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Yeah the goal of exercise is to burn calories, build muscle and or enhance cardiovascular functions. None of those are helped by sweating more. However, dehydration can cause sever damage to a person and since it's easily possible without going out of your way to achieve it, one might question the viability of sucking more…

Yeah, I just log what I eat and exercise I do and sort of assume everything is off. I posted the margin of error just to point out that we really don't have enough information to be at all scientific about the individual calories we eat.

Yeah the way things are setup right now is just insane. Cups, tablespoons, grams, ounces, half a slice, two chunks, the serving sizes are all over the map and impossible to correlate from one product to another. I would much rather we get the nutrition information for a standard unit of measure (per gram for instance) and…

According to the FDA, it's fine if the labels are off by 20%. So the now properly weighed waffle still likely has about 336 calories since most food manufacturers err on the side of listing too few, rather than too many, calories in their food.

Just my personal experience from when I was healthier in my twenties but cardio was WAY more fun in the morning than weights. Cardio woke me up, got the blood moving, you sort of ran into consciousness as it were. Weightlifting just hurt. Everything about it hurt. I just didn't do it until after I was wide awake and…

You are weak at night. Save more calories for the evening. Eat foods that fill you up more. It's nearly impossible, and I challenge you to try, to eat anything after you have put a half pound of broccoli in your stomach. If you insist on eating after you want to stop eating make a full meal. Cook it up, sit at the table to…

I am reasonably confident that there is much more to this story than you are describing as gaining weight on 500 calories per day while exercising is physically impossible with the exception of water weight which any credible study on weight loss would measure. The fact that a chiropractor was the eventual solution and…

Yeah uniquely American, the relationship between people and their cars in this country is pretty legendary. Everyone and their cousin will go on about being environmentally friendly as they plow along in their SuV's running bikers off the road they drive to the gym on. Europe (not so much the UK yet), seems to really be…

If you drive on such a road with Cyclists on it and you are unable to control the vehicle you are in then the question is why are you driving on roads on which you represent a danger to other travelers? On a bike, we generally travel on the roads that get us where we are going. Sometimes we don't even have a choice if…

Genetically the Bonobos have, they don't practice incest between siblings. Not sure about dolphins though.

The biggest problem I have with the fast food stuff is normally the sodium spike that ups my water retention for a few days and makes it look like I have gained some weight even though from a purely caloric standpoint that would have been impossible. It can demoralize people pretty quick when the scale moves the wrong way.

My personal strategy is to just challenge every decision I make with: "Would a fat guy do that?" If so, I try my best not to do it. I personally don't have any specific timeline for losing weight, I just want to be healthy and active so I do healthy active things everyday now. I might now be skinny come the holidays but I…

I read just the other day that a group of Russian programmers were able to create a software program that was able to pass the Turing Test which means that in a blind study, 30% of the observers thought the machine they were talking to was in fact human. This was an amazing leap forward in software development made all the…

I am so much happier now thanks. Every Time I ate a bowl of rice and veggies, every bite I took, I had to endure that song from the Chilis commercials playing in my head: "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs..." For five years straight. It surprises me that the whole "True Vegan" thing is still going on as an…

I think the reason people are having a hard time with this is because you either represent an evolution in human existence wherein mankind no longer needed to eat to stay healthy and alive or you are measuring stuff wrong. I personally want to believe the former but history suggests that the later is more likely to be…

When I was a vegan I used to get really mad at people that misused the word. They had no idea the sacrifice and commitment that went into living vegan. Even claiming to be a vegetarian, the poor step brother of committed vegans, was insulting as they drank their milk and ate their eggs. I was mad. All the time. You have no…

I tend to change mine all the time so I enter all the individual parts into the log and then go Quick Tools - Remember Meal. After that, next time I make the smoothie I just Add Food - Go to Meal Tab - And choose my smoothie. I do this instead of a recipe because I can still change the individual parts of the meal. More or…

Personally I don't eat my exercise calories back unless I happen to be hungry. For the last month I've been getting on the bicycle more and more to the point that I am on it for 3-5 hours at a time and MFP often says I've burned a few thousand calories. While it's nice to see a big caloric deficit I'm not going to cook up…

One of the things I keep seeing mentioned is why bike users don't use bike paths and instead ride on the street. For those not in the know, it might seem odd but more often than not there is a reason. For me, the biggest reason I avoid SOME of the dedicated bike paths and ride on the adjoining streets is simply because in…

Yeah I'm with some of the others, just do something else. I actually dreaded the gym and had to force myself to do an hour inside one under the premise that it would make me healthier. One day I got fed up with it and dusted off an old bicycle in the garage. It's been a month and now I'm going on 50-60 mile bike rides…

The saddest, most embarrassing fact about my life is when I used to lift weights all the time I ended up with Jewel as my soundtrack. I loved it, but when the heavy lifters see a guy lip singing "Who will save your soul" during presses it's hard to gain a lot of respect.

I don't eat them back, I just eat if I'm hungry. Once you get over the hump of just eating bad stuff all the time just to keep eating, eventually we all get back in touch with the idea of being hungry. I find I get hungrier when I work out more so I eat a little more. I keep an eye on it to make sure I'm not just doing fat…

I think Fitness Blender has a lot of stuff people recommend in the forums. Maybe google them and see if they are a fit?

Low blood sugar maybe? Try eating a little fruit or drink some juice after a workout and see if it helps?

And you are missing a pretty critical point, if the car is close enough to bash while driving than the car in question is too close. A bit too extreme for me, I just kick them myself but to each their own I guess.

Not to interject in your lovely conversation thread (I like many others are waiting for you two to start making out), but the idea of ever attempting murder in response to anything short of being murdered is a pretty good way to end up in jail. I'm sure you are just full of bravado but honestly, when you accidently hit…

I find a giant bag of frozen chicken and a few giant bags of frozen veggies to be pretty cost effective. I've never calculated it out but I'm pretty sure it's cheaper than how I used to eat all the time, at least not a lot more expensive. The exercise stuff is pretty easy, hit up youtube and type in at home workouts and I…

Everyone will suggest at most losing 2 lbs a week and then once you get close to your goal slowing that down to a pound or half a pound per week. So 50 pounds is probably doable but arbitrary deadlines are about the surest path to failure since you'll miss some milestone or cheat along the way, feel hopeless and then give…

So the number MFP gives you is the goal to eat to lose the number of pounds per week you told it you wanted to lose. For most people, 1200 calories means you probably told it you want to lose 2 lbs per week and so it's trying to get you to eat 1000 calories less a day. So eat what it says to lose the weight you told it you…

I know right? When gas hits $10 a gallon eventually I bet a lot more folks are going to "see the wisdom" of sharing the road.