FinnFooted
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- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
I think, for some people, calorie counting is frutrating. Personally, I’m a bit too neurotic for it. I get really caught up in the details and coutning every calorie right and then frustration when the calories are reported incorrectly or if mutliple sources give different calorie values for the same raw ingredient. I honestly get so obsessive when I try to calorie count it becomes a borderline eating disorder. And, in fact, calroie counting has resulted in eating disorders for many people.
I think it’s good for a lot of other people. But, when it boils down to it, any diet you can stick to is the right diet for you. Seriously, research has shown time and time again that, after a few months, most diets have the same weight loss results for most people if they stick to it. So I personally don’t find the “its just calories in and out” rhetoric thats really popular to always be the most correct or helpful statment.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
Ok but my point is you’re not just eating cake so its hard to keep track of the linear relationship sometimes. Calorie reporting can be incorrect and bodies are weird. That’s all I’m saying.
Realistically, being on most any diet is equally effective. From simple calorie counting to the keto diet. It turns out that, if you find a diet you can stick to, then just kind of paying attention to what you’re eating in a general sense works.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t talking about fiber, but the sugars bound to fiber. Its very hard to accurately labele just the bioavailable calories, even if you account for things like fiber.
On the note of genetics, it’s not just about metabolism. People have different abilities to even absorb the same calories. People have food intolerances, different rates at which they move food through the digestive tract, and different intestinal permeability.
This isn’t meant as an excuse to eat junk and not pay attention to your food. But, I actually find more help in paying attention to food quality and listening to how your body interacts with different food. E.g., eat less processed food, be aware that eating fat slows digestion, pay attention to your intolerances, stop eating when full, cut out snacking (again, especially processed foods). If you do this, its very likely you won’t even need to count.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 weeks ago:
Eh. Calories are… Tricky. What is a calorie? A unit of food which, when burned, will heat a gram of water by 1 degree Celsius. But your body isnt just a furnace, it’s complex. And everyone’s is physiologically different - we aren’t all running at the same efficiency (base metabolism). And not all calories are available. For example, fiber is not digestable and can’t be absorbed by the digestuv system and it also associates with sugars which also prevents them from being absorbed. So, eating whole fruits will result in absorbing less sugar than drinking juice which has the same total amount of sugar.
For sure it can conceptually be boiled down to calories effectively absorbed and calories burned. But digging into what that actually means can actually be quite tricky.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 2 months ago:
The vaccine has a risk of causing heart complications. It should be monitored. COVID has a much higher risk of heart complications.
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 2 months ago:
For real. Like, if you have two brain cells to rub together, you observe body language and mix checking in on your partner with dirty talk. It’s not like “are you still consenting?! Do you still like me?!” Literally there’s porn lines you can copy like “yeah, you like that?” or “I want you to beg for it” or “tell/show me what you like” or whatever is up your alley. Deliver it with a modicum of confidence and its not weird.
- Comment on Dolph is prime human 3 months ago:
Pretty much this. Met him once. He’s has no scandals, he’s just kind of a rude guy.
- Comment on Social media in 2025 7 months ago:
AI comic?
- Comment on fuck this asshole 7 months ago:
Democrats are pragmatically there for the money. They aren’t comically evil, but they are corrupt. They will throw an election before they ever give up AIPAC money and count on the next election swinging back to them. They get to sit back and watch the republicans be the bad guys and stir shit up. Then, when they get back in power, they fix the things that’s don’t make them money and look like he good guys but conveniently leave the unpopular policy the republicans enacted that makes them money and they don’t have to look like the bad guys. They just look incompetent. But they aren’t. This is all very purposeful.
The democrats as they are for sure need to go. But we need to be more pragmatic ourselves about removing them instead of throwing elections to the republicans hoping it will teach the Democrats a lesson. Because it won’t. We need to focus on getting a foothold and changing the party. And that means turning out to vote in every election no matter what. Vote third party. Vote write in. Vote whatever. But sitting out of elections to show teach democrats a lesson just isn’t going to do anything. Its just throwing away the small amount of political capital most people have. If we don’t vote now its either corporate feudalism or civil war in the future.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yup. I live abroad and pay no US taxes.
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 8 months ago:
Americans do a lot of SMS.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 8 months ago:
I do this. But, I’m also lucky to live in a city with second hand shit everywhere. Not everyone lives in a city.
But, google shopping will tell you an alternative store to buy most things online. And compare costs for you. This gets tricky if you’re also trying to cut google putbof your life though. There really is no ethical consumption under capitalism ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 8 months ago:
I didn’t day they exist. Though Sweden was making an attempt before their president was assassinated in the 1970s.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 9 months ago:
There are non capitalistic economic systems that are also don’t require state ownership and are non authoritarian. Literally just incentivizing worker owned coops is an example of how you can drastically shift the economic system without changing the political system. I’m not saying that’s the perfect system, it’s just an example of something possible outside of your argument.
- Comment on is there a legal way to consume alcohol bought at a store, outside of a home, hotel room, etc.? 1 year ago:
Actually, many parks do allow drinking. If you check the cities bylaws, they often state explicit locations where open containers are allowed and it often tends to be the major town parks.
- Comment on pugs are a cruel human creation 2 years ago:
Paw x ray is probably real, just of a kitten (or other baby paw). bones are more cartilage at birth then solidify more. Loook at the cute puppy x raysssss. Very similar
- Comment on pugs are a cruel human creation 2 years ago:
The top is a different post from a bottom of a dude just posting an ex ray of a cat paw trying to say how cute it is. But you’re right, left shows baby paw and right is adult paw. Misleading.
The response is just of a pug.