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You're awfully free with that "poison" word. The word has a specific meaning, and fast food simply doesn't satisfy it. Continuing this hyperbolic tone really undercuts your credibility.

Some of you people amaze me. It can't be YOUR fault that you were fat. It's got to be HFCS or processed grains or Big Ag lobby or fast food. It's just an abrogation of personal responsibility. It's not the type of food you eat, it's HOW MUCH food you eat. My diary is only visible to my friends, but if you could all see it…

I would agree very strongly with this. My wife has the last-gen Kindle and I've used it lots. I've held off getting my own. The e-ink is indispensable, IMO, for a pure reader. The new Kindle touch is phenomenal; it's about half the weight of the last Kindle and the keyboard (which I kind of find in the way) is gone. If you…

Because they have to do it for $1.85 per person per day, AND make sure the kids will eat it.

Even if you believe that (It has not been my experience.) it wold only work because you're not counting your time and labor as a cost. School cafeterias run as businesses with employees, so labor and wages absolutely play a big part in the cost of the meal. Does Marge spend 3 hrs steaming and peeling tomatoes, or does she…

I'm not saying don't use it as a last resort to protect yourself, but its legally risky to PLAN to use it. Paradoxically, you're at more legal risk - especially civil risk of being sued by your attacker - if you "misuse" wasp spray on them than if you use purpose-designed CS or OC spray. Wasp spray is a neurotoxin, that IS…

That may be true for blades (I don't know) but it is not true for firearms. That's a myth. When confronted by a firearm, a criminal will behave similarly to a "normal" person. If they are themselves armed, they will either disengage and go bother somebody safer for them, or they will defend themselves with their own…

I don't think you can make meatloaf with 1/3 of it celery. I don't think it will hold together, and even if it did, it would be very different in texture and flavor. Save the same calories by using leaner meats!

Everyone is basically right so far. They taste okay, but the replace sugar with sugar alcohols - manitol, sorbitol, xylitol, etc. They have somewhat lower Calories, but their designed purpose is avoid causing sugar spikes in diabetics. The sugar alcohols are not digested by humans, but by the bacterial flora in your gut.…

Alcohol has 7 calories per gram. If you've found a lower-cal distilled spirit, that just means it's lower proof and you're just paying for extra water. (Assuming it's not something with sweetener added back - like schnapps or amaretto or something). The "stops burning everything else" thing is a misunderstanding. It's true…

If you're eating a lot less food now, you'll have a lot less waste. Also, if you used to drink a lot of beer, beer makes you go more. If you stop that beer you're going to lose that added "incentive."

The sad truth is that a lot of kids - especially the most disadvantaged ones - get a significant proportion of their calories from school lunches (and breakfasts). "Healthy" food does no good if they throw it in the garbage, and lots of studies have shown that kids just won't eat healthier alternatives. For many of these…

Started at 290# and I think I was allowed around 1900 to start. Unless he has a thyroid or some other medical problem, he almost has to be eating more than he thinks (or is telling you). This is especially likely if he drinks alcohol regularly. You can ingest 800 Calories very quickly at that size because you need to drink…

It's the definition of calorie. A calorie is a unit of heat energy defined by the amount of heat required to raise one gram/milliliter of water one Celsius. A food Calorie is actually a kilocalorie, so the amount of heat required to raise one liter of water one Celsius. Water just at freezing temp is around 1 C and body…

Water itself isn't magical, but if you drink a lot of COLD water as many of us enjoy it, your body will spend Calories raising it to body temperature. Raising a liter of well-iced water to body temp will burn about 37 Calories. So those drinking their 8 cups of cold water a day and changing nothing else will burn around 80…

You're using too much logic in this almost-religious question. (You're 100% right, BTW!)

Good Lord! How does this keep coming up? The only thing that doesn't count is hard alcohol. Coffee, tea, even beer and wine have way more than enough water in the beverage to make up for the small diuretic affect of the caffeine or alcohol.

Replace milk with buttermilk.

Excellent point. I'm going to steal that from you if you don't mind. :D

I'm going to manually add 2500 Cal, which is my maintenance level, and call it a day.

Ultimately this. It helps a bit if you can do some recon on the web beforehand, but some places are just going to screw you totally. Olive Garden is a perfect example as there is no entree below 770 Cal and the salad is 400 Cal. When that happens, I try to do the half thing, whether splitting it with someone or taking half…

The Quorn 'turkey' is decent, but it's not vegan. Just FYI.

If it's just gelatin with no sugar, consider it free. Something like 25 Calories in 4 cups of Knox gelatin made per directions. If it has sweetener, you're on your own - but it should be relatively easy to figure out from the packaging or by using the recipe function here.

Gelatin/Jello or fruit jelly with sugar and pectin?

Yes, but you'll probably feel hungrier more than if you replaced those white starches with more whole grains. Edit: For that matter, you can blow the MFP carb number out of the water and still lose weight as long as your calories in are less than your calories burned.

Tapenade Pureed, roasted red peppers Marinara sauce

Great day for me.

To be fair, I probably get more than is typical since I'm at 255#, and 600 Cal is at the high end of a normal lunch for me (if I skip the afternoon snack). Fat IS a bit high, but I tweaked the rest of the day to come in at just 1 gram over fat for the day. I couldn't/wouldn't eat it all three meals, of course. Sodium is…

Please excuse me quoting myself, but I wanted to emphasize this in case it got lost in the larger post. Seriously, don't bring tuna or sardines or canned, smoked oysters or anything like that. When I was in the Navy, we used to beat people for eating that stuff in berthing. (Ok, not really beat them, but we'd...uh....do…

Though I've been at sea out-of-sight-of-land for over 700 days, I have yet to do a cruise where everybody wasn't wearing blue or khaki. :wink: Given that 700 day thing, I doubt I ever will - though my wife keeps pushing the idea. I've done vacations, though of course. If it were me I wouldn't try to count, log, etc during…