No, you are still wrong. I am morbidly obese and struggle with my weight daily. It will kill me in the end but I want to know what you would do when your metabolism is so low that your normal body temperature hangs at around 97.2F and resists being raised even by means of medications and heavy exercise. I'm sorry but when numerous doctors over 20 years all throw their hands up and say they can't help then there is nothing to be done. I admit, I could starve myself on something around 700 calories a day for the rest of my life but I would rather die; I think most would. I could hit the gym for 6 hours a day, likely with very little improvement, but I need to work to support myself and my family.
Finally, I get tired of arm chair nutritionists going off and telling people that it is all about eat less and exercise more. Obesity isn't a one solution fits all problem and it is only arrogance to think otherwise.
This article points out that there is yet another possibility to look into. Yet again, something that works against the old mantra eat less exercise more. We simply still don't know enough about the human body. There are going to be many more surprises for the obese population. In the mean time we have to combat our weight and jerks who think they know everything.
If you sport 6 hours a day and do not eat more you are going to lose weight extremely rapidly since you will need at least 4000 kcal just for that sport (compare with a normal daily expenditure of 2500 kcal). If your body really does use significantly fewer calories for the same activity as a normal person I would be very surprised. Millions of years of evolution have already optimized our energy efficiency to the limit. You probably wouldn't survive on 700 calories per day even if you stayed in bed all day, let alone living a normal lifestyle. In fact, just maintaining body fat requires calories, so if activities are otherwise the same an obese person burns through more calories.
That isn't to say that there are no genetic differences that influence body weight, there certainly are! It's just that the mechanism isn't energy efficiency, it's genetic factors that influence how much a person eats and how active a person is.
Caffine, Ephedrine (it's in congestion medicine like Brokaid in the US) and Yohmbine all have complementary effects on your metabolic rate and the last two have been shown to help speed fat loss while minimizing muscle loss.
I lost quite a lot of weight by focusing on killing germs and altering my biochemistry. I would be happy to talk to you about it in hopes it might help you. If you wish to talk, my gmail account starts with talithamichele.
If your condition is as you describe than I'm sorry for you but you're one of like 0.1% of the population (probably less). It's fine, you got dealt a shit hand but you aren't saying that being obese is a healthy lifestyle and the thing is other people are.
Everyone I've ever known or read about has gained weight by eating more and lost weight by eating less, again less and more vary from individual to individual but the fact that calories in = calories out for maintenance is a law of physics.
> but you aren't saying that being obese is a healthy lifestyle and the thing is other people are.
But this article doesn't appear to be saying that. So your attack in this thread is uncalled for. Generally, people trying to find a solution to obesity (like these people seem to be) are not in the obesity is a healthy lifestyle camp. They appear to be in the obesity is a problem we should look into camp.
"Calories in / calories out" is far from scientific. 500 calories of ice cream will not have the same effect on your body as 500 calories of lean chicken breast. It's a very rough approximation intended to get people thinking about their calorie intake and expenditures, but it's becoming very annoying to see people representing it as some kind of quantifiable scientific formula.
Like most I started early with programming in assembly, C, pascal shudder and then discovering unix.
I remember starting off by hacking the computer lab computers in my school. The lab staff had to log you in so they would know who was using which machines. I learned the pattern through a little social engineering and it wasn't long before I never had to talk to the staff. I also bypassed many of the tools that locked those machines down and even locked the lab techs out of a few of my favorite machines that I used for long running processes. I even had my own primitive form of RDP using screen captures and email. Eventually I learned to crack the passwd file on my schools mainframe and then I had access to everyone's accounts including the teachers. I then discovered those passwords also worked on most home dialup accounts, outside email, irc accounts, etc. Fun! I used to dominate the east coast irc back in the day, at least in my little world, but I kept my head real low so I wouldn't be noticed.
You know the best way to pick up a girl from Scandinavia? Easy, hack her email and irc accounts, knock her boyfriend off of irc and impersonate him, erase her boyfriends incoming emails and, spoofing his email address, bully her a little and tell her to stop seeing guys like yourself. Somehow it worked like charm. Man was she hot! First hot girl I ever dated.
My downfall? I gave some "goobers" some irc scripts to perform netsplits and become admin of their favorite channels. The idiots got caught making life threats against an irc admin that banned them and, in a stroke of self-preservation, they turn me over as their "ring leader". No hacking your way out of that one! Real sweet, eh? My parents were not very happy having the local police, the FBI and the NSA knocking on their door. I lost computer privileges (still went to college and got my degrees though) and now I just hack my own private network of pcs, laptops and cellphones at home.
Hmmm... maybe more of an "opinion" fighter? I guess the terrorist him/her-self might consider themselves freedom fighters fighting for the freedom to do things their way but the other side obviously doesn't share their "opinion". Just my two cents.
You know, I've never had trouble with Google customer support. I've contacted them twice: once for a Google Maps issue and again because I couldn't access my account. No problems for me. I find these kinds of complaints strange. Most of the time I hear this complaint the person doing the complaining hadn't ever even tried to contact Google; they just read that it was a problem somewhere. Oh, I will admit they don't make finding the contact information easy but with the number of users barely able to order a happy meal without calling 911 when their fries aren't right who would want to make it easy?
It seems to me that there really are very few people who actually deny the earth is warming. There may be a very vocal minority in your circles but I don't see it in my travels. The only real question is how much of the warming is caused by humans and how much is part of a natural cycle. You did read the article right? This is part of a cycle. Perhaps there is some human influence on this cycle but how would the researchers know? Maybe in another 150 years when the ice sheet has already reformed and then begun to melt again repeating the cycle? Level heads are needed; not panic and politics.
So, it happens on average every 150 years and that isn't a cycle in your book. That's fine for someone like yourself but for me I feel that we then need to redefine things like solar cycles and seasons which only happen on average as well. All in all, what the article describes sounds like a cycle to me.
The seasons happen for a known, cyclical reason. If it turns out that there's a first cause behind the ice melt, then it would be proper to refer to it as a cycle.
Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor. Get a VM and buy a copy of Windows; problem solved. I have 4 OSes running on my laptop three of which are running under a VM. With the unity mode I don't normally even see the seams. I've got Snow Leopard, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Redhat. Actually I have 5 OSes but I don't use my Windows 8 pre-release which might have expired by now.
I am eagerly anticipating tools like this maturing to a level where really serious development can take place. I mean, I did a good bit of development in Flash and Flex but things really didn't take off for me until there were really powerful editing tools that went beyond dropping a few things on a canvas and tying them together with code. This tool but at a Unity 3D level of editing would super nice.
"Seriously? What is the point of limiting yourself to one OS and then gripping about some app X not running on your flavor."
Really. I think you are missing the point. It's kind of sad seeing a modern browser app not being able to run on multiple platforms.
In my optics it undermines the whole idea about creating browser apps. If files system hooks are the problem, let me just save online or via the browser api.
In the future, I'd like to be able to get some stuff done without having to spin up 5 OS'es.
I'm interested in trying this out. If you don't mind, could you please tell me the type and basic specs of your laptop and the name of the VM software you're using? From there I'll Google the rest.
