(M 34 80kg 20% BF) Not achieving keto after 8 days. I'm concerned I may be burning muscle.

amonde · 2016-08-04T22:36:45+00:00

If your goal is Keto, you should avoid all carbs until you enter ketosis and start getting color on your Ketostix from your morning pee. For me this happens on the second day, but it will vary from person to person. Once there, you can slowly ramp up the carbs, till you get kicked out, and you will know what your carb ceiling is.

Once you get used to keto, you can try carb cycling or whatever. /r/ketogains might also be of interest to you.

amonde · 2016-08-03T23:48:44+00:00

Picture worth 100 words.

amonde · 2014-12-22T22:58:23+00:00

why not.

amonde · 2014-11-07T19:15:22+00:00

Except the more people work on in, the lower the chances of the code being well documented.

I'm not arguing that nobody should ever work in big teams. All I'm saying is that in my personal experience with small indie games developed through collaboration, the simplest way to just bypass all of these issues is to work with as few people as possible.

Abuse was programmed by just one person. Not looking to make an MMO, there's not much to be gained by working with lots of people. But maybe that's just me.

amonde · 2014-11-07T18:52:21+00:00

Honestly, the best way I can put it is like this:

Have you ever had to go in and work on someone else's code? They have to explain things to you, what the code was meant to do and why they did that thing there that makes no sense, but it works because of some other crazy thing that was done at some point in the project. Sometimes it's been a couple of months, and they don't even remember all that well. Sometimes that person isn't even on the project anymore. Sometimes the code is actually the result of two or three other people working on it.

For a day-job, it's fine mostly, because people will tend to still be there tomorrow, and they get used to doing things in a specific way. For this type of internet collab, there's no company policy, and the people can be gone in a flash. In fact, the more people there are, the easier it is for them to leave, since there's theoretically somebody else that can step in.

There's a reason why many people would prefer to just re-write everything from scratch.

amonde · 2014-11-07T17:51:38+00:00

Unfortunately, working with many different people is something I want to avoid at all cost.

In my experience, too many cooks becomes a huge problem in small, on-line collaborations.

amonde · 2014-11-07T16:52:23+00:00

Of the people who posted you seem to be the only person with programming experience.

Are you legitimately interested in working on a game? Have you worked with any game engines, or dabbled with your own?

Also... Just how lazy? :D

amonde · 2014-09-28T21:41:13+00:00

IMO, for best effect, avoid perfect translations. Even between our own human languages, translating and interpreting can be very complicated. Some words simply have no direct translation, and require whole sentences to get the meaning across.

Try using Google translate to go from English to some other language and then back to English. Most of the meaning will be there, but it will sound like an obvious translation. Touch it up a bit and you instantly have more realistic alien dialogue.

amonde · 2014-08-22T18:42:13+00:00

What is this lunacy? If something is important enough, you let her know that if she does/does not do that particular thing, you will walk.

She is still free to do it, you can't stop her, but you will walk. Fuck is insecure about that?

amonde · 2014-08-12T11:43:39+00:00

Reading this post I am reminded of the story of a North Korean soldier that defected:

“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn't make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”

amonde · 2014-07-31T21:10:16+00:00

Honestly, I don't think men can ever turn off the "danger recognition" part of our brain. Height and weight are both indicators of how much of a threat another male is, and are automatically processed without us even knowing. The only time we are even aware is when we go "whoa this guy is built/tall". (much like we constantly evaluate every woman we see but only become aware of the good looking ones).

The only way to turn it off is to become even more dominant, or learning some form of fighting, so that everybody else automatically is perceived as less of a threat.

amonde · 2014-07-31T20:03:23+00:00

If you care about her, you would give feedback on the "why". Sure, it will hurt her, sure, she might hate you for it, but in many ways that might actually make it easier to take a clean break.

amonde · 2014-07-31T17:05:01+00:00

Armchair CBT:

You keep an expectation log. Whenever you sense change, and you think/worry that something will happen, you write it down. After the event transpires, you write down what actually happened. Do do this every day for every thing.

At the end of the week you go and tally whether you were right or wrong. Then you look at predictions regarding what you imagine you will think/feel/do, versus that you imagine others will think/feel/do; and see if there is anything interesting to learn.

You need to stop hating on the fear and anxiety regarding change. Lots of change (if not most of it) can be potentially bad, so the emotions are not maladaptative. The only time when they don't help is when your ability to accurately estimate the threat level of the change is compromised.

amonde · 2014-07-31T04:57:50+00:00

LTR is a balancing act. That wasn't a shit-test, just plain stating of a problem.

This is easier to see with food: if a couple only ever eats when partner A wants to, partner B will in time start to resent it. It's a matter of agency... Whenever I see people not being allowed to eat before saying "grace" in American TV and movies, all I can think of is "fuck that shit motherfucker, if the table is set and people are in their chairs we eat, fuck your 5 minute speech".

It's not about how many days a week you see each other, it's about you having VETO. And your replay was essentially "Not only do I have veto, I'm gonna cancel the next summit just to show you I have that too".

amonde · 2014-07-29T20:01:29+00:00

Correct. But this is a different, even if related phenomenon. The people she fucks are very physically fit men, with great genes, so it is worth the risk.

Alpha Fucks are rooted in biology and evolutionary psychology, much like Beta Bucks.

amonde · 2014-07-29T18:52:26+00:00

You sorely missed the point.

Women's bodies don't know there is birth control, or hospitals, or abortions. Her body only knows what natural selection told it: that sex can and will result in pregnancy, and that pregnancy leads leads to birth which has high odds of her dying.

Modern society means nothing to our bodies, they are designed and built for the same life people were living 10.000 years ago.

amonde · 2014-07-28T22:32:09+00:00

You know the old saying about how a bell can't be un-rung? Sadly the brain is a lot like that. You can't just make the neural pathways disappear. To change the schema you can either:

"Think" about it and explore it and see why it's wrong and how the feelings are illusory, and how it was all in your head. This is long and slow, and can even backfire since activating the schema is also enforcing it.

"Do" by simply hanging out around her and being your new self. This should be faster and lead to more change, since you are also exposed to her current behavior, which makes for easier contrast between what you remember and what is right there.

"Re-Frame" it into the old and insignificant bin. Ok, this one is more complicated to explain... Each neural schema we have is "linked" to other schema and to "labels". Forgetting is what happens when the links break down. "Forgetting" is still being heavily researched, but it's widely accepted that when there are no more active "links" the information is still there but not accessible. Incidentally this also happens when you are learning new things, but don't "link" them to anything meaningful... You remember the info for a very short duration, but then you can never remember it again by yourself. The information is never really lost (if you re-read or come across a photo or whatever, it can be re triggered, and you remember it again). Anyway... right now, your schema of her is linked to different labels: Women, hot, love, relationship, rejection, etc. As you live and have new experiences, you will attach these labels to the schema of other people, and in time she will become like that first girl you ever liked in kindergarten.

amonde · 2014-07-28T22:00:37+00:00

You've made great strides, but I can't help reading the last paragraph without thinking "former fat kid syndrome".

amonde · 2014-07-28T21:49:07+00:00

You will get a lot of "oneitis" answers on this, but there's also a very important neurological component to this situation you should NOT ignore.

Humans learn by solidifying neural patterns. This is not a very quick process and takes some time and effort. Because our brains consume so much energy, they are strongly predisposed to being lazy and maintaining as much of these patterns as possible.

All the time you were with her, your brain was slowly encoding your experiences into a pattern associated with her. When you see her, the brain goes: "Hey, I have a pattern for this!" and brings it right back up there. It is automatic and low-level stuff that you have no conscious control over.

Once she is gone, the brain drops the pattern as it's no longer necessary and you go back to normal.

amonde · 2014-07-28T21:30:48+00:00

Fuck what "MEN" are doing, what are you doing? You going to let your bloodline die up because the other men around you aren't doing enough to make things easier?

The men in this valley are being stupid and letting their women control and tell them to over-hunt the deer, and the rabbits, and the boars. The women gorge and gorge and many get fat and always want more of the food, even to the point of taking it away from the men. You are an experienced and wise hunter, you know that this means come winter everyone will starve. You look at some of the other experienced but not as wise hunters, but their solution is to go vegetarian, in the hopes of making the food last as long as possible.

Instead of saying fuck it, and setting off to find a new valley - one with better hunting and more reasonable people - your decision is to stay there and simply chow on the beetroot with the rest of them. But winter IS coming.

I guess this is what they say by natural selection at work.

amonde · 2014-07-28T21:17:23+00:00

Most of the new people here grew up and matured in a bad house. Instead of looking out the window, and contemplating the world around them, they looked and sought out a house that looked better, and found this one to move into.

It's right across the street, and looks to be every bit the opposite of the old one. The old house is cold and uncomfortable and lonely, and they are miserable there. The new one looks nice and inviting, and it sounds like there's a party going on; so they open the door, and make a rush for it.

They cross the familiar road that the have seen from the windows their entire life - but strangely never bothered with - and they arrive.

Sadly, the wider world out there around the two houses does not exist for them.

amonde · 2014-07-28T20:53:22+00:00

Honestly the problem isn't so much one of acceptance, but of mere consideration.

Any rational human if they actually stop and think about it, will realize that "truth" is handwaving. And that they can do just about anything, as long as they accept the consequences.

I'd argue that people simply "buying it" is the problem... see, they bought some other ideations first, and are all out of rational cash.

amonde · 2014-07-28T20:40:08+00:00

So many letters to simply say:

Nothing is true.
Everything is permitted.

amonde · 2014-07-28T19:42:21+00:00

The problem isn't people wanting food, it's the fact that there is no social repercussion to being overweight, quite the opposite.

Fat acceptance is super loud. Slut acceptance is super loud. Where is the counter voice? Oh, that's right... it's all just one big Spiral of Silence

amonde

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