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I have a milk problem
kephalos 8 months ago • 100%
Oat milk doesn't really work for me. Glad if it does for you ;-) I guess I will drink black coffee now. I received an AeroPress last week and while I always used good beans I ordered a selecton of premium beans from the webshop that I ordered the aeropress from.
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I have a milk problem
kephalos 8 months ago • 100%
Yes, 80 kcal are not much, but many small amounts sum up quickly in my experience, and 80kcal in liquid calories are much less satisfying than more solid stuff on my plate.
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I have a milk problem
kephalos 8 months ago • 100%
Yeah, non-dairy milk alternatives I did try. In away they are good as they don’t trigger the reaction I get with milk. But on the other hand since they don’t do that I can just as well drink my coffee black I think (and save these 80kcal altogether)
kephalos 8 months ago • 66%
If it were useless we would see at least some populations in the world to have lost it altogether.
I have a milk problem Counting calories with a food scale is eye opening. That bit of milk in coffee was actually about 80ml on average and I guess on certain days I might have drank about 300ml in milk. I guess I will switch to drinking my coffee black now. Overall I think I am someone who is drawn to milk, some people may have sugar cravings, for me it’s hard to resist milk. (Fermented dairy like yogurt or quark is totally different for me, it doesn’t trigger the same reactions).
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shower thought: a moderate deficit is
kephalos 9 months ago • 100%
its not my plan, but it wouldnt be a problem for my health (i.e. I did it before)
I just recently occured to me that could use the formula used to calculate one's TDEE backwards. here me out. Current TDEE is estimated at 2320 using this formula: `tdee = tdee_factor * (66 + 13.7 * weight_kg + 5 * height_cm - 6.8 * age_years)` If I would eat 2000 consistently, what weight could I expect to have? solving the above equation for `weight_kg` and using my data, I arrive at 92 kg. If I would eat 1800 consistently, what weight could I expect to have? solving the above equation for `weight_kg` and using my data, I arrive at 80 kg. My takeaway here is: today's deficit can be tomorrow's maintenance weight. And me being overweight currently is actually me eating way more than what my body needs consistently for years.
So i ordered jeans with width 36 to see if I can go a size lower. Turns out W36 fits a bit tight but it fits and then I realize I am currently wearing W40 jeans, since they come in increments of two I am just two sizes down. Wohoo
Starting from June 6th I have now lost 7 kg on the scale.
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SV: 5kg lost
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I imagine it to be like 2 bottles of water and 3 bottles of oil or something (with bottles of 1 liter), or a 1 gallon jug.
I remember reading about a German TV host who lost weight and every week would fill up the total weight lost as water in two buckets and walk around the house with them just to get a feeling for the weight.
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SV: 5kg lost
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
obese actually
Starting from June 6th I have now lost 5kg on the scale. And this after a 3 week vacation where I wasn’t able to weigh most foods and instead tried to moderate consumptions. My strategy was to opt for salads when eating out, we had a rental apartment with a mini kitchen and there I prepared instant soup in e evening and broccoli’s cauliflower every other day. I also indulged into cheese (directly from the cheese dairy three houses up the street), had some ice cream (not every day), and occasionally an Aperol Spritz.
Science
90% Reduction: Scientists Discover Natural Molecule That Eradicates Plaques and Cavities
kephalos 1 year ago • 66%
I am 38 and have so far had no cavity. Turns out adults have a very easy handle on dental hygiene, brushing your teeth, flossing and avoiding candy and sweet drinks
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Use rated games to be matched with real players. After a few games that you will lose you will be matched with players against which you have roughly a 50:50 chance of winning / losing. Don’t focus on the ELO rating specifically at the start. Playing against humans is definitely different from the computer. In the lower ELO ranges you will see a lot of moves that don’t make sense and that the chess engine would never play. On the other hand opponents can be quite good at reading your strategy (as opposed to a dumbed-down engine).
Use the Analyse game function after the game to get an idea of the mistakes you made.
I would start with 10 minute games so that you can play a few games in a row (gives you more practice) but still have time to think.
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
It kind of seems they stole a decade off of Lasker.
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
oops, was already posted.. Doesn't the UI give a hint for that? I'll look twice next time.
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Just won a game with 98% accuracy
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
They played at 82%, one blunder, 2 mistakes, 1 imprecision (sry, translating terms to english on the fly). So I don't think they were playing extremey bad.
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Check-in (of sorts)
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
We can handle a moderate deficit, especially if we’re keeping a positive bias to protein (such as eating 25% of calories from protein, basically keeping protein portions decently sized). I do it without any supplements, but with meats, eggs, yogurt, legumes. Our protein is where we get our dietary cholesterol from which we make cells, and it’s also an energy source so while we need all kinds of nutrition, keep that one from falling during a deficit to answer your concerns.
I am aiming for 250g of Quark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product) per day and I actively try to add kidney beans, white beans, chickpeas to my diet (which works okayish). Also had Salmon yesterday and smoked salmon for breakfast every other day.
I clicked on "Analyze Game" and Stockfish wouldn't find any blunder or mistake. I had lost two matches against the opponent previously (on other days) so this game was just ... perfect. (Is there any blog posts / etc on the distribution of accuracy-percentages, potentially for various ELO levels? I am pretty surprised that I played so accuracte given that I tend to blunder regularly) 
**feel free to add your story / check in in the comments below** Weight has been stagnant for the last week or so. The immediate connection is of course that I stopped tracking calories for various reasons. I have sticked to general recommendations of my dietician with regards to portion control and I credit this with the fact that I did not gain weight. Today I had to take care of a sick child at home, so now (~8pm) I am really tired, but still I think I can pat my back for eating 3 moderate meals (breakfast was 60g of oat flakes with yoghurt, for lunch Austrian cheese with full-grain bread I baked today, dinner was Pizza (!), with crust prepared from 100g of flour and mushroom topping). I am a bit in this weird situation that I need to strengthen my back as past yoyo dieting has somewhat atrophied the muscles of the core, while I also should lose weight now as a lot of things in life are now in a place where I think sustainable weight loss is now a possibility. So I am working out for a healthy mind (and to hopefully prevent further losing of muscle) while at the same time I am a bit worried of hurting myself in the process / messing up regeneration at a deficit.**___****___**
Science
Study links long-term artificial sweetener intake to increased body fat adipose tissue volume
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Did they control for the fact that being overweight can be a cause to switch from sugar to sweeteners?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Not sure I understand everything, although I think I understand that an influx of new players can totally skew statistics.
It's worth noting that this is about ELO ratings, so lichess may have a similar problem (I think it might be the case for Blitz on Lichess to suffer from a similar problem), but some of the proposed fixes are FIDE ELO specific (increasing starting ELO).
The problem seems to be that the ELO ratings aren't accurate to estimate the correct probabilities for a match between a long-time chess player with higher ELO rating and a player from the "Queen's gambit wave".
Now the authors seem to paint this as a problem with the new players being underrated, the ELO distribution to be skewed. I agree that this can be a skew, I wonder however if the solution should be to boost ELO ratings of lower-ranked players.
- Overall the best fix would IMHO be to bring together higher-ELO with lower-ELO players in matches in order to allow the ELO distribution to move ELO points down from the upper end, so that the ELO numbers again match the winning-probabilities between two players. I guess there is hesitance to do that because it means the old-guys might lose rating points and people are naturally protective in this regard.
- bumping ELO points would lead to an inflation in ELO rating overall, it does not fix the root cause.
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De-Lurk: what's your story?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I have been overweight since childhood and after college I put on about 2kg per year on average. In between I managed to diet off some kg but quickly gained them back every time.
This time I am combining my past dieting experiences with professional help from a registered dietician and a personal trainer (I am an emotional eater and hope to be able to use sport for mental stability as well as physical health).
I am trying to stay <2000kcal on most days of the week and in any case under the estimated daily calories of my apple watch.
I am a picky eater, have been a picky eater all my life. I managed during my late teenage years and early twenties to acquire a taste for vegetables (and I am grateful that I did), but fruits (apple, grape, etc) are still a problem for me. I have identified however, that I like * Mango * oranges * lemons Now I wonder what fruit I could "try" next. Preferably I would not start with Apples and Bananas (as a kid it was **constantly** suggested I should eat apple/bananas that I don't have the best memories in this regard, I think these will be tougher fruits to start with). Why am I asking this? Ultimately I want to balance out my diet more and potentially get into a position where I can opt for fruit over chocolate if I want to have something sweet.
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I would ask your medical specialist whether Swimming is okay to do with your medical history. While travelling you can purchase tickets to public swimming pools (granted, depends a bit on where in the world you are travelling).
Anyway, I would not take advice from strangers on the internet without a 1:1 consultation with a medical doctor on what is okay to do and what not.
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[SV] >4kg lost
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I was on a hike last weekend
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Exercise may or may not help you lose weight and keep it off – here's the evidence for both sides of the debate
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I consider sport and working out to be really helpful for weight loss, primarily for its positive impact on my mental health, which in turn, also helps me to keep up a healthy and restricted diet.
I realize already that the same distance in swimming/running burns fewer calories than when I did them in a less-trained state, which is why my aims are now time-based (45 minute swim, 1h walk, etc.).
A typical mistake people who start to count calories make is to select in the TDEE calculator an active lifestyle and then adding the workout calories on top, which kind of means they are added twice when in reality they need to be accounted for only once. So I decided to pick "sedentary", even though I work out. Then all workout burnt calories may help in losing weight a little faster, but I don't risk to plateau due to overeating / wrong estimated calories for a workout.
Also, I do think a lot of advice in dieting should probably distinguish between
- obese people trying to lose weight
- normal weight people trying to lose the christmas-kilos
What works to shed a few pounds may not work to lose 40kgs.
Scale victory: 4kg lost. I am pretty happy, also I actually didn't get to swim in the last few days and the last times the scale dropped, it was after a >1000kcal workout or so. My main method of weight loss is calorie counting, but I am also working with a registered dietician on learning again to feel my satiety
Chess Beginners
Does this constellation (knight being backed by bishop in front of white's castle have a specific name or something?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Chess Beginners
Does this constellation (knight being backed by bishop in front of white's castle have a specific name or something?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
ah, that is a good idea. I think I was always distracted by having the knight on the g file
My father is annoyingly using this construct that I find very hard to break into, he played white here. So I would like to find a strategy against it :-)
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Hello and accountability post...I guess
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Best of luck on your journey. Its good that you don't have to do it entirely alone but have support by your Doctor and of course this community!
so my rating on lichess is higher for rapid (close to 900) than to blitz (close to 700), and I kind of wonder whether this is due to differences in the pool of people playing rapid vs blitz, or whether I am just a not as good at thinking fast. I have played A LOT of blitz games in June & July and only recently really picked up rapid games. Overall I think I am not even making too much use of the additional time quite often in rapid as I am still somewhat used to the time constraint in blitz (e.g. I never lost due to time-out on a rapid game), so I don't think its actually me playing much better in rapid than in blitz
Chess Beginners
Black to play, I (white) have obviously cornered black so bad with B-f4 that they let the clock tick down for the full 5 minutes
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
yeah, still no reason to not politely resign IMHO
Chess Beginners
Black to play, I (white) have obviously cornered black so bad with B-f4 that they let the clock tick down for the full 5 minutes
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Lichess wrote an automated message into the chat about potential temporary banning so I didn't feel I needed to report it. In the end, I won the game :-)
A bit annoying that people won't find the 'resign' button if they are unwilling to finish the match.
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I am playing on Lichess and just dropped from 700-800 range where I frequently played >800 ELO numbers back to the 600 range and in some way its also true there. I dropped down on an evening where I probably should have just stopped playing and so now I have to make my way up very concentrated against players that objectively don't develop their pieces well but somehow manage to make renegade moves that are challenging to counter...
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
a key difference between the knight and the bishop is, that the knight can really force the king to move in situations where the bishop could be blocked by another piece moving into the way.
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What always helps me is remembering that: hunger feels good -- desire feels good -- food tastes better when you're properly hungry
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
For me what was valuable is to recognize that there is a difference between having appetite for something, being hungry and “almost starving”.
So what is the bodily need and what is the emotional need / craving
Chess Beginners
Why do people leave the session and don't resign? To me white seemed at an advantage even
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
That was indeed my plan. But pressing the resign button would be a bit nicer in such a case
Science
First Canadian trial successfully uses phage therapy to stop life-threatening UTI caused by superbug
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Phages were studied intensively in the Soviet Union and it’s block states during the Cold War and I remember seeing documentaries on German Tv with patients tracking to tiblisi, Georgia, to receive phage therapy
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Wonder on the impact for glas recycling.
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kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I contemplate to still count calories but be more liberal with my deficit and follow up on her advice to track my emotions. That would "secure" me against uncontrolled eating while also following up on her advice on listening to my body and being less strict.
She is a registered dietician with the national dietician's organisation. and overall she didn't ring the pseudo-science alarm bell, to which I am quite sensitive.
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Eat YOUR foods
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Very good point.
- Serving it on a smaller plate / bowl
- Adding a vegetable side / salad, so that you mix bites of your favourite dish with something that fills you up.
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I have every recommended vaccination in my body and cannot stand these anti-vaxxers, but the first malaria vaccination was only approved in 2021 and provides "modest" protection against Malaria. So you cannot eradicate Malaria with vaccinations (yet) and Malaria needs to be fought at the moment with other tools.
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kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Lost now up to 3kg since starting calorie counting which is great. Yesterday was an appointment with a dietician and I left with mixed feelings, she suggested dropping the calorie counting, but just keep a food diary that also would includes emotional status reporting (the aim is to bring across more self reflection and for me to learn to „listen to my body“) not sure whether I am ready to give up the control calorie counting provides though. I might just keep two food journals for now.
I think her motivation for having me stop calorie counting is that I tend to swing back and forth between phases of dietary control and the opposite so she wants me to practice moderation. I just feel tje appropriste time for moderation Training might rather be when my BMI is <25 and currently it’s >35
Crossgeposted von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/360558 > So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..
So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..
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Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds - NPR
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Using 5:2 (day) fasting I was fairly successful a few years ago. I think since I did 5:2 I am now in a much better place for plain calory-counting (if I used up my calories I know I will last the rest of the day without food).
Maybe I'll pick it up again at some point, potentially combined with calorie counting. on the feeding-days.
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What is a high protein, high fiber, AND portable food?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Roasted Chickpeas? Not sure how they score on fiber but I assume not so bad
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Alternative Calorie Counting Apps to MFP?
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
I am using FatSecrets as it was recommended to me b a dietician
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Trying to try again
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Alcohol free beer is a viable replacement, doesn’t have extra calories from alcohol
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SV: 2.7 kgs down
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
thx!
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★★★ Discontinuing Daily Threads, post questions and SV/NSV as Posts ★★★
kephalos 1 year ago • 100%
Yeah. On Mastodon it took like 3-4 rounds of Twitter insanity to bring it into a state where you could use it if you weren't just discussing Open Source software.
For Lemmy we are currently in wave 2 of Reddit insanity, but this is the first time that Lemmy is in a usable state and has available instances. So I kind of hope we have a small, moderately active community running and in the next round of Reddit insanity people who look into lemmy can actually find this community.
Hey, I created some "group threads" in the past week and overall I think the number of comments in them is so low that it just makes sense for Questions and SV/NSV (scale victories, non-scale victories) to be posted as **Posts**, which also means they are easier to spot for people in lemmy as well.
After some days of weight fluctuaions, I got a new lowest-weight reading today since I started calory-counting in June. Doing CICO at ~ 1900 kcal per day and try to add sports on top if feasible (this week it wasn't because a family member was sick).
# Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. Include your stats if appropriate/relevant **Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!**
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/141629 > Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! > > * Did your scale drop again? > * Did you log for an entire week? > * Finally hitting those water goals? > * Fit into your old pair of jeans? > * Have a fitness feat? > > **Post it here!** > > *Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!*
# Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. Include your stats if appropriate/relevant **Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!**
Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! * Did your scale drop again? * Did you log for an entire week? * Finally hitting those water goals? * Fit into your old pair of jeans? * Have a fitness feat? **Post it here!** *Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!*
I watched the first minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYrvclbqRM8&t=887s and quickly won this Blitz game
# Got a question? We've got answers! Do you have question but don't want to make a whole post? That's fine. Ask right here! What is on your mind? Everyone is welcome to ask questions or provide answers. No question is too minor or small. Include your stats if appropriate/relevant **Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!**
Scale Victory, Non-Scale Victory, Progress, Milestones -- this is the place! Big or small, please post here and help us focus all of today's awesomeness into an inspiring and informative mega-dose of greatness! * Did your scale drop again? * Did you log for an entire week? * Finally hitting those water goals? * Fit into your old pair of jeans? * Have a fitness feat? **Post it here!** *Don't forget to comment and interact with other posters here, let's keep the good vibes going!*
In most recent games, the opponent just attacked aggressively in the first 5 moves and I am somehow not able to defend correctly. Also, the opponent is usually not playing "stockfish moves", so I have the feeling they wouldn't stand a chance moving that early that aggressively if their opponent wasn't me. (10+0 rapid at >900, <1000 ELO)
You should be able to upload photos in a comment on lemmy!
Should we have weekly threads like the subreddit. ? Iirc there could be weigh-in Wednesday threads etc. the thing is, I don’t think lemmy automates this.
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I really like that TNH doesn't "just" cover speech, but starts with the listening part, because without understanding its hard to imagine "right speech"
It's !swimming@discuss.tchncs.de so if you are into swimming, potentially you have followed r/swimming this would be a place in lemmy-land.
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Hi, I created a chess beginners community on discuss.tchncs.de as a replacement on lemmy for r/chessbeginners Since discoverability of communities across lemmy is not very good at the moment, maybe it makes sense to cross-reference between chess communities so that they are more easily found (reminds me a bit of the old days of the internet). So I added a link from chessbeginners' description to [!chess@lemmy.ml](https://lemmy.ml/c/chess) and would hope to see a backlink :-)
This set is not the cheapest plastic set you can get but I got it because I wanted plastic (moisture robustness) and wanted a set that still feels valuable. A numbers chess board that is foldable was a plus. Overall I like the set, most astonishing is the sound and feel of bringing a chess piece to the board, of course it’s not the wooden experience of a chess cassette but it feels and sounds right.
Tracking calories for weight loss, I realized that milk is "heavy", and I poured a lot of it into my coffee. Now I can think of better use for these calories (in solid form) in my <2000kcal deficit plan.
