blinry@blinry@chaos.social
In phases where I'm at home and don't track (because I'm in my band), I seem to gain weight less quickly. Possible reasons:
- I'm usually exercising three times per week.
- I feel some social pressure not to snack all the time.
- I cook for myself basically every day.
One interesting phase was April 2024, the potato diet month, where I only ate "potatoes, soy products, and chocolate". My weight stayed relatively level there.
blinry@blinry@chaos.social
I'm trying a new strategy to count calories:
Each morning, I'm setting a counter ring to the amount of calories I want to consume each that day, and then subtract them as I eat.
Advantages:
- Much faster to use than fiddling with the Cronometer app
- Easier to build an intuition for how many calories are in things.
I've been using a unit of 50 kcal per number, which works really well: A small apple is 1, a slice of bread is 2, and so on. Feels cozy somehow!