JCC I need some advice...

I've tried to maintain a deficit of 500 calories per day over the last 6 months and have since lost about 30 pounds. It is very easy to lose track of or be completely unaware of how many calories are in a can or bottle despite them all but screaming it out to you nowadays, so I can see why some people would be upset about soft drink advertising, emphasis on some people, not all. Most of us normal people don't care who advertises what and I'm sure that nobody will look down upon Dan's collection in spite of this.

 

Just drunken Bay Area crap, and I regret being out of line. Clone drunketyy clown.

 

You should melt all of the Coke collectibles down into weapons of mass destruction.

 

Ya know, instead of asking for our advice, why don't you ask the community service organization in which you donate your excess amount of time to for their advice.
Oh, I'm sorry, is there an orginazation that benefits from your copious extra waking hours?

 

i need some advice! but i'm not going to ask you people! and i don't know why i would!

*create thread*

 

Oh, I didn't mean to say that anyone should have a problem with the consumption of old soft drink paraphernalia, just that they should have one with consuming the actual beverage.

 

Did you mean a loss of 500 calories? Like you burn 500 extra calories? Because deficit usually means a negative, below a normal amount... and if you were consuming -500 calories a day for 6 months you'd be dead.

 

I suspect he meant deficit. Like, exactly as he typed it. In fact, caloric deficit is even a defined state of operation for both thermodynamic systems and living beings in which it/they operate at a lower caloric level than is typical for the system in question (ie: deficit meaning lowered relative to the normal input level). At the very least, I guess Katarn is a thermodynamic system - but presumably he is also alive.

He (it?) could operate in such a state by consuming fewer calories, or expending more. Both result in a net deficit.

 

As it says, a deficit of 500 calories - which means 500 fewer calories per day than I usually consumed, not *just* 500 calories per day.

 

Why don't you collect cocaine collectables instead?

 

Yeah I think I'm going to have to ignore this one and just facepalm at both of you.

 

No it doesn't, 500 fewer calories per day means 500 fewer calories per day. A 500 calorie deficit would mean that you are consuming 500 less calories than you need.... negative 500.

 

Well, I do have a miniature "History of Coca-Cola Bottles" set where the first one is just a long, thin glass bottle with a cork in the top, which the first variety of Coca-Cola that had cocaine in it might've came in, so there's that...

 

If you collect cocaine, you'll make lots of money.

 

I think what I was mostly upset about was that I didn't have most of my Star Wars stuff out to display, leaving it mostly Coca-Cola stuff, so I've decided to remedy that.

 

Exactly. A man my age needs about 2000-2200 calories per day, I consume 1500-1700 per day, hence the term "deficit".

 

Alright buddy whatever you say.

 

I drink coke all the time and I'm underweight! Yeah, outliers!

 

deficit: the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small. So given his intake is 500 calories too small to maintain weight...

I'm not sure what your problem is but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

 

I lost about ten pounds consuming 1700 calories a day for about two and a half months recently. I felt like I was eating almost nothing.

 

The key to it is water, protein, and timing of meals. I do also have the added benefit of a job which has moving around on an unpredictable schedule, so that prevents my body from adapting to it and figuring out how to burn fewer calories, this is a lot like the "muscle confusion" concept in P90x. Also, I allot myself a cheat day where I can eat whatever I like (starchy foods, sugary crap, etc) and I try to exercise or move around a bit more on that day than I do others.

 

Mr. markups2, criticizing someone's grammar/spelling/etc. is one of the oldest trolling tricks in the book of interwebs. Clearly it's still working.

 

I don't think it is (or will be) anything close to that. Just because soda isn't healthy doesn't mean it's BAD for you. Like you said: everything in moderation. Plus, there's a difference between Kate Perry doing soda ads and you just wanting to collect the paraphernalia.

That being said, if you really are concerned about the ethical side to coca cola, you may want to keep an eye on the criticisms of it's business practices, especially the union busting in South America. You can love the product and some of the culture surrounding it (I love those old fashioned ads), but still be critical of it.

 

This is the most boring thread in existence. Someone please for the love of Zeus post a pic of Nic Cage drinking Coke or something equally irreverent. Please.