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Oh, hahahha, I thought you were RUNNING a race! Oops Welp, whatever encouragement you need, go for it. Positive reinforcement is so important to sticking to the plan, so find an interval, maybe every 2 or 3 days, where you're almost always weighing less. But don't let a day or two here and there of no loss or even a gain get you discouraged. I'm trying to build mass at the gym right now, and I weigh myself 3 times per week. Sometimes I weigh 2 lbs. less than I did 2 days prior, sometimes 3 lbs. It can be a little confusing, but keep track of your weight each time you weigh yourself and the number of days it has been since you started doing this (so if you started to record your weight today, write Day 1 next to that, then Day 3 next to your Monday weight, etc.). Plug all that into a cumulative spreadsheet in Excel at the end of every week and use Excel's graphing function to generate a line. The slope of that line is your daily rate of weight loss, and as long as it's a negative number, you're doing things right. I think that slope would be a more powerful motivator than anything. The more you can increase that negative number, the better you're doing to lose weight. Definitely a good number to focus on as a progress marker. It's what I do, and it's the best way I can think of to really gauge how you're doing over the long term. edit: Also try to be consistent with when you weigh yourself. I sorta have a poop'n'pee schedule that I've fallen into. I always poop'n'pee before a workout. So one day, I decided to weigh myself and then go poop'n'pee and weigh myself again just to see how much of a difference in my weight a little evacuation made. ONE AND A HALF POUNDS. That's a lot of brown and yellow. So maybe try to squeeze a little out every time before you weigh yourself to keep things consistent.

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Both, but I do it more often without any pre-existing inspiration. But in almost every case, what actually inspires the music to come out is finding a sound I think is really cool, dragging it into the playlist or sequencer, and then rolling with it. In fact, almost all my music has a single preset synth patch in it -- the very first sound I write with in a track -- and then I usually make the rest of the sounds by hand around it. I just need that little seed idea to get the juices flowing. All that being said, the tunes which are the most MEANINGFUL to me as an artist are those which were inspired by real events or troubles in my life. That Unsurefooted track on my soundcloud is about a time I just about died, and I get chills and have good/bad memories about it every time I hear it, even though it's not my best track.

If you go back through and read my last 2309482 posts in this thread, you'll know how I feel about the sausage (please spray your gay jokes all over my hair and face, everyone <3). Long story short, the sausage you ate had nothing to do with your weight gain. If you want to know why, again, read my posts. I can only say the same thing about protein, fat, and carbs so many times Weighing yourself daily is a bad idea. At most, do it twice per week. Ideally, once per week. Why? Exactly as you suspect, the fact you have not peepee'd or poopoo'd or maybe you had a glass of water at an unusual time or ate a food with high water content, etc. will affect your body weight in a short-term manner which would be unnoticeable (and therefore more encouraging to you) if you did not weight yourself as frequently. Law of large numbers: if your weight is decreasing on average, you will find burps of increased weight, but over a long period of time, your weight will be trending down. So just decrease the frequency with which you weigh yourself, and you'll be more likely to see only number which are decreasing. Also, you said you were running a race? I would NOT recommend frequent exercise on Atkins or any low-carb diet, including Paleo. There are many reasons for this, chief among them being cortisol and the rate of gluconeogenesis in your liver not being enough without supplemental dietary carbs to cope with the carbohydrate needs of your body. Again, go back through the posts I've made on cortisol to understand this. Long story short, low carb + exercise = high cortisol; CHRONICALLY high cortisol = fat retention. It's important to make the distinction that NOT exercising and doing a very low carb diet is fine. Even infrequent exercise + low carb is fine. But if you notice you start to feel fatigued, strung out, anxious, or unable to fall asleep or stay asleep, it's likely because you're exercising too much on a low-carb diet. To fix those symptoms, all you need to do is add enough STARCH (potatoes, sweet potatoes, squash, yams, etc.; NOT grain or simple sugars) back into your diet until you no longer feel those symptoms. It shouldn't take much. Maybe 30-50g/day assuming moderate exercise??

Aww yeahhhhh. How much was it? Also, kinda take a mental note of how much fat renders out of the beef as you cook it and try to compare it to what beef you've eaten in the past looks like while cooking. Like I said, grass-fed and finished beef is VERY lean. I bought some "100% grass-fed" ground beef from Whole Foods once, and it rendered out as much fat as 80/20 beef. No way in hell was it grass-finished. These big stores stretch the truth from time to time, or at the very least, their source farms aren't very honest. But then again, I got "100% grass-fed beef" from Whole Foods a year prior to this particular instance, and I'm pretty sure it was legit based on the fat that melted off of it. That being said, it did come from a different farm than the other beef, so it's probably an issue with dishonest sources rather than Whole Foods. So yeah, if this beef doesn't work out, as a last ditch effort, try a farmers' market where you can talk directly to the farmer who raised the cows or a trusted online source for the bif. That way, you *know* what you're getting.

That definitely brought a smile to my face, man That's so awesome that you've gotten such quick results! Keep it up. You'll be a skinny shit in no time I've got some issues with the quality of the foods you're eating, but one step at a time We'll tackle that issue if you're interested in what I have to say about it. But for now, keep up the good work!

Soooooo... conclusion, please?

No problem! If you couldn't tell, I love talking about this stuff, so anytime you have a question or complaint, feel free to drop me a PM. I didn't even know Whole30 had a paywall. Lol, oh well. It's not a very tall wall. Again, I would do what they recommend, at least for 30 days, and then make reasonable adjustments and re-additions back into your diet as your body tolerates them. Also, I would add daily probiotics of some sort. Eating some fermented foods with live cultures would be fine. Homemade kimchi 4 lyfe <3

Hey, it's worth a Google. They seem to be everywhere these days. Yeah, definitely. And there are some great organic brands out there... for produce. Not so much for meat. The only good one I can think of off-hand for meat is Applegate Farms. My main point was just that a lot of people assume too much about the word "organic". It's a low bar to clear, and there's a lot of room for more and more optimization and quality on the growers' ends beyond the threshold of "organic." I also enjoy cooking and starchy things like potatoes and yams. I eat them daily, but I also don't have gut issues anymore, and I'm exercising, so I prefer supplemental carbs. Life without them before I started lifting again was still a happy one Think you could at least give the Whole30 a shot for 30 days and see if the low-carb approach makes a difference? I know a certain Ben Briggs and his girlfriend who did a Whole30 and had really dramatic results. But chicken also has a 25:1 omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. To minimize basal inflammation, you want a dietary omega 6 to omega 3 ratio of no more than 4:1. This is why I emphasize grass-fed red meat so much and not poultry. Fish is great, too. Legit eggs are fine. Pork and poultry both are on the high end of the omega 6 scale, but otherwise, I don't believe there's anything wrong with them, so I do eat both on occasion. But especially considering your condition, you may want to give this low poultry/high grass-fed red meat approach a shot. I do know that there are places online which sell grass-fed and finished beef, but it's probably at a premium (~$6-8/lb for ground beef or chuck roast is a normal market price). If the price is excessive, there's gotta be a farmers' market within 20 minutes of where you live. You can even go to EatWild and find a grass-fed cattle farmer near you, call them, and set up a pickup order in bulk. That's actually a pretty common way us Paleo types source top-quality meat, especially if we live in Nowheresville.

I usually take a pretty strong natural and holistic approach to health care if you couldn't tell But with an antithrombin deficiency, yeah, I can't really conjure up any alternatives to something like an anticoagulant either. An 8cm blood clot ain't nothin' to fuck wit. Grass-fed/grass-finished meat is pretty much only going to be found at a local, weekend farmers' market. Either the farmer will advertise it as such or you'll have to ask them if it's grass-fed/grass-finished. One thing you may not know about the word "organic" with respect to meat is that it is pretty meaningless, so what you think is unadulterated and healthy meat could possibly be trash. That label on veggies is sorta meaningful... sorta... but if you're buying "organic" meat at a store, you're probably buying crap. Sorta like "cage-free" or "pastured" eggs is essentially meaningless. Go ahead and look up the minimum requirements for "organic" meat and eggs and milk on the USDA's website. It's pretty pathetic. You should be doing 2 Tabata sprint sessions per week. A Tabata sprint sessions is as follows: A rep is 20 seconds of all-out sprint followed by 10 seconds of dead-stop rest. Do 8 reps. That's a total of 4 minutes per session. It feels like a lifetime, but it is disgustingly effective. The studies are really insane. 8 minutes of this stuff per week has been shown to be more effective at just about everything than 200 minutes per week of jogging. It'll be extremely hard the first few sessions, but it gets less ridiculous after you adjust to the intensity. Again, although your cardiologist recommended light jogging sessions or whatever, that study I cited is a meta-analysis review. That means it looked at many dozens of other studies on HIIT vs. medium intensity jogging and found that the preponderance of evidence suggested HIIT was both safer for individuals with cardiovascular disease concerns and more effective for improving overall heart health & efficiency. So you DO have a history of inflammatory bowel conditions... you should really consider the GAPS diet. The major purpose of it is to fix gut disorders related to inflammation and bacterial dysbiosis. There are some pretty amazing success stories out there on GAPS from people who have had issues similar to your own. The issue is that the GAPS culture is really annoying and hippy-ish, so it's no fun to read about. If all the hokeyness turns you off, try doing a Whole30 instead, but do it with a focus on eating live probiotics every single day without missing a day. Canola oil, smart balance, and peanut butter are all utter garbage. They're very high in inflammatory omega-6 PUFAs which will only worsen gut inflammation. Grain-fed greasy meat is also high in omega-6. Grass-fed/finished meat is naturally like 95% lean or something. I don't know if you're a meat connoisseur at all, so you may not have a good "image" of leanness, but 95% is DAMN lean. There's not all that much fat in it at all in a relative sense.

I didn't know you had a heart issue. Why exactly does your doc have you on Coumadin/Warfarin (assuming that is the case considering the Vit K thing)? Unless you have atherosclerosis or some reason to believe you have occluded blood vessels, there's no indication for an anticoagulant. Have you tried grass-fed meat? The chemical composition of grass-fed and grass-FINISHED (important detail, as opposed to grain-finished) is different from that of grain-fed beef, and I'm not just talking a lack of adulterants like added hormones, antibiotics, preservatives, etc. The fatty acid composition within grass-fed meats is fundamentally different (much richer in omega 3, somewhat lower in omega 6 -- a very good thing) than grain-fed/grain-finished. The saturated fats in grass-fed meat are mostly palmitic and stearic acid which are known NOT to affect blood cholesterol adversely. This is not the case in grain-fed meat. This difference in chemical makeup could possibly be a difference-maker with respect to you being able to eat some yummy red meat without issue. If the grass-fed and grass-finished meat is still making you feel sick, you may need to be checked out for some sort of lipase or protease deficiency. Whole, unprocessed, optimally-raised foods shouldn't make *anyone* sick unless you have a genetic dysfunction. With respect to cardio, check this out. You may find this a little encouraging. To put it bluntly, your doctor's exercise advice considering your heart condition is out of date: "To summarize, HIIT [sprint intervals] appears safe and better tolerated by [cardiovascular pateints] than moderate-intensity continuous exercise (MICE) [jogging]." "The present investigation suggests 2 wk of HIIT is sufficient to induce beneficial alterations in the resting inflammatory profile [which is highly desirable for cardiovascular patients] and [fat storage reduction] of an overweight and obese male cohort." HIIT leads to a decrease in fat storage These are cutting-edge studies from 2012ish, and since at least 2007ish, these sorts of studies have been coming out with consistent results. More than likely, your doc was trained well before that, so the methods he learned in med school are outdated by now. If you want, I can point you to a bazillion studies about how HIIT is more effective than jogging with respect to fat loss. Sounds like a win-win for you, and the total time input is *trumpets blaring* EIGHT MINUTES PER WEEK. No need to go to a gym, either. Just find a field or track and do some Tabata sprints. Amazing stuff. If you want me to find the studies which corroborate the red meat stuff, give the word. I just don't feel like digging them up right now I know it sucks to try so hard at something not terribly fun in most peoples' opinions, like working out, and see no results, but there are still approaches to diet and fitness which you've not yet explored. I have a good feeling your x-factor is still out there. edit: When you said you have "stomach problems" do you mean, like, STOMACH problems? Or do you mean general GI issues? Because you may have an inflammatory bowel disease like Chrohn's or Celiac's or IBS or something in which case eating a diet which minimizes basal inflammatory activity (like the GAPS diet) would do your digestion and overall well-being a world of good.

None of this excuses you, Zach. Also, how the shit did I not run into you at MAGFest?

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What The Fuck

Gotta agree with HL here. I LOVEEEEEEee LTTP so much, but I'm not really a fan of remakes. I want new shit that is just as awesome as the old shit, not new shit that actually is the old shit. edit: Woop, just finished watching the preview. Yeah, this looks very different from LTTP. AND THAT'S AWESOME.

Thanks, everyone You are all sweeties <3

Jake Kaufman.

This is stupid good and everyone should listen to it now.

That's just a low pass filter on the kick drum (the whole drum kit, actually, as you'll hear as the remix proceeds) with the filter cutoff set to around 100 to 150 Hz, slowly opening up to a higher filter cutoff value over time. The filter resonance is pretty low.

One hour compos, maybe? The purpose of those compos is efficiency both with composition and with the tools of composition, like a DAW. Hanon's function is also efficiency but in the form of economy of motion. So in that respect, I think there's a parallel between the two.

This tune was written for the brand new MRI compo on our very own beloved OCR forum. Enjoy ;o

I think you already know how much I love this tune. Inspiring work, man!

Flex is a mastermind, but feel free to ask any of us in this thread, too! Compos are about getting better and also about me winning. Also, Draco, would you consider adjusting the schedule of the compo in some manner? 5 weeks/5 tracks is NASTY when I factor in other musical deadlines I have + school and general life obligations. I'll definitely have to skip a week or more and/or submit some sub-par work unless the schedule is lightened up in some way.

I'm not sure what you mean that you haven't gotten to the limiter part of production yet. I'm guessing that since you're rendering an .mp3, you're done writing the track at least, so you should be getting to a little mastering at this point where a limiter would be a good thing to add. Or are you still working on the writing?

My track is sent ;o If you raise it past the digital threshold, then absolutely. Put a limiter on it before rendering an .mp3. ALso, if you turn it up too much with a limiter, you will destroy the dynamics of your track, so in that regard, it will sound worse (flat, lifeless, all the same volume).