Yeah, that's what's worked for me in maintenance. I no longer weigh myself every day but I do at least several times a week. If I get too high, I know to slam on the brakes for a couple of days (at least).
My wife, OTOH, she can't do that. Seeing her weight every day emotionally impacts her, and she eats emotionally.
I couldn't agree more. It's a real struggle to avoid crap at grocery stores. If you stick the produce section and the meat sections, you're in good shape. Once you start hitting the prepared foods, the frozen dinners, the candy aisle, the soda aisle, the chips and crackers aisle, it is really very hard to eat healthily.
I read through the rest of the comments under this article and I saw your name pop up frequently. I'm sorry you're having such bad weight and health problems, and I hope you're able to make some progress.
In the stomach, GLP-1 inhibits gastric emptying, acid secretion and motility, which collectively decrease appetite
GLP-1 is of relevance to appetite and weight maintenance because it has actions on the gastrointestinal tract as well as the direct regulation of appetite.
Beyond the scientific facts, if you read anything that people who take these drugs say, you'll find that turning off the "food noise" is perhaps the most central theme. So yeah, GLP-1 drugs do suppress appetite.
I'm not arguing against exercise, but with GLP-1 drugs, you literally do not need to exercise to lose weight.
In my late 20s, I lost about 60 lbs of weight, almost entirely through a small number of dietary changes--zero beverages other than water and unsweetened coffee, zero french fries, zero bagged snack foods, zero going out to eat for lunch. I also practiced intermittent fasting, sporadically, for 24 hours. I didn't change my exercising at all.
Now, since I lost the weight, I've taken up more exercise (bike, jog, lift) and I've maintained a steady weight for almost 15 years now.
Bodybuilders say "abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym." They've got a point.
Cheaper, but not easier.
I'm a "Calories In, Calories out" type guy, but it does seem accurate to say that there is a large percentage of the human population--worldwide--that cannot adapt to modern lifestyle, work types, and food availability. It galls me to say it, but keeping a percentage of the population on appetite suppresants may be the most cost-effective way to control obesity worldwide.
Obesity is skyrocketing around the world. In France, traditionally considered a healthy country, in 2020, 47% of adults have a BMI greater than 25. As of 2014, 24% of French adults have an obese BMI of 30+. (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelocal.fr%2F20250527%2Fhow-serious-is-frances-obesity-problem / https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ameli.fr%2Fparis%2Fassure%2Fsante%2Fthemes%2Fsurpoids-obesite-adulte%2Fdefinition-causes-risques / https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FObesity_in_France). France today is similar to the United States of maybe 20-30 years ago. Let's hope the trendline changes!
Obesity is surging in India, China, even Africa.
Another factor of obesity, particular in the United States, is that it's strongly correlated with race. Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans are all more than twice as likely to be obese as whites, and east Asians have very low obesity rates (though this too is changing). Again, if medicine can help narrow some of the health disparities and improve eating patterns, IMHO, it's probably a good thing.
Given how much of your time you seem to spend here posting about LLMs and the repetitive nature of your posts, I'm starting to think you're one of them!
As TuringTest replied, you could definitely do "Cmd+Tab, Cmd+~, Cmd+~, Cmd+Tab" etc to cycle.
A new command I just learned -- Ctrl+Fn+F4 does move the focus through all windows. Here are a whole bunch of shorts for window and navigation related tasks (link below). A lack of keyboard shorts is NOT a problem in macOS.
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on windows i can alt-tab between any window i want. On the mac i'm forced to use for work, I had to install a third party app to let me switch between my IDE, my browser window, and my browser inspector window. the only way for mac to do this is to use "expose" to show all windows and click on the right one, or go to the dock and right click on the app, and then click on the window i want.
Please tell me you are joking...
There are a ton of macOS shortcuts, many of which have literally been around since pre-OSX Mac days. Cmd+W to close a tab or window, Cmd+Q to quit a program. What I have found when moving between platforms over the years is that if you demand that, e.g., macOS behaves EXACTLY like Windows, or that Linux behaves EXACTLY like Windows, you are going to be disappointed. The Mac style of active program is different from the windows paradigm. You can get the exact same result in the same keypresses, but there may be a better or different way to do it. Here are a few that may be helpful.
Cmd+Tab switches between programs. Cmd+Shift+Tab switches in the reverse direction. While holding Cmd and tabbing, you can press "q" to quit a program.
Within a tab-based window, press Ctrl+Tab to cycle through tabs and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to cycle backwards.
Within a window-based program, press Cmd+` to cycle through windows and Cmd+Shift+` to cycle backwards.
(Shift consistently reverses)
Cmd + , is always preferences.
When you are viewing a top menu, hold down Shift and/or Option to see different possibilities within the menus.
MacOS has a very strong ability to set custom keybinds for system functions. Check it out.
There are also many customizations you can enable with the command line, for instance, focus follows mouse cursor.
Expose, as you note, is also very convenient, and you can use it within a program, within a desktop, and for all spaces.
Speaking of spaces, use Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right to move to other virtual desktops. You can have as many as you want. You can drag windows and cycle through virtual spaces, or you can drag+drop using Ctrl+Up to get to the space interface. You can also reorganize your spaces however you like.
I'm not at a dual monitor system right now, so I'm not double checking, but I recall having windows stretched between monitors before. You can stretch displays or have different displays set to different desktops.
For me, I personally find Windows almost unusable now due to the number of programs with popups that grab focus. I find macOS to be much, much better about that.
You are factually incorrect. Whether deliberately or out of ignorance, I don't know. But hey, you get to insult Jobs and Apple on a forum, so enjoy that.
This all has meaning to me because I started on a TRS-80, and I was always disassembling its BASIC, followed by looks inside 6809 and 68000 versions. It's been fun trying to trace the ancestry of all the various bits of it. I sometimes say that I learned assembly language from Bill Gates because I learned so much from the code for BASIC. And I've actually been using this knowledge lately with a project to build a computer around a 68HC11 CPU. It's very convenient to be able to re-assemble it as necessary.
That sounds very fun! Are you documenting your project anywhere?
How fuckt up is your country? You have to pay tuitions for a course that is free in sane countries? And on top of that you lose all rights on the work you do during your studies
Pretty neat that you choose to spend so much of your spare time hanging out on a US-based forum and interacting with mostly US-based posters.
... fast forward to Apple deciding to use NeXTStep (and ruin it) instead of BeOS because they would get Jobs in the bargain, and he then killed himself by juice fasting in response to a highly treatable cancer. Apple crushed BeOS!
It's always amazing to me how people will just make stuff up to slander their imagined enemies.
Jobs was diagnosed in 2003. He had surgery within a year and he lived for 9 more years.
That's pretty much in line with survival rates for pancreatic cancers, including kinds that you describe as "highly treatable." Could a few months have made a difference? That's impossible to say, but his stats are not out of the ordinary.
Having had friends and family members go through cancer treatments—and be willing to try anything and everything—well, good on you for your latest trolling. Cool.
Siri can my devour feculence.
Siri and HomeKit are possibly the two worst Apple products, ever. Siri went from being ahead of the curve to dead last by ever metric. It has gotten worse and continues to get worse.
In the morning as I'm getting ready and don't have my glasses on, I will often say "Hey Siri, what time is it?" It takes, on average, more than 10 seconds for Siri to reply. The earliest on-the-phone voice activation in early iOS worked better.
Case in point: how the fuck was the legendary Andrew Tridgell hounded out of kernel development? With the complicity and active participation of some otherwise respected journalists, what's more. There's actually a long list of such perverse hatchet jobs on decent developers in favor of the old boys club.
What happened there? I remember, only in the barest terms, the BitKeeper snafu in the mid-00s, and that's what came up in a quick search.
We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
