@hchavers@shahnm I have many things that could cook low calorie food… But I have to actually put low calorie food in them. A little oil is not the issue.
I’ve lost ~25 pounds since the new year. So that involves less of lotsa stuff. I have ~10 more to go, and I’m a little uncertain about reassimilating into modern American Life w/o gaining it all back.
@UncleVinny We need a policy of separating you people from us normal folks. You know, separate but equal. Say for instance you people will get all the salad bars and us folk will get all the hot buffets…you know, things like that.
And since you won’t be taking up as much room, it will be fair to put you in the back of the plane whilst us normal-sized folk will sit up front. Sound good?
@UncleVinny I’m going to attempt full keto this September. I dread not being able to have a lot of the stuff I like, but I think that low/no carb is the only thing that will work for me. Just cutting calories makes me burn off too much muscle going under 185 or so (and also very weak and lethargic for my current lifestyle), and my target is 165-170.
@ShotgunX I’m old-fashioned. I think “fad” diets, such as keto, are just a way of setting oneself an arbitrary obstacle that makes one focus on the goal, which is calories in < calories out.
Losing weight isn’t especially easy (in our world) but it’s not impossible. It means a lot of tough choices. If keto helps you make those choices, great! But the only thing that matters is, as the weeks and weeks roll by, having calories in < calories out.
Life is distracting, food is insanely alluring. Whatever you can do to stay focused on your goal is good. For me, it was weighing myself once a day, and being honest with myself about why it wasn’t at least in the ballpark of where it should be. Day to day there’s some fluctuations, but week to week there should be a picture painted as lovely as a key lime pie on an August afternoon.
@UncleVinny Yeah, but the thing about keto is that it literally puts your body into a different metabolic state. And it seems to be much less catabolic in nature, which is why more athletic types have success with it without, pardon my French, “losing their gainz bruh.” I don’t want to just drop weight, I want to drop weight without losing the other progress I’ve made, which is what happened the last time I tried to diet. I’ve also been told that when fasting while on keto, you don’t feel as hungry because your body is burning fat reserves instead of shutting itself down. Might be extremely anecdotal though.
But I’ll try it. I really don’t have much to lose, aside from my dignity after I start smelling like an acetone-drinking hobo.
@mike808@UncleVinny The problem with “calories in < calories out” isn’t that it isn’t true, it’s that it isn’t helpful. A lot of people, I suspect, face difficulties like, blood sugar crashes while they’re trying to do demanding work, say. That kind of scenario, you’ve got the less calories part down, but the equation is more complex than that.
If you can be less hungry, that helps with motivation–if you can skip the effects of precipitous blood sugar drops, that’d be great for staying employed.
Even where that’s not the case, working the “calories out” side of the equation is as valid as working the “calories in” side, and diet probably plays at least some role in that. It’s not like nutrition and related biologies are complete, finished sciences.
@InnocuousFarmer@mike808@UncleVinny Yup, i find that I have much less capacity for working out when I’m hungry. Sometimes, it’s hard to even start.
Besides, a calorie of sugar isn’t the same thing as a calorie of spinach or chicken breast. You can diet and still gain fat (unless you starve yourself and go into ketosis anyway). The human body loves storing energy, and has a tendency to start slowing down metabolic processes and burning muscle when in a calorie deficit.
A lot of it also has to do with genetics. My take on it is that people who adapted in areas where there was little food carry genes that focus on storing extra energy, while those who came from areas with a lot of food don’t. Kind of explains how Nords and people from places such as Central Africa/areas of the Middle East are so susceptible to obesity and diabetes, while people from the tropics and places like Southeast Asia can eat as much as they want and still be thin. I mean, I’ve seen tiny Asian girls eat more in a single lunch than I eat in an entire day, and yet somehow they’re still 90 pounds, without even spending any time at the gym.
@tinamarie1974 But but but I thought if we put refrigerated batteries in cold water that makes an energy drink. I mean that is why @shahnm keeps them in the fridge. Right? So we might be poisoned by the water and now can’t do that?
@Kidsandliz@tinamarie1974 Until the week after, when #science will find that water is good after all, and that batteries are probably OK too, but air is super dangerous and might be what’s been killing everybody all this time.
@Kidsandliz@shahnm@tinamarie1974 I’m pretty sure what’s killing everyone are retarded "news"producers and “news” readers who are looking for a sound bite and spout insane bullshit with no context from any study they can find
With an injured back resulting in a lack of employment, unfortunately I’ve been having to cut back on cash. Because of that I’m also having to cut back on new shoes which makes me really sad.
P.S.
Also, not by choice, I’ve been cutting back on IRK’s and BOC’s. Although I can’t say I haven’t tried pretty hard not to.
Right now we’re cutting back on trees at work. Since I work in IT, though, I’m hoping to cut back on cutting down trees. If you’re looking for some weight loss ideas, though, I recommend cutting back brush in August! Of course, it’s mostly water weight.
Cutting way back on salt…wound up in the hospital twice (once towards the end of May and then 2 weeks later in June 2019) with congestive heart failure.
I lost 12 lbs in July and was actually eating worse than I usually do (fast food, etc.). ‘How’d you lose the weight?’ you’re probably asking. Yoga, 30 minutes a day, every other day.
Calories in general.
But calories are sooo tasty…
@shahnm I know a website that sales a machine that cooks low calorie food.
@hchavers @shahnm I have many things that could cook low calorie food… But I have to actually put low calorie food in them. A little oil is not the issue.
I’ve lost ~25 pounds since the new year. So that involves less of lotsa stuff. I have ~10 more to go, and I’m a little uncertain about reassimilating into modern American Life w/o gaining it all back.
@UncleVinny Congratulations
@UncleVinny We need a policy of separating you people from us normal folks. You know, separate but equal. Say for instance you people will get all the salad bars and us folk will get all the hot buffets…you know, things like that.
And since you won’t be taking up as much room, it will be fair to put you in the back of the plane whilst us normal-sized folk will sit up front. Sound good?
@therealjrn I cede the malls. You can have ‘em!
@UncleVinny As long as the malls have dippin’ dots, we’re good with that.
@therealjrn and the fucking ballparks. Godspeed.
@carl669
@UncleVinny I’m going to attempt full keto this September. I dread not being able to have a lot of the stuff I like, but I think that low/no carb is the only thing that will work for me. Just cutting calories makes me burn off too much muscle going under 185 or so (and also very weak and lethargic for my current lifestyle), and my target is 165-170.
How did you drop the weight?
@ShotgunX I’m old-fashioned. I think “fad” diets, such as keto, are just a way of setting oneself an arbitrary obstacle that makes one focus on the goal, which is calories in < calories out.
Losing weight isn’t especially easy (in our world) but it’s not impossible. It means a lot of tough choices. If keto helps you make those choices, great! But the only thing that matters is, as the weeks and weeks roll by, having calories in < calories out.
Life is distracting, food is insanely alluring. Whatever you can do to stay focused on your goal is good. For me, it was weighing myself once a day, and being honest with myself about why it wasn’t at least in the ballpark of where it should be. Day to day there’s some fluctuations, but week to week there should be a picture painted as lovely as a key lime pie on an August afternoon.
You feel me?
@UncleVinny Yeah, but the thing about keto is that it literally puts your body into a different metabolic state. And it seems to be much less catabolic in nature, which is why more athletic types have success with it without, pardon my French, “losing their gainz bruh.” I don’t want to just drop weight, I want to drop weight without losing the other progress I’ve made, which is what happened the last time I tried to diet. I’ve also been told that when fasting while on keto, you don’t feel as hungry because your body is burning fat reserves instead of shutting itself down. Might be extremely anecdotal though.
But I’ll try it. I really don’t have much to lose, aside from my dignity after I start smelling like an acetone-drinking hobo.
@ShotgunX “meh”. calories in < calories out. You can always add back muscle if such frippery appeals
@UncleVinny But then the fat will come back, too. What I need is a shortcut. In fact, as an American, I demand one.
@UncleVinny
Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner!
Calories IN
Less than
Calories OUT
TNSTAAFL. Lower calories in or raise calories out.
That’s why they call it a workout instead of a funout.
@mike808 @UncleVinny The problem with “calories in < calories out” isn’t that it isn’t true, it’s that it isn’t helpful. A lot of people, I suspect, face difficulties like, blood sugar crashes while they’re trying to do demanding work, say. That kind of scenario, you’ve got the less calories part down, but the equation is more complex than that.
If you can be less hungry, that helps with motivation–if you can skip the effects of precipitous blood sugar drops, that’d be great for staying employed.
Even where that’s not the case, working the “calories out” side of the equation is as valid as working the “calories in” side, and diet probably plays at least some role in that. It’s not like nutrition and related biologies are complete, finished sciences.
@InnocuousFarmer @mike808 @UncleVinny Yup, i find that I have much less capacity for working out when I’m hungry. Sometimes, it’s hard to even start.
Besides, a calorie of sugar isn’t the same thing as a calorie of spinach or chicken breast. You can diet and still gain fat (unless you starve yourself and go into ketosis anyway). The human body loves storing energy, and has a tendency to start slowing down metabolic processes and burning muscle when in a calorie deficit.
A lot of it also has to do with genetics. My take on it is that people who adapted in areas where there was little food carry genes that focus on storing extra energy, while those who came from areas with a lot of food don’t. Kind of explains how Nords and people from places such as Central Africa/areas of the Middle East are so susceptible to obesity and diabetes, while people from the tropics and places like Southeast Asia can eat as much as they want and still be thin. I mean, I’ve seen tiny Asian girls eat more in a single lunch than I eat in an entire day, and yet somehow they’re still 90 pounds, without even spending any time at the gym.
There’s more to this than calorie in/calorie out.
Calories but I seem to only have to fuck that up once a week to maintain my current physique unfortunately
@carl669
Apparently carbs are the root of all evil, so that!
@tinamarie1974 Until next month, when it’s definitively proven that carbs are the best thing ever, and water is carcinogenic…
@shahnm @tinamarie1974 that dang ol demon water boy I tell you whut
@tinamarie1974 But but but I thought if we put refrigerated batteries in cold water that makes an energy drink. I mean that is why @shahnm keeps them in the fridge. Right? So we might be poisoned by the water and now can’t do that?
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Until the week after, when #science will find that water is good after all, and that batteries are probably OK too, but air is super dangerous and might be what’s been killing everybody all this time.
@Kidsandliz @shahnm
/giphy the horror
@shahnm @tinamarie1974 Yeah its probably the air. 100% of the people who breaths it eventually dies.
@Kidsandliz @shahnm
/giphy genius
@Kidsandliz Except for Elijah and Enoch!
@Kidsandliz @shahnm @tinamarie1974 I’m pretty sure what’s killing everyone are retarded "news"producers and “news” readers who are looking for a sound bite and spout insane bullshit with no context from any study they can find
Soylent Green
@f00l I guess you’re not a people person…?
@shahnm
I suppose, not so much.
@f00l @shahnm People are good…
@2many2no @f00l
@2many2no @f00l @shahnm
Wait, I thought that everything was about
more, more, MORE!
(Actually, I’m making an effort to walk more.)
@2many2no
“There’s always more, that’s what “more” means.”
With an injured back resulting in a lack of employment, unfortunately I’ve been having to cut back on cash. Because of that I’m also having to cut back on new shoes which makes me really sad.
P.S.
Also, not by choice, I’ve been cutting back on IRK’s and BOC’s. Although I can’t say I haven’t tried pretty hard not to.
Calories
Looks like Calories has more mentions that the easy clinks in the poll. Way to burn those calories!!!
I’m cutting back on teenagers at the lakeside campground.
@ShotgunX
I’m cutting -b-a-c-k—o-n- teenagers at the lakeside campground.
FTFY.
No thanks necessary.
Sincerely,
Jason
I’m cutting back on…
Meh and other non-essential purchases until my financial situation improves – house fire & too many other things.
Juul
Clutter.
Polls
Loquaciousness.
@shahnm Say goodbye to it’s prettier cousin for me, sesquipedalianism.
@mike808 Ciao.
Does cutting back on how much I’m paying for stuff qualify?
I’m trying to get more sleep and drink more water, so I guess I’m cutting back on staying awake and dehydration.
Stupidity oh, and & dehydration.
Right now we’re cutting back on trees at work. Since I work in IT, though, I’m hoping to cut back on cutting down trees. If you’re looking for some weight loss ideas, though, I recommend cutting back brush in August! Of course, it’s mostly water weight.
Eating out less and booze. Cutting back on both of those.
Cutting back from not calling out ignorant, bigoted, racist, xenophobic bullshit for what it is to be polite and not hurt the snowflakes’ fee fees.
Booze. Trying to be smarter, more rested, and less lazy.
Time spent on the computer.
@lseeber You should start up a blog and post every day about it and how you are doing!
@therealjrn
@lseeber ha ha
Cutting way back on salt…wound up in the hospital twice (once towards the end of May and then 2 weeks later in June 2019) with congestive heart failure.
@misspattybr So sorry to hear that.
I lost 12 lbs in July and was actually eating worse than I usually do (fast food, etc.). ‘How’d you lose the weight?’ you’re probably asking. Yoga, 30 minutes a day, every other day.
Finally ready to say goodbye to Cable. Well, after I watch “Zombie Tidal Wave” tonight.
Everything. Sugar, booze, carbs, red meat, etc…
I’m trying to focus on the right things right now.
had a stroke…so cutting back is the new norm…as well as bus transpo and LYFT
Sodium, Dr’s orders. And beer, bc I’m starting to wear it. But I’ve replaced the beer with gin.