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Mentally, I think of carbs as a "waste" of calories. Which is to say: a lot of this is in your head.

9 to 10 days beforehand, I have a day where I am hungry All. Freaking. Day. I figure I need the calories for building up a uterine lining. My body knows what is up. I just have an eat all the (healthy) things day. It's not an eat all the cake day. But, if I *need* an extra snack, then I obviously NEED it. I think the best…

Smoked salmon and some cream cheese on a super thin whole wheat bagel.

That is awesome. <3

Waiter/actor

Yeah, I have lived that version of regret. LOL. "Oh, wait. This was a bad idea. *pause* TOO LATE NOW! *finishes last glass*"

Not even open yet, and they want your money *now*. It honestly sounds like a scam.

I've been on a Nick Curran thing this month.

Don't forget that megahit, Flamenco.

You need to write "The Nap Diet." Best-seller, guaranteed!

Limes have been crazy this year. It's annoying.

YOU GET ME. *swoons*

So, eating "clean" makes the eater "clean." You are the kind of person is consumes "clean" and "pure" and "natural." Nevermind that "natural" can kill you. Nevermind that "pure" can kill you. Nevermind that "clean" is in the eye of the beholder. It's about identity. Which is, again, why any questioning is seen as a…

Really, the *only* way a person can jump to "if you don't intuit my meaning of clean you are a condescending, mean, obtuse bully whut hates us allz!" from something as simple as, "Clean doesn't have a defnitive meaning" is if it's meaning is more emotional than technical. Which is *exactly* what is being argued. It's like…

If you guys think that the collective internet can actually agree on what constitutes a clean house or a clean body, you haven't been online long enough.

Lemurcat: eventually, you can't even eat the kale. http://www.nwedible.com/2012/08/tragedy-healthy-eater.html

This. Also, if you have an allergy trigger, you can take benedryl AND ibuprofen: the benedryl fends off the icks with antihistamine, and the ibuprofen reduces inflammation (which is what an asthma attack is.) If your insurance will cover it, ask your doctor for something like Advair (mine isn't covered right now, and boy…

I do a lot of core exercise (and it includes back work (and obliques)) because I want better posture. That's like a free 10lbs and 5 years of freebie to your looks!! I may never have a six pack, but at least I won't have a hunch back.

Sign up! At 33 minutes, you'll come in with the big pack in the middle. I did my first yesterday, and it was fun. (Even though now I've got a sunburn :/ )

Awesome! This was actually super helpful for me. We're about the same height with the same starting weight. You're two pounds ahead of me! :)

Seriously. One of the paleo bloggers really tried for some crazy thing like < 2 grams a day, and he ended up with some bizarre medical numbers in the end. Also, seriously, no one ever got fat on zucchini. Don't hate on squash. :)

It's like riding dirty. You lift the weights with a secret stash of drugs in your hidden pocket.

I enjoy this notion that if I think "clean" is arbitrarily defined, so that it can maximally used in a primarily moral dimension, it must follow that I brag about the eating of marshmallows and chocolate covered lab rats or what have you. When it's mostly just me jeering at the use of unclear language.

RIGHT. Before the TOXIC WHEAT and the OLEOMARGARINE!

No way. He lived in Ye Olden Tymes. Surely, his food was all pure as the driven snow.

Crazy =/= periodically addicted to cocaine.

What GuitarJerry said. Do something you'll actually look forward to.

In general, when I find someone who is super stuck on the clean, pure, natural, holiness of their food, I assume they're, in some very solid way, substituting food for where ideas about sexual morality would be on their inner map. As a species, we're a little fixated on attaching non-anxiety-producing meaning anything…

Meh. I get it. I think, ultimately, it comes down to denying that we are *all* going to die. Period. The human psyche will do a lot, a whooooole lot, to not have to think about it.

Balkan brass bands. Those guys are FAST. Also, in certain moods, metal from the 90's. Especially if it's hot outside.