Will I eventually disappear?

limey · 11-11-2011, 02:44 PM

So, what with eating and drinking more sensibly and an hour's swim three time a week I'm losing about a pound every couple of weeks. Everyone says you should make a lifestyle change rather than "go on a diet" and that's what I've done. I like this new lifestyle and I want to keep it. But what happens when I reach my target weight (currently on schedule for next May)? Am I going to have to add a bag of crisps on a regular basis in order to stop losing weight? I don't want to do that, so will I just disappear altogether?
(being the nerd I am I could give you a date for that if you want to put it in your diaries ...).

HungLikeJesus · 11-11-2011, 02:47 PM

Is the weight loss a linear function with time, or has it been decreasing?

Clodfobble · 11-11-2011, 02:51 PM

As you weigh less, you will also do less work just walking around and breathing and everything else. Equilibrium will hit before you disappear.

limey · 11-11-2011, 02:51 PM

Weight loss is variable, but not decreasing with time.

limey · 11-11-2011, 02:54 PM

Yabbut Clod I was told that muscle uses more energy so now I'm fitter all my muscle is using more calories than my fatty globules were so as I'm also eating fewer calories I'll just waste away!

BigV · 11-11-2011, 02:54 PM

machine translation is a comic failure. you're good to go for the foreseeable future.

"The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."

limey · 11-11-2011, 03:34 PM

BigV what were you trying to translate?

BigV · 11-11-2011, 04:08 PM

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." from English to Russian then turn that Russian back into the same translator to get English again.

limey · 11-11-2011, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

machine translation is a comic failure. you're good to go for the foreseeable future.

"The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten."

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." from English to Russian then turn that Russian back into the same translator to get English again.

footfootfoot · 11-11-2011, 06:35 PM

Limey, you will eventually disappear but that will have more to do with what you know than what you eat.

TheMercenary · 11-12-2011, 07:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by limey

......so will I just disappear altogether?

Yes. When your heart stops beating.

HungLikeJesus · 11-12-2011, 09:32 AM

If you post the data we can figure out when that will be.

ZenGum · 11-12-2011, 05:16 PM

Wait! Is the snark a boojum?

infinite monkey · 11-12-2011, 06:07 PM

What's a boojum, zenjum?

If the reports coming in are true, we were all unappeared a long time ago, or never appeared at all.

I have to process all this existentialism.

ZenGum · 11-12-2011, 06:30 PM

Carrol, Lewis. 1874. The Hunting of the Snark (Fit the third). http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13/13-h/13-h.htm

Quote:

"He remarked to me then," said that mildest of men,
"'If your Snark be a Snark, that is right:
Fetch it home by all means—you may serve it with greens,
And it's handy for striking a light.

"'You may seek it with thimbles—and seek it with care;
You may hunt it with forks and hope;
You may threaten its life with a railway-share;
You may charm it with smiles and soap—'"

("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold
In a hasty parenthesis cried,
"That's exactly the way I have always been told
That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")

"'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! For then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!'

11-11-2011, 02:44 PM	#1
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Will I eventually disappear? So, what with eating and drinking more sensibly and an hour's swim three time a week I'm losing about a pound every couple of weeks. Everyone says you should make a lifestyle change rather than "go on a diet" and that's what I've done. I like this new lifestyle and I want to keep it. But what happens when I reach my target weight (currently on schedule for next May)? Am I going to have to add a bag of crisps on a regular basis in order to stop losing weight? I don't want to do that, so will I just disappear altogether? (being the nerd I am I could give you a date for that if you want to put it in your diaries ...). __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-11-2011, 02:47 PM	#2
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	Is the weight loss a linear function with time, or has it been decreasing? __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

11-11-2011, 02:51 PM	#3
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	As you weigh less, you will also do less work just walking around and breathing and everything else. Equilibrium will hit before you disappear. __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

11-11-2011, 02:51 PM	#4
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Weight loss is variable, but not decreasing with time. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of Last edited by limey; 11-11-2011 at 02:55 PM. Reason: To make it clearer

11-11-2011, 02:54 PM	#5
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Yabbut Clod I was told that muscle uses more energy so now I'm fitter all my muscle is using more calories than my fatty globules were so as I'm also eating fewer calories I'll just waste away! __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-11-2011, 02:54 PM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	machine translation is a comic failure. you're good to go for the foreseeable future. "The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten." __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-11-2011, 03:34 PM	#7
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	BigV what were you trying to translate? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-11-2011, 04:08 PM	#8
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak." from English to Russian then turn that Russian back into the same translator to get English again. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

11-11-2011, 06:35 PM	#10
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Limey, you will eventually disappear but that will have more to do with what you know than what you eat. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-12-2011, 09:32 AM	#12
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	If you post the data we can figure out when that will be. __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

11-12-2011, 05:16 PM	#13
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	Wait! Is the snark a boojum? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

11-12-2011, 06:07 PM	#14
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	What's a boojum, zenjum? If the reports coming in are true, we were all unappeared a long time ago, or never appeared at all. I have to process all this existentialism.

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