Chronic pain sufferers: ‘Are we stupid? Why didn’t we think about that.’
You may not like it, but this is the peak of human fitness (and fashion):
I have been noticing a spread of weird comics, featuring forced dark humor, from taking often valid premises to the extreme, and supposedly making some social critics, but very dull and overly obvious ones, mostly failing to do so.
Am I seeing things, or do any of you see a similar pattern?
I have been noticing a spread of weird comics, featuring forced dark humor,
Part of the reason why I started [email protected], to be honest
This user has a weird history matching what you say, have not seen it that much so far
“The joke is murder! Hahaha - get it?”
Given Buddhism and duhkha, this quote doesn’t even make sense.
If you don’t like pain, just change the way you think about it.
Desire revenge.
As my totally not abusive dad used to say
“You need an attitude adjustment”
Anger is a great attitude for situations like that. My favourite story from the Halo universe is about a dad like that getting what he deserves.
Obesity is not exactly something fun.
Of is this another piece of shit propagating the idea that obesity comes from laziness and eating too much, even though it’s been known to be bullshit for a very long time?
I have been working on losing weight for a long time and I’m starting to think that obesity comes from a combination of:
Poor eating habits, often ingrained in you as you are young, consisting of:
lack of the ability to determine when you have achieved satiation from eating and instead relying on feeling “stuffed”
Psychological compulsion to finish all of your food
The concept of “comfort food” that you feel you should eat when you are feeling sad
having been mentally trained to associate “extreme flavor” with “good food”
and all of that combined with:
junk food being fast, cheap, flavorful, and ever-present
Modern food, especially the pre-prepared types, being very nutritionally deficient when compared to their predecessors of even 70 years ago, thanks to the advent of fertilizers and industrial farming techniques that emphasize caloric output over nutritional output
Modern diets leaning into high sugar and low protein and fat
overly processed wheat that simply create texture and fast digesting sugary carbohydrates
The process that I am currently working on to lose the rest of my excess weight is to focus on lower carbohydrates or non-wheat carbohydrates.
Adding bulk with fresh or raw vegetables that are low in calorie and high in mass, and mentally training myself to leave food on the plate as part of my regular practice when eating, or to prepare less than what I mentally assume is a regular serving of food knowing that should I actually be hungry, I can prepare more food.
I do my best to not eat fast food, and I try to minimize the amount of pre-prepared food items that I eat.
It is slow going, but I am not living in hunger and apathy, and I have lost 15 pounds in the last four months without making any extreme changes to my diet.
Genes are a gigantic part of it. I know people who cannot lost weight while being active and at less than 800kcal per day, and others who can sit all day long and eat ~3000-5000kcal and not gain anything.
Overeating can cause weight gain, but there’s a lot of people who overeat without gaining weight, and others who eat little and still are overweight.
People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them. And a billion that are not known.
Telling people to have healthy habits is good. Telling overweight people, specifically, that they need to improve their habits is discriminatory and serves no purpose other than to dismiss health issues that push weight gain.
Fatphobia stems from a centuries-old view of overweight people as the “evil rich lazy politicians”. Now, the rich ones are the most skinny, muscular ones, because it’s actually hard to be reliably “healthy” (I do not count those as actually healthy, but well) without a shitton of money. As a result, people with weight issues are generally not rich and whatnot. We’re not in the middle ages anymore and maybe it would be time to adapt the views on weight to the current reality of science and society.
People are being brainwashed with crap like “calories in, calories out” or “exercise more” but that’s just bullshit. It pushes the idea that too much weight comes from a personality flaw and not health issues, but yet any actual (and by that, I mean proper) doctor will quickly search for medical reasons for weight gain because there’s a million of them.
Genetics affects how the caloric intake is handled. It does not change the fact that adjusting caloric intake will directly adjust how much weight is even possible to gain.
Studies concluded that the presence of these genes increases the risk of obesity but does not necessitate obesity. This risk can be ameliorated by healthy food choices, increased physical activity and avoiding other causes of obesity mentioned in this review.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147021182404572X
Weird how genetics is left out of this.
Fuck me for having PCOS I guess.
Theres also an innate (probably genetic?) component to obesity. I went through some very very lean years as a youngin, and ive never been truly skinny. My whole family is pretty big, even though half of them eat fairly well and are quite active.
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