Or a failing of human nature, as explored in the documentary book “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”.

There’s nothing about calories-in, calories-out that says you can’t eat fats. And then you arbitrarily call out cheeses. It’s just a question of how much. It’s possible to eat enough butter than you put on weight.

“Starvation mode” is pretty widely proven to be a myth, I think.

I’ll give you this. People who just scream “Calories in calories out!” are ignoring the ease with which one can eat that way.

Have you tracked the actual calories involved?

You have to quantify “a lot of energy” and “that many calories”, because kayaking is not a bulletproof cure-all if you’re drinking 1000 calories of soda and beer on top of whatever else you’re eating. As a for example.

No, Joshua is quite correct. If weight loss was simply a matter of eating less calories — a matter of willpower — then people would do so, and it would work.

Only different levels of misery, I wager.

If this were the case, then eating smaller portions and going to the gym a few times a week would easily make anyone slim. It doesn’t.

What does your friend eat when you aren’t watching her?

Yes. I stopped reading after the all-caps rant on sugar.

Personally I think the only reason that open carry hasn’t resulted in any problems yet is that relatively few people are actually exercising that option.

I also can’t help but notice that my local sports bar has a very clear “NO GUNS” sign on the window. As if they’re willing to take the risk of being a gun free zone…

Oops I shouldn’t have googled that.

Wow, your bullshit anecdote happens to support your chosen side of the issue? No way!

Man that’s true I’d feel better if everyone I knew carried at all times, like in the Wild West.

Such a bleak and overblown outlook.

Pretty cool that you were able to work Chicago into this.

*teeming with monsters

That just means they store the envelope around the trigger word - it doesn’t mean you can pull any arbitrary period of audio.

You ever feel like you’re in too much internet? And you wish you could roll back the clock to a time when you weren’t in quite so much of the internet?