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  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 days ago

    A slightly more accurate phrase is “calories burned vs calories consumed”.

    You can’t just trust an online BMR calculator to tell you how much food you can eat every day. You have to actually test and know what your metabolism is like, and you can do that for fifty to eighty dollars at a DEXA scan place.

    If you don’t know how much your body is burning, then how can you accurately gauge what is the right amount of food to eat to meet your physical shape goals?


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    I have been working on losing weight for a long time and I’m starting to think that obesity comes from a combination of:

    Poor eating habits, often ingrained in you as you are young, consisting of:

    lack of the ability to determine when you have achieved satiation from eating and instead relying on feeling “stuffed”

    Psychological compulsion to finish all of your food

    The concept of “comfort food” that you feel you should eat when you are feeling sad

    having been mentally trained to associate “extreme flavor” with “good food”

    and all of that combined with:

    junk food being fast, cheap, flavorful, and ever-present

    Modern food, especially the pre-prepared types, being very nutritionally deficient when compared to their predecessors of even 70 years ago, thanks to the advent of fertilizers and industrial farming techniques that emphasize caloric output over nutritional output

    Modern diets leaning into high sugar and low protein and fat

    overly processed wheat that simply create texture and fast digesting sugary carbohydrates

    The process that I am currently working on to lose the rest of my excess weight is to focus on lower carbohydrates or non-wheat carbohydrates.

    Adding bulk with fresh or raw vegetables that are low in calorie and high in mass, and mentally training myself to leave food on the plate as part of my regular practice when eating, or to prepare less than what I mentally assume is a regular serving of food knowing that should I actually be hungry, I can prepare more food.

    I do my best to not eat fast food, and I try to minimize the amount of pre-prepared food items that I eat.

    It is slow going, but I am not living in hunger and apathy, and I have lost 15 pounds in the last four months without making any extreme changes to my diet.



  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldCursed plumbing
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    4 days ago

    It sounds scary, but there’s no direct path to the electricity since there is no laminar flow between you and the showerhead and most of the water that is passing over the showerhead is not especially electrically conductive because there are no salts mixed into it that don’t come directly from the water plant.

    It has to actually have a mechanical fault that doesn’t cause the shower heater to stop working and you have to come physically into contact with the shower head while that fault is going on in order for you to get zapped.

    But it is possible for you to get zapped by them, and some people have died, I am sure, although I don’t personally have any proof.