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This is a weird tip I think I could only share with the hacker news crowd. Once I learned about gut bacteria I started thinking of my cravings as something external to me. Like instead of saying "I'm hungry and I'm in the mood for something sweet" I would realize "the hormone ghrelin is sending hunger signals to my brain and the gut bacteria in my body is asking for something that's not actually in my best interest."…
Food scale. Weigh EVERYTHING you eat for a few weeks. Use an app like MyFitnessPal or something similar to gain and understanding of how many calories you're taking in. You'll be shocked at first
Then, make small adjustments until you get between 1600-2000 calories a day.
Add in walking 2-3 miles 2-3 days a week.
Lift weights two or three times per week, and walk just barely enough to avoid being completely sedentary. Nothing crazy, I'm talking about using the weight machines at a gym, and walking just ~8k steps per day with a pedometer watch to gamify it. I'm a naturally obese person, and I've read a thousand of these threads over the years. Nearly every comment is either: * Telling you to "hack your body", with keto or what…
This is so goddamn true, there is a magical threshold of enough exercise where you suddenly just start craving healthier food and lose interest in junk.
I have been across this threshold multiple times in my adult life and it’s always really fascinating.
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Yes, specifically, highly concentrated oxygen can burn out the lungs and the retinas. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity
does this apply to hyperbaric chamber therapy?
On the other side Astronauts run pure oxygen at low pressure (8psi) in their EVA suits, it can be tolerated indefinitely.
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> Nothing crazy, I'm talking about using the weight machines at a gym, and walking just ~8k steps per day with a pedometer watch to gamify it. This is a little crazy if you work in an office though. It's like over 1 hour of walking per day. Where do people find the time?
Park your car 30mn from your work, then listen a cool podcast walking there. That's it.
Lift weights two or three times per week, and walk just barely enough to avoid being completely sedentary. Nothing crazy, I'm talking about using the weight machines at a gym, and walking just ~8k steps per day with a pedometer watch to gamify it. I'm a naturally obese person, and I've read a thousand of these threads over the years. Nearly every comment is either: * Telling you to "hack your body", with keto or what…
I also prefer 2-3 lifts per week for health, but it amplifies my already prodigious appetite to rediculous levels. I can and have eaten 6000kcal in a sitting. I usually end up gaining fat when I start lifting and haven't ever managed a cut. I always lose weight by not lifting and restricting calories. Right now the intermittent fasting is working well for me. I'm curious how that will work when I start lifting again.
I lost a lot of weight pretty quickly a few years ago. I gained some back, so I can't say my tip is "sustainable", but it worked very well at the time. Most people agree that cutting calories is the key, and exercise helps. No magic. But one major fact that is too often overlooked is the mental aspect and how to persist with your diet until you have lost the weight you want. My trick was to target a very specific dat…
I don't like this kind of advice, only because it sets people up to fail. If your definition of "success" is not cheating, not once, ever, for 90 days, 99% of people will fail that. Half within the first couple weeks. And if you've failed your goal such that it's 100% unattainable now, what's the point of continuing at all? What's the point of setting another 90-day goal you'll also fail at? This might help for peopl…