• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    If you eat more plants and animals and less breads and sugars you do lose weight and feel better. I’m no science guy but that does work. People over complicate this shit.

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      16 hours ago

      You’re over complicating this shit.

      Weight loss is primarily just calories burned minus calories eaten…

      (times some factor, plus/minus some constant, ignoring higher order terms, excluding exogenous variables, etc.)

    • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world
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      I no longer trust anyone who talks about “plants” or “animals”. It turns out, every single plant or animal is doing something different!

      If it copies like a pasta, it’s copypasta!

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        fiber is so strange because it’s function is basically just to pass through you, and yet it’s so vital for the digestive system to function properly

        everyone keeps saying “oh dietary supplements are just pissing away money” but fibre supplements are the one supplement most people would benefit hugely from taking, just get some psyllium husk or whatever and enter toilet nirvana

        • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de
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          19 hours ago

          Just for context, it’s a uniquely American problem. The rest of the developed world on average eats more balanced diet and don’t need to supplement fiber.

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            17 hours ago

            The uniquely US problem is poor people having terrible diets, but lack of fibre for non-poor people is a thing all over the world aside from maybe like, japan…

            i’ve personally benefitted greatly from just opting for whole-grain versions of things like pasta, much better poops now.

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              17 hours ago

              Some people around the world eat what is sometimes known as “american diet”, but it’s not a norm yet, not everywhere.

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        2 days ago

        fruit sugars are prolly fine

        Fruits in general aren’t as good for you as general thinking have them. The majority have been bred to be so exaggerated in their sugar content that, as an example, you can’t feed pet primates fruit very often or they will get diabetes (without getting into the horrors that keeping primates as pets encompasses). You can quickly get an idea of this by searching for ‘wild strawberries vs grocery strawberries.’

        The fibrous parts of fruits is good, the ‘nutritional’ aspects of them are decent, but the absolute black-hole-mass of sugar on the one side of the teeter-totter is a pretty big negative for them.

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      20 hours ago

      This has been my experience. I find nutritional science incredibly boring, I’ve tried many times to get excited about it, but I just can’t seem to find an ‘in’ with it to make it my 2-week special interest and learn the basics properly.

      At this point the bar is “if you can’t explain in one sentence, written, what meal I can make for cheap in less than 1-2 min of active effort and no more than 10 min total prep/cooking time with no skills, effort or culinary knowledge that will be tasty to give me dopamine for the day and feed me for the entire day, I’m not interested”.

      I just eat bacon, pork sausages, eggs, and throw in some kale, spinach & watercress. I’ve cut out all bread, sweets, snacks and alcohol. It’s probably not healthy but fuck it we all gotta go sometime. Right now though, feels great, I lost a ton of weight. Hard not to overdo it on the salt added to eggs but I keep a close eye on it.

      The only negative I’ve noticed it as I often get hit with random low blood sugar fainting like symptoms after my 2nd-3rd coffee, later I realized I basically was consuming no sugar at all, so now I gulp down 4 red bulls a day with my elvanse for breakfast and the problem went away. MH got way better too.

      For dinner I have some frozen pizza or something like that that I can make without any effort or time, but lately it’s way way way too much effort to cook/eat.

      Wish there was some “nutri-slop 3000” type magic pill that just gave me all nutrients I need for the day so I wouldn’t have to worry about this shit.

      This is all meant with no offense to nutritionists/scientists, way I see it, y’all doing god’s work. Literally. If that lazy mfer bothered existing or got off his ass we wouldn’t be cursed with this shit fr.

      Edit: Wow what’s with the downvotes? Le Reddit hivemind is upset?

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        2 days ago

        I mean, there are these “complete meal” drinks, specifically for people like you who don’t really want to think about their next meal

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        You calling it elvanse makes me suspect you have access to maultaschen. Bürger vegan maultaschen (Typ 1) have macronutrients in the proportion suggested by nutritionists; taste good raw, sautéed, or in soup; cost <€2,50; and keep very well. Other varieties are possibly similar, but I don’t know if they can be eaten raw or how they keep.

        Plus, they’re a good base for taking elvanse.