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If your doctor isn't concerned but you still are, get double checked with another medical professional. No one online is going to diagnosis you based on you typing out how you feel you have one, nor should they. There are indeed core exercises that can treat it. There's also plastic surgery to resow the muscles that…

About that. The healing factor to calorie expenditure is usually supposed to be a 10 to 30% increase on your calorie needs. If you are recovering from surgery or other serious injury, it usually isn't a good idea to be in a deficit, but I'd assume the medical personnel associated with it are okay with you losing weight…

I love machine learning fails, particularly FB's carousel ads algorithms. Just last night I had Audible - which really should have some decent ideas about me given the FB data it can access combined with my Amazon data - one that had several hilarious suggestions. Apparently I should listen to "The Man God has for You"…

I think the verbiage used for BMI is worse. People argue endlessly that because their body fat is low, they're not overweight even when they meet the BMI category for it. Well... no. Medically, I'm overweight when I'm 5'8" and 166, even though I'm also 10.1% body fat at that weight. Overweight is only diagnosed by BMI…

It is the same for me. I could not have lost as much or certainly not gained as much lean mass if I had done WLS. Like just two restrictions I know of 1. No chocolate - well that's a lot of whey protein I could not use 2. No caffeine - I am both proud and a little embarrassed by how many work outs I finished at 1 am hyped…

Seeing as it is also kind of the experience of contest prepping bodybuilders and possibly just how human physiology works with extreme weight loss, we might be part of millituplets.

There's plenty of verbiage in literature that in hindsight seems bad, but once it is picked up, the important thing is consistent meaning in a phrase.

Reading that about Psychod, I would say I had a similar experience and that it seems reversible. It actually tracks somewhat with the experience of bodybuilders in contest prep. Personally, I was obese for pretty much my whole life, got losing with calorie counting and was too successful as I got to a single digit body fat…

In terms of the literature, it would be that IF helps create a deficit without restricting calories.

I think one problem that comes up in these discussions is people don't understand the difference in literature between calorie restriction and calorie deficit. Almost every researcher acknowledges calorie deficits are how weight is lost. Calorie restriction in research refers instead to the actual conscious effort to…

Could you explain what you mean by not in living humans? They don't use cadavers for metabolic ward studies that I've seen. Double blind studies aren't always necessary. There isn't a way for someone to have placebo weight loss - metabolic pathways don't work that way. Which is lucky because blinding someone to their own…

I've been lucky that when I was obese, I never had a provider that made me feel uncomfortable about it. At worst I had a provider tell me an outpatient surgery was going to be a bit complicated and worse recovery from it, which was just true. Frankly the same doctor put more effort into trying to get me to stop working out…

Since I'm going to be having surgery to remove my excess skin, it seems I've talked about my weight loss to a lot of medical professionals and invariably they seem to assume I had weight loss surgery. The presumption irks me for some reason. I suppose part of why is that assumption does impact some medical treatments. Like…

Mother Jones itself isn't terribly likely to turn down ads from Organic groups - they're a form of big business influence too. In particular, the study that generally kicked of the Round-Up Glyphosate controversy was done with funds from organic companies. Sadly, the science is so poorly done in that study, it is hardly…

I think two major reasons people get upset in a conversation are 1. Dishonest or otherwise truly hostile interlocutors. 2. A held view is seriously challenged and can't be met. I don't think anyone disagreeing with you is lying. The way to avoid number two is have solid reasons for what you believe, particularly knowing…

Except wind energy probably reduces bird deaths when all factors considered. Birds have very sensitive lungs, removing the air pollution from coal power and replacing it with wind should protect more birds on the balance.

I don't think the people disagreeing with you are that heated. Maybe all the exposed backs in the thread come off as looking to cool off.

There's also probably systemic fluid retention from cortisol. We tend to think of cortisol as being involved in strenuous activity, but cortisol fluctuates slight amounts even from things like standing up.

If a person was close to starving to death, which would be good between cake and walnuts? Probably cake - it will be far easier to put in a lot of calories in a short time with less digestive issues. I point this out because I would say good and bad do not exist on their own, only in a context, relative to a goal. Having…

Will you be too thin? That's a bit subjective, but there are women who are 5'8" and in the underweight category. From a health-risk standpoint, they are too thin. I'm not sure what you mean by body structure? Things like apple-shape, and fat distribution? They won't change your BMI - your BMI is your BMI. There, however,…

Nowhere did I say evolution has an aim, goal, or plan of attack. That I say it obeys a solution space is a mathematical thing, not an implication that evolution is trying to solve things in the sense a human does. It isn't calling it an intention any more than saying an apple moves with a straight path to the ground or…

So the Paleo diet is now so old in the digital era account of these things, it now requires digital archeology to uncover? I wonder if eventually we'll reach the era where people tell false, romanticised narratives of what Paleo Dieters of the 20th/21st century ate....

When speaking of it in forms of algorithms, there are cases where, no, there could not be such a leap because an evolutionary algorithm will have a limit on how far a mutation can cross a solution space. In nature rather than in math, there could be the possibility of say, several hundred mutations happening at once in an…

Let's just grant that claim for arguendo - I think I'm know fitness and endorphins, and felt the ad fell flat, though didn't hate it - isn't that a huge problem? Isn't one of the points of ads to get buy in from people that don't use the product already? Sure, some products sell to existing customers, but I don't think…

Interestingly, there are certain optimizations natural selection will never achieve because the solution space is unreachable without first having a worse solution. Like if you had a hill and valley lay out with high points representing better, evolution will never walk down a valley to go up a hill inside it, even if that…

I find the complaints out there weird myself. It was 7 years ago I received a smith machine / pulley cable machine combo for Christmas and my birthday from family. I ended up over the years switching to working with a squat rack, and now with my boys being older, just going to a gym. Still, I'd say it might be the best…

No. That's specifically brand awareness, and it is a type of ad campaign, but it is not the purpose of all advertising. Everybody knows what Coca-Cola and McDonald's are - they're actually both dangerously close at any moment to being too well known, used as generic nouns for a type of product instead of as brands - and…

I don't get the connection between the arboretum and the eating everything. Were you originally planning on eating leaves off the trees for lunch?

The problem with only having done it for week is you're dead in the middle of worst side effects with low to no benefits. The typical timeline for antidepressants is side effects start within days of starting and gradually reduce, but the actual benefits kick in around 3 weeks and take 4 weeks or longer to reach their…

I believe the propose benefits have already been discussed. The blood pressure should be an artifact of weight loss that doesn't hold up statistically. As far as blood sugar, it is also possible that it is not IF but the feeding windows typically used - and that's something I heard pointed out by an IF researcher. She…