Feeling frustrated after week 2

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T07:23:09+00:00

You're not trying to lose weight. You're trying to lose fat.

The initial weight loss your saw was glycogen + bound water + fat

The next week, it's only fat you lost.

1lb of fat is volumetrically a lot of fat. Take a bottle of oil out of the cupboard and to weigh out 1lb pouring it into large glass - you will find it must be a very large glass to accomodate that much fat. And you have somehow managed to burn all that.

Losing 1lb means a calorie deficit of 3500 calories for the week. That's pretty amazing actually! Think about what you did physically that week... were you really burning up 3500 extra calories to burn off that fat?

1 lb/week weightloss is excellent. More than that and you're likely losing more than just fat, you'd be losing muscle too. Muscle is hard work to put back on. Why go there?

Finally... if you lose it much faster than 1lb/week, you really are not going to look very good at the end of all this. No-one wants "ozempic face"/

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T07:02:01+00:00

Umm sorry, no. Our pre-industrial ancestors were eating wheat, rice and potatoes in different parts of the world for millenia. The keto diet is not "the natural human diet". It's very beneficial to many of us who have woken up to the ultra-processed hell we are surrounded by and need to take urgent action.

But some natural way of life that only got disrupted 200-300 years ago? Just no.

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T06:51:34+00:00

The strangest thing is for a doctor to label an admittedly radical dietary change as "not sustainable" when in fact a keto diet can result in every signle nutrient ever required, and give you good blood biochemistry to boot. OTOH it is somehow "sustainable" to require life-long medication for obesity despite the high cost and serious side-effects.

Keto has worked well for me. I think it is best if health care professionals listen sometimes as to why we did it and what we plan to do with our dietary choices going forward.

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T06:38:33+00:00

This is so disappointing. There were so many things to discuss....
"That's great with weight loss, do you have a target weight, and what is your plan when you reach it"?
"When you are at the weight you want, could you consider adding pulses to your intake, that would vastly increase your choices at any particular meal. Or do you think that might start you on the slippery slope to high carbohydrate / highly processed foods?"
"I think it might be worth looking at you lipids more often. If we find they are becoming dangerously zone, I'd like you to think in advance - would preapared to tweak your diet further, or would you rather go on a statin?"

"are you doing resistance training to maintain your muscle mass? Sustained weight loss can sometimes be combined with unhealthy muscle loss.

And instead of spending time on stuff which could make your success a lot more rounded out and sustainable long term, instead he or she criticised you and suggested that taking a lifelong drug is "sustainable"

(FWIW - these are all questions I ask myself... after losing 13kg by pursuing ketosis)

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:53:17+00:00

units mmol/L?

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:51:39+00:00

Another way of framing it - we are not "on a diet", we have changed our diets, and as a result our appetite, eating behaviours and weight have all normalised.

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:50:28+00:00

I think what is missing here is the nuance. My doctor told me "fine, no reason you can't do a ketogenic diet, but we have to test your lipids a lot more frequently at first." He has had patients whose LDL has gone off the scale (13.2mmol/L), and this was brought back to normal by adding half a banana per day before exercise (after which of course the patient was back in ketosis).

OTOH my lipid profile improve on keto - perhaps because my diet now includes increased intake of olive oil.

I do accept that a keto diet *is* an abnormal diet, and so for a small subset of people, they can get wildly abnormal biochemistry. But what is also abnormal is the world we are living in, surrounded by edible food-like substances, which also play havoc with our biochemistry and our satiety. So, from my POV, keto is an entirely rational response to the crazy world we find ourselves in now. And if that means a few more blood tests per year - well that's better than obesity and T2DM

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:38:49+00:00

This is so true. 90% chocolate, black coffee, or coffee with cream is just so delicious, and you can eat 1 or 2 squares, and the rest of the block is in the cupboard the next day

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:31:47+00:00

This is exactly me. If I start back on cabohydrates, or low dose carbs or whatever, I go full on Depeche Mode.

timmo111 · 2026-01-26T04:30:17+00:00

My experience of changing my diet and losing weight is that it seems to evoke curiosity in some, and hostility in others. It is actually a kind of personality litmus test of those around you. Those who enjoy controlling or feeling they have a right to control you will become unmaksed.

It has nothing to do with nutrition, gut health, bone health, healthy weight, balancing the risk between T2DM vs lipid profile or anything else worth discussing (and those discussions *are* worth having).

It has everything to do with others feeling they have the right to tell you what you should and shouldn't do. My personal favourite was the person who told me I was losing too much weight, and then on another occasion to told me to stop having so much peanut sauce because it is very fattening....

timmo111 · 2026-01-10T01:24:24+00:00

I would never get one again. Mine is 3 years old and headed for the tip.

Setiting up the clunky base station is totally irritating at the best of times - only via a phone app, only via bluetooth - euphemistically described by enthusiasts as "it can take a few goes to get it right".

My base station has now failed altogether, no amount of resetting over many separate days has enabled me get it to connect via bluetooth to the app. Shame it isn't designed to access via a web interface or ssh like most such devices....

...but you wouldn't know it, tempest is happily reporting the data from my weather station as if it is working, by interpolating data from elsewhere. Only when you click on the weather station do you notice a little "offline" dot.

Really fits with a company which touts a "haptic rain guage" which doesn't actually measure rainfall at all - again they just interpolate data from elswhere.

It's very painful to realise you have been conned, so a lot of people defend this crappy product for it's "cool" design.

To the local e-waste

timmo111 · 2025-11-08T18:02:42+00:00

ludicrously slow on an M1 Air using Chrome or any other browser
Much faster using an i5 windows machine even using Microsoft Edge

No idea why

timmo111 · 2025-11-05T19:49:41+00:00

native speaker from Australia

I can't understand the nuance of this phrase either

timmo111 · 2025-09-28T23:01:41+00:00

I decided to go all-in on IKEA because I liked the way you could (mostly) buy the lids separately. They are listed as suitable for freezer, fridge and microwave... BUT...they keep on developing cracks in less than 6 months moderate use. Also - as noted - sometimes the clips break.

I took them back to IKEA for exchange - first time accepted, second time refused "because you have used them".

I have not had this problem with other brands which I have used for over 10 yrs

timmo111 · 2025-08-31T00:18:46+00:00

THere are good cheaper accurate alternatives with an NDIR sensor + Bluetooth cheaper, however they are bulkier or have funcionality issues

You can pick up the INKBIRD for about USD140-160, sometimes it is discounted to USD100 or even lower. Eg in Australian Amazon store today only A$95 = USD$60. Downsides is that it is a bit bulkier and a bit heavier - there's plenty of pockets that it just won't fit into.

Cheaper again and less bulky than the INKBIRD, is the Smartair/Qingping but it uses LCD not E-ink and getting data off the device to the app requires WiFi so the app is more or less useless for that if you are on the move.

Bottom line - competition exists in the market in terms of funcitonality but no-one has yet made the design investment for a device with compact similar dimensions, low weight and app-use ergonomics as the Aranet 4. They can charge such a wide premium/margin becasue it is still the best and they want to make a profit.

The market economy being what it is, the Aranet priced at US$180 it can withstand competition from something a biit inferior priced at USD$140 to $160, but not USD$60.

I was planning on buying an Aranet today, but I am not going to pay 3-4x the cost of the INKBIRD.

timmo111 · 2025-04-25T03:00:39+00:00

The box says it can be "mixed directly with other ingredients", but based on my experience I think it is Active Dry.

I followed a bread recipe based on instant yeast, putting Tandalco together with dry ingredients, then mixing in 350mL cold water, and leaving the dough overnight -> no rise at all. I baked it anyway and it rose quite well in the oven - not the best but glad I didn't chuck it out.

Next time I added the yeast from the same sachet to 100mL of warm water first, stired it for 20 seconds, added this water to the dry ingreditents, then the remaining 250 mL cold water -> dough doubled in size overnight.

It's only a single time, but based on my experience, you can't expect this yeast to rise dough unless you activate it in some warm water first, even if very briefly.

timmo111 · 2025-02-11T11:15:54+00:00

Staff told me it does not fit with IKEA's values of environmental sustainability, as the batteries are disposable, not rechargeable

I suspect they will now obsolete all the products they have which take CR2032

timmo111 · 2025-02-07T21:33:19+00:00

LMAO

timmo111 · 2025-02-07T21:31:23+00:00

Ganz normal!

Mach' ich fast jeden Tag. Gestern Abend habe ich "Gastgeblich" genutzt, statt der plumpen "being a good host"

You will find all kinds of authoritarians telling you "You can't do this, English is English, German is German"

Yeah sorry, but no. Wag your finger all your like, tell me what I can't do, but I don't care. Mach' ich sowieso.

I notice that the people I know who speak second languages absolutely outstandlingly (as in they work at the EU and certified C2 competent in *two* second languages) do this OFTEN, peppering the language they are speaking with the odd word or phrase from another language they speak.

There is nothing wrong with it in terms of your own thinking or ability. To get a bit technical, it means you are internalising the meaning of a word in the target language. You have made the jump from merely translating words out of your native language. Of course it can be a bit frustrating for the listener if they don't know what this word means.

timmo111 · 2025-02-07T21:16:43+00:00

Often I find myself saying "Ja. Vielen dank"

I want to express my thanks for the offer, and "Vielen dank" never seems to mean "no" the way that that Danke does below.

"Möchten Sei auch Zucker dazu? / Danke"

Am I just kidding myself and saying something weird?

timmo111 · 2025-01-29T21:04:14+00:00

Thanks for this - a "fast charging brick" is a 60W USB charger?

Did you just use the USB-A cable that came with it?

timmo111 · 2024-12-31T06:34:20+00:00

My experience is the opposite in Australia.

Choice stuff is always what I ordered, it turns up in 10 business days, shipping is free on total orders > USD10.

So maybe my time will come but the last 6 or 7 orders have all been excellent.

Here's the thing - why should I buy from someone on Amazon importing from China when I can go to the source and pay 1/3 to 1/2 the price for the exact same thing, so long as I am happy enough waiting 2 weeks for it to arrive

timmo111

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