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Weight loss progress. in c/glp_weight_loss@lemmy.sdf.org
[–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you.

Ozempic is not a weight loss drug for me. Weight loss was a welcome side-effect. I was pre-diabetic and am on Jardiance and Metformin. My doctor has talked about reducing the Ozempic either by extending the injection interval or by micro-dosing. He says that Ozempic seems to have a heart protective benefit that they don't understand yet.

I've been eating the way that I'm eating now for more than 3 years. What was slowing me down was empty calories. I'm not going to never eat empty calories but I'm going to treat them as treats. When I reach my target weight I'm going to work with my doctor to develop a maintenance program. I sent a bunch of forms to a local gym and plan to start Olympic style weight training next week to protect and strengthen my muscles and to improve my quality of life as I age.

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    • Weight loss progress. in c/glp_weight_loss@lemmy.sdf.org
    [–] [S] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Hi.

    Details here https://lemmy.world/post/47560396/24028472

    The most important thing was to not fight the Ozempic. I believe that the people who fail believe that it's a magic bullet and they can just keep eating how they have always eaten and that just doesn't work. I talked to one woman who said that it was completely useless, she just vomited all the time and stopped taking it. I saked her if she had change the way that she ate and reduced her intake and she was incredulous.

    I dramatically changed how I eat and have lost almost 45 kg (100 lbs) since the beginning.

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    • Weight loss progress. in c/glp_weight_loss@lemmy.sdf.org
    [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    To put the food question simply, was it what you were eating or how much or how often?

    When I started taking Ozempic I had an adjustment period. I started to eat less to protect myself from reflux. I found that I couldn't eat spicy food late in the day so I started eating mild, unchallenging food late in the day and spicy food for breakfast. I stopped eating lunch because I wasn't hungry.

    I started eating a couple of eggs or a Nature Valley granola bar for breakfast then taking my supper in a pottery bowl that holes 250 ml (1 cup) or if it was not bowl appropriate I ate my supper from a side/bread plate. Whatever the main is goes into the bowl. Tonight we had soya sauce chicken over rice. I ate it out of the bowl and had less than 250 ml total of the main. We also had broccoli and I put that on a side plate. I eat as much of the vegetables as I want.

    I've had an extremely busy and stressful period from November. My mother needed major surgery so my father, who she had been caring for, had to go into LTC. He resisted aggressively and has been extremely resentful of me since I'm now in charge. When my mother recovered from her surgery she had planned to take my dad home but that wasn't possible. She started driving in to care for him in LTC all day every day until after two weeks she had a stroke. She was in the hospital for 6 weeks and I had to get my dad and bring him to the hospital. Once she was out of the hospital I started driving her in to visit my father three times a week. She lives 20 minutes from me and it's 35 minutes from there to the LTC home so I was spending 3 hours a day taking her in and either visiting or hanging out in town while she was there. I was doing all of this while trying to keep my family running and my day job happy. I was doing a lot of stress eating and boredom eating, especially since my mother is a huge snack monster. I was eating a lot of chips, Doritos, Cheesies, candy, and donuts while driving my mom around.

    I had planned to cut out those empty calories during the month of March to see what happeend. I had a cancer followup on February 27 and got a clean bill of health and a next appointment 6 months in the future. I stopped by on the way through to home to tell the nurses who had administered my chemo and with whom I had become very friendly. One of the nurses who is very pretty and who I quite like walked up to me, looked me up and down, and said, "You look...leaner. Are you losing weight?" I told her that I Was doing it intentionally. I decided to start cutting the next day, one day in advance to see if I could convince her that she should feel me up the next time I saw her, March 27, when I drove a friend for her six weekly immunetherapy treatment. I cut everything except my morning granola bar and my supper. I lost 15 pounds before the next time I saw her and she stood with a shocked look on her face with her mouth hanging open. I told her that I was fine, unzipped my fleece, pulled out the nexk of my t-shirt, and asked her if she wanted to feel for lumps. She did and I counted that as a win.

    You can see the change on February 27 on the graph.

    I promised the nurses that I would call my doctor and ask if he wanted to see me. I called and asked if he wanted to do bloodwork and/or to see me. He ordered bloodwork which was apparently find and asked me to come in. I prepared a 5 page summary of my motivation and what I was doing and I kept an accurate record of everything I ate for 2 weeks. My low was 770 calories and my high was 1850 calories. Taht high day I went for Chinese with my family. I'm averaging 1,100 calories.

    As i get older the how much and how often has been the biggest change to stop the gain. So I am interested to hear how you did it and how long some of the side effects/cravings were.

    I don't find that I'm hungry through the day very often. If I need something to eat I will get a big carrot, peel it, and slice it into thin disks which I put in a bowl and eat like chips. I get to go through the motions without getting a bunch of empty calories. My wife gave me a bunch of Cadbury mini-eggs for Easter and I ate 4 and put the rest in the fridge in my office. I eat a cookie when someone makes them and a small piece of cake if it's a birthday. When I walk past food I think, "Am I hungry or am I bored?" If I'm hungry I ask myself, "Is that what I should eat or should I eat something else?" I try to make good choices. I used to eat pecans, dried cranberries, and a few chocolate chips for a bedtime snack. Now, if I want one, I eat a pear, an orange, or some mellon.

    And how does your fridge/ pantry look?

    The rest of my family still eat the way they have always eaten. My wife complains that her homemade sourdough bread isn't being eaten as fast as it was and she gets up my trumpet from time to time about the fact that I should eat more. I am working with my doctor to come up with a plan to level off and maintain my weight when I get down to 82 kg (180 lbs).

    Most importantly, really well done realising you needed a change and then doing it!

    Thanks. I'm really pleased that my blood pressure is finally down and that my blood sugar has returned to normal.

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    Weight loss progress. (lemmy.world)
     

    I started at 129.5 kg (285 lbs). I lost down to 95.5 kg (210 lb) then was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. My oncologist told me to eat everything that I could eat because calories were more important than anything else. I gained 13.6 kg (30 lbs) which I carried for almost a year before I decided to start losing weight again last November. I was drifting down gradually but had decided to make a dramatic change in my eating at the beginning of March to see what I could lose over the month. I had an concology checkup on February 27 which was very positive. I went in to see my oncology nurses and update them and one of them, a very pretty nurse, commented that I was looking "lean" and expressed concern about my weight loss. I explained that it was intentional. I knew that I was going to see her again on March 27 when I drove a friend for her treatment so I decided to start cutting then that there. Over the next month I lost 6.8 kg (15 lbs) causing her to freak out a little and when I opened my sweather and pulled my shirt down to dive in and give me a good feeling up. You can see February 27 very clerly on the graph.

    To calm her concerns I made an appointment see my doctor and he ordered bloodwork. I made up a 5 page summary of my motivations and methods and recorded every calorie I ate for two weeks. He said that my bloodwork was great and that I was eating well but very little (average 1,100 calories per day.) He cleared me to continue until my next checkup on July 2. I hope to be close to 82 kg (180 lbs) by then.

    I'm currently down from 111 cm (44 inch) pants to 91 cm (36 inch) pants and from a 3XL t-shirt to an L. The pants are too loose on me so I'm going to go down to 86 cm (34 inch) pants shortly.

    My blood sugar is perfect and my blood pressure is down to very close to normal. I'm feeling good.

    I can provide details about how I was eating and how I am eating if anyone is interested.

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    The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    They are also leading the world in coal mining.

    I see this ridiculous comment all the time. Yes, they are mining coal because their need for energy outstrips their ability to build and bring online renewables but that doesn't change the fact that they are building renewables faster than the rest of the world combined and at some point cleap, clean renewables will meet their energy needs.

    Energy cost makes up between 10% and 80% of the cost of everythin you buy. When energy is cheaper the products are cheaper or the profits are higher. When China is run on all those cheap, clean renewables, and when the US has burned all the oil and all the gas and all the coal and the wealthy have run away to their slave islands to sit on their bags of money everyone else will be fucked.

    But, by all means, keep Whatabouting those stupid little "gotcha" comments.

    And I remember people singing the same song about Japan in the late 70s as they do about China now. Extrapolation works perfectly in a world with no limiting factors.

    Really? People were saying that Japan was building so much cheap, clean renewable energy that they were going to have cheaper products and beat the west? I don't remember anyone saying that.

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    • The U.S. Still Doesn't Have an Answer to China's EV Dominance in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The US government is falling all over itself to fellate the oil and gas industry to protect their profits. They have blocked EVs in every way possible.

    China doesn't give a fuck about the US Church of Profits and is building renewable energy and EVs faster than the rest of the world combined.

    The west has already lost. China won. China will be in charge in the very near future.

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    Ugh. (lemmy.world)
     

    After getting a roaring start to getting my system up and running for the season, the first time in three years, I decided that getting my elderly parents settled with health issues, my father going in to long term care, and my mother having major surgery I just couldn't muster the time to finish getting ready in time for the season.

    I decided instead to work on the next version of my home made sap releaser and the controller that runs my system. To that end I designed a new bottom board for the PLC and sent it to PCBway. It should be here in a few days.

    Top Copper

    Bottom Copper

    I added a pair of level shifters and a Schmitt trigger along with a DS3231MZ+ real time clock.

    I'll post pictures as it comes together.

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    Maple syrup dashboard. (lemmy.world)
     

    I have a pair of 9" tablets above my desk in my office so that I can monitor and control the machine room while I'm doing my day job. This is a pair of screenshots from the two tablets as they are right now. The system is not running and the measurements are all wrong. I was sending measurements manually to test my MQTT broker. I'm running Mosquitto Broker on my shed notebook. The tablets are running MQTT Dash.

    I've been considering publishing this information to a public MQTT server so that other people can run this MQTT dashboard and watch my system in real time.

    If anyone wants an explanation of any of these widgets are information about how these data points are collected please feel free to ask.

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    Maple syrup dashboard. (lemmy.world)
     

    I have a pair of 9" tablets above my desk in my office so that I can monitor and control the machine room while I'm doing my day job. This is a pair of screenshots from the two tablets as they are right now. The system is not running and the measurements are all wrong. I was sending measurements manually to test my MQTT broker. I'm running Mosquitto Broker on my shed notebook. The tablets are running MQTT Dash.

    I've been considering publishing this information to a public MQTT server so that other people can run this MQTT dashboard and watch my system in real time.

    If anyone wants an explanation of any of these widgets are information about how these data points are collected please feel free to ask.

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    Homemade vacuum releaser. (lemmy.world)
     

    This is my vacuum releaser. I built it from 12" PVC watermain that I pulled out of the garbage pile at a local construction company, aluminum that I bought at my local metal supply company, lexan that I bought and had machined at a local plastic supply company, and blumbing that I bought on Ebay, Amazon, AliExpress, and at local hardware stores. The large white pipe and the clear check valves are from CDL.

    I spent the day today cleaning everything, replacing a couple of o-rings, and putting the machine back together. I had a big vacuum leak that it took me a while to find but I eventually managed to get the main releaser chamber down to 26.5 inhg.

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    Homemade vacuum releaser. (lemmy.world)
     

    This is my vacuum releaser. I built it from 12" PVC watermain that I pulled out of the garbage pile at a local construction company, aluminum that I bought at my local metal supply company, lexan that I bought and had machined at a local plastic supply company, and blumbing that I bought on Ebay, Amazon, AliExpress, and at local hardware stores. The large white pipe and the clear check valves are from CDL.

    I spent the day today cleaning everything, replacing a couple of o-rings, and putting the machine back together. I had a big vacuum leak that it took me a while to find but I eventually managed to get the main releaser chamber down to 26.5 inhg.

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    The controller for my machine room. (lemmy.world)
     

    This controller is based on a pair of custom boards that I designed, had manufactured, and assembled. The main board uses an Arduino MEGA2560 Pro and an ESP32. The MEGA2560 runs the machine and the ESP32 acts as a WiFi modem that the controller uses to send MQTT messages.

    The top section of this controller is the mains entry, a 12VDC power supply and a 5VDC power supply. The next section down is the PLC that does all the work and a 24VDC power supply that I added later but didn't have room for in the power section above.

    On the bottom the left section is analog inputs, the middle section is digital inputs, and the right hand section is digital outputs, mostly using solid state relays.

    The box at the bottom of the right section is a driver for a motorized ball valve that I'm planning to use to replace the air solenoid on the vacuum releaser I will eventually replace the vacuum solenoid as well.

    The code on the MEGA2560 is written in Bascom AVR, a compiled AVR BASIC. I'm moving away from BASCOM to Great Cow BASIC because the guy who wrote Bascom AVR had a hissy fit when I found a problem in one of the libraries and asked too many question. He cancelled my license and banned me from the forums. Don't use BASCOM AVR, the guy is a dick.

    Great Cow BASIC is cross platform and supports AVRs, PICs, and LGTs (Chinese knockoffs of the AVR chips.)

    The code for the PLC is around 8,000 lines.

    The code for the ESP32 is written in C++.

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    The controller for my machine room. (lemmy.world)
     

    This controller is based on a pair of custom boards that I designed, had manufactured, and assembled. The main board uses an Arduino MEGA2560 Pro and an ESP32. The MEGA2560 runs the machine and the ESP32 acts as a WiFi modem that the controller uses to send MQTT messages.

    The top section of this controller is the mains entry, a 12VDC power supply and a 5VDC power supply. The next section down is the PLC that does all the work and a 24VDC power supply that I added later but didn't have room for in the power section above.

    On the bottom the left section is analog inputs, the middle section is digital inputs, and the right hand section is digital outputs, mostly using solid state relays.

    The box at the bottom of the right section is a driver for a motorized ball valve that I'm planning to use to replace the air solenoid on the vacuum releaser I will eventually replace the vacuum solenoid as well.

    The code on the MEGA2560 is written in Bascom AVR, a compiled AVR BASIC. I'm moving away from BASCOM to Great Cow BASIC because the guy who wrote Bascom AVR had a hissy fit when I found a problem in one of the libraries and asked too many question. He cancelled my license and banned me from the forums. Don't use BASCOM AVR, the guy is a dick.

    Great Cow BASIC is cross platform and supports AVRs, PICs, and LGTs (Chinese knockoffs of the AVR chips.)

    The code for the PLC is around 8,000 lines.

    The code for the ESP32 is written in C++.

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    Goodness from McMaster-Carr (lemmy.world)
     

    I ordered a bunch of 316 stainless steel plumbing parts from McMaster-Carr and picked up a few from Wolseley. These are the parts I need to connect up the new 4040 RO membrane.

    The black piece at the bottom is the end of the 4040 RO housing. In the back is a 1/2" x 2" nipple to a 1/2" 90. This is the permeate outlet. Permeate is the clean water which I give back to the trees by sending it out onto the ground outside of my sugar shack. In the front is a 1/2" x 4" nipple to a 1/2"-1/4"-1/2" reducing T. This one is for a pressure gauge. Next is a 1/2" x 2" nipple to another reducing T. This one is for a pressure transducer. Then another 1/2" x 2" nipple to the Hikelok pressure relief valve. The drain on the valve is where the concentrate comes out. In a normal, domesic household RO system the permeate is what you drink and the concentrate is what you throw away. In a maple syrup system you throw away the permeate and save the concentrate.

    With my old system I could take the sugar content from around 3% to around 10%. That makes a big different to your yield over the course of a day.

    All the joints were taped with the correct teflon tape.

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    Goodness from McMaster-Carr (lemmy.world)
     

    I ordered a bunch of 316 stainless steel plumbing parts from McMaster-Carr and picked up a few from Wolseley. These are the parts I need to connect up the new 4040 RO membrane.

    The black piece at the bottom is the end of the 4040 RO housing. In the back is a 1/2" x 2" nipple to a 1/2" 90. This is the permeate outlet. Permeate is the clean water which I give back to the trees by sending it out onto the ground outside of my sugar shack. In the front is a 1/2" x 4" nipple to a 1/2"-1/4"-1/2" reducing T. This one is for a pressure gauge. Next is a 1/2" x 2" nipple to another reducing T. This one is for a pressure transducer. Then another 1/2" x 2" nipple to the Hikelok pressure relief valve. The drain on the valve is where the concentrate comes out. In a normal, domesic household RO system the permeate is what you drink and the concentrate is what you throw away. In a maple syrup system you throw away the permeate and save the concentrate.

    With my old system I could take the sugar content from around 3% to around 10%. That makes a big different to your yield over the course of a day.

    All the joints were taped with the correct teflon tape.

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