You answered your second question already. You write the indispensable business software first, then with all the money you earn, you support yourself while you write the next video game of the year.
Actually, the NEWS is that it was reported. We all knew this site was messed up functionally as well as insecure as a bare NT box running IIS from 1995.
Wait a sec. What are you implying about my company's servers?
The difference is people voluntarily give data to these companies where as you are forced to give information to Healthcare.gov. It would be the same as if the IRS was hacked.
Well, you aren't forced to! You could just not have healthcare, be financially penalized for not having healthcare, and then die prematurely.
Actually, the financial penalty is for not paying a private company for an insurance policy. It doesn't matter if you receive health care or not.
I did not lose 30 pounds due solely to dehydration. I even point out that 8 pounds was probably simply loss of water in partially used fat cells. The other 22 pounds was loss of fat cells.
Did I mention if it made me healthier or not? You are making a lot of assumptions while reading my text.
Thanks for the information. As I said in another response above, I doubt I did permanent damage from lack of water. It was only for one month, and my doctor wasn't worried when I saw him the week after it ended.
Also, just to reiterate, this was done in January in Florida. Not so hot as to die of heat stroke and dehydration, not so cold that the air is bone dry either. I took a swallow of water when my mouth was dry, but never felt extremely thirsty such as after working outside in the sun for a few hours. I would not try the same process during the summer here.
I've been on a couple diets over the years, and they all had me drinking huge amounts of water. Well, huge compared to what I'm used to. But I was wondering if that is really what you want, when you are trying to lose weight.
Losing weight isn't simply [eat less] + [exercise more] = [skinny me]. Many people lose weight on a diet, then regain it as soon as they are off the diet. I was wondering why they could regain the weight so fast. If you lose weight, surely you are losing fat cells. New fat cells can't be made that quickly after going off a diet. Can they?
Then I thought about what fat cells are. They obviously are cells that hold fat, but they also hold a lot of water, just like all other living cells do. Without the water in them, a basic cell can't operate. Since fat cells are storage spaces, I imagined them to be like a water balloon, with the stored fat being a chunk of butter inside. So, on a regular diet, with plenty of water consumption, the body will use up the butter inside the balloon, but the water is still there, and the balloon is kept intact.
Then when the person goes off the diet, and starts eating 'fattening foods' again, the body can quickly store the extra blood sugar as fat in all those water-filled storage spaces that weren't destroyed, just emptied of fat.
Instead, go on a diet that has very low water intake, and what happens to the butter-filled water balloon? The butter is used up for energy, and the water is used up for standard biological needs in other parts of the body. Now you have an empty water balloon, that the body doesn't need or want, so it is destroyed as part of the normal actions of the body. Our bodies handle cell destruction quite well, since it happens to about 50 billion cells each day anyway.
That was the reason I limited my water intake. As I said, I had a full glass after breakfast to give my stomach and intestines enough water to process the food. Dinner took care of itself from the water in the salad ingredients. Then I had a glass at night to give an extra shot to my blood system to filter out the waste through the kidneys. And in the morning I had a full bladder, more than what that glass of water should provide. The excess fluid came from the fat cells that were being used up and destroyed.
As rahvin112 points out, it isn't safe to make your kidneys work so hard on so little water. However I doubt I did permanent damage to them in just one month. I saw a doctor the week after I ended the diet, and he wasn't worried.
For the amount of calories I burned, you could probably cut the total by about 1/4 to 1/3, since I figure 8 pounds was water depletion from fat cells that weren't completely used up and destroyed. That was the 8 pounds I put back on soon after the diet was over. So the energy deficit may have been closer to 2500 than 3600. Also, I don't know if the stored fat was completely used by my body, or if much of it simply was filtered out of my system with the various other parts of the destroyed cells.
It would be interesting to try a 1000 calorie high carb/low fat diet. Lots of sandwiches with fat free lunch meat, pasta, low fat cookies/baked goods, etc. Plenty of vegetables, but no eggs and cheese. I would have to of course keep the liquid intake roughly equivalent, if I did it in January. If I tried it now, in Florida, I'd turn into a prune unless I upped the water intake.
And, yes, I realize the weight loss was because of only eating 1000 calories or less. But my original post was actually in response to whether high fat/low carb diets leave someone tired with no energy, compared to low fat/high carb diets. I am not encouraging anyone to try it, but thought it would be a good reference.
That's OK. I made sure God gave me the 150+ model kidneys. Since I don't think the rest of me will make it to 140 years, I don't have to worry about the kidneys causing my demise.
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They're publicly traded which means their every thought must be about how to make more money for the shareholders.
Why does this FUD still get mentioned? It is bogus misinterpretation of a court case. Please stop repeating it.
You answered your second question already. You write the indispensable business software first, then with all the money you earn, you support yourself while you write the next video game of the year.
Ad hominem attacks are all the rage on Slashdot lately.
Commie.
Come now, not all lawyers are shysters and scumbags. It is only a small group of them that make the other 5% look bad.
I was one who posted that I was willing to go to Mars one-way.
I wouldn't go to Africa to try to stop ebola.
Mars has a better chance of success.
They only track Neo when he is betrayed while in the Matrix.
And replaced with inflatable replicas.
Actually, the NEWS is that it was reported. We all knew this site was messed up functionally as well as insecure as a bare NT box running IIS from 1995.
Wait a sec. What are you implying about my company's servers?
Meta-lie?
The difference is people voluntarily give data to these companies where as you are forced to give information to Healthcare.gov. It would be the same as if the IRS was hacked.
Well, you aren't forced to! You could just not have healthcare, be financially penalized for not having healthcare, and then die prematurely.
Actually, the financial penalty is for not paying a private company for an insurance policy. It doesn't matter if you receive health care or not.
No, I'm pretty sure it's Entish.
I did not know that. Thanks.
What's with the snark?
I did not lose 30 pounds due solely to dehydration. I even point out that 8 pounds was probably simply loss of water in partially used fat cells. The other 22 pounds was loss of fat cells.
Did I mention if it made me healthier or not? You are making a lot of assumptions while reading my text.
Anyway, thanks for the concern.
Yeah. The cookie jar was empty, so he had to take his nap with an empty tummy.
Would you like to play a game?
Sure, call it 'nuclear winter', as if that will stop global warming.
Admit it, you just want black russian children to suffer with no solar powered Linux tablets.
I am less interested in right vs. wrong and more interested in new ways to look at an old problem, ....
What??
You're doing it wrong!!
:^)
No. Putin would gouge his eyes out.
Thanks for the information. As I said in another response above, I doubt I did permanent damage from lack of water. It was only for one month, and my doctor wasn't worried when I saw him the week after it ended.
Also, just to reiterate, this was done in January in Florida. Not so hot as to die of heat stroke and dehydration, not so cold that the air is bone dry either. I took a swallow of water when my mouth was dry, but never felt extremely thirsty such as after working outside in the sun for a few hours. I would not try the same process during the summer here.
I've been on a couple diets over the years, and they all had me drinking huge amounts of water. Well, huge compared to what I'm used to. But I was wondering if that is really what you want, when you are trying to lose weight.
Losing weight isn't simply [eat less] + [exercise more] = [skinny me]. Many people lose weight on a diet, then regain it as soon as they are off the diet. I was wondering why they could regain the weight so fast. If you lose weight, surely you are losing fat cells. New fat cells can't be made that quickly after going off a diet. Can they?
Then I thought about what fat cells are. They obviously are cells that hold fat, but they also hold a lot of water, just like all other living cells do. Without the water in them, a basic cell can't operate. Since fat cells are storage spaces, I imagined them to be like a water balloon, with the stored fat being a chunk of butter inside. So, on a regular diet, with plenty of water consumption, the body will use up the butter inside the balloon, but the water is still there, and the balloon is kept intact.
Then when the person goes off the diet, and starts eating 'fattening foods' again, the body can quickly store the extra blood sugar as fat in all those water-filled storage spaces that weren't destroyed, just emptied of fat.
Instead, go on a diet that has very low water intake, and what happens to the butter-filled water balloon? The butter is used up for energy, and the water is used up for standard biological needs in other parts of the body. Now you have an empty water balloon, that the body doesn't need or want, so it is destroyed as part of the normal actions of the body. Our bodies handle cell destruction quite well, since it happens to about 50 billion cells each day anyway.
That was the reason I limited my water intake. As I said, I had a full glass after breakfast to give my stomach and intestines enough water to process the food. Dinner took care of itself from the water in the salad ingredients. Then I had a glass at night to give an extra shot to my blood system to filter out the waste through the kidneys. And in the morning I had a full bladder, more than what that glass of water should provide. The excess fluid came from the fat cells that were being used up and destroyed.
As rahvin112 points out, it isn't safe to make your kidneys work so hard on so little water. However I doubt I did permanent damage to them in just one month. I saw a doctor the week after I ended the diet, and he wasn't worried.
Thanks for the post and the calcuations.
For the amount of calories I burned, you could probably cut the total by about 1/4 to 1/3, since I figure 8 pounds was water depletion from fat cells that weren't completely used up and destroyed. That was the 8 pounds I put back on soon after the diet was over. So the energy deficit may have been closer to 2500 than 3600. Also, I don't know if the stored fat was completely used by my body, or if much of it simply was filtered out of my system with the various other parts of the destroyed cells.
It would be interesting to try a 1000 calorie high carb/low fat diet. Lots of sandwiches with fat free lunch meat, pasta, low fat cookies/baked goods, etc. Plenty of vegetables, but no eggs and cheese. I would have to of course keep the liquid intake roughly equivalent, if I did it in January. If I tried it now, in Florida, I'd turn into a prune unless I upped the water intake.
And, yes, I realize the weight loss was because of only eating 1000 calories or less. But my original post was actually in response to whether high fat/low carb diets leave someone tired with no energy, compared to low fat/high carb diets. I am not encouraging anyone to try it, but thought it would be a good reference.
You are the winner. :^)
Your prize is a torrent of each episode of all Star Trek series.
That's OK. I made sure God gave me the 150+ model kidneys. Since I don't think the rest of me will make it to 140 years, I don't have to worry about the kidneys causing my demise.
How badly do you think it sucks?