jonnythan Member

Quick tip for Btente when forming his "theories" that he'strying to publish: Make it simple, and put the blame on other people or organizations. If you can form your theory so that fat people can think they're fat because of the government or Monsanto - bonus points for blaming both - and that the solution is simple and…

Btente "conducts experiments", forms "theories", and "is looking for a publisher." Translated to real-world terms, this means that Btente is trying to find an angle in the diet/fitness industry he can use to catch the attention of a publisher. One of his techniques appears to be trying to scare people away from calorie…

But if you don't divide the gravity redirection field by the billy-goat gruff, another person might calculate 27 gold coins for the dragon's basket! Now subtract the vanilla wafers and all of a sudden the deflector dish has reversed polarity and you're off by 10 million calories! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO CALCULATE! YOU'LL NEVER…

I love how you were able to make your explanation both incomprehensibly complicated and completely wrong. That takes talent. OP: you have a sit down desk job, so my suggestion is to set activity level to sedentary. Eat back exercise calories. Stick with it every day for two months. Reevaluate then.

Horse turds: 100% organic and clean.

When you spend half the day PMing members inviting them to join for years..... 1633 is pretty poor.

Joanne, you have your own group for this sort of thing. The fact that virtually no one joins it, despite your incessant PM invitations, should be a sign that people don't want to hear it. Stick with what few followers you have and post this stuff to them.

Strong internet diagnosis. Go to a physician, now.

This is what happens when you try to completely cut out certain foods from your diet. Eat junk food in moderation. Eat fruit in moderation. Profit.

Yes, that's right. Most things will include nutrition info right on the package. For other things such as bulk foods, produce, and meat try http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list There's a learning curve, but it's essential that you log accurately.

By measuring and logging all the ingredients you add to something. Making fish tacos? Log the tortillas. Weigh the fish. Weigh the cheese. Weigh the sour cream. Log each item individually, and you can save the whole lot as a recipe or meal later if you'll be making them again.

You mean all the experts who have successfully done what you are trying to do, and have maintained that success for years while helping countless others do the same?

Well how do you make your coffee? Black coffee has almost no calories. If you add stuff to it, you have to accurately measure and log the things you are adding to it.

1) You've only been logging about 2.5 weeks. You need to give it more time, 2) You don't appear to be weighing your food. You log things like "one piece" of encrusted cod, "1 cup of coffee" for 75 calories, a "half cup" of generic granola, etc. These are obviously inaccurate entries. You need to weigh the granola. What are…

Go to your Diary, then hit Settings at the top. Scroll to the bottom and find Public.

I think this is an entirely reasonable approach. For people not doing a ton of exercise, eating approximately BMR is a perfectly valid strategy. This generally works out to a deficit of around 250-450 calories a day (more the larger you are). I also think it's reasonable to eat back 50-75% of exercise calories, and also…

"Mostly." What does mostly mean? How long have you been "mostly" sticking to it? Open your diary so we can look at what you're actually doing.

Sorry. I appreciate your effort and all, but the entire theory here is nonsense.

Control is a different issue. If you're not losing weight because you keep binging on bacon, that makes sense. If you're not losing weight, and claiming it's because you eat a slice of bacon every day, then that doesn't make sense. It's calorie intake that determines weight change.

Certain foods such as coffee, creamer, and bacon do not make weight loss stop or stall. It's biologically implausible. The very idea that "processed food" can stop weight loss is ludicrous.

I don't take offense at your claims, I'll just tell you that they're incorrect. If you want to continue operating under false information, more power to you. You certainly wouldn't be the only one. People love to fabricate crazy theories about why they're so special and unique to explain away their own failings. Just don't…

The entire point of the Fitbit is that it measures your daily activity. The number it gives you at the end of the day is your (according to Fitbit) TDEE.

If your Fitbit is saying that you're burning 1980 calories a day, what makes you say that your TDEE is 1814?

So you agree that sensible eating is key, and that your problem is portion sizes. And your plan to fix these two problems is to ignore them completely for the time being.

A hot tub "works" the cardiovascular system in that it'll cause vasodilation and increased heart rate. But that doesn't make it exercise or good for your heart.

I love when people say "it's proven" in general, and it's doubeplusgood if they follow it up with total nonsense.

You posted the breakdown for a single day, and gave us no personal stats or information by which we can judge whether your intake is appropriate for your goals or not. I'm not sure what you expect us to tell you from looking at a single day's eating.

... And if you're trying to do that, chances are you're wasting your time.

The last thing in the world you need to think about is "active carbs."

Short answer: no. Long answer: the tea may have caffeine, which has extremely mild thermogenic properties. So mild that it won't impact weight loss in anything remotely similar to a significant way. Any effect would be dwarfed by noise in measurement error etc. I'd suggest not listening to any answer the OP gives (not that…