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If you're genuinely in such bad physical shape that you can't be more active, then fine. That's one thing and I don't think we can reasonably argue that. If you're so sedentary you need to eat 1100 calories to lose weight and you are physically able to exercise more........ I don't want to hear you complaining, really.
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Well in my experience with food logging, which is probably considerably larger than yours, you are very very wrong. MFP is filled with people who purchased a food scale after logging for a while without one. They pretty much invariably say some variation of "holy crap, I was estimating everything totally wrong."
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Looks like this: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6395 360 calories per 100g dry white medium-grain rice. Yes, everyone uses estimates. It's impossible not to use estimates unless you always prepare all your own food from scratch. OP, however, doesn't weigh a thing. She simply has no idea how much she's eating and…
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Oh my.
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You said we are "almost absolute control over our own health." That is wrong. It is very, very, very, inarguably wrong. I am not saying "laying around on the couch eating crap makes a ton of sense." These are very different concepts. We can certainly optimize our health by exercising and maintaining a healthy body weight…
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Why is my diary even being talked about here? What does my diary have to do with hers?
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The way to measure rice is to measure the dry rice by weight before cooking. Same with melon - weigh the flesh that you are eating. And, indeed, same with avocado. These are just examples. She appears to be accurately measuring nothing at all.
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No. No, this is so incredibly wrong.
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If someone wants to say my diary is inaccurate because of estimates based on fast food nutritional tables, I'd say "yes, you are correct." My entries based on fast food nutrition information are indeed not totally accurate. I know that, and I accept that, and that's fine. OP's diary is also not accurate. In fact OP doesn't…
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Ephedra: Ephedrine:
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Your cardiologist isn't very bright.
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2 tomatoes. 0.5 cups rice 1 cup of melon 1 avocado These are inaccurate, to say the least. Avocados and rice are calorie dense and these are clearly rough guesstimates. Nothing whatsoever in her diary appears to be an exact measurement. Everything is half this, a third that, one of these.
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Cool.
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Cool. So why did you make this thread, anyway?
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Oh no, absolutely not. You may have missed it but my first post where I discouraged it. I don't recommend stimulants at all.
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Are those the only two options? I'm just talking. Having a discussion.
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Well, yes. I don't think stimulants are a good idea for weight loss, and they probably won't help long term, but in the short term I think it's accurate to say they can help with fat loss. They come with significant side effects though. There are also other compounds which dramatically increase fat loss, but are banned…
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Some stimulants increase caloric expenditure. There's still the calorie intake side of the equation though.
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It makes my heart feel like it's going to explode. I figured it can't be good for me. At best, it'll make me burn an extra 100-300 calories a day. I'd rather just skip the Snickers bar than wonder if I'm about to have an aneurysm all day long.
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Also: you forgot "spend 30 minutes on MFP writing out a list of crap instead of working out."
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The important thing is that you have your excuse.
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Those studies don't mean what you think they mean. You are operating under mistaken premises in an apparent attempt to excuse your own behavior.
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Key part is bolded. If you are so sedentary that you need to eat 1100 calories to lose weight, your lifestyle is a major risk factor for heart disease and premature death. Seriously. That should be the takeaway from this thread: if you need to eat 1100 calories a day to lose weight, you need to get off your butt and get…
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Casey already sent me a box of homemade cookies. They were amazing. Think you can do better? ;)
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I want gifts! :laugh: Seriously though. The OP's SOP seems to be "copy and paste some nonsense I saw on Yahoo without quotes or attribution and see what happens."
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Specifically targeting the ab muscles, especially with such a long list of exercises, is generally pointless. A decent routine with compound lifts gives the core plenty of work. But irrespective of that, the advice is just... not appropriate to the OP's goals. OP needs to lose fat in order to get visible abs. 10 different…
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Ah the old spot reduction myth. Love when that shows up.
