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You are not convincing me of your position, and I still think I understand it quite well and have a good grasp on it.

I can't tell you. I'm currently 6 months into my "diet", which is the longest in my entire life I've stuck with a calorie deficit with the exception of some 20 years ago when I was on the drug "Redux". What is going to work "long term"? I can't say, because I've never made it to "long term" before. What I can tell you is…

Yes, absolutely. As I have said before (and cautioned others against this trap), once you've "blown" a diet, it is trivial to justify further "blowing it" and give in to the pleasure.

Tasty food in general. I'm not a picky eater. :)

I don't really care. The proof is the number on the scale. I'm averaging 5 pounds a month over 6 months now. If that's not worthy of respect, or is somehow "mentally lazy" to you, that's OK.

This is false. 30 seconds of Google will show this to you. This is also false. As I said, I ate them for the pleasure of eating them. I was not hungry when I ate them. In fact, I had just recently eaten a 1500+ calorie meal of PF Chang's. I assure you I did not eat them because I was hungry. Of course it's about willpower.…

I agree with you 100%.

I think you are wrong.

Ultimately, every addiction is "your" problem. Ultimately, beating every addiction is a "matter of disciplining yourself". It takes far more willpower to moderate than to abstain.

This is perfect example of someone else not understanding a behavioral addiction to food. When I sit down and eat 20 Oreo cookies, hunger has absolutely nothing to do with it. I am eating them for pleasure. I did this just last night - ate a sleeve of Oreos not 2 hours after eating a full dinner of PF Chang's. I did not…

The bottom line is this: Weight loss requires willpower. Eating in delicious, tempting foods in moderation takes far more willpower than abstinence. Diet failures are due to failures of willpower. So attempting to eat delicious, tempting foods in moderation may be a great way to sabotage your diet.

I agree with you 100%, Sara. This author, like many people here, do not understand that moderation takes at least 10 times more willpower than abstaining does. Can you eat Oreo cookies and loose weight? Of course you can. If you buy yourself a tray of Oreo cookies (50 calories per cookie) and can limit yourself to 3 or 4…

This article is mostly horse poop. The author is making the obvious and correct statement that there is probably nothing chemically addictive or unhealthy about sugar. The author is making the obvious and correct statement that some people have self-control issues with food, namely sugary foods. But then the author says…

I think a whole lot of people eat for reasons besides hunger. For a lot of people, eating is a source of pleasure.

Actually, by the **** Act of 1903 (lol it edited out the guy's name! :) - also known as the Militia Act of 1903), and also by many state Constitutions, the militia consists of all able-bodied men aged 17-45.

You will need to open your diary before anyone can make any useful comments. Cutting out specific kinds of foods may be useful in helping you maintain a calorie deficit, but in the end, no matter what you eat, you will have to maintain a calorie deficit in order to lose weight. Also, pop is a sound, not a drink. :)

There is no doubt that if you can effectively remove guns, then gun crime goes down. Australia did this - they banned the guns and then paid people to turn them in, so most people did. The trade off is that now any victim of any other kind of violence is at the mercy of anyone stronger than they are. I don't think that is…

All of this is absolutely true, though functionally irrelevant, which is why the Supreme Court has ruled that you do not have to belong to a militia right now in order to keep and bear arms. Militias were not a permanent fixture. They were called up when needed. So you would keep and bear an arm suitable for military use…

OK: New York and Colorado, have both had serious reverses in the right to keep and bear arms. You can google the details. Yes, we have enjoyed many successes in the right to keep and bear arms over the last 20 years. Now every state in the Union permits concealed carry. But you have not been paying attention if you don't…

But many people are willing to take on the risks associated with firearm ownership so that they can be prepared for the eventuality that they might need one. I'm far more likely to be killed or injured in a car accident than I am from firearms. Yet I still see the benefits of owning and driving a car as an acceptable…

Well, that's a fine choice that everyone should be able to make for themselves. But the reality is that without a firearm, every single victim of violent crime has exactly three choices: run if they are fast enough, submit to their attacker if they are tough enough, or fight their attacker if they are strong enough. We…

Note that you do not have to be "scared" to be "prepared". I wear a seatbelt every time I get in a car. Not out of some kind of irrational fear of car accidents, but simply because the effort to take the precaution is trivial compared to needing the seat belt and not wearing it. Modern life has enabled people to buy…

It has been illegal to drink and carry a firearm, and it still is. What these kinds of laws were aimed at is allowing people who carry firearms to go into restaurants that serve alcohol. For example, Longhorns, Red Lobster, and other restaurants have bars inside them. By law before, a CCW permit holder would not be able to…

In most places, the only way you can carry a firearm (and usually it must be concealed) is if you have a permit. People who go to the trouble and expense to get a permit are unusually law-abiding people. In the states that publish the statistics, like Texas, people who have CCW permits are less likely to be involved in any…

I agree with Paul. Following your macros is good, but hitting your calorie goal is better. Steve

I looked at your diary also, and it's fine. A lot of processed foods, but you are hitting your calorie goals, and that's all that matters for weight loss. You have just about 13 weeks until the end of the year. If you can achieve 2 pounds of weight loss per week, you could, in theory, achieve 26 pounds of weight loss by…

Mutant13. Because...aw hell who am I kidding? ;)

I have to say, my first impressions by both the appearance of the web page and the domain name itself make me very skeptical of any claims they may make. I would like to see some links to some scientific studies concerning a physiological response to MSG.

I don't think there are many, if any, foods that have chemicals in them that cause physiological addictions. However, there is absolutely no doubt that manufactured food is an engineered product, with very specific design criteria in mind when it is created. Manufactured foods are designed to be cheap to manufacture, cheap…

I'm not so sure. I tend to think that this is far more common than people think. I think the compulsion people have to eat our modern, engineered, tasty, calorie-dense foods is one of the reasons why the majority of people in the United States are overweight. The fact is, much of our food supply has been specifically…