Comment by smeej

Comment by smeej 6 days ago

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Under $1,000, but just barely over $100:

Semi-recumbent stationary bike that fits under my standing desk.

I've never been coordinated enough to get the hang of walking on the treadmill and typing, but pedaling slowly all day I can do! I've lost 45 lbs so far this year, and adding up the calorie estimate for each day (I've been tracking) and dividing by the 3500 calories people say are in a pound, about 20 of them have been from the bike! (The rest have been from hard work with a dietitian who helped me solve some longstanding issues, but that was more expensive.)

voisin 6 days ago

What bike did you get?

> The rest have been from hard work with a dietitian who helped me solve some longstanding issues

Deficiencies or simply realizing certain intake was higher calories than expected?

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  • smeej 6 days ago

    This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0789F4Z2M

    The $122 price is about what I paid for it. Dunno when they have ever actually sold it for $350

    And what I solved with the dietitian that led to weight loss had more to do with blood sugar balance and what I do and don't react badly to. Cutting out stuff that keeps me inflamed made a big difference as far as actually getting the nutrients from my food and not being hungry all the time. So did a target set of 40g protein, 40g fat, 10g fiber every meal, which brings me in around 1900 calories per day. The nice thing was that at first, that was a 500 calorie deficit per day, but I don't have to recalculate ever, because it's also the maintenance calorie intake for my target weight. Weight comes off slower the closer I get, but I don't really care about speed, just trajectory!

    My IBD (some dispute among my doctors whether it was UC or Chrohn's) is now confirmed in remission without medication, which is terrific!

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echoangle 6 days ago

Interesting, do you have that thing at home? Or do you work at an office and have it there? I don’t really know how I would do that myself.

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  • smeej 6 days ago

    It's at home. I already had an adjustable-height desk behind my sofa (unusual setup, but it works great in my space), but like I said, not that coordinated.

    I've only worked remotely since way before covid, so it works out for my situation.

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mbrameld 6 days ago

> (The rest have been from hard work with a dietitian who helped me solve some longstanding issues, but that was more expensive.)

Just a heads up, if you're in the USA I believe all health insurance plans must fully cover dietitian visits if you have certain conditions, obesity being one of them. Hypertension and pre-diabetes are a couple other common ones.

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  • smeej 6 days ago

    Yeah, they have to cover at least some generic ones. They don't have to cover every weird little specialty.

    Now that I'm in more of a maintenance mode, I'm working with one who's in-network and free. It just cost more than $1k to get to this point.

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fiftyacorn 6 days ago

Ive got a yoyo bike desk - love it. Being able to pedal an hour or 2 while working

I just wish it had ant+ support - i keep thinking of adding a cadence meter then calibrate it to a .fit file. but then never have the time

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