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people who don't sweat much will never understand the swamplands we weally wet warriors have to journey through

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Yeah this talking point has bothered me a lot.

Like it would be fair to say that lifestyle changes necessary for dramatic body changes are not sustainable for many people. But it doesn't mean the body will always return to the same state so these changes are entirely pointless.

I've seen my body go through dramatic shifts in weight and I know what the major differences have been for me.

Going from living in a car dependent area to living in a walkable city dropped 30lbs from me in 2 1/2 months. no changes in my diet, and actually I think I was eating more chocolate then because German hazelnut chocolate was like 1 euro for a big bar and I loved that shit 😭.

When I was younger, I would spend the summer on swim team doing hour long morning and afternoon practices. by the end of the season, I had similar results.

The problem is that adult life, especially in car dependent places, makes no time for regular exercise. Time for exercise is always some kind of sacrifice.

You can do something low intensity that takes up most of your afternoon after work or you can do intense bursts that are easy to burn out on or become very boring. And all of these things have a layer of artificiality to them that makes them hard to commit to.

when I was walking everywhere, i didn't have to hassle myself to commit to the routine. it was just how I got about the city. sometimes I had to go up stairs, sometimes I had to run to catch a tram. but it was never "okay now I need to Make myself job for 5 minutes. then walk 5. jog 5" etc.

When I swam, I did it because it was FUN and it was one of the only outdoor activities I could do in the south without feeling like I'm dying. I had an outside structure to keep me accountable too and friends I would only see there as another kind of motivation.

Now, back in a car dependent place, it doesn't help me to think every change I make is pointless. it helps me to recognize what my barriers are so I can meet the changes that I want for myself.

If strict exercise routines are boring, then I need something silly and fun. play tag with your friends again or just kick a ball around.

if there's only a few places I can really walk, I try to get invested in them (I learn more about the plants on the nature paths I take).

anything that can keep me engaged with exercise because it is worth it and it is necessary. we need physical enrichment.

So my dash is doing a thing talking about how there are all kinds of studies showing weight loss is unsuccessful but not actually linking them

Is there actually something more recent than that one study from the 1950s saying 90some% of diets fail? I’ve gone looking for something more recent in the past and not found it.

Also iirc that 1950s study really didn’t define a diet clearly and carefully, though I’m not looking at the criticisms of it this second.

A lot of people use “diet” in different ways. Some people mean “any intended change in habits, such as smaller portions of desserts,” and some people mean “things called ‘diets,’ which prescribe specific patterns of eating, usually involving limiting, excising, or focusing on particular foods.”

Those seem different to me, though I’m open to examining something post 1960 that gives evidence they should be considered statistically identical and would gladly eat crow if it was unambiguous that these are the same.

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🍀 Clover 🍀

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beautiful british women named Battery Low are trying to contact me through my noise cancelling headphones

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remembering the time I called american psycho (a satirical film about toxic masculinity) a dark comedy and the overwhelming response was 'oh so u think men killing sex workers is funny? u think THAT'S funny?' like no I find a patrick batemen listening to 'i'm walking on sunshine', killing jared leto while wearing a clear raincoat and giving a dissertation on huey lewis n the news, using 'I need to return some video tapes' to get out of awkward situations, throwing a hissy fit about business cards, dropping a chainsaw down a flight of stairs, thinking an atm is telling him to feed it cats, and crying hysterically under a desk is funny. but thank u for ur wonderful insight

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Hanif Abdurraqib interviewed by Ruth Awad: Joy Is Not Promised to You

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im sick to my stomachj

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Call me Dracula with the way I gotta do everything around this fucking house

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I wanna be your dog

Oh, to be completely at your beck and call

I wanna live in your laundry

How I long to be your dog

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james somerton is making me feel stupid for trying so hard to sympathize with him

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That crossed my mind, especially since I'm bad at realizing how much tension, outside noise, or coordinating can tire me out.

On the flip I wonder if I put so much stress on myself because I'm worried about managing everything by myself and didn't realize how much I was worried?

maybe it's both? maybe I just ate something that's not sitting with me?

trying to give myself some grace.

why is my body breaking down now when I'm the only person at home for the next few days

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masturbation is evil not for any puritan anti-fun reason but because it has permanently claimed so many verbs

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instead of identifying with a sexuality label which will inevitably always be a vague generalisation, i will release a continuously updated smash or pass list of every being on earth so you'll never be in doubt

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why is my body breaking down now when I'm the only person at home for the next few days