There are literally studies showing that artificial sweeteners have no affect on insulin. There are also studies comparing low fat vs low carb diets in a metabolic ward (an incredibly accurate way of measuring caloric expenditure and thus fat loss) and there was no statistical difference, although the low fat group…

Appeal to authority to justify the previous fallacy… 

Caffeine is a stimulant. THC is primarily a depressant with hallucinogen and stimulatory effects. Completely different compounds. As for the other example you used that is a pure reductio ad absurdum fallacy.

As a general rule of thumb I’d avoid intoxicants during exercise. Seems like a good rule. 

Doing dumb things and making mistakes are mutually exclusive. Dumb things are done intentionally despite intelligence telling us otherwise.  Mistakes and failure are not intentional. No kid goes out intentionally to fail.  They will intentionally do dumb things however.

I just say, “Don’t be dumb.” We all know what that means and so do they.

I can’t believe things like this need to be pointed out to people time and time again. If someone wants to lose weight they need to have a calorie deficit, it’s that simple. It can be achieved by eating less, exercising more to burn more calories, or a combination of the two, that’s it. I’ve struggled with weight for…

Was about to say the same thing but you said it more eloquently/less rudely. Cause sweet jesus is the braindead whataboutism responses getting old fast. 

In a lot of ways, it’s both easier and harder - the increased freedom means you can get yourself into bad situations by pushing at the edges, but it also means you generally have ways to get stronger to alleviate the harder fights. If I found a particular boss especially brutal, is that because it’s actually hard, or…

From what I played myself it’s a lot more forgiving. It gives you a lot of tools to mitigate the danger and give yourself space to breathe, plus you can avoid a lot of combat and create a wide variety of builds.

That said generally agree on most of the other terms. I saw a recipe on Instagram recently for “healthy” Nutella that was still made of a ton of oil and sugar. Like I can see specific reasons to make your own Nutella (like wanting to avoid palm oil for environmental reasons), but swapping maple syrup for normal sugar…

While a lot of people use the volume eating concept to the extreme as basically a way to maintain a starvation diet, it doesn’t have to be that way. Even a very small calorific deficit to lose weight in a healthy way could potentially leave you hungry if you don’t incorporate some higher volume foods. You could still…

I’ve always loved the term “natural” which invariably seems  meant to imply “good for you” in adverts. If I was to feed you “natural” cyanide extracted from “natural” stone fruit pits you would be “naturally” dead nonetheless.

You need to be focusing on consonants, not vowels as your strategy. Vowels come naturally.

I really hate when people use the term “biohacking” for people who take supplements, but maybe because I’m more interested and feel the term is better suited to folks like “grinders” who are implanting tech, or people doing DNA editing ... not simply changing their diets, drinking smoothies and taking nootropics.

Thanks, man
Yeah, if someone wanted to cook me keto meals and do all the weighing and everything, I might have stuck with it.
But it is too limiting when your focus is elsewhere.

Along the way, I found that I can run fast (for my age).
I literally couldn’t run 200 yards this time last year - nor did I want to - in 8 weeks…

Eh, I lost 45 pounds without giving up sugar or snack foods. They weren’t the majority of what I ate...but I still ate them.

Losing weight and keeping it off isn’t that hard *for you.* Try empathy some time! We’re not all built the same. 

The thing about “eating until you aren’t hungry anymore” is that it changes based on how much you are used to eating, or at least it does for me. I made some lifestyle changes at the end of summer in order to get my health in order. The biggest component were changes to both the content and quantity of my diet. I did…

You are not doing anything wrong. At all.
I’m gonna share my experience in case any of it might help you.