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I used to have about 3 beers every single weekday and more on the weekends, but I tried to bring it down. Now I often don't drink on weekdays but if I'm drastically under on calories I may have one or two. I try to keep it to 3-4 max a session on weekends, normally. But yeah, I count it like I would other calories and just…

Truth in this, if you've ever had a night where you had about 10 beers but didn't eat anything, despite the massive caloric intake you wake up weirdly like 3 lbs lighter from dehydration. Or at least I do.

Uhhggghhh no it's better to not drink beer than subject yourself to that.. You can completely drink beer and lose weight... just, do it moderately, like with everything else.

I wouldn't worry. I also don't often buy fruit, because even though I absolutely love it, it's really expensive and I don't have a good local source. There are more days in my life where I don't eat a piece of fruit then where I do... vegetables really should provide most of what you need vitamin and fiber wise (excepting…

Coffee beans themselves have natural oils in some quantity, which probably causes that. No where near enough to be concerned about though.

I'd like to join in. I'll do Slytherin if there's still room. If not, whatever else is fine.

For best results it's good to parboil them like 2-3 mins before using, that will take some of that smell off. I use a lot of konnyaku which is basically a block of gelatin substance made from the same stuff as shirataki noodles. I like to stir fry in sesame oil for a while until they get kind of browned on either side then…

I eat rice for two, sometimes 3 meals a day. I eat about... 4.25 lbs total (cooked weight) of rice per week on average. ...and I have lost 20 lbs or so this year. So, that's silly. I mean... perhaps they mean to say that brown rice is "better" for you because the hull is where a lot of the nutrient is contained, and it's…

Use rice as a staple instead of bread. It doesn't really get cheaper than a giant bag of rice.

I eat salmon in the Japanese style very often - just finished eating a piece, and since I put it in my lunch box I need the simplest thing possible, so I take a big side of salmon, salt it liberally on both sides, wrap in paper towels and plastic wrap, and put it in the fridge overnight. 24 hrs later, I cut it into 1…

I do the opposite often, because I like raw yolk over white rice and the egg whites ruin my enjoyment of that.

1) 30s 2) 155 (goal is 140, should be there about Octoberish) 3) NJ, USA 4) complicated... not the least bit new to exercise, not currently doing it now. 5) Rarely atm - should work harder on that. 6) Yes - eggs + toast or rice, or yogurt + jam + flax seeds, usually. 6) I guess if you combine my 2x lunches into 1 then…

I mainly eat pork and fish as my primary animal proteins. I have nothing against beef and chicken, I just do what comes easy for me, and I have lost a lot of weight doing so, so don't worry about it. Pork loins and such are pretty lean anyway, but I like the fattier bits. Bellies and ground pork and other stuff. Or at…

Dang, well Wawa USED to be pretty limited in scope to my native NJ, however I am glad to hear that this is not the case any more! EDIT: More on topic, um... if you can't find a Wawa... I don't know. I guess accept the fact you're gonna gain a little weight on Vacation, enjoy yourself. I would say don't eat at chain places…

Wawa is only in the NJ, PA maybe DE area though.

http://youtu.be/KeTJFzdvS40 All the food is poison.

I always ate similar to now, but I'm trying to be aware of portions like others have noted. Another thing is I try to make meat a side instead of a main (I would think I eat 80% vegetable matter 20% meat, if not less) not for any other reason than that it just helps me, personally, keep my calories in check. I know that…

As I'm reading your post I'm eating a small bowl of plain white rice with some tiny crunchy fish/sesame seeds topping on the side that I made. It's really good.

Dinuguan looks good. I will have to try it one day. I like all the normal offal, beef heart, liver, sweetbreads, also stomachs (4th stomach is my favorite). Bull testicles. Whelks. Ika no shiokara (fermented squid guts, it smells really bad) Marrow. Horse sashimi. Whale meat/dolphin meat (sorry =P). Chicken sashimi. Any…

Don't put all that crap on your rice, just buy a quality rice. My recommendation is http://www.amazon.com/Kagayaki-Brown-Rice-4-4-lbs/dp/B0058OKON6 (Kagayaki) but the Nishiki one is good too. Brown rice is just unpolished white rice (white rice with the hull/bran still on there) so honestly, there's no reason you can't…

I don't think a single day has gone by where I don't eat white rice, so in short, no. (I've lost about 20 lbs this year so far.)

I drink a lot of beer and coffee with extra cream but I find a way to fit it in, so I won't say it was "bad." However, there is something to be careful of that I remember reading in a study. Apparently there is some evidence that the body doesn't fully register liquid calories the way it would solid calories. In short,…

If you were to lose both fat and muscle... what would your body be composed of?

This a million times this. Japanese love to eat like no ones business, and nowadays it's not all fish, etc. Lots of high fat, high carb, fried foods, most of which are insanely delicious. However, unlike here, the portions are much more reasonably sized. They love to drink too. But all of this is offset because most of…

Don't know if anyone's mentioned this (they probably have,) but ratebeer.com has estimated calories on each beer's page. As jaysonheyd explained far better than I could have, generally the higher the abv the higher the calories...

I don't really like the typical pumpkin pie spice bomb that most pumpkin beers are, though Saranac's pumpkin ale is probably one of the very first craft beers I had way back in the day. That said, I love Jolly Pumpkin's La Parcela, because it's got more of a complex, slightly sour/funky taste to it than other pumpkin…