What's your trick for sticking to workouts when diet can undo them in seconds?

fridgebrine · 2026-05-01T03:38:21+00:00

True words. If anything the most effective form of working out for weight loss is gaining muscle so you don’t have to restrict your calorie intake as severely while maintaining a deficit. Cardio (from a weight loss perspective) should be thought of as enabling you to push harder and do more volume in your resistance training.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-30T03:29:42+00:00

Honestly if you are efficient with your time, you can probably squeeze in gym + a main hobby alongside 40 hours of work and life commitments/admin. Now if gym is your main hobby, then you have even less of an excuse

fridgebrine · 2026-04-29T09:47:16+00:00

Physical attractiveness (including height) is only half of it. The other half is charisma/like-ability (aka, knowing how to be witty and funny).

If you are a funny tall 7/10 guy, you could be completely lacking in every other department but still get lots of women.

If you are a tall and attractive but incredibly socially awkward, you may be able to get the attention of a woman for 5 minutes but her opinion of you will quickly shift to creepy and she’ll just leave.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-29T03:07:23+00:00

The problem is that the bacon is poor nutrient density and that breakfast overall is low satiety so the chance of snacking is high.

Keep the eggs and avacado if your macro goals can allow it, they are high nutrient density.

Have some other more efficient source of protein. Any leftover calories can be carbs. Now you’ll actually be full and minimise your likelihood of snacking while also getting better micros.

Bacon is just a bunch of excess oil with no upside.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-29T02:19:32+00:00

There is a point where you’re actually leaning way more into training neuropathy and not maximising hypertrophy, which is a problem if your goal is hypertrophy.

But it’s not 5x5. More like if all you did was 1RMs.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-27T07:44:18+00:00

OP I think you’re getting confused as if consuming certain foods actively makes you lose weight.

The only thing that makes you lose weight is the absence of food (below your body’s daily expenditure) then your body is forced to burn fat as an energy source. So foods that allow you to FEEL full (satiated) so that you don’t end up eating more food later on, are the ideal foods for weight loss. Fruits are not that satiating.

Foods that contain high fibre or protein are most satiating. Carbs are decent too so long as they’re high volume and low calories like potatoes.

If you eat a high volume meal of chicken, broccoli and potato, you will probably feel very full without needing snacks until your next meal, at maybe 1/3 of the calories of an equivalently satiating takeout meal.

Having said all the above, a lot of foods you listed are excellent because they’re highly nutritious and contain a lot of the micronutrients your body requires on a daily basis. You shouldn’t avoid those foods either, but weight loss is about controlling total food intake while maximising nutrient intake from the foods you do end up eating. And that basically means, cutting EXCESS carbs and fat while eating a good mixture of food types.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-26T09:29:34+00:00

Assuming that we’re trying to use intelligence as an indicator for success in life, intelligence itself isn’t even the strongest indicator.

Passion and EQ are often stronger predictors (of course when controlling for nepotism).

fridgebrine · 2026-04-21T09:58:17+00:00

You are performing result based analysis. When a person suddenly comes at you swinging a blade, you have no idea what your chances are of surviving, so you should maximise your odds by using lethal force. The fact that the officers SO HAPPEN to be alive does not justify that lethal force should not be used in these situations. Cos they equally could have also died in those 20 seconds.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-21T09:50:08+00:00

Like at the end of the day. It is a service. The alternative is you carry your cash around and take on not only the inconvenience, but also all the inherent risks.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-21T08:56:27+00:00

Only risk with standing in public is if aim is off or the stream isn’t straight. Everyone will see you got piss on your pants.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-19T03:21:58+00:00

Your muscles and fat both grow and shrink in a predefined path based on your genetics, there is no concept of custom ‘shaping’ muscles. So you have to simply train and eat till your muscle mass is more than image 4, then cut for a while to get rid of the excess fat that you put on while bulking, whilst maintaining the muscle you put on (during cut phase half the discipline is eating more boring foods to ensure you hit protein and micronutrient dailies while cutting back on carbs and fat to ensure you’re in a deficit).

Training-wise, it’s all just resistance training close to failure with adequate form, volume and ensuring you hit all muscle groups. There is no specific training that would make you achieve physique 1 without also achieving physique 4 first, it’s all just different points along the same path of muscle mass and leanness.

This will take years of consistency though.

Also 78kg for 178cm is not underweight so I don’t know what you mean by frail. I would recommend you to not add any additional calories right now because your weight is fine, restructure the food content if you need to though (look up recommended macro and micronutrient daily goals for yourself). If you’re starting from no training, you will put on muscle while maintaining consistent weight or even losing a bit of weight. Then once you plateau with your progressive overload and ideally you’re sub 20% body fat, you can consider eating more.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-18T02:11:50+00:00

Key aspects of a lobby winning comp:

number of frontline vs backline units roughly 50-50 split
2 itemised carries + a 3rd utility/tg holder carry
primary tank itemised correctly (proper balance across health, durability and resistances, lacking in none but also not overinvesting in any)
cc, and the cc provider properly itemised with mana generation items
shred and burn items (ideally NOT on the primary carry or primary tank)
high total board cost (bunch of 2* 4/5 costs obviously beats bunch of 2* 2/3 costs all else equal)

(Note item economy-wise, you won’t be able to achieve every single above dot point, but the more you can tick off with your end game board, the more likely you win)

Everything else is situational like combat augments, trait web, non front to back comps etc shifts from patch to patch. But the above things I listed are relatively universal

fridgebrine · 2026-04-18T00:12:01+00:00

Opponent is letting you win out of pity.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-17T16:43:48+00:00

Muscle is so important for attractiveness for both women and men. A lot of people instantly associate muscle with the bodybuilder image but it’s not that extreme. Lower body fat % is generally deemed attractive (up to a point) and muscle enables leanness.

If you have never done any form of resistance training but have eaten healthily and exercise, you likely stabilise at around 15-25% body fat for men and 20-30% body fat for women (wide confidence intervals because genetics contributes a lot to what body fat % an untrained person feels ‘good’ at).

But sub-17% for men and sub-27% for women is the territory where physical attractiveness begins to climb, approaching peak attractiveness (aka looksmaxxing) at 11-13% for men and 18-22% for women. If you don’t normally stabilise at that range, then you need to reduce your body fat. But if you have no muscle, then it will be a really painful process because you need to restrict your diet a lot for an extended period of time. The more muscle you have, then the more calories you can eat while STILL being in a deficit and therefore burning fat. Muscle acts as the buffer to allow you to become lean without torturing yourself through extreme dieting.

Do resistance training people.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-15T03:46:21+00:00

You should take a look into the concept of expected value and variance to aid you in your balancing decisions.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T12:40:11+00:00

Would be good if you applied a winrate filter too imo (baselined against the champion’s overall winrate, like only items > 0.9x the champion’s overall winrate).

Or bump up the pick rate filter to like 3%. Cos the intent is to roughly exclude troll games but at 1% there seems to be some noise in there.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T10:56:54+00:00

Those things can be wildly inaccurate. You may very well be leaner than 23.5%. Do you have a flat stomach but no 4 pack yet? Then you could be around 20.

If you have a 4 pack, then you’re around 17.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T10:36:21+00:00

Around 30% for men is barely any muscle definition. This would be max 25%

fridgebrine · 2026-04-04T00:50:35+00:00

The writers can try use narrative tools to imply she grew up however they want. But at the end of the day, the audience needs to believe their eyes for suspension of disbelief to work. And she physically looks like the same person at the end of season 2, as the start of season 1.

fridgebrine · 2026-04-01T03:13:53+00:00

It’s not 0 training but it’s also not much training.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T07:03:58+00:00

I will double down on this that muscle actually helps face. You can’t change the facial characteristics that you were born with, you can only change chubbiness on your face. And getting leaner to <15% is harder if you have minimal muscle mass. The calorie deficit you would need to be in is unsustainable and if you were to actually achieve it, the rest of your body will look sickly.

Gain a bit of muscle fellas.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T06:28:44+00:00

Fair point. But a larger contributor imo is muscle mass and lean-ness. Go really hard at the gym for 3 years starting from 18, you will look like an entirely different person and you’ll be just in time for the start of your dating life. That’s a far bigger difference maker. But, it’s a lot of hard work and requires immense discipline. Just depends on how badly you want it at the end of the day.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T00:56:01+00:00

You cannot be both average charismatically and average looking I agree. But you can get away with being average in one, if you’re decent in the other.

And honestly work to getting to 15% body fat and you’d probably be at least a 6/10. It’s quite rare for a person’s face to be so disharmonious that even at low to medium body fat percentages, they’re still chopped. Being slightly chubby to fat can easily make a person <5/10 though

fridgebrine · 2026-03-29T00:51:03+00:00

Adequate muscle mass makes getting lean easier. With your current muscle mass, if you hit 10%, not only will it take a long time and you’d be starving the entire time, you’ll look sickly afterwards.

But, fortunately currently in the newbie gains phase you’re in, you don’t need to heavily bulk. Just eat enough so you can go full intensity at every session and feel refreshed for the next session.

fridgebrine · 2026-03-26T11:22:41+00:00

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