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  • Well - I don't think this is healthy or possible in 2 months.

    Last year, I weighed in at 242 with high blood pressure and decided to get serious about weight loss. I started tracking my input and output to my system. I have a watch that measures approximately how much I work off. I use apps to track how much I'm taking in. The one factor that is missing is your BMR, your basal metabolic rate. This is how many calories you burn just by being alive. There are special scales or devices that can measure this for you. You will need this to figure out the math.

    Food calories eaten - BMR - Exercise calories spent = Calorie deficit or excess

    So, if you exercise more, or eat fewer calories, you'll lose weight.

    So, a pound of fat is 3500 calories, so if you have a deficit of about 500 calories a day, that's about a pound of fat per week. If you have a deficit of 1000 calories a day - that's a lot! - then you might lose 2 pounds a week.

    Using this formula, I managed to lose about 45+ pounds in 6 months. I worked up to a walk+jog and managed to cover about 3+ miles per day. Unfortunately, with the cold weather of winter, I've not been able to exercise much, so my weight loss stopped in December.

    But what you're talking about is losing 5+ pounds per week. That would require a 2500 calorie deficit! That would be a super-heavy workout every day. And then eating very sensibly. Even so, there is danger that some of your weight loss would be muscle and bone loss in addition to fat.

    tl;dr - Don't do this. Also, talk to a doctor.

  • What was it trained on, though?

    Even if what it produces is "not technically child abuse", it was trained on how to make pretend child abuse, emulating what it has already seen. It uses previous child abuse as a guide to make stuff. It may also mix and match the real child abuse to make pretend child abuse. There might be real abused children in those images.

    That's bad, right?

  • Read "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder. It's a must-read in today's environment.

  • My favorite parts are the hat tips to the conspiracy theories about nut oils and additives (like guar gum). Oh, yeah - I'm glad their favorite "unprocessed" (unpasteurized) cow's milk gets a nod.

    Thank you, Dr. Weirdy McBrainworm!

  • And Brother printers.

  • Please us "Democratic" when using it as an adjective. "Democrat" is the noun.

    When you use "Democrat" as an adjective, that's the Republican framing - intentionally bad grammar because supposedly it sounds better to emphasize the "rat" or something. Because their brain never advanced beyond 6th grade.

  • So many things under capitalism are like that. Food, shelter, water, healthcare. Probably more.

    It's pretty horrible that so many life or death services are locked behind a paywall.

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world

    Florence Y'all Water Tower

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florence_Y%27all_Water_Tower
  • That's some spicy Cantonese!

  • Fun fact: If you're joking about rape, it's probably not a good joke.

  • Preview: 6-3 "Only legal if Republican presidents do it."

  • Judge is complicit.

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  • Except for Microsoft Teams, because they don't need that now, right?

  • Something like liquid smoke?

  • why do you yuck someone else's yum?

  • Unfortunately, that's not how vaccines work. They only work if the stupid people and the non-stupid people all get vaccinated to create herd immunity.

    Kinda the same deal as COVID. It will affect the people getting vaccinations, too. And some regular people cannot have vaccinations, for good reasons. So, this affects people outside of the group of stupids.

  • I wonder which dumb half of the nation that would be? /s

  • Read the 12th Amendment. That being said, one of the two could easily pull a "Cheney maneuver" and buy a house in a different state. Problem solved.

  • Brother (gender neutral)

    "Sibling"?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world

    I used the ‘cheat on everything’ AI tool and it didn’t help me cheat on anything

    www.theverge.com /ai-artificial-intelligence/654223/cheat-on-everything-ai
  • Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world

    Maps: Where Trump Voter Jobs Will Be Hit by Tariffs

    www.nytimes.com /interactive/2025/03/15/business/economy/tariffs-trump-maps-voters.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world

    Copilot stops working on gender related subjects

    github.com /orgs/community/discussions/72603