocado is an awesome idea. I'm going to go buy some tomorrow.

I am training at an elite level for an amateur (olympic) sport. 1.5 hours aerobic in the am, 1.5-2 hours aerobic in the pm, alternate core and lifting 30-45 mins every day. All measured with HR monitor & cross referenced with reports by my coach & nutritionist. BMR calculated every 3-5 months when I get a bod pod test done.

As a social scientist I can say that this isn't a great way to go about drawing causal conclusions... these are the kinds of methodological concerns I deal with every day :(

For reference I'm 6'1 (okay... 6'2 some days) and I get 2100 if I'm sedentary and want to maintain. Most days I eat upwards of 3500 :) Being tall = weird & hard to get used to as a youngin but I love me some eatin.

I'm with you on ice cream but I can't drink beer most days because I do first workout at 6am most mornings :*( Another of my favourites is pizza. Like... a whole pizza.

I would just love to see the IRB proposal for this one. An excerpt: "so we're going to randomly tell some fat little girls that they are too fat and then... in 8 years... we're going to check if they are - on average - fatter than the control group of little girls who we did not call fat." Not an RCT you say? Then I call…

1500-2000 a day (1) about 900 in the AM rowing on the water (not technically the gym I suppose) (2) 500-1000 running or biking or erging (rowing machine) in the afternoon (3) 100-200 lifting weights or doing core circuits (I alternate) ps. I am in heavy training right now... not just some crazy person with an exercise…

** too you should go TO the store and buy more food because you are eating TOO little

I always used to wish I was short/a normal height. But ****.... that blows.

Butter in your coffee? I can't even begin to understand why someone would put butter in their coffee. If you feel "heavy" from adding fat to your diet but want to increase your calories, swap out extra fat for extra carbohydrates (whole grain bread or pasta) or protein sources (full fat milk or yogurt, boiled eggs - one of…

Sounds like the very definition of disordered eating. I would go speak with a therapist if you are worried.

Go calculate your Basal Metabolic Rate (based off height, weight, and age). This number is how many calories your body needs to survive if you didn't do anything (basically it's what you would burn if you were sedentary). A good rule of thumb is to never eat less than this number per day. If you are working out then yes,…

I remember the first time my jean size slipped under a 30 (I am 6'2 and very muscular/athletic but even so the constraining element was my waist/tummy). It was an absolute revelation. Now I am lean & muscular enough to wear crop tops and look pretty great in a bikini. The funny thing is that I still have days where I feel…

basically any time a diet or fitness routine refers to "fat blasting" or "jump starting your metabolism", I think you need to approach it with a high degree of skepticism.

AM row on the water (16k), AM 2 - core strength, PM - erg (14k), PM 2 - heavy lifts Oh... and some running around like a headless chicken to get my "real work" done.

Trader Joes Cookie Butter. Any sort of candy.

Start with minutes over miles -- you will probably benefit more from volume than intensity when you are very very unfit.

He takes photos of himself in the gym... it's not going to work out.

Try walking instead of using the elliptical... it is a more natural movement and doesn't hold your legs in a weird straddle position. If you really love the elliptical though there is no real reason to wear shoes at all... it's not like you are going to be stepping on something unexpected, right? You would probably benefit…

So... you're losing weight at 1925 calories a day and you want to reduce your intake to 1850 and somehow slow down your weight loss and "coast" into your goal? This makes less than no sense. You have to consume more than your weight loss intake to maintain weight... not less. You don't decide a weight you want to be and…

Get "The Stick" and go to town on your calves and hamstrings at the end of every day... I find loosening fascia much more effective as a technique for improving flexibility than simple stretching.

What exercise do you do daily? Just out of curiosity.

Yes there is such a thing as too intense. No, you aren't anywhere near it.

My profile pic is me flaunting... I am pretty damn proud of my body and I work hard to keep it this way - capable, powerful,... sexy?

I always worry when I see people back-loading their caloric intake. The problem is that a lot of people will get to dinner with a low intake (for example, let's say you have 1000kcal remaining) and then will snack and binge at night and go well past their goals. I used to do this all the time - I would strictly control my…

Rowing is only an anaerobic exercise if you are working at a pretty hard pace. Unless you have trained as a rower I would guess that you are not hitting that threshold.

I'm a rower - working towards the national team so I row about 1.5 hours (6 days a week), do another 2 hours of aerobic activity per day (7 days a week), lift every other day, core every other day. It amounts to a lot. I am also very tall and I lead a relatively active life other than my training.

It's fine. Your stomach will stretch out when it gets used to having more food in it. If you are really struggling try eating dense food -- i.e. protein shakes or bars. That said, I totally understand where you are coming from. Right now, at my level of activity I have to eat in the range of 3500-4000 calories a day and…