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1 year agoI am too, however one of the differentiating qualities of Reddit was it’s scale. The “hive mind” of posts being visible to such a broad audience is that you’d sometimes run into insights into niche experts on obscure topics. If the audience is too small, those posters don’t encounter the question, and we lose the opportunity to see them share their insight into the topic.
I do hope the fediverse eventually scales to a point where serendipitous interactions like that can start happening again. It’ll probably take a fair bit of time after the Reddit diaspora for the public to make their way to one instance or another.
Yeah, the most effective factor for weightloss for me hasn’t been CICO. It’s been time. Having the time to plan food, research the macros, record them, weigh out the specific portions, then cook it, weigh out the servings and then I get to eat…
It 100% works, and the diet doesn’t feel bad when it’s well supported with generous protein, fiber, and carb timing. But it takes a lot of time. Sometimes I might find myself with too few carbs and I’ll be left lethargic and too tired to calculate something within my macro/cal budget to eat, but too stubborn to just eat junk. Takes me a long time just to summon the will to make something macro friendly that won’t leave me starving later for having blown the budget too early in the day.
Even just eating a smaller portion of a macro-friendly meal means I need to weigh out the individual components of it. A big part of it is just lack of experience, not having a more flexible meal prep system that allows me to quickly throw together pre-portioned snacks in addition to my usual meal prepping. But that takes time, since I’ve also had to throw out every recipe I know and research a new portfolio of macro-friendly food. I also have to cook both normal food for the family, plus macro-friendly food just for me! All the top fitness channels only feed themselves, nobody is feeding a family simultaneously.