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That's really my plan. For at least another 2 or 3 weeks, mainly because I've done the low carb thing before, and it's really a drag for me (& my family). I was hoping to put out some feelers for other ideas, to see what people thought. Thanks for the feedback.
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Maybe I muddled my point a bit. I use a food scale. The only guessing I do is for dishes my wife has prepared, like the kale or sweet potatoes. In those cases, she's prepared it before I get home, roasted in the oven, with some amount of olive oil. In those cases, I estimate that I've eaten at least a full tablespoon of…
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Thanks, yeah. My wife says she sees some change. But as I mentioned, I work in science, and I like to quantify things. Being that my body fat % is quite high at the moment, the scale should be moving. Maybe the measurements will help. Are there specific sites that are indicators to measure body composition changes?
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Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I have heard that theory, but I should have been down at least 4-5 pounds by now. As someone who has lifted pretty seriously in the past, I can say that putting on that amount of muscle is grueling, difficult, and time consuming. It just doesn't seem possible. Especially considering that I've…
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so what do you do, just keep cutting calories by ~100-200, if you're not losing? I'm down now to 1700 cals a day, which is already 300 under what's recommended to lose a pound a week. Should I go down to 1500? I can probably trim at the edges and take another 200 cals, but I'm already going to bed a little hungry at 1700.
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Jeez, I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm in a similar situation, but I haven't gone to the doctor for tests yet. I'm worried that I've done some kind of permanent damage to my metabolic rate or my thyroid or something. I've been dieting and averaging 1800 calories a day for the past 5 weeks, and coupling that with…
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Great site, thanks Ted! I went a little overboard with the Guiness on Saturday night. But I planned for it, and ate a pretty light lunch. Only ended up about 200 cals over my daily goal, which I made up in slight deficits the rest of the week. I've gotta say though, hangovers are worse if you're on a deficit. Much worse. I…
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Great point. Jerky ownership, great chicken sandwiches.
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hell yes.
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oh, my gosh, I meant half my body weight in ounces every day!
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I try to drink at least half my bodyweight every day.
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I'm not sure I fully understand this, do they shoot a bunch of diamonds at your crutch?
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hell yes, sometimes you think you would like to read what someone has to say, and then you find out you don't.
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Yeah, I've seen that from the online TDEE counters, too. Hmmm...It's tough to keep the faith if the scale isn't reassuring you even a little. Like 1 pound, I'd be cool with. The problem is that I've gone up and down in weight before, coupling a deficit of almost 1000 calories along with pretty strenuous workouts for some…
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I've been at 1900 cals for three weeks--not eating anything back from exercise--and am stuck at 188. I'm a 5'8 male that's 35 years old, Does it make sense to cut 10% off of that? What am I doing wrong?
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Wow, yeah, we do all the same stuff. I don't measure the 1/8 cup of 2% milk I put in my coffee in the morning, but that is really a negligible amount of calories. Unless my scale isn't calibrated right, I don't know what else I can do! As a man, I'm supposed to get even more calories, the TDEE calculator I use says my…
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Damn, that sounds almost exactly like my situation. I wish I had an answer for you. I have only been at it for 3 weeks, but I haven't gotten that scale to budge at all. I'm not starving myself, but I definitely feel a *little* hungry most nights, so I know I've got to be at some kind of lowered number. I'm cutting off…
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The ubiquity of extremely cheap high-calorie, low nutritional value food is absolutely a "new fangled thing". Sorry, there are scientists employed by the purveyors of this fare figuring out how to make things as appealing as possible. That kind of complexity in food preparation and targeted marketing has not been a part of…
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I could definitely see this happening, if Rob can coordinate the defense as well as he did last year. Byrd is a fantastic player, and Cooks gives them juice.
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eh, agreed to a certain extent, but there are real, verifiable toxins in our environment that have an effect on us, as biological systems. Toxins that didn't used to be there until very recently. I mean, there's the tin-foil hat extreme, where you're afraid of everything but honestly, I'd rather be at that end than the one…
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yeah, I like your idea that everything is essentially damaging your body in some way. I think that's true. But I do think there are specific foods in our society that have been designed to be as enticing as possible to maximize profit, damn the health consequences of the consumers. Look at the rise in trends of obesity…
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I kinda thought it was foreshadowing the inevitability of the bug being squashed (Scorpion, in this case, instead of a beetle), and spoke to Tyrian's incredulity about why and how this was happening.
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wow, I've been buying shirts designed for Homo Sapiens all this time. Maybe that's why my clothes look so bad on me!
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yeah, was totally disturbing. Really well done the way he went from cocky and in total command of the situation to primally screaming for his life as the Mountain squashed his eyes. Terribly gory. We watch that show right before bed, and I had a hard time getting that image out of my mind. Almost wanted to look the actor…
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Sure, people differ on how to get there, but one method is actually in effect in the real world--problems and all--and other methods have been floating around in think-tanks and stump speeches and chats between partisans for 50+ years, where none of their shortcomings are evident. Health insurance premiums and health…