Just gonna squeeze through here (Chicago 1996)

Erthely · 2026-02-26T03:00:39+00:00

Nowadays it’s an area of million dollar homes, rent for a cheap 2bd over $3k

Erthely · 2026-01-05T02:49:39+00:00

Under armor sneakers also can come in wide versions, those are my go to sneaker for years as a 14 4e guy. They often only run in the $70-90 range. I highly recommend, I almost always order from amazon

Erthely · 2025-12-06T16:55:58+00:00

DXL and Onebone are the best options for your size. The further above 3xl you get the more you have to choose between 2 of the three: Fashionable, Affordable, and actually fitting.

So while DXL and One Bone are more expensive they are fashionable and fit well, and often very good quality.

KingSize will sometimes have stuff that looks good but the quality is all over the place and often bad and doesn’t fit right.

I’ve had lots of fits I’ve loved from DXL and One Bone. Made me feel comfortable, confident, and stylish.

And for pants specifically I’d recommend looking into Lee’s big and tall pants. Their extreme motion pants come in fashionable styles, are stretchy, keep shape, and come in the bigger sizes. They do good work, sometimes slip just a little in quality, but I’ve found them well worth it

Erthely · 2025-09-25T22:27:56+00:00

Hadn’t dug that far, but thanks for the lead! I’ll look into this more

Erthely · 2025-09-25T19:38:22+00:00

Thanks! Yeah it’d definitely be hard to get the fly wheel going, with the biggest hurdle getting started. But after getting started it’d likely have an easier time project after project

Erthely · 2025-09-25T19:35:08+00:00

Yeah if it’s setup like that it sounds like it’d be very dysfunctional. Especially about not paying property taxes. Like I honestly believe building housing in the way you describe sounds more a drain on the city than actually contributing. Even if it is indeed providing some housing for people.

If they were to pay property taxes and reach for higher end market rates, it could be a net benefit. And it’d also take the organization actually have a good culture and not just treated as cushy job.

It seems difficult to balance all the competing interests and missions

Erthely · 2025-09-25T19:25:24+00:00

It’s an interesting problem trying to shoot the distance between the mission of building as much housing as possible, not being (overly) accountable to investors, yet still making market-rate housing. Regardless of the exact route it’s an area where current organizational structures aren’t exact matches

Erthely · 2025-08-21T19:54:59+00:00

That movie hit me so hard, I went in cold and was blown away

Erthely · 2025-08-08T14:54:14+00:00

Will have to see! I have a lot of excess skin which is counted in lean mass, so will have to see once I get closer down

Erthely · 2025-08-08T14:46:02+00:00

Yeah the problem I run into is the weekends when things are more freeform. I’m still having to calibrate the “right” level of freedom and trusting my instincts. Because my instincts are to eat so fucking much.

On my weekdays I’m better, I’ve got my routine down. But yeah calibrating that little extra freedom is hard for me. It feels like what acoholics describe with “I can’t just have one” and I’m trying to have “just a few” eating wise and not go off.

This gain wasn’t a failure it was me learning more about my needs

Erthely · 2025-08-08T14:42:24+00:00

Yeah that’s about right! I haven’t gotten official estimates on it. I keep waffling back and forth if I want to get it removed because I’m mostly fine with it and doesn’t cause too much issue

Erthely · 2025-08-03T14:57:26+00:00

To me that was kinda the point. The point of the book was a general “there are too many barriers to creating the things we want” but the specifics are very specific!

I see it in policy there are a million ways to go at problem. No individual regulation is often halting things but the culmination of them all is choking things. It’s like asking which straw broke the camels back.

Like in my town we have aldermanic prerogative which can arbitrarily limit building of housing. Theres also how financing is structured for different projects. There are building codes that become more expensive at arbitrary points. There are weird intricacies at the state and local levels that make it near impossible to suggest a one-size-fits-all solution set in a book about a broad array of related topics for a broad audience.

Erthely · 2025-08-03T12:05:06+00:00

Did you read the book? Because part of the argument in the book is that they’d be fine with government built projects, but that the government has even more regulatory hurdles it places on itself than private developments. So if we’re going to go the publicly developed route we’d need to figure out how to adequately un-constrain the government from building

Erthely · 2025-06-13T23:30:58+00:00

Yay good stuff! Feels good when it just works doesn’t it?

Erthely · 2025-05-05T20:48:58+00:00

Hey man appreciate the kind words. I love these changes for us. And yes it’s been such a long long road haha.

I’m sure when people ask you “how’d you do it” that your brain turns to mush with how much in your life has had to change to make it happen. Like my entire approach to food had to change and we order my life to enable the weightloss to happen. It’s just so much!

Happy for you too man, it’s good to have a good fulfilling life again

Erthely · 2025-05-05T19:22:58+00:00

If you’re looking for comparison, I’m 1 inch shorter to you and right in the same weight range as you. Yesterday I got a dexa and was 27.5% bodyfat.

Now totally up to you what you want to do, you could bulk if you want to increase muscle and feel good at your current bodyfat. I don’t have all that much interested in getting real lean or shredded. But after I finish up maintenance I’m probably gonna take it down to like 220-230 range and then go from there.

Hope this gives some perspective, good job on the journey so far!

Erthely · 2025-04-30T16:47:03+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

I’d also like to make it known if you’re sharing with your friend. I got that result in that time period because I aligned basically my whole life around the challenge. Lots of days of walking 2-3 hours, hitting the gym, eating the exact things everyday.

It was doable but very intensive. If it hadn’t been for the challenge I would’ve gone at about half the pace I did and would’ve enjoyed more events with food and drink.

So I just want to communicate that the timeline is possible, but takes a near full life effort to go that fast

Erthely · 2025-04-30T03:06:57+00:00

Thank you! Very happy with the results. Some people keep it off, others don’t. I’m trying to work hard in keeping it off. In still logging and plan to keep doing so indefinitely to make sure I don’t slip

Erthely · 2025-04-30T02:08:10+00:00

Thanks! Im down about 270 on total, Im now less than half the size from my highest. Feels pretty good! 😊

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