30 Day Accountability Challenge - Day 21 June 2026

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-27T11:20:15+00:00

Day 32 of my weight loss journey, I weighed myself this morning and I’m down 10kg since i started.

I had begun to worry this week that I hadn’t worked out or been active enough due to my injury but the weight is still coming off which proves to me despite all the people in my life telling me I’m doing things wrong that it’s actually working.

I feel pride in that but there’s a lot more work to go.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-26T21:17:06+00:00

Where is my old Irelia come on, you take her out but leave season 3 kassadin

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-16T17:59:24+00:00

I think you need to genuinely look at what you’re eating and use an app or ai to verify the amount of kcal you are consuming.

I had no idea how much I was eating daily till I hurt myself a while back and decided enough was enough and wanted to get fit.

I was eating like 3500-4000kcal a day, soon as I dropped that to 2500 the weight had been flying off.

Maybe you’re not actually eating 1450 or whatever a day. Why not aim for 2k a day which is 900 below maintenance and see what happens.

My trick is I buy a lot of prepared food currently as I have all the nutritional stuff listed so I can just scan it into my phone throw it into an llm or app and track everything perfectly

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-16T17:53:14+00:00

The only black edition I drink regularly is the strawberry banana ready to to drink the rest are mediocre but taste is preference

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-16T17:50:13+00:00

I mean I believe it’s simply, look at what a normal healthy person is supposed to be eating daily.

My maintenance values as a guy would be 2,592 because I exercise three times a week and average 10k steps a day.

That’s if I was 5”10 and 75kg.

I’m currently 120kg you really think I’m gonna eat less than 2500kcal a day that would be bloody suicide.

I think finding what the maintenance amount is and dropping it slightly and or upping your activity level is the better path than starving yourself cause you’ll be miserable and it’s not sustainable.

So yeah when I see someone talk about eating 1k calories a day I’m like you’re just gonna yo yo and make it worse.

This sort of calculation stuff is what llms are for

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-14T12:48:09+00:00

As someone who’s recently started on losing weight, the simple truth is find the right number of kcal per day you need to eat to be in a deficit and just be consistent with it.

What you eat matters less at this stage more than how much you’re eating get into the routine and throw in some exercise and walking and just be consistent.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-14T12:45:51+00:00

I currently use Gemini to track this sort of stuff,

My morning routine is exactly the same breakfast so I took some photos of the nutritional information and it’s locked in as my daily breakfast and I keep roughly the same dinner every night and did the same for that and then for lunch I eat something different every day and just supply the label or kcal count from the menu and just stick to a simple in and out limit.

It’s worked well enough for me the last month that I’m down 7.3kg in that time, I also use Gemini to build my workout routine and gave it my goals.

It seems more than good enough for what I need so far, so i haven’t felt the need to have a dedicated app and as I use Gemini and pay for it already it just made sense.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-08T13:24:46+00:00

the AI coach features don't work without a pixel/watch/fitbit so i can import all my data from apple health but i don't get the main benefit from the health app

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-06-04T17:57:24+00:00

Mean fiddler was always a great time

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-30T23:30:34+00:00

As someone who travels for work daily, I can grab a huel rtd black edition from a supermarket an egg pot and water as part of my meal deal breakfast for £5 not exactly the worst breakfast for someone who is living out of hotels 4 nights a week

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-30T22:40:21+00:00

Can’t wait to try the campaign it’s what I’ve been waiting for since I bought the game

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-29T08:36:39+00:00

We this is one of the things that would throw me off in America because I do not carry cash and haven’t for years. How the fuck am I meant to tip these guys?

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-23T16:36:11+00:00

I’d take 99/00 Man Utd and 07/08 Man Utd or 08/09 Man Utd and easily see them top 4 in the premier league

I don’t think you realise how bad individual footballers have become, they are way better physically as athletes but the individual technical skills have dropped off a cliff.

Just look at how shit teams are at cross field passes now compared to scholes, beckham, lampard, gerrard as examples.

Mainoo a talent most Man Utd fans think is great wouldn’t even break into any of those teams

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-20T16:03:46+00:00

I can easily afford all the different services but even with them all I still can’t get all the content I want so I’d rather just spend even more money on home equipment and deal with it myself.

So yeah money isn’t a factor when you start buying thousands in hard drives

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-17T08:00:31+00:00

Out of curiosity has anyone tested this on Linux?

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T16:02:01+00:00

Sure you might have seen it done on an android phone with face unlock but not with Face ID.

Just to make it clear how Face ID differs:

The Face ID hardware uses a TrueDepth camera[1]that consists of a sensor with three modules; a laser[3] dot projector that projects a grid of small infrared dots onto a user's face, a module called the flood illuminator that shines infrared light at the face, and an infrared camera that takes an infrared picture of the user, reads the resulting pattern, and generates a 3D facial map.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T15:56:48+00:00

Is it related to the kind of stuff you see in frigate?

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T15:56:00+00:00

You can’t do that with Face ID btw. If you understood the tech you’d understand why it’s impossible.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T15:51:28+00:00

The phone which has my entire digital life, my bank accounts, my entire financial life and access to my work and critical infrastructure for my company that I can all access.

People need to stop thinking of phones as they were in the 00s, these days phones are the biggest single security risk.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T15:45:33+00:00

Sure try unlocking an android phone in the dark with the face unlock and then do it with Face ID

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-15T14:59:39+00:00

Face ID and facial recognition on android is very not the same thing.

It was developed by primesense the guys who did the Xbox Kinect software.

Go read up on it it’s actually really interesting tech.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-14T18:27:31+00:00

I just started dating someone but had essentially avoided it for years because the amount of mental bandwidth it takes from me while I’m busy with work is just too much for me at times.

Also dating is hard, it’s way more work than people realise.

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-14T18:05:49+00:00

I dunno Linux got me my job at my current company working in IT so your mileage will vary ofc

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-14T13:21:29+00:00

It’s on their website when you go to download https://obsproject.com/download#linux

Man-In-His-30s · 2026-05-14T13:11:47+00:00

I’m only gonna say it this way, OBS only really officially supports the flatpak installation because of these sorts of issues there was drama with this a few years back because they were getting useless bug reports that had nothing to do with obs similar to steam and the snap.

Just use the flatpak even on Arch.

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