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This article is quite accurate I think. I use MyFitnessPal on and off. It is easy - you just scan the barcode and it tots up the calories.

MFP is excellent at making you face up to what you are actually eating. At first it was a huge eye-opener for how many calories were in everyday things - like a slice of bread is 80-120 calories etc. The article mentions fruit juice too - that was a big one for me as well. I figured that since I was not eating loads of pizzas and burgers etc that my calorie intake was probably "normal" but boy was I wrong and MyFitnessPal really helped understand that. Likewise it was good for a reality check that the 20 minute run actually was only like 150-200 calories burnt, not 750.

That was good, but where it really helped though was in measuring stuff out, and to realise what a serving really was. The biggest culprit for me was breakfast cereals - 30 to 45g of cereal is not a bowl full - it is a fairly pathetic covering at the bottom of your bowl. For years I was probably having like 4 or 5 (... or more!) servings of cereal (i.e. a full bowl, like it looks on the packet or on TV adverts!) a day without realising.

I'd recommend people give it a try, if only for a couple of weeks to get a grip on what the calorific levels of some of your staples are, and what a serving actually looks like. It is eye opening.
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Ah, shell accounts! Such nostalgia. I ran an Eggdrop bot on one for years. Great way to dip my toes into Linux-land.
Commenting purely on my own experience.

I have found that my hunger is malleable. If I start eating breakfast, I will be hungry in the morning at around the time I started eating breakfast. But, if I stop eating breakfast and only do lunch and dinner, I will eventually lose my hunger for breakfast and have no problem coasting till lunch on nothing but a coffee.
If Picasso had stayed with the style he had at age 15 he'd be forgotten today.

Picasso is renown the world over because he pushed art forward, and he kept experimenting and pushing art ever forward in to his old age.

His later work may not be pretty, but there are a billion painters of pretty pictures, but only one Picasso.
That's just humans and their biota, dude.

You're clearly ignoring the second paragraph, so I guess the problem with your math is simply that your ignoring everything that disagrees with your worldview.

Also, physicians don't know how many elementary particles there are in the entire universe, since we don't actually know what the bulk of the entire universe is made of yet, so your 10^90 is clearly just made up.
Correct. Spanner is used to hold configuration state, but is not in the serving path.
Sure, as evidenced by the fact that more people bought cars that performed like the Leaf and Zoe than Model S's.

Also the Renault Zoe looked just like the Renault Clio, that is, a normal car.
Where did you get the information that it is unhealthy for a 230 pound person to eat 1200 calories a day?

I understand that sodium,potasium,etc.. are necessary, I'm just asking about why you think that the calories are a problem when 230 pounds?
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And if you are going to work out, lift weights. Don't just do cardio. In fact, many people won't have to do cardio at all.

Cardio doesn't help you look and feel better. Build muscle, and that muscle will burn calories, even when you're asleep.
I was actually thinking of something like that as well. If nothing else, the cast-offs from a stockpiling program could be a nice social welfare program.
What I mean is a mother of 4, with no medical history, is feeling stressed and worn out. Maybe she has trouble focussing. All of a sudden she comes in with an amphetamine prescription. A year later, she's a full blown dependent on a serious drug. She was actually just burned out and probably just needed a break from her kids and a vacation. Very common. There's no transparency, no public understanding of doctors who are prescribing like this. It's only in a pharmacy do you get a birds eye view.
In my non-expert opinion, this is almost as good as it could be. People should face the harsh truths about their habits. I just dislike the underlying assumptions that things with fat or whatever is bad, every single macronutrient is great, just don't fucking overeat them. Also, life is absolutely better without sugar.
full article https://web.archive.org/web/20220510150652/https://www.teleg...
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1 tablespoon of common granulated sugar is 12 grams.
You can't root or reflash all android phones. You can use the adb shell without root but it... isn't root.
... and they _hate_ it!
Everyone can make a great-looking website, and not everyone can make it useful to end-users or goals. Worth remembering that websites are “living” organisms that evolve with your users, and you need to quickly adapt to any patterns that users throw at it.
That was well written. Thanks!

Info was legit, but mainly I liked how well it was written :)
You're probably getting that and more just from additives to food. I'm of the opinion that adding additional sugar to anything isn't exactly the healthiest unless you're cooking everything from scratch and can control the amount of added sugar in your diet.
I think an interesting exercise is to go back through newspaper archives and just take a peek at some random front pages. The theme is that everything is terrible and the sky is falling. That continues today. What was missed at the time was that the sky wasn't falling and that everything wasn't actually that terrible.

Humanity will endure Tik Tok, wars, pandemics, climate change, and pretty much whatever else the big random number generator in the sky throws at us. Find something that's meaningful to you and spend your time there. We're all going to be OK!
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Same. I calorie counted religiously for over two years almost a decade ago and to this day, I'm still able to eyeball the calories on most things.

My guesses were 800, 2400, 100, 400 (assumed cream and milk), 1200.

I've basically maintained my same weight from age 23 to 33 and I think knowing the calorie count of most things plays a big part in that.
Depending on your weight, an hour of cardio is only 500 or so calories. Last night I showed my wife a hand with 5 Brazil nuts. That’s equivalent to a one mile run at my weight.

Obviously different things work for different people, but no amount of cardio is going to offset a terrible diet for most people. Caloric deficit and intermittent fasting combined with exercise is the easiest and fastest way (imho) to get your body to start metabolizing fat stores.
Couldn't agree more with hunger being a sensation rather than a problem in its own right. I'd recommend a two or three day fast to almost anyone at least once in their life, to experience that feeling of "I am hungry, this is unpleasant, but it's not the end of the world".

> I'm down 30 pounds from my max.

Huge congratulations on the progress!
Walking is the most under rated weight loss activity. People don't understand how many calories walking on an incline on a treadmill will shred if you are obese. When I was 220 pounds, walking at 10% incline at 2.6mph was 770 calories an hour. It is actually hard to eat at a calorie surplus when you are burning that many calories a day.

If you want to lose weight you need to do one of the following

Be hungry,
Be in pain from exercise (running),
or sacrifice all your free time to low intensity exercise

I chose option 3 along with weight lifting and I don't regret it.

Walking also has this really cool effect of not increasing ghrelin unlike high intensity cardio
That's not how the term is normally expressed though. It's very often used to shut down disagreement or enquiry.

Like for example, if someone asks, "how can this person be a woman if they have a penis?"

These days, they'd get immediately accused of transphobia.
You’re nitpicking. He’s just saying it’s only May and the hottest months are still coming up.
Unfortunately my idea involves a hardware component. So, eh, yeah, significant upfront investment, etc.
100%

I noticed that when Im not working out I have poor food choices and when I eat like crap I avoid training or it’s a lot more unpleasant than it should be.

Also training results in physiological changes that help losing fat and be generally healthy. Just make sure you’re not losing too much muscle size with the fat.
I've also been looking at this website. Their "About" article[1] describes an interesting idea for a forum.

As I understand it - You earn tokens by listening to music on Celody. You can then create posts and when you do you stake some of your tokens. Other users can up or down vote your post by staking their own tokens. The amount of tokens staked up or down, and some kind of algorithm, determine whether the tokens you staked are returned to you or forfeit.

The idea is that if your argument convinces people you should be rewarded and if not, well, not. Perhaps if this runs for a while you will find that people with a lot of tokens tend to be persuasive or insightful or maybe just uncontroversial. Their "About" page specifically says that controversial views will be "slashed" (i.e. have their stakes taken).

1 - https://stakedy.com/long/how-staking-on-stakedy-works.html
So are vegan diets. (By which I mean: whole food, plant based.)

But you don't need to pick a team with all the tribalism that's involved. It really is as simple as eating less, like the article lays out.

And eating less is much easier if the foods you are eating are fiber rich (more filling).
Benzos are pretty terrible drugs in general. The physical addiction potential and withdrawal people are going through are enough to dissuade me from touching them.
For folks dealing with anxiety, I recommend trying propranolol. It is not as powerful, but sometimes it is enough to achieve the desired effect and the side effects are way less severe.
I am inclined to put that the other way around.

The ultimate cause is consuming too much, the proximate causes are various elements of modern culture (i.e. Bigger serving sizes, more readily available snacks, alcohol consumption, etc).
It's pretty unpleasant for me. I have a metabolic disorder for which even a mild caloric deficit of ten percent can send me to the ER, during which the recommended treatment, besides the painkillers, is roughly a pound of sucrose delivered via IV. That's not fluid, that's a pound of sugar they want in me. And they want me on a high-carbohydrate diet, to boot.

Weight loss for me entails either being in pain or taking the meds to mask it and being unable to function. Previously, I could just diet, cut down, whatever. Now, cutting down for more than about a couple days starts it off. Even missing a meal can set it off (as well as infection, lost sleep, a wide array of medications). I have considered a celiac plexus block over Schedule II meds, then I could say a big fuck you to the pain because the wires have been cut.
15-ish years ago, when I was twenty, I was foolish enough to see a psychiatrist. I walked away with a prescription for an SSRI, a typical antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer and some Xanax to take as needed.

What I really needed was my father not being dead when it mattered.
I'm not taking web design advice from a website that throws a whole-page popup at me after scrolling a bit.
> I’d be careful not to jump to the conclusion that credentials are bad or requiring them amounts to anything corrupt, extractive or squatting.

I'm not assuming this. I have independent reason to consider universities to be corrupt, extractive institutions. This is downstream of their oligopolistic position wrt the labor market, but a hypothetical set of less-evil institutions than our current universities would still be an efficiency problem to be solved.

The early steps places like Google have taken towards accepting certification programs are an example of (attempting to) cleanly separate the value that a degree confers, without cutting off access to large swathes of the population or condemning them to mountains of debt.

Ie, there's a lot of signal in degrees, but there's a LOT of noise, and there's a massive amount of economic and moral value in finding better-quality signal.

> I see reasons why the state of things might have evolved this way and might not necessarily be broken to a first approximation

Yes, I hope this comment makes it clear that I'm not assuming that degrees are literally useless for hiring. But that is an extremely low bar, and I think it's similarly difficult to justify the claim that degrees are a remotely efficient bar for a big chunk of what they're currently used for.

I grew up rich enough that I was able to deeply enjoy four years of intellectual exploration and partying, but that's cold comfort for the people locked out from being a firefighter or starting medical school or a thousand other productive pursuits, because they couldn't surmount the barrier of an additional tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars that the inefficient degree requirement confers.

This isn't just theoretical: the choking-off of opportunity is IMO a massive tragedy relative to a world that was less enamored with the degree. That doesn't suggest we can simply burn the job market's credentialism down, but we can be clear-eyed about the current system's flaws and set our headings correctly for incremental change.
Sucralose is such a godsend. Cheap, meters extremely easily with a liquid dropper, mixes incredibly well into most things, has no bad taste (at least to me).
this man laughed at you for suggesting this? Xanax is a "benzo" wikipedia tells me.. Consider the source
Well then you will have to tell that to the banks. I am not claiming that because I read it somewhere but because of firsthand experience.

They are not calling it negative interest rate but "Verwahrungsgeld", so basically a fee for keeping the money that is a percentage of how much money you hold there.

And their policy is, "if you don't like it you are happy to withdraw your money and go somewhere else"
antipsychotics are horrifying. do therapeutic doses of stimulants cause problems other than heart disease over the long term?
> The golden child of the food industry: organic produce. Even though studies have shown that organic food doesn’t have any additional health benefits versus conventional

While this may be true, I was able to go from 240lb to 185lb (I’m 6’2) in 10 months by:

1) Eating only organic, non-gmo, and gluten free

2) Only shopping at expensive health food stores that only carry specialty brands (no Oreos or Poptarts in stock!)

3) Eating a vegan diet

..So why did those things cause me to lose weight?

Simple: by dramatically self-limiting the categories and types of food I allow myself to eat, it’s simply harder to overeat.

I don’t care about the vegan lifestyle or philosophy, but I love that it broke my habit of eating cheese and crackers every night. When out at a restaurant, while I would normally order a burger, I’d end up with a salad (the only vegan thing)

And eating only organic/non-gmo/gluten free? Same reason: it dramatically reduced the variety of food I was able to buy without breaking the 3 rules above. I pick up a bag of chips, and if it’s not organic gluten free, right back on the shelf it goes.

And why shop at expensive health food stores? Not because the food is better, but because when everything is priced 50-100% higher than a regular supermarket, so I bought less food. Do you really want that $8 bag of chips?

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All of this is to say: if you’re looking to lose weight, don’t care so much about any specific diet, etc… think about your eating habits and how to change them.

If you’re motivated to lose weight and have the determination, I recommend going vegan paired with eating only organic.

Again, not recommending it because vegan or organic are magic diets (they’re not)… BUT by following an organic vegan diet you are forcing yourself to completely rethink nearly all of your eating habits, and once you break your current eating habits, you can begin to form new (healthier) eating habits.

Best part is that I didn’t gain the weight back since the way I lost it was by changing my habits and the way I think about food, rather than caring about calories or dieting.

If you’re overweight, it’s because of your eating habits. People who say “eat fewer calories, you must be in a deficit” aren’t wrong, but it’s hard to do because it requires so much thinking constantly about portion size, etc.

Weight loss can become much easier by establishing 1-2 strict “eating rules” that you commit following and that are simple to remember,

Honestly, I could have achieved the same weight loss by coming up with a silly rule like “I will only buy food that comes in blue packaging” instead of vegan/organic.

You need to figure out a way to change your eating habits, period. If my approach doesn’t resonate with you, think of something, anything, that will get you to replace your current habits with new ones.

Even if that means telling yourself you’ll only eat food that comes in blue packaging.
Obesity started to be a thing in the last 100 years. It wasn't evolution.
> There is a very good chance that someone is writing a reply with some suggestion as to how I should eat so that I'm not hungry.

Actually I was wanted to ask the opposite: what prevents you from letting yourself go hungry a fraction of the day? You might get a stomachache for a bit, I know, but have you tried and seen any consequences beyond that? Note I'm not suggesting "eat absolutely nothing the whole day", but like if you cut your portions into a half or a third of the usual (or eat fiber/etc. so as to at least fill your stomach)... is that going to actually cause you any problems beside a bit of stomach pain? (and might trying a mild pain reliever like acetaminophen potentially help with that until your body gets used to it?)
If your brother told you that with this exact framing, he's in the wrong industry.

Health, and especially not mental health is very much not visible or even obvious. Just ask any disabled person that is not bound to a wheelchair 100 percent of the time.
I don’t know what point you are trying to make, but if you invested $100,000 on a crypto and it dropped 100% and you couldn’t deduct that $100k, then you would be fine with it?

Over time, you have no clue whatsoever how the crypto market will do. It could go to $0 for all you know
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> A programmer who could not touch type, but typed keys one at a time with only his index fingers.

This seems pretty arbitrary.
Your brain chemistry acclimates to using a GABA agonist every day and will get out of whack if you stop taking it :( like anxiety will be WAY WORSE when going through withdrawal.

I still use a benzo (lowest dose lamictal) but only about once a month when I need hit the panic button. It's really not meant to be a daily use drug, scared me when a friend was prescribed it as a daily medication.
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It's more of an accounting deal. There's mass where there didn't used to be, and it was pretty near here so ... we gotta make the books balance.
Opposing traffic is already sharing a lane at those speeds, that's what the double-white is about.

They aren't that wide and there's not a lot of traffic, the safe thing to do is in fact to stay toward the center and yield to the sides when opposing traffic is coming. This isn't that different.
You should really expand your hiring if your filter is solely someone else's.
I just made the same comment about Ukraine winning irl.

But then they would be responsible for hosting the next games, which I think is a little bit too much to put that responsibility on them now.

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Also; I’m not a fan of the fact that the Eurovision Song contest is basically a popularity contest between countries.

EDIT: Apparently this is controversial (-2 karma), tell me why! Cowards!

EDIT2: -3. Aight. I don’t try to add new points of view to topics anymore I guess. It’s good manners to inform why you’re downranking, unless it’s trolling..
Seems like most of the disagreement is about what IQ is a good predictor for and is not. There hasn't been much discussion about defining what people think it is and isn't in this thread. You say it's a bad predictor. A bad predictor of what exactly, in concrete terms? I would argue that it is a good predictor of the things that measures: spatial Imaging, logic, and language skills. Someone could argue that is a poor measure and predictor of empathy and interpersonal skills. They would probably be right. IQ has a definition and domain where it works well, and others where it doesn't. That doesn't mean it is useless.

Are you claiming that social economic status is a better predictor of spatial Imaging and logic than a direct test of an individual in question?
When the drought is extreme enough government regulations will be changed. Like how environmental reviews are being shoved to the side to export LNG to Europe.

But before we build extremely expensive desalination, more effective and lower cost actions must come first. Reforming water rights law to stop insane use it or lose it incentives (e.g. flood irrigation of almond trees). Renegotiating water treaties. Increasing water efficiency in agriculture. Xeriscaping. Higher water prices that will hold down demand and provide a self-enforcing incentive to reduce waste, leaks, and low value water consumption. And better finance water works.

Reduce, reuse, recycle.
I sort of expect that the psychiatrist spends more time with the patient each month than the pharmacist.
A tablespoon of grease (or fat in general) is about 120 calories. A slice of pizza has anywhere from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon of excess grease per slice (especially pepperoni pizzas).
There's a lot more than 2 grams of fat in a slice of pizza. I've tried it before because Ulillillia's pizza degreasing meme has lived rent free in my head for like a decade, and I could easily soak a couple of paper towels in pizza grease from just a slice of pizza.

Apparently, all he ate were pizzas, so it wasn't just one slice he was degreasing, but whole pizzas.
>"But if you are close to someone who is a user, over the long run you will notice differences. Sometimes its just that they don't have the same spark."

The loss of a spark can happen regardless of drug use. Work in an unsupportive environment over a long period of time, a breakup, or the failure to achieve a long-sought goal can cause a person to change over time. In addition, the underlying condition that the medication is treating may cause the effect, which could have been worse had the medication not been prescribed.

It's plausible that medications may have understudied long-term effects, but there are too many confounding causes to attribute a behavioral change to long-term medication use.
When I started the article I thought it would be completely misguided, but there was a lot of good information inside. I just don't agree with the emphasis on counting calories. As the article says, we are bad at it. But supposing we could do it perfectly, then what is the right number we should ingest? Besides, we eat for more than just calories. Nutrients are more important. Your body might tell you to keep eating after you get enough calories because it is missing something else.

Our body has an amazingly good, built in mechanism to control what we eat without us consciously tracking our input. The only problem, as mentioned in the article, is some modern foods throw off our system. So don't eat those. I don't find avoiding processed foods or even foods with processed sugar a sacrifice in any way, at least from a pleasure point of view.

Disclaimer - eating refined sugar gives me headache so maybe that makes it easier. (Fruit does not give me a headache. Fruit cooked in the oven at high temperatures to caramelize the sugars does. ? )
I lived with a dieting obese couple who would reward themselves with a "cheat" dinner if they'd been good for a whole 2 meals prior.