Oh, absolutely about the "diet" foods. I quit losing weight last year and lost heart, so I started gaining weight back. I was down by 52 pounds, but packed back on 18 pounds. Now I'm back down to 40 pounds lost and the weight is just dropping off. I now realize that my weight loss stalled due to cheese and diet soda (which can spike your blood sugar!).

I take a multivitamin, Krill Oil, Magnesium Malate and BCAA daily. I also take Betaine HCL and Acidophilius pearls to assist with digestion. I occasionally add in COQ10 and R-ALA just to mix things up and keep my body guessing.

One thing I've recently learned is that the actual calories burned from aerobic exercise is so miniscule, it's not worth it. It's better to simply do resistance training, so that you build muscles and increase your BMR, which amounts to around 60% of your calorie useable for a day. So I got rid of my exercise bike and bought some weights.

I've been on a Low Carb diet for awhile, but I've faltered and eaten too many carbs or had lots of cheese / diet soda. Last Tuesday (6 days ago), I quit eating cheese and diet soda. I've doubled down on not having carbs. In the past 6 days, I have lost 4 pounds. I'm sure some of that is water weight, but it's still a nice amount to lose. My clothes are fitting looser, so I have to assume I've lost more than 4 pounds of fat and actually gained some muscle.

Another change I've noticed is that I can't stay up much past 11:00 PM (I have had a very hard time going to sleep on time in the past) and I'm up and full of energy around 7:30 - 8:00 AM.

For breakfast, I usually have sausage or bacon and fried eggs. Sometimes I will mix things up and have green beans or okra with my breakfast meat. Other days, I'll eat less meat and eggs and throw in a half an avocado.

Tonight, I'm going to start doing resistance training, using the "Slow Burn" method of exercise.

I'll probably update this thread every week or so with my progress.

I'm my own hero, I'm awesome.

John Wayne, World War II and the Draft

If you don't have love, bacon is an acceptable substitute.

That's infatuation. Love is a way of behaving, it's not a feeling. Romantic love includes nurturing the infatuation to keep it alive, because infatuation is typically short lived.

There are a lot of excellent books on the subject of weightloss and why we get fat. Wheat belly is a great starting place. The "Protein Power Life Plan" book also has great information on how the human metabolism works and how to maximize your weightloss.

The most important thing you should know about dieting is that 60 years of "science" has been based on a hypothesis that isn't true. Dietary fat does not make you fat! Insulin is the bodies trigger to start storing fat. Dietary fat does not raise your insulin, it's just calories. Without the insulin trigger telling your body to store calories as fat, the excess calories will be expelled from your body in your breath and urine as ketones.

Eating Cholesterol also doesn't raise your blood cholesterol! Do you know why? Because your liver makes cholesterol to make up for cholesterol that you don't get in your diet. The danger of cholesterol is in the type of cholesterol, not the amount. Pattern A LDL is perfectly fine. Pattern B LDL causes heart disease. Do you know where you get Pattern B LDL from? YOUR LIVER MAKES IT! Your liver makes it when you don't eat enough fat, because the only difference between Pattern A LDL and Pattern B LDL is a triglyceride.

Think about this for a minute: For millions of years, humans primarily lived off of animals we killed or the vegetables, fruits and nuts we could find, but those were all seasonal. Farming is a very recent invention. Our bodies have not adapted to wheat and potatoes and certainly not high fructose corn syrup.

I'm on a diet that allows me to eat as many calories a day as I want and I've lost 40 pounds so far (I had lost 52, but then I fell off the diet for awhile).

Good luck and if it doesn't work out for you, try the Protein Power Life Plan, it works for me.

Have you ever tried to fall in love with someone? If not, how would you know if it's possible or not?

I'm sure it's possible to fall in "love" with someone on accident, but how long does that last? That "love" is the momentary infatuation that you experience when meeting a person, nothing more. Love is choosing to overlook your partners flaws and see only the best in him / her. Love is choosing to forgive and be patient with your lover. Love is...heck, I'll let the Bible do my talking.



The Bible is describing standards of behaviors for lovers, not some magical feeling that comes over you one day and stays with you for life. Love IS a relationship and it takes WORK.

So? That doesn't refute the idea that mathematics is a necessary entity. I have to wonder if you even understand the concepts being discussed. Mathematics being a necessary entity has nothing to do with religion. Even if God doesn't exist, mathematics is still a necessary entity. Any discussion of necessary entities will end up including God, maybe that is what is confusing you.

That makes no sense, you know that, right?

No, because I believe I am right.

No, but I think you would find that your definition of love is either unworkable, illogical or supports the idea of love as a choice, without your being aware of it.

If there are four coconuts on a beach and no humans are around, are there still four coconuts on the beach? Clearly, yes. Mathematics are not contingent upon humans being around.

Another interesting idea. It's something that we might never know, but I see no harm in speculation.

God is a rational being, all of His actions are rational. Mathematics are rational, even when we don't understand the equations. It could be that God and mathematics are independently necessary or mathematics could be contingent upon God's existence. The fact that everything God does is rational would mean that mathematics would be the same no matter what universe He created. Maybe we only perceive mathematics as necessary, because mathematics is a purely rational entity and would be created by God the same way regardless of the universe.

If that is true, I guess you could say that mathematics is God's building code.

What is love? Give a definition.

In philosophy, there are two kinds of entities: Contingent and Necessary. Necessary entities would exist unchanged regardless of the universe, while contingent entities depend upon another entity for it's existence.

Math is most likely a necessary entity.

In a multiverse, there could be an entire universe that was nothing but marshmellows, but math would still exist there, even if there was nobody there to practice it.

God is the only other necessary entity known to mankind.

You have to be open to the idea of romantic love with a person to fall in love. You have to invest energy on a daily basis to fuel your feelings for the person. It's easier if you are attracted to the person and have things in common, but any couple can make it work if they are dedicated to it. I work and have worked with people who were in arranged marriages. Their marriages get better every single year, even when they start off rough. They don't believe in divorce and both parties will do anything it takes to make the marriage work, because they feel pressure from their families.

Relationships and marriages fail because one or both parties give up, not because it could never work. If both people wanted the relationship to work and put in the effort, then it would work.

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