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Apparently there's more than one tool in the world.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I don't diet, I have a metabolism which takes care of that side of things.
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You are lucky.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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I am on the seafood diet. I see food I eat it.
I'll get my coat...
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djj55 wrote: I'll get my coat...
Just take mine -- it's quicker.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A perfect word to explain my way of dieting.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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What Carlo said.
I eat 'generous' servings of everything that I want, and I do that pretty much on a regular basis.
However, I make sure that I get enough exercise to burn all that junk out. I absolutely love pushing myself to the limits with running, cycling, etc. I used to be a power-lifter, but I dropped that for aerobic exercises.
This idea of out-exercising calorie rich food has worked fine for me, and my weight has hovered around the 83 KG mark for over 12 years now with a of maximum variance of +/- 2 kilos very occasionally. Yesterday, I had about 200 grams of Jalebis, 4 vada pavs, generous servings of faafda, chunks of mysore pak, and other food that's normally considered junk. Towards the night, I dropped the idea of eating a jug of kulfi ice cream because I thought my stomach was filled to the brim. But I did have a glass of sugarcane juice. Please note that I also get enough quantities of protein, fibre, etc. from various sources.
But then I played 6 intense rounds of badminton when the day started yesterday, and last evening I ran 12 rounds in a jogger's park that's reasonably big. I will confidently tell you that I burnt out more than what I ate.
And like theoatmeal said, I exercise for the worst possible reasons - I exercise to eat: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running[^] (Read all the 6 parts).
Although BMI calculators will classify me as slightly overweight, I know it for a fact that the weight is coming from my muscles that I'm no more building, but just maintaining. A complete body assessment revealed that my muscles are in better shape than the chief trainer of my gym. I can prepare myself to bench press a hatchback in 10 days if needed (that's exaggeration, but you get the point).
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
modified 28-Oct-13 8:14am.
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I have hovering around 75-77. But all of a sudden it has shot up to 82Kg now. It's an all time high. And that's when I decided not to touch fatty food & sweets. But like our mates said above, I'm really not in diet but on seefood. I eat wildly when something is open in front of the eyes. In particular after a week long strict diet. Gary Wheeler & Carlo have been real inspirations to for they do long runs consistently.
I was running for a week, but the work at late evening for the next few weeks put this routine off the line.
I started feeling like a real potato and to add to the injury, I eat up a lot of sweets today. Planning to start my running again. One thing is sure I can't stop eating sweets 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I sympathise with you, because I can completely understand what you say.
I will shamelessly admit it here that I cannot diet either. I've tried it time and time again, and have realised that it's just not for me. I can resist sweets, and can go without eating anything sweet, but I must eat fried food. I think it's a different craving for each person, but the idea is the same - resistance is futile.
However, I can confidently tell you that you will be able to develop a healthy and regular exercising habit if you're determined enough.
Exercising is not as hard as dieting, and is in fact far more enjoyable than dieting. It's promising, and it never will fail you. I wish you good luck with your endeavours. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I'm not a lover of sweets either. But there are specific sweets I'm not able to resist. Those cashew milk sweets & the ones that's with a lot of ghee & mild sugar. All these are home made. I have never stepped into a sweet shop to buy something out of my craving. It's 100% seefood. These specific items, when they are open in front of me, they are inside my stomach the very next moment.
Like you said, It's not about diet but I must pull in the routine back. I planned to run in the morning , but the option of running in the evening makes me cancel it everyday. And in the evening, I actually don't get a chance to get away from my work . This's been evading me for so many weeks. I'm making up my mind to get up early and RUN!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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The link you sent is quite funny
Awesome indeed!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Why, thanks. We aim to please. 
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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I was recently on two diets.
I found that there was not enough food when I was only on one.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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Dalek Dave wrote: I was recently on two diets.
As well in two shapes to fit. 
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Ultimate.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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You're on the new "See Food" diet I see! 
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The fiance and I have actually managed to live up to our plans. She has dropped about 35 and I have managed to drop about 45 lbs in 6 months. I have a lot more to lose. I was at 260 and aiming for about 175. Currently at 215, still trending down.
Our key is pretty simple... PUT. THE. FORK. DOWN.
Seriously, portion control. If you aren't active, you don't need 2000 calories per day. Sure it takes us a bit more monitoring of what we eat to make sure we get enough nutrients that we aren't causing deficiencies, but it isn't that much more effort. Sure we have our bad days when we don't feel like cooking or when we are really stressed out about planning the wedding, or house hunting, or dealing with her father's recent passing. But when you have a bad day where you eat too much, you accept it and make sure to eat better for the rest of the week.
Restaurants here in the US typically give you enough food for 2 or 3 meals. So when we do go out, we tend to split a meal or not finish and bring the left overs home if they can be reheated and re-purposed.
When we hear people claiming that being obese is a legitimate disease, we privately agree and say that the person has "CantPutTheForkDownItus".
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RJOberg wrote: When we hear people claiming that being obese is a legitimate disease
It seems it is[^], or a genetic mutation at least.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Like I mentioned, I am still overweight. I used to be inside of the 'obese' category according to the BMI chart and recently dropped into the 'overweight' part. That study shows that the genetic mutation affects less than 1% of the population. The current obesity rate in the US is about 34%.
The real problem is someone going into McDonald's, ordering 2 big macs, a large fry, an ice cream, and a tub of coke. Oh, better make that a diet coke. Have to watch my weight after all.
So yes, a tiny portion of people who are obese have a genetic mutation, which may contribute to weight gain. The rest need to put the fork down.
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Put the fork down in McDonald's? 
I'm overweight cos I eat too much, although it tends to be healthy stuff that I eat too much of. I enjoy eating tasty food, and I don't really have a sweet tooth at all, I drink diet soda cos I prefer it.
I eat too much cos I cook too much,
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I was looking at the top ranked articles today ... and noticed that ALL of the top articles have < 5 votes .. one person voting 5 stars seems to weigh more than 100 votes averaging 4.95 ... I think this makes it a little skewed, a poor article will get in with one good vote over proven articles.
I think that this section should be updated to have a "minimum votes" field that starts at 10 by default.
Also i think the result set should be limitless, it only returns the "top" 100... and I had to get to number 92 before I came to the proven articles, so really it was the top 9!
Here is the last page results to demonstrate:
Rank. > Votes > Rating
81. > 1 > 5
82. > 1 > 5
83. > 1 > 5
84. > 1 > 5
85. > 1 > 5
86. > 1 > 5
87. > 1 > 5
88. > 1 > 5
89. > 1 > 5
90. > 1 > 5
91. > 1 > 5
92. > 31 > 4.99
93. > 57 > 4.95
94. > 29 > 4.97
95. > 75 > 4.96
96. > 25 > 4.96
97. > 30 > 4.96
98. > 37 > 4.96
99. > 15 > 4.96
100. > 29 > 4.96
The URL for these is here
Kris
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Different users votes have different weight: a high rep individual will have a bigger effect than a low rep, partly to prevent people from artificially inflating an article score by creating loads of sock puppet account to vote for it.
To me honest, we probably don't need as wide a range of votes as we have: 1..5 is underused since most votes are always either a 1 or a 5, with very, very little in between. Expanding the range wouldn't make any real difference to that, except to make it harder to actually vote since less people would be interested in finding the top or bottom values in a list or numeric input.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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For a moment there, I thought you were going to suggest a "Like" button.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wash your keyboard out with SOAP! 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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