#diet and exercise importance

[not-gray-politics]

Trans women. I'm grabbing you by the shoulders and yelling. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE SKINNY TO BE FEMININE AND PRETTY AND CUTE. PLEASE STOP MAKING DIETS PART OF YOUR TRANSITION GOALS. WEIGHT LOSS IS A SCAM. I LOVE YOU. TAKE CARE OF YOURSELVES. YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL.

[sick-sad-little-world]

Not "Floppa," not "Sogga"...

Predators, not pets.

Learn more.

[bandydear]

hate that it's seen as a "good thing" when a fat celebrity gets their stomach stapled or gastric bypass and the narrative is "oh look how much SEXIER they are!" "oh look how much HEALTHIER they are" when they can't eat without throwing up now, or they're no longer able to metastasize nutrients because now they fit a size 6, as if: 1. it's more important to be small and lean than to be able to consume sustenance WHICH IS WHY WE FUCKING EAT and 2. FAT PEOPLE CAN BE, WILL BE, AND ARE SEXY without conforming to "acceptable body sizes"

[titan-god-helios]

can we stop using euphemisms to describe fat bodies please. "cuddly body" just say fat. "chubby" just say fat. "teddy bear-like" just say fat. "heavy" just say fat. "big-boned" just say fat. "well-fed" just say fat. "large" just say fat. "shorter than their weight" just say fat. "they've got a bit of a belly" just say fat. "lean challenged" (yes this is a thing i have seen used) JUST SAY FAT.

the more we use euphemisms to describe fat people and fat bodies, the more taboo being fat becomes and the more stigmatised it becomes. the use of euphemisms and dancing around saying plainly and simply that i was (and still am) fat harmed my relationship to my body so much in the past. i started to see the descriptor 'fat' as a morally and generally bad thing to be, when it really is just a descriptor with no moral weight or inherent goodness/badness.

and adding on to that, fatphobia in general doesn't make sense to me. it's the same basic principle of all discrimination - ostracise someone for something they can't control. discrimination by extension ALSO just doesn't make sense to me. if i was to put it into the context of something everyone can see as normal regardless of race or heritage or orientation or weight or whatever, like for example having brown hair, it just sounds silly. imagine living in a world where people treated people with darker hair like they treat fat people.

"look at her hair! it's so dark, she's let herself go." "oh my goodness his hair's almost black - he'll die any time soon, surely." "ugh my hair looks too dark today, i wish i could make it lighter, its so disgusting like this." "wow! his hair's so dark, i bet you he's so sad and chronically online lmao." "their hair is so brown, i bet you they have the tiniest dick known to mankind." "you know, you can get that dark shade lighter in two months flat if you really try hard enough - it'll come right off!" "ewwwww that's disgusting - look how dark their hair is. that's so repulsive."

it sounds stupid, no ?? and thats not even touching on people who can't lose weight due to general body type or a medical problem or because it's a side effect of their important medicine or whatever it is. personally, i've been fat as a relatively young kid all the way till now, and that's WITH me doing a shit ton of sports as a kid and eating well too, as well as relatively regular exercise and still eating well now. i don't lose weight easily, and i'm tempted to say that i *can't* lose weight. and as long as i'm healthy, i don't actually care too much about that. because being fat is just a natural state of the self for me, and for many others. i don't need to "fix" it, because being fat does NOT indicate me or anyone else being unhealthy (unless its sudden and there have been 0 changes to your lifestyle recently, then of course go see a doctor about it but otherwise a person's weight is in no way an indicator of their actual health) and that's that.

anyway fat isnt a bad word destigmatise the word fat please weight does NOT equal to or indicate health in the slightest stop targeting fat men and calling them incels or chronically online or making small-dick jokes - it not only hurts the fat guys themselves but (fat) trans guys and intersex people too and stop being mean to fat people

[esta-elavaris]

Favourite phase to watch folk go through is when they work out for like one week, start acting like a fitness influencer on their socials, then lose interest when the novelty wears off and never do so much as a single squat again.

[popowerst]

Caffeine and Adderall... what a wonderful combination.

When I'm off my Adderall, I lean more heavily on caffeine to keep my brain going at the speed I need it. This time when I got back on the Adderall, I stopped drinking sodas for a few days (the appetite suppression kinda killed my stomach for a bit and I didn't want anything but water for a while). In a way, I think caffeine withdrawal is as bad or worse for me than Adderall withdrawal (of which I get little or none, just feel somewhat sluggish and it feels like my brain "chugs").

Anyway, I take the Adderall, then I drink the caffeine, and suddenly I'm the productivity machine that I wanted to be. I found the cocktail that's right for me.

[supercantaloupe]

i actually had a dr's appt this morning (regular checkup) and. man do you know how relieving it is to hear her say "weight's not important, just as long as you're active" when asked if i exercise

[harmonic-psyche]

Weight loss attempts, especially through mere behavioral/lifestyle changes like exercise or dieting, have an extremely high failure rate. Estimates of the long-term weight loss failure rate range from 80% to 99% (!):

“There is significant evidence that losing excess body fat is difficult for most individuals and the risk of regaining lost weight is high…The percentage of individuals who lose weight and successfully maintain the loss has been estimated to be as small as 1 to 3 percent (Andersen et al., 1988; Wadden et al., 1989).

Behavioral treatments of obesity are frequently successful in the short-term. However, the long-term effectiveness of these treatments is more controversial, with data suggesting that many individuals return to their initial body weight within 3 to 5 years after treatment has ended (Brownell and Kramer, 1994; Klem et al., 1997).”

Dieters often regain more weight than they started with:

“one third to two thirds of dieters regain more weight than they lost on their diets, and these studies likely underestimate the extent to which dieting is counterproductive because of several methodological problems, all of which bias the studies toward showing successful weight loss maintenance.” (Mann et al., 2007)

McEvedy et al. (2017) performed a systematic review finding that most dieters lose <5% of their initial body weight:

“Systematic search of 3 databases identified 11 randomized controlled trials and 14 observational studies of commercial meal-replacement, calorie-counting, or pre-packaged meal programs which met inclusion criteria. In meta-analysis using intention-to-treat data, 57 percent of individuals who commenced a commercial weight program lost less than 5 percent of their initial body weight.”

Losing weight just by restricting calories is hardly achievable for around 95% of those who try, and your body often punishes you for trying:

“Wayne Miller reviews the literature on the effectiveness of restrictive dieting for long-term permanent weight loss and concludes that dieting does not work. He cites the conclusion of Stunkard and McLaren-Hume in 1959 that dieting was an ineffective strategy for weight loss for 95% of those in a hospital nutrition clinic…

Miller’s review of the obesity research reveals that we have not become any more effective in the use of diet and exercise for obesity therapy over the past 40 years…

[A]s is reviewed in the article by Traci McFarlane, Janet Polivy, and Randi McCabe, researchers have found that dieting through a restriction of calories has a host of negative consequences, including an adverse effect on cognitive performance and body image; dieting is associated with negative mood and depression, binge behavior, and the onset of eating disorders.”

Reducing your calorie intake is unsustainable unless you address its causes:

“Although consuming more calories than expended is part of the initial problem, it does not follow that reducing intake, unless consciously counting calories, is the best solution. Mechanisms smooth out the large day-to-day differences in energy consumption, decreasing the importance of the size of a meal. In the short term a reduction in energy intake is counteracted by mechanisms that reduce metabolic rate and increase calorie intake, ensuring the regaining of lost weight. For example, even a year after dieting, hormonal mechanisms that stimulate appetite are raised.”

To my knowledge, the best way to sustainably reduce your weight is to sustainably reduce your hunger — especially with higher intake of:

“Natural” (viscous) fibers like oatmeal and psyllium husk.

Stimulants like caffeine, Wellbutrin, Ritalin, and Adderall. (Other stimulants that can cause weight loss, but are way too addictive to be worth the health risks, include meth and nicotine.)

Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you

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[gentlethorns]

sigh. i love being chronically ill and not really knowing the root cause. like yeah i have pcos, inflammatory arthritis, degenerative disc disease, but i personally have an opinion that these things are all linked by something that is not diagnosed yet. there are other symptoms and shit i experience that don't have diagnoses yet that i also feel are connected. but even if i had a diagnosis it wouldn't change that i always feel like shit anyway. literally it's always something whether it's that i feel nauseous or have a debilitating headache or my neck is so tense i can't turn my head or my back is stiff and painful or the nerves in my spine are compressed and causing pain or my hormones are fucked up and making me miserable or etc etc etc. i think back to three or four years ago when i was able to be active and social and engage in hobbies bc i was healthy and not in constant moderate to severe pain and that person from back then is someone i don't even recognize anymore. i don't know if she's who i am and current me is the stranger or if the person i am now is who i'll be for the rest of my life.

[champstorymedia]

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[nuntialaetificant]

Now that I've slept on it some more I feel like I can be more coherent then just screaming in the tags. I shall now incoherently scream into the void. I'm basically talking to mhaelf and allowing other to look. I feel the need to state the obvious and express how important I think the underlying message is in Youn's variant of Al-Haitham. This Al-Haitham does something all of us should aspire to also do: He takes care of himself.

And its fucking increadible. What he does is simple, but simple doesn't mean easy, but that doesn't mean it doesn't become easier. Just like drawing, or sculpting or playing music, taking care of yourself is a skill that you need to always be working on until it becomes second nature.

Al-Haitham has something many of us desperately need and that is self respect and genuine self care. As in, he cares about himself and takes care of himself as best he can. This means he feeds himself good food, he gives himself plenty of exercise, he gives himself mental enrichment and he puts himself to bed on time. He feeds, he plays and he rests.

In the theme of muscle building/building your body so it looks how you want it to be, you will need to do 3 simple but for most of us very hard things:

1. Eat well. When it comes to muscle building this is not simply a matter of calories in and calories out. Instead one needs to focus on cutting out simple carbs and replacing them with complex carbs as well, combined with consuming plenty of protein. The complex carbs breakdown slowely, making it so you feel full for longer while proviidng you with a steady supply of glucose that can be used for energy. Proteins on the other hand aid your body with building muscles by repairing the muscle fibers after exercising.

2. Exercise frequently. While for body "building" or sculpting most people imagine going to the gym would be the only form of exercise one can engage in this is fundamentally untrue. With exercise I also mean play. Exercising is a form of play and its both mentally and physically stimulating. You build muscle by overloading the muscles you already have, which then repair themselves when you are at rest. This brings us to

3. Sleep well. Seriously, sleep. You need to sleep. You need sleep. You're not building muscles unless you're sleeping so sleep damn it. You need to sleep at least 7 hours but preferably 9. That said the quality of your sleep is equally if not more important. Luckily enough a good feeding pattern and plenty of exercise helps with increasing sleep quality.

All these factors combined create a positive, self reinforcing cycle that will increase your quality of life in general. Eating better will eventually make you feel good. Exercising more will make you eventually feel good. Sleeping well will make you eventually feel good. Eventually being the keyword here because gettingnyour body to adjust to these habits if they're not already ingrained is so, so hard. But depending on how you feed and exercise, you will be able to craft your body into your desired image. This requires a realistic understanding of your limitations as well as a drive and desire to commit to these things. Succeeding in this however will significantly increase ones quality of life.

None of these things come for free, but they are not impossible. If you strive for it you can most definately make it. Do know that these points are increadibly simplified to their bare basics but I'm not gonna ramble on about the technicalities and studies for why these things work the way they do.

Youn's Al-Haitham is a darling but also inspirational. He has grit, determination and drive. Once again he genuinely cares about himself and is grounded. These are basically the things he embodies, to me, as a character and I hope that I'm reading that characterization right XD.

I hope that you too, whomever you are who is reading this, will also find the grit, determination and dedication to better your life. To build yourself up in whatever way you want. Customize your irl avatar however you deem fit. Take care of yourself. K gonna stop rambling now bye

and he did

[hungee-boy]

anyway watch urban rescue ranch and actually listen to what ben christie is saying when he rants about people keeping wild animals as pets

[shreeisspecial]

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[malepresentingbirds]

Cockatiel parents, your advice if you have the time!

I have been googling and on reddit and I'm even trying those alternate search sites but with AI and algorithms clogging EVERYTHING it is SO difficult for me to find good tips for my cockatiel or know for sure if they're legitimate

His parents had him in our home about 15 years ago. I treasured him and we were so close. I went to college, I moved out, my parents didn't pay as much attention to him and gave his brothers and parents to other families, and now that I'm back home he is so so afraid of me. I want to work with him not just to bond but I don't want him to be stressed and scared!

I've seen tips about approaching him slowly, talking gently, and offering treats, but if you have any tips please let me know so I can let my son know I love him.

If you don't have any personal tips, where do you get your reliable bird information from? Any and all help is appreciated.

(He is in my pfp if you would like to see him. He likes lettuce.)

[risaceofhearts]

I keep being like damn. When I started exercising I should have measured circumference, and not weight. I have not lost a meaningful amount of weight in kg since I started exercising a lot in January, but I've gotten smaller. (Well, I lost about 5, 5.5kg in 10 months, but I lost that weight at the start of the year, didn't regain it, and now I keep fluctuating in the same 5kg range)

But much more importantly than the number on the scale, I feel much better in my skin, I feel stronger, I AM stronger, my stamina has increased significantly, I am more flexible, and my back/neck/shoulder pain has decreased significantly.

Who the hell cares about the number on the scale? I am not going to starve myself for a number to change. And besides, I'm gaining muscle mass, so that number is bull anyway. I don't want to starve myself and I don't want to keep myself from having my little treats, so I watch my protein intake and call it a day. A wonderful way to live.

Me: Exercise does not cause weight loss. This is a fact that has been demonstrated so robustly in research that even doctors, who hate and fear evidence, are grudgingly starting to admit this.

Someone reading that post: Cool, but have you considered that exercise leads to weight loss?

Me: I am going to eat you