Help me lose weight

[Bryan898]

That still leaves 25 000(!!!) calories unaccounted for. I don't know where that weight went, but given that that's a really big number, and given how I feel, I'm going to go ahead and continue to believe that the Master Cleanser works.

Your body requires so many calories per day to function. As I stated much earlier in the thread each pound of muscle mass burns roughly 50 calories. When you cut calories out of your diet your body has to use its energy reserves, or fat, to meet that daily recommended calorie intake. So it was used by your body just to function.

The lemons have a host of beneficial affect.

Most fresh fruit does. However, I'm not a fan of lemons, nor am I in need of a diet.

My weight is really weird. One day I weigh 195 lbs, the next I weight 190. It is really weird.

What time do you weigh yourself? Your body weight fluctuates during the day.

 

[Shemeska]

But that's what science has gotten to. More of a dogma than continued experimentation.

You're not a scientist and it's obvious.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

What time do you weigh yourself? Your body weight fluctuates during the day.

Usually around 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.

 

[Eolin]

You're not a scientist and it's obvious.

Never claimed I was. What I have said, multiple times, is that I'm a philosopher. Of Science.

 

[Eolin]

Your body requires so many calories per day to function. As I stated much earlier in the thread each pound of muscle mass burns roughly 50 calories. When you cut calories out of your diet your body has to use its energy reserves, or fat, to meet that daily recommended calorie intake. So it was used by your body just to function.

Did you miss the point of my math? Completely?

The 2700 calories is my maintenance. Then I started finding out how much I had burned. Then I found out how much LESS that was than the 10 pounds. And it was most of it. So,

It was done on the quick, so it might've been wrong. Anybody want to check it? One of the haters?

Edit: I have to leave. Two beautiful girls, both graduate students in science-related fields want to have a fun night with me.

 

[der_kluge]

Eolin, you asked me what I thought. I told you. I think you're gullible. I think this is pseudo-science with no basis in fact. I think there are a lot of misconceptions, myths, old wives' tales, and misinformation being tossed about with regards to diet and our health.

This very idea of "cleansing toxins" is akin to palmistry, astrology, or raki healing. It's complete and utter bunk.


Even Doomed Battalions is at fault.

Seriously, Do cardio every otherday and waight training on non cardio days. Do not eat crap after 6pm. Fruits, water and so on is all good.

There is no evidence that "eating crap after 6pm" is bad for us. This is another common myth. We need a certain amount of calories per day. It doesn't matter when we eat them, so long as we eat them. There is no evidence to suggest that if we eat a large meal right before bed that it's going to make us fatter.

 

[fusangite]

I think a big problem with this debate is that people view diets as an exclusively physiological thing. There are huge psychological components to these things. Why do we need diets in the first place? Because we have trouble exercising self-control. The most important criterion for a diet is whether it is psychologically compatible to the dieter to the point where he or she can generally follow it. Of course jogging and weight training every day you're on a diet will make the diet go better IF you can do that. More often than not, if following a diet is really onerous, people fall off it, feeling that they simply don't have the capacity to diet.

Now, I'm not a big fan of this cleansing thing but it's helping a guy lose weight. Why tell him to do something that's much harder that may have the net result of him not dieting at all. If you undermine his faith in his diet while simultaneously suggesting a course of action that is much more difficult, the net effect is actually to discourage him from dieting at all because you're making it "too hard."

Nobody decides to become fat. Obesity is a disease of the will not of the body. The discourse on this thread is increasinly moving towards an assumption of absolute control of the body through a perfect will. If this were the case, nobody would need to diet in the first place because nobody would have gotten fat.

 

[der_kluge]

Never claimed I was. What I have said, multiple times, is that I'm a philosopher. Of Science.

Not only does this make no sense, it's a sentence fragment. There's no such thing as a "philosopher of science" if that is what you are intending. You could be a philosopher, or you could be a scientist. The only area I can see them merging is in the area of bio-ethics. This discussion has nothing to do with that.

What are you, really?

 

[fusangite]

Not only does this make no sense, it's a sentence fragment. There's no such thing as a "philosopher of science" if that is what you are intending. You could be a philosopher, or you could be a scientist. The only area I can see them merging is in the area of bio-ethics. This discussion has nothing to do with that.

What are you, really?

Excuse me but there are philosophers of science and historians of science with doctorates from philosophy departments, history departments or special interdisciplinary programs in this area like this one: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/. These people are most emphatically qualified to discuss science.

 

[Eolin]

Excuse me but there are philosophers of science and historians of science with doctorates from philosophy departments, history departments or special interdisciplinary programs in this area like this one: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/ihpst/. These people are most emphatically qualified to discuss science.

And like I said earlier, I'm a soon-to-be graduate student. In mostly the philosophy of science. At a damn-good school. The only Canadian school I applied to was Western Toronto. They're the only school (of 12) that I never heard back from. It makes me sad, I wanted to leave America.