What to do when people attempt to sabotage weight loss efforts?

sanalin

What you do is you get a few donuts and put a two snickers through them all. Then you coat it in egg and roll it around in dehyrated and crushed snickers. Then you deep fry it and drizzle it with chocolate.

Studies show that chocolate is totally healthy!~*!

And promptly vomit.

sanalin

If you want to lose weight very quickly, you'll need to lift (as hard as you can) and eat what you NEED to function for the day.

On the other hand, if you want to lift heavy things and constantly lift heavier things, you'll need more food. I think this is why they avoid strict calorie counting. You'll teach yourself what your body needs, and you may not lose fat as quickly as a traditional "diet" but it'll get you in a better mindset for the long run.

I started stronglifts a month ago after years of just puttering around and doing whatever was convenient. In the last month, I've noticed my physique evening out even though I'm not losing as much fat as I have before with more mainstream methods.

I'd say go with it. If you even give yourself a year you'll see dramatic results without calorie counting. If you get to that point where you start to know your body better, then you can start playing with the numbers more specifically.

sanalin

Definition of trolling.

Just because you hate the word and it's your thread doesn't mean you're not an idiot.

sanalin

You didn't ask for a tolerant community for conservatives. You asked for a site "exactly the opposite in terms of politics...I'm sick of the raging liberal hard on being passed from fist to fist around here."

Maybe you should find conservative subreddits instead of trolling. There are plenty of them. Askreddit is the only "big" one I read anymore, and even that is just if something on my front page catches my eye.

sanalin

This is true.

We've also got major problems with stray/feral cats in many cities because their populations explode when not controlled.

edit: based on another comment, something like 4 fox babies per year, possibly? That's not as many as 2-6 per litter, but still. Bird populations have enough issues.

sanalin

She does kind of have a foxy snout and a squarish head like an IRL fox.

sanalin

You make much more sense than me. I clearly wasn't thinking about everything involved. Thanks.

sanalin

Dead on here. I had one in college, and while it wasn't the worst thing I could have done, I prefer a much firmer sleeping surface than IKEA can provide.

sanalin

Good to know!

That's pretty sweet.

sanalin

I hate the whole "me two three four" bullshit, but I also came here to post this.

So me four.

sanalin

Dips aren't going to give you all the same core and back work, so maybe do them in addition rather than instead of pushups? I mean, they're similar, but I feel like having to hold yourself horizonal is a lot more trying.

Or start doing pushup variations, like putting your hands really close together, feet elevated on a box, going down super slowly, etc.

sanalin

So, bans on interracial marriages were ethical? How about genocide, is that ethical? Let's go ask those victims what they think about ethics.

Even if you're looking at it from a purely definitional standpoint, laws can be culturally outdated before they're off the books. Not to mention the fact that your link also differentiates between ethics (theories and conceptual studies relating to good and evil and right and wrong) and morality (actual, real-world beliefs and practices concerning proper conduct). So according to this, laws would be based around morality.

sanalin

Wait, so you'd only be allowed to drink during the week like an alcoholic?

sanalin

Unlawful != unethical

sanalin

Is it warm enough to farm talapia in Canada?

sanalin

I think it'd be a sound model for a incubation period. It would be well situated in the web-2.0 fervor, we'd have infinite access to ideas, at least a moderate chance of fairly good funding (enough for 1-2 smaller projects, I'm sure), and we'd be able to get instant access to stakeholder feedback. Being social media driven like it would be, room for growth is ample.

My only major concern would be hivemind tendancies, but I'm sure there are some creative ways to control that out.

sanalin

Reddit Foundation - funding redditor charitable startups. The best part is that input from the community would be incredibly easy to field.

sanalin

A model to look at for something like this would be CASA (court appointed special advocates.)

With the way divorce rates are going, your best shot might be to focus in on low and extremely low income families, though a difficulty here might be that marriage rates are pretty low in this segment anyway. Broadening from divorce to custodial rights in general might be a way to increase service to those who really need it.

sanalin

I was on a team for a class that actually got funded for 100k for a xerioscape educational park in Phoenix. I was a senior then though, so I've got no idea how implementation went.

And I pretty much read grants for a living right now, so it'll depend on the idea and where we'd want funding to come from.

sanalin

I was going to say this. It sounds more like budget cuts forcing grad students out, though they're the cheapest labor you can get. The whole university system is a pyramid scheme at this point, and it's only worth getting in to at the higher levels if you're going to superpolitic your way into better positions.

sanalin

I got my degree in nonprofit management and have been working on the grant approval side for the Man.

If anyone takes any of these ideas and starts them up, let me know :) I'd love to get back to working for a nonprofit.

sanalin

Campus jobs were my study time. Something to look into if you want to start building savings. You can always quit if you get to midterms and decide you need more unstructured time.

sanalin

So here's the deal. A lot of people think of meditation as a cute, culturally diverse way to relax. But being alone in your own head and trying to reach deeper states of consciousness is kind of awkward. You wind up thinking about all the terrible or stupid or regretable things you've done, and until you can internally confront them to such a degree that they no longer bother you, you don't get to relax.

Get on a scale. Know your enemy. You can't know you've made progress until you know where you're coming from, and first things should always come first. You may wind up super depressed about it, but if you go into it knowing you're not going to like the number but have the means to change it, you'll be okay.

After that, strength training is good, diet is wonderful, and after a month or two of working hard and starting to see results, I bet you'll be hooked.

sanalin

Make sure you stretch throughout the day, and maybe warm up with some body weight squats, but you should be fine.

sanalin

They tread too close to home.

sanalin

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