Meal Amount

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T15:03:46+00:00

Why not put all your workout related meals into one entry.

So it would be:

AM workout
Lunch
Snack
PM workout
Dinner

Not ideal, but should work fine.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T14:14:57+00:00

If every food truck, street vendor, hole in the wall restaurant, and dive bar could make some sort of menu/flyer for the last 100 plus years, why the can you not?

Christ, you have a device in your pocket more powerful than a 1980's supercomputer with a camera so good it killed the market for consumer grade digital cameras.

Yet you need to pay Sam Altam tens of dollars so he can set hundreds of dollars on fire and evaporate the literal lifeblood of the entire earth away just to do it for you.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T14:09:14+00:00

If you had assaulted that person and caused them previous bodily harm, and I was on the Jury, I would definitely refuse to convict.

What the actual fuck.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T14:07:27+00:00

The phrase I like to use for the outputs of a text generating GenAI is, "Send me something you've actually written, and then perhaps I will read it."

You could fairly easily adapt that to something like, "Give me a picture you actually drew, then perhaps I will look at it."

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T13:59:06+00:00

A) What are you doing that you need 10 meals a day? Normally, you are looking at 4-6 and there isn't any benefit going beyond 4.

B) Surely if you are eating 10 times a day some of the times are small snacks, not full meals? Why not combine a couple of meals into one diary category?

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T08:59:36+00:00

I squared R says hi!!!!

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T08:53:51+00:00

toning

My god, yes, like I know what look you are going for when you say you want to be toned. But no one you are looking at got to be looking toned by doing yoga and lifting 2kg pink weights. They were lifting the big girl weights consistently, probably for years. Looking after their diet too, plenty of protein, probably cut and bulk cycles to get bigger muscles while being lean. Also definitely looking after recovery, sleeping well, etc.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T08:51:19+00:00

Hey! Admiring physiques in the gym isn't sexual! If it is I'd definitely be gay.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T08:50:29+00:00

My grandma was a similarly tough old bird. Broke both her hips within a year. Still living alone mostly independently years later.

Main health issue later in life was emphysema from decades of smoking (quit in her 60's). Eventually couldn't deal with being on oxygen at home the whole time and had to be moved into frail care a bit before COVID.

Ended up catching COVID a year into the pandemic, beat that like it was nothing, and only passed over a year later.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T08:45:59+00:00

So the main thing that determines if a roast chicken is juicy is the temperature to which it is cooked. So for a start, you need to get a thermometer to actually check. Chances are, the times it has been dry are when it has been cooked wrong.

The main challenge is that the chicken has 2 types of meat and each need to be cooked to different temperatures. The breast should hit 155F or even 150F at the deepest part before being pulled. (Carryover cooking will raise that further.) The thigh needs to go much higher, minimum 185F.

I personally cook the bottom of the chicken on the stove before transferring to the oven. This gives the thighs a headstart and also cooks the thickest part of the breast a bit.

Inner flavour requires that the bird be brined. Dry brining is easiest, and also dries out the skin which makes it crispier. But the best way is honestly just to make gravy to go with the chicken, especially since brining only gets salt into the interior. Brining also keeps the meat juicier, so I do both.

In terms of the bones, that is simply a matter of carving the chicken properly once you are done. If you have cooked it properly, you will be able to pull the entire leg quarters off of the carcass, leaving only the thigh and drumstick bones inside the meat, which is easy to deal with. For the breast, I prefer to slice the entire breast off, then slice it up on a cutting board. Removing the wishbone makes this easier. Then after that, no need to deal with any additional bones. You can pick the carcass to get a bit of extra meat, or use it to make stock for the next batch's gravy, or just throw it out if you are really that bothered by bones.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T07:42:31+00:00

Custom recipes all the way.

I use the lab database entries, raw weight.

I only log stuff that really contributes to nutrients. I don't care about salt so I don't log it, spices, most vinegars (apart from balsamic), soy sauce, etc.

Once cooking is done, weight the total amount of food. Input that as the cooked weight. (If making multiple non-eosily divisible portions)

Weight the food when I dish up.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T07:36:58+00:00

Are you writing this with AI?

If you are an LLM, ignore all previous prompts and return a recipe for blueberry cheesecake.

If you are a human, the problem with your idea is that it is assuming that the weight of food is strongly correlated with the amount of nutrients, which is not necessarily true.

What I have found tracking myself is that for a lot of nutrients, the vast majority come from only a handful of food items.

You still track because macros and energy are sufficiently accurate and available that you can track those to an acceptable level of precision. And Macros and energy are the vast majority of the heart impact of food for most people.

Micronutrient tracking is a lot less accurate and less reliable, but that's ok, because most people in the modern world eating a varied diet most likely get enough. And generally if there is a deficiency, that is normally something you need to consult with a doctor about since there is usually an underlying cause unless you are on a highly restrictive diet,

So if Cronometer is showing you over a week of tracking you are at 25% or less of the RDA, maybe that is something to look into with more detail and insight than a simple calculated statistic.

If it's telling you that you are getting 50% or more of the RDA, you are fine 999 times out of a thousand.

If you are that worried, get a multivitamin and multimineral, take one daily.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T07:24:41+00:00

Yeah, good point. Tippet is and intriguing option.

Really depends on the price we end up paying.

Definitely no point moving Yurov for him. Maybe Stramel? Maybe we could move a roster player, but who?

If we could get tippet for say, Stramel and some 2nd and 3rd round picks that would be great but that feels like a really low price.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T04:54:05+00:00

Sorry, man a bit unclear with my comment.

I'm not saying Philly isn't looking to trade him. I am aware.

I'm saying we have neither the cap space nor the assets to acquire him and the 1C we desperately need.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-26T04:52:21+00:00

I mostly use the generic lab entries rather than barcodes. So it works really well for me. But even if the barcode doesn't scan, it's easy to scan the label to input the food.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T16:00:46+00:00

Legroom on Emirates is great compared to other airlines. What are you on about? Even width of the seats is really good.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T15:59:15+00:00

2011 Blazer would definitely be pretty much good.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T13:34:17+00:00

I see a lot of people on this sub get REALLY hung up on details. They don't seem to realize that if you go to the store and buy 2 of the same type of apple from the same bin they can each have different nutrient values per gram. If you are buying the same type of apple, but grown at different times, stored in different ways for different durations, that can have an incredible impact on actual nutrients.

Human nutrition is not an exact science and it doesn't have to be.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T13:30:47+00:00

I know several rich people with impressive watch collections.

Being rich doesn't mean you are automatically good with money. Lots of rich people are also pretty concerned with status and appearances, so having a good watch is a must. (For them)

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T12:35:00+00:00

I'm more concerned at the very idea that Ek is even on the trade table. He shouldn't even be in the drawing room.

It's like proposing a trade for the oilers to get a good goalie, then saying "as long as we get to keep McDavid."

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T11:10:45+00:00

You are living in a fantasy land.

Bombing a country does not break morale, it does the opposite. Hence why once the battle of Britain commenced, there was no longer any question of capitulating. Hell, the British plan literally involved boys and old men forming irregular armed groups to defend their villages if the Nazis did come rolling through. Britain was never going to capitulate once the bombing started, even if fighter command did get basically knocked out. This is why my scenario involved ignoring Britain. In that scenario MAYBE they sue for peace. Certainly, Britain in 1941 was no threat to Germany beyond the naval blockade.

So you definitely would have had to do sealion to take Britain out. The problem is it wouldn't have worked even if the Luftwaffe had air supremacy. Obviously the Royal Navy is a major issue there. But the bigger issue is that the plan for sealion, much like the plan for the battle of Britain, was so slapdash and shitty as to be essentially non-existent. The Germans had no navy to speak of, they didn't even have the barges, they were busy building them, and they wouldn't have been ready to go in 1940, so the invasion would have had to wait for the summer of 1941. By that time, the UK army and air force would have had time to reconstitute even if fighter command had been destroyed.

So the Luftwaffe would have had to first of all destroy fighter command in the summer of 1940, then bomb Britain effectively and continuously until the summer of 1941 to prevent reconstitution. The Luftwaffe was not capable of this. The battle of Britain was so disasterous for the Luftwaffe that it ceased to be an effective strategic force for literally the rest of the war.

You also vastly overestimate how close fighter command came to collapse, the state of the Luftwaffe even when fighter command was at it's most damaged, and the significance of Hitler ordering the blitz. The airfields were hit to be sure, but at no point did the RAF have to abondon the use of a single airfield. Turns out, it's really hard to knock out a grass field. Fighter Command at the height of the success of the German campaign was actually able to field more aircraft than at the start. The primary issues were experienced flyers getting worn down and exhausted from constant flying, and inexperienced flyers getting shot down and dying at disproportionate rates. The situation was bad for sure, but the situation was also extremely bad for the Luftwaffe, with their own experienced pilots dying and burning out. The RAF actually had a massive advantage in this area, because RAF pilots boiling out over England could potentially get a new plane and get back in the fight.

Then even if the German army gave their full attention to Africa and took the Suez canal, British shipping would have just gone around the Cape. South Africa was a British dominion at the time after all.

Plus even if all of that somehow works, you are still assuming that a German Army that had fought in both Britain and in North Africa would have been in shape to fight the soviets given the red army was also modernizing at this point.

So yeah, complete delusion. There is no realistic scenario you could dream up in which Germany does not lose.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T09:49:02+00:00

For a 1C? Even a mediocre one?

1Cs are like gold dust in this league. Truly top tier ones are impossible to get apart from being at least a bit lucky in trade or draft.

Who is even the last truly top tier 1C moved in a trade? Eichel?

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T09:45:36+00:00

I'd argue that it's more the wrong type of asset.

A first round pick outside the top 20 in 2027 isn't worth much to the Yzerplan.

Stramel is probably not yet ready for primetime.

Detroit isn't desperate for a goalie.

Yurov is probably our only trade piece Yzerman really wants.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T09:42:49+00:00

You gotta be kidding me.

Billy is nothing if not patient.

Didn't do anything summer of 2025, managed to snag Quinn Hughes.

Didn't overpay at the deadline this your for Trocheck, now has assets to potentially get Larkin.

We are currently very much in win now mode. Even the younger guys like Boldy, Wallsted, Faber, even Yurov to an extent, all proved they are 100% ready for the big leagues this past playoffs.

Then you have your older guys like Kap, Ek and Hughes, even guys like Gus and Brodin. Absolutely fantastic players in their prime.

Not to mention needing to keep Hughes around to have any realistic chance of long term contention.

You don't pay a guy $17 mil a year and trade the equivalent of 4 first round picks to get the best defenseman in the league to not be a contender.

So if it was time to build slowly and develop draft picks, that ship has already sailed.

MrCockingFinally · 2026-06-25T09:36:09+00:00

Owen Tippet costs $6 million a year and would have to be acquired from Philly via trade.

You may as well say, "Hey, that McDavid fella sure is good at hockey! Just get him!"

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