DeguelloTex Member

We don't, as far as I can tell, know whether the issue is too many video games per se or simply the desire not to play video games even IIFYT. Without that, there's no way to give a coherent answer to the actual question, because we don't know the actual question.

Yeah.

I fight my sugar addiction the same way I fight unicorns. Are you going over your calorie goal or do you just want to limit sugar for some reason? Knowing your actual goal might help with the suggestions.

Optimum Nutrition has worked well for me.

Well, sugar is a chemical. If you're not afraid of sugar on that basis, then finding the best-tasting artificlal sweetener for you would be one very solid approach. Gradually cutting the amount of sugar you use could be another.

What she said.

They're less dangerous for you than 100% pure water is.

I walk in the rain. I walk in the snow. I don't walk when it ices. It's worked pretty well so far.

Or one that'll allow me to get a runner's high instead of a runner's desire just to be back home on the floor.

My maintenance is around 4000. I'd know I was very substantially above that without logging a thing. Half of a chocolate pie, on top of everything else, would see to that. If my body knew when I'd had enough calories, I doubt I'd have ended up as Obese Class II, though.

I weighed less this morning than Thanksgiving morning. Fluctuations or not, now I feel like I slacked a little bit.

Did your beans have a label at some point?

There's an Office Space Michael Bolton quote that's very appropriate here but I'm not going to give the hypersensitive a reason to report me. It's easy enough to find. Also, @rabbitjb, if you haven't eaten a taco by the time of my daughter's senior trip over there, we'll make you one if we have to smuggle the proper…

That's not bacon. I can't think of anything "common" that I've never tried.

I ate almost exactly the same thing the day after as on Thanksgiving. We ran out of the habanero cranberry sauce, so it wasn't quite as much, but close. I weighed less this morning than I did Thanksgiving morning.

What would be your definition of toxin-free?

" I " would rewrite that to say " restrictive low carb is not usually necessary."

Estimate the best you can. I mean, what else can you do?

Why wouldn't you just start lifting now, then?

If all you are concerned about is a lower body weight, lifting probably isn't the way to go. If you are concerned about more than simply lower body weight, lifting is probably the way to go.

I kept 2+ for about a year, but the deficit was just too much once I got to a reasonable body fat percentage. I was too hungry all the time and, frankly, it was right on the edge of how much fat my body could theoretically metabolize in a day to cover the deficit. And I'm a much larger guy than average.

I drink a gallon a day or so of it. More in the summer. I've lost 125 pounds.

Which statements did she attribute to you that you didn't say?

Keep trying until it's important enough to you, I guess.

And completely ignoring the decrease in sugar consumption while obesity continued on track but stil wanting to blame sugar. As if protein and fat aren't "part" of why people are obese. It's almost like a religion at this point, including the reliance on faith and secret knowledge.

So no matter how many times "context" is mentioned, you won't get off that hobbyhorse. How many people do you think eat diets of 100% sugar? For all those who don't, it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that sugar consumption shouldn't be evaluated in terms of the overall diet. But, from the "I know, but I won't tell"…

Yet, you try to spin "Obesity is caused by a number of interacting diet and lifestyle factors, most of which can be traced back to major socioeconomic changes in this country over the last century" by bolding the bit about sugar and carbs being part of the problem.

My thought is that it's an immensely silly idea.

Yeah, carbs and sugar are food and are, therefore, part of the "eating too much food" problem. Then the rest of the quoted material undercuts the demonization of sugar. And, no, that is not all you're saying. Not by a long shot. And it's wildly disingenuous to claim that you are.