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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Experimental Fat Loss

Thanks for that post. It has been a long time since I wrote code for a living, but I still regularly use vim to write small programs and scripts for tasks like this. Please carry on with your experiments and your writing. It's interesting and informative.

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Thanks! Can I ask what "But did you die" means? I've seen it on bumper stickers and the like.

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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Experimental Fat Loss

This is a picture of a shirt I bought at a 100-mile ultramarathon. I think it's meant to anticipate and redirect the "oh my god that was so hard" and stories of self-induced suffering with something closer to "aren't you glad to be alive?"

My personal fitness and weight loss journey has been in a narrower range than yours but for me the opportunity to be out moving through nature depends on maintaining a healthy body weight and composition, so it's a good motivator to keep experimenting to see what works for me as training volume goes up and down.

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Ha, nice.

Yea, just the quality of life is so much better. I'm prancing around and feeling great about everything ;D

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Apr 27, 2023Liked by Experimental Fat Loss

For the non-nerds who want a simple graph I like Cronometer but I have Cronometer Gold so I don't know if the free version tracks weight for you- I'm pretty sure it does though.

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Good suggestion! Thanks.

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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Experimental Fat Loss

These scripts seem cursed. I'm glad I didn't ask for your code before :)

How do you define the vertical annotated lines? Is it a rule mark and a text mark?

I really think they're a nice idea for event marking, but couldn't find how to do it (easily) in matplotlib/pyplot. Vegalite seems to be more versatile.

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Yea, it's a rule mark + a text mark.

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