Should /u/diogenesjunior be un-banned? I've lost a friend. I don't know the details: who where when what how why. This is a serious problem on SaidIt.

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[–]JasonCarswell[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This jives more with what I know, limited as it is. Low carb is key, but difficult on a tight budget. Wonder about the obesity crisis? Look at the food pyramids we grew up with and processed white Wonderbread.

[–]Comatoast 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

It's completely possible on a tight budget. Fresh vegetables on sale/frozen, frozen berries or fresh, cantaloupe or honeydew, meats, cheeses, eggs and fats. You can get really creative with it, or just order bunless burgers at fastfood places with side salads. It's cheaper to end up just making your own salad dressings, tastier too.

American food pyramids relied heavily on higher carbohydrate intake, and when our wheat-based products are made with shit-tier flours from wheat that is effectively just filler material, I could see it causing problems.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed.

It's also a matter of not being lazy to the max and depending how picky you are.

I throw tinfoil down in a casserole dish to avoid doing dishes, throw on a bunch of veggies in, frozen or not, with butter/margerine, spices, cheeses, and/or some kinda sauce from a jar.

I'll also slow cook a bunch of stuff and keep adding to it for a couple days.

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CICO works because of thermodynamics. You can't pull energy (calories) from the void, a donut won't make you extra fat, nor can you send them there, so conversely no food will make you lean. Every diet that works, works on an underlying CICO principal. Atkins works, but not if you eat a caloric surplus. I mean, nothing could.

Low carb helps cause protein is more filling. I think it's the most filling macro. Cheapest protein source I've found is supplements btw, since it does get expensive.

There's a lot of misinformation out there on dieting. Because everyone wants a magic bullet. Eat these superfoods and lose 15lbs! But a lb of fat is roughly 3500 calories so every 3500 deficit you get you drop a lb. Max safe weight loss is generally 2lbs a week at 1200 calories minimum (I won't go below 1500). You need something like 10% of those calories to be from fat for your hormones to work right.