6’9? Do your hats claim danger money?
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Light fixtures, doorways, and ceiling fans are all hazardous
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Saves on haircut expenses, though.
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To be fair @Alright_Now deserved it and more
Acrophobia?
Fear of jacks?
I’m the same.
Even if active too much beer, bread etc and ill put on weight. I switched jobs 3 years ago and was down the pub a lot entertaining - within a month id put on nearly a stone - so i stopped and the weight came off.
Since working from home my eating hasn’t changed - I’m not eating more or less - so, for me. its all about moving. I’ve hardly moved in last 18 months whereas I was doing a lot of steps without knowing it before lock down - then going down gym 3-4 times a week.
The last 2 weeks I’ve been making myself go and do a brisk 1 to 2 mile inclined brisk walk on a treadmill then 10 minutes on exercise bike and just upped my protein plus switched to Matcha tea (good for metabolism apparently)
The difference is night and day for me. I’ve not seen my “gym buddy” for a week as he was away and as soon as he saw me he said Id lost weight.
Now as you a say a scientist might say - thats bollocks it dont work like that - but for me it does.
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props you mean? 
no.
Ah, yes.
But also when you have pocket tens…
Can’t remember if I’ve posted this but:
If you do lose weight, some people will notice. They’re also the people who noticed you put weight on. So they finally say “Have you lost weight?” second question quicker than a rattle snake on speed “How did you do it?”
On a serious side I wonder if the lines of calories in and calories required diverges as time goes on an someone loses weight? I mean that it someone will get to a point where they will not lose any more. Unless there’s another reduction in the calories consumed side thus maintaining the difference between calories consumed and calories required.
I think you can probably always lose more weight but it does get harder. When I went on a diet I went strict on keto but didn’t pay attention to my calories. That was enough to get me down from 230lbs to 188lbs in about 6 months and then I levelled out and went a the next 3 months hovering around that same weight. Finally decided to think about calories and then got me down to the low 180s but I found it quite tough to eat at the deficit required. If I go over 1800 calories in a day, regardless of whether I do a long run etc, then I always put a few lbs on. I’m at 186 now and I think it’s probably going to be tough for me to be consistently below that.
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Exactly what the video I posted earlier today explains.
That’s been my experience in the distant past as well.
What’s also screwing with my mind was I went through a period where I weighed 160-168 pounds and was pretty fit at an aerobic level. Cycling 120 miles a week and could manage a decent fell run as well. But I was actually desperately ill. My body was eating itself alive under the ravages of getting damn close to end stage renal failure. I’m glad I was caught in time before things got stupid serious but I’d love to get back into that condition again. A little one and a job change screwed up any chances of staying at that level.
I’m now pushing 190lbs and really struggling to get through any level of physical activity and guidance on my weird diet.
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a good friend of mine started running again a few years ago after a 15yr hiatus. last year he did a race as part of the Canadian team and ran for 33hrs straight for 221km. http://bigsbackyardultra.com
boggles my mind. I’d heard of the Barkley but this is a “run til you drop” kind of race.
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Read about that last year, barking mad. I like the statistic that more people die running marathons than watching them on the couch eating crisps 
It is really quite simple. Eat less (stick to an average of 1800-2400 calories daily) and do a bit of exercise. The dangers are, snacking, the belief that 3 square meals is a requirement and excessive beer. Getting into “shape” is a tricky one as that requires a specified plan of action in terms of eating, exercising and lifestyle - things that are harder and harder to do the older one gets.
I run ~8 km every 3rd or 4th day, eat one (sort of proper) meal a day and snack a bit. I have one beer a day except on Friday when I have between 2-5. I went from about 63 kg to about 58 kg going through the pandemic and have settled around 58-59 kg depending on measuring BD/AD. I’d like to run every other day but cannot shake a knee injury. I want to push and get fitter and faster but cannot be bothered to go to the doctor - which for a dodgy knee is like playing the euro millions, i.e. a waste of time. Frankly I will not be able to push myself as I did when I was in my 30s. Approaching 50, I think I’m just going to have to settle for a more long term view - I want to stay around 60 kg, I want to be able to run 5-10 km and most of all I want to be able to have guilt free pints - which is what the running is for…
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This is what much of the recent conversation has been about. Energy out is a bit of a moving target, and one of the things that will reliably cause it to move (decrease) is weight loss. So, if you find a level of intake that can reliably induce weight loss, that rate of weight loss will slow down before eventually stopping, requiring you to make further reductions to restart the progress.
This is a feature of energy in-energy out though, not a falsification of it. Regardless of the approach you used to create that calorie deficit, once the metabolic adaptation has occurred to account for the weight loss you will have to make further changes to continue weight loss.
Fuel-in = Energy Output