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You misunderstood what I said. We evolved in a world where food was scarce, hence why we evolved to overeat once we do find food. In the past 100 years, food has no longer been scarce (for people living in a first world country), hence the obesity.
maybe my pharmacist can tell that I don't need methylphenidate because I have all my documents in order while I'm already on methylphenidate :)
I lived in the Netherlands, England, Ireland, and New Zealand; England and Ireland are not "bike countries" either, but for the most part it was actually pretty okay cycling in the city: there are enough cyclists around, roads are small, and most people understand that the limited space needs to be shared.

New Zealand, however, was a different story. The roads are huge, US-style, and a significant number of cyclists think that the road is for them and them only which, given the design, is not even entirely invalid as such. You get aggressive drivers everywhere (including NL), but the incidence in NZ was far more often than anywhere else. I think the mandatory helmet laws aren't helping either: it instils the impression that you're doing something inherently dangerous on a space not intended for you.

Actually the most careful (car) drivers I've seen was in Indonesia, where roads are for scooters first and cars second.
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They are easily one of the most harmful classes of medications. Sure, they combat anxiety acutely, but wreck ones cognitive abilities in the process. This has been readily observable for a long time.

Plus, the anxiolytic effect quickly turns into a dependency, as when the withdrawal starts kicking in you're inclined to start having anxiety attacks.

Suppose you want to get off them. Now you have a significant problem. Can't quit cold turkey -- you're likely to have a seizure.
What action can they threaten that's worse than just firing the employees?
The government has, in fact, been "dealing with Abbot" -- specifically, by imposing anti-competitive tariffs and locking out both foreign and domestic competition. You want them to do more of that? Because, empirically, that's the kind of thing governments tend to do all the time. (See also: regulatory capture and the idea of "concentrated benefits and diffuse costs" in public choice theory.)
Thanks for sharing. Here's my perspective as a lean person who has no problems literally starving themselves to do other things.

It does indeed sound like your hunger is more intense than my hunger. I think I benefit from a ton of experience in transitioning past "I'm very hungry" to "I'm fine" when I choose not to eat. There's a clear point (for me) when the body just says "oh we're not going to eat now? ok, I'll stop interrupting the brain with 'I'm hungry' signals." It just goes away and I'm no doubt in a caloric deficit.

Some of this is self-discipline, and some of it is an ability to find something more engaging/interesting than eating. If I push past the hunger threshold, it's easy to just not eat for a long stretch of time. Eventually, I notice that I'm extremely physically weak and mentally fatigued (but still not very hungry), and I realize that I have to eat, or it's going to start causing problems.

Anyways, take that for what it's worth.
Phil (with a ph), it is so nice to run into you here!

I had no idea about the 1960s spelling - thanks for mentioning it.

As it happens, I bought your book in February 2013, only a couple of weeks after it was released. I will have to re-read it now. :-)

I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in this bit of hacking history.
Does it work? Not for me.
I was prescribed benzos because of sleeping issues, but I was also taking phenibut at the same time. After about 3 weeks of using large doses of the benzos every night, I stopped taking them, but a year later I still feel pangs of withdrawal sometimes when I get stressed. It took me another 4 months to get off the phenibut and a month or so after that before my sleep returned to normal. There were months where I maybe got an hour or two of sleep a night. If I got stressed, I simply wouldn't sleep at all. I once went three days without sleep. The torment of that combined with the withdrawal from the drugs showed me what hell was like. I tell everyone to never take benzos for any reasons. I don't care how safe the doctors say they are; they aren't. Period. There are repercussions - as this study shows - and they will not help the underlying cause of your issues. Treat the cause, not the symptoms.
Yeah, he said all he ate were pizzas, so he was doing this for a lot more than just one slice everyday, as well.
I just write them out each morning in a notes app (along with my standup notes). Anything that I didn’t get to / anything still pending, I’ll write them again the next day.

It works really well for me, as it keeps even older todos in my head every morning and also makes me aware of how much I have on my plate overall.
I recommend working out, it helped me a ton with anxiety. It basically cured it (I don't work out much anymore but a short intense few months of hard workouts seems to have almost removed it from my system years afterwards).
this is another one of those things that's true in a sort of broad sense, but factually incorrect. exercise burns calories, and burning calories makes you lose fat - that's just basic math.

but exercise makes you hungry, and to the article's main point: people are terrible at estimating calories. a one-hour easy run, a two-hour bike ride, or a full day of alpine skiing burns what's basically an irrelevant amount of calories. if you're taking in any extra amount of calories, normal amounts of exercise doesn't help you lose weight.
I love doing cardio, especially running gives me a rush like no other. If people don't want to do cardio you don't have to do it, you just have to adapt your calorie intake accordingly. But for those that don't mind it or even like it it's a neat way to squeeze out some more calories for a delicious meal or whatever.

I do agree that resistance training is important and often forgotten part of fitness. Having muscles means extra BMR and you will look better when you do lose that extra weight as opposed to that skinny fat look.
"Boob shock"? What's the "shock" part needed to tick that box? It is EUROvision, there could be boobs in every performance, and still no-one would be shocked.
Obesity was literally always a thing, it was just hard for crap covered serfs to get the calories to make it a thing for them. For the other classes though...
Important to also note, when something exists commonly on streets, it ends up being expected.

When a bike is a random occasion, you don’t drive expecting one on every corner. Even if you hate it. This can create an interesting type of blindness to it (your brain just doesn’t register it[0]).

Even if nothing changed in terms of people’’ feelings, this would be beneficial as well (which I presume, is much more common than people wanting to punish them).

[0]: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/motr/motorcycles-a...
> reply with some suggestion as to how I should eat so that I'm not hungry

Not to be that guy... but are you eating low calorie dense foods or high calorie dense foods?

The article points out that an Apple and a Donut have roughly the same volume, but an Apple is half the calories.

Also, as the article suggests, cutting out liquid calories (that don't satisfy hunger) are easy first steps.
Someone drew that by hand one pixel at a time, believe it or not! :^)
If it wasn't synthetic we wouldn't see animals growing fat from eating leftover food.

I think sugars and processed food increase hunger rather than reducing it.
Father Ted was commissioned in the UK after being turned down by an Irish broadcaster (I think the state one - can't recall). It was deemed too Irish, which was probably fair enough at the time.

Thankfully it was broadcast because it is a classic in my opinion. Mrs Doyle's ("Won't you have a cup of tea") mud and cocaine cake is up there in the comedy pantheon, along with elderly priest football and the milkfloat parody of "Speed".

Beautifully insightful parody without ever being cruel.
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/31926/how-can-i-...
Of course there are low end EVs. The Wuling Mini EV (which is the worldwide best seller iirc) can be had for 10,000$ with 200km of range. Also, at price of a Leaf or Zoe, you don't get a high end sedan, you get a Honda Civic, which is one of the cheapest sedans.
The problem is that you're saying it's very hard to measure wealth while at the same time confidently claiming the US is at the top. That just doesn't make sense.

GDP may not be a perfect measure of wealth but it's the best we've got IMO.

I've lived for a short while in Canada, for many years in Australia, and visited the USA many times... I really don't see much difference in wealth in general. I'm sure there's a lot more extremely rich people in the USA, but those are a small portion of the population so I wouldn't consider that an important indication of the wealth of a country, at least not as much as the wealth of the majority of its citizens (and the USA notoriously also has a lot more very poor people than either Australia or Canada). If you do that, perhaps the Arab Emirates would be wealthier? Or even China, home to more bilionaires than the USA IIRC?!

Also, if you include healthcare access and pension as you seem to be doing, again, the USA is probably the worst as you're pretty much on your own with those things, while in nearly any other developed country, people get decent healthcare and pension even without having had high paying jobs their whole life.
Actually looks like most of the languages are seriously outdated. Nim and Julia are both way outdated, Elixir is pretty outdated.
You're making a lot of assumptions here, "maybe", "probably".

"No medical history" doesn't mean shit either, it just means you have not yet seeked help. Most don't see mental health professionals at the first sign of issues, often they only do when things are starting to crumble. And that's my experience in a country with socialized healthcare, now translate that to the US where therapy is unaffordable to a large number of people.
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I'm fairly certain there are many existing ones that are better in many ways, but this one was made by my friends and I, and it was fun to build!
I think you just need to accept living with hunger. As in be hungry constantly and just learn to live with it. This is the only method by which I've ever successfully lost weight. Go at a large forced deficit. After a week or so you get kind of used to being hungry (your hunger decreases, but it never goes away) and it becomes easier, but it's never totally easy.

Some people are able to avoid hunger by sticking to certain foods, but that's never worked for me.
+1. I find drinking water and being hyper focused on a work or personal project distracts me enough from my tummy to get through those humps.
Same boat. I got over this once but fell back. I'm 'only' 70lbs overweight but food is an addiction for me. One I need to survive. Very hard.
have you gone more than 2 weeks on a restricted diet (<1000 calories/day)?

in my experience, 2 weeks is about the boundary for when the body decides it's going to adapt its hunger point to the new realities. unfortunately, it shifts back much quicker, or at least seems to do so since we're usually not paying as much attention then.
No, it simply requires that it's not backed by a commodity.
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I should have mentioned that this is optimised for desktop browsers only at the moment.
And cook like your grandma did.
There are sources of anxiety without clear solutions. I have a stalker. There's low-level harassment continuously, but every few months, she does something crazy, and my life is completely disrupted. I have no idea what to do about it.

It's nearing a decade....
Xanax use is cause for concern in general. Acutely it is safe, but chronic administration is definitively not, and not something to laugh about or take lightly.
Regardless of health, being overweight doesn't make someone a bad person.
Mental illness isn't the right word for it. And hydrophobia is a symptom of a brain disease more accurately.
But this is another reason why people don't lose weight / get fit / make progress on so many things. 50g / day is fine according to WHO. If that is correct (for argument's sake), we can't then use their 'better' guideline to mean "no adult should".

The perfect is the enemy of the good. People stop trying when they set unrealistic goals for themselves. We don't all need to be hyperfit. Etc.

I have made a ton of personal progress over the last 1.5-2 years in health and several other areas, by being vigilant in refusing to try to change too fast, even for mundane goals. It is important to find the right pace.
CICO is one of the few things in nutrition which is 100% fact: if you’re not losing weight after months, you’re eating too much, and if you eat less, you will lose weight.

But CICO alone is terrible nutrition advice, because hunger - true physical hunger - is not something anyone should live with. Those people in the Minnesota Starvation experiment? They were thinking about food 24/7, obsessing about it, it became nearly the only thing they cared about. One of them reported when watching a movie, he would pay most attention to the few scenes with the characters eating, not the action or romance or the actual plot. Furthermore, your body really does have sort of “starvation mode”: it won’t lower your RMR to 0, but it will cause brain fog, tiredness, loss of sex drive, mood dysregulation, and ultimately depression. You stop getting pleasure from anything except food.

Furthermore, you can get “physical hunger” even if you’re gaining weight, if your hormones are messed up. A cited example is hypothyroidism, which has symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, mood disorders synonymous with starvation. And you can avoid “physical hunger” even while losing weight, if your hormones are in check, you’re not in too steep a calorie deficit, and you’re getting enough nutrients (aka eating whole foods). This is why people emphasize eating nutritious foods even when you can reach the same calorie goal with junk foods.

There’s also the willpower component. Nutritious foods can improve your mood and give you more willpower, so it’s easier to eat less. They also tend to make people less (mentally) hungry. Generally when losing weight it’s a good idea to not just focus on nutrient-dense “whole” foods, but also low-volume and satiety-inducing foods. Nuts and whole grains are generally considered healthy but they’re also calorie-dense so it’s easy to pass your daily calorie needs them without getting full: in contrast, lean proteins and non-starchy vegetables are low-calorie and filling, it’s much harder to gain weight on fish and broccoli. Eating in a smaller time window and eating less meals (IF) also makes it easier to not overeat.

But even with IF, volume eating, and sometimes keto, you can still deal with physical hunger if your hormones are just messed up. To see if it’s your hormones first you need to stick to a consistent diet for at least a couple weeks: you will probably feel hungry and tired the first few days of any diet but that’s just your body adapting. After a few weeks if you’re “doing everything right”, including eating truly “healthy” foods (whole foods), eating low-calorie foods, and eating a moderate but not too steep deficit from your estimated TDEE; if you’re doing all that and either you’re not losing weight or your still white-knuckling it and getting symptoms like tiredness and hair loss, you should see a doctor and get your hormones checked.
i think mental health medication has been borderline fraudulent for over 50 years. the drugs rarely beat placebos. when they work the methodologies of study are rarely replicated. this is just hanging some giant exit sign in front of desperate people saying we can get out out of this mess all the while knowing it’s a gamble. a gamble you’re paying with your health and someone else is winning by taking the money.

the “mental health movement” ignores this and is mostly lip service. clean your room. take a walk.

no one really cares about you but you and learning how to care for yourself is so hard. i hope we can train people in proper self care so we don’t need to prescribe their life away
Until you get used to it. When you couple it with other sweet (sugar fortified) items in your diet it just becomes normal.
> His "medical degree" and insurance demands that he "treats" his patient.

Completely lost me here. Why does the doctor have air quotes around their medical degree? And what’s wrong with treating disease? Or are you saying insurance requires unnecessary prescriptions? Because that’s definitely not the case, insurance would prefer no prescriptions financially at least and the doc is paid the same either way. Overall I think you just have an axe to grind against medicine for some reason. It’s not a perfect system but I don’t think you really know what you’re talking about and are concerned with the wrong things.
My family mostly cooks at home, and we avoid heavily prepared ingredients, e.g., instant meals. I've never computed the calories, but I just looked up a few things. I can't even think of what to put in a pizza, to bring it up to 2370 Calories. I think a benefit of home cooking with mostly basic ingredients is just that we're engaged in the process, making it much harder to "hide" Calories in what we make. Also, we don't expect the food to be as yummy as restaurant food.

I also don't feel bad about the fact that I can't make an "authentic" restaurant pizza.
> ...or ABC is the local broadcaster for Australia.

Just a note here: The Eurovision local broadcaster for Australia is SBS[1]. SBS is also mostly publicly funded.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Broadcasting_Service
Circonus Histograms solve that by using a universal bucketing scheme. Details are explained in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06561

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Not very surprising, as long as you add the missing piece which is water
The most important thing anyone who wants to manage their weight has to realize is why they eat. You feel hunter but why?

Food is complicated and people eat for many reasons. People can eat because they're bored or they're anxious or even just to feel better, even briefly.

A healthy state to get to (which is easier said than done to be sure) is to treat food as fuel not as medicine or even a reward. You put gas in your car when it needs gas. Food should be the sam, ideally.

For me, I had a lot of success with intermittent fasting. This works for me. It may not work for you. But whether or not it works (and for some people it doesn't) one thing you do learn how much of hunger is just habit. Your'e used to eating a certain amount or at certain times. That feeling of feeling full actually isn't normal or even desirable. You'll be surprised at how little you actually need.

A good place to start is to inccrease protein consumption. A lot of high-calorie diets are surprisingly low in protein but really high in carbs (particularly sugar) and fat. It's actually much more difficult to overeat with high-protein. I've known more than a few people with weight issues who avoid eating protein just because of this.

Even small changes add up. Like people who scoop sugar and heavy cream into coffee and can end up consuming 700 calories per coffee multiple times a day. Drink black coffee. If you don't like that you should consider that you don't actually like coffee. You like coffee flavoured sugar and fat.

And if you don't like black unsweetened coffee, forcing yourself to drink it will actually kill your appetite. That's not such a bad thing.

But you need to figure out your relationship with food.
I don't think the Irish Catholic church were big fans.
key points:

1. Best scenario is to not have to raise capital right now. This condition may last for another 12-15 months.

2. Slower growth at a 24-30 month or longer runway is much better than high growth on a one year runway. Break-even cash flow is a good target if you can hit it.

3. Cut any sales / marketing spend that does not have an immediate (< 3 months) payoff.

4. Except for raising money most things get easier: for example less competition for good candidates and ads become much cheaper.

For context here is the "Sequoia memo" from 2008 https://www.slideshare.net/eldon/sequoia-capital-on-startups...
My favorite sweetener is a sucralose/stevia mix in highly concentrated liquid form. You can’t find it in the US, I get it from an importer:

https://chinchileproducts.com/products/iansa-cero-k?_pos=2&_...

About 6 drops is a teaspoon, so 125ml lasts forever. It is much more concentrated than other versions in the US.

The pure stevia versions and pure sucralose versions are okay, but for whatever reason the mix is really just perfect.
Exercise is tricky. If you do no exercise at all, you get really sluggish and tired all the time as your metabolism slows down, which then requires further caloric restriction. This works (especially, it seems, in a time/place that feels like winter, as the cold and darkness coupled with the lethargy seems like it maybe downregulates hunger), but it's really hard because now you have to barely eat at all.

If you exercise a bunch, you burn energy exercising and you also upregulate your metabolism significantly, giving you a higher calorie budget -- but you also really, really heavily upregulate hunger. If you exercise enough that the calories burn "matter", you're likely to feel the need to eat way way way too much.

Doing "just enough" exercise that you don't become sluggish and lethargic is probably the right place to be purely from a weight-loss perspective.

But in my experience, the hard part about losing weight isn't really anything other than "the amount I have to eat to not feel miserable all the time is too much"

Diets do work, in that if you want few enough calories, you will lose weight. They "don't work" because asking someone to spend months or years continually in escalating misery generally eventually results in noncompliance -- and if your body tells you that it wants 2500 calories per day and you go on an 1500 calorie diet to create a 500-calorie actual deficit to lose about 0.8-1.0lb/week, you're go to feel really really hungry 24 hours a day.

Some folks report that if they force themselves to eat less after a month or two, their sense of hunger downregulates and it gets easier. Other folks report that hunger remains a constant companion, never relenting until they broke.
Was just in Mexico and took them 3-4 days in a row (0.5mg - 2mg) to sleep after drinking or the next morning. Slept amazing those few nights. Felt terrible 2 days after the last one, and even now close to a week later I don’t even feel that good. Pretty sure they are terrible for you.