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Mageling

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Checking back in since there was a request to see if people were still attempting to lose weight.

I've ended up gaining a fair bit back after chemo (surprise) and upping my caloric intake again (another surprise). I've been hovering in the mid 170's currently and am ready to try to make a cut here in the next couple weeks in preparation for some climbing trips that I'll be making, starting next month.

I'm still struggling with balancing a healthy diet with my lack of time to cook. Does anyone have any really great lunch/dinner sites that are more bachelor frog oriented? When I get home from climbing in the evening, the last thing I want to do is spend an 30-45 minutes making food.

I'm going to give a go to ~1800cal/day and see where that leaves me in a few weeks. I've gained a lot of muscle back that I lost during my hormone therapy treatment for prostate cancer, but my testosterone levels are still a bit low. I've cut back a bit on gym time due to a nagging shoulder injury, but it seems to be getting a bit better now, so I imagine I'll be spending more time in the gym and hopefully doing some more yoga.
 
McCheese

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Mageling_sl said:
I'm still struggling with balancing a healthy diet with my lack of time to cook. Does anyone have any really great lunch/dinner sites that are more bachelor frog oriented? When I get home from climbing in the evening, the last thing I want to do is spend an 30-45 minutes making food.
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Cook a week's worth of food when you have some time and put it in the fridge in tupperware. That way you can come home any time of the day or night and have a ready-to-go healthy meal waiting for you with just a few minutes in the microwave. Stuff like chicken, rice, and vegetables works especially great but you can really prepare almost anything. Very few things will go bad in less than a week when in a tupperware container in the fridge.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
Cook a week's worth of food when you have some time and put it in the fridge in tupperware.
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Now, I don't necessarily cook healthfully, but that is my method. I generally cook Friday, Saturday, and/or Sunday and package up the left overs for the week. I try to vary what I eat, but inevitably I end up with numerous similar meals back-to-back. Punchfork was my primary source for recipes, but it's dead and the pinterest version is a terrible substitute. Tacos (microwave the meat with condiments/garnish on the side), soup/stews, curries, stir-fries, etc. all seem to work out well.
 
Ossoi

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That might be one of the dumbest statements I have ever heard.
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Eomer, Internet forum warrior with 901 posts and +20 internet....disagreeing with

Professor Michael A Crawfordhttp://www.fabresearch.org/550

Imperial College, London. Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition. Department of Cancer and Surgery, Division of Reproductive Physiology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

Professor Crawford has been the Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition since 1990. Having worked in the East-end of London on maternal nutrition and health with Newham, the Homerton and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, he is now at Reproductive Physiology at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Campus of Imperial College, London. His special interest lies is in the role that lipids and essential fatty acids play in interacting with the cellular signalling systems, i.e. the key interaction between nutrition affecting membrane lipids and gene expression.



Yeah you got me, I agree, that dude is a retard!
 
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Ossoi_sl said:
Professor Michael A Crawfordhttp://www.fabresearch.org/550
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Just playing devil's advocate, but you can really find a professor to say just about anything. From vaccines causing autism to video games causing gun violence. Has he empirically proven that consumption of seafood is solely/prominently responsible for disparity in brain size, or is this some sort of rationalization bias that many evolutionary theories fall into? If you take this a step further, you'd expect humans that live near the ocean/consume seafood to also have larger brains than those that don't. Taking that one step further, one might surmise that people that live by the sea could be potentially smarter due to their larger brain sizes. I'm not aware of that being the case. If you're talking predictors of intelligence, then genes, parental education, income, etc. come into play. Fish consumption isn't generally considered a salient factor. That said, the consumption of fish is likely healthier for you and related to brain health, but I'm unaware of it being anything more than that (but, I'm definitely not an authority).
 
Eomer

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I just found that statement in isolation to be pretty idiotic. "Zebras don't eat fish, and that's why dolphins have bigger brains." Like there aren't a million other factors at play there, whether you're talking about individual animals' life cycles or the evolutionary history of each species.
 
chaos

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No bro, ONLY FISH. That's it. Feed a zebra fish from birth and he'll turn into Leader.
 
Ossoi

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Binkles_sl said:
If you take this a step further, you'd expect humans that live near the ocean/consume seafood to also have larger brains than those that don't. Taking that one step further, one might surmise that people that live by the sea could be potentially smarter due to their larger brain sizes.
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Did you even read the original article?
 
Eomer

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Ossoi_sl said:
Did you even read the original article?
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The same one that said that the theory isn't well thought of by most paleontologists or anthropologists, and has been controversial since it's original positing in the 60's? Yeah, we did thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis

The AAH has received little serious attention or acceptance from mainstream paleoanthropologists,[14][15][47][48] has been met with significant skepticism[48][49] and is not considered a strong scientific hypothesis.[14][41] The AAH does not appear to have passed the peer review process, and despite Morgan being praised by various scholars, none of her work has appeared in any academic journals of anthropology or related disciplines.[40] The AAH is thought by some anthropologists to be accepted readily by popular audiences, students and non-specialist scholars because of its simplicity.[3] In 1987 a symposium was held in Valkenburg, the Netherlands, titled "Aquatic Ape: Fact or fiction?", which published its proceedings in 1991.[11] A review of Morgan's book The Scars of Evolution stated that it did not address the central questions of anthropology - how the human and chimpanzee gene lines diverged - which was why it was ignored by the scholarly community. The review also stated that Morgan ignored the fossil record and skirted the absence of evidence that australopithecine underwent any adaptations to water, making the hypothesis impossible to validate from fossils.[38]
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Ossoi_sl said:
Did you even read the original article?
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Nope, but then I never said I was commenting on the article more than commenting on what's been posted, specifically indicting the use of one random professor supporting the validity of an assertion.

So defensive. Well, after skimming the article, I think the better question is: why would one read this article? Its not printed in a peer reviewed journal. It offers no empirical studies supporting the current relevance of the theory. It exhibits the same armchair sophistry pitfalls many evolutionary theories fall into, such as the one mentioned in my previous post. At least in terms of evolutionary psychology,http://lesswrong.com/lw/2l7/problems...ry_psychology/offers a simple critique on the fallacious reasoning espoused by many evolutionary theories. Admittedly, it's evolutionary psychology, but it can easily serve as an analogue for that article.
 
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McCheese_sl said:
Cook a week's worth of food when you have some time and put it in the fridge in tupperware. That way you can come home any time of the day or night and have a ready-to-go healthy meal waiting for you with just a few minutes in the microwave. Stuff like chicken, rice, and vegetables works especially great but you can really prepare almost anything. Very few things will go bad in less than a week when in a tupperware container in the fridge.
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Most meats kept passed 4 days in the fridge is getting into the danger zone for bacteria. Precooking meals in advance is a great idea just freeze them.http://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/storagetimes.html
 
Ossoi

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Binkles_sl said:
Nope, but then I never said I was commenting on the article more than commenting on what's been posted, specifically indicting the use of one random professor supporting the validity of an assertion.

So defensive. Well, after skimming the article, I think the better question is: why would one read this article? Its not printed in a peer reviewed journal. It offers no empirical studies supporting the current relevance of the theory. It exhibits the same armchair sophistry pitfalls many evolutionary theories fall into, such as the one mentioned in my previous post. At least in terms of evolutionary psychology,http://lesswrong.com/lw/2l7/problems...ry_psychology/offers a simple critique on the fallacious reasoning espoused by many evolutionary theories. Admittedly, it's evolutionary psychology, but it can easily serve as an analogue for that article.
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More internet PhD MBA MSC douchebags!
 
Eomer

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You're the happy asshole posting bullshit, unsupported theories about dolphins being smarter than zebras because they eat fish. Take a look in the mirror.
 
Paranoia

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The hardest thing for me was motivation. Because I was alone at the time. after 12 weeks it got harder and harder to keep myself going.
Getting on the scale and seeing the weight lost was motivation but only for a week, week and half.

So I'd like for you to watch this and it is a great Motivational Clip. Pain is Temporary. It May last an hour, A day, A month, or even a year but eventually it will subside.
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/video...ImKT7PUYioHp5G
 
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Paranoia_sl said:
after 12 weeks it got harder and harder to keep myself going.
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As far as I remember, habit change takes 6-8 months. It takes forever. You might slide back down into old habits. But, if you can endure 6-8 months, you might be able to maintain the behavioral change.
 
McCheese

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Itlan_sl said:
Man I eat like week old chicken all the time. I'm as healthy as a horse!

I'm going to catch malaria tomorrow now. FUCK.
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Yeah, I've been eating stuff past those suggested dates for my entire life. Stuff like an open package of lunch meat for 5 - 7 days. Hell, I'm pretty sure I've eaten pizza that was more than a week old on at least a few occasions. I've never had a problem. I think those suggested dates are pretty conservative.
 
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