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GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

KozmoNaut posted:

I'm currently looking at replacing my Chromebook with a refurbed Thinkpad T420(:420:). It's a 5 year old model, but it's got an i5, 4GB RAM and an SSD, and the refurb place guarantees at least 75% battery life left (of the original 6-8 hours, which is pretty good).

It'll run everything I can think of just fine, short of 3D games, but I don't care as long as I can watch 1080p Youtube videos, listen to music on Spotify and shitpost on the forums. It's the last model with a proper non-chiclet Thinkpad keyboard.

:hfive: keyboard bro.
The old Thinkpad keyboards are loving proper.

x220 + SSD + IPS screen is still the best loving laptop I've ever used.
I bought 2 of them for $100 each with 8gb ram, Windows 7 COA stickers, but no HDD. One had the TN panel the other had an IPS screen and fingerprint reader. The IPS screen is gloriously beautiful and stupidly bright. No webcams, because :tinfoil:
A couple of Samsung Evo drives later I'm all set. They play really well with windows 10 and I've literally never had an issue with either of them, except the bluetooth chip on one is really old and doesn't play nice with some things (just disconnect and reconnect usually fixes it)

You should loving do it.
If for no other reason than to have an excuse to rock the best travel mouse: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2TN1S68188

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KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Alarbus posted:

My Dad has a T420 and I have a T520 we bought with his discount before he retired. He finally let me install an SSD in his, and it made a huge difference in usability. I have 16gb of ram and he has 8, so in some cases mine is a smidge faster. I'd budget upping the ram in the one you're looking at, but since it already has an SSD you're saving there. Mine is still going great, and much better than the crappy HP thing work gave me.

I will note that if you like the original, rough trackpoint caps, those are getting harder to find.

The one I'm looking at has 1x4GB, and I'll probably add another 4GB module to that. Going to the full 16GB with 2x8GB would be rather expensive in comparison, and probably not worth it.

I don't mind the newer dimpled trackpoint caps, but to be honest I actually prefer the touchpad :ssh:

GnarlyCharlie4u posted:

x220 + SSD + IPS screen is still the best loving laptop I've ever used.

Those are getting really hard to find, unfortunately :(

The refurb places I'm looking at only has them in 'C' condition, which is the lowest and has "scratches, signs of use and possibly missing plastic. 10% battery capacity guaranteed". I'm not really interested in someone's busted-rear end road warrior laptop.

And I'm over the whole subnotebook thing, a ~14" screen is the sweet spot for me, ideally 1080p.

KozmoNaut fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Mar 21, 2017

the spyder
Feb 18, 2011
Send me a PM, I have a T420 with SSD/8GB that I was just about to list in SA mart.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


the spyder posted:

Send me a PM, I have a T420 with SSD/8GB that I was just about to list in SA mart.

There's the minor issue of the Atlantic Ocean being in the way ;)

But I appreciate the offer.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


The Door Frame posted:

Oh drat, I didn't mean to be condescending. I'm mostly familiar with Crohn's disease and the one friend with DC who who actively avoided treatment, so maybe my view is a little skewed. From what I've learned from listening to doctors, nurses, and a bit of my own research is that most modern treatments for IBS diseases try to avoid creating stomae if at all possible

I suppose that I thought of "ideal treatment plans" instead taking the next step and thinking of real world treatments. I have firsthand knowledge of how insurance will gently caress around on the most basic level of care if they get the chance, so it should've been the first thing I thought of when "modern treatments" was a part of the discussion. And it could just be American insurance issues, but I've found that doctors are often not willing to prescribe newer drugs, except after trying everything else, because they know that they'll have to fight the insurance company every time those prescriptions try to be filled.
Insurance coverage issues can delay the proper treatment until things become much worse. Which in this case is scarring and diverticulitis, which do require surgery

Chron's disease is a little different, as it affects the entire GI tract, so even if you remove the bowel, it can start in the small intestine. Diverticulitis can happen to anybody, as you get older, diverticules can form. if something gets lodged in there and infected, it can get inflamed, to the point where it has to be surgically removed.

It's not just the US, government drug programs here in canada are like a stick in the mud with newer drugs, largely because of how combative the drug companies are, it's nearly impossible to get actual information on the drugs, even for the doctors prescribing them. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drug-safety-health-canada-white-paper-1.4020384

In the US, the drug companies aren't required to publish every study on a a drug, so if they fund trials 10 trials and only 4 are favorable, they only publish those 4. Still, even the best newest drugs like entyvio in cherry picked tests are only around 50% effective, with a placebo being 25% effective. And even then it's almost always temporary, because they're live antibodies which your own body will identify as invasive and form antibodies against. Basically, the drugs that do work often only do so temporarily, most patients are bounced between them, and the most severe ones are thousands of dollars a month. There's a forum called healing well, where if you want to get super depressed, you can go into almost any thread there and read people's signatures detailing the long list of drugs that have failed them, and the long list of drugs they're on that often aren't working. You can see their desperation and panic every time it pops back up to destroy their life.

Food does make a huge difference, but every person's biome is unique, to the point where they can identify you by it, so what works for you might not work for anyone else. It can also take days or weeks to produce a positive or negative effect if you see one, so your bad day might be caused by some mustard you ate a few days ago. There's also the issue of the trash being sold as food, there could be 4 different brands of chicken noodle soup on the shelf, one of them will contain polysorbate 80, which has been proven to induce colitis. It turns every grocery store into a minefield. And again, if your issue isn't the cells in your GI tract being exposed to the bacteria triggering an auto-immune response, then that's not the cause of cure for you. The elimination diet which some doctors suggest where you start with the most basic foods and add until something causes trouble is problematic too, because if you're starving and your intestinal wall is exposed, the bacteria can just eat that causing symptoms.

Food correlation studies often come up barely swinging to either side because everybody's biome is so different, what gets you into remission might harm your chances of staying in remission, and some changes take days, some take weeks, some damage done by diet can't be corrected without taking extra steps. Your gut biome can change drastically in an hour, and strains of bacteria lost are permanently lost. In UC, they've identified a lack of specific bacteria that metabolize butyrate and other short-chain fatty acids that support the function of the colon. In order to fully understand which foods help or hinder, they would basically have to map your biome to determine what it can actually metabolize.

this is interesting to skim through in relation to chron's, just looking at the fecal bacteria, they can tell within 90% certainty whether or not you have chron's. http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/01/31/gutjnl-2016-313235

So the goal beyond that would be to clear out the GI tract with anti-biotics, and repopulate with a combination of fecal mater from a number of healthy donors so your biome more closely reflects theirs. Even in short trials it's shown to be more effective than all of the biologics . It really does seem to be the light at the end of the tunnel, not only for chron's and colitis, but even poo poo like obesity.

It really is important for everybody to be aware of, colitis is almost becoming an epedemic in young people, and while there's an underlying genetric pre-disposition to it, diet seems to be a trigger. make your kids eat vegetables and fish. never introduce them to mcdonalds.

Fermented Tinal
Aug 25, 2005

by Pragmatica
Back to weight chat, in September of 2016 I was about 265lbs, probably closer to 270lbs. I don't have a bathroom scale but the one I use for weighing bales at work says I now weigh 212lbs fully clothed (resolution of 2lbs and probably +/-8lbs accuracy). I'm 6'3" and am actually starting to get worried because under 200lbs is not really healthy for me. When I was down to 185lbs about five years ago I could see my ribs and shoulder blades. My eating habits have not really changed, I easily consume 3000+ calories a day (sometimes in just one sitting like a true goon) mostly in carbs.

The only real change has been a promotion at work but I'll eat throughout the shift and my new job is probably about as physical as my old one though now I work full time instead of part time.

Also, now all of my clothes are too big and half my shirts look like tents my pants are so folded in they chafe really bad and it is really frustrating because I don't want to have to rebuy literally my entire closet and dresser.

GnarlyCharlie4u
Sep 23, 2007

I have an unhealthy obsession with motorcycles.

Proof

Fermented Tinal posted:

Back to weight chat, in September of 2016 I was about 265lbs, probably closer to 270lbs. I don't have a bathroom scale but the one I use for weighing bales at work says I now weigh 212lbs fully clothed (resolution of 2lbs and probably +/-8lbs accuracy). I'm 6'3" and am actually starting to get worried because under 200lbs is not really healthy for me. When I was down to 185lbs about five years ago I could see my ribs and shoulder blades. My eating habits have not really changed, I easily consume 3000+ calories a day (sometimes in just one sitting like a true goon) mostly in carbs.

The only real change has been a promotion at work but I'll eat throughout the shift and my new job is probably about as physical as my old one though now I work full time instead of part time.

Also, now all of my clothes are too big and half my shirts look like tents my pants are so folded in they chafe really bad and it is really frustrating because I don't want to have to rebuy literally my entire closet and dresser.

Same. I was 6'0, 150-155lbs from about age 18-27. I would eat absolutely anything and everything. Any pizza is a 'personal pizza' if you just believe in yourself.
Now I'm 31 and I have to buy pants every year because I'm getting too fat.

Oh well. I have a half decent paying job now and a wife and no free time and I just bought a house so life is basically over anyway. Might as well continue to burn the candle at both ends and continue to eat whatever the gently caress I want.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


I'm in the gym that's in my garage lifting things and I can still poo poo post on this glorious forum. I bought a power cage because gently caress going to a gym and waiting for some bellend to finish and never put poo poo back.

scuz
Aug 29, 2003

You can't be angry ALL the time!




Fun Shoe

Olympic Mathlete posted:

I'm in the gym that's in my garage lifting things and I can still poo poo post on this glorious forum. I bought a power cage because gently caress going to a gym and waiting for some bellend to finish and never put poo poo back.
This drives me nuts. I had to hunt down the 5lb plates at the gym and they were sitting under a sit-up lookin' thing and I just don't know :rant:

My weightlifting/bodybuilding(lol) has been put on hold because my budget doesn't allow the kind of daily caloric input required for Gettin Stronker. Kinda pissed. Also my gym sucks, I only have time to go at 6:30AM (which means waking up at 5:45AM [which sucks when you usually can't fall asleep until 1AM]), and I'm generally exhausted.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
Weight chat: 8 years as a field tech with an insane schedule, constantly driving, eating like poo poo as a result (most days I was lucky to have enough time to go through the drive through and grab a burger for lunch) and living in an apartment made me balloon out to nearly 300 pounds in the late 2000s. Moved out of the apartment and started hiking with our first dog, about a year after that the hikes turned into trail running. Currently I'm about 5'11" and around 220, I fit in 36" waist pants and large size shirts. Once the weather breaks (we just got 9" of snow dumped on us last week, now its in the mid-50s) and the ground dries up I'll start my running regimen again, also need to get back on free weights and maybe build my own power cage.

If I get the job I interviewed for today the first major purchase I'm making is a rowing machine...a friend has one and I let him "store" it in my basement for a few years because he lacked time and space for it. During that time I went a little crazy, doing a 5 mile loop with about 1000 feet of elevation change in less than an hour followed by a 30 minute rowing session and eventually bottomed out around 200. I got sick of the field tech job, stopped caring, got fired and resumed eating like poo poo as a result of severely reduced income and got back up to ~250 in 2012, then got a job at a corporate campus with an onsite gym and went back down to 200. Since I've been able to keep myself at or below the 220 mark but would eventually like to get back down to ~200 or maybe a hair lower. Last year I sat around until early August and didn't get a start on running until then, not making that mistake again.

briefcasefullof
Sep 25, 2004
[This Space for Rent]
I'm turning 31 this year and started 2017 weighing 437. Now I'm down to 417 and I've been lifting weights six days a week. I feel like I'm kicking rear end and going to be entering my prime strength and weight-wise.

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher
174cm, 81kgs, about 6kgs over race weight. Once again getting back into hard core mode cause gently caress getting bigger and also I want to do a half Ironman again but this time so the run leg doesnt suck

When it comes to fitness there HTFU rule always applies. 430am so I can get out of work early enough to ride / swim / run / whatever. I *hate* mornings. I'm not overly found of wind and rain at the same time but..... well..... that's what I have for riding today.

InitialDave
Jun 14, 2007

I Want To Believe.

QuarkMartial posted:

I'm turning 31 this year and started 2017 weighing 437. Now I'm down to 417 and I've been lifting weights six days a week. I feel like I'm kicking rear end and going to be entering my prime strength and weight-wise.
Awesome stuff, man! I'm not close to your weight even though I am in :btroll: mode currently, but I can tell you from experience, being a heavy dude who loses weight due to lifting will make you seriously strong.

Cage
Jul 17, 2003
www.revivethedrive.org

QuarkMartial posted:

I'm turning 31 this year and started 2017 weighing 437. Now I'm down to 417 and I've been lifting weights six days a week. I feel like I'm kicking rear end and going to be entering my prime strength and weight-wise.
Good for you man, you got the perfect attitude and a great start.

:rip: your wardrobe, it's the worst best thing about losing weight

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


QuarkMartial posted:

I'm turning 31 this year and started 2017 weighing 437. Now I'm down to 417 and I've been lifting weights six days a week. I feel like I'm kicking rear end and going to be entering my prime strength and weight-wise.

While you should definitely exercise a lot so you don't die of a heart attack, most of weight loss is diet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406229/

Most people believe it's as simple as "calories in - calories out" but it's really, really not. There are so many complex systems in play like insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and the gut microbiome. It seems the only things dieticians can ever agree on is fructose without fiber to slow it's asorbtion = bad. lots of fiber, particularly insoluble fiber = good.

I would imagine at 437lbs you're at least pre-diabetic so not feeling like poo poo when you're not eating a lot of sugar is the first big hurdle.

Keep up with it though. Dropping 100lbs and then having to walk around carrying 100lbs, you begin to wonder how you ever did it.

NitroSpazzz
Dec 9, 2006

You don't need style when you've got strength!


Olympic Mathlete posted:

I'm in the gym that's in my garage lifting things and I can still poo poo post on this glorious forum. I bought a power cage because gently caress going to a gym and waiting for some bellend to finish and never put poo poo back.
Garage gym is the way to go. I went to one a few miles from my house for ~3 months then bought a cage and never looked back. Wake up 3:30, garage by 3:45 then lift to 5:15 is a great way to start the day.

scuz posted:

My weightlifting/bodybuilding(lol) has been put on hold because my budget doesn't allow the kind of daily caloric input required for Gettin Stronker. Kinda pissed. Also my gym sucks, I only have time to go at 6:30AM (which means waking up at 5:45AM [which sucks when you usually can't fall asleep until 1AM]), and I'm generally exhausted.
Can still make progress on a limited budget. Eat not poo poo, lots of protein and lift poo poo a few times a week. Even if you aren't gaining weight you're probably going to see a change in overall bodyfat and muscle. That's basically what I've been doing for ~5 years since I can't force feed myself enough to put on more than a couple pounds a year.

Geoj posted:

If I get the job I interviewed for today the first major purchase I'm making is a rowing machine...
I really want to add one of these to the gym probably in the living room or guest room, have ebay/facebook/craigslist alerts set since I'm too cheap to buy a new Concept 2 model D at ~$1200. Keep missing them but eventually I'll find one. They're not terribly hard to get for $5-600 used.

QuarkMartial posted:

I'm turning 31 this year and started 2017 weighing 437. Now I'm down to 417 and I've been lifting weights six days a week. I feel like I'm kicking rear end and going to be entering my prime strength and weight-wise.
:drat: That's amazing


78 degrees in March...Tennessee is weird. Vacuumed the VWand cleaned up the garage again. Temps are all over the place this week so making use of it when I can.

Dagen H
Mar 19, 2009

Hogertrafikomlaggningen
Sometimes the fun comes to you.



Tree at the end of my driveway, and the remains of a Ford Taurus.

The Door Frame
Dec 5, 2011

I don't know man everytime I go to the gym here there are like two huge dudes with raging high and tights snorting Nitro-tech off of each other's rock hard abs.

Powershift posted:

Chron's disease is a little different, as it affects the entire GI tract, so even if you remove the bowel, it can start in the small intestine. Diverticulitis can happen to anybody, as you get older, diverticules can form. if something gets lodged in there and infected, it can get inflamed, to the point where it has to be surgically removed.

It's not just the US, government drug programs here in canada are like a stick in the mud with newer drugs, largely because of how combative the drug companies are, it's nearly impossible to get actual information on the drugs, even for the doctors prescribing them. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/drug-safety-health-canada-white-paper-1.4020384

In the US, the drug companies aren't required to publish every study on a a drug, so if they fund trials 10 trials and only 4 are favorable, they only publish those 4. Still, even the best newest drugs like entyvio in cherry picked tests are only around 50% effective, with a placebo being 25% effective. And even then it's almost always temporary, because they're live antibodies which your own body will identify as invasive and form antibodies against. Basically, the drugs that do work often only do so temporarily, most patients are bounced between them, and the most severe ones are thousands of dollars a month. There's a forum called healing well, where if you want to get super depressed, you can go into almost any thread there and read people's signatures detailing the long list of drugs that have failed them, and the long list of drugs they're on that often aren't working. You can see their desperation and panic every time it pops back up to destroy their life.

Food does make a huge difference, but every person's biome is unique, to the point where they can identify you by it, so what works for you might not work for anyone else. It can also take days or weeks to produce a positive or negative effect if you see one, so your bad day might be caused by some mustard you ate a few days ago. There's also the issue of the trash being sold as food, there could be 4 different brands of chicken noodle soup on the shelf, one of them will contain polysorbate 80, which has been proven to induce colitis. It turns every grocery store into a minefield. And again, if your issue isn't the cells in your GI tract being exposed to the bacteria triggering an auto-immune response, then that's not the cause of cure for you. The elimination diet which some doctors suggest where you start with the most basic foods and add until something causes trouble is problematic too, because if you're starving and your intestinal wall is exposed, the bacteria can just eat that causing symptoms.

Food correlation studies often come up barely swinging to either side because everybody's biome is so different, what gets you into remission might harm your chances of staying in remission, and some changes take days, some take weeks, some damage done by diet can't be corrected without taking extra steps. Your gut biome can change drastically in an hour, and strains of bacteria lost are permanently lost. In UC, they've identified a lack of specific bacteria that metabolize butyrate and other short-chain fatty acids that support the function of the colon. In order to fully understand which foods help or hinder, they would basically have to map your biome to determine what it can actually metabolize.

this is interesting to skim through in relation to chron's, just looking at the fecal bacteria, they can tell within 90% certainty whether or not you have chron's. http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2017/01/31/gutjnl-2016-313235

So the goal beyond that would be to clear out the GI tract with anti-biotics, and repopulate with a combination of fecal mater from a number of healthy donors so your biome more closely reflects theirs. Even in short trials it's shown to be more effective than all of the biologics . It really does seem to be the light at the end of the tunnel, not only for chron's and colitis, but even poo poo like obesity.

It really is important for everybody to be aware of, colitis is almost becoming an epedemic in young people, and while there's an underlying genetric pre-disposition to it, diet seems to be a trigger. make your kids eat vegetables and fish. never introduce them to mcdonalds.

Yeah, my mother has Crohn's and I am starting to think that I'm not just extremely lactose intolerant, but that I might have some form of IBS myself, thanks to intense cramping that's not always correlated with eating dairy... I've been on nearly a dozen different antibiotics in the past few years (thanks, VRE and MRSA) and I have no idea what my gut flora looks like anymore. Considering that by sheer number of cells, humans are mostly not human, that's not a good thing. I'm honestly surprised that I haven't developed C.Diff yet, but that's neither here nor there.
I cannot wait to see the day when the microbiome is understood well enough to allow for legitimate medical treatments for people, instead of hucksters pedaling probiotics with no guarantee that there's anything even in their product, thanks to unbelievably relaxed laws on supplements



As an aside, I'm well acquainted with ping-ponging between expensive drugs that you need to even function. I've been on every antidepressant on the market except for one SNRI, a couple tricyclics and any MAOI's. And my doctor said that I'm probably better off on no medicine than an MAOI, given ADHD's notorious reputation(s) for drug seeking behaviours making serotonin syndrome(which I've already gotten twice on SSRI's) a lethal inevitability. Just in 3 generic pill prescriptions 150 total pills, my monthly price without insurance would've been $750, instead of $30. Now with a brand name on my plate and a newer generic, it's $1,800 for 150 pills without insurance, and $40 with it. If I lost insurance, I'd lose my ability to work and live, which is a terrifying prospect

CAT INTERCEPTOR
Nov 9, 2004

Basically a male Margaret Thatcher

Powershift posted:


Most people believe it's as simple as "calories in - calories out" but it's really, really not. There are so many complex systems in play like insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and the gut microbiome. It seems the only things dieticians can ever agree on is fructose without fiber to slow it's asorbtion = bad. lots of fiber, particularly insoluble fiber = good.

Actually it is - Basic law of thermodynamics cant be beaten. If you dont eat the calories, you WILL lose them. The complex bit is how your body sets it's base metabolism rate and working out how much food to intake to enable weight loss and also what food works best for you - but even then just eating decent food and not sugar loaded crap goes a looooong way in getting the calorie intake right.

There's really no need to overthink it even if the complex systems are difficult to understand. Eat less than what you burn. Eat food that hasnt been heavily processed. Strength training / HIIT steps your metabolism up so it burns more. ANY exercise helps. Oh and drop the soft drinks, drink water. Water is gooooood.

angryrobots
Mar 31, 2005

My youngest puked herself on the way home.

Let me tell you how much I love having to unbuckle a car seat with everything covered in milk and chicken vomit..

jamal
Apr 15, 2003

I'll set the building on fire

CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Actually it is - Basic law of thermodynamics cant be beaten. If you dont eat the calories, you WILL lose them. The complex bit is how your body sets it's base metabolism rate and working out how much food to intake to enable weight loss and also what food works best for you - but even then just eating decent food and not sugar loaded crap goes a looooong way in getting the calorie intake right.

There's really no need to overthink it even if the complex systems are difficult to understand. Eat less than what you burn. Eat food that hasnt been heavily processed. Strength training / HIIT steps your metabolism up so it burns more. ANY exercise helps. Oh and drop the soft drinks, drink water. Water is gooooood.

If you eat 3000 calories of sugar every day it's not going to work out the same as eating, say 3000 caliories of meat and vegetables.

briefcasefullof
Sep 25, 2004
[This Space for Rent]

Powershift posted:

While you should definitely exercise a lot so you don't die of a heart attack, most of weight loss is diet. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3406229/

Most people believe it's as simple as "calories in - calories out" but it's really, really not. There are so many complex systems in play like insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and the gut microbiome. It seems the only things dieticians can ever agree on is fructose without fiber to slow it's asorbtion = bad. lots of fiber, particularly insoluble fiber = good.

I would imagine at 437lbs you're at least pre-diabetic so not feeling like poo poo when you're not eating a lot of sugar is the first big hurdle.

Keep up with it though. Dropping 100lbs and then having to walk around carrying 100lbs, you begin to wonder how you ever did it.

I dig it. I've been tracking calories and macronutrients (macros bruh! :v:) in myfitnesspal. I figured out I don't much care for sodas, so I quit drinking them sometime last year. I basically drink water, black coffee, and skim milk. I never much snacked on sugary stuff; my issues were over eating because I eat super fast, and if I went for a snack, it was (calorie-wise, most of the time) something that could constitute another meal. Chips and dips, homemade quesadillas, etc.

I enjoy cooking and am in an environment as a teacher where I can finally do proper meal preps. Stopped all the junk food and fast food stuff and went for more whole grains, lots of leafy greens and simply prepped veggies each day, and lots of protein (lots of chicken breasts and thighs, fish, ground turkey, not a lot of red meat). Oh, and a LOT of measuring to keep that portion problem in check. For dinner, my wife and I get HomeChef meals delivered, which are a lot of fun for us. Portioning is easier since it's just half of everything. The only problem is that they tend to be high in salt, which sucks (I am on a water pill which flushes most of the salt out, but still).

tl;dr: Beach body 2018 here I come!

NitroSpazzz posted:

78 degrees in March...Tennessee is weird. Vacuumed the VWand cleaned up the garage again. Temps are all over the place this week so making use of it when I can.

Yesterday went from 49 in the morning to 88-89F in the afternoon. Today, we had tornadoes. Oh, Tennessee..... Seriously, my truck no longer rides like a death machine, I'm ready for nice weather to ride around in!

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


The Door Frame posted:

Yeah, my mother has Crohn's and I am starting to think that I'm not just extremely lactose intolerant, but that I might have some form of IBS myself, thanks to intense cramping that's not always correlated with eating dairy... I've been on nearly a dozen different antibiotics in the past few years (thanks, VRE and MRSA) and I have no idea what my gut flora looks like anymore. Considering that by sheer number of cells, humans are mostly not human, that's not a good thing. I'm honestly surprised that I haven't developed C.Diff yet, but that's neither here nor there.
I cannot wait to see the day when the microbiome is understood well enough to allow for legitimate medical treatments for people, instead of hucksters pedaling probiotics with no guarantee that there's anything even in their product, thanks to unbelievably relaxed laws on supplements



As an aside, I'm well acquainted with ping-ponging between expensive drugs that you need to even function. I've been on every antidepressant on the market except for one SNRI, a couple tricyclics and any MAOI's. And my doctor said that I'm probably better off on no medicine than an MAOI, given ADHD's notorious reputation(s) for drug seeking behaviours making serotonin syndrome(which I've already gotten twice on SSRI's) a lethal inevitability. Just in 3 generic pill prescriptions 150 total pills, my monthly price without insurance would've been $750, instead of $30. Now with a brand name on my plate and a newer generic, it's $1,800 for 150 pills without insurance, and $40 with it. If I lost insurance, I'd lose my ability to work and live, which is a terrifying prospect

There's a non-profit called american gut where you donate $100, and they send you a kit to send them your poo, and then map out the population of it, show you where are you and where you should be in relation to the rest of the population. There's a good ted talk on it here :siren: everyone should watch this:siren: and maybe mail their poo


CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:

Actually it is - Basic law of thermodynamics cant be beaten. If you dont eat the calories, you WILL lose them. The complex bit is how your body sets it's base metabolism rate and working out how much food to intake to enable weight loss and also what food works best for you - but even then just eating decent food and not sugar loaded crap goes a looooong way in getting the calorie intake right.

There's really no need to overthink it even if the complex systems are difficult to understand. Eat less than what you burn. Eat food that hasnt been heavily processed. Strength training / HIIT steps your metabolism up so it burns more. ANY exercise helps. Oh and drop the soft drinks, drink water. Water is gooooood.

It is on a wide scale, but if you're leptin resistant, any energy in, the body stores as fat and tells the brain you're starving. If you have certain strains of gut bacteria, it can recover another 10-15% of the energy from starches and sugars that would otherwise be excreted undigested. The brain and body can go into starvation mode, even when consuming more calories than you need, even while storing that energy as fat, and while you do burn calories exercising an hour a day, the other 23 hours, the body can deprive muscles and organs of energy because it believes it's starving to death. Excercise doesn't guarantee an increased resting metabolism.

Diet, how it's absorbed, it's make-up, what percentage of the calories are available to you, and how your body decides to use what it takes in is far more important than calorie count. Your brain is a tremendous rear end in a top hat, and overcoming it's fuckups is a lot harder than calorie counting.

Powershift
Nov 23, 2009


QuarkMartial posted:

I dig it. I've been tracking calories and macronutrients (macros bruh! :v:) in myfitnesspal. I figured out I don't much care for sodas, so I quit drinking them sometime last year. I basically drink water, black coffee, and skim milk. I never much snacked on sugary stuff; my issues were over eating because I eat super fast, and if I went for a snack, it was (calorie-wise, most of the time) something that could constitute another meal. Chips and dips, homemade quesadillas, etc.

I enjoy cooking and am in an environment as a teacher where I can finally do proper meal preps. Stopped all the junk food and fast food stuff and went for more whole grains, lots of leafy greens and simply prepped veggies each day, and lots of protein (lots of chicken breasts and thighs, fish, ground turkey, not a lot of red meat). Oh, and a LOT of measuring to keep that portion problem in check. For dinner, my wife and I get HomeChef meals delivered, which are a lot of fun for us. Portioning is easier since it's just half of everything. The only problem is that they tend to be high in salt, which sucks (I am on a water pill which flushes most of the salt out, but still).

tl;dr: Beach body 2018 here I come!


Yesterday went from 49 in the morning to 88-89F in the afternoon. Today, we had tornadoes. Oh, Tennessee..... Seriously, my truck no longer rides like a death machine, I'm ready for nice weather to ride around in!

That's awesome, that's exactly what you have to do because the grocery store is stacked against you. 85% of the poo poo in grocery stores has added sugar, a lot of it for no reason, and they have 20+ names for it so they can stuff more and more of it in. Sodas are a problem, but when you drink a soda, you know you're drinking sugar, you're doing it because it's sweet, but when you grab a loaf of bread or a can of soup you don't think "this is going to be a delicous sweet treat" you read the label and sugar is the 8th ingredient, but there's also molasses and cane juice and maltodextrin and dextrose. most of the "healthy" sugar alternatives are still essentially 50% fructose and 50% glucose, so it doesn't matter if it's organic free range grass fed honey, it's still 50% fructose that the liver won't do gently caress all with except turn to fat.

That's why we're starting to see kids with the livers of 60 year old alcoholics. We're turning them into foie gras.

Geoj
May 28, 2008

BITTER POOR PERSON
I can't fathom drinking a sizeable percentage of your calories. I did low carb back in the early 2000s - I've always been a bit overweight but it was really bad between 2005-2008 - and dropped most sugary drinks then. I'll still have a bottle of cane sugar sweetened pop maybe once every other month when the mood strikes, but otherwise I haven't looked back.

Olympic Mathlete
Feb 25, 2011

:h:


Water is the best thing to drink 4 ur body. Humans are a fair percentage water so why put other poo poo in yourself? Do you hate yourself or something? Drink more water.

Applebees Appetizer
Jan 23, 2006

Or green tea. Iced green tea is the poo poo.

Anyone have their wisdom teeth yanked out recently? I gotta have it done next week (all four) and I'm wondering how much down time I'm gonna have.

everdave
Nov 14, 2005
My very rich (multi millionaire) brother in law did this thing where he sent vials of blood in to get tested and this company sent him back info on what foods were best for his body and what he was "allergic" to. I'm sure this was expensive but he said it changed his life and he has never felt better. He was already a fitness nut (he is 60 and looks 40). I mention every time he brings it up (I only see him like 10 times a year) how awesome that sounds hoping he would hook me up.

Also I will be 40 in less than 5 hours and the crippling depression is already setting in!

epic bird guy
Dec 9, 2014

Beer is also important and is awesome :cheers:

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Jul 11, 2006

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Applebees Appetizer posted:

Or green tea. Iced green tea is the poo poo.

Anyone have their wisdom teeth yanked out recently? I gotta have it done next week (all four) and I'm wondering how much down time I'm gonna have.

Had mine done a few years back. All 4. It wasn't great, but it wasn't nearly as bad as everyone talks it up to be. I had to take a couple days off work but that's mainly because I'm on the phone a lot for work and a lot of talking kinda sucks when your poo poo's all sore. I think they gave me some T3s for the pain but it really wasn't bad.

It wasn't nearly as bad as the next year when I had my gum graft done. gently caress me, that sucked for days.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012




Here is what happens when you vacuum your bedroom for the third time this week after your dog chews his bone into oblivion

slothrop
Dec 7, 2006

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Soiled Meat
I have, in the past, brushed enough hair off Lydia to create a second Lydia. This is a 20+ kg dog.

Here is Guv getting some post-surgery exercise. He loves to swim. Lydia is watching on. She hates to swim.

randomidiot
May 12, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

(and can't post for 11 years!)

everdave posted:

Your CPU is fine (crazy how good old i5's still are). Maybe go with a 1050ti? I have been using them in budget builds, they are as little as $135 these days.

EVGA's Ti SC version is currently $145, the Ti SSC version is $160. Those are both for the 4GB versions too.

That's... not bad at all, and has to be a hell of an upgrade over my 650 GTX Ti SSC. I'll probably try to justify the SSC version in a few weeks. Only had to use EVGA's warranty once, but their customer service and warranty has sold me. I'd need an HDMI to DVI adapter for my 2nd monitor, but that's not expensive.

Kinda surprised they don't need their own power supply connector, I guess they've done some real work on the efficiency.

long-rear end nips Diane posted:

A 1050ti or 1060 would be a good upgrade regardless, if you're playing lots of games.

I'm not at the moment, but I'd like to get back into PC gaming again. Video card definitely seems to be the bottleneck when I look at CPU and GPU temps when gaming; the video card is :supaburn: with the fan screaming, and the CPU is in the low 50s (both degrees and utilization).

funny Star Wars parody posted:


Here is what happens when you vacuum your bedroom for the third time this week after your dog chews his bone into oblivion

That's less than I pick up when I vacuum.. my entire apartment though, and that's on a weekly basis.

I thought grey cats didn't shed much.

Elmnt80
Dec 30, 2012


Ooof, the dog just punched me in the balls. How does she always manage to do that when we're rough housing. :gonk:

Seat Safety Switch
May 27, 2008

MY RELIGION IS THE SMALL BLOCK V8 AND COMMANDMENTS ONE THROUGH TEN ARE NEVER LIFT.

Pillbug
I had my wisdoms out a few years ago. I think there are a lot of variables. Boost meal replacement was a lifesaver food wise, so try to figure out which meal replacement drinks you can tolerate before you pay a guy to stand on your chest and slide hammer your jaw.

You should definitely do it sooner rather than later because healing time and other risks go up every year of age.

funny Star Wars parody posted:


Here is what happens when you vacuum your bedroom for the third time this week after your dog chews his bone into oblivion

I'm glad it's not just my ball that's getting scratched up like crazy on my Dyson Animal.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



slothrop posted:

I have, in the past, brushed enough hair off Lydia to create a second Lydia. This is a 20+ kg dog.

Here is Guv getting some post-surgery exercise. He loves to swim. Lydia is watching on. She hates to swim.



Ya he's starting to blow his coat which means I'm going to be brushing a 40kg dog who is deathly afraid of the blow out brush :rip:

Seat Safety Switch posted:

I'm glad it's not just my ball that's getting scratched up like crazy on my Dyson Animal.

Oh that's just fur stuck on there from static

I wish I had the animal dyson, we bought that when we were planning on getting a non shedding doggo

Cage
Jul 17, 2003
www.revivethedrive.org
Str: new video card would definitely be a good upgrade. I have the same chip with not as high of an OC but going from a 7950 to a 480 rx (I think?) and the difference was huge.

I swear I've upgraded my card 3 or 4 times while keeping the CPU and mobo the same and it's a major upgrade everytime.

Kastein: first day you probably won't want to talk to anyone. You should be OK in the next day or two though. Had all 4 popped out a few years ago, I was back to smoking marijuana very carefully after 3 days. It's not so bad.

Previa_fun
Nov 10, 2004

I got my wisdom teeth out at like 21 and it wasn't that bad. The nerve block into the roof of my mouth loving SUCKED though and I still wince when I think about it.

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



I went from an HD6850 1GB to a 6GB 1060 and I can't believe video games can look this nice

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Echotic
Oct 20, 2013

Applebees Appetizer posted:

Or green tea. Iced green tea is the poo poo.

Anyone have their wisdom teeth yanked out recently? I gotta have it done next week (all four) and I'm wondering how much down time I'm gonna have.

I dropped the soda and coffee and now drink tea especially at work.

I had my two bottom wisdoms (impacted) removed 3 years ago, Got them done on Thursday, I was fine for work on Monday.
Just removed one of my top ones on Monday afternoon as it was decayed, simple extraction. a couple of Codeine and I was good to go Tuesday.

SCA Enthusiast posted:

Beer is also important and is awesome :cheers:

Beer is mostly water. The body is mostly water. Coincidence? I think not! :guinness:

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