#one gram per pound

[texasbodybuilders]

How Much Protein do you ACTUALLY need for Bodybuilding?

Figuring out how much protein you need is tough. For folks that body build, it can be even tougher. Your weight, gender, protein quality and content (be it animal vs plant), workouts etc all have factors that need to be considered. Seriously, how much protein do you ACTUALLY need for bodybuilding? Fueling your body for maximum muscle growth is a complex game, and protein often takes center…

[steelestallion]

💪Ryder Steele’s Muscle Gain Instruction Manual. 💪

A surface-level yet comprehensive beginner’s guide to working out/body building/gaining muscle written by a tboy with a degree in human physiology, with tboys in mind. Speed training, toning, and cardio/lung health training will not be explored.

(Part 1) Diet. Talking about food, their molecules and how the body responds.

An aspect of bodybuilding/exercizing that is just as important as the weights and workouts themselves. Generally, the more a human does, the more nutrition they need in every sense.

Protein is needed to survive as a human, 0.8 grams per kilogram of weight MINIMUM. (source) To gain muscle you need to consume more protein than that. 1 gram per pound of body is a good goal.

There are additional ingredients, Amino Acids, you can ingest to give your body more of what it needs to build muscle. The most common is creatine, and it can be found naturally in foods or bought alone. 14mg per pound is a good dose, (source) but you could do as low as you like.

Carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water are other things essential to keep you running, but aren’t the building block of muscle.

For vitamins, minerals, and water be sure to get the daily recommended dose. It’s worth considering a little more than recommend water, potassium, magnesium, and sodium in your diet for adequate muscle usage before and during working out. Also, a bit more calcium in general for muscle movement and the strength your bones must gain to support stronger muscles and weight loads.

For carbohydrates and fats, it’s important to have adequate levels of these. The body uses carbohydrates for energy first and mainly, then uses fats, then proteins. How much? Well it depends on how much you care about the image of your body, and what your goals are.

The Bulk is for people who want to gain muscle and mass a bit quicker. There is clean bulking and dirty bulking. Dirty bulking is eating a lot without much regard to amounts. Clean bulking is to gain muscle mass while keeping your body fat percentage at relatively the same level.

The Cut is for people who want to reduce their body fat percentage. Eating at a slight/moderate deficit to force the body to consume fat cells as energy. High protein is still consumed.

Before working out, you should consume something 30-40 minutes before starting. Preworkout, a caffeinated substance, or complex carbohydrates to give you the energy needed to begin and not crash.

After working out, you should consume a good portion of your daily proteins 30 minutes to four hours later.

(Part 2)Working out. Utilizing and ripping the telomeres of your muscles and forming neural pathways.

To build muscle, you need to utilize the muscles. To get bigger muscles, your body needs to move with more resistance than what it normally does. Weight acts as the resistance.

Warming up is an important first step to working out, as you need to prime your body’s systems and cells. Heart rate is the primary thing to warm up, because using muscles required your heart pump harder and faster. 5-10 minutes of warmup minimum of cardio is best. The intensity of this cardio is your choice. Dancing, fast walking, jogging/running, jump rope, cycling, etc. are good. Stretching is also a good precursor to the warmup as the warmup uses your muscles also. It’s a process, but its important to warm up properly to avoid tightness, cramps, or even things snapping.

The weightlifting a complicated and highly discussed thing. There are hundreds of motions across gym machines, tools, and muscles for you to chose from. Which ones you do depend on what is available, and the muscles you want to work. Write stuff down if you must. Here is an exercise dictionary.

Muscle names are good to know to decide which motions to do. Look at this diagram to learn, and build your own encyclopedia and routine.

Frequency of working out is important. If your body does not use muscles, they deteriorate. You can work certain muscles more frequently than others. Just keep adequate rest. You may see things like push/pull day, arm day. This is the type of motions and muscles focused. Dedicating a workout session/day to one muscle group helps keep track of avoiding overuse. See Rest for more. Once a week at minimum you should work a muscle group to keep it from deteriorating. Here’s an example: Sunday rest. Monday arms&core. Tuesday whole back. Wednesday rest. Thursday whole arms. Friday rest. Saturday whole legs.

Duration of working the muscle during a session/day impacts its growth. A rep is one time going through a motion. Sets is how many times you do a group of reps. 3x15 pushups is I’m doing 15 pushups. Rest. 15 more. Rest. 15 more. Three sets of fifteen. To build endourance, lower weight at higher reps. To build mass and strength, higher weight at lower reps.

Finally, the weight heaviness. You should slightly push your muscles to start, then base your weight patterns off of what is a good amount of strain for you. The more you challenge/strain yourself, the more it will hurt and build muscle mass. Also, the faster you increase the weight your muscles fight against, the higher the risk of injury. However, if you stick to a weight that is not challenging, your muscles will not grow. There must always be some element of challenge your muscles must always be chasing to keep up with. Thats what growing is. For example: I’ve been bicep curling single dumbbells of 10 pounds for months. 12 pounds is a comfortable challenge, and I can do 15 also but not the whole set. So, I may warm up with 1 set of 10lbs. Two sets of 12lbs, then finish with one set of 15 at lower reps. The number of reps per set could be 15,12,10,6. Decreasing reps while increasing weight to prep the body, but not injure too much.

(Part 3) Rest. Your body building new muscle, and preparing to work again.

In between sets of exercise, you need to rest your muscles for enough time for them to become reloaded with their energy, ATP. ~1 minute for heavily lifting. Ensure you’re breathing well also to give your blood oxygen. Deeper, healthy breaths during rest is good.

After training it’s recommended to give a muscle group ~48 hours of rest to rebuild the fibers. Rest means not training it, but of course if you need to use them, use them. Additionally, you can still be active and rest, doing a thing called active rest. Doing nothing at all, which has its benefits, is called passive rest.

Sleep is your body’s way of storing information and taking out the cerebral trash. During sleep your body produces growth hormone, your brain works to retain all of the information you and your body learned during the day, and generally refreshes itself. Napping can e beneficial also if it doesn't interfere with getting the minimum 8-10 hours depending on your age group.

Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, would like help creating workout plans, or would like a bit of praise or encouragement feel free to reach out. Also if there are any errors. Now go have fun!

[merchant-wizard-and-jerry]

“Hello, I’m the friendly wizard _____. My name got taken by a fey prince but it hasn’t really hampered my life. Anyways I am new to this wider wizard community and would like to get along. I have a magic book, a cart, and a friend. His name is Jerry, he is a fungus colony that has taken over my magic book and acts sort of as my patron. He…is a little weird but great fun.”

*sound of an explosion in the background, a book flys by being chased by goblin shamans casting fire ball*

“He is…”

“He is fine.”

“Anyways, I am here to sell goods and make a small profit. If you need something I’ll see what I can do : ) ”

“Also apparently I helped smuggle an amnesiac @fattocatto-wizard out of the city in my wagon. That was a shock, though he was just a cat.

Character Cheat sheet

( 3 currency to 16 silver crowns and 2 copper crowns)

(3 skulls to a coin)

(2 currency to 1 gold)

(100 currency to a 1000 grams gold bar)

(1 currency per 10 grams of gold)

(Current balance 89,314.250,001 currency, one penny, 23 meat pucks, 14 pounds, 2 gold coins one with Julius Cesar on it, 3 naturally-grown mana stones, 2 highly enchant able metal pieces, and one bar, 1 special bug corpse, 1576.5 gold, silver 18, 70 aus, 5kg silver, magic dirt house size. 24 counterfeit currency. Moss/lichen-coded bio stone. An inverse cold torch. 99 BG silver. EMERALD LINCOLN, GOLDEN CARROT, 200 SALTED MEAT DISKS, 200 POLISHED ROCKS, 82 FIGET SPINNERS!, A FULLY EQUIPPED LICH'S DUNGEON, and a cardboard box (magic black marble).” Invisibility stone, a bundle of drake feathers, quantum locked rock, raw gold. 9 Gold coming from the green goblin empire, 50 mushrooms, 92 secret society emblem. 5 trans enchanted gold coins, 2 skull coin, ancient lost civilization fragment, 5 glistening green metallic coin, 31 writhing bugs of gold, jade coin. Pile of gold coins and gold coin bugs, pile of shines from harpy, dust, quantum glass shards, bag of tooth shaped candy, 6720 candies from the festival, bag of holding money bag, 68 money bags, 500 flat Foxen, double sided dollar coin, 3 floppies, a Brahman horn, a medkit, a few candy bars, and an umbrella, 130 goblins eggs (goblin cooked chicken eggs.), 17 bars of pure gold, 1 crate of guns, temp singularity potion. 762 grasshoppers glow in the dark.Book on the formation patterns of natural portals - @serious-tabaxi. Edward Evandrian’s expired library card. Gems and frenicx mother gem and a junkarian leap amethyst. white mithril sapling. Timeseed, infinite note book, time tunnel. A nice gold bag. bag full of candied scorpions 💰, large gem stone. 💰 💰 💰, gems = 70currency. 1/3rd a gold bar. Compass map, it's keyed to the Island of Silence. N=10^7 menger sponge. 2416 shadow cloaks, 52 shiny stones. 20$, 3 gold coins 100 grams. Gummy worms. 100 journals of Ventus Asamuran, Last Peacekeeper of Har Aminas. car keys, box of a 27 rusted necklaces with warding spells. an amulet made of stone, with blue rectangular crystals growing out of it. 48 shiny stones, 30 currency worth of silver. 3 sets of custom made chips @crickled-thorn-thug. Gold potion It opens a portal to the realm of metals! It causes any land within 20 feet to be transmuted, temporarily, into a variety of metals. If left untouched, the land reverts after a day. If harvested, the stuff stays metal and can be used. It also causes uhh 20 gold peices to spawn, and anyone within the radius to get a bit of vertigo. Causes slight iron deficiency, for some reason. 23 bouquets of metalic flowers. They're grown beneath volcanic chambers, uses the heat of magma as a supplement for sunlight. Given their environment, they grow petals sharper than claws and harder than steel. They can be used for creating armours and weapons.)

(Currently holding baby dire bunnies. A ring of mana (covers energy into mana. Only suitable if you don’t have mana)

(Jerry’s balance 13 gold, a fancy rock, 1 coin, flower petals (snacks for later), harpy eyes, feathers, vocal cords, and talons, a coin with @informis-the-many-faced on it, it is locked away for emergencies. bottle of magic mold rejuvenation powder, wooden key @crickled-thorn-thug)

(Warlocks of Jerry @fungal-boy-witch-yay @ignisuadaroleplay @life-is-okay-rn2 I think that is who it was…)

(Possessions - wealth stone, Antidote stone)

Owner of membership cards

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@the-final-knight-2

@confused-sorcerer

@bi-gender-sorcerer (+ 10% off for employee discount)

@the-mighty-dalob

@detectivewizzard

@goblin-wizard-in-the-making

@serious-tabaxi

@weltreths-wanderings

@ignisuadaroleplay (will)

@shittest-wizard-ever

@wizard-wylin-wylerian

@akronus-and-associates (the primordials)

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@hallowed-the-silver-gun

@jormungand-seas-champion

@crow-natures-wrath

@antros-ember-of-fear

@akronus-the-redeemed

@clockwork-time-watcher

@aldira-born-anew

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@wizard-ghost

@yeast-wizard

@crickled-thorn-thug

@sorcererest-sorcerer

@damnable-druid (+ 10% off for employee discount)

@informis-the-many-faced

@kittycatwizard

@gun-sorcerer

@crime-wizard-conglomerate

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Perks

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5% off all purchases

Special requested items

More favorable bartering

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[toshio]

I wanna get even half the chest and body that you have. I know you said you basically just did push ups so I was wondering if you had any specifics. How often? How many?

Gonna use you as inspiration lmao

hey anon! i know it sounds CRAZY simple but yeah. literally just push ups at home on your carpet or hard wood floor will DO IT. whatever you find comfortable. i think pecs are SURPRISINGLY easy to get, and gay men and straight women love a nice set of boobies on a man, they really give you that "macho" look LOL so definitely try for it. you can probably get some smol but fierce tiddies in about a year.

gonna do a [read more] so i can yap to you in full detail:

if you're a complete beginner, start with like 10 push ups, if you think that's nothing and you're not fatigued yet, do more than that, like 20. keep doing that until you can do an insane amount of push ups and then stop when you start getting tired/failure. do that daily. the more the better. you can take some rest days, on those days you can like walk or jog or something to get more lean. if you consider yourself slightly overweight, definitely walk/jog daily.

and when you do push ups, make sure they're not half assed. like, when you see that skinny guy in your gym class going REALLY fast but stupidly out of form, that's probably doing nothing but injuring him LOL. go on youtube or look up an article about push ups, there are lots of evidence that prove you can get boobies with them. i learned pretty much everything from online btw, go on youtube and just look up how to get pecs at home if you're too cheap for a gym membership (like me. i don't have a gym membership)

here's a random image i found on google, don't worry about any of this other stuff in the picture for now. just do regular push ups for now and you should have results. but another thing i'm leaving out is obviously you need to eat right. try to eat like 0.7-0.8 grams of protein per pound of body weight. some protein rich foods you can eat are stuff like chicken/beef/pork/fish daily (with rice) or low fat greek yogurt, beef jerky, and buy some protein shakes at the store. almost anything protein tastes nasty to me btw but beauty is pain.

also some life hacks because my fat ass (and lazy ass) loves fast food/eating out in general, go to panda express and just get a bunch of chicken and broccoli LOL that shit has so much protein and it tastes good. goddamn. basically just consume meat daily for gains.

also ONE more thing in terms of eating [moderately] healthy (i still don't eat healthy but i try) stop drinking soda, stop drinking alcohol, stop doing drugs, just drink nothing but water, green tea, any tea you want, just make sure it has no sugar. if you crave sugar, get diet soda like diet coke (it's 0 calories) but avoid drinking too much of that because aspartame.

THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION but i get asked about stuff like this a lot so hopefully this is enough. LOL. i'll get asked again probably haha but oh well. and again i'm not a fitness expert, just an enthusiast. good luck. remember anon, BEAUTY IS PAIN. and youth is only temporary, so you might as well look sexy before you get old.

[uselessandgay]

Hello 👋 when I was trying to get muscles a few years back I struggled with getting enough protein (I was aiming for 1gm/pound of bodyweight). As a vegetarian how much do you rely on supplements vs your regular meals?

Also if you ever wanna share some of your fav vegetarian recipes I’d appreciate it.

Hi!

To me it looks like you might actually have been aiming for too much protein. The most efficacious amount of protein that you can consume is 70% of your desired body weight in grams of protein. While soy is a complete protein, it is important to consider other sources of protein that have complimentary amino acid profiles. Whey protein is a decent compliment to soy, and eggs are the gold standard for anabolic proteins.

Consistency is key to any sort of anabolism. You should be training your muscle groups to total failure at least one time per week. You should also avoid any systemic inflammation reduction (i.e., from NSAIDs like ibuprofen) as inflammation is the key mediating factor that leads to muscle growth. Additionally, check your hormones and consider hormonal optimization. 9 hours of sleep, avoidance of stress, plenty of sex, and the right window of calories is key. You should be eating between 250-500 calories more than you burn in order to have enough energy left over to build muscle. Good fats are very important as they improve HDL cholesterol which is the number one source of cholesterol for hormone synthesis. Finally, if your body is screaming for rest, do not exercise. It's key to rest when you need to rest so your muscle building can catch up. Overworking yourself will kill your body's ability to recover, meaning that there won't be any muscle growth.

Omelets and tofu are the best. Press out all the water in the tofu, put on soy sauce and a little corn starch that you season, and toss it in the air fryer with a vegetable. Smoothies are also great because they allow you to ingest a lot of protein powder (just make sure to drink them slowly). Typically I have one protein bar and 2-4 scoops of whey protein per day in addition to everything else.

Hope this helps,

Drew

[eatclean-bewhole]

One of the most significant lessons I’ve learned is the importance of maintaining muscle mass, which is one of the factors of longevity. This isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about overall health and quality of life!

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon, a leading expert in the field of muscle-centric medicine, emphasizes that muscle is the organ of longevity. It plays a critical role in metabolic health, immune function, and even brain health. As we age, muscle mass naturally declines, which can lead to increased fat gain, and reduced strength.

To counteract this, adequate protein intake and consistent resistance training are crucial. According to Dr. Lyon, most adults need at least 1 gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight daily to support muscle health. This ensures that our bodies have the necessary building blocks to repair and build muscle tissue.

Resistance training, on the other hand, is essential for stimulating muscle growth and strength. It’s not just about lifting weights; it’s about challenging your muscles in a way that promotes growth and resilience. Even just 2-3 sessions per week can make a significant difference.

I’ve personally noticed and reaped these benefits. At 41 and in perimenopause, prioritizing protein and resistance training has helped me feel stronger, more energized, and better equipped to handle the changes that come with aging.

It’s never too late to start, and the benefits are truly life-changing. 💪🏽

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[cazort]

Life Hack: Red Lentils Improve Your Physical & Financial Health

If you do not regularly eat red lentils and you are not allergic to them or otherwise unable to eat them, and you want to experience an immediate improvement in your quality of life, health, and financial situation, you need to know about red lentils.

You can buy these dried for like $2.20 for a pound, or cheaper.

But here's the kicker. They are so easy to cook, even easier than regular green or brown lentils. They are a great lazy food, so easy that they are almost like an instant meal.

Unlike most dried beans, you don't need to soak them. Like, you need to rinse them, but that's it. Like put some in a bowl, cover with water and mix them until they all sink to the bottom, then pour off as much of the water as you can without spilling them. That's it. You rinsed them. They are now ready to cook.

Now you cook them by boiling them in a pot. They cook in 10 minutes. Unlike green lentils which take more like 40 minutes if not soaked. Only 10 minutes and they're soft. If you want them firmer you can cook them shorter, like 8 minutes.

They are so forgiving. I don't even measure the water, like if you put more water in, they come out thinner and soupier. Less water, they come out thicker like a stew. You can cook them less than 10 minutes or more and they will still taste great.

They are incredibly nutritious. If I'm having them as the main thing for dinner, I eat about 1/2 cup dried which turns into maybe about a cup cooked, depending on how much water I added. This much has:

23 grams of protein

36% of your fiber

41% of your B1

23% B6

49% of your Folate / B9

139% Copper

39% Iron

13% Magnesium

14% Potassium

31% Zinc

240mg Omega 3 fat (ALA) or about 15-22%

Pretty much no unhealthy things for most people.

These nutrients are a big deal. A lot of people are deficient in folate, iron, magnesium, zinc, and some in copper, so these are hitting a bunch of common nutritional deficiencies. And they're so high in iron and Folate, B1, and Zinc that if you eat these you're unlikely to end up with a deficiency in any of these nutrients.

And just to let this sink in, this is more protein than 3oz of chicken. And that $2.20 container? It contains 5 servings like the one above. The protein cost about 2 cents per gram which is incredibly cheap as protein sources go. The protein quality (in terms of balance of amino acids) is better than some beans too, i.e. it is relatively more complete than a number of types of beans.

I also love how I feel after eating these. Like sometimes eating too many beans gives me gas. But not these, when I buy dried red lentils and cook them like described above, I feel light and energetic and have no problem with gas.

There is strong evidence that eating lentils is protective against heart disease and cancer so they can help you live longer too.

You can also add so many things to them. The basic thing is to add just the right amount of salt, but when I'm cooking them, I like to add olive oil, spices, herbs, and also dice up some carrots and other vegetables, even something like broccoli. Because they cook fast, you want to dice stuff up into small cubes if you throw it in, so the other ingredients will also cook fast.

I wish I had discovered this food earlier in life. I have been eating lentils for years but for some reason never tried the red ones and never realized they are so much easier to cook. Yeah, other ones are great too but they cook much slower and thus require much more time/effort.

[rosen-dovecote]

We found a bottle of Subway's Sweet Onion Teriyaki sauce at Homeland the other week so I grabbed it, plus all the stuff I'd usually put on the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki sandwich when I used to get it at Subway (before their prices went insane and we stopped eating there). Just finally made the salad and oh yeah. That was exactly what I was craving.

Mixed Greens, Tomatoes, Cucumber, Green Bell Pepper, Chicken, and some Sauce 🙏 so good. I'm just sad I have to wait a bit for Cheese now. Because I'm really craving a Babybel Cheese. I can have some of my Hard Salami, though, and I might just.

Did a bit more research today while eating the salad, and finally figured out what counts as "Low Carb", too, which is nice; I kept getting a "26% of total calories from Carbs" answer from most sources, which annoyed me because I am not going to sit there and count calories again. But I finally found 2 sites that gave me a proper gram amount. One said between 100 and 150 grams, and the other said about 130 grams. So I'm going to aim for between 130 and 150 grams, and call it good.

As for Protein, the result is the same- lots of sites saying you should eat "X%", rather than numbers. Largely because you need to calculate based on weight, however. I did finally find a formula specifically for High Protein, though: "Active adults may require 1.2 to 1.7 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. This equates to 82 to 116 grams for a person weighing 150 pounds". I'm 208 pounds currently, so I think that means I need to aim for roughly 113 to 142 grams, then? That's so much. I've no idea how I'm going to manage that.

My body is so tired from all the walking I've done the last few days, however. It's not the exhaustion I've been having for the last 8+ months, though, since the last bought of Covid, and then the Piriformis issue. It's more the standard tiredness, like I've spent the last couple days working out or walking around; my feet hurt really bad, and my thighs, hips, and core are sore. I'm absolutely reveling in it, even though I've had to take a soak every single night to keep any kind of Fibro pain at bay. It just feels so good to actually be mobile and out of the house and not exhausted from moving even the most minuscule amount anymore.

[imstillaghost]

My rules

- weigh in daily @ 8:00 am

- OMAD

- 900 calorie limit

- two 24 hour fasts per week (usually on Wednesday and Friday but if you have to reschedule, do so)

- no snacking (if you must snack it has to be on fruit)

- ‘cheat days’ are 1200 calories cheat day rules below

- don’t ask for food

- don’t take peoples offers for food

- <50 grams of carbs

- <20 grams of sugar

- workout 3x a day

- daily motivation

- no eating before 12:00

- no eating after 20:00

- Wednesday and Friday are fasting days (change of family dinner or something)

- no sweet things (binge triggers)

- no crackers (binge triggers)

- 2L of water a day

- DO NOT REWARD YOURSELF WITH FOOD

- must complete EVERYTHING on my to do list before I eat ANYTHING

‘Cheat day’ rules

- 1200 calories

- only TWO meals (breakfast/dinner

- once a week (Sundays)

- under 70 grams of carbs

- ONE SWEET/pastry type item (has to be within limit)

- workout extra with intent to burn around 100+ calories per workout

- no cheat day the week of a binge

- have to have lost 2 pounds that week to qualify /(or have plateaued the week)

[mud-castle]

*Edited*

So, a grown mouse has about 105 calories per gram, while a frog tends to clock out at about 80 calories per 100 grams. But your average frog is about 50 grams, which brings it down to about 40 calories.

Rabbit has 173 calories per 100 grams, and the most common species in N. America (eastern cottontail) weighs over 1000 grams. Fish obviously vary more widely than frogs, but trout (which seems to be the most commonly mentioned fish) has over 100 calories per gram, and, on the smaller end, whops out at 7000 grams.

Considering clan cats are very active, they'd need about 34 calories per pound of weight. Fish would take the least energy to catch as 99% of hunting them is staying as still as possible. However this only works for smaller fish species. Larger ones like trout would require one or more cat to physically wrestle it out of the water. Rivers usually don't freeze.

Rabbits have a lot of calories, but are difficult to catch, often needing a team and quite a bit of running, not to mention the energy taken to track them down to begin with. Ultimately meaning less time spent catching other prey. Rabbits do not hibernate.

Frogs and mice/squirrels/birds can be ambushed, and do not require teamwork. But energy must be spent on actually tracking them down. Frogs hibernate. Squirrels, rats, and mice do not. A majority of birds migrate.

So:

Riverclan > Thunderclan ≈ Shadowclan > Windclan

by my best approximation.

*extra notes: shadowclan has access to the carrionplace and pine trees stay green year round

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

Which is heavier, a ton of steel or a ton of feathers?

I had to do a little math here.

Let's take an in-depth look at steel and feathers. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Steel contains about 0.004% carbon by weight, with the rest being iron. Iron has a density of 7.874 grams per cubic centimeter. This means that for every cubic centimeter, you have about 7.87 grams of iron.

Your basic cubic centimeter is one hundredth of a liter (I'm getting a little bored of conversions here, so I'm just going to go with liters, since people who are non-metric think of volumes in liters more than in cubic centimeters anyway).

By my calculations, then, your ton of steel should have the mass of (0.004 * 1 L) * (7.87 * 10³) = about 11,205 grams, or about 24.7 ounces.

Now, feathers are actually compressed down or something? They look a lot more dense than an equal volume of air would be. I looked it up and the answer is that "a 1.0 g [gram] bird's feather can have a volume of about 0.79 mL [milliliters], with a length of around 0.3 mm and a diameter of around 0.01 mm." This makes the density of feathers about 119 g/L, which is a lot higher than air, which has a density of only about 1.29 g/L.

Thus, your ton of feathers should be about 100 * (119 * 1 L) * (14 L) = 14,929.2 grams, or about 32.9 pounds.

[rabbitcruiser]

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

Fudge and ice cream, one of the greatest combos in the world: head to an ice cream parlor, or make your own tasty, creamy, sweet hot fudge sundae at home.

It’s hard to go wrong with ice cream—no matter what you do with it, it seems like it always results in something delicious. Ice cream sandwiches, ice cream cake, milkshakes, ice cream fondue…need we say more? And one of the few things that can make ice cream even better than it is thick, hot, sweet fudge. Fudge and ice cream…if that’s not a reason for celebration, what is?

Learn About National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

National Hot Fudge Sundae Day gives us all the perfect excuse to indulge in this delicious, sweet treat. It is all about celebrating the invention of this dessert, and what better way to celebrate than eating a sundae?

A sundae is simply an ice cream dessert that usually consists of one or more scoops of ice cream, which then has a syrup or sauce on top, with a number of other toppings added. This could be maraschino cherries, peanuts, marshmallows, whipped cream, or sprinkles. We also see a lot of dessert parlours adding chopped up chocolate bars to sundaes today, with everything from popping candy to candyfloss incorporated into the latest inventions.

Of course, a Hot Fudge Sundae needs to have two critical ingredients: hot fudge sauce and ice cream. After this, there are plenty of different adaptions of the treat. Some people add walnuts to their sundae, in order to give the dessert a good crunch.

You can also add fudge pieces or some chocolate drops. If you want to add some fruit into the mix, cherries are often teamed with hot fudge sundaes. Or, why not add some delicious and gooey chunks of brownie? The choice is yours! That’s what makes a sundae so great; it is all about putting your favorite ingredients into one big dessert glass and enjoying the magic it creates!

Record-breaking sundaes

If you thought you were the biggest fan of sundaes, you may have to concede defeat when you read about some of these World Records! For example, the longest sundae was created in March of 2018. It measured more than 4,549 feet long! It was created in College Station at the Spirit of Texas festival.

The most expensive sundae can also be found in the United States. If you are willing to pay $25,000, you can enjoy the world’s most expensive sundae in New York City at Serendipity 3. The owner of Serendipity 3, Stephen Bruce, teamed up with Euphoria, a luxury jeweler, in order to create the Frozen Haute Chocolate sundae.

The sundae included 28 different cocoas, with 14 of the world’s most exotic and expensive cocoas. The dessert, which is spelled with two Rs, is served in a goblet that is lined with edible gold, and it is infused with five grams of edible 23-karat gold. It is then topped with whipped cream, which has more gold on the top. One the side, you will get a La Madeline au Truffle from Knipschildt Chocolatier. This sells for $2,600 per pound.

History of the National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

Why we call sundaes, sundaes is not precisely known, though it is probably simply connected to the fact that ice cream with nuts, sprinkles, fruit, whipped cream and various syrups used to be a treat reserved only for the weekends.

Sundaes first appeared in the early 1900s, and with a few years there were already countless variations of it, such as the Robin Hood sundae, Cocoa Caramel sundae, Black Hawk sundae, Angel Cake sundae, Cherry Dip sundae, Cinnamon Peak sundae, Opera sundae, Fleur D’Orange sundae, Knickerbocker sundae, Tally-Ho Sundae, Bismarck and George Washington sundae, to name but a few.

American-style fudge was first made in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1886, and its popularity soon expanded.

These two delicious foodstuffs were first combined in 1906 at C.C. Browns, an ice cream parlour on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, and the hot fudge sundae was born. Today, even Google recognizes this holiday as an official holiday!

How to celebrate National Hot Fudge Sundae Day

Are you ready to give your taste buds the treat of their lives? If so, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day could be your new favorite holiday! To celebrate it, you could go out to an ice cream parlor to enjoy one, or you could make one yourself.

One fun way to celebrate hot fudge sundae day is to get your friends around and you can all create your own hot fudge sundaes together. Create a station with lots of different toppings, from brownies and popcorn to sprinkles and marshmallows.

You can then all have a lot of fun together making your own creations. This is a great way to spend time with those you love while doing something a bit different to the norm!

So are you ready to celebrate this deliciously sweet little holiday? We know we are!

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[awisetoad]

Bombur & Kili are the real wizards of the company.

Bear with me.

There are 3 questions that have plagued me for a while, that have always seemed unrelated:

Why did it take the company so much longer on ponies to travel than it took Frodo & the Gang?

Is Kili really an archer?

What did the company eat?

Now I realize that they are very related, and the first two can pretty much be answered by the last one.

What do dwarves eat?

Meat, obviously, and according to Tolkien Gateway they prefer to trade with Men (and Elves, at times) instead of bothering with agriculture themselves. Also, they don't really mount ponies or have relationships with animals (as in, no pets). But, that doesn't mean they have 0 animal husbandry whatsoever.

It also makes sense that they'd eat mushrooms, and probably cave fish too.

That is, of course, prior to the sacking of Erebor.

Being a wandering people probably fundamentally changed their relationship with food. They now have little to no wealth with which to barter and must rely on skills to trade for food. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that they probably picked up new skills in order to support themselves here.

Fishing they probably had down pretty well, but I'd bet money they had to learn to hunt and trap and forage from Men during their wandering days. This is probably where Thorin learned to shoot, given he's a guy who seems to do literally anything his people need. Makes sense that he'd teach his nephews this valuable skill. Thus, I don't think it's unreasonable that Kili's bow would be used almost exclusively for hunting instead of for war.

By the time they're settled in Ered Luin, I'd wager they are more stable than when they were wandering but still not quite back to the Erebor days. We know the Blue Mountains are poor in precious metals and gems, and there doesn't really appear to be as many settlements of Men nearby to trade with (and we know Thorin hates Elves, so they're probably out).

Thus, the caravans Kili spoke of during his conversations with Tauriel probably come into play. I imagine caravans of working dwarves crossed Eriador regularly with wagons full of what they have to sell, trading their skills, maybe doing "thrift flips" with unwanted junk, all in hopes of being able to stock up Thorin's Halls before the winter. Hunting to feed the caravans as well as trading whatever pelts and animal products or foraged goods from these learned skills is probably helping them a lot, and wouldn't be a skill to scoff at. I bet lots of dwarves who couldn't practice their old trade would pick up one of these new skills as a side-gig.

It also is a handy skill when feeding 13 dwarves on a months-long secret journey across the planet. Because, oh boy, Kili has his work cut out for him.

How much does a dwarf eat?

I'm using the Dwarrow Scholar numbers for height & weight. The average Longboard is 5' 1" and weighs ~170lbs. I am also ignoring Bilbo and Gandalf for the purposes of these calculations.

I'm looking for nutritional requirements for a strongman or powerlifter, thinking that would equate to the kind of lifestyle the average dwarf lives. Bodybuilder.com suggested lifters should aim for 1.2 grams of protein per pound of body weight, 1.4 grams per pound of carbs on training days (half that on rest days), and 0.24 grams per pound of fats (which I don't really care about for our purposes).

Using those numbers, we're looking at 204g of protein and anywhere between 119–238g of carbs (I'm picking 175g as a nice middle ground), and 40g fats (which again I don't really care about) for a single dwarf, per day.

This means that the entire company needs to come up with 2652g of protein and 2275g of carbs daily.

…which is a totally meaningless number until you put it in perspective.

A Quick Baseline*:

*these numbers are from a half-assed google

Beef & Chicken have roughly 8g of protein per oz, which we'll use as a rough guideline to follow for various types of game

Your average potato has 25g of carbs, while a carrot only has 6g

There are 45g of carbs in 1 cup of brown rice

This recipe for whole wheat sourdough has 36 servings, and at 18g of carbs per serving, totals 648g of carbs for the loaf

A Guide to Game:

I got these numbers by googling around on some hunting sites to see how many pounds of edible meat are produced by various types of game, which I then converted to ounces.

the average squirrel has roughly 8oz of edible meat

a rabbit might have anywhere from 16-32oz of edible meat

ducks produce 48-80oz of edible meat

it's not unreasonable for a buck to yield 58lbs of meat and a doe to yield 44, which translates to 928 & 704oz respectively

a wild hog that weighs 100lbs might yield 35lbs (or 560oz of meat)

the weight of an adult bass is 12lbs, and the internet says a 1lb trout produces ~7oz of meat so maybe we can bullshit that an adult fish is 96oz of edible meat?

IN CONCLUSION

So let's put all of this into theoretical perspective, shall we?

> Kili would need to hunt at least 41 squirrels, 10 rabbits, 4-7 ducks, 1 deer, 1 boar, or 4 good-sized fish every single day. > Bombur has to cook all of that, and either bake 6 loaves of bread, cook 26 cups of rice, or 65 potatoes.

Holy shit, no wonder it took them so long to get anywhere.

Keep in mind that these quantities assume we have enough to maintain their weight, and I only calculated edible meat. Game has a bunch of other valuable parts like pelts, carcasses to make stock, and organs that are either useful or edible.

Also, remember that at many points in the story the dwarves come close to starving (I can see why, god damn). They better be really good at foraging for some kind of carb, starch, veggie, what-have-you because they need a lot of it.

I intend to follow up with an exploration of what they might've foraged to supplement, as well as a few likely meals or menus that take these things into account. So, stay tuned.

[mossmagus]

I am convinced the person who first said that we shouldn't blame the average person for the environmental impacts of the big companies was an opp. Not in actuality, I see what they were trying to say. But it has absolutely been co-opted by companies and I guarantee you they're astroturfing the entire internet with unnecessary hostility toward people and causing a shift away from being ecologically minded.

Yes we should absolutely be kind toward our fellow poors and not judge them for unavoidable uses of single use plastics or consumption when there's genuinely no better option available to them. However, I've been seeing less and less people talk about it and it's been a QUICK decline.

People don't want to judge other's choices but WE are the driving force behind companies not doing that anymore.

Capital-ism. We are the capital. If we deny them our attention and our money they will change or die. And they will do anything to keep our money, including creating hostility towards people raising awareness about their bad choices.

Being ecologically unfriendly is extremely profitable for them. 50 lbs of moisture resistant plastic pellets is 263 USD from this particular retailer. And according to this website here a 500mL water bottle weighs between 9.9 and 12.7 grams. Fifty pounds converted to grams is 22679.62. Divide that by both numbers above and you get between 2290.87 repeating and 1785.7968. A few THOUSAND water bottles for less than three hundred dollars. If you buy them in a 24 pack you're getting a better deal but a lot of these are going for anywhere between 1 and 8 dollars.

Lets do more math.

If we go with a thicker water bottle - assuming 12.7 grams - and we set up the proportion of 22,679g costing 263 dollars and place 12.7 over x, then x comes out to be 0.147.

14.7 cents.

I don't understand how water rights work or if they buy them or what happens with that. But let's be generous to these companies and just assume is evens out to like 10 cents per 500mL. That means it costs a quarter to produce these 500mL water bottles. They're charging us four or five times that for a cheaper and worse bottle, the thicker ones are usually 2 to 3 dollars.

They are screwing us over by stealing our water, by poisoning us, by lobbying the fucking Supreme Court of the US to get rid of their oversight, by draining us dry the same way they're draining the planet dry.

We need to keep encouraging each other to do better. To keep going. We need to reach out and help each other do better. We need to separate ourselves from the consumerist trap that is this country and we need to do it together. We need to be kind but we need to keep speaking up.

They will never stop if we don't make them.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

From the photos I've seen this appears to be the type of ration distributed by the joint US-Jordan airdrop, a variation on what Jordan feeds deployed soldiers produced by a company there. Packaging is slightly different but the tray I saw had LSS branding and was also Freekeh with Chicken, so 38,000 meals, not MREs (which have things like heating elements, napkins and utensils, usually come packaged as 2-3 meals).

Assuming all the various meals are all 250 grams, that means 9,500 Kilograms of food, or just shy of 21,000 pounds. Which might sound like a lot!

But consider: one Mark 82 bomb is 532 pounds before you add various fusing and guidance kits. And Biden is bypassing Congress to send roughly 1,000 to Israel right now:

That's over 532,000 pounds (241,311 KG) of bombs and gear to drop on Palestinians, in just this one shipment. To put it another way, the US is dropping more than 25 pounds of bomb per pound of food, and that's rounding down on the bombs and up on the food. It's not impossible that the C-130 transport aircraft used in this airdrop could be bringing Israel munitions in their very next mission.

It really doesn't matter at this point if the airdropped stuff is expired or not. It might help a handful of people live another day longer but it's immensely hollow and empty as a gesture when you're probably dropping a bomb on those very same people the next day. It's theater.

[gaydri]

So many people seem to think a pound of feathers and a pound of steel weigh the same but this is not true and is the kind of shit you should have learned in primary and secondary schools.

Lets start with the basics.

Mass: It also tells you how much "stuff" is in it. Now by stuff I kind of mean atoms and molecules but different atoms and molecules do not weigh the same, so the amount of "stuff" is dependent on the thing we are talking about. It is also a measurement of inertia, which is an object resistance to acceleration (or deceleration). Units to measure mass include but are not limited grams, pounds, tons, kilograms, stones, etc.

Volume: How much room something takes up (3-d space) units include (cubic centimeters, cubic meters, liters, etc)

Density: Mass of an object per given unit of volume this can be found by dividing mass by the volume it occupies. (g/L which is a gram per liter, could also be gram per cubic centimeter,)

Gravity: Caused by mass, all mass exerts a gravitational pull. the more mass the more "gravity" it will have. Gravity is a constant pretty much every where on earth, it does decrease as you increase in altitude by it is negligible, even if you were to stand on top of mount Everest there isn't too much of a difference with the acceleration due to gravity being 9.77 m/s/s, so its negligible unless you are talking about extreme masses, but this difference is not important to the subject at hand

Velocity: Your displacement per unit of time(i.e. seconds)

Speed: Distance per unit of time (i.e. seconds)

Force: I am not talking about Star Wars force, I am talking about physics force. A vector, the product of mass and acceleration, and I mean it literally, multiply mass and acceleration and you get force. Now, gravity causes an acceleration so your "weight" is technically a force caused by the gravity of Earth which in free fall accelerates you by 9.8 m/s/s (9.8 meters per second per second), meaning you speed up by 9.8 meters per second every second. The unit for this is Newtons in Metric and pounds, the imperial units are fucking stupid when it comes to force cause there is stones, pounds (which is also what they use for mass), and slugs and some other shit, I am not going to use them)

Momentum: A product of mass and velocity, found by multiplying mass and velocity.

Now lets get into this, a kilogram of one this is going to have the exact same mass as a kilogram of another thing. Lets look at water and "air" for example. Mass is a measurement of how much stuff is in something and density tells you how much stuff is in something per unit of volume (so you could say how packed in the stuff is per unit of volume). Water is a lot more dense (meaning there is more stuff per given unit of volume, or it is more "concentrated") than air, so you will need less water in terms of volume to get a kilogram than you would air (we are talking about air at at sea level pressure).

Now since they have the same mass they will have the same weight, since gravity is essentially is a constant at any given altitude on Earth, the water and the air will have the same weight because they have the same mass and because gravity is the same. Therefore they would press down on the Earth with the same force as well. So lets go with a scenario of you are holding the objects. To make this example easier to understand lets do this. Lets say we have two boxes that are the same size with no mass, they also don't bend or stretch. Now lets say in one you put in the kilogram of water into it and in the other box you put the 1 kilogram of air into it. Now there is 1 kilogram of stuff air in once box and 1 kilogram of water in another. So now you go to pick up the boxes, they both have 1 kg (kilogram) of mass inside them. That means the will weigh (force caused by gravity) of about 9.8 Newtons which is about 2.2 pounds for those who use imperial units.

Now just fucking substitute steel/lead for water and feather for air and you get the same fucking result.

When idiots talk about which is heavier they talk about which would hurt more if it fells on you. A block or ball of fucking metal versus a clump of fucking feather that not held together in any way and thus would not act as one unit/mass and then turn into a bunch of fucking individual feathers than do not weight 1 pound individually. Now, because of the shape and density of the fucking feather there is a shit ton of drag force (air resistance) acting on those individual feather prevent them from accelerating as fast. If you were to hold them they would exert the same amount of force/weight on hands. If they were to drop on your head they would exert the same force because they have the same mass and gravity is the same everywhere on Earth (for practical purposes). The difference being that if steel/lead fall on your head, it would be a smaller object because it is denser and because it is a single object held incredibly tightly together due to inter-atomic/molecular forces. Compare that to a bundle of feathers not held together, all of a sudden you drop this bundle then all of a sudden they split up because they are a bunch of fucking individual feather that are not held together. They will end up separating then all of a sudden you are hit by a bunch of individual feathers that do not weigh a pound that are hitting you, they are not even accelerating at normal gravitational acceleration because of the drag force (air resistance) acting on. Of course the pound of steel is going to hit fucking harder, its one object that is not being affected by drag (air resistance) to the same degree as the bunch of individual feathers not being held together (much, much less than the feathers). Even if the feathers were held together it still wouldn't hit harder because it is less dense and thus needs more volume to get to 1 pound, because it takes up more space there is more area for friction/drag (air resistance) to act upon thus it won't accelerate as fast in free fall. Just because one would hit hard in that situation does not mean one weighs more than the other because like I said before it is a product of mass and gravity and because gravity is constant and in this situation they have the same as well they will weigh the same. 1 kilogram of steel multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity gives you 9.8 Newtons (2.2 pounds). 1 kilogram of feathers multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity gives you 9.8 Newtons (2.2 pounds). Therefore, a pound (or kilogram in my example) of feather WEIGHS AND HAS THE SAME MASS as a pound (kilogram in my examples) of steel/lead.

TL;DR - If you don't understand that pound of feathers and a pound of steel weigh the same there is no TLDR, you need to read this whole thing. I could make this longer but if you don't understand the basic concept of mass and weight then me making this longer will not do you any good.

Anyone who does not understand this is a fucking idiot and needs to go back to middle school or high school where you should have learned this shit, if you school never taught you this then everyone in charge of the decision making when it comes to curriculum should be replaced with someone who isn't fucking stupid.

Im not reading all that