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One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a woman gain
5 lbs. Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30 can fit into their stuff. I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pantyhose on fire. |
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On 3 nov, 00:13, "Eaton_Wings" wrote:
One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 lbs. Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30 can fit into their stuff. I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pantyhose on fire. One that I hear almost every day at work: "I forgot to take my break!". |
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On Nov 3, 12:13*am, "Eaton_Wings" wrote:
One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 lbs. 2 lbs of candy + 3 lbs of water retained = 5 lbs net Remember, when you weigh your body, you're not weighing fat. You're weighing fat, bone, water, the particular contents of your stomach, and the particular contents of your bowels. Plenty of variability there. If the bounce isn't more than a few pounds, it's negligible. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. Or busy, or [excuse of preference]. What's it to you if other people happen to live a life that's not yours? That's no good reason for hate. I gave up It's a little more poignant when you trim the rest of the filler away. Dieting is hard. The experience of being overweight is hard. But it's just another human trial, and the same fortitude that leads people through other trials is necessary to overcome it. |
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Not stupid, just more interested in other things. My SO forgets to eat then
complains when he starts feeling bad and complains that he has lost weight. Eaton_Wings wrote: | One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a | woman gain 5 lbs. | | Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You | know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, | my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to | eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. | | I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older | than 30 can fit into their stuff. | | I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together | and setting my pantyhose on fire. |
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James G wrote:
"Eaton_Wings" wrote: You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. Or busy, or [excuse of preference]. *What's it to you if other people happen to live a life that's not yours? And yet people who can do that assume that everyone can and post crap like moderation is the key. Idiots, if moderation worked there would be no fat people. I'ts not like there's a single fat person in the world who hasn't tried moderation and eventually got overcome by endless nagging hunger. What it's to me is the noise and nonsense it generates. Part of why I'm such a big low carb fan is I am able to lose without hunger while low carbing. A week or two of hunger to clean my body out of stored glycogen carbs until the cravings turn off, then without hunger most of the way down towards my ideal weight range. Sigh, if only lack of hunger and easy to stay on meant hard to fall off. Even with low carb, going over a certain carb intake level means turning on the cravings all over again. Find a system that's hard to fall off of and you'll be in the Forbes 400. That's no good reason for hate. "Never attribute to malice what can adequately by explained by incompetence". This suggests that the morons who post what appears to be hate is actually just flawed logic by folks without the intellectual capacity to figure out something as simple as the fact that the malls are filled with fat people means the simple and obvious doesn't work. Ah if that level of reasoning only applied to the trolls who post fatty insults ... |
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On Nov 3, 2:11*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
And yet people who can do that assume that everyone can and post crap like moderation is the key. *Idiots, if moderation worked there would be no fat people. *I'ts not like there's a single fat person in the world who hasn't tried moderation and eventually got overcome by endless nagging hunger. the malls are filled with fat people means the simple and obvious doesn't work. *Ah if that level of reasoning only applied to the trolls who post fatty insults ... Moderation DOES work. It's just really really hard for a lot of people. Take any diet and strip away the goofy particulars, and you're left with the same principle: "force a deficit and the body will meet homeostasis requirements by metabolizing parts of itself" If you were locked in a prison cell and given a limited amount of food every day that ended up being LESS than your daily requirement, you would lose weight. When you add things like hunger, availability, and will into the equation, it starts to look like moderation doesn't work, because of human weakness. |
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James G wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote: And yet people who can do that assume that everyone can and post crap like moderation is the key. *Idiots, if moderation worked there would be no fat people. *I'ts not like there's a single fat person in the world who hasn't tried moderation and eventually got overcome by endless nagging hunger. Moderation DOES work. *It's just really really hard for a lot of people. Moderation and "really really hard" are NOT the same thing. This is not a difficult concept. You're plpaying a word game that is very transparently nonsense. Moderation works for some. Others try to play games as to what moderation should mean as a game to make it work. Nope, not what it means. Find a way to lose without hunger and you've found a program that works for you. For me that's a low carb plan. Find a way to stick to your plan year after after and what you're doing isn't going to be moderate. It will have hard and fast rules of what is and isn't on your plan. Break those rules and risk a relapse. |
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"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message ... James G wrote: "Eaton_Wings" wrote: You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. Or busy, or [excuse of preference]. What's it to you if other people happen to live a life that's not yours? Part of why I'm such a big low carb fan is I am able to lose without hunger while low carbing. A week or two of hunger to clean my body out of stored glycogen carbs until the cravings turn off, then without hunger most of the way down towards my ideal weight range. Sigh, if only lack of hunger and easy to stay on meant hard to fall off. Even with low carb, going over a certain carb intake level means turning on the cravings all over again. ------------------------------------------------- I find it easy to maintain my weight by avoiding high carb products and doing a little walking. I feel energetic and clear headed. Recently fell of the rules and gorged on cakes, muffins for the last week and now feeling tired and confused. Back to crashing at 3PM for a power nap too. Need to get back on track and get off this high carb addiction! |
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On Nov 3, 5:33*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
Moderation and "really really hard" are NOT the same thing. *This is not a difficult concept. *You're plpaying a word game that is very transparently nonsense. Of course. You're right, and I'm wrong. |
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I agree Doug,
Every time I hear crap like this on tv I get a little angry. These tv people treat us like idiots. Of course we know that moderation will cause me to lose weight. Of course we know that running a calorie deficit will cause me to lose weight. I have been low carbing it since 1999. I am finally in a place, after a lifetime of fad diets, where I feel comfortable. I started low carb because my wife was diagnosed with type 2. I decided after what I saw in her improvement to share her no carb diet. After three days of hell, I felt the best I had in 20 years. After a year, I was unable to keep up the no carb regimen. I went to low carb. That means for me, no bread, pasta, fruit, grains, or any other simple or complex carbohydrates. I eat lots of very complex carbohydrates. It was easy for me to maintain this regimen because I am not hungry and because I know how I felt eating lots of carbs. Hi carb makes you feel 20 years older. My wife has perfectly normal blood glucose levels without taking any medications. Her health made a dramatic improvement. Her doctor told her that eating no carb would kill her in six months. Well, it is 10 years down the road and she is very healthy. I did not mean to say she has been on no carb for 10 years. She started eating some very complex carbohydrates after a couple of years of huge weight loss. Doug Freyburger wrote: James G wrote: "Eaton_Wings" wrote: You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat. Or busy, or [excuse of preference]. What's it to you if other people happen to live a life that's not yours? And yet people who can do that assume that everyone can and post crap like moderation is the key. Idiots, if moderation worked there would be no fat people. I'ts not like there's a single fat person in the world who hasn't tried moderation and eventually got overcome by endless nagging hunger. What it's to me is the noise and nonsense it generates. Part of why I'm such a big low carb fan is I am able to lose without hunger while low carbing. A week or two of hunger to clean my body out of stored glycogen carbs until the cravings turn off, then without hunger most of the way down towards my ideal weight range. Sigh, if only lack of hunger and easy to stay on meant hard to fall off. Even with low carb, going over a certain carb intake level means turning on the cravings all over again. Find a system that's hard to fall off of and you'll be in the Forbes 400. That's no good reason for hate. "Never attribute to malice what can adequately by explained by incompetence". This suggests that the morons who post what appears to be hate is actually just flawed logic by folks without the intellectual capacity to figure out something as simple as the fact that the malls are filled with fat people means the simple and obvious doesn't work. Ah if that level of reasoning only applied to the trolls who post fatty insults ... |
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