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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well - I don’t think this is healthy or possible in 2 months.

  Last year, I weighed in at 242 with high blood pressure and decided to get serious about weight loss. I started tracking my input and output to my system. I have a watch that measures approximately how much I work off. I use apps to track how much I’m taking in. The one factor that is missing is your BMR, your basal metabolic rate. This is how many calories you burn just by being alive. There are special scales or devices that can measure this for you. You will need this to figure out the math.

  Food calories eaten - BMR - Exercise calories spent = Calorie deficit or excess

  So, if you exercise more, or eat fewer calories, you’ll lose weight.

  So, a pound of fat is 3500 calories, so if you have a deficit of about 500 calories a day, that’s about a pound of fat per week. If you have a deficit of 1000 calories a day - that’s a lot! - then you might lose 2 pounds a week.

  Using this formula, I managed to lose about 45+ pounds in 6 months. I worked up to a walk+jog and managed to cover about 3+ miles per day. Unfortunately, with the cold weather of winter, I’ve not been able to exercise much, so my weight loss stopped in December.

  But what you’re talking about is losing 5+ pounds per week. That would require a 2500 calorie deficit! That would be a super-heavy workout every day. And then eating very sensibly. Even so, there is danger that some of your weight loss would be muscle and bone loss in addition to fat.

  tl;dr - Don’t do this. Also, talk to a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy’s to close hundreds of restaurants as struggling customers cut back on dining out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not Kennough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for Microsoft Teams, because they don’t need that now, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “That is a fucking idiotic idea.”

  Attacks the idea, not the person. Probably will be the same result, because they probably were a fucking idiot to believe that stuff, and they are very attached to stupid ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Finally, a nipple!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In related news, PeerTube just achieved its funding goal - including all of its stretch goals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The human brain processes information by chunking - bundling up information into chunks to remember it. It’s like a .zip file or compression on an image. That process is a bit lossy. If you’ve ever tried to write a technical document or a rules-set for a game, and had a user go through the document undirected, you’ll see it in action.

  The more complicated, technical, or tedious the instructions are, the more likely loss or misinterpretation will occur. A friend of mine says that writing a technical document is like programming a computer that skips every 7th line.

  As a person who has written many of these, I’ve found ways to counteract / ameliorate their problems:

  • the use of paragraphing important points that you want feedback on
  • When sending to multiple people, but wanting feedback from a specific person, I bold, underline, and color their name next to their action item, so they know it’s for them
  • Using checklists or bullet points
  • explaining things through multiple avenues, like with visual images and with text simultaneously

  I hope this helps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I like just “Floh”, even if it does just mean “flea” in German.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What if you could log in with your Mastodon (or other) Fediverse account, and they would too, so you could see their user history and connections? (And they could see yours)