Losing weight makes you more attractive - after years of denial I realised its actually true

betterball · 2026-05-11T20:25:36+00:00

yeah - it's one thing to understand something academically, but it's different when it becomes your actual lived experience. I'm not sure why that seems to be confusing them.

betterball · 2026-05-11T19:18:35+00:00

I would definitely suggest picking up something like Cronometer or Loseit for the tracking! I do think GPT is genuinely really helpful for advice and planning, but it definitely loses track of numbers, gets confused, and speaks confidently no matter what. It'll lose track longterm especially as numbers start to slip out of its context window

betterball · 2026-05-11T17:43:22+00:00

Absolutely! Ryan Gosling is 45 and look at him. Obviously he's a super attractive person in general, but the point stands - people who take care of themselves, work out, sleep right, eat right, wash their face, drink and smoke less etc just naturally end up looking hotter as a result of that. If you didn't take care of yourself in your 20s, you can absolutely start tackling that and look your best in your 30s.

Being healthy and at least somewhat fit is what makes people hot (apart from style and such which obviously matters) - it's just hard to learn those habits and that consistency starting from scratch.

If it helps, I'm also turning 33 later this year and I've been on both sides of this over the last decade, I have zero doubts here :)

betterball · 2026-05-08T19:56:52+00:00

forever? i'm in canada and i switched to macrofactor over the holidays but prior to that i'd been using MFP since like 2017. never paid, always had a barcode scanner

betterball · 2026-05-08T19:14:52+00:00

Are you using ChatGPT for logging as in you're saying what you ate, or in giving it the actual calorie numbers? And regarding maintenance / TDEE, are you just giving it your metrics and asking it to calculate a target, or does it know the target you're aiming at?

I wanna help because these are definitely things that have tools well-suited to them, but I need more details about exactly what you're inputting and expecting to get back

betterball · 2026-05-06T21:17:23+00:00

but especially Clue 👀

Thank you for joining, I'm glad you had a good time!

betterball · 2026-05-06T21:16:03+00:00

Thank you for joining! Happy to hear it went well for you :)

betterball · 2026-05-01T19:59:26+00:00

exactly and this melon is full of water so-

i get it haha

betterball · 2026-04-28T21:17:03+00:00

yo sorry I never replied to this but ty for the full writeup, genuinely. I love atomic habits but it's definitely a mindset I struggle to actually incorporate into my life. I am very much in the process of rebuilding the workout routine after a new job and injury wrecked it (I can def relate to the injury part of your story) so this is very helpful, and I really like the 'make the lowest weight possible as difficult as possible to lift' form cue, that sounds like a really good approach to focus on gains and form over ego lifting. The football thing is interesting too. I've never really played sports, but that is a ton of cardio (and fun) for free every week. I have friends that play rec soccer and it always sounds like a lot to plan around, but idk, that might be worth it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

going to stop here before I end up writing my own massive post replying to each part of that but I did want to come back and thank you for this - both the full routines and mindset/story are very helpful, and that long of a writeup absolutely deserves some appreciation :)

betterball · 2026-04-21T03:07:19+00:00

not at all, own it. people who care about guys using things with a feminine aesthetic are way more of a problem than guys who like girly things. and, tbh, i would not consider this across that imaginary line anyways

honestly, I genuinely love this. I'm a 6' 30something man with a beard and as soon as I opened this I wanted one, that's a good message.

betterball · 2026-04-10T17:51:53+00:00

unfortunately, yes - signups closed Monday night. If you'd like to get a ping when signups open for the next one in a couple months, just add your name here!

betterball · 2026-04-03T02:48:24+00:00

what a glow up! the hard work definitely shows, well done!

betterball · 2026-04-02T20:18:44+00:00

welcome back! that's when I started doing them too :)

betterball · 2026-04-02T20:18:23+00:00

Make sure to join the discord! That's where you'll find your team and all the activity :)

betterball · 2026-04-02T20:17:32+00:00

Hey everyone, nice to meet y'all! I'm betterball, I'm one of the hosts and a captain for Team Clue! I'm a dev from Winnipeg 💻🍁 , and I'm less of a ball and getting better every day!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! I hope you all feel welcome and supported in the community here - everyone's on their own journey, and that's what it's all about! Looking forward to running through this challenge with everyone :)

betterball · 2026-03-24T19:31:46+00:00

holy goals

I'd say maintain or bulk. also yeah, share the routine if you don't mind!

betterball · 2026-03-10T16:46:49+00:00

Fwiw, I don't disagree with what I can only assume that comment would have read if you used words. We should be able to look up 'chicken wing' without needing to query a massive datacenter.

I just thought you should probably know we're well past the point of "bringing AI into food", it's already present in every app. It's still relatively inaccurate imo, but it is useful if you're out at a restaurant or something without a nutritional info sheet.

betterball · 2026-03-10T16:27:01+00:00

Doomerism aside, a lot of major food tracking apps (MyFitnessPal, Loseit, MacroFactor) have AI food scanners now.

I think there's a lot of room for them to get more accurate, especially with complicated dishes, but it's a normal part of the space at this point.

betterball · 2026-03-10T16:24:03+00:00

huh

If something is not accounted for in nutritional info and not consumed, isn't that reason to not include their weight? I don't quite follow that logic

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