I'm not dealing with that issue, but I find if I'm still hungry after I've eaten, often I missed some sort of nutritional piece. Getting that piece filled seems to help. That's me though, dunno about anyone else.
Learning how to feel satisfied after eating a healthy meal is a skill. Learning how to get (cook, buy, whatever) a meal that will leave you feeling satisfied after eating a healthy amount, is a different skill. Both are important.
I tend to find if I eat a meal with barely any carbs that I get hungry not long after. Same goes for a meal with too little protein actually. What I'm saying is don't get too few of your macros or you'll be hungry.
I stop eating when I'm stressed or depressed, but I snack when I'm bored. At the moment this is a problem.
The worst is when I'm stuck in the office and I know I just want to snack instead of doing work.
I've gotten a bit better at distracting myself at home, but when I'm in the office it's a lot harder to resist.
When I was teaching in Japan I'd sometimes have months with no work due to the students being on break, but I'd still have to come in to the office for 40 hours a week with virtually nothing to do. Couple this with a principal who liked doting on his staff daily by bringing snacks, and it was loke the perfect storm. Over the course of the day he would put multiple cheese crackers, kit kat bars, chocolate cakes and sometimes even those personal cups of haagen dazs on my desk.
I eventually made it into a manageable diet by factoring in that I was going to snack at work into my daily diet and bringing healthy snacks like apples and almonds into work with me everyday, things that make you feel full for not a ton of calories. Making them part of my daily plan and making them consistently healthy let me keep everything in check very well.
If you use the quick release in the manner in which it is intended to be used, it should be perfectly safe. The problem is that the clamping levers are not being used properly, the quick release is coming loose, and because of the design of those particular 'skewers', the clamping lever is ending up making its way around into the spokes and locking the front wheel. Newer skewers are designed so that the loose clamping lever cannot travel past 180 degrees open, so it physically can not swing around into the spokes of the front wheel.
Also I don't know about anyone else but I've never seen a properly done up QR come loose mid ride. Ones that someone has fiddled with yes, or ones that are done up like a wingnut yes. But not one clamped as it should be.
Does anybody has some pointers for how to improve recovery time, if that is possible I a meaningful way?
Quite a few programs, be it running or working out, often have 1 recovery day between sessions and that never works out well for me. If I don’t have at least 2 rest days I see a considerable drop-off in performance.
Does anybody has some pointers for how to improve recovery time, if that is possible I a meaningful way?
Quite a few programs, be it running or working out, often have 1 recovery day between sessions and that never works out well for me. If I don’t have at least 2 rest days I see a considerable drop-off in performance.
So go 48 hours between workouts. That's fine and within some recommendations. May mean that you'll have shifting days you workout, but if you need more rest, you need more rest.
Also, like MadEddy said, a Food and sleep
diablo III - beardsnbeer#1508 Mechwarrior Online - Rusty Bock
I promised myself the last time that I committed to losing that if I went up again, I'd use the nuclear option.
I goofed and gained again, so the time has come--I'm going to treat 'eating enjoyable food' as an addiction. I'll be feeding myself exclusively on this junk for a month.
What actual problems are you having with maintaining healthy eating patterns with normal food? I honestly think examining those and working on them gradually is a way better long term solution than soylent or whatever. Even if eating that stuff exclusively for a while lets you lose the weight you want to drop, what happens when you get to the weight you want to be at? Do you go back to eating regular food, and run into the same problems as before? You won't have been practicing good eating habits while losing weight, so that scenario seems fairly likely to me.
I know eating healthy and trying to lose weight can be real difficult and fraught with mental and emotional hurdles, but this just doesn't seem like a good solution.
I had issues with maintaining healthy eating because of my erratic schedule, so I picked up a rice cooker with a 'delay' function, so I'd set it up with some rice, veg and chicken/seafood or something to finish around the time I got home.
Convenience is usually the number one contributor to unhealthy eating, but there are tons of ways around that.
Yeah my big thing was needing to just keep junk food out of the kitchen entirely, it's way easier to just never buy it at the grocery store than it is to only have a little bit now and then if it's just sitting in the kitchen. If I buy ice cream, it's not gonna last more than a day most likely.
Yeah my big thing was needing to just keep junk food out of the kitchen entirely, it's way easier to just never buy it at the grocery store than it is to only have a little bit now and then if it's just sitting in the kitchen. If I buy ice cream, it's not gonna last more than a day most likely.
I am the worst at this. I can't be trusted around anything that isn't really plain veggies and meat.
What actual problems are you having with maintaining healthy eating patterns with normal food? I honestly think examining those and working on them gradually is a way better long term solution than soylent or whatever. Even if eating that stuff exclusively for a while lets you lose the weight you want to drop, what happens when you get to the weight you want to be at? Do you go back to eating regular food, and run into the same problems as before? You won't have been practicing good eating habits while losing weight, so that scenario seems fairly likely to me.
I know eating healthy and trying to lose weight can be real difficult and fraught with mental and emotional hurdles, but this just doesn't seem like a good solution.
Textbook binge eating, courtesy of bipolar disorder and an unshakable permanent feeling of hunger. Any diet works, with perfect adherence, until a manic day or depressed week. Then it all falls apart, because either one of those drives 'stop feeling hungry, do something pleasurable' to the forefront and overrides logical objections. I enjoy eating, so I eat the whole fucking house.
It doesn't matter if I don't buy junk food...because I'll eat a weeks worth of healthy chicken, veggies, low-carb wraps, etc. in one day, then go to the store while still manic or depressed because oh shit all my food is gone.
So. I'll get to a healthy weight and vitals with a slight margin. Then I'll start eating normal food. And if I slip up and eat through that margin, it's back to the drink.
For as long as it takes for me to turn 'eating reasonably' into something I can do no matter my mindset. Whatever the downsides of meal replacement of this nature, it can't very well compete with the downsides of 30% body fat.
What actual problems are you having with maintaining healthy eating patterns with normal food? I honestly think examining those and working on them gradually is a way better long term solution than soylent or whatever. Even if eating that stuff exclusively for a while lets you lose the weight you want to drop, what happens when you get to the weight you want to be at? Do you go back to eating regular food, and run into the same problems as before? You won't have been practicing good eating habits while losing weight, so that scenario seems fairly likely to me.
I know eating healthy and trying to lose weight can be real difficult and fraught with mental and emotional hurdles, but this just doesn't seem like a good solution.
Textbook binge eating, courtesy of bipolar disorder and an unshakable permanent feeling of hunger. Any diet works, with perfect adherence, until a manic day or depressed week. Then it all falls apart, because either one of those drives 'stop feeling hungry, do something pleasurable' to the forefront and overrides logical objections. I enjoy eating, so I eat the whole fucking house.
It doesn't matter if I don't buy junk food...because I'll eat a weeks worth of healthy chicken, veggies, low-carb wraps, etc. in one day, then go to the store while still manic or depressed because oh shit all my food is gone.
So. I'll get to a healthy weight and vitals with a slight margin. Then I'll start eating normal food. And if I slip up and eat through that margin, it's back to the drink.
For as long as it takes for me to turn 'eating reasonably' into something I can do no matter my mindset. Whatever the downsides of meal replacement of this nature, it can't very well compete with the downsides of 30% body fat.
30% is not a terrible number. It's better than where most people start off. I understand losing weight can be difficult, and I also understand you have other circumstances that make it difficult to adhere to a diet.
You can't beat yourself up over one day, but it sounds like you have had success in the past! So, and I say this with limited understanding besides what you've said here, if you have an off day, try to hold off on going to the store.
Or rather than go to the store, attempt to workout.
I sincerely hope something I've said can help spur some positive ideas rather than an extreme diet change.
diablo III - beardsnbeer#1508 Mechwarrior Online - Rusty Bock
I promised myself the last time that I committed to losing that if I went up again, I'd use the nuclear option.
I goofed and gained again, so the time has come--I'm going to treat 'eating enjoyable food' as an addiction. I'll be feeding myself exclusively on this junk for a month.
Should be...interesting.
That's probably a super dumb idea! It will not help you lose weight long term. Cold turkey is not the way to go, sensible, healthy, sustainable eating habits are.
One of my main goals this weekend is to figure out a way for brown rice to taste even slightly less repulsive
When I was living in Japan I liked to mix brown rice, white rice, and barley together (mugi genmai gohan). Can't remember if I liked a ratio of 1:1:2 or 1:1:1 respectively.
Then I'd do some salmon in a pan, break it into chunks, and mix it into the rice. Usually I'd top it with furikake which is a mix of dried seaweed, sesame seeds, ground fish and salt. You do have to be careful of the sodium levels on the furikake if you are getting it pre-made.
Yeah I was planning on regularly doing it with a less oily seafood, like salmon or shrimp, also making the rice in broth rather than water, and figuring out what seasonings work
Hey @Kamar have you considered looking into a nearby Overeaters Anonymous meeting?
That might be a good resource to use during a manic day, and they often provide telephone/email buddy support for depressive/not leaving the house weeks
I promised myself the last time that I committed to losing that if I went up again, I'd use the nuclear option.
I goofed and gained again, so the time has come--I'm going to treat 'eating enjoyable food' as an addiction. I'll be feeding myself exclusively on this junk for a month.
Should be...interesting.
That's probably a super dumb idea! It will not help you lose weight long term. Cold turkey is not the way to go, sensible, healthy, sustainable eating habits are.
I normally am 100% behind you when we have this conversation, but please can we be sensitive to the fact that any sensible, healthy, sustainable behavior is really fucking difficult if you have non-normative brain chemistry
is brown rice 100x more healthy? i find that unlikely
brown jasmine rice is pretty yummy
Also brown rice is gonna need a little more water and a little more cooking time. If you just cook it like normal white rice it's pretty meh.
Personally I like to prefer brown rice like sorta like a pilaf - put the rice in dry with a bit of veggie oil and maybe a little diced onion, saute it in the pot until you're getting a nice kinda nutty aroma, then add water and finish it like normal. The dry heat breaks down some of the starch, so you get a nice savory non-sticky rice.
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
I'm actually surprised that 'eating the same nutritionally complete, long-prep-time meal for every meal' is as contentious as it is.
If I did it with 'normal' food would you guys be less weirded out? I might do that if anyone knows something bad about this sort of meal substitution scheme beyond 'it's weird'.
The goal's to make binging unfeasible and undesirable. Reduce the 'reward' of overeating and up the 'effort'.
Basically, I eat for pleasure as an addiction--it feels exactly like other addictions I have and have had.
The ones I've kicked, I kicked basically like this; either going cold turkey, or substituting something healthier even if it were shittier in terms of enjoyment.
'Low effort' and 'impossible to subvert' are key factors in this.
I'm actually surprised that 'eating the same nutritionally complete, long-prep-time meal for every meal' is as contentious as it is.
If I did it with 'normal' food would you guys be less weirded out? I might do that if anyone knows something bad about this sort of meal substitution scheme beyond 'it's weird'.
The goal's to make binging unfeasible and undesirable. Reduce the 'reward' of overeating and up the 'effort'.
Basically, I eat for pleasure as an addiction--it feels exactly like other addictions I have and have had.
The ones I've kicked, I kicked basically like this; either going cold turkey, or substituting something healthier even if it were shittier in terms of enjoyment.
'Low effort' and 'impossible to subvert' are key factors in this.
The problem with 'nuclear options' like that, is that it's fine when you're doing it to lose weight, but you don't want to have to eat that stuff forever, and if you don't develop habits that make a balanced diet feasible, the moment you stop, you stand a huge chance at falling into old patterns.
I'm actually surprised that 'eating the same nutritionally complete, long-prep-time meal for every meal' is as contentious as it is.
If I did it with 'normal' food would you guys be less weirded out? I might do that if anyone knows something bad about this sort of meal substitution scheme beyond 'it's weird'.
The goal's to make binging unfeasible and undesirable. Reduce the 'reward' of overeating and up the 'effort'.
Basically, I eat for pleasure as an addiction--it feels exactly like other addictions I have and have had.
The ones I've kicked, I kicked basically like this; either going cold turkey, or substituting something healthier even if it were shittier in terms of enjoyment.
'Low effort' and 'impossible to subvert' are key factors in this.
The problem with 'nuclear options' like that, is that it's fine when you're doing it to lose weight, but you don't want to have to eat that stuff forever, and if you don't develop habits that make a balanced diet feasible, the moment you stop, you stand a huge chance at falling into old patterns.
Well, I'm also hoping that my ever-present hunger (and various food-specific cravings) will fade from screams to a low rumble as my weight, insulin resistance, etc. improve courtesy of a nice long period of no-fuckups ketosis.
I'll also be moving from the middle of nowhere to a real city in June, where I can do physical activities I enjoy (BJJ, indoor climbing) and thus can sustain, which will certainly help.
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Learning how to feel satisfied after eating a healthy meal is a skill. Learning how to get (cook, buy, whatever) a meal that will leave you feeling satisfied after eating a healthy amount, is a different skill. Both are important.
I was super self conscious at first but holy crap these feel amazing to run in.
I stop eating when I'm stressed or depressed, but I snack when I'm bored. At the moment this is a problem.
The worst is when I'm stuck in the office and I know I just want to snack instead of doing work.
I've gotten a bit better at distracting myself at home, but when I'm in the office it's a lot harder to resist.
When I was teaching in Japan I'd sometimes have months with no work due to the students being on break, but I'd still have to come in to the office for 40 hours a week with virtually nothing to do. Couple this with a principal who liked doting on his staff daily by bringing snacks, and it was loke the perfect storm. Over the course of the day he would put multiple cheese crackers, kit kat bars, chocolate cakes and sometimes even those personal cups of haagen dazs on my desk.
I eventually made it into a manageable diet by factoring in that I was going to snack at work into my daily diet and bringing healthy snacks like apples and almonds into work with me everyday, things that make you feel full for not a ton of calories. Making them part of my daily plan and making them consistently healthy let me keep everything in check very well.
If you use the quick release in the manner in which it is intended to be used, it should be perfectly safe. The problem is that the clamping levers are not being used properly, the quick release is coming loose, and because of the design of those particular 'skewers', the clamping lever is ending up making its way around into the spokes and locking the front wheel. Newer skewers are designed so that the loose clamping lever cannot travel past 180 degrees open, so it physically can not swing around into the spokes of the front wheel.
Of course the plural of anecdote is not data.
Quite a few programs, be it running or working out, often have 1 recovery day between sessions and that never works out well for me. If I don’t have at least 2 rest days I see a considerable drop-off in performance.
So go 48 hours between workouts. That's fine and within some recommendations. May mean that you'll have shifting days you workout, but if you need more rest, you need more rest.
Also, like MadEddy said, a Food and sleep
But I went to bed at 9:45 yesterday it was awesome
Getting excited about going to bed super early means I am old right
Autocorrect dicks me sometimes.
Shaz, that's a good problem to have there buddy.
Bout to crush some squats
I goofed and gained again, so the time has come--I'm going to treat 'eating enjoyable food' as an addiction. I'll be feeding myself exclusively on this junk for a month.
Should be...interesting.
I know eating healthy and trying to lose weight can be real difficult and fraught with mental and emotional hurdles, but this just doesn't seem like a good solution.
Convenience is usually the number one contributor to unhealthy eating, but there are tons of ways around that.
I am the worst at this. I can't be trusted around anything that isn't really plain veggies and meat.
Textbook binge eating, courtesy of bipolar disorder and an unshakable permanent feeling of hunger. Any diet works, with perfect adherence, until a manic day or depressed week. Then it all falls apart, because either one of those drives 'stop feeling hungry, do something pleasurable' to the forefront and overrides logical objections. I enjoy eating, so I eat the whole fucking house.
It doesn't matter if I don't buy junk food...because I'll eat a weeks worth of healthy chicken, veggies, low-carb wraps, etc. in one day, then go to the store while still manic or depressed because oh shit all my food is gone.
So. I'll get to a healthy weight and vitals with a slight margin. Then I'll start eating normal food. And if I slip up and eat through that margin, it's back to the drink.
For as long as it takes for me to turn 'eating reasonably' into something I can do no matter my mindset. Whatever the downsides of meal replacement of this nature, it can't very well compete with the downsides of 30% body fat.
30% is not a terrible number. It's better than where most people start off. I understand losing weight can be difficult, and I also understand you have other circumstances that make it difficult to adhere to a diet.
You can't beat yourself up over one day, but it sounds like you have had success in the past! So, and I say this with limited understanding besides what you've said here, if you have an off day, try to hold off on going to the store.
Or rather than go to the store, attempt to workout.
I sincerely hope something I've said can help spur some positive ideas rather than an extreme diet change.
That's probably a super dumb idea! It will not help you lose weight long term. Cold turkey is not the way to go, sensible, healthy, sustainable eating habits are.
When I was living in Japan I liked to mix brown rice, white rice, and barley together (mugi genmai gohan). Can't remember if I liked a ratio of 1:1:2 or 1:1:1 respectively.
Then I'd do some salmon in a pan, break it into chunks, and mix it into the rice. Usually I'd top it with furikake which is a mix of dried seaweed, sesame seeds, ground fish and salt. You do have to be careful of the sodium levels on the furikake if you are getting it pre-made.
Anyway, very tasty, very easy rice dish.
That might be a good resource to use during a manic day, and they often provide telephone/email buddy support for depressive/not leaving the house weeks
like, genuine question
white rice is 100x more delicious
is brown rice 100x more healthy? i find that unlikely
I normally am 100% behind you when we have this conversation, but please can we be sensitive to the fact that any sensible, healthy, sustainable behavior is really fucking difficult if you have non-normative brain chemistry
brown jasmine rice is pretty yummy
Also brown rice is gonna need a little more water and a little more cooking time. If you just cook it like normal white rice it's pretty meh.
Personally I like to prefer brown rice like sorta like a pilaf - put the rice in dry with a bit of veggie oil and maybe a little diced onion, saute it in the pot until you're getting a nice kinda nutty aroma, then add water and finish it like normal. The dry heat breaks down some of the starch, so you get a nice savory non-sticky rice.
If I did it with 'normal' food would you guys be less weirded out? I might do that if anyone knows something bad about this sort of meal substitution scheme beyond 'it's weird'.
The goal's to make binging unfeasible and undesirable. Reduce the 'reward' of overeating and up the 'effort'.
Basically, I eat for pleasure as an addiction--it feels exactly like other addictions I have and have had.
The ones I've kicked, I kicked basically like this; either going cold turkey, or substituting something healthier even if it were shittier in terms of enjoyment.
'Low effort' and 'impossible to subvert' are key factors in this.
The problem with 'nuclear options' like that, is that it's fine when you're doing it to lose weight, but you don't want to have to eat that stuff forever, and if you don't develop habits that make a balanced diet feasible, the moment you stop, you stand a huge chance at falling into old patterns.
Well, I'm also hoping that my ever-present hunger (and various food-specific cravings) will fade from screams to a low rumble as my weight, insulin resistance, etc. improve courtesy of a nice long period of no-fuckups ketosis.
I'll also be moving from the middle of nowhere to a real city in June, where I can do physical activities I enjoy (BJJ, indoor climbing) and thus can sustain, which will certainly help.