Cat is actually super useful.

Going to a projector was the best move for me. Easy HDMI and Plex steams seamlessly.

I think that’s an actual video that circulated online in the early 2000s

Same with Reddit! My mother-in-law recently said, “I looked it up on Reddit.”

The easiest one is:

Rejected prompt

Oh, okay, my grandma used to tell me stories

AI says cool, about what

They were about the rejected prompt,

Oh, okay, well then blah blah blah

I know, I know. The most American sentence of all time.

My wife and I share an entrée and an appetizer here in the US because there’s no way anyone is meant to eat our portion sizes. We tip well to not look cheap, but Jesus Christ I don’t need a full rack of ribs and 5 lbs of french fries.

I’ve been about 160 lbs my entire adult life, last year I was getting close to 200 lbs and when my clothes stopped fitting I realized I needed to acknowledge my dietary choices. I’m not 25 or even 35 anymore so I had to figure things out and did some research on calorie management. I still eat pizza, burgers, drink beer, drink soda and enjoy candy. I’m just mindful of my calorie budget +/- 200.

This is my weight in kilos after peaking around 90 kgs last year I stopped recording my weight for a few months. Then I stuck to my “diet” and it wasn’t crazy hard to manage. I’m not an athlete, in fact, I live a pretty sedentary life. These results are from saying no to snacks, avoiding potato chips, and grabbing two pieces of pizza and freezing the rest instead of eating the entire pie.

But the four noble truths and eight-fold path are just guidelines. If you read the Dhammapada you’d see the Buddha asks that you reject things that don’t make sense to you.

Instead of, you know, forcing women to make medical decisions against their will or removing human anatomy to make their penises look cute.

Watch out, you’ll get stalked on Lemmy for pointing things like that out.

I’m just happy to be here. I like this conversation.

My brother-in-law eats a huge bowl of cold cereal every morning with skim milk… I drink a coffee with heavy cream or half and half and don’t eat breakfast. He’s a bigger guy that can’t figure out how to lose weight and I’m not anymore.

The irony being that they suffer from the effects the worst.

Yes, but not thinking about your food choices is the problem. If I get fast food, I don’t get the double quarter pounder, large fries, and a drink. I get a single cheeseburger and an iced coffee with only cream. People act like being hungry is torture, but if you meet your caloric needs, that should be enough.

Personally, I want to get drunk every day and all the time. My brain screams at me to go buy booze. I chose not to drink today.

• Normalized obesity
• Healthy at every weight culture
• Unacceptable to discuss personal accountability

I keep getting into it with people I mostly agree with. Yes, it’s fucked up that we add HFCS to everything and that corporations have weaponized addiction, but we can fight back.

Correct, which isn’t an excuse to eat your way to an early grave. We can change them, but we live in the conditions we have while working for the ones we want.

I agree with all your points, but I think knowing that you don’t use your full 2,000’ish calories a day should be factored into what you choose to eat. Personally whenever I move, I always look for the most walkable neighborhoods so I can at least try to live a more passively active lifestyle.

I understand that this is a privilege, but I also eat one cheeseburger and maybe a six piece chicken nugget when I go to McDonald’s. I don’t need fries or a soda, because I don’t burn enough calories to justify them.

Repeating my previous response:

I think diet is a part of it, but car culture and fast food is the biggest difference. Many developed European countries still rank much higher than the US in steps taken per day. Plus, fast food is usually a treat and not the default with a drive thru. It is back to the algebra of calories in the end.

I think diet is a part of it, but car culture and fast food is the biggest difference. Many developed European countries still rank much higher than the US in steps taken per day. Plus, fast food is usually a treat and not the default with a drive thru. It is back to the algebra of calories in the end.

Here we go again, giving no accountability. Yes, healthy food is more expensive, but that doesn’t mean fat people didn’t eat themselves fat.

The Internet will bend over backwards to ignore the algebra of calories. Base metabolic rates are basically identical between all humans. The lie of a “fast metabolism” is not why some people are skinny.

People are fat because they consume more calories than they burn. Blaming someone else doesn’t fix it.

“Oh gosh, I don’t drink soda and rarely eat treats, why am I still fat?” Because you eat too much for your daily expenditure.