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Xiaou2:
That artical was a bunch of BS, like Most.  Especially when they are typically sponsored by McDonalds and Taco Bell... directly, or indirectly.

 First Coffees supposed to good for you.  Then its not.  Then it is.  Then its not.   Theres never any substantial truth.

 If you think your going to chomp down McDonalds 3x a day... and keep a nice waistline (never mind all the Triple Bypass you will soon need),
then you truly are an Idiot.

 I added a single bread roll in the mornings to my diet... and I saw the effects quite rapidly.   And recently, Ive taken away the soda.. and have lost about 25lbs.  Its stayed off now, for several months, with no change in exercise.


 Yes, its VERY hard to lose mass.  But no, its not impossible to keep it off.  The main reason why people tend to gain it back.. is because they have been raised on eating certain quantities... as well as eating very unhealthy things regularly.   The typical "dieter", either barely makes a dent... or they go to extremes.   The extremist, like Ark.. never keep it off... because they cant stand not eating the things the Love to eat regularly...
like heavy fat dressings on their salads, every night.   A whole Pizza every week.  Deep-Fried breaded food twice or more a week.  Fast Food nearly every day for lunch.  Large Portions (+6cups) of Super-High fat desserts.. like Ice Cream.

 (As a Manager of an Ice cream shop... I watched a mother get her and her young 4ft tall and already Fat daughter... a 28oz high fat ice cream bin to munch on.   Most people get a 7oz med... or at most, a large 10oz.  The 28oz was meant for freezer storage!   So here this 10?yr old is.... chowing on 10grams of fat per OZ... and eating a full 28oz bucket of Ice Cream!   This is a learned behavior... which she will probably pass down to her kids as well.   Monster portions, and high-fat content foods.   We did sell fat free frozen yogurt, which tasted pretty good.. and had like  1/20th of the calories.   Many people chose that over the high fat ice cream... which included the thin people.  Not the 400lb mom and her plump daughter.  Its different if you have a fatty treat once in a while... but heck, it should be reasonable.  Not outrageous, like this...


 Fats are extremely high in calories, and the body seems to store them quite easily in its plentiful stores.
Sugars are easier to burn off, rather than turning into fat.  However.. if you eat enough sugar... the calorie count will match or exceed a high fat
treat.  BUT... at least you wouldnt be getting the man-made artery clogging crap in your system.

 There are a lot of tasty alternatives to the chemical laden high-fat crap out there.

 Because of my several food allergies... Ive had to learn to make dishes and sauces without many typical ingredients.    I can tell you, that Ive tasted many non or low fat foods/dressings in the past... and found them to be disgusting.  However, Ive made things that taste much better than many of the typical 'fatty' commercial products.  Mostly, its in the natural seasonings... and nothing to do with the fat and chemical fillers.

 Ultimately, its up to the person, to reprogram themselves.  Change the way they eat, the portions, and they kinds of foods they eat.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on September 11, 2012, 07:02:31 pm --- (As a Manager of an Ice cream shop... I watched a mother get her and her young 4ft tall and already Fat daughter... a 28oz high fat ice cream bin to munch on.   Most people get a 7oz med... or at most, a large 10oz.  The 28oz was meant for freezer storage!   So here this 10?yr old is.... chowing on 10grams of fat per OZ... and eating a full 28oz bucket of Ice Cream!   This is a learned behavior... which she will probably pass down to her kids as well.   Monster portions, and high-fat content foods.   We did sell fat free frozen yogurt, which tasted pretty good.. and had like  1/20th of the calories.   Many people chose that over the high fat ice cream... which included the thin people.  Not the 400lb mom and her plump daughter.  Its different if you have a fatty treat once in a while... but heck, it should be reasonable.  Not outrageous, like this...

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DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on September 11, 2012, 07:02:31 pm ---That artical was a bunch of BS, like Most. 

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Well this Cracked article says that beer bellies are a myth. I choose to believe that and have started a diet of nothing but beer. Although I can no longer consume lunch at work (stupid company policies), it's otherwise working out quite well. I've already found my repartee to be wittier, I'm more sexually attractive and I am the most fantastic dancer.

 ;D

hypernova:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on September 11, 2012, 07:02:31 pm ---As a Manager of an Ice cream shop... I watched a mother get her and her young 4ft tall and already Fat daughter... a 28oz high fat ice cream bin to munch on.   Most people get a 7oz med... or at most, a large 10oz.  The 28oz was meant for freezer storage!   So here this 10?yr old is.... chowing on 10grams of fat per OZ... and eating a full 28oz bucket of Ice Cream!   This is a learned behavior... which she will probably pass down to her kids as well.   Monster portions, and high-fat content foods.   We did sell fat free frozen yogurt, which tasted pretty good.. and had like  1/20th of the calories.   Many people chose that over the high fat ice cream... which included the thin people.  Not the 400lb mom and her plump daughter.  Its different if you have a fatty treat once in a while... but heck, it should be reasonable.  Not outrageous, like this...

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Wouldn't have mattered whether she had the high fat version or low fat froyo.  28 oz of anything at one time isn't healthy.


--- Quote from: theonegoku on September 11, 2012, 01:23:44 pm ---But 80% of your post sounds like the normal crap that someone who just finished watching "forks over knives" likes to spew.  So instead of lengthy paragraphs, I will make it easy for you.  Watch "fathead" on netflix or something, research IIFYM, realize how wrong all of the propaganda you have been fed actually is, then come back here and apologize to all these forum members for spreading your broscience.
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Something tells me he's not the only person that regimen has worked for.  If it works, it works.  And if you're going to call out people for spouting out what worked for them, I'm going to have to call out this little nugget:


--- Quote ---A double quarter pounder is 750, so I could have ate mayo out of a jar for the other 750 and still been fine.
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You may be getting the proper calorie count, but the positives don't extend much further on your hypothetical (at least I hope it's hypothetical) diet of mayonnaise.  Now your getting into malnourishment, which isn't going to help you in the long run.

It's all about the metabolism, baby.  Which at 32, I still have a ton of, and am extremely thankful for it.

shmokes:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on September 11, 2012, 12:28:27 pm ---Eat smaller portions, exercise more.  Continue these new habits for LIFE.

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This is true . . . ish.

I mean, of course it's true, burn more calories than you eat and you'll be ahead. But, chemistry does matter. Calories derived from the consumption of protein and fat do not affect your body in the same way as calories derived from processed sugar or high fructose corn syrup. In particular, they don't cause an insulin production spike that encourages the storage of fat. Nutrition is more complicated than mere calorie counting. I don't care how much you exercise and how many calories you ingest. If you aren't consuming protein, you will not bulk up.

Don't get me wrong. How much you eat is critical. But what you eat matters too. This is made obvious by ---P&R denizen--- diets like Atkins. People on Atkins can eat a million calories a day and they still lose weight. It's an incredibly stupid and invariably short-lived way to lose weight, but there's no denying that it works.

At any rate, even if chemistry were completely irrelevant, you end up having to de facto fall back on managing types of food rather than calories. A Big-mac, medium choc shake and medium fry is like 1800 calories. If you're trying to lose weight you're already way over your limit and you've still gotta feed yourself two more times today. Even if all you're doing is counting calories, many foods simply have to be eliminated or you'll spend the rest of the day starving.

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