meco03211

joined 2 years ago
[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

A solid routine can help. For years now I've started my day with oatmeal. Cup of oats, cup of frozen blueberries. It's become a morning ritual. Oats are good for fiber which help you feel full.

Stock high fiber items (same reason as above).

Rethink what "feeling hungry" means. Your level of hunger shouldn't indicate how much food you eat. It should indicate how soon you eat.

Before eating, chug water until you feel physically full. This will force you to eat slower and trigger your sated feeling quicker. If you just sit down to a meal and start inhaling food, your body can take a few minutes to really register you're eating. This is why people sometimes "hit a wall" when gorging themselves. They've blown past where their body should have said "you're full" before their body can send those signals to your brain. Eating slower and having a "full" stomach help to make sure you feel sated at the right time.

Get out of the habit of eating until you are really full. Have things to pull your attention after an appropriate amount of food. Start down that Google rabbit hole that just popped into your mind so you think about that rather than eating more. This can also help with eating slower if you're in a situation where using your phone while eating is acceptable.

Make small incremental changes. People that suddenly upend their entire eating habits for the new fad diet change too much too quickly. It can be hard to stay the course.

Understand this is a long road. You won't shed pounds overnight. That being said, don't get down on yourself for messing up. It is a full lifestyle change. The small things over time start to add up. If you don't stick to all of these religiously, that's OK. Just make a concerted effort to do them more frequently than you did last week or last month.

You can't out-exercise a bad diet. Unless you are doing olympic level training that requires more than normal calories, a bad diet will destroy your chances. It's much easier to have a quick extra snack or heavier dessert adding hundreds, if not, thousands of calories in a single day. Running 5 miles might burn 500 calories. A couple candy bars will be more than that.

That being said, finding the right exercise can drastically improve your chances. I took up Jiu-jitsu and muay Thai. Doing that 2-4 nights a week is great for now than just weight loss.

Key points: make small changes you can stick to, focus on "better than yesterday" even if it's not perfect, reshape how you think about certain activities (when to eat, how much to eat, what to eat), develop a routine that you don't need to think about.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Worth more than $100 these days.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Honestly I do something similar at my work. I can have full days with literally nothing to do. I'll usually have something vaguely work related waiting full-screen behind my random browsing or Google rabbit hole I'm going down. Someone walks by and I switch to that and look very engrossed in what I'm doing.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But I'm a hooker

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Oi! I sometimes muck up the details about me life. Am I a lad or lady? Gay or straight? Is all good guvna!

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

I, too, am in a mixed attractiveness relationship. Though I'm on the opposite side as you. All I can say is if my wife was receiving those comments, she did not show it. After all these years I think her family and friends accept me.

But in all seriousness, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you are happy, then that's all that matters.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

The point is for the people who care about the deceased. It gives closure and a chance to say any last words.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Ways to make kids not want to report a threat...

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Less rural Texans even. That should help its purple status.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

People clean with regular table salt "sodium chloride" but I swear by this sodium hydroxide stuff. Bonus points that my hands feel kinda smoother after using the stuff.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

He's not Judge Judy and executioner!

 

I'm hoping to find a game similar to Borderlands Science. Preferably something that can be played on a phone. Top tier would be the ability to play offline (sometimes I don't have great cell service though I understand it would need to be connected to some degree).

I can easily zone out on somewhat mindless games and play for hours if I have the free time or spare attention. Progress tends to be my limiting factor. If I've just put 10 hours into a game and the next time I pick it up is the exact same as the first it can feel like a waste. If instead, those mindless hours were going to a good cause that is progressing (even if I don't directly see that progress), it might make it easier. Plus it's going to a good cause.

 

The cliche understanding is that dogs mark their territory with pee. At times I've been on walks with family and friends with half a dozen dogs. There have been occasions where they form a line just to pee in the same spot.

So how does the ownership work? Is it like a co-op? Last one to pee wins?

 

How bad are everyone else's side effects? I currently take a 30mgXR in the morning and 10mgIR part way through the day. I can get some facial tics and other OCD like symptoms. They aren't bad enough to lower my dose or make other changes at this point. Just wondering what others are experiencing and if anyone has any tips or tricks to dealing with stuff like that.

 

My understanding is a lot of "greens" eventually become "brown". Green leaves when they dry up would switch to a "brown". Same with dead grass.

With that in mind I tried a very lazy process of only adding greens for a continual process. My first addition to my pile this year was grass clippings. They still haven't really broke down.

Is my approach fundamentally flawed? Or is there something I'm missing to improve the process?

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