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  • Pirky@lemmy.worldtoAutism@lemmy.worldWhat are your ARFID eating tips?
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    4 months ago

    Huh, I never knew of ARFID, but that fits me particularly well, especially as a kid. I will have to dig into this more.
    For me, I found a relatively healthy comfort food (yogurt with granola; sometimes with berries) and have that for lunch most days. The granola makes it easy to load up on calories/carbs while it, and the yogurt, also provide a good amount of protein. Berries can add a bit of fiber. It’s always delicious for me. I’ve been eating it consistently for years now and I’ve yet to get sick of it. However if you’re lactose intolerant, this might not be a viable option.
    Edit: reading the comments reminded me of another thing: protein shakes. I buy a container of whey protein mix from Walmart/Meijer and mix that with a glass of whole milk when I don’t have the energy to make anything. It is delicious. The strawberry one tastes like strawberry milk and the vanilla one tastes just like vanilla ice cream but in milk form.
    Water can be used in place of milk if you don’t have any, or are intolerant, but it’s nowhere near as good; it’s just not the same.

    It would be nice if I had more healthy comfort foods, but that’s a work in progress.
    Otherwise I supplement with a multivitamin to make sure I’m not deficient in anything.





  • I’m not necessarily looking for a magic bullet solution. It’s more this is not really a solution at all. All it is, is just treating a symptom. And rather poorly at that.
    Also, even if we did move forward with this, how are we going to increase the reflectivity? And where? The only viable option is to paint roofs white since it can significantly reduce cooling costs in the summer. But outside of that, there’s no realistic option.
    There is also the fact that trying to reflect the light back into space means reflecting it through the atmosphere a second time, giving it a second opportunity to heat it even further.
    And a giant space mirror is not practical either. The resources that would go towards that could have easily gone towards more effective solutions on the ground.

    Significantly more effective solutions would be to reduce our reliance on cars in western countries (simply switching to EV’s is not enough); switch to greener power sources like wind, solar, and nuclear; redesigning our products to last longer and to be more repairable; etc.
    If you want something a bit more direct to donate to and support, you could check out environmental programs. I, myself, donate to Mossy Earth. They focus on rewilding and re-establishing ecosystems throughout the world. They also have a Youtube channel where they post about their projects along with updates. If Mossy Earth isn’t your thing, I know there are many other groups out there with like-minded goals. Find those groups and support/join them if you can.






  • The graph is showing horsepower (green lines) and torque (blue lines) over the engine’s rpm range. The solid lines are the stock run while the dashed are the tuned run. I wasn’t expecting huge gains. And most car people I talked to said not to expect much; one friend thought I wouldn’t get more than 10 horsepower. So the gains I got were actually better than I expected. But not by much.

    The main reason I did this was because I couldn’t find any data on tuning this engine. Ford put these engines in a lot of cars (Taurus, F-150, Explorer, Flex, Edge, and all the Lincoln vehicles), so there are a lot of them out on the road.
    And I know I’m not the only person who’s thought of tuning this engine. So I figured I’d take one for the team, tune mine, then share it with the world so other people can decide if this is right for them.


  • Pretty much. You can only do so much with a naturally aspirated engine. So if you want big gains from a tune, get a turbo’d engine.
    I could turbo it, but I don’t want to drop that much money on it at one time. Plus I’d have to replace the transmission because Ford only rated the 6F50 for 300 hp and 280 lb-ft.
    So that’d be another couple grand on top of the couple grand for the turbo.
    That’s just way more than what I can afford.

    As for mileage, 2-3 mpg actually feels about right. The computer is saying higher mileage than stock, but it’s not a huge gain. I need to do more driving before I can say just how much better it is.