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This may be 100% true for weight loss, but for general fitness cardio is good for your cardiovascular system. It helps keep your lungs and heart and other systems in better shape. A little bit of cardio is always going to be good for you to do even if you hate it lol. But for weight loss yes, cardio isn't necessary, just…

I'm not sure why you seem to really think the whole BMI/'medial diagnosis' thing is important - BMI is largely considered outdated as heck because how much someone weighs is largely irrelevant to all health precisely because it has no ability to take into consideration body composition. 190 pounds at 50% body fat vs 190…

I wouldn't worry too much about your BMI - my understanding is that most people in the health community find it to be fairly outdated. For instance, if I had about a 20% body fat as a female, my BMI would still say I was just inside the overweight category - for reference, 20% body fat is considered fit and is typical of…

You do realize that Whole30 isn't a fad diet right? It's not meant to be a long term diet - hence why it's designed to last 30 days. It's specifically designed as an elimination diet that removes trigger foods so that people can learn if they have any food sensitivities. Some also use it as a sort of reset because it…

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this, but have you looked into the possibility that you're asthmatic? Just judging from your description (chest pain + inability to breathe) and you stating that even after several weeks it's not improving at all, it could be something you might want to get a dr to check in to. I personally…

While I agree that some of the specifics will vary from person to person, I think that most if not all clean eaters would agree that eating clean means eating real food - unprocessed, natural ingredients, nutrient dense, as whole or natural as possible, etc. This generally means meat, vegetables and fruits, nuts and seeds,…

So, just so I am clear as to your issue with their program, you don't like that they don't require or tell you to eat back your exercise calories? I don't personally see an issue with that. Exercising is one way of burning more calories, and the entire way to accomplish weight loss is to burn more calories than you…

Personally I think it depends 1) on how MUCH icing you had; was it a little treat, or basically a meal of icing, and 2) how you eat the rest of the time. I don't believe in focusing just on macros as micros are just as if not more important for health. If however you ate great the rest of the day (in this case defining…

It's because protein and fat are actually essential for your body to function properly while carbs simply provide fuel, and are not strictly necessary (though obviously your body will probably function better with at least some carbs rather than 0). Protein and fat are good for you as well as more filling, so make sure you…

Yes, and I'm sure everyone on this site has extensive research experience and has conducted all of the necessary studies in order to know it's true, and haven't just been buying into what other people are saying...I'm not saying it's NOT true, but it's yet to be proven to be 100% beyond doubt the only thing that matters…

Honestly, there are too many possible causes of fatigue for us to adequately try to give you suggestions. If it's a recurrent problem talk to your GP. I know mine stems from my depression, and before that I sometimes had fatigue due to my anemia. Only you know enough about you to tell if some things are a concern or not.

There's definitely personal responsibility involved, but if you've been around MFP for a while you'll know that it's a very popular belief that what you eat doesn't matter - only how many calories. It's been claimed a million and one times that you can eat nothing but Twinkies or ice cream or sugar or whatever and still…

You don't have to eat artificial spices - all herbs and spices are natural plants, so just get ones that are only the plant matter, not fake.

I'm pretty sure almost no one actually read this article.... What's being said isn't that the law of thermodynamics is wrong, or that it's not about eat less than you burn - they specifically endorse that in the article itself. What they're saying is that being overweight makes you hungry for more calories than your…

Did you read the article at all? They're not arguing against the law of thermodynamics; they're saying that people are often failing to lose weight because calorie counting is hard because being overweight screws with your body systems governing use of energy and hunger cues - it makes you hungry, meaning it's hard to…

It's not saying calorie counting itself is the strategy that's flawed - it's saying that it hasn't helped a bunch of people lose weight; it's highly ineffective in achieving results. They back this up with the statistics of how few people manage or maintain weight loss.

It never said calories will be entirely useless; just that the FOCUS will be on quality rather than quantity. I'm sure eating thousands of calories of even the healthy food they suggest would still result in weight gain.

I actually think that's precisely the point they're addressing in the article. From what I understood, their main point was that because being fat makes you want to overeat becuase you're not getting enough calories for the rest of your body to function, your body makes you want to eat more than you'd need to lose weight…

Yes, the paleolithic humans didn't live long, but the things they died of were not the same things we're dying of. They died from being eaten by predators or from falling and breaking their leg, or from a basic infection or cold, or from starvation, exposure, etc. They weren't dying from lifestyle diseases like we are,…

-shrugs- I don't know much about bulking but I did say in my post that it depends on what you're trying to accomplish in your life. But since this is predominantly a weight loss forum I don't think bulking/weight gain anecdotes will be all that persuasive for most people, particularly when the anecdote was about people…

Personally I don't believe in eating just to hit a calorie goal, so there's no such thing as MUST eat; therefore that wouldn't be an issue for me - I'd just make up some food to eat if I was hungry and be done with it. I'm not going to stuff myself full of junk food just for the sake of ingesting a crap ton of calories -…

I think the difference is that most vegans aren't eating vegan because of health reasons - more are eating vegan because of moral reasons. When it comes to morality, yes, you either are or you aren't - if you think its morally wrong to eat an animal or an animal product than doing so occasionally is bad. If however you…

No, I'm saying when we talk about processed it's in the common vernacular - just like junk food, it's a term everyone understands perfectly well, and no amount of thinking you're cool and funny for nitpicking will change the fact that you know exactly what we mean. And BAKING is natural; increasing the temperature doesn't…

There's a big difference between chemical alteration through natural cooking methods and chemical alteration via the introduction of unnatural chemicals made in a laboratory. Yogurt is natural (provided it's just yogurt) because lacto fermentation is a natural process. Baking crackers is also a natural process. So I…

I think where you land into confusion is in stating that clean eating means never ever ever ever eating foods that aren't clean. I don't know anyone that says this is what clean eating is. Most go with definitions like mine, which are more about focusing on healthful foods that are clean, not completely and utterly always…

I'm aware sugar's a form of carb - just breaking it out further. I'm also aware carbs and fats are two of the most consumed nutrients. ALSO aware that vegetables don't usually contain fats. None of that has anything to do with my point nor is it relevant to the discussion we're having. It is actually relevant to compare a…

Actually the definitions of junk food usually refer to nutritional value, not the presence of nutrients, and those are slightly different concepts. Nutritional value tends to relate more to it's value in giving you a nutritious diet, whereas nutrient is simply a scientific concept for basically any food matter. Nutritional…

I think you missed part of the discussion here. No one was arguing in favour of eating 0 carbs - the ones pointing out that strictly speaking carbs aren't essential and that a human could live (however sub-optimally) without any carbs said they ate carbs and that they believed some carb intake was preferable, specifically…

I think it all depends on how you look at it. Yes, eating an unhealthy food does not make you unhealthy, immediately or later. But when you talk about healthy and unhealthy diets, it's not just the sum of the parts but the parts themselves that matter as well. Yes, you can have too much of a good thing - too much healthy…