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2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

First, as South Austin said, there's nothing wrong with dipping crust in ranch, or anything else. 

That being said, lets stop pretending yall eating the crusts of your "boneyard" with dipping ranch is because you were a starving college student. Because it's a fucking buffet, and you already paid for it. You can dump the crusts and go get more pizza if you fucking wanted at any moment. Hell, I had a roommate who used to get the pizza buffet at the bottom of the Castillian, or whatever it was called, and would sneak pizza rolls into a ziploc bag he kept in his backpack to take home. 

No, the boneyard was how we kept score.  

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The Gattis's pan pizza and crust goes perfect with their ranch, add excessive amounts of their Parmesan mix and red pepper flakes until it's a paste like consistency and you got yourself a meal. At least it did 25 years ago at the location off MLK and occasionally the Gatti Land in oak hill.

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29 minutes ago, Covri said:

The Gattis's pan pizza and crust goes perfect with their ranch, add excessive amounts of their Parmesan mix and red pepper flakes until it's a paste like consistency

 

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3 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

My poor college roommate would call in some kind of pineapple pizza combo right before a pizza place shut down for the evening - and then not go pick it up.  

He’d drive by the dumpster out back an hour later and invariably the untouched pizza would still be in the box.  The employees didn’t want it.

Things that remind you of growing up poor.

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5 hours ago, Vegas64 said:

Girl dinner was a trend from like 2 summers ago. C'mon Surly, let's not look unchronically online.

Also, @Brisketexan eating raw pork is a horrible idea no matter how you dress it up (e.g. cultural immersion, delicacy, sophistication, not being raised a wimp). I get doing it once is not a big deal, but parasites are a real thing and gross.

 

5 hours ago, chainsaw said:

Raw meat of any kind is risky, but in theory it can be eaten safely on the assumption it was inspected, handled, and prepared properly.

Yeah, bottom line: food safety in Germany is MUCH more rigorous than here.  We had the same questions when she first had it (and then when we decided to try it).  It's not a sketchy random thing, it's on the menu at a LOT of places, and Germans aren't getting sick from it.

I mean, if you have a compromised immune system, I wouldn't recommend eating ANY protein raw, but as for me....raw oysters, steak tartare, mett, sashimi, they're all on the menu at times.  Would I eat raw pork in the US?  Probably not.

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Part of getting in shape was making a commitment to get at least 8k steps per day. Read some research saying there is a ton of health benefits when you get to that point. Going beyond that burns more calories, which is great, but the other benefits are already maxed out.

So, I got a Fitbit to track steps and it also tracks how many calories I burn in a day. I take this with a grain of salt because I know there is a lot of variation between its calculations and reality, but I was surprised by the difference between my low days and high days. 

The most I have supposedly burned in a day was 3,600 and 2,200 was the low mark. I was expecting a much tighter range. If that’s even remotely accurate, then it puts a dent in my argument that weight loss is 90% diet. Now, if you’re eating 5,000 calories a day then yeah, it’s all diet. But if you are trying to eat reasonably healthy at 2,000-2,500 calories, movement is going to play a key role in your weight loss.

Or the calculations could be pure shit. Who knows.

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57 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Part of getting in shape was making a commitment to get at least 8k steps per day. Read some research saying there is a ton of health benefits when you get to that point. Going beyond that burns more calories, which is great, but the other benefits are already maxed out.

So, I got a Fitbit to track steps and it also tracks how many calories I burn in a day. I take this with a grain of salt because I know there is a lot of variation between its calculations and reality, but I was surprised by the difference between my low days and high days. 

The most I have supposedly burned in a day was 3,600 and 2,200 was the low mark. I was expecting a much tighter range. If that’s even remotely accurate, then it puts a dent in my argument that weight loss is 90% diet. Now, if you’re eating 5,000 calories a day then yeah, it’s all diet. But if you are trying to eat reasonably healthy at 2,000-2,500 calories, movement is going to play a key role in your weight loss.

Or the calculations could be pure shit. Who knows.

I average around 18k steps a day from walking and jogging (usually hit 20k but average 18k to days off).  I lift weights and do body weight exercises every day.  I still have to eat sensibly.  I could easily gain weight if I was drinking calories and eating crappy.  Even at this level of activity.

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8 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

I average around 18k steps a day from walking and jogging (usually hit 20k but average 18k to days off).  I lift weights and do body weight exercises every day.  I still have to eat sensibly.  I could easily gain weight if I was drinking calories and eating crappy.  Even at this level of activity.

18 to 20k steps a day is a gargantuan effort. Good job. On good days I get 14k.  Which is about 7miles for me.  Most days 9-11k.  

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3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

18 to 20k steps a day is a gargantuan effort. Good job. On good days I get 14k.  Which is about 7miles for me.  Most days 9-11k.  

I jog 3-4 miles about 3-4 times per week.  I walk the dog twice a day.  I have a walking pad for my standup desk at work.  Walking 30 minutes to an hour here and there during the day adds up.  Barely even notice it.

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Even if your current weight isn’t completely your fault, you should believe it is so you believe you have the ability/control to get it back where it should be.

When you deflect the blame, you give away your power… yada yada yada

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1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Part of getting in shape was making a commitment to get at least 8k steps per day. Read some research saying there is a ton of health benefits when you get to that point. Going beyond that burns more calories, which is great, but the other benefits are already maxed out.

So, I got a Fitbit to track steps and it also tracks how many calories I burn in a day. I take this with a grain of salt because I know there is a lot of variation between its calculations and reality, but I was surprised by the difference between my low days and high days. 

The most I have supposedly burned in a day was 3,600 and 2,200 was the low mark. I was expecting a much tighter range. If that’s even remotely accurate, then it puts a dent in my argument that weight loss is 90% diet. Now, if you’re eating 5,000 calories a day then yeah, it’s all diet. But if you are trying to eat reasonably healthy at 2,000-2,500 calories, movement is going to play a key role in your weight loss.

Or the calculations could be pure shit. Who knows.

It's kind of aggressive, but the best advice I ever heard that has worked countless times is just do these three things:

1. Drink only water, black coffee, or unsweetened tea

2. Eat only veggies, preferably lightly cooked with a little salt/butter

3.  Move for an hour each day - preferably walking

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2 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

It's kind of aggressive, but the best advice I ever heard that has worked countless times is just do these three things:

1. Drink only water, black coffee, or unsweetened tea

2. Eat only veggies, preferably lightly cooked with a little salt/butter

3.  Move for an hour each day - preferably walking

That would probably put me in a 2,000 calorie deficit per day. Would definitely work but too aggressive for my taste. 

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8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

It's kind of aggressive, but the best advice I ever heard that has worked countless times is just do these three things:

1. Drink only water, black coffee, or unsweetened tea

2. Eat only veggies, preferably lightly cooked with a little salt/butter

3.  Move for an hour each day - preferably walking

I do #1 only and with a low-carb diet and minimal exercise I can maintain an impressive fighting weight.

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1 minute ago, Larry T. Spider said:

That would probably put me in a 2,000 calorie deficit per day. Would definitely work but too aggressive for my taste. 

It's more for the Ozempic crowd.  It's hyper-aggressive but it works for obvious reasons.  You can add in the beforementioned "potato-hack" as well.  You're basically taking in plenty of fluids, your body starts burning fat reserves, and you can be somewhat satiated with as many raw/semi-cooked veggies as you can stand.  You're just forcing your body to cannibalize it's reserves and my guess is that it does suck, but it also works.  My assumption is if you can endure such a transformational process, there is little that seems daunting after that.  It's a "how-to-be-a-bad-ass" starter kit.  

For everyone else, eat "real" food, get plenty of fluids, and get off the couch every day and do something.  

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23 hours ago, Covri said:

The Gattis's pan pizza and crust goes perfect with their ranch, add excessive amounts of their Parmesan mix and red pepper flakes until it's a paste like consistency and you got yourself a meal. At least it did 25 years ago at the location off MLK and occasionally the Gatti Land in oak hill.

God damn you!

Ordering Gattis right now.

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On 4/21/2025 at 1:50 PM, Derka said:

i have a friend who’s been an alcoholic since he was 15. he drinks every single day, often heavily, and eats nothing but garbage. he also takes pills recreationally, and has been known to binge eat. guy hasn’t gained a pond since he was 15. is he choosing to remain slim? does he have more will power than the fatty who doesn’t do any of those destructive behaviors but struggles to lose weight/fat? when we look at him and the menopausal woman who just can’t seem to slim down despite watching her diet, exercising, and never drinking alcohol, y’all are really gonna sit there and tell me we’re looking at a man with a will power and a weak minded fatty? 

the arm chair scientists and their self assuredness in this thread blows me away. as if every single person on earth has the exact same body that plays by the exact same rules. remarkable.

He's probably malnourished.  If he ate like anything resembling a normal human, he'd probably be a chonker.

Alcohol runs a lot of the same metabolic paths as sugar and can keep blood sugar up enough to avoid feeling hungry or the lightheaded sensation that tells some people to eat.  A shot of liquor has about 100 calories, as does American-type piss water beer, so drunks take in some fairly serious calories until they get to the near-wet-brain stage where just a few drinks does the trick.  In that sense, it's a great food in the sense of "fuel" that will provide enough to keep the body going.  It just has little nutritional value.

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