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kulahanlast Wednesday at 11:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Well if it’s based on weight, and one of the steps is to reduce the weight significantly…

Point being someone eating a couple bags of jerky over a workday would probably count as having eaten literal pounds of beef, despite consumed weight being much lower. Water is noncompressible and makes your stomach full very quickly.


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quietbritishjimlast Thursday at 1:23 AM

> Point being someone eating a couple bags of jerky over a workday would probably count as having eaten literal pounds of beef

For the purposes of this conversation, about the nutritional effect of your diet, that seems like a fair way to put it.