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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best way to drop 50lbs in two months without spending alot and no fad diets?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Anon likes trains⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that is definitely true in the U.S.

  Also, I’ve found that rail travel is inconvenient in the U.S. I can’t confirm, but it seems like the Amtrak only comes through my (Midwest) area once a week, on Wednesdays or something like that. So, if I plan a trip, I need to plan around.

  Midwest to the East Coast is so much cheaper and faster by air. I want to travel by rail - and you’d think it should be cheaper - but it’s totally not.

  Part of it, I believe, is that Amtrak leases the usage of the rail lines from the shipping companies, so it must adhere to their schedules of shipping freight. The USA spends so much on upgrading its highway system; if they used a fraction of that money towards rail travel we would be set. But certain companies keep lobbying Congress to keep us locked in a model where we are totally reliant on cars and gasoline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been re-watching the TV series “Leverage”, but it’s disappointing in not believable. It’s based in an insane world where the rich and powerful can eventually lose their money and go to jail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, so I have the 2009 edition of the Marvel Encyclopedia, which has 8 pages devoted to The Hulk. Apparently he had “every atom of his body exposed to gamma radiation” from a gamma-bomb he was working on. It’s been revealed that Banner also has multiple personality disorder that contributes to his various Hulk forms.

  I thought I remember from decades ago that his bulk and healing energy comes and goes from a transdimensional space, but I can’t seem to find that in the article.

  However, I really like this StackExchange answer, which posits that he is an energy-processing mutant that taps into the Power Cosmic to fuel his incredible strength. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/a/84410

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, we won’t get cheap eggs and gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Pre-existing conditions” is just insurance industry slang for something we all have: “medical history”.