u/NihilisticRoomba

What should I check out?

Already saw Human Hibachi, and was very amused to see someone I used to know from a Meetup as one of the actors. I might see the rest of the series.

I have a pill I need to take before bed, and I always forget. So I asked Claude Cowork to create an automation. The alarm goes off on my iPhone at 8pm. I have a basic med logger in HA triggered by a Sonoff button.

If I haven't pressed the evening button by 8:10pm, the Apple TV pauses and the lights come up. Once I take it and press the button to log, the TV starts playing again. And I just tweaked it so it pauses 15 seconds before turning it back on, enough time for me to get back from the kitchen and sit back down. I kinda love it!

I’m 5’8” and have a fairly large frame. Back in the bad old days on Weight Watchers, I remember really liking how I looked and felt at 175. But that was more than 15 years ago now. I started weight loss shots in August 2024, and I was horrified to see I was 285, the highest I’d ever been. (No shade to anyone at that weight or higher; this was how I felt.)

I got to 199 before my insurance yoinked the shots away. But now I’ve got it again and I was 245 when I started on Zep at the beginning of May.

I’m a size 16 now, and I’ve been saying I want to be back in a size 12. I still had that 175 in mind, but I just realized that’s 60 pounds less than I am right now, and I just don’t know is that even a good idea?

I plan to talk about it with my PCP when I see her next week, but does anyone know is there a best “formula” for choosing a goal weight or anything like that? And please don’t give me BMI, thanks.

Will add some pics in comments so you can see what I mean. Thanks for listening!

Edit: Oh can’t see where to edit user flair here, but tomorrow is my 4th dose at 5mg.

Edit 2: Found it!

Update: Thanks to all who commented. I just checked my lean mass according to my Eufy smart scale, and right now I’m at 44.4% body fat. Getting down to 25-30% puts me right around 175-185 lbs, so maybe I’m in the right neighborhood after all.

I’m building out a dashboard to suggest good windows of time to mow my lawn. Claude Cowork is putting it together now, using local weather data pulled from NWS and Tomorrow.io. But a sensor in the actual grass that said how wet things were would be ideal. Anyone know of a good one?