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The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by Paracompact »

goodmythical wrote: post #39
Yeroc wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally this. I've recently embarked on a weight loss/fitness journey (coming up on 50 rotations around the sun) and I find it incredibly helpful to think of the 250 calorie chocolate bar as roughly 25 minutes on the treadmill.

Burning a thousand calories an hour on a treadmill is kind of high, isn't it? Like, you'd have to be pushing really hard for the entire hour to hit a thousand calories, wouldn't you? Brief search says us male is 200lb on avg, 200lb male burns just over 1000 in an hour at 8mph, average adult 10 mile is 1:17. Soo, 8 miles in an hour is 7:30 miles...10 in 1:17 is 7:42. Closer than I thought, I suppose, but definitely re…

250 in 25 minutes is 600/hour, not 1000/hour.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by IncreasePosts »

socalgal2 wrote: post #15

> and was amazed at how many calories I would have to eat in order to stay the same weight. It was huge. Can someone explain this to me? I try to stay under 2000 calories. To me it means eating almost nothing. Let's say I have berries and yogurt. That ~300. Add a morning latte (no sugar). Now we're at 500. I've effectively had a tiny breakfast and already spent 1/4th of my calorie budget. Taking what I just ate and m…

I think you're inflating your calorie count a bit: 200 calories of whole milk is like a 20 oz latte. 300 calories of yogurt and berries is like 12 oz of greek yogurt and a cup of berries. I'm not sure putting 1.5 lbs of stuff in your stomach for breakfast really counts as a small breakfast.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by Paracompact »

jannyfer wrote: post #2

I see this post is from 2024. Maybe I would have enjoyed the hook and enjoyed reading along to figure out what this "harajuku moment" was back in 2024. But since being exposed to AI slop daily, and having to scan through so much verbose AI outputs during day-to-day "coding", I've now started skimming so much that I got annoyed that it meandered, then just couldn't bother reading the rest of the post after I've figure…

> I used to enjoy longform content... alas.

Not all longform is like this, thankfully.

I'm of the opinion that for all the bad things AI has done for us and our psychology, there is a silver lining in that it has reduced our tolerance for "slop" and time-wasting tactics in general.

"Brevity is the sister of talent," said Chekov, and it applies to more than just creative writing.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by lbreakjai »

> Again, trying to literally count calories sucks and is demotivating. Setting up a rigid template for a week and then using it as a basic guide is sustainable and fun.

I lost a huge amount of weight when I was younger (From above 100 kg to 60 kg). I then added 15 kg back slowly, about 1 kg a month, while working out.

The most important thing I learned is that motivation is worth approximately nothing. It comes and it goes. It eventually becomes a job in itself to find it. If you base anything on it being fun and you being motivated, you'll fail.

What's free and sustainable is discipline. You don't weight and log your food because it's motivating and fun, you just do it. It's like brushing your teeth, it's something you have done for so long that it'd feel weird not to.

I don't think I've enjoyed squatting once in the last two years. I dread any session that involves squatting, but if it's gym day, I go to the gym, and if it's squat day, then I squat.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by phoenixy1 »

refulgentis wrote: post #30
timerol wrote: post #29

> apparently, 10 pounds of weight loss is roughly a clothing size [XL → L → M] What? This is so wrong I'm confused how it could have possibly made it in. As a 5'7" guy, I was a M at 145, and still an M when I hit 175, though at that point I was close to an L. There is no way I was 3 separate sizes during that time

Something feels off / sloppy with the article in general and that’s gotta be the smoking gun. I cannot think of a single case where this is true, I’ve lost 35 pounds in the last 6 months, and I’m still a medium. 5’9”.

This rule of thumb, when used correctly, is supposed to refer to womens' dress straight sizes. As in, for an average height woman, losing 10 lbs is roughly equivalent to going from a size 8 to a size 6. It doesn't refer to clothing that is sized as "medium", "large", etc. (I did not read the article; it seems from the quote that the author was using this rule of thumb inappropriately and out of context.)

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by Geee »

socalgal2 wrote: post #15

> and was amazed at how many calories I would have to eat in order to stay the same weight. It was huge. Can someone explain this to me? I try to stay under 2000 calories. To me it means eating almost nothing. Let's say I have berries and yogurt. That ~300. Add a morning latte (no sugar). Now we're at 500. I've effectively had a tiny breakfast and already spent 1/4th of my calorie budget. Taking what I just ate and m…

My weight loss diet is coffee for breakfast and lunch, then one large pizza for dinner. That's it.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by jaggederest »

zipy124 wrote: post #18
socalgal2 wrote: post #15

> and was amazed at how many calories I would have to eat in order to stay the same weight. It was huge. Can someone explain this to me? I try to stay under 2000 calories. To me it means eating almost nothing. Let's say I have berries and yogurt. That ~300. Add a morning latte (no sugar). Now we're at 500. I've effectively had a tiny breakfast and already spent 1/4th of my calorie budget. Taking what I just ate and m…

Note that the specified BMR is 2,900 in this article. If you are a heavier individual you tend to have a higher BMR. A latte with semi-skimmed milk is closer to 100 (probably 125ish) than 200 calories in your example. A low fat greek yoghurt can be as low as 50 calories per 100g, so the 300 calories examples gives you 600 grams of yoghurt, quite a large portion. The best way to hit a deficit though isn't to eat very…

Also, BMR is not how much you need to eat, it's what you'd burn if you were effectively in a coma. RMR (resting metabolic rate) is what you'd burn if you were as lazy as humanly possible (one can dream), often 1.15xBMR, and actual output is typically 1.2xBMR for an extremely sedentary person.

Practically speaking if you do things with your life, like deliberate exercise, it'll be more like 1.3xBMR or more. Which means 3770 for a BMR of 2900 - a ton of food if you're not eating calorie dense things like e.g. ice cream.

If you were to eat, say, 1000 calories, and maintain activity levels (most people can't), youd be losing the better part of a pound of mass a day, and close to 50/50 muscle and fat.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by jjice »

timerol wrote: post #36
rabbitlord wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

but that is also discouraging. For example, I just ran for 30 mins, but that only gives me half a cookie. Why the f do I even run?

Run because cardiac health and general fitness are important. Manage calorie intake if your only goal is weight loss

+1 - Exercise gives the benefit of calories expended for weight loss, but it really isn't enough to matter for the average person. Exercise is great for improving your cardiovascular function, your muscles, your neurological pathways (could be butchering the terminology) for those movements, and it often leads you towards other good things, like spending time with others and getting outside.

Re: The Harajuku Moment (2024)

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Post by MisterTea »

joezydeco wrote: post #10
totetsu wrote: post #3

This isn't an account of the cultural moment that indi-fashion hub Harajuku had before its gentrification by Major international brand stores, or a inane J-Travel blog complaining about being out of shape and there being too much walking, It's a possibly interesting story of personal growth only coincidentally related to Harajuku.

Took a really long time to get to that point.

I see this a lot of these meandering essays or whatever from thought leader types: write a lot of fluff about a subject and make it sound like you're the first person to have a thought on said subject.
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