So he sees someone without a track record posting on a forum that he chose because of the established members, and that person is telling him that muffins don't count as food.
Thats why I pointed him to the other site. To see what Ive stated and see that it relates exactly the same here. I also included a post that I posted here to a new member that stated personal experience.
Losing weight successfully and losing weight in a healthy matter are also two different ideas. A person with an eating disorder loses weight, but we all know that isnt healthy.
A muffin doesnt count as a meal, plain and simple. An item that is completely carbohydrates with little fiber just doesnt count.
I thought you were a little off too, then I saw you were from Fitness.com and my honest impression is that you guys are more about maintaining a certain body weight or building your bodies up and measuring lean muscle mass, etc.
The only difference between the two sites is the categories. We have people over there asking the same questions as people over here. There are no categories on this site that can attract the individuals looking to add muscle to their bodies. It is only about weight loss over here.
I'm not saying there is no correlation, but for you to get defensive in someone else's weight loss diary is not the best encouragement for him to stay. It sounds like bigmd has a similar problem as I do; it's tough to change your lifestyle.
I dont disagree with you at all here. However my comment is the only one that differed from the above. I see in many posts this type of diet, and everyone says good job or keep up the good work. I didnt demand that bigmd make these changes overnight, but I wanted to make sure my info was seen.
I try to educate myself as much as possible in the area of nutrition and fitness, its my passion. But to get passed over because the forum default places me as a newb is propostorous.
The control needed to eat 5 to 8 meals per day (how many calories are you recommending per meal? I didn't see that) and to drink 5 or more bottles of water in a day is beyond me, and I have been at this for awhile.
Perhaps offering some simple encouragement would be more effective, the goal here is to help people figure out how they can change their lifestyle effectively in order to live and eat healthier.
I cant recommend calories because I dont know bigmd's height and age. That plays an important part in total caloric intake. But I can see that he is undereating very clearly. I understand that the idea of 5-8 meals and that amount of water makes you shake your head. But once you get into the habit of it, you'll never go back. I wanna offer encouragement, but I also have to throw in a red flag when I see the above. I was hoping my post would generate an inquiry into why I said what I did.
Just an FYI, the links on the pages your sig take me to... they don't work. It says "The page /forum/weight-training/taking-your-bf-measurements-how-18768.html does not exist on this server."
You may want to take that into consideration before jumping on a new member about not instantly recognizing your l337 workout skillz.
Thank you for bringing this up. It seems that when the owner of that site (who also owns this one) changed the servers, it dropped my links. It is now fixed and the links are there for viewing.
~Please continue your diary bigmd. I hope I can help you in the future.~
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