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Aqua Buddha

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  1. I spent 30 seconds scrolling through this Catturd's feed. He seems like a shit bag but literally posts all day. Seems like he'd barely leave his house.
  2. From the head of Ozympic. It's basically a lifetime drug. (Of course it is.) She said available data suggests most individuals will recover most of their weight within five years of stopping Wegovy, and roughly 50% of their weight after two to three years. Some individuals may actually gain more weight after stopping the drug than they initially lost, Conde-Knape added. Studies have similarly shown weight rebound in people who stop taking Ozempic. Novo Nordisk makes both prescription drugs. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/29/people-taking-obesity-drugs-ozempic-and-wegovy-gain-weight-once-they-stop-medication.html Great story. Thanks for sharing. User name does not check out, though.
  3. Very good piece about how Twitter is quickly dying, with the new verification system maybe being the final blow. Example below. The blue checkmarks were always the most valuable piece but now they can be faked for $11. Why stay if you're them? https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/
  4. Banchero will win ROY and he should because it's a full season award but Jalen Williams on OKC is a fucking baller. If you compare their stats the last few months, they're on par with Williams being significantly more efficient. Matchup nightmare, too. You can make the case that Banchero is Orlando's #1 guy so he gets the best defender but Williams is just as good when SGA isn't in the lineup. If there were a redraft, you'd have people making the case at Williams #1. He'd be #2 at worst. If that Chet dude is any good at all, they'd got a solid core 4 players. Their big men are complete trash, though. The main reason Giddey is getting so many rebounds is he's basically playing the 4. Good rebounder, though, but if he's the best rebounder, that says a lot about the other bigs.
  5. I've said to consult a dietician and/or a personal trainer. If you have physical problem preventing some exercising, they can help put something together. Let's look at your investing example, though. That's a good parallel. If we had someone who was 40 years old, made good money and had very little retirement savings, what would you tell them? What if they kept looking for the quick fix (Bitcoin, meme stocks, shit like that) but multiple people kept telling them to not spend everything they make, max out your retirement accounts, and dollar cost average index funds for everything? What if they kept saying that might be easy for you but not them? Then when you examine their situation, you learn they have three cars and a boat. Money and food have a lot of parallels now that I think about it. While you need both, your emotions surrounding both drive a lot of the decisions. Your analogy is a good one but me and some of others are arguing the long term solution. You have it backwards.
  6. Good for you for avoiding the problem in the first place. We got fat, had the self awareness to know we were fat, and then got un fat. We still look at the fat pictures sometimes as motivation. After we lost a good chunk of weight, people would always ask how we did it. They were wanting us to have a magic diet. We’d just say exercise and a cleaned up diet. They’d always be absolutely crestfallen.
  7. I read the links Sawbonz posted about the different wiring of the gut and brain. My theory was that decades of shit diet re wires people’s bodies. Fat people generally have fat kids so a 40 year old could easily have 4 decades of shit food so their body truly thinks it needs 3X the normal calories. It explains the increase over time and the regionality. SEC, it just weighs…..more It’a still the diet over time, though. This didn’t happen in a vacuum.
  8. This is what I’m talking about. Some of us are trying to offer solutions and tips and then we’re ridiculed. If you want to honestly talk about weight management, great. If not, why are you posting?
  9. Let me guess. You’re fat?
  10. If you want to read about food, weight, and performance, read about Allie Kiefer. Pro marathoner, lives in Austin (I think), and always had trouble breaking through. She was rail thin like they all are but then she put on 15 lbs, which those types NEVER Do. She ended up being like 125 or something, which made her look like a defensive end. She ended up with more endurance, fewer injuries, and better sustained speed. A lot of elite runners (pro and amateur) have very dysfunctional relationships with food. Ryan Hall quit running and just ate like a normal person while keeping his regimen and did this:
  11. The measurements are fluid. Or they're piss.
  12. Good story. It's why a lot of people gain weight doing half marathon training. There are other reasons as well but you have to eat the right foods and adjust the amount.
  13. Ozympic has a $100M/yr ad budget. It's like an Ozympic salesman telling you to use Ozympic.
  14. He's also said that exercise and diet work if you stick with it so let's not gloss over that.
  15. Yes, for those that stayed in, 100% of them lost weight. Recruits can straight up quit boot camp. At least they could back then. This is an extreme example, though. It's impossible to cheat. All they do is sleep in the barracks, eat a very strict diet, and PT during the day.
  16. When I lost my weight, I was fucking hungry I'll tell you that. Worst part was late afternoon. Then, I discovered something. Exercise worked as a temporary appetite suppressant. I would get off work, go run 2-3 miles on the treadmill and I was back to normal. Then I'd have a salad or something for dinner.
  17. I'm curious on that 0% or 5% figure, too. My guess is that it covers all the people who started and gave up.
  18. Ya'll think this is harsh. When my wife got out of grad school, her dad had a "fat intervention" on her. This was long before we met but she was prolly pushing 2 bills from what I would guess. (5'6"). Might have been more. Dad told her she was fat, getting fatter, and that's the reason she wasn't dating. (He's a harsh but good man.) Offered to pay for gym memberships, trainers, etc. He figured she wasn't making much money on that point so he'd help her out. She would eventually lose around 30-40 lbs and then we would later get married. We then each gained 40 lbs again. She would later run the Marine Corps marathon in 3:45. Her dad was right.
  19. Uh, oh. Now you've done it.
  20. If someone were starting out on a weight loss/fitness journey and they were overweight, I would suggest they keep a food log for two weeks and track everything and be honest. That's something I didn't do but wish I had. Most of us (me included now) would be surprised what we eat. I'm sure there are 2% outliers but the human body simply can't maintain +300 lbs on a normal diet.
  21. The geographic bubbles fascinate me. People just 50 miles or so eat completely different from each other. (HEB has this down to a science.) The eye opener for me was when he lived in San Antonio 10 years ago. We lived in Alamo Heights, which is a bubble in a myriad of ways, but I never realized how fat SA was. AH was it's own "thin bubble" and then we went to a George Strait concert at the Alamodome. Good hell.....
  22. Posted my response before I saw yours but correct, it works unless they wash out. Even with injuries, there are platoons they put them in until they heal. They also have "physical conditioning platoons" for those recruits who can't do the minimums of running, push ups, or whatever. Same applies. When they hit the minimums, they get assigned to a training platoon. But people don't stay in the fat platoons indefinitely. They lose the weight and move on into training unless they get hurt and wash out. Also, at least back in the day, once they're in training, they're on a restricted diet. (This also applies to recruits who are slightly overweight but not "fat.") They would have a red mark or something on their ID and at chow they'd only be able to eat things like lean chicken with no skin, veggies, no milk but juices. Shit like that. I understand that boot camp is an extreme example but there were recruits whose parents didn't recognize them after graduation.
  23. Correct. If they quit the diet and excerice, they don't lose the weight. Makes it like any other diet and fitness plan.
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