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Lolzzz, my Gunstar mix... I wrote 16 bars and now I'm fresh out o' ideas. I love the game, but wtf, the music... why...

That's a good way of thinking about it. It's a front-to-back motion rather than a back-to-front motion. It really is a controlled fall. You just sorta put your foot forward from rest and lean into it til you fall onto the ball of the lifted foot, then alternate. That's the basic idea. It takes a little practice, but it's a really cool way to run; feels great.

This, but specifically instrumentation. Finding the right sound has always been my stumbling block. Otherwise, I'm never out of ideas and such; I could keep writing forever. But it's always finding the right sound... balralrahglh

I Friend on the first date.

Beth is right. The only things I have to add are maybe you need to go get fitted personally for Vibrams. Try out a few consecutive size and see what works best. As a caveat, Vibrams are always stiff and a little uncomfortable when you first get them. They'll break in over a week or two. Also, check out amazon (or perhaps youtube) for books/vids on how to run barefoot, and apply those principles to running in Vibrams. Barefoot running is VERY different from the unnatural heel-strike running you've learned since age 2 or whatever. Once they are broken in and your musculature has adapted to Vibrams, you shouldn't notice ANY discomfort or tightness or such when wearing them. I'm a little concerned about that extra toe space you have, though. That can't be comfortable, and I can't imagine breaking in your shoes would fix that space issue. You big toe sucks.

But the books have word-boobs, and that's somehow hot to teenage girls like us. but noooo raellly, this show is the tits, and the books were *double* tits. Did season 3 start off well?

You are indeed the only living fan of Ghoul Patrol. And WAT. I TOTALLY forgot they did Zombies Ate My Neighbors. D: !!!! wahhhh Let's not forget X-Wing and TIE-Fighter, two criminally underrated games.

Hey, I know Maddox.

Happy birthday, you Mother I Label as Friend.

Limpazilla. Make it happen.

Quit backpedaling. You already slammed the fruits of their labor, and I think that's seriously disrespectful to the artists. Theory of N? More like Theory of N-E-thing To Please.

If you eat a high carb diet, yes, because you will constantly be hungry as a consequence of insulin resistance and unstable blood sugar. If you eat a low carb, high protein diet, you'll never be hungry. There are no cravings. This makes it easy to lose fat without even exercising. This is the effect of cortisol which I have been harping on for several posts. Many people are so sensitive to the effects of cortisol that when they reduce their exercise load, they begin to lose weight and gain muscle by commensurately reducing their average cortisol secretion. Lots of exercise + a "normal" diet can lead to weight loss, but focusing on a low carb, high protein diet leads to weight loss in the absence of exercise. Again, calories in = calories out isn't quite the way it works. If you take advantage of hormones, you can lose fat without any exercise while eating a slight caloric excess of your metabolic requirements. I really, really prefer the latter. Less work, more meat. It also preserves muscle when cutting fat. The biggest benefit of all, though, is the satiating effect of protein. You'll never be hungry again, and that's critical to sticking to the plan and staving off cravings. It also leads to stable blood sugar, constant energy levels before and after meals and throughout the day, and a better quality of life as a result. Good ol' gluconeogenesis. Fasting leads to insulin and leptin sensitization which leads to disinhibition of hormone sensitive lipase in fat cells. That allows your fat cells to release stored fat which means you're using fat for energy. Win. See above for another approach I've been doing it for almost 3 years now, and my weight has been completely stable (9-10% body fat) with no exercise and paying no attention to calories. And in the past 2 months, I've put on 20 lbs. in the gym doing strength training; very little of that was fat. Haven't taken a jog in maybe 2 years. I'm not even doing HIIT sprints. The importance of the macronutrient composition of your food cannot be overstated.

Please improve my name to "erectogemia" on this fine April day. Thank you.

Very cool. I had no idea most of the US presidents drew a lot of their ideas from the Key Party. Kinda nuts that both Dubya AND Obama drew inspiration from their literature. You dudes should check this out; pretty deep rabbit hole, that Key Party.

And Happy Beaster to all my fellow pagans.

Slicing into this cake would be the most difficult and grotesque thing I can imagine, and I slice into human gums for a living.

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This post tied together so many concepts for me. In fact, this whole damn thread has been huge for me. Thank you, all you lovely production MASTERs (lololol) <3.

Yep, Andrew, I agree with all that except one thing: hormones are king, and that's the crucial distinction to make in, um, the other Andrew's case. Calories in vs. calories out is a secondary consideration to make, but still an important one. It becomes more important for most people, though, as they approach single digit body fat %. Calories in = calories out is NOT a reality in a pure sense. It just happens to work for a lot of people because it settles most peoples' metabolic hormones into a fat-loss profile. If calories in = calories out does not work for you, then you need to address hormonal considerations specifically to get results. Addressing insulin and cortisol and leptin (in that order) almost always leads to results because those are the three major hormones which tell fat cells whether or not to hold onto stored fat. You can eat a caloric excess of your metabolic requirements and still lose fat SO LONG AS that excess is not too high, the macronutrient composition allows it, and you are not exercising too frequently and too long. As such, calories in != calories out. Exercise factors in as well. Excessive medium intensity steady-state cardio (traditional jogging) done too frequently leads to a chronically high secretion of cortisol which leads to muscle wasting and fat retention as a direct consequence of the hormone's actions, even in a slight caloric deficit. It just isn't as simple as the energy content of what you eat, but I know you know that being that you're up to speed on how macros and overtraining affect body composition. This is more food for thought for zircon to hack his approach.

If you're at all interested, zircon, I'll work with you 1-on-1 to figure out a diet and exercise plan to get rid of the weight. Although, I know in the past, you've made it clear that you don't exactly trust my philosophy As I've done before, I can cite studies to corroborate any claim I make. It seems as though your approach isn't working. Why not try something different? What do you have to lose? My bet is that if you follow my advice, you'll feel amazing, and you'll shed fat relatively quickly. Your move edit: You're right in assuming that we all have "set points" with respect to fat, and recent studies show this set point appears to be related to the hormone, leptin. This leptin set point can be adjusted in an acute manner and also in a chronic manner, and we could work to exploit that and redefine your set point. Here's an article about it with links to a few studies. Finding a balance between your leptin, insulin, cortisol, macronutrient ratios and timing, and caloric intake is what I would focus on to achieve the fat loss you want. And barring a genetic disorder, it will work.

If the compo gets big enough, a social group would probably be a good idea to facilitate voting, no? Works swimmingly for Mega Man compos. Also, I have no idea how those are created. Can only an admin/mod do it, or can the plebs create a social group?

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