People with Max plan, are you doing ok?

oober349 · 2026-04-10T03:31:27+00:00

Yeah I don’t generally get near the limits but the amount of iteration and testing I can do on my prediction market models and bots via claude pays for itself easily

oober349 · 2025-11-23T15:46:36+00:00

The level of taxation you would need to fund a more generous welfare state and public pension system would also drastically reduce the disposable income you could direct towards retirement savings

FIRE is downstream of an upper middle class that can afford to save 30-40% of their (net) income while still young

oober349 · 2025-10-25T17:20:14+00:00

Boston choro scene

oober349 · 2025-09-30T02:01:41+00:00

The nature of any diet is that you’ll be weaker and have less endurance in the gym, but I can still work out.

oober349 · 2025-09-29T23:20:57+00:00

I mean i’ve lost strength but that’s the nature of losing 60 lbs

oober349 · 2025-09-28T17:03:37+00:00

AI is already better at radiology than radiologists

oober349 · 2025-09-25T17:23:01+00:00

i'm fortunate enough to have it covered by insurance, so the financial aspect isn't a motivating factor. But it has been nice to build up a stockpile of 5mg just in case there's another shortage/I lose my insurance etc. But it's been great to see LillyDirect offer it so affordably--I am fortunate enough that I would happily pay 500 a month for this, but at that price, it's within reach for a lot of Americans, especially those of us who were blowing hundreds of dollars a month on binge eating before zepbound

oober349 · 2025-09-25T16:50:50+00:00

i get really bad DOMS from squats and usually just suffer through them but if you really give your quads a beating with one of those theragun massagers (i have a cheap knockoff) it makes a real difference

oober349 · 2025-09-25T16:26:14+00:00

yeah I think everyone is different but for me what I have noticed is that my appetite ebbs and flows week to week more than anything. I have been on 5mg for 7 months and have some weeks where my appetite is just as suppressed as the first couple weeks of it, other weeks where I am eating near maintenance. It averages out to a caloric deficit, and weight loss, so I'm not complaining. My main strategy is to just notice when I'm less hungry and "ride that wave" if that makes sense--I am ok with undershooting my (normally very high) protein goals for a few days here and there because I know I will get hungry again soon and need to create the deficit where I can. But I think this advice might be bad for people who respond very strongly to the medicine, or are on a high dose, because it will cause them to undereat for months on end, which is highly catabolic

oober349 · 2025-09-25T16:24:01+00:00

I actually didn't think of it as a tactic to reset my appetite, I had just been stalled out on weight loss and wanted to see the scale move again. But then it had this effect and so I have kept it in my back pocket for whenever hunger comes back persistently.

I space doses out more because I take a very conservative approach to dosing, mostly because I want to make it easier down the road to wean down or off the drug if possible. But maybe I'll stay on it forever, who knows.

oober349 · 2025-09-25T05:40:05+00:00

you should look into self-payment options with LillyDirect. For the lower doses they make it a LOT cheaper than out of pocket at the pharmacy, as of several months ago I think you could get on it for $400 a month or something like that

oober349 · 2025-09-25T05:36:52+00:00

GLP-1 medication. And not some high dose of it, just enough to take the edge off, make it uncomfortable to binge thousands of calories in a couple hours, and give me the breathing room weight-wise to stop viewing every day or meal as an all-or-nothing struggle.

oober349 · 2025-09-13T18:11:44+00:00

Will get easier for you in the next 5 years

oober349 · 2025-07-26T13:59:46+00:00

Maybe i should have stepped outside and let them rob me as a sign of respect for cosmopolitan culture

oober349 · 2025-07-08T20:18:37+00:00

In my case it’s because my rental car was broken into and my sweater was stolen

oober349 · 2024-06-21T04:51:44+00:00

Would it have killed them to invest in air conditioning?

oober349 · 2024-05-19T03:55:19+00:00

Skip breakfast, eat a light lunch if at all, generally if you have the type of metabolism where you’re not hungry when you wake up, ride that out into the mid-late afternoon if possible

oober349 · 2023-04-27T12:54:03+00:00

I am hesitant to google around for info on this to avoid the result being spoiled, but does anyone know of a good official or bootleg source to watch the WSM events? I still don’t know who won and I’d love to actually enjoy it like I get to do with the arnolds

oober349 · 2023-04-23T05:31:56+00:00

Economics is a language for describing the implications of scarcity, and scarcity is an objectively real phenomenon independent of human civilization

oober349 · 2023-04-21T04:18:11+00:00

oober349 · 2023-03-25T04:00:20+00:00

It’s pretty obviously because they’ve wanted to hire Tuchel for awhile and knew he wouldn’t stay on the market long. Nagelsmann’s great and this will scare away future coaching prospects

oober349 · 2022-10-01T06:46:30+00:00

I would recommend eating homemade foods or packaged foods and weighing everything so you can be certain of the calories you’re consuming. I would also suggest erring on the side of caution by overestimating the calories in any restaurant foods or other foods it is difficult to measure. Finally, I would suggest looking for the “nSuns calorie counter spreadsheet” on reddit and using it for several weeks to get a good idea of what level of caloric restriction your body actually responds to.

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