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Green Lake and Round Lake - Trans Megathread from February 23rd, 2025 to March 1st, 2026
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Green Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn't do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn't moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
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Any weight loss advice? I've been unsuccessful at losing weight over the past year. I was very depressed over college and put on about ten kilos in my final year, and I can't keep living like this. I enjoy going to the gym, but I'm also awful at regulating myself. I snack too much and make meals that are way too big. I feel really guilty when I don't finish a meal, so I end up eating too much
Honestly the only thing that worked for me was GLP-1s
I lost 50 lbs by calorie counting in 2019, it was not easy. It took a little under a year. Marathon, not a sprint, etc. Theres calculators online that can help you figure out a daily calorie goal to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week (they will also be in metric too lol), which is about as fast as you wanna go for the sake of your skin and muscle.
I also did some therapy about why I had been emotionally eating and stress eating as well, which helped. Sounds like you have some stuff to work out over guilt around food. Exercise helps with losing weight a bit but the main thing is cutting intake. If you live alone, just dont buy the food/snacks and only make what you eat and store leftovers quickly - "just" does a lot of work there but its true! Oh, also a kitchen scale was useful!
I have arguably anorexic tendencies so I am not sure how relevant and healthy my advice is. But as calorie counting and kitchen scale are mentioned by someone else I can add few things that works for me psychologically.
First thing that helped me was going back to intermittent fasting, I don't eat until 7pm and just go with coffee/smoking(they are very useful for keeping hunger in check but not obviously not worth starting if you aren't a user).
Eating high fiber foods, brown rice, greens, oatmeal, vegetables keeps you full way longer and allows smaller portions. I also eat same things most days since i find that repetition helps and I keep one 250-300 calorie processed snack space in my 1200 calorie limit as it helps with motivation and my sweet tooth is insatiable.
Mentally, I am against checking the scale way too often. Losing weight is a long and gradual process that doesn't show results very quickly even if everything is going well. I just tell myself to keep going, it has to work mathmetically instead of going to scale every day. Also calculate how much your body burns without working out and plan your daily caloric intake accordingly. Count and weight EVERYTHING you eat. Besides that dysphoria is a good motivator as well for me personally. Allowing yourself cheat days once a month or 2-3 weeks is also important. Keeping motivation pretty much carries the whole process.
I've been able to lose 10 kgs between august and december last year by following these.
1200 kcal is quite dangerously low, Im saying this because it can hurt you. I work in Trauma and we have people in comas, even then they get at an absolute minimum 1500 kcal - and theyre not doing much of anything. They try to aim for around 2000 kcal.
Everything else if it works for you (maybe dont smoke too lol), go for it but consider increasing your limit because you could be missing critical macros, vitamins, and other nutrients. Cheat days, IF, whatever is working for you.
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Every time you post the numbers like that I'm reminded how bad my 600 cal/day crash was for meOh I am aware and I am not at that level anymore, but It's hard to convince me of the fact once I am obsessed with losing weight sadly.
Oh hey that's how much I get... Wait that's bad
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