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[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 83 points 2 years ago

I know a dude who did this with a standing desk and an exercise bike when WOW was huge and he put on 20kg in a year.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 104 points 2 years ago

Playing wow while cycling is a level of multitasking even adhd people would struggle to pull off.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Think less "Tour de france" and more "sunday boardwalk cruise" just trying to not let the pedals stop moving.

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 31 points 2 years ago

I have sympathy for people with significant mental or health issues, but most of them are just fucking weak and would rather eat a tub of ice cream than have a nice/healthy body.

A healthy diet is more than just not eating unhealthy food. It's about having the right balance of nutrition and that's quite difficult in our world. Especially if you don't have a lot of money. Or have other dietary restrictions.

Also no one wants sympathy they just want you to not be an arrogant prick.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Macros are for people with too much time or who have a nutritional deficiency diagnosed by a doctor. At 400 pounds I got a full time job that requires me to be on my feet for over seven full hours. First month was agony. Changing nothing else, still eating garbage, I'm steadily losing weight. If I even glanced at my calories and made a change or two I'm sure I'd speed it up but after fucking with macros and getting nowhere, calories really are the biggest and probably only thing you NEED to be aware of.

You don't need to go from living in bed eating pastries all day to fitness God and gymrat overnight. Start with a walk, get your feet used to being a little sore. Cut some junk down and increase protein consumption. Step by step, make positive and sustainable changes. Sustainable. Dont eat cardboard and think you can maintain that. Look for something healthy you enjoy eating even if it's not perfect.

I still eat muffins and chocolate milk in the morning and I'm losing weight. We got this guys.

[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

I guess being a dick to people also happens over time after countless poor decisions

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 16 points 2 years ago

And that makes you a dick.

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

why I should respect people that don’t respect themselves

Source for the lack of self respect? Or is that just your... opinion?

I’d expect people to say “my god, that’s a big fat arse!”.

Honestly, that sounds like no self respect to me. But what do I know?

Respect is something you earn, not something you simply expect.

Nope, expertise is something you earn. Respect should be expected.

[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Respect should be expected

I always felt weird when people would tell me respect is earned, since I give everyone I meet respect until they give me a reason not to. Glad to see I'm not the only one with that perception.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

The respect of not going in and talking shit on other people’s bodies absolutely is supposed to be simply expected. If I talked shit about other people’s bodies on the internet I wouldn’t expect respect, I’d expect T people to say “fuck, you’re a giant ass”

[-] LogarithmicCamel@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You're a dick. You can say that about anything. You don't own a house yet? That's because of a string of poor decisions. You don't respect yourself, otherwise you would have saved enough money. And then you'll go, oh, but I am the one who has real problems, unlike those other fat people. Everyone who was more successful than you was lucky, everyone who was less successful was lazy. This is precisely what millionaires tell themselves to justify paying minimum wage. Those employees who accept working for this meager salary? No self respect, they deserve it.

You? You are just a self-absorbed dick who can only see things from their own perspective and have no idea about other people's problems.

Written by someone who lost 70lb 15 years ago and didn't gain it back. Did I suddenly acquire self-respect and discipline? Nope, just found a sustainable lifestyle that worked for me. Shocking, I know.

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[-] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Hey boss, I've been fat all my life. Was a thick baby, they almost had to break my shoulders to get my out. Part of my issue is my thyroid, the other is I'm a super taster and healthy shit tastes bitter and ungodly awful. As a kid I avoided it and continued being big and I'm almost 30. I've only briefly known what being skinny felt like after a strict diet I hated. I got severely depressed and buried my feelings in food. As a fat person losing weight again, I have no respect for you. You're an entitled prick who had the fortune of a coping mechanism and biology that allowed you to probably grow up skinny and developed a lifestyle to keep you that way. It's fucking hard to do that when you're overweight or have biological obstacles.

Sincerely, fuck off, from a fat person.

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[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Fuck icecream is pretty good but

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[-] lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

I don't know why people are downvoting you. I feel the essence of what you said is true. I am weak and that is why I put on a lot of weight. Not because I didn't exercise. But because I chose to eat tasty shit over healthy shit.

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[-] visor841@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

Having ADHD is pretty awful for multitasking, so that's not saying much.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

Depends on your flavour of ADHD. Mine if great at multitasking.

[-] frogfruit@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 years ago

It depends on the activity. I can't exercise or clean unless I'm watching TV or YouTube. But I've tried the whole exercise while gaming thing, and it doesn't work for me at all. Listening to audiobooks while doing literally anything else is also impossible.

[-] blueson@feddit.nu 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not exactly the same, but somebody recently did 1-60 on WoW HC Classic while walking on a treadmill.

Sorry for the reddit link: https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/14n7d0y/hardcore_treadmill_world_first/

[-] 50MYT@aussie.zone 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I did it during covid / work from home times.

Every time I was in a boring work meeting I just got on the spin bike. Lost 6kg.

Probably because I stopped eating all the pastries at work.

[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

In the context of weight loss, exercise is used primarily for calorie control anyway. Tho people who don’t know that can uptick calories to make up for the exercise and lose nothing or even gain more. Which obv you know but maybe someone out there is struggling with that

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 years ago

Wasn't there a dietitian or something that wanted to prove a point so they ate nothing but burgers for 6 months and they actually lost a lot weight because burgers are not really particularly good quality food. They're also super ill, so it's not an advisable diet strategy.

[-] thrawn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I think in response to supersize me.

Funnily, I’ve done the same thing. I lose weight really easily so way back before I developed a strict calorie schedule I would eat a lot of fast food and snacks like chips for time/calorie efficiency but still be underweight. Weight is basically all calories, but looking good at specific weights usually requires exercise.

Had elevated cholesterol though, so can also confirm it’s not great for you. It may have been fine if I was exercising as well, but I never ate as poorly as he did to make the point so I only got close.

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[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago

You cannot outrun a bad diet.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

You can, but its a LOT of running.

[-] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago

Well, it becomes unrealistic at some point. Consuming calories is sooo much easier than burning them. I think that's the basic message. Losing weight is mainly controlled by what you shove into your feeding hole. Of course doing sports is essential for a healthy life, so you should absolutely do that too.

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[-] brossman@infosec.pub 58 points 2 years ago

anon discovers temptation bundling

[-] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 2 years ago

I think I preemptively trained myself against VR sickness by playing halo CE on my OG Xbox while running on the treadmill in like 2005

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Modern problems require modern solutions. Good work.

[-] thoughts3rased@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

[-] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Where did you get that JFK emoji from

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

And now so have I

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I honestly expected "now whenever i want to watch TV i have to sit on the treadmill instead". Disappointed. I want my money back.

[-] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 23 points 2 years ago

Anon doesn't watch TV anymore.

[-] ryn@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I'm already underweight, so I probably need the opposite for a while.

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

What's the opposite of a treadmill? Straps and a funnel?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Eat the couch

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

gristmill?

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