LavaPlanet

@LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re going, a human body isn’t quite comparable to those factors though, it’s a bit more complex than that, because what you’re trying to do is kick in a chemical reaction to release hormones to signal to your fat cells to release them, and that they no longer need to be stored.

  In that premise you need to look at why your body stores fat, and in what mechanisms it releases them.

  Fat is seen by the body as more of a battery, to save itself (you) if shortages should occur, which is kinda where the calories in vs calories out come from. Right, but, that’s a temporary, survival mechanism that you’re trying to kick in there, and when you tell your body you don’t need to be in survival mechanism mode, any more, it goes, “oh, look, we’re resting, that fat that I stored saved us, I need to save more”

  You can’t continually operate in a calorie deficit, and exercising more than you intake. It’s not sustainable long term. Your body will try and bounce back to it’s “normal”.

  Calories in and of themselves don’t have one static notion or rule, summing up all things edible to calories is entirely deceptive, in and of itself. Food offers different nutrients, and your body is really good at making the essential nutrients it needs, out of chemical reactions, from whatever you put in, other than some essential amino acids, which is can’t make on its own. But also, different foods do different things to your digestive system on the way through.

  Calling all food calories, and trying to reduce it to a same action product, in the first part of the equation (calories in) is like saying anything with computing powers, is the same and can and does the same actions, but you can’t send emails with your alarm clock.

  Different foods offer different energy output and productions in the body. You won’t get the same energy levels from fibre that you do from protein. So summing up all food into one label like that, ignores so many chemical factors that occur in the body when you digest food, and how different foods operate in said meat machine.

  Not all calories are equal, so the premise is inaccurate, in that summation.

  Calories out, similarly ignores huge wafts of data, chemical reactions, hormone functions, metabolic rates, genetics, gender (it has only ever been a model tested, if you can call it that, on males), age, and more. It, also similarly ignores the base systems of the body, and why it stores fat, what happens if you release fat in the wrong way, and the rubber band effect, that causes. I could go into so much detail about that part, but I’m already waffling.

  I don’t know if thermodynamics matches how a human body sets off a chain reaction to release fat cells, but if I were to relate it to energy, which thermodynamics is a form of. Because we’re talking about a very complex system of chemical reactions. It’s a way too simplistic thing to relate it to, because the human body has so many hormones that all combined do so many different coded locks and key processes in the body. Adrenalin is a hormone, dopamine is a hormone, even histamine (allergy reactions) are hormones. And they all signal different actions to and within different cells of the body.

  Whereas energy, in physics is a very simplistic thing that reacts the same every time, in so much as that they have equations that math it out, every time. You can calculate the energy loss, resistance, voltage, amps etc, and they’re the same, because it’s one form, not a complex system, which a human body is. It’s also not going to equate to the same calculable set of parameters in every human body, like you can with energy. Energy is “a” being equal to “c” divided by “b”, and it will always be the same. Every human body absorbs and processes different nutrient intake differently.

  But imagine if you told everyone, instead, to find a long term comfortable sustainable diet rich with variety of fruits, vegetables, legumes and beans, nuts, meats. Less, ideally no, processed foods or junk foods, and just moved their body frequently and regularly, nothing big, just something. Minimally. (that not being the entirety of it) how many businesses and whole bodies of corporations does that message, put out of business?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  See but I think we’re both actually saying the same thing. The amount of factors that go into calories in vs calories out, essentially makes it unusable. Just looking at calories as a base whole product, not the individual piece of food and the nutrients it provides, is mad. By that rationale you could just live on oranges. They’re calories, or junk food. Calories.

  It’s not calculable, how one individual body absorbs, processes, and then manufactures the essential nutrients it needs, from “calories”. It’s essentially saying how much food in vs how much food burning out. But that’s not how fat is turned from fat to energy consumption, by the human body. It has nothing about the essential needs of the body.

  It’s a myth perpetuated by diet industry that only keeps you on the hamster wheel of weight loss and, for most people not genetically gifted, never really works. Or only works short term but then your body goes into survival mode, and stacks it all, and more, back on.

  Here’s a an article that might help say things better than I am. …edu.au/…/its-time-to-bust-the-calories-in-calori…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Predatory af, right! Similarly as predatory. There’s 18 ingredients in maccas chips. Wtf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine it can be hard to scroll past someone saying something very off the wall. When you read someone’s comment it’s hard not to feel like they’re talking directly to you, and if you don’t align with what they’re saying, especially if you’re far from it, it can be hard to resist correcting them or giving them your opinion, when I catch myself doing this, I try to reframe it to ask a question, rather than dump opposing facts.

  But there’s another perspective I try really hard to keep in mind, if I were sitting at a table with a group of people and someone was loudly saying those things to me in person, I wouldn’t engage. I’d move to a quieter spot and ask the people I do like at the table to come for a chat there, or I’d acknowledge their feelings (but not the topic) and move to a different conversation topic.

  But I feel like I need more practice at doing this when it’s in a text form of socializing, as this is.

  I notice some amazing people on here, whom I aspire to learn from, that handle conflicting opinions with grace, and inclusion.

  And I understand the dehumanisation that text conversations, present, it can be easy to imagine a hostility that may not be behind the comment. We’re all filling in the blanks of the personality behind the commenter. I worked a checkout for a good decade, so I’m very familiar with positions that can become dehumanised. Especially seeing as that seemed to be throughout a time when a huge bulk of people felt like they were only going to get righted the situation they believed had wronged them, by yelling or getting massively agro at the poor checkout chick who was gunna set that right wrong, because fk corporations, I enjoyed giving as much free stuff away as possible, any excuse, within the rules I could muster.

  I absolutely understand tensions being high, currently, with world events being what they are. And there’s so much propaganda trying to brain wash us into being an army for their cause, and it’s all rage baity. So there’s even more rage and tension built up. I get it.

  I really feel for people who can’t, and haven’t been helped to learn how to help and sooth their emotions, and then those emotions fester into all consuming things. And they find a cause to funnel that emotion into. Without really addressing that emotion, therefore not actual helping, processing or soothing that emotion.

  See, we feel a feeling first, and then we ascribe a meaning, after. Except those two parts of the brain don’t actually communicate. The emotional brain is essentially non verbal, and the thinking brain, is verbal, but obviously it doesn’t do emotions. So you have this thinking guy in your head trying to tell you what emotions mean, except that guy is not an expert and knows nothing about them.

  Your emotional brain is essentially a, very detailed messenger system for checking the temperature of the room. If shit feels off, it sends an alarm. Your emotions are a message to you that the shower temperature is too hot. It’s not really about that argument you had with your sibling last fortnight.

  And to top it off, your emotional brain is non verbal, so all that ranting that you do, thinking that you solve the anger (or whatever emotion) you feel isn’t! It’s actually making it worse.

  Your emotional brain is super primal, and very simplistic. All it wants is to know you took your hand out of the broiling hot shower water, and now your safe, and it’s message worked. It feels the environment and let’s you know if that’s vibing good stuff or danger. Sometime all you gotta do is change environment, or do a couple of jumping jacks, to help that emotional brain know, dangers gone. If you sit in the same spot and stress, your brain can even learn, that’s a stressful spot to sit, every time we sit here, bam, gotta be bad, and spits up those same feelings, even if it’s about nothing, just habit.

  It also believes anything you tell it, because it’s listening to vibes. So even if shits fkd, right now, you have to keep telling yourself, everything is OK, you are safe and a capable bad ass, who has handled all the shit life threw so far, so you absolutely got this. Time to shine.

  Your emotions are a message for you, and you alone. And if you expect others to sooth your emotions, all the time, you tell yourself that you don’t trust yourself to be capable of helping yourself process emotions. Obviously, we also need connection, so at the same time, it’s not at all about doing it alone. But it’s more about feeling safe to sit in emotions, rather than, fixing them. The way forward is sometimes the way back, sit in the emotion. Don’t try and put it out like it’s a fire, or distract it with shiny things. Just be, and listen, feel. Sometimes you need to sit with someone and not feel like you have to create a false front. Just sit and feel, for a bit.

  If you’re getting stuck in emotions for elongated periods of time, there’s people who spend multiple years at school learning how to try and show you all the tips and tricks we’ve learned so far. Have a chat with one (or two if you don’t vibe with numerous uno) of them.

  It’s literally all about emotional regulation. The mean people, haven’t been able to process their emotions, have never been taught how, their parents didn’t know, themselves, to tell them. And they’re being bombarded with proverbial tornadoes from all sides. And there’s so much rage baity propaganda, all designed to fuel and feed off that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, exactly, calories in vs calories out is just another myth that feeds the diet industry’s bottom line. It’s not accurate. Like bmi used to be the big thing, but that’s not an accurate measurement system at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My body is a roadmap of pain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an absolute fuck waffle for ages, nobody told me about frozen shoulder. Although I didn’t go to an actual doctor, so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Comparison 2.0⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing those terms written down, is a great way to learn, all you gotta do is look up whatever word you aren’t sure of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, do that. You can’t control the forest when you only own one tree. It’s not the individuals fault that the laws, and regulations have become predatory. Be ok with voting against your own interests if making the system more fair becomes an option down the line, even if that will effect your hip pocket. That’s what needs to change, in more sectors than just housing, people need to be ok with voting against their own interests, if it means making the system more fair for underprivileged. Because those are the ladders that have been removed, and that is the way to put them back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. Yeah, I could really work on my delivery. I feel like it’s probably coming across that way because I’m mostly angry venting into the wild, rather than speaking to people, and I really need to work on that. I’m just so angry about all that I see, and I don’t expect people to actually listen to anything I say, that’s probably a byproduct of being a mum for the last, well, it’s been over 30 years now. So I feel like I’m probably doing more screaming into a pillow, than proper adult discourse. I just want to vent my anger, I just want someone to say, yeah, shits fucked up, back to me.

  Just to clarify, It’s not that I think landlords, individually are evil, I just see how they’re being weaponised. I just read a few lines and it clicked some things together.

  I’ve been consuming too much history stuff, lately. It’s making me really angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, but there’s more to it than that. Thyroid causes issues that cause weight to pack on, no matter what your caloric intake is, menopause causing low estrogen causes weight gain because the visceral fat around your organs, the type you can’t exercise off, makes a kinda knock off estrogen, so your body packs on weight, to try and make estrogen there. You could eat one meal a day, all healthy and still put weight on. And there’s so many more health conditions that cause weight gain. Just Genetics, even. The calories in vs calories out theory has been debunked as a singular cause. Sure, if you have no underlying health issues and you watch what you eat, focus on fibre, legumes, vegetables etc, exercise the right amount, you will lose weight, but, if you are able to do that, you are probably already thin. People who are overweight, overwhelmingly have other conditions causing issues, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This and a few other key pieces floating around. History, capitalisms usual trajectory, current happenings. The fact that it’s so bad and no politicians are doing anything, but like multiple places in the world. The levels of fascism popping up everywhere. Capitalism is a pyramid scheme where the people at the top want exponential growth, with a finite amount they can take from. The genocides going on, are to increase profits and control world shipping corridors. If they take all of our land, they have the majority of the populous in the world, as a slave work force, we would work just to pay them for the roof over our heads. The rules around renting are getting so extreme, and nothing is being done about regulating this, to protect the renters rights. Without renters, the house they live in falls into rot, and they go out of business overnight. But renters aren’t treated like the customer, we’re gaslight into believing renters are subservient to landlords and landlords are doing renters a favor (by letting them pay off the landlords property, and or lining their pockets) the trajectory we’re currently on, and the pace at which the rules and laws are becoming a tighter noose around the renters neck, tells me it’s getting a lot worse, very fast. I don’t know, now I’m rambling. I’m tired. I don’t even know if I’m making sense right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of a sudden I can see, more clearly, how “landlord” is a form of controlling the poor, like low wages is, it’s not just an imbalance in the current system where they’ve accidentally made the system entirely too heavy with investors and not rebalanced the system to be fair, that’s no accident. It’s a system and purposeful tool of oppression. They aren’t going to make housing more affordable or do anything about the fact “landlords” (landlords, corporations, Airbnb, owning houses) hold too much power. That’s by design. Capitalism creates slavery in insidious ways, until suddenly it’s not insidious, but by then it’s too late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard similar, that your body wants to keep the “norm” whatever that is. And it makes sense that any extreme weight loss, would seem, to your body, that there is a famine or something is wrong and then reset the balance back to what it was, as soon as it can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so it’s kinda for show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing! Small wins!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already canceled because of the atrocities Microsoft does / is / supports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is exactly what I was thinking, too. You redirect the behavior somewhere safe while still fulfilling the essential need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's depressing, man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, emotional intelligence is hugely overlooked, when interpreting what others say, and to also not be swept up by every little thing, and that low eq breeds for resentment, which is rife for the brainwashing that propaganda is. We all need to be focusing on teaching the next Gen how to step outside their emotions, as an observer, and reflect on the message they are for oneself, not a cue for how to treat others, and to look inside and heal, or self care, if those emotional messages are extreme. It’s not iq, it’s eq and the world would be a different place. It’s easy not to care, when you feel like you have been thrown out with the trash, and knee jerk to all your emotions, rather than be an entity that observes your emotions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lies, all lies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to down Tibetan throat singing, because that shit is awesome, no shade to my girl, either, because she said she listen to all types, she didn’t say she liking all types. She hasn’t left the table!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International travel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree, it’s entirely fascinating, if you have time to converse with someone about the culture of the specific areas of where you live, that would make for brilliant conversation. It’s just that people won’t know the culture, without that conversation, so they might know some of the names of the cities and states, but they wouldn’t know what the people are, generally like, in those areas. If you’re talking with someone who is more familiar, they would understand you’re communicating your beliefs and culture, but anyone outside that lived knowledge, doesn’t understand that, if you mention you’re from a certain place, that means you align with certain beliefs. Although I can certainly understand still leading with that, and maybe more people will get a feel for it, the more you explain and get chances to have those conversations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bored⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww, Needs some of that proprioceptive sensory stimulation, but never had the supports to help him find healthy ways to do it. Poor buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨International travel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You understand differentiation for demographics in certain areas, but no one else does, it just confuses people abroad when you talk about what city you’re from. Like if I started talking about Melbournites, vs sydnesiders you wouldn’t be able to chime in on the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No words⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I watched him speak on the subject, in a similar clip, he ends up screaming about the atrocities being done and how truly awful it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s even promoting shooting people who try to take your rights away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no good way to answer a request beginning with "do you mind if I......."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you’re Australian and you go yeah, nah, or nah, yeah, depending on the situation, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s hilarious is, in most instances, if the humans boycott the company, they die. But they’re so out of touch and so far up their own arses sniffing their own farts, surrounded by yes men, they forgot what reality is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard this thing that humans are tribal creatures and in any group, family, friend etc, they will invariably develop their own language, and they didn’t mention it but generationally specify slang is so much more beautiful when viewed through that lens. So even if it’s an old person thing, for those of us privileged to be able to stay on this earth that long, it will still be your tribes language and you will feel at home saying it. And that’s all that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh, I like that, I’m terrified of rats, so that would be a great replacement, for the usual word, when around kids, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That handful of people also know how to make an uprising difficult, they realised tiktok was dangerous because people could (and were) using it to inform people about stuff behind the veil they’ve constructed using their media monopolisation. People were showing war zones atrocities in real time, conflicting with the handfuls narrative, so they hostile takovered it, like the do everything else they want to use to serve their narrative and further their interests. There’s power in boycotting, and block lists, but when they monopolise and cause manufactured high cost of living to force you to give them your money (serve them in slavery) it’s pretty hard to boycott. I often switch between two daydreams, one where I Thanos them out of existence, and the other where us 8 billion people combine to form “people of the earth” Chuck in a dollar each and systematically buy up all our politicians so they serve us again. Then we all collectively buy everything and share it, so everyone has the basics to be able to live comfortably. Every billionaire is unethical. They’re the ones causing destruction of our planet. We kinda need that! If it’s not prolonging fossil fuel use and mining, it’s creating “ai” that burns triple the power of the whole UK in one data centre. Like fuck!

  Side note ai is tripping me out, a little. There doesn’t seem to be the costs associated with the levels of usage costs it generates, it’s also super not capable of what they’re trying to use it for, are they all just super fucking stupid, or is there some nefarious under plot going on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha males⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People of science understand, without the parables, because they have the working and “book” knowledge to interpret the relative meaning of the presented data. To communicate the meaning relative data, without the background knowledge, and without taking the time to learn (or even package for small, focused learning) it is easier to understand, if put into a relative comparable, with similar, relative distance, or changes. Especially when people are already overloaded with *gestures towards everything. The way to eat an elephant, small bites. It’s an elephant to people without all that back knowledge or ability to interpret the science, so you gotta break it into small bites for them, using your understanding.