As you lose weight, it’s inevitable that you will lose some strength.

You can concentrate on body relative strength instead. Say you can shoulder press 60 pound dumbbells now at 270 pounds. That’s

60/270 = 0.22

After a year of weight loss say you weigh 180 pounds and can shoulder press 50 pounds thats:

50/180 = 0.28

Congrats you are relatively stronger now. More on relative strength

I know it subjectively after interacting on lemmy / piefed.

The philosophy behind the fediverse tends to attract a chill crowd that wants to just discuss and pass time without an agenda—like selling products or karma farming. It also keeps bots at a minimum.

Low engagement / kinda dead

Don’t compare numbers with sites like reddit. The quality of engagement is really good on lemmy. You can talk to real humans here.

Not too often :(

but whenever I have tested my blood, B12 has been normal. Not as high as someone on a supplement but comfortably within the normal range.

Normalize it by praising God for all the terrible things.

Yep on a wfpb diet you can’t survive on just one thing like trailmix. You eat the rainbow as they say.

Attempting to get all protein requirements from peanuts

yep. I cycle between lots of different foods based on season, lifestyle etc.

I assume you are already taking the necessary precautions.

yea I prefer sprouted or fermented peanuts. You can ferment them with both lactobacilli like sauerkraut or with bacillus subtilis like natto.

Roasted when I’m in a hurry or travelling.

yeah. ZC can be quite calorie dense.

There are calorie dense wfpb foods too like nuts and dry fruits. Peanuts for example are cheap, 30% protein, and about 2.5x as calorie dense as beef.

I used to eat omad but now I prefer to eat in a 4h window and fast for 20h to not overload my gut during feeding.

Dr. Chaffee says a diet needing supplementation is unlikely to be the ancestral human diet.

B12 is everywhere—in soil, untreated water etc. Modern agriculture depletes cobalt in the soil and our war against microbes destroy the bacteria that produce it.

Even the animals that you eat are fed B12 supplements. So carnivores supplement B12 too just indirectly.

I live near a forest with clean spring water and my B12 levels are normal on a wfpb diet without supplements.

energy and stress vs calmness of the two doctors

That’s called confirmation bias. I can show you plenty of flat earth debates where the flat earther is very calm and confident.

I used to be excited about new android releases. Nowadays it has turned into dread. Stop enshittifying my phone.

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By showing it

I hope you don’t get banned. I love your posts for their out of the box thinking.

Sounds like someone saying slaughtering farm animals has to become more humane.

Bigtech needs to die not leech off people and crush competition “more humanely”.

I’m hard pressed to think how you can develop muscles without protein.

I agree that eating more protein will make you gain muscle faster. The size of your muscles determines the ceiling of strength output.

My examples concentrate on the skill aspect of strength which applies to most people. I believe you can bench 1.5x your bodyweight through deliberate practice. It can be more too depending on genetics and mechanics like muscle insertion points. Short people have an advantage in bench press.

Even elite athletes gained strength when they thought they were on a “fast acting steroid” and lost it immediately when they were told that it was a placebo.

I don’t really buy that hyper specific diets and protein are essential to strength. For instance inmates and manual laborers doing feats of strength which are equivalent to bench pressing 1.5x their body weight is quite common.

The body will react to the elimination and that reaction will vary over time

Exactly. You can’t conclude what’s good in the long term with a 30 day trial. For instance a food might make a sick person feel good immediately but slowly damage their organs over years and kill them.

Eww. Go is really old too and doesn’t have enough types. Time to rewrite all software in Rust.

Indeed. Eating plants makes you resilient against many stresses at the cellular level. Hence the lower inflammation.

It’s basically like exercise but at a metabolic level.

Some plant compounds stress your body directly making it stronger long term.

Some plant compounds (polyphenols) signal the stresses the plant has experienced to our body. And our body prepares survival mechanisms against it.