The weight loss thread

[FrancisK]

It's especially funny to me when you see videos of people who do things that are clearly good for them, like a guy who makes a video where he gets obsessed with paying off his student loan debt. He sells his car, phone, cooks homemade batches of rice and vegetables, and saves every penny while living a monastic life for 14 months until his debt is gone. Then he goes out and buys a cell phone and etc again.

The "normal" approach is to save 10% or whatever and be a debt slave for a decade instead. So the video gets all sort of negative reactions.

Sometimes you have to really make subtractions to improve. Like when alcoholics go into rehab -- everything -- is focused on simply not drinking. There's no half-measures when you have a real problem.

Like on the old daytime talk shows where some hood rat on display would say "I have a job, I don't do drugs and I take care of my kids" then everyone claps like it's something special haha

 

[mountainaire]

Aside from diet and fasting, if you want to talk exercise, sprinting is the absolute best exercise for getting lean. Look at how the average competitive sprinter is built.



A short max effort sprint introduces a very powerful stimulus that most people don't expose themselves to in the modern world. When you do them you're activating something deep and hardwired. We were made to do it.

It torches fat off your body, yes, but there's more to it than that. It's also hypertrophic, which is why competitive sprinters are jacked unlike marathon runners and cyclists. It stimulates production of hormones, nature's TRT.

If you're worried about injury, introduce a hill into the mix. Sprinting up a hill is safer, because you can't go as fast, but the brutal effort required and rewards are still there. My body has some miles on it, torn meniscus in my right knee from a downhill mountain biking accident years back, a chronic lower back disc issue from squatting and deadlifting... The sprinting doesn't aggravate them at all. Sometimes I'll feel a tightness in my groin if I'm not diligent about warming up and stretching, but that's about it.

 

[cosine]

Aside from diet and fasting, if you want to talk exercise, sprinting is the absolute best exercise for getting lean. Look at how the average competitive sprinter is built.

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A short max effort sprint introduces a very powerful stimulus that most people don't expose themselves to in the modern world. When you do them you're activating something deep and hardwired. We were made to do it.

It torches fat off your body, yes, but there's more to it than that. It's also hypertrophic, which is why competitive sprinters are jacked unlike marathon runners and cyclists. It stimulates production of hormones, nature's TRT.

If you're worried about injury, introduce a hill into the mix. Sprinting up a hill is safer, because you can't go as fast, but the brutal effort required and rewards are still there. My body has some miles on it, torn meniscus in my right knee from a downhill mountain biking accident years back, a chronic lower back disc issue from squatting and deadlifting... The sprinting doesn't aggravate them at all. Sometimes I'll feel a tightness in my groin if I'm not diligent about warming up and stretching, but that's about it.

After age 35, 90% of people will never sprint all-out ever again.

Sad!

 

[Batman]

It's especially funny to me when you see videos of people who do things that are clearly good for them, like a guy who makes a video where he gets obsessed with paying off his student loan debt. He sells his car, phone, cooks homemade batches of rice and vegetables, and saves every penny while living a monastic life for 14 months until his debt is gone. Then he goes out and buys a cell phone and etc again.

The "normal" approach is to save 10% or whatever and be a debt slave for a decade instead. So the video gets all sort of negative reactions.

Sometimes you have to really make subtractions to improve. Like when alcoholics go into rehab -- everything -- is focused on simply not drinking. There's no half-measures when you have a real problem.

Yeah I rarely see people talking about this. Especially when it comes to finances. They always seem to leave out the detail that you need to be making quite a lot of money to afford to live on your own comfortably AND save (probably $60-70k/yr minimum).

Often, the more practical solution is to just cut expenses. Sell all your bullshvt except the essentials. Live in a studio or in a camper or out of your car for a while if it affords you the ability to save up. Trying to maintain the status quo isn't always realistic especially when drastic steps should be taken. Same holds for eating. If you want to lose weight you might just need to accept that things like soda and snacks are non-negotiable.

"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants." - Seneca