The book Fat land opens with a story of a man who couldn't fit into any of the chairs when he went to an Olive Garden. It was eventually referred to the head of the company because nobody knew how to deal with the situation. The restaurant implemented a policy that all Olive Gardens must have two chairs for obese diners and the CEO contacted the man to tell him. He informed them that he didn't need them anymore as the incident had inspired him to lose weight.
And what was their quality of life like, I wonder? My 60+ year old, 300+lb mother is alive but miserable with a laundry list of "mysterious" ailments that have prevented her from doing a great many things. It's honestly heartbreaking to see her missing out on so many things in her life and the lives of her children.
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Sugar hyperactivity in children is a Western myth. It's likely that the myth perpetuates because kids are aware of the belief that sugar makes them hyper.
So the kids might act more hyper after eating lots of sugar, but not because of the sugar. Only because of the placebo effect and the associated myth.
https://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/busting-sugar-hyperactivity-myth#1
Cheeseburgers really aren't that awful for you and neither is ice cream. Both are 100% fine in moderation and can be worked in to fit a healthy diet. I had ice cream three days this week and hit my macros relatively well while staying well under my TDEE for the week. This day I almost hit the dreaded "STARVATION MODE"! /s
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/Fletch71011?date=2014-08-21
I hate to contradict you my friend, but anorexia actually is a medical term for a lack or loss of appetite for food, as well as a name for the eating disorder (anorexia nervosa).
OH NO - this is totally a Lindy West thing. It's named after her book: https://www.amazon.com/Shrill-Lindy-West/dp/0316348465
I have a personal vendetta against her since her writing was a HUGE reason I thought I'd never lose weight and had to just accept my fat self just the way I was.
It seems like a lot of people (Especially fat-accepters) don't actually know calories are measured, or they don't actually look at the numbers. From what you said, 15 kgs of broccoli = 5000 calories. Compare this to bacon: 1 kg bacon contains more than 5000 calories.
D'you think they'd still argue that you gain more weight by eating 1 kg of bacon than 15 kgs of broccoli?
Thank you, reading that really made my day, what a fantastic rant. I've been reading the book "Smarter Faster Better" by Charles Duhigg, and in it he brings up the idea of internal and external locus of control with kids. I won't go into it too much, but it basically boils down to this, you shouldn't tell a kid they're smart, talented, gifted or whatever other compliment in that vein, because that's only going to make them believe that people are born with those qualities and are otherwise unreachable. Instead you should praise a kid for working hard on something, even if they suck at whatever activity, you should compliment them for their effort, this makes kids realize that you actually have to work for the things you want and that we do have an amount of control over our own lives.
When Andre was a kid in France in 1958 he couldn't fit on the bus and had to be driven to school by a neighbor who owned a pickup truck. The crazy thing was that that neighbor was Samuel Beckett, the writer.
Not even their bodies are designed for their bodies. Once you reach the at-risk-of-breaking-furniture level, your skeleton is totally out of whack, the force on your joints is out of control, and your stabilizing muscles are out of their league. So yeah, a certain level of clumsiness can result and yeah, it is "tied back into fatness."
Coincidentally the authors have a book to sell.
Unsurprisingly, a lot of people lose weight successfully.
I've been doing food math when I see people claiming it's sooooo prohibitively expensive to eat plants at home rather than go out to a restaurant. Here's an example:
Rice: $4.88 for 10 pounds.. 1 cup of rice is just under half a pound, so there are roughly 21 cups of rice in that bag, or 42 servings. Serving size: 1/4 cup of dry rice. Calories per serving: 160. Cost per serving: $0.11.
Dried green lentils: I actually have a receipt on hand for this one. $1.79/pound at the bulk foods store in my neighborhood. I bought 0.47 pounds for $0.81 and it's about 1.25 cups. Serving size: 1/4 cup of dry lentils. Calories per serving: 169. Cost per serving: $0.16.
Raw baby cut carrots: $1.34 for a 1-pound bag. Google says there are 11 calories in one ounce. Serving size: 1/4 of the bag, or 4 oz. Calories per serving: 44. Cost per serving: $0.34.
Dump them all in a rice cooker or pot on the stove with water. Add some salt and pepper if you wish. Push the button and wait. Total calories: 373. Total cost per serving: $0.61.
And if you're trying to eat more instead of less, please feel free to explain how it's cheaper to go to Wendy's instead of padding these calories with a little more rice or some butter. Or even a dessert!
You nailed exactly how I feel about this. I wish people would at least walk and run more. You can get decent running shoes for $20-$30 on sale if you don't mind them being a really weird color. And some step trackers run as low as $13.99.
Oh well. But hey, the older we get, the better we're going to look in comparison to our peers. So that'll be fun, I guess.
This is what happens when you have too much insulin; your blood sugar drops low enough and it can put you in a coma. FFS insulin is not magic; it can't make you store what isn't there.
Yes, and it isn't terribly uncommon.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/abdominal-separation-diastasis-recti
I had no idea until it happened to me, on my 4th baby. I had a couple of preemies before him, so who knows if I would have gotten it if my babies waited until their due dates.
http://www.nutrition-charts.com/kfc-nutrition-facts-calorie-information/
Calories: 600 Protein: 54g Total Fat: 36g Total Carbs: 15g Sodium: 1620mg Cal From Fat: 330 Cholesterol: 170mg Sat Fat: 10g Tran Fat: 0g Fiber: 0g Sugars: 1g Weight Watcher: 16
My Fitness Pal has all of these numbers a little lower. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calorie-chart-nutrition-facts
Step 1. Either do your own research or work with a ~~nutritionist~~ registered dietitian to determine your caloric needs, and learn how to accurately count calories. Track your intake with something like http://www.myfitnesspal.com and be honest.
Step 2. Find a source of exercise that works for you. Anything is better than nothing. If all you do is work your way to walking around your neighborhood for 30-60 minutes a day, that's still a great start. Don't be scared of lifting weights, but learn how to do it safely. Swimming is another great option.
Step 3. Ignore the critics. A lot of people who are on the right path to losing weight will be met with negativity, either from strangers or from friends (especially the fat ones). Ignore them. If they aren't going to be supportive of you, they're not a real friend.
Step 4. Feed your inner shitlord. Stand up to fat logic in your daily life. Keep reading the posts on this sub, you will learn to hate fatlogic more than being fat itself.
It's worth checking your waist/height ratio as that's a better indicator of risk for obesity related disease
https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/waist-height-ratio
Anything under 0.5 is good - I'm UK 10/12, but my ratio is 0.47, so literally just barely squeaked under the danger level
I tend to focus on my waist measurement more than anything as I'm in my 40's & diabetes is rife in my family, so I have to keep an eye on visceral fat
The healthy zone for women is a waist under 32 inches & I'm currently 32.25, so again - uncomfortably near the danger level
Dress sizes are meaningless these days due to vanity sizing - found a gorgeous Italian dress in storage I bought about 10yrs ago which is L/XL and it fits perfectly on my UK 10/12 body. But it's L/XL. The Italians are harsh 🤣 Explains why the Mediterranean diet is up there with Japan in the healthy league table tho if UK 10/12 is a big girl size.
Strava has an option "Hide Privacy Zone" almost literally shoved in your face.
HERE is a recent ride of mine - know where I live? NOPE, cause Strava fucking said "do you want people to know where you live, press here to say NO"
You can extend that zone to wherever you want. Want a 10 mile privacy zone, cool... make the privacy zone cover 10 miles. The stats still show, but not the specifics.
Ragen... PM me, I will give details, you can show your progress without divulging detials, I am more than happy to help another cyclist!
The thing is, triggers are never so simple and cut and dried as they make it out to be. I was hit by a car more than a decade ago, wasn't seriously injured, and thought I'd moved past it. Then I read the epilogue of Stephen King's "On Writing" and got to the point where he writes about when he was hit by a car. I had to put the book down and put it away for weeks before I could finish it because it legit messed me up.
I'm fine with content warnings so people can mentally prepare themselves, but they seem to be leading people to assume that what triggers people is always known and can be warned about in advance. They can't, because people themselves don't always know what will trigger them.
To people like me who didn't know what this was https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hidradenitis-suppurativa/symptoms-causes/syc-20352306 The picture when you open that is pretty gross so NSFW and I wouldn't look at this while eating. It's a bunch of sores in areas where the skin rubbs or folds. There is an increased risk in the obese so if this is the disease he should be trying to loose weight even if it wasn't for surgery.
Yes, you will lose weight on Kellogg's diet. Yes, this is CICO. Yes, you will lose weight if you walk 10-20 miles per day. Yes, eating nothing but a single bland food day in and day out may drive you into eating less because you're sick of it.
However, this is fatlogic that we still see today and it's one of the most common and dangerous ideas that prevent people from losing weight. Fad diets. Having to go to the gym. Having to eat specific foods. Not having money to eat "healthy food". All of that stems from this core type of fatlogickal belief. People try this stuff and usually fail because it's not sustainable, then conclude that weight loss is impossible.
Many of us here on /r/fatlogic are living proof that you can lose significant amount of weight eating whatever you want and sitting on the couch all day so long as you just eat less than you burn.
Kellogg was a whack job in many other ways, which you can read about in his Wikipedia entry. If you want to read more of his advice check out The Living Temple and Plain Facts for Old and Young, both out of copyright and available for free online. Prepare yourself for even more extreme recommendations to kill people's sex drives (corn flakes, burning the clitoris with acid), how masturbating affects your skeleton and causes children to be easily frightened, and how enemas can cure headaches.
You have come, more or less, to the right place for help.
First, try not to be too hard on yourself. Feeling like shit makes losing weight harder. Be proud of yourself for looking for help and wanting to change.
Second, lots of people have suggested great subreddits to peak at, but I don't think I've seen anyone mention MyFitnessPal yet. It will help you get a better idea of how many calories you need to be eating to lose x number of pounds a week and it's a great food journal. It comes as a free app for your phone too so you'll basically have no excuse to not log your calories no matter where you are.
Third, my own personal tip that helped me the most with losing weight, get ALL the snack food out of your house. Every last bit. Snacks take up so many of your daily calories. More than you probably realize. Get in the habit of eating regular meals when you're hungry, not snacking all day.
I really wish you good luck! Don't give this up and I promise you will get the results you want with time.
400 actually, if she bought the two pack like she said. My parents buy these and I know for a fact the single big cups say 200 on them.
Also here's the nutrition facts for a two pack if you want more details. [Amazon page]
I remembered incorrectly, it's 200 calories per 1/4 cup. Still a lot, but not as bad as I thought. Classic White frappe powder nutrition info in one of the pictures
That's what I find so crazy about them. They're usually speaking for you, or above you.
I don't need or want a lecture about colorism/racism from a white teenage girl in Seattle, thanks. To me, it has vibes of the White Man's Burden all over it.
Before I had checked out I was accused of internalized racism - their go to attack for women, LGBT, minorities, etc, who disagree.
I'm going to need you to stop lying about supplements and pushing products in this sub, okay?
www.consumerreports.org/vitamins-supplements/troubling-new-garcinia-cambogia-side-effect/
I don't think anyone's claimed fatphobia isn't real. /r/fatpeoplehate was a real sub so we all know there's people who will discriminate on weight alone. I don't think I've ever seen anyone on this sub claim that the posts here represent all fat people. It focuses on a very specific group and points out their hypocrisies and faulty logic.
Yes, lots of people treat their bodies poorly and yes we only focus on the fat ones. This sub is called /r/fatlogic. If you want, you can make a sub called /r/bodyhamrlogic and talk about your friend and fat people all kinds of other people who harm their bodies while denying any adverse affects.
No one is being picked on because all identifying information is censored so there's no way to know who to pick on. No one is being shamed for being fat. That would be against the very first rule of the sub. So no, no one would shame your friend for harming his body by doing parkour. But personally, if he were my friend and I cared about him, I might try to talk to him and get him to be a bit more careful and mitigate the risks as much as possible. But ultimately, it would be his choice and I would respect that.
However, if your friend regularly went around denying the dangers of parkour and tried to get little kids to join him at the gym to train, then yeah, we'd probably shame him. He's spreading misinformation and it's dangerous. You can do whatever you want to your own body but don't try to push that shit on other people.
If all of this sounds boring to you, maybe you shouldn't visit this sub. No one is forcing you to be here and if just seeing our existence is upsetting, you might consider getting RES to filter this and other offensive subs out of /r/all.
Looking at the summary of that book on Amazon...
They say don't judge a book by its cover, but I'm going to do the opposite, be very judgmental here and say that this summary doesn't fill me with the hope that this is a measured take on ED recovery or healthy lifestyle habits. It seems like precisely the sort of summary that'd be a motherlode of fatlogic. Maybe I'm wrong and it's just bait to get HAES advocates to read it, who knows?
Still, the message of the person writing this... Yeah, an anorexic probably needs to let go of the fear of gaining a healthy amount of weight. But you know what? It's been said here before, by ED sufferers, that nothing makes an anorexic run away in screaming panic from the thought of treatment and recovery quite like the idea that they'll end up obese.
Yeah, if you're BMI 15, you need to let go of the fear of gaining weight. If you're BMI 25, not so much.
Note: I have not read this book despite the fact that I read all sorts of trash vampire novels on KU.
50 lbs in two months is aggressive. It will require a 3,000 Calorie a day deficit. For someone your size, that means eating literally nothing for two months, or if you're exercising, running 10 miles every day while eating less than half of what you currently eat.
Reconsider your plans. Go here: https://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html to get a sense of your current caloric needs. Check out the FAQ in the /r/loseit sub. Download this app to help you track: https://cronometer.com
It took you years to get to your current weight. You're not going to knock that weight off of yourself in a couple of months. This is a marathon, not a sprint, so pace yourself. 50 lbs is going to take about 6 months to a year to lose. Trying what you're planning is going to result in either you giving up after a couple of weeks, or losing way more lean mass than you want to.
EDIT: Oh man - he deleted his post. :-( Best of luck buddy. Hope you succeed.
> Shaving accelerates hair growth. The sooner you start shaving, the faster your mustache will grow. The same goes for shaving legs and other things women shave.
That's a myth. Pretty sure it was made up by moms to encourage their teenage sons to shave their weird patchy facial hair, and to discourage their daughters from starting to shave their legs for fear of turning into a yeti.
Not quite...it's the most deadly as in if you have anorexia you have the highest chance of dying but depression and suicide are going to kill far more people than anorexia.
You should check out this book The Coddling of the American Mind. It talks about just this! There's basically three untruths that people are clinging to: (1) what doesn't kill you makes you weaker, (2) always trust your feelings, and (3) life is a battle between good and bad people. There's this mentality that everyone is so inherently fragile that we must be protected all the time. Couple this with the fact that people conflate their feelings with reality. This is the exact opposite of what cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches people who are recovering from anxiety disorders. Just because you think something is scary/wrong, doesn't mean it actually is.
I agree that just a u-turn back to the Hard Knocks method probably isn't right, but we need to teach people that it's OK to feel uncomfortable and anxious sometimes. It isn't always reality and it's rarely the end of the world.
I bought one of these breakfast sandwich makers which is great for making a high protein breakfast after I go for my morning walk.
I've got two chronic illnesses that impact my life a lot - ME/CFS and endometriosis. Both can be difficult to diagnose and there is a lot of misinformation and outdated information floating around. If a doctor has been practicing for 20 years, they may not have the most up to date data on diagnosis, symptoms and treatment.
In my case with endometriosis, it took 3 years of arguing with my doctor that something was even wrong, because nothing was showing up on my scans. It's perfectly normal for endometriosis to not show up on most scans, but just because I knew that didn't mean my doctor did. In order to get treatment I needed a referral to a specialist, and while waiting for treatment I needed pain management. How was I supposed to get those things without going to a doctor?
You need to change your habits and your environment. Habits work this way: You have a trigger/cue (the thing that causes you to want to do something), the routine (doing the thing), and the reward (the reason you do the thing, it's what makes you feel good.) The best way to successfully change your habits is to keep the same triggers and rewards but change the routine. If you're bored/sad/angry and you want to eat, find something else that makes you feel good instead (this is going to depend on each person, but can be anything from taking a walk, taking a bath, reading a book, getting a massage, etc). If you need to keep your mouth busy, you can chew gum or eat ice or drink calorie free beverages. You can also brush your teeth with a minty toothpaste. This will at least cause sweet things to taste gross for a time, which is enough to get you out of the habit loop. Keeping busy is going to be the best thing you can do.
It sounds like you don't have a lot of control over your environment, but here are some of the things they suggest you do:
Eat off small plates, drink out of short fat glasses
Leave healthy food in plain sight in an easy to reach area (on the counter, eye level in the fridge, etc), and hide unhealthy food away in a hard to reach area (like the back of a high cupboard).
When at all possible, don't walk/drive past vending machines, fast food places, etc.
If you want to read more, check out Mindless Eating by Brian Watsink and The Power of Habit by Charles Duhig.
I got a 4-pack of some standard metal folding chairs off of Amazon and the chairs are really sturdy. I think these are they. I’ve had plenty of heavy guests sit on them and have never worried.
Cosco All Steel Folding Chair Black (4-pack) - 1471105XE https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DQC9HYO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_wN9ADb22KNRNZ
Well that lead me down a rabbit hole and I'm more deeply disturbed than I was to begin with.
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Apparently:
“Globgogabgalab” is a musical number from the 2013 animated movie <em>Strawinsky and the Mysterious House</em>. As a character, the Globgogabgalab is meant to symbolize mindless consumerism, as described on the film’s official website:
>His body is like a huge lump of dough that is fed by the thoughts and stories of the books. The contents of the books work their way just like yeast through his body causing all kinds of changes within him that he can’t properly control and thereby making him extremely overweight and obese. Nonetheless, he spends all his life consuming whatever thoughts and books he can find. He knows he’s called by the king (i.e. the Great Elohim) to serve and follow him but simply does not want to inconvenience himself by giving up his constant intake of whatever stories and entertainment that come his way.
TIL thoughts, like yeast, cause uncontrollable changes in the body and cause obesity. (Surprise fatlogic/insanity!)
That actually makes a lot of sense. the picture I included shows the sun setting in the west (I checked Google Maps to tell which way the sign is oriented), meaning that they arrived probably within an hour or so of sunset. Most hikers will start in the morning, but I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume they left anytime after 2, which is usually the latest I'd ever start even a short hike.
So in all likelihood, it took her +2 hours to do a 1.5 mile hike (it's 3 miles one way)
Or maybe I'm just over-analyzing all of this.
> I don’t feed my kids enough carbs, said by several people. This one might be a valid criticism.
A quick google search turns up this. It's from WebMD, so it probably isn't bs. Though obviously, disclaimer: this is not advice, I am not a doctor, consult with a nutritionist etc.
Still, based on the rest of your post, I suspect that this criticism is only "valid" in the most lenient(to your family) possible sense. I suspect your family actually meant "they don't eat enough junk and sugar for my liking" and not "they don't eat enough carbs for their health".
Plus, let's be frank. Even if there is some negative effect on children, I suspect that even the most hardcore keto diet would probably still be healthier than a typical-Western-diet.
But all in all, you have far more patience than I do; good luck dealing with this nonsense in the future.
Consumer Reports recently tested the calorie content of foods at some chain restaurants. They were for the most part fairly accurate - especially fast food chains where portion control is easier.
I just looked up the game, but I don't see why people are saying it's a bad influence? It says you can sync it with Google Fit and the guy will lose weight when you exercise...seems like that would be good for kids.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivebits.fitthefat2&hl=en
It's been studied to death and there's no relationship between cravings and nutritional deficiencies. The exception that proves the rule is iron deficiency and pica. There may have been a small adaptive advantage to eating dirt when iron deficient, assuming there was sufficient bioavailable iron in the dirt in your location. But crunching on ice and other things isn't effectively addressing the deficiency.
Is that comic sans up the top there? That logo looks like it comes from the nineties, and was based off the clipart stick figures that came with word, remember them?
The font is too small, and the bullet points next to the 'things you can tell' list need to be bigger so that you can actually see them. The title font also needs to be noticeably larger and further spaced from the diagram, because it doesn't look like a damn title.
Seriously this is the worst. Not only would the "been there. done that." be better below the not diets sign, it's also spaced so it runs basically from pit to pit. You know how bad that's gonna look on a big breasted woman? Also that slashed red circle thing is way too fucking thin, and it's not even a circle, it's an oval. This is what they look like http://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/28689/skotan_No-sign.png. Hers looks like a speech bubble that someone accidentally left a line though. And why didn't she small caps the 'diets'? Signs are always capitalized.
Danceswithfat designs t-shirts that look like a third grader's poster project.
Part of dieting is just being hungry, kind of unavoidable if you're at a high deficit. I wouldn't recommend going over the RDA (https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678) but caffeine is a proven appetite suppressant. You'll also be extra hungry for a while if you recently started a new exercise routine. Take a multivitamin, please..that diet isn't sustainable or healthy, but I get it..
> I'm a music kinda gal.
Weeellll... Will Smith was famous as half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince before he went into acting...
Dear anonymous,
According to the medical community anorexia is a medical disorder. While it may not be a biological disorder, such as a pituitary gland disorder which can can obesity, it is a mental disorder in the same way depression or anxiety is a mental disorder.
By making this statement you are making it harder for people with this disorder to accept their position and seek help by making them think it is a choice, when in fact, anorexia, if truly diagnosed as such, is a true disorder with sometimes disastrous consequences.
Holy shit - how can someone be so ignorant to say things like "they evolved different strategies for survival." No, we bred them. Wild dogs all look pretty much the same. A group of selectively bred dogs, left to interbreed, will look like wild dogs again in a couple of generations.
Also, humans as a group have so little genetic variation that we are practically clones. It's a fairly unique feature of our species, compared to some species like ants that may be 10 times the size of another subspecies. We get excited if Ukranians are a couple of inches taller than average. We just don't have that much variation as a species. Of the variation we do show, about 85% is as individuals, 10% among distinct populations and only 5% across continents, so even our concept of 'race' is too slim for scientists to work with because there don't appear to be any statistically discontinuous human populations. (I'll let this guy say it with all the sources: https://www.quora.com/Do-humans-have-a-high-amount-or-low-amount-of-genetic-variation-compared-to-other-species-with-a-large-population)
Hypothesizing that there are basically different metabolic subspecies among humans is just beyond precious.
Two suggestions:
Cook ahead of time, particularly things that will keep for a couple of days without refrigeration if necessary. Pair these with food that does not need to be chilled or cooked. In a pinch, there is nothing wrong with a single McQuad if you are shooting for a macro target. One of those has 620kcal, 36g fat, 35g carb, 40g protein.
This week is a prelude to the rest of your life; there are going to be periods where you won't be able to keep your intake 100% on point. The key is to keep things sustainable, not beat yourself up if things aren't 100% perfect for a short time. This mindfulness, combined with preparation to get back on-plan at a specific point in time, will allow you to get through this period with a lot less stress.
If you must eat their food, this is also a good time to practice portion control mindfulness. They want fried chicken? Pick off the skin and take one less piece than everyone else. They want mashed potato? Hit up the green beans. They want a burger? Pretty much everywhere has a chicken or other healthier option.
Things won't be perfect, of course, but a big part of managing nutrition is being able to adapt in the short term when necessary.
Slim by Design (Book) talks a lot about small changes one can make to ones everyday life that affect calorie-intake.
A small suggestion for crisp cravings (was also mentioned in Secret Eaters): Use smaller bags. (Or re-bag them into weighed portions and put them away.) You will eat less of them for some reason (probably something to do with a 'stopping point' that was mentioned by the food scientist in Secret Eaters).
There are sugar free, calorie free caramels. I've been hesitant to try it, but it does exist. Walden farms has one.
Everybody read this book it is the fatlogic reddit in book form, except nicer and everything is on one place.
I find it incredibly motivating.
Because it's directly lifted from a video game series. Especially the "weenies" reference. That I have played. Pheonix Wright: Ace Attorney.
That, and the median salary for a police detective is around $68,000. If you are making that much and living in a cheap apartment, eating ramen noodles and hot dogs, you are a liar, or doing it by choice/virtue of very poor spending habits.
It's real! Didn't take me long to find the actual title on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jemima-J-Jane-Green/dp/0140276904/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1493499972&sr=8-9&keywords=jane+green
Flap synopsis:
"Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the "Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her only consolation is food. Add to this her passion for her charming, sexy, and unobtainable colleague Ben, and Jemima knows her life is in need of a serious change. When she meets Brad, an eligible California hunk, over the Internet, she has the perfect opportunity to reinvent herself-as JJ, the slim, beautiful, gym-obsessed glamour girl. But when her long-distance Romeo demands that they meet, she must conquer her food addiction to become the bone-thin model of her e-mails-no small feat. With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, "Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is. "
That's like saying "I know I have heart disease, but due to modern medicine at least I'm likely to survive another decade or so".
Personally I would just rather not have heart disease.
But nobody taught her the necessary tools to change her weight, she thinks this is her fate now, with which she has to arrange herself. Just one good book and she could take matters into her own hands.
Nasty little thing (like a drier starburst with terrible aftertaste) with things like caffeine and and other ingredients (i don't remember) that's supposed to boost your energy/metabolism. I think these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KQXIJVS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_A4xkBbF7N3PH6
I bought them after hitting an emotional breaking point over all the weight I've gained in the past few years of depression/binge eating/college food. I was ready to do anything at that point haha. Was looking for something diet pillish to really fuck me up but didn't wanna drop the $$$ and got these instead. I think they did a decent job for energy - might've been placebo effect but I didn't super care.
I've been eating home made bread with chocolate sprinkles on top and dutch cheese as a side dish every day since January 1. I've lost 33 pounds.
How? Calorie deficit.
I love the product Natural Calm. It's a magnesium supplement that I take twice a day. I've found that upping my protein intake has caused me the same problems, even though I also get lots of water, fiber and caffeine.
Be forewarned you should start with a small dose and work up until you figure out how much works for you. Starting off with too large a serving will certainly clear you out though!
Uh I just checked out this book and it’s hilarious. She does her own drawings and has a great sense of humor. It almost reads like a friend writing you a letter. Some of it’s a little outdated but a few chapters in and I like it!
You can grab it on project guttenberg
That is weird. There are lots of pictures of fat people in the My Fitness Pal fitspo thread.
They are all in the before part of the image.
I'm one of those people that can't smell myself.
I also can't smell gas leaks, when food goes rotten, a fart, or anything else for that matter.
Anosmia is a real bitch, especially when you don't realize that you suffer from it because it has always been "normal" to you that you can't smell anything.
I was one of those people that never knew how they smelled. Looking back, I'm extremely embarrassed about it as well, even with the knowledge that I had no way to know.
Since discovering my issue, I've had to stay hyper-vigilant about how I smell. I keep extra sticks of deodorant at work, in the car, etc. I use Febreeze on a regular basis if I even think my clothes MIGHT have some odor. Sometimes I'll even take a second shower in a day on occasion.
Some might call portions of this bordering on OCD, but what other choice do I have?
>As a real woman, she doesn’t have time for that diet or exercise nonsense!
>TBH tho, the ones saying they don’t have the time make me sad. They know diet and exercise works, but they’re so far removed from true healthy habits that they can’t see how little extra effort those habits can take. It’s easy to get big while not eating more than a modern serving per meal, having one snack or fun drink a day, and eating ‘healthy meals’ like a full burrito bowl or a salad with cheese and dressing. It took me way too long to realize that my ‘normal’ habits for diet and exercise were leading to my unfortunately statistically normal weight. I feel for these people who aren’t seeing the little changes they can make and how accessible healthier habits can be. It’s super frustrating, but at the same time it does require some willful ignorance and denial to maintain that ‘stuck’ mindset.
On the topic of small changes:
Slim by Design (Book) talks a lot about small changes one can make to ones everyday life that affect calorie-intake.
Since I believe in sharing the love, this is the bikini I got. It's from AliExpress and is only $15 with free shipping. Actually great quality and fit just check the measurements carefully for size. You end up getting about 3 sizes larger than your usual (because asian sizes).
Great for bustier ladies :)
(I literally just got this item in the mail yesterday so am still pretty freshly thrilled)
Harrison Bergernon!!! That's one of my absolute favorite short stories (besides a bunch of HP). I read it in middle school (6th grade?) and it blew my mind. That got me into Vonnegut.
How come your friends don't have "protein cravings" then? Also, getting down to 10g a day of protein is a stunning achievement that would take some tracking and planning. Example - a diet of nothing but Milky Ways still gets you 16 grams of protein for 1800 Calories. https://cronometer.com/food.html?food=316&amount=4&measure=981&labelType=AMERICAN
You're not arguing with me by the way. You're arguing with the current state of scientific evidence.
This study, published in the Journal of Travel Research (Impact factor 1.58) was a survey of 11 men and 13 women... wow, this was a peer-reviewed publication?
Holiday season is upon us, and the grocery stores are already stocking their shelves with all the holiday treat goodness. I was checking out a few of the Little Debbie snack cake boxes to see how much the damage would be if I got a box and the gingerbread cookies are not bad at all! Only 90 cals per cookie.
I know a lot of people aren't gingerbread cookie fans, but these are some of my favorite holiday treats. So, I'm looking forward to working these into my cals every once in a while to stave off my holiday cravings.
No, they are shelf stable packets and are shelved right above the tuna cans.
Edit to add that they are ridiculously priced on amazon but are 99 cents in stores.
I did a search and it said he ate, "up to 12,000 calories a day." Not "12,000 every single day." His claimed daily intake was around 8,000-10,000 at peak training. WebMB talked to a nutritionist who put his daily intake around 6,000. He probably had 12,000 calorie days, just not every day.
https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20080813/the-olympic-diet-of-michael-phelps#1
> Between 1971 and 2008, BMI, total caloric intake and carbohydrate intake increased 10–14%, and fat and protein intake decreased 5–9%. Between 1988 and 2006, frequency of leisure time physical activity increased 47–120%. However, for a given amount of caloric intake, macronutrient intake or leisure time physical activity, the predicted BMI was up to 2.3 kg/m2 higher in 2006 that in 1988 in the mutually adjusted model (P < 0.05).
Even with crappy self-reporting data from NHANES, total calories reported went up more than 10%. That's more than enough to account for the average weight gain since 1971.
The massive difference in self-reporting is "leisure time physical activity." Exercise has become a more virtuous thing in the last 30 years, so reporting has gone up while the actual measured amount is pathetically low. There is not enough real physical activity to make a difference, even if we assume 0 activity from 1988.
Hat tip - /u/ISpyHarrietTheSpy
Ugh. Sadly almost a third of the way there... $12414 of $38050 donated. Jesus fuck.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/319256879/fattitude-a-body-positive-documentary
Lmao the high-tier pledge awards are hilariously shit. Visit from two crazy fat chicks for $5000? No thanks.
You can't tell health from looking at someone shitlord! Her skin just has a natural set point of dull discolouration.
Edit: I've just realised, she looks like someone suffering from the grey death out of the first Deus Ex. http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/15448-deus-ex-windows-screenshot-two-bums-talk-about-the-plague-in.jpg
Guh just Google it for yourself poo kahuna. It's not our job to educate you.
Just kidding here it is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8V56ZL6
My answers were:
A) No. I'm a man. I am the one who catcalls.
B) Yes. I dropped from 175lbs to 155lbs by counting calories and my girlfriend expressed concern that my ability to metabolize alcohol had been reduced, effectively making me a "lightweight" at drinking.
C) Yes. At my last grappling tournament, the brackets were determined based on bodyweight. Thus the opponents I faced would not have been fighting me were it not for my weight.
D) Promote the sport of sumo wrestling. Who the hell would dare try shaming 300+lbs of sheer bodyslamming power?
I'm so sorry to hear that.
This is the pet loss journal I used after Zoot passed away: https://smile.amazon.com/Pet-Remembrance-Journal-Enid-Traisman/dp/0965113116/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1522557433&sr=8-2
I found it helpful, so I recommend it to others who have lost a pet.
Do some reading on breaking habits and building new habits. I enjoyed the book The Power of Habit. For me, something as simple as as keeping my pantry door closed has caused me to cut back on snacks. Something else might work for you. If you always get junk food right after going to the gym, maybe you should keep your wallet at home or locked in your car. Or maybe you could plan a snack that fits your calories.
I would assume it was in play for any voluntary survey, especially uncompensated ones. If I remember back from the hazy days when I last collected data from people, it is just a fact of convenience sampling that women were more likely to volunteer to do the survey then men. Women tend to volunteer more for things period.
I can't do a great search right now because on mobile and lazy, but found some references showing that the gender differential is still a thing (albeit I can't speak to research quality in any of these references): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234742407_Does_Gender_Influence_Online_Survey_Participation_A_Record-Linkage_Analysis_of_University_Faculty_Online_Survey_Response_Behavior https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361134/ Non-response in student surveys: The role of demographics, engagement and personality
I think you're missing the point here? While adding hormones can fuck with your body chemistry a bit, hormonal birth control isn't going to magically make you gain 40 pounds (like this MFP user claims). I'm not claiming that hormonal birth control can make you hungrier - it's a known fact that estrogen can increase your appetite. However, most medications list "weight gain" as a side effect instead of or in lieu of "increased appetite" or "changes in appetite." Women who gain weight because they're eating more often cling to the "weight gain" side effect as an excuse for why they're fatter. It's easier to scapegoat a medication for mysteriously adding fat to your body than it is to hold yourself accountable for eating more than you used to.
All of your anecdotal evidence supports this - you're talking about your friends experiencing an increased appetite, not gaining weight despite while at the same time claiming that they haven't changed their habits.
The TiTP submitter in this post says "I'm on hormonal birth control, so I have been gaining weight," even though she eats about as much as her family members who are losing weight. She's claiming that she's gaining weight because birth control is magical pills that defy physics, not because it can increase your appetite and make you want to overeat.
> you get cravings and overall hunger much faster than a meal comprised of mostly fats and proteins. Fat is not the problem
Maybe you do but not me. I've never found fat or protein especially satiating. I can down a 1400 Calorie can of nuts easier than I can down 500 Calories of mashed potatoes made low fat (that's over a pound of mashed potatoes).
Fats are not the problem and neither are carbs. Total calories are the problem. Too much fat and too much carbs both.
I made a small windows app with bodyweight workouts from Darebee's 100 No-Equipment Workouts PDF. I also added an option to add your own entries to it. It might help some of you :)
EDIT: Updated link
Got a box of Tsubi miso soup in my Whole Foods order, I got into this stuff years ago but my local WF stopped carrying it - thankfully, the WF where my orders come from had it, and I needed to add a few bucks to my order to get the "free shipping" (still had to pay $5 because of high demand, oh well). The box kinda looks like goatse but man, it's good to have this stuff again. Spicy vegan miso broth, lots of yummy mushrooms, and each bowl is only 35 calories. Perfect addition to my lunch when I need a little something extra. I know it's not hard to make miso soup from scratch, but this instant stuff is amazing.
The closest thing I could find to support this was a study that says there isn't much data on being obese affects burn patients, aside from the usual higher rate of morbidity and mortality, and another that said the usual method of estimating Burn surface area was ineffective in obese patients, so doctors should use a different calculation than the normal Rule of Nines.
For those of you who, like me, have no idea what a Quiktrip is, let alone the content of their slushies: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/quiktrip-qt-black-cherry-smoothie-2629275
so a 48 oz whatever this is has 6*170 = 1020 calories. And she's having three per day.
Yes, but lighting technology has changed. It has to do with colour temperature.
Out of personal experience I can tell you that blueish light keeps me awake. I found that out by accident, I had bought some LED lights and realized I wasn't getting tired in the evening. I didn't use them for a few days and suddenly I got tired at the right time.
I have since replaced all my lights with Phillips Hue lights and do use the "relax" settings in the evening and added f.lux to my computers. It does make a difference from a sleep cycle standpoint
Plus is that I have programmed the lights to slowly increase in intensity in the morning, going towards the blue spectrum, which makes waking up and becoming active much easier.
At this point we ought to start thinking about breaking universities up and putting these kinds of degrees under a different name than ones in hard sciences. It's pretty unfair to get a degree from McMaster in hard science and be equivocal to someone who got a degree in purely unscientific bullshit.
Anyway, she seems like a new professor that isn't very good. People either love her for being nice/interesting or she's apparently worthless:
Yogurt isn't what gets you. It's the granola. It can have 250 calories per half a cup.
Her parfait had about 1.5 cups of vanilla yogurt, at around 300 calories, and a full cup of granola which is another 500 calories or more. Plus the fruit.
It's amazing how fast you get those calories.
I highly recommend Cronometer. It lets you set custom minimum/maximum ranges for your calories, macronutrients, and micronutrients. Can also set your calorie goal based on your BMR and a lb/week goal. It's database is much better than MFP. It's primary sources are NCCDB (Nutrition Coordinating Center), and USDA (United States Department of Agriculture). The NCCDB is probably the best nutrition database there is, and I'm pretty sure MFP doesn't have it licensed. MFP database has poor descriptions, no sources, and is often just completely wrong since literally anyone can submit anything to the database. Cronometer also tracks 40-80 different micronutrients depending on which sources you use. App is $4 i think, but its free to use on the website.
Motivation doesn't win battles, discipline does. You need to develop discipline and you need to develop new habits. Unfortunately, the only way to do that is to...well, do it. I recommend you read The Power of Habit by Charles Duhig. In the meantime, start slowly. It's easier to be disciplined in one small thing than a ton of big things. Make small changes one at a time until they become habit, then move onto the next. This can be anything from "No eating past 10pm" to "working out 30 minutes each week," etc. You need to make the habits easy to create.
I just looked up the details of the paleo diet here https://www.webmd.com/diet/paleo-diet#1
It is so. So. Dumb. Salt and potatoes are no go, no legumes, and no grains with the added promise that the diet is soooo filling that exercise and calorie counting aren't necessary. What the hell is this.
Ugh. Earlier this week Kotaku had this article, "how to play games without messing up your body" and the comments section nearly gave me cancer. It's so depressing how violently opposed many gamers are to not treating their bodies like crap.
Ack! I've found a pro-fat book that claims that the guy fabricated data to hide the lack of correlation between fatness and sleep apnea. It was actually the other way around.
Wish these guys would pick a side and stick to it.
Get a calorie-counter app. A lot of people use My Fitness Pal but I personally prefer the About.com app. Both offer web and mobile apps. Log EVERYTHING you eat and drink, EVERYTHING. Don't worry about hitting specific goals right away, just try to get a rough idea of where you are. Once you have that look at how you can cut back to a healthy level of calories. You should see a doctor and/or a nutritionist for more information on what that is, but broadly speaking around 2000 calories a day is typically what a normal-sized woman should consume to maintain her weight. You should try to go 300-500 calories per day below that to lose weight at roughly one pound per week, depending on your size and exercise levels. Make sure you measure things out with a food scale and use portion control.
Most importantly, don't go from one extreme to the other. Make sure you try to find creative ways to feel full without eating high-calorie foods (hint: cut out sugar and as many simple carbs as you can). If you starve yourself, no matter what your intentions are, you will become frustrated and quit. You need to eat no trust fewer calories but make sure those calories come in the form of foods which you will find satiating.
I'm not sure about "elite researcher," but she uses "trained researcher" in a lot of bios. Here it is in that pseudo-textbook thing she's working on.
I like how she even listed trained researcher first for this bio in a weak attempt to boost her tenuous connection to academia.
The Boglehead's Guide to Investing. It's pretty solid but possibly more investing oriented than you might want if you're just starting out in personal finance.
Some books that changed my outlook in terms of personal finance and saving money are The Millionaire Next Door and Your Money or Your Life.
So I was watching fitness vids idly today, and came across this one; how to stop cheating and get lean for good. It's a bit long at 20 mins, but I really suggest watching it. I can attest to the effectiveness of what he's saying, it's absolutely critical to change your self image so that your habits cement themselves and you move in the right direction. I can absolutely attest that this works. Though I haven't done it as effectively, and I think I'm going to give that goal card thing a try as I read Think and Grow Rich and thought a lot of its principles.
Can't wait to take my measurements later this month, I doubt anything dramatic will have happened but as long as my waist is the same and maybe my arms have grown a bit I'll be really happy.
If its a mental thing a good book to check out is: The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh. It was written before mindfulness was such a buzzword. Found a free pdf of it here
Its an easy read and I think it would help with trying to stay in control when you feel you have none. Might want to consider seeing a counselor to deal with emotions and also a doctor to discuss weight loss/exercise.
Check this thread out over on bodybuilding.com: link
Dude was ~600 lbs and keeps updating over like 2 yrs throughout his weight loss. Really inspiring thread. You can do it.
Congrats on making the choice to making a healthy lifestyle change! Best wishes! Have you looked at any of the on-line calorie trackers like http://www.myfitnesspal.com/? They are really fantastic tools for developing good habits.