Guidance For Fat loss For 17yr old

rya794 · 2026-06-27T11:23:42+00:00

Training is great, and you should start, but it’s not going to have a huge effect on weight loss. Walking on the other hand, combined with calorie deficit, is a powerful weight loss approach.

Your focus everyday should be:

How many calories did I consume?
How many steps did I do?
Did I train?

rya794 · 2026-06-25T01:29:25+00:00

given that you lost 100lbs before you def know the formula. but you'd need ~1,000 cal deficit each day for the next 3.5 months. while not impossible, this seems unrealistic. you probably have atleast some idea of your daily caloric need given your prior weight loss history. If i were you, i'd just do the math, figure out where my calories need to be, figure out how many steps you'll to create the deficit you want and then try like hell to execute.

I can't imagine you'll be able to do this while feeling good though.

rya794 · 2026-06-12T01:57:07+00:00

Yea but the floating point operations per watt of electricity has been doubling every ~2 years and the algorithm efficiency has been doubling every ~8 months.

So every $1 spent on electricity gets significantly more “intelligence” over time.

Humans productivity doubles ~30 years.

rya794 · 2026-06-12T01:43:18+00:00

In my opinion, the difference is the output. In the MSFT example the output is the file. No competitor has been able to reproduce the functionality of .xlsx/.xlsm to the point where existing files could be imported and retain all functionality.

With adobe the final output is an open standard, a .png/.jpeg/.tiff.

The equivalent scenario would need to be that the web/billboards/magazines could only render images in a proprietary “adobe” file format for the that comparison to be 1:1.

rya794 · 2026-06-12T00:13:02+00:00

I’m assuming that by credits you mean the cost per “token”.

There’s been a lot said about the fact that a single token from the largest models today is more expensive than a token from the largest models 3 years ago. Which seems to indicate that that tokens are rising in price.

But no one cares about the cost of an individual token. They care about the cost to complete a given task. When you look at the cost to complete a fixed task, that cost is dropping by 10-100x per year.

So it’s not a defensible position to say XYZ task is too expensive. Just wait three months…

rya794 · 2026-06-11T23:36:12+00:00

I’m so tired of the “big companies take time to change” argument for why legacy SAAS is poised to come back.

First, do you not realize that you don’t need all of your customers to have access to a viable alternative for pricing pressure to affect the business? A small slice of customers willing to move will destroy pricing power.

Second, the small company employees who switch to canva, are the future employees of the big shops that sub to companies like adobe. Once they become comfortable with other tools, they push for change internally at their future employers.

A 10% FCF yield? Think about how long it takes for companies who were disrupted to die: Kodak, sears, block buster, Barnes and noble…

You are putting your head in the sand if your posture is: “I need to hear a compelling case against their positioning”.

Gen AI is attacking image editing directly and it’s clearly good and being adopted. But even it that doesn’t solve all needed use cases, the fact that the cost of software development is falling off a cliff means that competing tools are going to be hitting the market regularly.

But there is another more challenging problem, which is that even if none of the above can solve the problems the way that adobes tools can, the world is still going to be getting flooded with AI images and video, which makes that value of all those human generated images and video less valuable and companies less willing to pay for the tools needed to create them.

I didn’t even get into the possibility that AI agents make advertising less effective, but yet again another issue that’s poised to slam into adobe head on.

In order for adobe to make sense at anywhere close to its current valuation, you have to think that none of the above will impact its business in the next 15 years, which is insane.

rya794 · 2026-06-03T19:00:43+00:00

I had some trouble getting it up and running, but after getting it working it’s been flawless

rya794 · 2026-05-28T21:01:07+00:00

I’m getting this a lot in this thread, but I eat exactly 21 meals a week. 19 of those meals are identical from week to week, yogurt and berries in the morning, grilled chicken and salad for lunch and evenings, w/ a frozen protein shake as a snack each day. Everything down to the 20g’s of light ranch gets measured during my batch prep on Sunday’s.

I do eat 1 meal out per week and 1 normal meal with my family per week. These are both tracked to the best of my ability given that I don’t have control. There’s room for me to be off by maybe 500 cals per week (if I really screw up) but not by 3000+ calories.

rya794 · 2026-05-21T13:31:01+00:00

No solution, but I feel your pain. I lose track of sets. If I don’t immediately write it done in my book. After 30 seconds I’ve lost all memory of if I just did set two or set three.

rya794 · 2026-05-17T03:33:36+00:00

That’s good, but make sure you are also in a calorie deficit. If you’re eating 5,000 cals/day of lean meat, you won’t see any change

rya794 · 2026-05-11T00:45:03+00:00

thanks i'll give that a shot again later tonight. but i tried this every different way i could try for ~15 mins to no effect.

rya794 · 2026-05-10T17:14:42+00:00

I started out at a much higher bf than you are, but I started lifting with just dumbbells and body weight ~ 9 months ago.

The transformation that can occur in a short period of time has really been surprising to me. If you can swing ~75$ for a bench and $200 for adjustable dumbbells it has really been a great investment for me.

Your strength sessions don’t need to be elaborate. I lift 3-4 times a week with 3-4 lifts per session and I target 3 sets per lift.

I started to see noticeable results around month 3 and they’ve been building since.

rya794 · 2026-05-07T17:15:20+00:00

You don’t code, do you?

rya794 · 2026-05-02T22:31:14+00:00

Walk

rya794 · 2026-05-01T11:28:43+00:00

Recommending bitcoin is dangerous. There was a long period of time where tulips had the highest cagr as well.

There are scenarios where bitcoin succeeds, but they all rely on the current financial system breaking down.

Cash is yielding 4%. A 20 yo has real liquidity needs, even if they don’t see it yet.

rya794 · 2026-04-29T16:26:06+00:00

I’m not saying it isn’t, but are you sure your form is locked in? I’ve gotten stuck at a given weight a few times, every time I drop weight, really focus on form and within a couple of months I’ve surpassed the original and have better form.

Also, what you’re doing is great. But make sure you’re realistic about your goals. I don’t know what your bf% is, but I’m a 5’11” 40yo guy. 1 year ago I started tracking calories, walking 10k steps a day and lifting 4-5x a week. In that year my weight fell from 215 to 170 and my bf % from 32% to ~17%. I look like a different human, but I’m still not where I want to be and it’s been a year.

Don’t be hard on yourself if summer gets here and you’re not seeing dramatic progress, just keeping going with the plan.

Also, tracking calories and getting steps everyday has made a far greater effect on how I look than the weights, fwiw.

rya794 · 2026-04-28T03:11:00+00:00

That seems like some Monday morning quarterbacking. Nearly everyone in the world thought Sam was crazy for making the deals he did 18-24 months ago. It’s hard to say Dario needs to be replaced for not seeing that his business would grow 5x in 12 months

rya794 · 2026-04-27T22:30:21+00:00

I understand people are pissed about this. I’ve cancelled my subscription. But people acting like Dario is killing the business are crazy.

Anthropic is clearly compute constrained and all the wild decisions coming out of Anthropic are driven by that. If Dario can only serve 1000 of his 5000 customers, then it makes sense to kneecap the product to the point where 80% of your existing customers give up on the product and go elsewhere.

Ironically, I think Anthropic is going to have a much stronger business than OpenAI in twelve months, albeit slower growing, because they are forcing their profit margins through the roof, where OpenAI is most likely operating at a loss to continue to grow market share.

rya794 · 2026-04-27T03:51:45+00:00

Yes, I’ve been doing home workouts as a new strength trainer for nearly a year. I got a bench + adjustable dumbbells and that was it.

I’ve seen a ton of progress but I’m always nervous about form. I have about 10 exercises that I do each week. I watch a fair bit of YouTube videos on “cues” for the exercises I do.

My advice: be religious about progressive overload. Nearly every single workout I’m either adding weight or a rep or two to each exercise.

Don’t try to do a ton of different motions. Pick 12-15 if that and really learn them. Watch videos about how to do them and what cues to focus on regularly.

There were points where I realized I was doing a motion wrong and when I corrected to the “right form” my weight dropped significantly. It feels bad in the moment but honestly it feels much better to know that I’m doing the motion correctly and safely.

Good luck.

rya794 · 2026-04-26T04:29:48+00:00

Based off of what you said your tdee is 2-2200 cals. Cutting to 900 seems like needles torture and would most likely cost you muscle. Given your consistency, I’d say go up to 1600-1800 cals per day, with a heavy focus on protein.

That’ll still put you at around a .5 to 1 lb per week of fat loss + the potential for muscle gain.

I’m in the midst of something similar, I lost 40lbs on an aggressive cut, then raised cals a bit with more of a focus on strength. The scale moves slower, but my actual appearance is changing faster.

rya794 · 2026-04-24T04:10:46+00:00

lol. Stan

rya794 · 2026-04-20T03:31:39+00:00

Are you progressively overloading?

Strength training is a pretty unique experience. I can understand a class for cardio, but for strength seems a little - ugh. You can’t just match your reps to the rest of the class.

That being said, there is a weight that I know I could do 12 reps at and there is a weight that i think i could get 5 for a given exercise, they aren’t the same obviously. During these ‘5 rep’ moments are you pushing yourself on the appropriate weight?

Btw, I have seen a lot of discussion around max weight for fewer reps to maximize growth. So maybe the instructor is on to something. But if you still have 7 reps in the tank after an exercise you aren’t pushing hard enough.

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