kephalos 9mo ago • 100%
Oat milk doesn't really work for me. Glad if it does for you ;-) I guess I will drink black coffee now. I received an AeroPress last week and while I always used good beans I ordered a selecton of premium beans from the webshop that I ordered the aeropress from.
kephalos 9mo ago • 100%
Yes, 80 kcal are not much, but many small amounts sum up quickly in my experience, and 80kcal in liquid calories are much less satisfying than more solid stuff on my plate.
kephalos 9mo ago • 100%
Yeah, non-dairy milk alternatives I did try. In away they are good as they don’t trigger the reaction I get with milk. But on the other hand since they don’t do that I can just as well drink my coffee black I think (and save these 80kcal altogether)
kephalos 9mo ago • 66%
If it were useless we would see at least some populations in the world to have lost it altogether.
I have a milk problem Counting calories with a food scale is eye opening. That bit of milk in coffee was actually about 80ml on average and I guess on certain days I might have drank about 300ml in milk. I guess I will switch to drinking my coffee black now. Overall I think I am someone who is drawn to milk, some people may have sugar cravings, for me it’s hard to resist milk. (Fermented dairy like yogurt or quark is totally different for me, it doesn’t trigger the same reactions).
kephalos 10mo ago • 100%
its not my plan, but it wouldnt be a problem for my health (i.e. I did it before)
I just recently occured to me that could use the formula used to calculate one's TDEE backwards. here me out. Current TDEE is estimated at 2320 using this formula: `tdee = tdee_factor * (66 + 13.7 * weight_kg + 5 * height_cm - 6.8 * age_years)` If I would eat 2000 consistently, what weight could I expect to have? solving the above equation for `weight_kg` and using my data, I arrive at 92 kg. If I would eat 1800 consistently, what weight could I expect to have? solving the above equation for `weight_kg` and using my data, I arrive at 80 kg. My takeaway here is: today's deficit can be tomorrow's maintenance weight. And me being overweight currently is actually me eating way more than what my body needs consistently for years.
kephalos 11mo ago • 50%
that phrase kind of loses its point when investigations are not conducted and / or the public prosecutor's office is not informed of reports of harassment etc.
So i ordered jeans with width 36 to see if I can go a size lower. Turns out W36 fits a bit tight but it fits and then I realize I am currently wearing W40 jeans, since they come in increments of two I am just two sizes down. Wohoo
Starting from June 6th I have now lost 7 kg on the scale.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
I imagine it to be like 2 bottles of water and 3 bottles of oil or something (with bottles of 1 liter), or a 1 gallon jug.
I remember reading about a German TV host who lost weight and every week would fill up the total weight lost as water in two buckets and walk around the house with them just to get a feeling for the weight.
Starting from June 6th I have now lost 5kg on the scale. And this after a 3 week vacation where I wasn’t able to weigh most foods and instead tried to moderate consumptions. My strategy was to opt for salads when eating out, we had a rental apartment with a mini kitchen and there I prepared instant soup in e evening and broccoli’s cauliflower every other day. I also indulged into cheese (directly from the cheese dairy three houses up the street), had some ice cream (not every day), and occasionally an Aperol Spritz.
kephalos 1y ago • 66%
I am 38 and have so far had no cavity. Turns out adults have a very easy handle on dental hygiene, brushing your teeth, flossing and avoiding candy and sweet drinks
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
Use rated games to be matched with real players. After a few games that you will lose you will be matched with players against which you have roughly a 50:50 chance of winning / losing. Don’t focus on the ELO rating specifically at the start. Playing against humans is definitely different from the computer. In the lower ELO ranges you will see a lot of moves that don’t make sense and that the chess engine would never play. On the other hand opponents can be quite good at reading your strategy (as opposed to a dumbed-down engine).
Use the Analyse game function after the game to get an idea of the mistakes you made.
I would start with 10 minute games so that you can play a few games in a row (gives you more practice) but still have time to think.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
It kind of seems they stole a decade off of Lasker.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
oops, was already posted.. Doesn't the UI give a hint for that? I'll look twice next time.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
Any particular reason why you chose this shape of paddle? There are a lot of different shapes and with straps in different positions (finger only, wrist…), I suppose they all have a specific uses but I have no idea. Or is it just marketing? :)
I picked it I think because I didn't know what to pick so uni-size from Speedo I thought I could not go totally wrong. Overall my heuristic is not grounded in a lot of swimming experience.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
I am not sure whether I should be someone to advise on this as I am a beginner.
I bought a pair of these fins https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B09P3JYC8R/ as I read that one should pick short and flexible ones and I am happy with these fins. As for paddles I bought https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B094JZ6DW3 (Speedo) and they do work.
Again, I actually don't have experience with other paddles and fins (well, I have some fins for snorkeling but haven't used them for a decade or so, they are of course not the ones I would use in a pool.
Overall for paddles, they really increase the stress on everything involved in your arm movement, so I usually only use them for 50 or 100 m and then take them off again.
I would at first use fins and paddles more as technique-guiding tools.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
They played at 82%, one blunder, 2 mistakes, 1 imprecision (sry, translating terms to english on the fly). So I don't think they were playing extremey bad.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
We can handle a moderate deficit, especially if we’re keeping a positive bias to protein (such as eating 25% of calories from protein, basically keeping protein portions decently sized). I do it without any supplements, but with meats, eggs, yogurt, legumes. Our protein is where we get our dietary cholesterol from which we make cells, and it’s also an energy source so while we need all kinds of nutrition, keep that one from falling during a deficit to answer your concerns.
I am aiming for 250g of Quark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product) per day and I actively try to add kidney beans, white beans, chickpeas to my diet (which works okayish). Also had Salmon yesterday and smoked salmon for breakfast every other day.
I clicked on "Analyze Game" and Stockfish wouldn't find any blunder or mistake. I had lost two matches against the opponent previously (on other days) so this game was just ... perfect. (Is there any blog posts / etc on the distribution of accuracy-percentages, potentially for various ELO levels? I am pretty surprised that I played so accuracte given that I tend to blunder regularly) 
**feel free to add your story / check in in the comments below** Weight has been stagnant for the last week or so. The immediate connection is of course that I stopped tracking calories for various reasons. I have sticked to general recommendations of my dietician with regards to portion control and I credit this with the fact that I did not gain weight. Today I had to take care of a sick child at home, so now (~8pm) I am really tired, but still I think I can pat my back for eating 3 moderate meals (breakfast was 60g of oat flakes with yoghurt, for lunch Austrian cheese with full-grain bread I baked today, dinner was Pizza (!), with crust prepared from 100g of flour and mushroom topping). I am a bit in this weird situation that I need to strengthen my back as past yoyo dieting has somewhat atrophied the muscles of the core, while I also should lose weight now as a lot of things in life are now in a place where I think sustainable weight loss is now a possibility. So I am working out for a healthy mind (and to hopefully prevent further losing of muscle) while at the same time I am a bit worried of hurting myself in the process / messing up regeneration at a deficit.**___****___**
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
Did they control for the fact that being overweight can be a cause to switch from sugar to sweeteners?
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
Not sure I understand everything, although I think I understand that an influx of new players can totally skew statistics.
It's worth noting that this is about ELO ratings, so lichess may have a similar problem (I think it might be the case for Blitz on Lichess to suffer from a similar problem), but some of the proposed fixes are FIDE ELO specific (increasing starting ELO).
The problem seems to be that the ELO ratings aren't accurate to estimate the correct probabilities for a match between a long-time chess player with higher ELO rating and a player from the "Queen's gambit wave".
Now the authors seem to paint this as a problem with the new players being underrated, the ELO distribution to be skewed. I agree that this can be a skew, I wonder however if the solution should be to boost ELO ratings of lower-ranked players.
- Overall the best fix would IMHO be to bring together higher-ELO with lower-ELO players in matches in order to allow the ELO distribution to move ELO points down from the upper end, so that the ELO numbers again match the winning-probabilities between two players. I guess there is hesitance to do that because it means the old-guys might lose rating points and people are naturally protective in this regard.
- bumping ELO points would lead to an inflation in ELO rating overall, it does not fix the root cause.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
I have been overweight since childhood and after college I put on about 2kg per year on average. In between I managed to diet off some kg but quickly gained them back every time.
This time I am combining my past dieting experiences with professional help from a registered dietician and a personal trainer (I am an emotional eater and hope to be able to use sport for mental stability as well as physical health).
I am trying to stay <2000kcal on most days of the week and in any case under the estimated daily calories of my apple watch.
I am a picky eater, have been a picky eater all my life. I managed during my late teenage years and early twenties to acquire a taste for vegetables (and I am grateful that I did), but fruits (apple, grape, etc) are still a problem for me. I have identified however, that I like * Mango * oranges * lemons Now I wonder what fruit I could "try" next. Preferably I would not start with Apples and Bananas (as a kid it was **constantly** suggested I should eat apple/bananas that I don't have the best memories in this regard, I think these will be tougher fruits to start with). Why am I asking this? Ultimately I want to balance out my diet more and potentially get into a position where I can opt for fruit over chocolate if I want to have something sweet.
kephalos 1y ago • 100%
I would ask your medical specialist whether Swimming is okay to do with your medical history. While travelling you can purchase tickets to public swimming pools (granted, depends a bit on where in the world you are travelling).
Anyway, I would not take advice from strangers on the internet without a 1:1 consultation with a medical doctor on what is okay to do and what not.
Scale victory: 4kg lost. I am pretty happy, also I actually didn't get to swim in the last few days and the last times the scale dropped, it was after a >1000kcal workout or so. My main method of weight loss is calorie counting, but I am also working with a registered dietician on learning again to feel my satiety
My father is annoyingly using this construct that I find very hard to break into, he played white here. So I would like to find a strategy against it :-)
so my rating on lichess is higher for rapid (close to 900) than to blitz (close to 700), and I kind of wonder whether this is due to differences in the pool of people playing rapid vs blitz, or whether I am just a not as good at thinking fast. I have played A LOT of blitz games in June & July and only recently really picked up rapid games. Overall I think I am not even making too much use of the additional time quite often in rapid as I am still somewhat used to the time constraint in blitz (e.g. I never lost due to time-out on a rapid game), so I don't think its actually me playing much better in rapid than in blitz
A bit annoying that people won't find the 'resign' button if they are unwilling to finish the match.
Crossgeposted von: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/360558 > So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..
So I am on lichess in the 700es range and I continue to have these players as opponents who early on attack really aggressively.They must have some success with this (element of surprise I guess), but if I look at the stockfish analysis there moves arent so smart. (difficult enough for me to fend off though). I sometimes feel a little dumb, though because it can be quite hard to find out how to stop their attacks..