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It's great. It's one appliance that can sauté, steam, slow-cook, and pressure cook. I use mine all the time. I pressure-cooked a bone-in turkey breast on Christmas. While I was waiting for it to cool down a little, I used the sauté function to turn the drippings into gravy. It only took about an hour and came out much…

You could try weighing the marinade before you add it, weighing the marinade you throw away, and just counting the difference. I think that would work.

What I do is superset every weight exercise with one minute of high-intensity cardio, such as supersetting barbell bench press with dumbbell step ups, or squats with jumping rope. It's very hard work, but I've gained muscle, lost fat, and improved my cardio-vascular endurance doing this. Edited to add: BusyRae is…

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A good reply might be, "Why do you think I'm walking, dummy? I'm going to lose this weight but you'll still be an idiot."

Beer and tacos.

For a while when I had a job that required commuting, I joined a gym that was near work but over an hour from my house. I would get there early in the morning before work, beating morning traffic. Now I'm working from home, and I go to a gym that is about 3 miles (5km) from my house.

You mean like this?

Any kind of beans, pintos, black beans, red beans. Pair with a grain like brown rice to make complete proteins.

My favorite styles are saisons, Belgian abbey styles, and sours, but I also like porters, stouts (especially imperial), barleywine, and doppelbocks. I like too many beers to pick a favorite.

To extend the metaphor, if calories are king, then macros are the powerful nobles. I'm not aware of any vegetable sources of protein that are low in carbs. Mushrooms and spinach have the highest protein:carb ratios of any vegetables I know of, but they are still more carb than protein. You said that you are vegetarian, not…

I like having meals with my family, though. Maybe if they could have family days at the lab, like for Thanksgiving and such, and my family comes and depending on which group I'm in we all get either turkey or tofurkey soup, then I'd do it.

Easy peasy. Some participants get meals with real meat, and others get meals with placebo vegan meat substitutes that have identical flavor and texture, and neither the researchers nor the participants know who got what until after the study. :)

Processed meat is in the same category as tobacco because the cause and effect relationship is equally established, but the effect size isn't nearly as high. The average person's base chance of getting colorectal cancer at some point during their life is about 6%. Eating 50 grams of bacon every day would increase that…

To add to eldamiano's comment, the amount of activity you are doing is enough to cause the 155 pound you to lose weight, but it's only maintenance level for the 145 pound you. Your body has gotten used to this level of activity, so you'll need to increase the intensity of your exercise. As you get stronger from lifting…

When I had a long commute, I found a gym near work. I drove there early in the morning to beat the traffic, then showered and ate breakfast after my workout before heading into work. Maybe that could work for you.

Eating back 75% of my exercise calories as calculated by MFP and the machines seems to work for me.

I just estimate the quantities as well as I can and log it. I don't eat out very often, so that works well enough for me. If I ate out several times/week I might need a better system, but people might look at me weird if I'm sitting at the table weighing my food on a pocket scale.

I weigh fruit and log it. I log veggies, but I just kind of eyeball and guess how much. I eat a lot of veggies and I don't consider it to be worth the hassle to weigh them all out when it doesn't make enough of a difference to me, calorie-wise, if I'm off by +/- 50% on them. Edited to add, I do weigh some higher calorie…

I eat between 6 and 9 eggs most days. I throw away a lot of the yolks, though, maybe 1-3 whole eggs and the rest just the whites. Good cheap source of protein.

Mine is open. I don't always log every day, though, been lazy with it over the holidays. Will get back to it starting Monday.

This. 175 is too high. You can use this calculator to estimate what it should be. You want to be between 55-85%. http://www.active.com/fitness/calculators/heartrate

I know you didn't want debate, but we wouldn't be doing our job as a fitness community if we didn't try to talk our fellow members out of doing something dangerous. Listen to the people in this thread. It is a really bad idea to go for so long with so little fat and protein.

I just got back from a cruise. I always took the stairs, never the elevator, and I used the gym facility. My excursions were pretty active. I ate sensibly from the buffet for breakfast and lunch. For supper, I ate in the dining room, had all three courses of whatever I wanted, and I drank like 2-3 beers per day or maybe…

It is. The US RDI requirement is the bare minimum a completely sedentary person should eat to avoid problems due to deficiency.

There's more than just the weight loss benefits. Fasting also induces autophagy, which, in limited amounts, is a very good thing for a number of reasons. There is an intermittent fasting discussion group here: http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/49-intermittent-fasting

I think what I'm going to do is stop weighing and measuring vegetables and just guess on those. That should cut my time by more than half. I'll still weigh and measure meats, fats, grains, dairy, and fruit, but vegetables have so few calories that my guess can be totally off and it won't really matter.

Exactly. Hardly anything that I eat has a nutrition label on it. I cook a lot of things from scratch and I rarely follow recipes.

I weigh and measure and count calories and log everything (most days) because I end up too far from my calorie and macro-nutrient targets if I don't, but I hate it. It takes up a lot of time for me because I'm always eating different things and I don't follow recipes when I cook. What I need is a smartphone app where I can…

Neither have I. The only reason I'm eating so much protein now is because I'm on a six-week diet+exercise program that calls for that much. I was skeptical, but I tried it anyway and I'm getting great results. I realize this is all just anecdotal, and I'm not recommending that anyone else eat 1.5g protein / pound of body…