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I hope those who can donate DO SO TODAY

Please help Ghadah and her family! Take the time to read through this post!

Today, I have been reached out to by Ghada Al-Madhoun ( @ghadahalmadhoun ) , a citizen of Gaza, whose life has been greatly affected by the genocide.

Not only have they lost their home and were forced to flee, but Ghadah's husband has also been lost to the conflict. They now live in a tiny, cramped tent; under the constant threat of violence and death, circumstances that no human being should have to live in. They have been displaced 6 times.

They seek to cross the Egyptian border to escape the genocide in Gaza, however they are short on funds, requiring 5,000 per person. As of now, they are only at 4,120 of their 50,000 goal. Please help these beautiful people. if you are unable to donate, sharing/reblogging is extremely helpful to this family's campaign.

https://gofund.me/42b35b77

FOR THOSE UNSURE OF LEGITIMACY OF CAMPAIGN:

The organizer of this campaign, Hind Al-Madhoun (who is Ghada's cousin), can be found on Facebook, with Ghada clearly in the friends list.

Here, attempts to spread her campaign have also been made

The account is not recent, and has been up since at least 2015.

As far as images, reverse image search is clean. This fundraiser appears to be legitimate. Please help this family, every donation matters!

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Taking a break from my usual discourse to proudly tell everyone that I’ve lost at least 3kgs since I started tracking my diet and my weight three weeks ago.

My weight when I started was around 97/98kgs which is pretty heavy for a girl my height. Not obese or morbidly obese but definitely along the lines of “Hey turn back now or else you’re gonna get super super unhealthy soon.

Now I’m down to 95/96. My goal is to drop at least 30kgs and be somewhere in the 60s range (A healthy weight recommended by my doctor and dietician. Don’t worry).

Just to share with you guys a bit of healthy weight loss info, heres a bunch of shit I’ve learned.

1. Drink more water: Yeah I know it’s really really run of the mil but water is honestly the healthiest thing you can drink, it’s got no sugars in it and hydrates your body. I basically just keep a big water bottle full beside me all day now and when I feel like drinking crap I take a sip from the water bottle because I’m probably only drinking out of boredom and one cup of soda will turn into two then three then four (and you get the picture).

2. If you absolutely cannot live without soda or flavoured drinks, a good substitute is cordial and soda water. For you americans cordial is this and I don’t know what you guys call it over there but it’s basically a concentrated fruit flavoured syrup you mix a little bit with water and bam, you got a flavoured drink.

Don’t make it super strong and try to find one that contains the least ammount of sugar and preferably uses real fruit. I can definitely say it’s better for you than soda.

3. Cut back on alcohol especially premix

It has a shit tonne of sugars in it normally and isn’t good for your liver anyways. If you want alcohol, opt for a spirit like vodka or gin and mix it in with some soda water and a little bit of juice, and try not to go on benders every weekend. If you’re partying and want to get shitfaced, I won’t judge. But I will let you know that I got shitfaced quite recently and it undid a weeks worth of dieting. So keep that in mind, one night worth of shitfacery will set you back one week (maybe more).

4. Fad diets are stupid. Just eat right.

By eat right I mean this. As of today cut back ALL your junk food intake. You got packaged potato chips? Good. Don’t eat them. Cookies? Not anymore. Burger King, Mcdonalds, KFC, Hungry Jacks, or any major fast food you can possibly think of? Enjoy the extra few dollars in your pocket you no longer need to give those people your money.

What you do instead, is you make yourself a big spreadsheet, covering monday to sunday.

You got a column for your breakfast, next a column for a snack, then column for your lunch, another snack column, then one for your dinner and lastly one for your excercise.

Then you’re gonna sit down and plan out every meal for every day of the week. After that write a shopping list and make sure you have everything for your meals that week, and rinse and repeat the week afterwards.

So what makes an ideal meal?

Well thats subjective really, it all depends on whats good for you, but one general rule to follow is if you get an average sized plate (Not a super massive one btw I know it’s fashionable for people to make plates big nowdays) on that plate, you have one quarter be protein, one quarter be carbs and half of your plate should be non carb vegetables.

vegetables cooked into your meal count in your vegetable intake

same goes for carbs in your meal

Do this every day and I can guarantee you’ll begin to lose weight and feel really good.

5. Some benefits I’ve noticed

Well since cutting down on all my crap food and drinking more water I have more energy, I used to require lots and lots of sleep. Like sometimes I’d sleep in until mid day even if I got an early night the night before. Now I wake up quite early, usually 7am or 8am.

My period this month has been less painful than normal, and overall I’d say the blood smells healthier (weird I know but it smells strongly of iron and meat and honestly I’d say it doesn’t smell bad at all?), I’ve managed to go painkiller free for my period this month which is an interesting experience to say the least.

My skin is also clearer, it’s especially clear on days where I’ve excercised and sweated a lot.

Food costs are less expensive.

6. Some affordability advice

So if you’re going to shop for food, do your entire weeks shopping at the beginning of the week. Make big portions so you can freeze some leftovers for days or weeks where you don’t feel like cooking.

Find the cheapest food sources.

For example what my partner and I currently do is we shop at ALDI for a good deal of what we need because it’s all super cheap. We shop at Coles or Woolworths to get certain items ALDI doesn’t stock (We get our deli hams and pet food from coles or woolworths) and then all the vegetables, fresh fruit, or eggs we need we get from a fruit and veg market nearby.

For about two people this comes to about $100-150 AUD a week but if I really cut down on food variety and meat quality I could feasibly do our shopping for under $100 a week.

If you have a butcher nearby I’d say get your meat from the butcher instead of a chain store because that’ll bring your costs down even more.

7. If you don’t have energy to cook or plan all of this

I understand not everyone can make lifestyle changes and that’s ok. If you’re really dead set on losing weight but don’t want to go through all of this trouble to do it, all you really need to do is first, find out the healthy weight for your body. Calculating your BMI isn’t hard and even though it isn’t accurate due to muscles being heavier than fat, it can give you a good place to start when you’re figuring out a goal to set.

After you have your goal, you need to calculate your BMR, thats your basal metabolic rate. It’s basically a calculation of how much energy (and therefore fat) your body consumes just by existing. If you wanna lose weight, eat under that ammount, if you’re underweight and need to gain weight, eat over that ammount. If you accidentally overeat and eat more energy than is required, then you need to excercise a little more that day.

To lose weight just using your BMR requires a lot of calorie counting, but it is a more passive way to lose weight than doing all the things I mentioned.

Anyways so those are my tips, feel free to ask questions! I like helping :)