TheWorstHorse

thanks. i know... i went back and forth about posting the request because of that.

i weigh the calorie-dense stuff: meats, nuts, and fats. i've weighed some foods that i now mostly measure: cereals, pastas, cottage cheese, yogurt. and i have learned how to relate weight to size, which is really handy when traveling or eating out. i don't carry scoops, measures or scales with me when i travel, to other…

when you have a case of the WTFs with regard to diet and exercise, you might ponder some of the side effects of being overweight and unfit: diabetes. heart disease. metabolic disorder. congestive heart failure. edocrine dysfunction. coronary artery disease. high blood pressure. osteoporosis. decreased cognitive function.…

easy: learning to eat the number of calories to maintain a particular weight is difficult to do. doing so typically requires setting aside long established patterns of eating and learning about the nutritional value of the foods one eats, appropriate portion sizes, and if one has been eating mostly calorically dense foods,…

this gif wins for about the creepiest-weird thing i have seen on the boards in at least a month. although there is no prize, congratulations for freakin' me out.

welcome back. ex-climber, surfer, biker currently masquerading as an analytic buddhist philosophy nerd who spends his free time translating ancient texts that no one will ever read in either the source or destination language. etc. feel free to add.

Not to be obvious but she didn't ask for you to judge her or her methods, she asked for some friends to hang out with her while she works on losing weight. What's the point?

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An expensive dinner. And that would be merely the opening ante, I suspect.

i've lost and gained back weight a couple of times, and i see the reasons why as falling into two categories. first category: weight lost through some version of a severely restricted calorie diet. gained all the weight back within six months each time. i did this three times in ten years. i am apparently a slow learner.…

not if you're an EMT: trauma shears.

If you are trying to lose weight, then is it a good assumption that you are trying to lose fat and retain muscle mass? Is it also a good assumption you are trying to get to a weight you can maintain over the long term? If either of these assumptions are true, then your means and your goals are in conflict. There's lots of…

Suunto Quest. Works. Does a decent job of predicting calorie burn (in my experience) if it is set up correctly and you are using it to measure cardio; no heart rate monitor is really good at predicting calorie burn during weight lifting or non-aerobic exercise (IME). Can add on GPS and running pods to track distance,…

love potion ad? check. don't hate plea? check. haterz gonna hate, no worries response? check haterz response? check weird shake program consult? check food x is poison? nope bonus post: personal ad for sugar daddy. almost perfect score. good enough. i can skip the forums for the rest of the day.

sometimes i do, sometimes i prefer it plain, sometimes i put it in a bowl and put some on top. i guess that makes me a switch.

Trying to power your way through craving is a tough way to go; very few people are successful at cold-turkey-style abstinence. But it can be done. Better though, might be to replace the way you satisfy the craving. That seems to work for a lot of people. So... get rid of all the food that triggers the craving so you don't…

I wonder if you have any actual proof for the assertions that "fat acceptance is probably one of the most damaging things to health and fitness" or that it "tells people that fat is normal" or that fat and by this I imagine you mean any fat since you weren't specfic, "is a sign of a problem"? Or if you have any background…

I am using a Suunto Quest and it works pretty well. You can find it for about 160 bucks with the HR belt and the USB dongle for logging data to their site, Movescount. The watch accounts for weight and fitness level in determining calorie burn estimates, which seems to be more accurate than not doing so. The website shows…

^ this is exactly the advice i would offer, too. cc is a great, if cheesy, introduction to bw exercising.

The short answer to your question is, probably not, but it depends on what you are trying to do. Get a copy of Heart Rate Training by Benson and Declann (your library probably has it). It discusses HIIT within the context of a complete cardiac training program and will help you incorporate HIIT appropriately in your…

As others have said, it depends on your goals. I am a big fan of bodyweight strength training: you can do it anywhere; you don't need any equipment; if you do compound movement bodyweight exercises, as described in Your Body is Your Gym and Convict Conditioning, you can really improve whole body fitness and strength in a…

If you can't clear the machine next to ya, you're eating the wrong foods is all. Meal planning is everything./

Non-MFP tip -- Put your exercise gear on the floor where you feet will land on it in the morning. Then put it on and exercise in it. MFP tip -- Log everything and review your log regularly. If you aren't losing weight, the answer is in there.

I am one of those hippies that gave rise to your generation. Kindness, civility, and politeness aren't dead. Neither are initiative, self-reliance, community, and service. I meet people every day, from every generation, that demonstrate all of them. But people demonstrating these qualities certainly seem harder to find on…

If it doesn't work in real life, I think it is because most people, for the most part, default to "he or she is the expert mode" and don't ask simple questions like Can I talk to one of your most successful long-term clients? or What is my exercise plan based on? or Why do you believe that carbs are making me fat? Even…

Bad idea on just about every level. HGC has no proven effectiveness as a weight loss support. The calorie and nutrition deficits are unhealthy at best and dangerous at worst and most important, people that do diets like this do not sustain their weight loss for any appreciable period after ending the diet. Most regain…

If you have been seeing a therapist for a decade and are on medication for depression and haven't made significant progress in lessening the frequency or depth of your depressive episodes, you should consider (a) finding a new therapist, (b) consider other modes of therapy, (c) get an second or third opinion on your…

Well... maybe a little more leeway on these sorts of requests is warranted, given how often "common sense" in the realm of diet and exercise turns out to be nonsensical. Remember all those years when pretty much all the "authorities" proclaimed the end of heart disease with the high-carb, low-fat diet or that "all you need…

me, too. i mean about the armpit and panties falling down and all that. thank you for pointing it out. i thought maybe it was just me. seems a fitting way to bring this thread to an end. not that it will, of course. just sayin'