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marrow-bone · 4 months ago

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Gotta mention too that food has way less to do with being fat than your genetics do, and stress is an immense part of it as well. My personal anecdote is I lost a major source of stress in my life, needed to eat out more from necessity, and still dropped 20 pounds in three months.

god i hate how normalized diet culture and shit like bmi and calories are. bmi is based on eugenics. calories are a measurement of how much energy something gives u and not at all of how much weight or fat ull gain. diets have been proven to be harmful and ultimately unhelpful in actually losing weight. fatness has been largely proven to not be inherently unhealthy and doesnt inherently cause health issues.

if anyone has more good links to add on then please do and if anyone knows more on this stuff than me then dont hesitate to correct me!

#so mad that my doctor uses bmi #fuck that shit #how about instead of caring that I'm fat for the sake of the visual of being fat #we care about the potential issues that may or may not come with it #also I recently figured out that apparently I've been like protein starved since forever #but my doctor never cared about that #only about how much fat I was eating #never mind that I already avoided fats sugar and have always eaten a ton of fiber and vegetables #I never realized that apparently I need about twice as much protein as I've been getting *at least*#since I've always kinda avoided protein because I assumed I'd be eating too *much* of it #even now trying to add more beans and dairy and protein powder to my diet I don't think I'm getting as much as I should be #82g a day is apparently my government-assigned protein bare minimum and that's. a lot.#a huge scoop of protein powder is 30g and I can't stomach a full serving of that in anything #been trying to add it to a lot of things though along with yogurt #already put beans in everything but now I'm trying to keep chickpeas and tofu constantly available too #too soon to say it's helping a lot especially cause I've had other variables atound my health lately but #seems probable I should have been doing this way sooner but I only found out because I researched after hearing someone say #that you should get protein immediately after waking up

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