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So there are many bad things that can happen if you eat too little food but staying the same weight is not one of them. I eat between 1700-1900 calories a day and burn between 1000-3000 calories a day riding my bike around for a few hours. I'm losing weight just fine. If anyone was going to be in "starvation mode" based on…

So not sure if this is at all relevant but for me I just nap when I am bored. I don't mean nothing to do, there is always something to do, I mean bored, detached, uninterested in the distractions at hand. Clearly diet and overall wellness has a lot to do with how tired you are, but just tossing it out there that maybe you…

So I helped a friend go through all the shopping and eventual installation of her new girls. One of the biggest things to really think about is what size you want to go to and then think about it some more. The doctors will in general upsell you to the biggest they can shove in there and while I thought it was cruel to put…

So I recently decided to upgrade from the Oyster to a Kitchenaid Blender from Costco. If you have a membership I strongly encourage you to take a look at the Kitchenaid... the thing is built like a tank. It's clearly designed to go after the $400 Vitamix crowd but in a nice $100 package. Nice thing with Costco is you can…

Get started and see how it goes! Most of us end up having to change our plan or our expectations along the way as we figure out what is going to work for us. Eventually, because you are not especially tall, the 1300 calories might end up being pretty close to what your body needs to maintain weight rather than lose it so…

Not to argue but I'm curious if there really is any actual "science" behind the idea that eating 0 net calories is the same as eating nothing at all? Most days I end up at a negative number for my caloric intake but I eat between 1700-1900 calories and I feel like I am far from starving, I just spend a few hours a day on…

Yeah if I was wanting to put on muscle mass I would eat them back and more. Since I am trying to drop some pounds I personally don't eat any of them back unless I am hungry.

So I went sort of crazy in my twenties trying to drop enough weight to get my abs looking good and never pulled it off. I was underweight by a pretty big margin and still had a little ring around my belly that never wanted to go away. I was a vegan at the time though and even though I worked out aggressively (mostly…

So I used to run a lot as a kid and I would say for any long run it was just happy zen time for me. I would notice smells, the wind, feel the clouds passing the sun, but very much detached from the day to day stuff like bills, traffic, problems in general. Most runs for me started with a grand effort to simply keep going…

When struck with feeling like that I just remind myself how many calories the human body burns while sleeping and take a nap instead.

Honestly it's whatever you enjoy doing the longest and hardest. I hate the gym, preferring to hop on a bike and actually go somewhere, but when I have to do it, the rowing machine is probably the one I enjoy the most... it feels like more of a refined and elegant movement.

Honestly to lose weight you just need to eat a little less. No exercise required. A lot of people like some form of resistance training just because it makes them look a little better and not being weak is sort of nice. You can get a lot of benefit from just doing push ups, pull ups, sit ups, dips and squats at home with…

As a rule, in relationships, it's fairly safe to assume that the person accusing you of something is probably the one doing it. It's some stupid part of the human brain that justifies a persons actions by blaming someone else for them.

I know, we all sort of do the same thing. It will eventually all be fat loss, and part of it certainly was, but add a little wiggle room to keep sane. I have had the scale drop a few pounds just taking a few days off working out. If you start going crazy with the number on the scale stuff like that will make you think not…

Personally I just look at lifting as a means of getting strong and shaping the body. Clearly there are calories burned while lifting weights but there is no standard for how to lift weights and no accommodation for the specific resistance a person is working at so the estimates for calories burned are going to be less than…

Nothing wrong with it. Most folks who do strength training in general would want to lift BEFORE they do their cardio just because they would have more energy to put into their lifting. Personally I don't look at cardio as "exercise" per se because the human body was pretty much designed to be in motion so it's the sitting…

I mostly went from Mt. Dew to juice. Started with the Naked Green Juice and slowly moved over to more of a fruit smoothie with lots of carrot juice and frozen fruits in it. For me, I just like the quick sugar rush and that juice actually has some nutrients in it too so it's a win win for me. Normally have one in the…

So most folks see a loss and want to assume that it's fat and it's gone forever but most of the time the quickest changes on the scale are just water weight as your body adjusts to new diet and exercise routines. Just average stuff out over a few weeks rather than pinning all your hopes on the lowest number you've seen on…

I suspect that might be cutting it a little close in terms of attainability. I started logging at 5'9 265 lbs and have been losing about .5 lbs a day so far at 1700-1900 calories most days increasing the bike rides to about 50 miles a day nearly seven days a week but that is pretty well bound to slow down as eating less…

I was a vegan for ethical reasons when I was in my twenties... A hot girl I liked was into the vegan lifestyle and ipso facto I believed it was wrong to eat animals. I went along with it for years, no meat, no dairy, I got rid of all my leather stuff. I would say it worked amazing for me in that I got the girl(s) and had a…

I've only been in the hospital once and I wasn't all that hungry because some guy kept coming in and asking if he could have my poo... I wasn't even sure if the dude worked there and I really didn't want to eat anything and have to surrender my stool.

Since I didn't see it mentioned elsewhere the best way to actually boost testosterone is simply to workout. No magic pills or potions required.

While I admire you reply I find it utterly irrelevant as I have done plenty of research into my specific plan that is unique to my weight loss goals. At no point have I recommend anyone do anything, instead I cheerfully contributed to a conversation with personal input relevant to my experiences on the topic being…

I personally don't believe in eating more to lose weight. There are a lot of bad things that can happen if you don't eat enough, not losing weight is not one of them. I know the "starvation mode" idea sounds interesting but we both know it's silly to imagine that you will not lose weight because you are eating too little.…

I feel you. I know for a fact that I personally am miserable once I get down below about 1700 a day and even that takes some creative food planning just to keep me from getting hungry. When my schedule gets a little thrown off the first thing that pops into my head is how wonderfully nice it would be to sit down and eat…

So as always there is a flip side to every coin. Personally I don't eat back exercise calories unless I need more fuel for any given activity. I mostly skip the gym and just hop on the bike for a few hours a day but the calorie burn estimates are huge. If I am hungry or feel low on energy I eat more food but most of the…

And you know when men tip the best? When we are on a date! I don't disagree that there are cooperative aspects to humanity. And our entire civilization can be explained away without having to invoke the idea of reproduction but practically speaking if men were not trying to impress women and visa versa this world would be…

Everything we do is for survival, survival of the fittest. In this world, money provides increased mating opportunities and a potential for a man to pass forward his genetic profile. Today we have people that sit in cubicles pressing buttons and others that throw balls around a field as they dress in all manner of…

What are the PETA folks going to do when I prove conclusively that plants have feelings and are actually more intelligent than they are?

It sounds complicated but all it's saying is that on average a person your height and weight needs to eat about 2550 calories a day to maintain your weight so if you want to lose you need to eat fewer than that. It recommended 1550 because you told it you wanted to lose 2 lbs a week and according to general wisdom a pound…