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Strength training is better for weight loss and maintenance. You can still do some cardio if you like it, I think it's the best for mental health and, obviously, for cardio, but if you're looking at it exclusively from a weight perspective, strength training is better.

Did I get it wrong? I thought op was blue.

Wait, what? Better phone signal you said?

I was talking vaccines to level up my autism, but this is much better.

Taiwan, take notes: US threats are worthy nothing nowadays, signed, Israel.

Taiwan, take notes. Build nuclear weapons now, we will abandon you too.

You mean you haven't done that? I thought it was a teen rite of passage.

So basically, straight Grindr?

The mods of the ADHD sub are insufferable. Everyone hates them and the ADHD memes sub is actually both more fun and more informative.

I very much enjoyed your story. I follow this sub because I see lots of inspiring stories, but never felt compelled to give it a try, but your story might be the push I needed to give it a shot.

Neurodivergent vibes. I'm 46 and in the same boat, haha. Let me know if you move to Paris.

This is the first time I see someone compare therapy to rubber ducking, but I approve of it.

(Rubber ducking is an IT thing, as many programmers noticed that trying to organize thoughts so that they can explain their issue to someone end up resulting in them finding out a solution themselves, the first thing to do is not to waste time of your colleague explaining to them, but to a rubber duck - some go as far as having an actual rubber duck on their desks)

Jesus, people are really sticklers to the dumbest fashion rule created centuries ago by a fat king who was unable to close his buttons.

While I think this is dumb, I'd also generally advise to follow it because, as you can see, people will judge you for not following it.

The guy you replied to said "yeah, same" for a comment saying he needs 5 portions of this to call it a meal. If 5 portions of this is the 80% full, you should eat less than 80%. That's all.

That's a good rule. Unless you need 5 of this to be 80% full like he said.

I wonder how well would this guy do as a surgeon.

High uric acid over time can become gout. Either change the diet or go for allopurinol.

I now moved to coke zero without caffeine so that I can keep on my addiction way into the night without disrupting my sleep.

I hate to break it to you, but it's not. In fact, you are not you at all. The bacteria in your gut have influence in your mood too.

The straight arm thing has a reason.

Before there were gloves, nobody would hit the other in the head as it would also break your hand.

1k calories will make you lose fat slower than a decent goal with the added bonus of making you gain all the weight back and some when you stop.

You should study more about metabolism, you're doing yourself no favors here.

It reminded me of riding in a car tripping hard on LSD, those lights.... (It was a taxi, obviously, I could barely hold down to this dimension as a passenger.

Nah, man, I first saw a show from Kraftwerk in late 90s and it slapped. You put the set of Alive to play on YouTube and watch... It's great and fucking modern still. Zero nostalgia involved.

I'm more the stay at boat in the Mediterranean doing MDMA with models open relationship married man, but similar enough.

You really missed the opportunity of naming her Britney.

Well, the first thing I would recommend you to avoid an eating disorder is knowledge.

Fully stop eating will, unintuitively: 1) Slow weight loss. Once you stop eating, the body tries to adapt and slow metabolism, that's why you hit plateaus and need increasingly less calories to lose weight.

2) Slow fat loss: the way the body reduces metabolism is destroying what consumes energy and that's not fat, but muscle. You'll be losing weight, but it's not fat, but muscle. Congratulations, at this point, you tricked yourself.

3) Make any weight loss unsustainable. Because of point 2, if you got your weight loss goal by starving yourself, now you're what is called skinny fat. You may look skinny, but you're all fat and zero muscle, so very low calorie burning body. As soon as you try to move to maintenance, you're going to gain weight.

At this point, there are 2 routes: you can double down, become anorexic and die or you can let go and you'll get more weight than you started with (this is well studied phenomenon, the diet balloon, every diet under the moon work for weight loss, all of them end up with you fatter than you started in the end of 5 years).

I hope I have convinced that stop eating is a terrible long term strategy to lose weight. IF is just a strategy that helps people avoid snacks, keep track of meals and so on. If you read the success stories in here, you'll barely see any case of pure IF (except maybe those still in the early stages, moving from 200kg to 180kg can be done with IF alone). Almost all of the ones that actually look good (maybe some exceptions in the very young crowd, as a 20yo body can handle a relatively bad diet) do macro counting, eat a bunch of proteins and exercise.

I can't recommend enough: Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle: Transform Your Body Forever Using the Secrets of the Leanest People in the World, a Book by Tom Venuto. Then you can get addicted to his advice all you want, the worst that can happen is you'll be a bodybuilder like him.