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"I want to lose weight, but I don't want to get too skinny!"
OK, this has always intrigued me because I've seen in on just about every weight loss or fitness board I've ever even cursorily passed through. Overweight and obese people setting goals that are still pretty high, or are right at the high end of the "normal" scale, with a disclaimer of "I don't want to be skinny!!!". Why…
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Fat Cell Death: Broscience or Science?
The common line of thought is that fat cells shrink, but are never truly eliminated. However I've read within fitness and weight lifting circles that getting your body fat percentage down to very lean proportions, as in 10% or less for men, and staying there for a couple years actually eventually leads to adipose cell…
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Is it important that your Spouse lose weight too?
Many, if not most, of us here constitute the less fat/former fat/how'd I get so fat crowd who have decided that weight loss, for whatever reasons, is an imperative part of our journeys. And a lot of us have spouses who likewise are overweight or obese. How important is it that your spouse have the desire, and make the…
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Loose Skin 101: Advice From a Man Who Lost 120 Pounds
I've lost nearly that much, but this thread isn't about my experience. It's actually about one of our fellow MFPers, Vismal, who runs a fitness channel on youtube. Here is an awesome, very informative video about loose, not "lose", skin that goes a long way toward breaking some of the myths surrounding the issue and giving…
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Losing Weight Without Counting Calories
Several people have asked how I lost over 100 lbs not counting a single calorie. I'll explain here. And if you're losing, or maintaining, without calorie counting please share your methods. Because, in my experience, there are people here who are searching for alternatives. I don't like calorie counting. I'm glad I learned…
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Study: Energy Expenditure in Whole vs Processed Foods
I was reading this blog: http://healtheconfusion.blogspot.com/2012/04/spaniards-and-american-tourists-in.html In which a tourist in Spain provides anecdotal observations about how thin she perceived the Spanish to be, despite a hefty food culture ( a question commonly asked about certain European nations with rich food…
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Why Do We Hate Being Fat So Much?
This has been on my mind this morning. I've hated being fat since around the 6th grade. I wasn't bullied, made fun of in any great way at all, and wasn't fat shamed at home. Yet the realization that I was "fat" hurt and upset me. I didn't like the look of my doughy body compared to the lean boys around me. It set off a…
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Ripped/Lean/Shredded Men, how much do you Weigh?
For men who are, or were, at around 11% or less body fat... How tall are you and how much do/did you weigh at your leanest?
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Question for Ripped/Lean/Shredded Men...
For men who are, or were, at around 11% or less body fat... How tall are you and how much do/did you weigh at your leanest?
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How Can Medications "Make" You Gain Weight?
This has always baffled me. When people claim a drug(s) "made" them gain weight does the drug actually interact with your physiology in a way that begins to cancel out the laws of thermodynamics or does it increase your appetite to such a ravenous extreme that avoiding over consumption is just more difficult?
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Popular Foods That You Can Take or Leave...
What foods do most people seem to love, and can't seem to get enough of, that you can take or leave? Foods that seem damn near universally tempting, but that just don't seem to call your name? Pizza - Sure it's delicious, tasty, all that good stuff, but I rarely have it and it doesn't scream my name.
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Host of Man vs Food Thin-Shamed and Dropped...
Adam Richman lost 70 lbs, posted a pic on instagram with the # thinspiration, got some gruff over the connotations of that word and he lashed out harshly at critics. The Food Network pulled the premier of his show due to the backlash.…
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Man Loses About 600 POUNDS...and Keeps It Off Long Term!
This man, Justin Willoughby, had a high weight of 799 lbs and a low weight of 207. He started lifting along the way and maintains today in the 230s. He's been maintaining for over a decade. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/16/i-lost-weight-justin-willoughby_n_5310166.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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Intermittent Fasters, GET IN HERE!
There is lots of ignorance about IFing on this Forum. Any other IFers care to share: A. Why this style of eating works well for you? B. What specific IFing schedule are you on (if you have a routine)? C. How do you feel on your fast days/fast window? D. If you were a binge eater has this helped, or hurt, your tendency? E.…
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What are the Proven Benefits of a "Lifestyle Change"?
There are a few threads going on at the moment detailing various studies that show that long term weight loss management has pretty abysmal success rates. The common rebuttal is that said studies are reflecting participants that lost weight the "wrong" way with various fads, cleanses, diet pills, etc, and that these rates…
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Yale threatened to expel student for having a low BMI...
She "won", but it's pathetic that this country has become so accustomed to obesity that a naturally thin woman of Asian makeup, with no signs of an eating disorder, is put through an ordeal like this: https://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/yale-university-drops-threat-to-kick-out-student-for-being-too-skinny-180302055.html…
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How Has Your Life Changed Since Losing Weight?
I believe it would be uber inspiring, or just plain educational, for people to not only see pics, but to hear stories about how your life, and you, have changed since losing weight. And not even necessarily just the good, but overall what has the effect had for you? How has your life changed?
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Is Faster Weight Loss better than Slower Weight Loss?
We constantly hear that losing weight slowly, steadily, sets up a person to make a "lifestyle change", and thus they are far more likely to maintain that weight loss. Except there are no studies at all backing up this claim. These studies found the exact opposite conclusion, where faster losers kept weight off longer than…
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For Successful Losers: Do You Still See Yourself as Fat?
This is for all those who have reached, or are pretty close, to reaching their goals. I've been reading some interesting thoughts from others who fit in this category regarding self perception. Some adhere to the thought that their "fat selves" are behind them. They no longer associate themselves with who they were in that…
