Tired of Being Tired • Hacker News Board

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by nasmorn » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 10:18 AM UTC

Mz wrote: post #86

palish wrote: post #21

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I don't really understand why fat people are so... well, upset at being fat. What I mean is, I would personally be OK with myself if I were 285lbs. Ok, this comment isn't really coming across very well. What I'm saying is, at worst, being fat would only shave ~20 years off my life expectancy. Since I don't want to live until I'm 70 anyway, I'd personally be happy with a ~50 year total life expectancy. I don't care wh…

I don't really understand why fat people are so... well, upset at being fat. I'm not sure I can help you any with this question. I used to be 245 and I'm female. If the OP is male/taller than me, that may be comparable. Like the OP, I worked on getting my life back and that had the unintended consequence of also leading to significant weight loss. (I had zero goal to "lose weight" and was fine with how I looked.) I c…

Cut your hair short and dye it in a dark shade of red. Thats what most attractive women do when they need a break from male attention. Works 99.9% of the time. The remainder has found the perfect look.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by orenmazor » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 11:54 AM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #95

orenmazor wrote: post #92

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the bit about body temperature is really interesting. I'm also much warmer on average when I regularly hit the gym. I thought it was just me.

Look up EPOC: excess post-exercise oxygen consumption. You're elevating your metabolism for up to 38 hours post-exercise (though the major effect is within the first 10 hours). Adding muscle mass also increases metabolic activity, though it's a fairly small effect absent exercise and post-exercise responses, about 6-12 cal/lb/day, not the 50 cal that was being publicised for some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex…

that makes a lot of sense and reminds me all of that stuff I've read about HIIT

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by Mz » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 1:03 PM UTC

nasmorn wrote: post #101

Mz wrote: post #86

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I don't really understand why fat people are so... well, upset at being fat. I'm not sure I can help you any with this question. I used to be 245 and I'm female. If the OP is male/taller than me, that may be comparable. Like the OP, I worked on getting my life back and that had the unintended consequence of also leading to significant weight loss. (I had zero goal to "lose weight" and was fine with how I looked.) I c…

Cut your hair short and dye it in a dark shade of red. Thats what most attractive women do when they need a break from male attention. Works 99.9% of the time. The remainder has found the perfect look.

The majority of this attention is from women who would like to be like me, not men who would like to get with me. Total strangers stop me in the grocery store and ask how I lost so much weight and things like that. I'm not comfortable divulging my diagnosis under such circumstances and there typically isn't time to get into my story, which is long and convoluted.

Also, for the last four years, most of the time my hair is so short that I joke I look like a new recruit/jarhead. The result has been at least one woman has cut her hair shorter, inspired by me. At least one other woman has talked about considering cutting her hair shorter because she likes my hair so much. Granted, I am a tad overdue for a haircut at the moment, so my curls are showing. This has very likely made my problems worse in recent weeks (in terms of turning heads/ garnering attention). Nor will I be dying it red as hair dye causes me to break out in hives. Frankly, I'm not sure it would help.

Thanks.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by phpnode » Mon, Oct 17, 2011, 3:44 PM UTC

nazgulnarsil wrote: post #99

phpnode wrote: post #83

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sure it does, fat is high in calories, an excess of calories are stored by your body as fat. Of course, it's possible to get fat by eating calorie dense but low fat food. But it's a lot easier to get fat eating fatty food because of the high calorie / high reward nature of it.

are you implying that high sugar foods aren't a bigger superstimulus than high fat foods? people consistently eat more calories worth of sugary foods in studies indicating that fat's satiety more than makes up for its caloric density.

no, I'm just saying that it's misleading to say that eating fat doesn't make you fat