kephalos

Oat milk doesn't really work for me. Glad if it does for you ;-) I guess I will drink black coffee now. I received an AeroPress last week and while I always used good beans I ordered a selecton of premium beans from the webshop that I ordered the aeropress from.

Yes, 80 kcal are not much, but many small amounts sum up quickly in my experience, and 80kcal in liquid calories are much less satisfying than more solid stuff on my plate.

Yeah, non-dairy milk alternatives I did try. In away they are good as they don’t trigger the reaction I get with milk. But on the other hand since they don’t do that I can just as well drink my coffee black I think (and save these 80kcal altogether)

If it were useless we would see at least some populations in the world to have lost it altogether.

its not my plan, but it wouldnt be a problem for my health (i.e. I did it before)

I imagine it to be like 2 bottles of water and 3 bottles of oil or something (with bottles of 1 liter), or a 1 gallon jug.

I remember reading about a German TV host who lost weight and every week would fill up the total weight lost as water in two buckets and walk around the house with them just to get a feeling for the weight.

It kind of seems they stole a decade off of Lasker.

oops, was already posted.. Doesn't the UI give a hint for that? I'll look twice next time.

Any particular reason why you chose this shape of paddle? There are a lot of different shapes and with straps in different positions (finger only, wrist…), I suppose they all have a specific uses but I have no idea. Or is it just marketing? :)

I picked it I think because I didn't know what to pick so uni-size from Speedo I thought I could not go totally wrong. Overall my heuristic is not grounded in a lot of swimming experience.

I am not sure whether I should be someone to advise on this as I am a beginner.

I bought a pair of these fins https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B09P3JYC8R/ as I read that one should pick short and flexible ones and I am happy with these fins. As for paddles I bought https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B094JZ6DW3 (Speedo) and they do work.

Again, I actually don't have experience with other paddles and fins (well, I have some fins for snorkeling but haven't used them for a decade or so, they are of course not the ones I would use in a pool.

Overall for paddles, they really increase the stress on everything involved in your arm movement, so I usually only use them for 50 or 100 m and then take them off again.

I would at first use fins and paddles more as technique-guiding tools.

We can handle a moderate deficit, especially if we’re keeping a positive bias to protein (such as eating 25% of calories from protein, basically keeping protein portions decently sized). I do it without any supplements, but with meats, eggs, yogurt, legumes. Our protein is where we get our dietary cholesterol from which we make cells, and it’s also an energy source so while we need all kinds of nutrition, keep that one from falling during a deficit to answer your concerns.

I am aiming for 250g of Quark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(dairy_product) per day and I actively try to add kidney beans, white beans, chickpeas to my diet (which works okayish). Also had Salmon yesterday and smoked salmon for breakfast every other day.

Not sure I understand everything, although I think I understand that an influx of new players can totally skew statistics.

It's worth noting that this is about ELO ratings, so lichess may have a similar problem (I think it might be the case for Blitz on Lichess to suffer from a similar problem), but some of the proposed fixes are FIDE ELO specific (increasing starting ELO).

The problem seems to be that the ELO ratings aren't accurate to estimate the correct probabilities for a match between a long-time chess player with higher ELO rating and a player from the "Queen's gambit wave".

Now the authors seem to paint this as a problem with the new players being underrated, the ELO distribution to be skewed. I agree that this can be a skew, I wonder however if the solution should be to boost ELO ratings of lower-ranked players.

• Overall the best fix would IMHO be to bring together higher-ELO with lower-ELO players in matches in order to allow the ELO distribution to move ELO points down from the upper end, so that the ELO numbers again match the winning-probabilities between two players. I guess there is hesitance to do that because it means the old-guys might lose rating points and people are naturally protective in this regard.
• bumping ELO points would lead to an inflation in ELO rating overall, it does not fix the root cause.