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Nothing can taste good. Life is a swirling void of entropy that is worthless and senseless.

Very subtle taste change, but it makes the bread better. More chewy, less gummy, and sturdier. Whey (specifically cysteine amino acids in the whey) react with gluten to weaken the disulfide chemical bonds, which leads to a stronger extended network of gluten chains.

Shrimp and scallops are very low in fat/high in protein. Canned tuna, too but you have to watch out for salt/mercury. Also, most chicken breasts (unless you specifically buy 'natural') are usually plumped with brine before sold - it increases the price and your sodium intake.

Truly, it's amazing the contortions people will go through to make criticizing what others eat their own business. Really. If you don't like low calorie diets, don't eat one. And while I wouldn't call it censorship, there are a lot of offensive opinions held by the majority of users on this site that then become a sort of…

You'll have to excuse me if this has already been said, but the amount of energy people put into disproving other's notions of themselves is nothing short of ludicrous.

I don't know if the word choice is hyperbole, but when someone refuses to respect something you want the question of what to do becomes kind of obvious. Anyway, the only thing you can do if you want the relationship to continue is either asset yourself or acquiesce. Being assertive isn't being a (whatever asterisked word…

I actually only hate it when the gym is filled with people who use MFP. The place where "would you screw the person who posted above you" threads are a-ok, but "I feel insecure going to the gym" threads are followed by eighteen pages of "you're just jealous" posts and humblebrags. By comparison, meathead and trophy wife…

If Britney Spears got through 2007 OK, you will get through the next eight weeks. ETA: When I backslid earlier this year, by 15 pounds, I just put on my old winter coat and looked at how it hung off my frame. That cheered me up. Maybe that will help you.

Last year I got a prescription from my doctor for a weight loss medication. I lost 40 lbs in 6 months, but I also took my doc's referrals to go to a dietician, checked in with her office once a month, and I self monitored things like blood pressure. In the year since I gained back 15 lbs, but I attribute this mostly to…

Ew. Especially "reward sex" but also the overall tone of "don't complain when your man does something even if you don't like it." Think of calories as dollars. If your partner wants you to give him or her $300 every day, you'd say, "no I need to budget my money." When you are watching your caloric intake, you are budgeting…

Then don't marry a person. Marry food instead.

He values food more than people? And he says that out loud? And people are all, "lol cool."??

Have you talked to your OB or doctor about this? A doctor has a lot of ideas for causal relationships between hormone levels and weight and can do the medical tests that back it up. If you have the insurance/time/money for it, that would be a great starting point.