Changing the composition of your diet will do much to quiet this noise. If you’re eating a high protein diet with lots of fibrous vegetables, you will likely end up eating more food with fewer calories overall. And this type of food is very satiating - sometimes to the point that lack of appetite can be an issue.
Hm. A "healthy" diet is a somewhat slippery concept. There are lots of diets that are healthy, but not optimal for supporting fat loss. Are you building each meal around a significant lean protein source, with a total protein intake somewhere in the vicinity of 0.8+ g/lb. of your goal body weight? And then for the remaining calories that are not protein, are you minimizing high calorie density foods (oils, butter, sugar, breads, pasta, etc.) and maximizing low calorie density foods (quinoa, oats, sweet potato, etc.)? And then finally, are you at a calorie intake that is 80-85% of your TDEE, and not lower?
Usually, this kind of diet plan results in eating a large volume of food that alleviates physiological hunger. Granted, it's not the kind of food that lights up most people's reward pathways. If you're fending off cravings for sweet treats and stuff, there are different strategies you can try to help with those. Sometimes it is best to just cut them out for a time, until the "addiction" breaks. But you can also try penciling them in at infrequent, scheduled intervals in highly regulated amounts.
I like everything you mentioned, no concern for me. Usually what kills me is my wife being very good at cooking (a blessing and a curse), along with infinite hunger when I sleep 6 hours instead of 9 (it happens).
The other thing is variety. If I keep eating the same stuff over and over, it becomes a problem.
Right bow I eat the following at most meals: 1 avocado (150g), 2 tomatoes, lettuce, 60g of greek yogurt, mustard, 200g egg white.
That's 450 calories for lunch and 450 for dinner. Very filling.
For snack I eat 1 nectarine + 60g of greek yogurt and 20g of honey (1 spoon). This is very sweet and basically stops any craving for sweet, which is why I made the exception. It's high quality raw honey.
I do have 3 snacks per day usually, but it depends, sometimes one.
When I mess up big usually I eat very out of the line (e. g. A party) and then I'm still hungry after eating easily 3000 calories in one meal.
This happens quite easily on the weekend unfortunately.
I have been losing weight with the previous diet though. I discovered it 3 weeks ago.
It's about 90g of proteins per day, but I'm 80Kg, so under the numbers you reported.
Oh, at breakfast I eat 1 cup of milk with quinoa puffs (17g), which is about 180 calories total
- Great job with the measurement precision. That's a bit of lifestyle change people tend to avoid, but it really helps calibrate your understanding of calories and portion sizes.
- Do you actually enjoy the meals you're eating? I would have a hard time repeating that lunch/dinner meal, but I know everyone's taste is different.
- If you don't enjoy what you are eating, then Priority #1 is coming up with a different menu that you enjoy. It would also be good to have a LOT more variety than this, which you can do by coming up with a few different meals or meal components that you select and combine in a modular way.
- Your diet lacks carbohydrates, except for sugary snacks (honey + fruit). I suspect that this, combined with the fact that you're eating the snacks up to 3 times a day, is sending your blood sugar up and down repeatedly rather than allowing it to stabilize. I would consider redistributing these snack calories to your lunch and dinner meals, making them more balanced and larger, and NOT eating in between. It seems counterintuitive, but eating more frequently can actually result in more hunger and cravings compared to eating less frequently.
- An example of a balanced meal could be a bowl with 100g of grilled chicken breast, 200g brown rice, 150g avocado, a generous heap of steamed carrots, broccoli, spinach, etc., and some soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, or other seasoning. That works out to about 630 calories, 34g of protein, 26g of fat, and 66g of carbs.
- I only count ~1500 calories in your set menu (assuming 3 snacks). Assuming you are an adult male, that is aggressively low! It's not surprising that you feel an urge to overindulge on weekends. Have you calculated your TDEE?
> Great job with the measurement precision. That's a bit of lifestyle change people tend to avoid, but it really helps calibrate your understanding of calories and portion sizes.
I am either "very hungry" or "lightly hungry", so calculating calories does help understanding if I urgently need a big salad rather than trying to eat just one chicken breast (and end up binge-eating right after)
> Do you actually enjoy the meals you're eating? I would have a hard time repeating that lunch/dinner meal, but I know everyone's taste is different.
I started this diet 1 month ago and I really enjoyed it. So far I could eat this for a long time, but this does assume I vary my diet on the weekend, I cannot probably eat the same dish forever. Either way, it has to vary since avocados become bad at the end of september, so I need something else.
I did notice I feel a lot more full with avocado over chicken breast though, not sure what's causing the difference (even for the same amount of calories, which means a lot more chicken)
> Your diet lacks carbohydrates, except for sugary snacks (honey + fruit). I suspect that this, combined with the fact that you're eating the snacks up to 3 times a day, is sending your blood sugar up and down repeatedly rather than allowing it to stabilize. I would consider redistributing these snack calories to your lunch and dinner meals, making them more balanced and larger, and NOT eating in between. It seems counterintuitive, but eating more frequently can actually result in more hunger and cravings compared to eating less frequently.
Maybe. Remember that nectarine is _a lot of fiber_ with a bit of sugar. The greek yogurt has no fat so it's mostly protein, and then of course the honey is sugar, so in my mind it might balance out. I do feel calm after the snack for a good chunk of time based on my standard, but it could be.
Preparation time unfortunately is relevant for snacks, this is very fast to make.
> - Your diet lacks carbohydrates, except for sugary snacks (honey + fruit). I suspect that this, combined with the fact that you're eating the snacks up to 3 times a day, is sending your blood sugar up and down repeatedly rather than allowing it to stabilize. I would consider redistributing these snack calories to your lunch and dinner meals, making them more balanced and larger, and NOT eating in between. It seems counterintuitive, but eating more frequently can actually result in more hunger and cravings compared to eating less frequently.
Tomatoes have carbohydrates, that's often overlooked. I do eat this way because I assume I'll mess up one day, but it's worth a shot adding more carbohydrates and see if it calms hunger.
> I only count ~1500 calories in your set menu (assuming 3 snacks). Assuming you are an adult male, that is aggressively low! It's not surprising that you feel an urge to overindulge on weekends. Have you calculated your TDEE?
I had a way heavier diet made for me by a doctor (~1100 calories), which was great for losing weight (1.2 Kg per week) but sustainable only for ~4 weeks at most, however that was for a completely sedentary lifestyle. Now I go to the gym 5 times a week (for the last 2 years) and I'm consistent, so when I attempted that diet I got an incredibly strong headache that calmed down immediately as soon as I introduced more food in my stomach. That kinda scared me, so I can't do that diet anymore.
This diet I made it up by trial and error, based on how my body reacted. One day I tried that salad and I think for the first time in ages I said "oh wow, I felt full for multiple hours". I don't think that ever happened
I don't know what a TDEE is, but I am 80Kg * 175cm, so I'm overweight, but do consider a chunk of it is definitely muscles (I lift weight 3 times a week and do HIIT 2 times a week)
A lot of this is mental. It really helps to deliberately shift your identity to match your target weight. Instead of thinking of yourself as a 220 pound person who has forced themselves to 180 through deprivation, you think of yourself as a 180 pound person who eats what a (healthy) 180 pound person would eat. The old lifestyle and food choices are something you have to detach from because they are gone forever. If you don’t do this, you’ll continue to feel as if you’re in a transient space, and that increases the lure of familiar old ways.
This model is truly the best for local document processing. It’s super fast, very smart, has a low hallucination rate, and has great long context performance (up to 256k tokens). The speed makes it a legitimate replacement for those closed, proprietary APIs that hoard your data.
I don’t think I’m convinced of that. Most fitness measures saturate as you approach a limit. For example, you can build muscle mass rapidly in the first couple of years but it slows dramatically as you approach your genetic limit. It only takes a few years of consistent training to get to that asymptotic level. So on that measure, you can basically “catch up” to your hypothetical “always trained” self.
While you might not be able to get to the exact same level of fitness as if you had trained for years, I think you can get fairly close. And without a doubt, you can drastically improve from wherever you’re starting.
Well, it’s been gearing up for a while but when the official Whitehouse account posts AI pictures of the president as the new pope and Superman, a deepfake of a former president getting arrested, and now this nonsense, I’d say it’s official at this point.
I know this was a joke, but I can't really understand the worldview that says people should accept physical decline in a passive way. The fact is, we actually have a lot of control over how quickly and how well we age. Just using sunscreen can prevent a lot of the age-related loss of skin structure. And interventions like topical retinoids or collagen induction (e.g. microneedling) can even restore some thickness and elasticity that have already been lost. This also goes for fitness, joint health, and a lot of other things. Caring for your body is actually well aligned with the goals of psychotherapy.
Anyone who's dealt with their insane arbitrary account bans knows exactly what's under the hood at Anthropic as a company, a headless chicken pecking at buttons.
I'm a long paying customer, my only usage at all of Claude is for devops IAC and debugging, suddenly out of the blue they decided to ban my account and keep the money. It's unreal.
The response to my appeal said after "lengthy consideration" I had broke the T&C's.
The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy on Twitter:
> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
I haven’t downloaded the beta, but from what I can see in the demos, Liquid Glass dynamically adjusts the properties of the overlay (text color, background blur, alpha, fill) based on what is underneath so that the illusion of transparency is there but the text is still readable. The only time this doesn’t seem to happen is while in animation / scrolling. The adjustment comes after the movement stops.
All of the outrage screenshots I’ve seen appeared to have been taken during animation.
It doesn’t adjust correctly much of the time. For example, full screen video controls will effectively disappear, rendering them unususable, in many circumstances (particularly against white backgrounds).
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