As someone who just lost 35 pounds through clean dieting:
All calorie/portion numbers on packaged food are off by 10-20%. I set MyFitnessTracker to 1.5k calories (deficit for my build) and for weeks nothing would budge - even with strict portion control and weighing everything, plus 800 extra cals spent through exercise.
Once I went to "1250" calories, I started losing weight. Went from to 205 to 175 pounds.
With packaged food I mean anything like cream cheese, various sides, etc. - not pre-built meals (I assume those would be off by 50%).
What weighing your food really does, is reveal how shockingly little you actually should be eating. I switched to small plates for all meals, as using the normal large ones was pointless and slightly de-motivating.
But yeah, it's just calories. No matter what you eat.
Another more sensible explanation is that the calorie theory is fully wrong and unscientific, despite using numbers and measurements (it sounds very mathy though)
Not sure where you get 8 miles vs 11 miles (maybe the definition of a rural food desert?).
> Low access is characterized by at
least 500 people and/or 33 percent of the tract population residing more than
1 mile from a supermarket or large grocery in urban areas, and more than 10
miles in rural areas
In the video doc they talk about the failure to execute on Episode 3 or even a Half Life 3. Has a weird tone to it, the whole thing ends on a depressing note.
As Gabe says, they didn't fulfill their obligation towards their customer and fan base to complete the story. Alyx is cool, but niche.
It's also because there is a stigma around mental reasons. "Hypochondria", "Hysteria", "Psychosomatic" ... all these words have negative connotations, even though the mind/body connection is a real thing.
Would be a fascinating study to have Long Covid patients drop LSD and see for effects.
I mean, hypochondria is definitely not a good thing, tbf! And psychosomatic illnesses are qualitatively different from physical ones, in terms of diagnosis and treatment. Hopefully all doctors are on board with the whole “you can’t just snap yourself out of mental illness” thing by now, but that’s perhaps a bit naive…
people rarely snap themselves out, but they can dig themselves out. It usually boils down to the same recommendations of sleep, diet, exercise, and confronting issues. Sometimes medicine or therapy can help.
The internet you use to transmit this message wouldn't exist without fossil fuels - and I am not talking about energy, but computer and networking materials.
Ditto the fertilizer and many other things that keep you alive to type on here too.
It's very hard to maintain modern civilization without oil/gas products. Unless you want to be Amish.
I think reducing fossil fuel use is separate from petroleum product use. We can have petroleum products without burning fossil fuels. Costs of petroleum extraction might go up, though, I imagine.
And while I agree it's hard, I think that keeping an industrial society should be possible. (although it means reworking almost all the production apparel to be carbon neutral (concrete/steel/fertilizer production, transports, agriculture, ...). Not going to happen in the short-term without an extremely strong political push and more research, on the world scale)
Actual production may become lower than today, but I'd like to believe we don't have to go full Amish.
All calorie/portion numbers on packaged food are off by 10-20%. I set MyFitnessTracker to 1.5k calories (deficit for my build) and for weeks nothing would budge - even with strict portion control and weighing everything, plus 800 extra cals spent through exercise.
Once I went to "1250" calories, I started losing weight. Went from to 205 to 175 pounds.
With packaged food I mean anything like cream cheese, various sides, etc. - not pre-built meals (I assume those would be off by 50%).
What weighing your food really does, is reveal how shockingly little you actually should be eating. I switched to small plates for all meals, as using the normal large ones was pointless and slightly de-motivating.
But yeah, it's just calories. No matter what you eat.
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