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Garbage in, garbage out. The "math" doesn't change that simple truism.

Also, the fact that chatGPT it's prone to making shit up isn't conjecture, it's fact. It can be a super useful tool for some use cases, but getting medical advice? Yeah fuck no lol

Small Gods is my goto reccomendation for starting points, it's completely self contained and one of Pratchett's best works

I don't go to any fast food chain often enough to download an app for it lol

Me and my wife are big foodies, so cutting out all food that isn't strictly "healthy" was never an option lol. I usually burn ~800 calories at the gym, that's a whole stick of butter lol

We still have been making healthier choices in general (protein pasta instead of regular, chicken breast instead of thighs, and less oil/butter while cooking, but weve been able to get healthy while for the large part eating the same as how we did before.

The biggest change is that were a lot more cognizent about protein, and we log our meals, but neither of those is an issue

Sure, if you ignore all the psychological and habit forming benefits that it provides. Saying that the only benefit to exercise is increasing CO workers would be true if you were just a robot who was fully capable of making rational choices 100% of the time. And if that's you, then you wouldn't need weight loss in the first place..

Exercise does a lot to help individuals stick with the Calorie restriction part of CICO, for the reasons I mention.

And also like I said, pure** weight loss is rarely anyone's actual goal**, id wager that close to 100% of people trying to "lose weight" are actually working towards either looking better, or being more healthy (or both, of course) - and for both of those goals, exercise is very important.

Targeted exercise doesn’t do anything for targeted weight loss. Your body loses fat however the fuck it wants to and the only way to lose belly fat is to lose fat everywhere else your body chooses to first. And that happens with or without exercise.

Yes, I know? When did I say otherwise?

Yeah idk why but I can never get exercise right off the top of my head, no idea why spellcheck seems to never catch it

I really don't think you could've back in the dollar menu days. A double cheese burger for less than $1? Unless you're buying you're ingredients in a pretty bulk size (which if you're regularly eating off the dollar menu, you probably can't afford to do), I doubt you could have gotten much better than that

And now it's not even cheap. It used to be that it sucked, but you could walk out stuffed for like $4, but the last time my wife and I went on a road trip it was literally like $30 for the two of us.

At those prices you're better off going to an actual restaurant unless you have absolutely no time for it

Fair point, makes cash customers trickier, but for better or worse, more and more people don't use cash anyways, so that might be a non issue

I'm going to disagree slightly with the majority of the comments here and say that excersize is still very important for weight loss.

First off though, because I'm sure some folks are already getting their pitchforks out, all weight loss is CICO, and you can absolutely hit any goal weight just by diet alone without ever getting off your couch. Additionally, what works for weight loss (in terms of actual techniques to achieve a net Calorie deficiency) varies from person to person, what I say below may totally not be the case for you, and that's fine.

All that being said, I think you're going to have a much easier time of it if you also workout in some way.

For one thing, more excersize means more calories out. You can easily (well, your definition of "easy" may vary lol) burn 500 calories during a single workout. If you're making smart eating choices, 500 calories is a lot of food. You would be hard pressed to be physically able to eat 500 calories of an air fried vegetable medely for example. This means that you can lose weight while not feeling starved. And even for less healthy choices, it's still a fair bit of food. You can eat 2 slices of pizza for that one workout and still break even from a calories standpoint.

Basically, excersize = free food - most people fail their diets because they're tired of being hungry all the time and tired of not being able to enjoy the foods they love. Adding excersize into the mix means you can eat more, and still enjoy sensible servings of your favorite "treat" foods while still losing weight.

Secondly, for me at least, working out gives you motivation in the kitchen later. It's a lot harder to cave and order that pizza instead of making the salmon and veggies you had planned for dinner when you know that doing so means "wasting" all that sweat and effort you put in at the gym earlier that day. Remember how earlier I pointed out that a single excersize = 2 slices of pizza? Well that also works the other way around - when you go to reach for a slice of pizza, you wind up asking yourself "is this one slice of pizza worth half a workout?" for me at least, the answer is often no, and even when it's yes (every diet needs room for your favorite junk foods in moderation), I keep asking myself that for each slice, and so will stop eating before I go overboard.

Finally, you probably don't just want to lose weight. OK, maybe you do, idk you - but if you succeed and hit your goal weight, you'll probably just transition to being insecure about fat deposits to being insecure about being scrawny. If your goal is to look good, at least some muscle tone is necessary, and if your goal is to be generally healthier, than it's even more important to add exercise to the mix.

Just my $0.02, Im no dietician or personal trainer, but I've been working hard at getting in shape and have lost 13 pounds in the last month through a combination of diet and exercise, and I truly don't think I could have done it without having added excersize to my routine

Definitely should only listen to the few anecdotes shared by random people kind of paying attention on a relatively anonymous social board

Except chatGPT was trained in no small part on data from reddit, Twitter, etc - so asking chatGPT basically is listening to random anecdotes shared by random people, only with the added complication that if someone spews BS on here, they're at least somewhat likely to be called out, whereas ChatGPT will just present it as the definitive truth

Also how do you handle things that pop up mid meal? Like a second beer/cocktail with your meal.

I think a deposit when you sit down makes the most sense. If paying by card, then just keep their card on file for the duration of the meal, if cash, then do a small deposit per person - less than the cost of the meal, but enough to make dining and dashing really not worth the risk/effort.

Not exactly perfect, but itd work

Seriously, imagine that dudes code if he never once thought creatively about an engineering problem lol

I honestly can't tell if this is more healthy than unhealthy lol

More pro-fascism

100% agree. Anyone taking on a major political office should have their finances be 100% transparent. No secretly selling off stock a few days ahead of major news breaking, no undisclosed "gifts", no $100k "speaking engagements" without it at the very least being fully disclosed

Would it be a privacy issue for elected officials? Sure, but no one is forcing them to hold major political offices, and there are plenty others who would happily fill their shoes. The people most OK with complete financial transparency are the exact sorts we'd want in office anyways, so it'd actually help to self select

Not just car rentals, it feels like the whole travel industry has no idea what a fucking reservation is. Every other time I fly they're asking for people to give up seats because they "overbooked".

Just a tiny amount of common sense legislation would make reservations actually fucking work, but it'll never happen because all the travel companies have to do is spend like $50k to bribe lobby half of congress and then make millions continuing on with their shitty practices

Now if only they'd offer some DLC for Mario party.

I'm begging you Nintendo, I'll literally pay $20 a map for some new godamn content at this point lol

Me and my wife watch the extended edition movies in 1 Hour chunks like it was an HBO series lol

As someone else posted on this site

"there are two types of democratic voters, centrist conservatives and hostages"