#and Digestive Issues

[innerchildabortionclinic]

yk how people freak out about ultraprocessed food aiming to bypass your body's natural processes? it's funny how you don't hear the same narrative with diet marketed products when they have ingredients that will have you shitting yourself for 24 hours because it makes the total amount of calories lower. like this cannot possibly be good to consume. the servings of these products you also have to be more careful with, like I remember eating this low calorie ice cream once because I was curious and I noticed it contained an INSANE amount of indigestible insanity. i'm used to GI issues so I drank tons of water in preparation, but others online mentioned they had severe cramping after eating the product, likely because they did not expect such a reaction. it's still salt, fat, and sugar that make dessert foods appealing and companies have not come up with a SAFE way to create diet versions of these more calorie dense products. they tried with olestra in the 90s--people also ended up with digestive issues and thus it was largely phased out. that's because these "hacks" to getting around calories surround how the food is digested and metabolized;

if you've seen any talk from fitness influencers about brands like halo top it's basically this all over again. consuming small to moderate amounts may be fine, but all the marketing surrounds the idea that you don't have to consume small amounts of diet products because they have less calories, which is how people are getting sick. also what happened to "if you have to eat junk food you just lack discipline"? you could be eating frozen yogurt as a replacement for ice cream if it was really your health you were concerned about. i'm just saying when most of my diet consisted of 'low calorie xyz' I had such severe GI issues I thought I developed IBS or something.

anyway no doubt more of these low calorie products will be pushed by western companies as health food in response to people using ozempic to get rid of cravings. will be interesting to see where people end up because these are not sustainable diet strategies.

i've posted on this topic before and people got extremely defensive over using ozempic for weight loss and I just wanna say are that many people on here regularly purchasing ozempic for weight loss? or fantasizing of a future in which they are able to? saying this stuff will have coquette girlies coming for you for weeks guaranteed

[mechncheese]

When I was first reading the comics I would jot down my thoughts and get really annoying so here are some out of context ones i dug up

[ivynightshade]

fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from moony moonless sky.

[text id: i can’t be loved, swallowed or digested. must i make myself smaller?]

[lazylittledragon]

Please ignore if this is too personal but IIRC you were/are dealing with caffeine addiction? I hope you're doing Ok, as a former addict I know how hard it is so wishing you the best xx

thank you for checking in!!

i'm doing very well!! i haven't cut out coffee completely bc i really don't think i can (it's been one of my daily pleasures for SO long), but right now i only have 1-2 espresso shots and i don't even have it every day anymore

also remembering that i used to have 4-6 shots per drink, sometimes multiple times a day, makes me want to throw up now which is probably a good sign ajkdhdsh

[dragongirlbunny]

sometimes i wish i had the "eats only 3 foods forever" autism instead of what i deal with, which is "eating the same food twice in a row means it is no longer edible for 2d20 weeks"

[chronicillnesshumor]

My stomach tries to kill me if I eat foods that have food in them.

[hadideedee]

I would just like to say, to any avemuji/bandori fans that struggle with moral scrupulosity or engaging with media that has/alludes to problematic elements;

You are not a bad person for enjoying said media. You are not a bad person if you don’t feel any particular way about something having problematic elements.

Obviously if it makes you really uncomfortable please take a step back and do what you need to do to make yourself feel better (blacklist tags, log off, etc.), but don’t feel like you have to completely purge yourself of something that you find entertaining/comforting just because something in it is a bit unsavory. All types of media and art dabble with darker themes.

You’re not a bad person for being interested in things, I promise.

[followthebluebell]

Stinky girl has no idea that tomorrow is bath time

Roomba is actually pretty good about bath time, tbh. She mostly just sits in the tub and looks like the world's most pathetic Victorian orphan while crying at the top of her lungs (very loud bengal lungs). She'll happily SIT in any tub of water left around but getting BATHED? Horrible. Terrible. Worst fate.

[kcsplace]

The Boys In The Boat Characters + Text Posts Don Hume Edition

Bobby/Don/Joe/Al/Joyce/

[feastingonchrist]

gonna add a spacer thing

ugh so things have been going smoothly this week with my digestion and eating so much that i quickly forgot what it felt like to have digestive issues and all the other struggles that come along with it. but thursday was the start of a 3 day downfall of sensory issues with food which triggered the times when i had ARFID-like struggles due to a really traumatic time in my life and then having digestive issues the past 3 days on top of guilt when i eat due to my really bad binging past 2 weeks..... a lot of it is psychological which effects the physical. i am aware but that doesn't make it any less harder. i have been mad cause i have barely been able to eat again these last 3 days and getting full so easily. it sucks and is making me really sad. yeah healing comes in ups and downs with good and bad moments but ugh i was feeling so good again and really needed that and i feel awful already :( i am proud of myself though cause i have barely overeaten anything!!! maybe like twice. but the self control and grace God has given me.....❤️‍🩹 i just wish i didn't feel so alone in this battle but i think on Wednesday i might open up to someone. i hate the feelings that take me back to the place that i know God isactively healing me from. not that it's even been that long ago but man i see His progress in short amts of time and the way this battle goes back and forth and all the shame i have makes me not even want to eat bc most of the time when i do i am just traumatized again. it's not even ab the way i look it's bc i'm not able to eat and i lose control so i can tend to binge but bc i haven't been doing it and i have better self control currently i just still feel bad bc i'm forced to not be able to eat. like i just wanted my nightly ice cream and i can't have any bc i'm too full and i barely got to eat today. this is stressing me out and i can't sleep hardly. literally the entire basis of my food intake is disordered and mimicks an actual ED & my mindset is very that way as i've cut out bad foods bc it effects my digestion poorly and i have a whack perception of how much "alot" pf food is bc i eat like a mouse and then out of the stress and trauma i have developed actual EDS along the way and so yeah...

[wombywoo]

Wait, is Vincent not able to go near garlic or is this because Quinn's breath would suck? XD

Garlic is extremely repulsive to vampires; something something hypersensitivity to certain sulfurs, plus it's just funny. The scent/taste overwhelms them, causing their eyes to burn/coughing/agitation etc. so it's also an effective weapon against them.

long story short--Quinn's nasty ass garlic breath is not coming anywhere near Vincent unless he gargles with some mouthwash 🚫

[userk295923]

Ughhhh omg I ate too much for dinnerrrrr!?! I had a big plate of chicken tenders and fries then a large bowl of ice cream. As I sit here typing this my tummy is working over time digesting, churning and gurgling so loudly with these sick and nasty sounds but I LOVE IT! My poor belly is so distended and bloated; I am so tight. I have not had this much to eat in a long time!! Now I am drinking a 7up zero sugar and I don’t think it’s helping my case because I can’t burp and I am even more bloated and gurgly than I was before. I wish someone could rub my tummy but I guess I will do it myself. Ohhhh my poor belly!

That gif is literally how I feel rn! Ughhh! 🤰🏼😩😫😖

[disabled-phoenix]

Please respect people's dietary restrictions!

[canisalbus]

It makes me happy to hear that modern Vasco's parents are kind to Machete.

Thank you! It feels nice being able to give them good things they couldn't have in their original setting.

[hungrytummyprompts]

How about tired with a side of extra whump?

As soon as the door closed behind him, Kurt collapsed straight into his bed. He didn't even bother removing his shoes, or his hero gear. Hell, the hero gear was best left on as much as possible. He'd live in it if he could, it was the one thing he had that protected his skin from his own powers. Anyway, his main goal for now was to just sleep until he felt at least a little rested, which would be...six years perhaps? Yeah, that was in line with how exhausted he felt now. He'd even elected to stay in a room in the team base instead of making his way home home, even though that would certainly leave him more at risk of Katharine's nagging about getting injuries seen to or whatever else. Honestly, she was worse than his ex sometimes.

It probably would have been easier to sleep if he had let her treat his wounds. Then he would just have to deal with the nausea that came with the excess acid in his system (thanks, acid powers) and the way that excess acid made it difficult to eat properly.

Speaking of which, he was starving. As usual. His belly gave its usual complaints, a low, longing groan that bid him to get out of bed and go back to the common room. He pushed himself up on his arms, yawned and decided 'fuck it'. A second later, he was face down in the pillow again.

Sleep didn't come easily, much to his chagrin. Despite his exhaustion, the aches and pains across his body digging into his psyche every time he tried to relax bothering him more than he'd care to admit. Hunger was digging at his belly like a frantic animal, and now he was no longer in the midst of battle his stomach decided it was cool to complain. He shifted position for a while, trying to get comfortable if it was the last thing he did, and ended up on his back, one leg bent up, one arm slung over his eyes, the other draped languidly over his poor neglected stomach. In this position he could really feel it sinking in from lack of food, each miserable grumble like a knife to his already sore body.

He didn't neglect it on purpose, of course. If he could control it, he'd be eating well every day, enough even to become good and fat. He imagined how it would feel to be completely stuffed with good food and thought it would be the ultimate fantasy.

The problem was his acid powers. His body naturally overproduced saliva, enough that he was either forced to swallow it down or spit it out with frankly ridiculous frequency. There was always a pause in conversation when it was his turn while he cleared his mouth of the latest stupid puddle. It meant he always had a huge amount to spit at enemies, but outside of a fight situation it was nothing but a pain.

Additionally, the saliva his body produced was a highly corrosive acid. More potent than anything else he'd encountered in his life so far. His body didn't seem properly equipped to handle it either. Any time it touched his skin, it burned. He had scars around his mouth, his lips mostly scar tissue, his hands and arms carrying the proof of old burns. The inside of his body had some protection. It still burned his mouth and throat, but not enough to cause obvious major damage. Sometimes he would gag as the acid slid down his throat, his body bringing it back up as it begged him to get rid of it, and jesus fuck did that hurt, and having more acid in his stomach than he was supposed to was just awful. It hurt, especially when his stomach was empty, it made him feel sick, it bloated him and gave him ulcers, it just sucked more than anything.

Overall, this made simply eating and drinking normally highly unpleasant. Anything in his mouth caused it to water, which of course meant more acid spit, it would quickly become some nasty mush before he could even chew it, his body would try to reject it when he swallowed, his stomach wouldn't even absorb whatever made it in properly and there was a fair chance he would throw up later.

Okay, maybe some of the neglect was willful avoidance of a very unpleasant process but mostly it was just hard to get anything good into his stomach. A stomach that was currently throwing an absolute tantrum in his exhausted body. He dug his fingers in against the miserable organ, just wishing it would stop. He was tired and just wanted to sleep without his tummy screaming at him. It was too much, he couldn't do it anymore.

At some point in the mess of misery, he must have fallen into a light sleep because he was startled awake by his door opening. He knew who it was without looking. The whole room stank of death and rot, which didn't help the nausea at all. He couldn't judge Katherine for it though, it was a shitty side effect of her powers too.

"Get out."

She instead placed something on the desk. He caught the scent of broth and groaned as his stomach clenched and howled. Katherine huffed.

"I could hear your stomach from all the way down the hall. Eat, you idiot."

He raised a hand and waved her away,  waited until he heard her leave and shut the door and sat up to look at what she had brought.

Soup.

Simple soup. Some kind of vegetable soup by the smell. His belly begged him to get up, take those few steps to the desk and eat the whole thing. When had he last eaten? It looked so good and he was so hungry, and he could tell what Katherine had meant. His tummy was growling non stop and so fucking loud, even before she'd brought the soup in. He contemplated dragging himself out of bed to eat.

Then lay back down with both hands pressed to his belly. He would eat later, he promised himself. For now, he was just too damn tired.

[chronicillnesshumor]