Mistake 1: Dieting
8 Big Eating Mistakes You Are Still Making
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#12If this is something people still do, they did not understand a thing about healthy food at all.
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#13Mistake 1: Dieting
I agree. To a point. You shouldn't diet to lose weight, but you should have a diet that gives you all your required nutrients. If your 'diet' only gives you stuff that's high in fat and sugar, you're going to get fat. If your 'diet' only gives you salad, you're going to get malnourished and waste away.
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#14i think one of the best things you can do for your health is to pick up flyfishing.if you avoid fishing when it's too sunny.
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#15i think one of the best things you can do for your health is to pick up flyfishing.if you avoid fishing when it's too sunny.
even better:kayakflyfishing
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#16Another oldie but goodie: The Hacker's Diet - How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition - by John Walker. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet
Amen. A great book that's been good motivation for me, if nothing else. Someone's also helpfully put the tools that the book describes online at http://infohost.nmt.edu/~carmiac/whdt/whdt.cgi
Hmm.. I bet a suitably enhanced version of this would make a good YC startup.
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#17Only advice I have is tying to cut sugar out of your diet as much as possible. I never eat cookies, donuts, cake, sugared soda (only diet rarely), candy bars, sweet coffee, etc. I have a bit of a sweet tooth and even I can do it (it gets easy after a while). You can't get really fit without exercise, but at least without eating significant amounts of sugar you can prevent yourself from getting too chunky.
Sugar does not make you fat. Fat does not make you fat. Carbohydrates do not make you fat. Protein does not make you fat. Food does not make you fat.
The ONLY thing that makes you fat is eating more calories than you spend during a day.
Want to lose weight? It's easy -- eat less. Add exercise so you lose mostly fat and less muscle, otherwise you'll end up "skinny fat."
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amen. A great book that's been good motivation for me, if nothing else. Someone's also helpfully put the tools that the book describes online at http://infohost.nmt.edu/~carmiac/whdt/whdt.cgi
Hmm.. I bet a suitably enhanced version of this would make a good YC startup.
I've actually been thinking about that. I was thinking of a more general personal metrics site, though. Weight, personal finances, freethrow percentage, whatever you want to track, give people the tools they need to track whatever needs tracked in their lives.
Figure it's worth jotting down in the "any other ideas" section of the app, anyway.
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#19Am I the only one here who wants to GAIN weight?
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#20Only advice I have is tying to cut sugar out of your diet as much as possible. I never eat cookies, donuts, cake, sugared soda (only diet rarely), candy bars, sweet coffee, etc. I have a bit of a sweet tooth and even I can do it (it gets easy after a while). You can't get really fit without exercise, but at least without eating significant amounts of sugar you can prevent yourself from getting too chunky.
Apparently we've only been having the majority of our dental problems since the advent of processed sugar.