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Re: The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss

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Post by red-iron-pine » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 2:37 PM UTC

starbugs wrote: post #34

Sleep. If I didn't skip it, it's not mentioned in the article, but it's very important in my experience. If you don't sleep enough, going through with a reduced calorie intake will be much harder. I personally tend to overeat if I haven't slept for more than 6 hours the last night. Lost 88lb a long time ago within a (too) short time.

seconding. when i was doing some seriously lifting i built in a day to sleep in and skip the gym (wednesdays).

after life got busy i started doing the same for saturdays, too, and pushed the sat workout stuff to other days. didn't see any loss of performance or size, and felt much, much better.

big part of it, tbh, was because these were college-ish times and not staying out drinking == better overall sleep and health. yeah missed out on a couple of ragers, but also didn't really have any problems meeting people & staying social.

Re: The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss

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Post by maxglute » Mon, Jan 22, 2024, 6:16 PM UTC

miggol wrote: post #49

I think the author's take on the role of exercise is kind of harsh compared to my own experiences and of those around me. > An hour of intense exercise might burn 500 calories, and it’s very hard to keep up that level of effort for even one full hour — especially if you’ve been sitting in a chair all day for years on end. This is probably true, though it doesn't factor in the effect of muscle mass and "afterburn" on…

>you can gain significant muscle mass with just 90 minutes a week of strength training.

Basically, lean mass / muscle you gain are weight you don't have to lose. Untrained can gain 20% of muscles in year of training. That's 4-6 months of fat loss. And it raises maintainance calories so keeping weight off is less difficult. It's almost stupid not to take advantage.

Re: The lazy technologist's guide to weight loss

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Post by radicaldreamer » Tue, Jan 23, 2024, 3:57 PM UTC

basil-rash wrote: post #72

daseiner1 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other than a single line asserting reduced cortisol levels, that article provides no evidence for causation over correlation.

It certainly shows alcohol isn’t the limiting factor. Anyone could change any number of things to be as healthy as those folks, but for whatever reason academics instead insist alcohol is the problem. If the best software engineers in the role all consistently use rubber duck debugging, it may not be the case that rubber duck debugging is what makes them the best software engineers in the world, but it’d take a whole…

That's because there is a lot of evidence that alcohol is bad for you.

I don't know who is saying it's "THE" problem, but it definitely isn't A solution.