#metabolic process

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The dozens of variations discovered in hemoglobins, metabolic processes, and, in the structures, enzymes made it evident that human beings were infinitely differentiable in their biochemistry. No stigma could be attached to the impersonal substitution of a single amino acid that produced sickle-cell anemia.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[mxwhore]

mutuals! I must build a portfolio

[merlinaknight]

"Hollywood star Timothy Olyphant was recently in our store as he was in Bangkok shooting a new movie. Everything custom, he loves his wool silk bespoke clothing!"

From Taylor on Ten's IG

[iobartach]

[gillianthecat]

All right @respectthepetty, what's the love story happening here?

[yippie-madness]

ugh this sucks.

[cherriesandcharms]

..

[raybeetle]

coping strategies dont work, time to weed

[mindmxtters]

in belated honor of weed's birthday I offer an addendum to my lexi-post-meteor-can-drink-like-a-fish-and-still-be-lucid hc, which is that post-meteor lexi can smoke the kinda kush that would make snoop dogg tweet "GOOD WEED" in all caps and vaporize lesser men and come out the other side perfectly fine

[confinesofmy]

i'm so glad my resolution this year was to eat better, and that i had to stick my neck out by driving waaay further to try out an aldi where the prices are crazy better, and in a weird way i'm also glad that my parosmia means it's always easier to steam vegetables and cook some rice than to eat a ready to eat meal or cook something super elaborate.

like, so many things converged and now i'm eating much more reliably than i ever have before and much more steadily, nutritionally speaking. before it was usually an up-down diet of super nutrient rich elaborate meals when i first went shopping, then slowly petering out to "a 6 pack of ritz cracker sandwiches is a meal if you believe in yourself" by about the two week mark when i lost motivation to cook and ran out of frozen meals. now i can't rely on most ready to eat type meals because my parosmia makes the majority of them inedible so when i stop cooking it immediately becomes an emergency that has to be dealt with. and when i say dealt with, i mean i need to steam a vegetable and cook a grain, neither of which really require any attention. at worst an hour of waiting.

like, my diet is barebones as fuck 75% of the time and i'm still eating more overall. because that was the key thing i was always missing, steady easy meals as a constant backdrop to occasional exciting ones. i'm nearing the point where i need a big shake-up like a new grain or maybe a new vegetable in the rotation. but i'm eating so fucking much all the fucking time. i'm eating more now than when eating was a simpler task. i'm so proud of myself. 🥲

[esleep]

biggest (really only) negative part of being on adderall for me so far has been that my alcohol tolerance is now complete garbage. i used to have a really high tolerance especially considering my size (5'3", varying weight between 130-140 lbs, generally a fairly small and compact person overall) and could easily handle 2-3 drinks with no issue, barely felt it, but these days i have 1 drink and i'm immediately light-headed.

[lunapwrites]

Dark Marauders Fest is live!

Please for the love of all that's holy, mind the tags as these are like the deadest of doves but also WOW. Some amazing works in here.

[sanguith]

i'm glad i decided to try out a ketosis diet again (aka changing my metabolism to basically only use ketone bodies made from fatty acids for energy by reducing carb intake to max 20g/day) for a few weeks because it was a neat experiment but i'm also glad I decided to stop because now i get to enjoy life's greatest fucking simplest yet finest delicacy: mashed potatoes/sweet potatoes with melted butter and salt. i cannot understand how i could live without that. just. vegetables. keto has opened my eyes to new ways to cook foods and experiment with ingredients but i don't think i can live without carbs. i doubt that the majority of people could. also have you any idea how much good simple near-zero effort food there is out there like holy gosh darn in heaven. i don't have to spend hours cooking something to have a nice meal

[bitegore]

fucking worst thing ever (hyperbole) when you eat a substantial meal at a weird time because you're like grabbing a bite with a friend or something (too early) and then because you're full you don't eat anything really substantial later (habit) and so you wake up the next day ready to like drink the blood of the nearest person (not hyperbole)

[no-te-lo-voy-a-dar]

just had the chance of standing in front of a full, clean full body mirror and percieve myself while trying some clothes that looked fantastic on my head and be disappointed by how they actually looked on me lmao - I'm too small in any way to fill up the clothes i actually like

maybe i dress like a teenage boy because those are the clothes that fit me (8

[kikuism]

mentions of food and tracking

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i've done a lot of research into health and fitness in the last 9 months or so and i knew Right Away that tracking was never going to be for me. i know a lot of people swear by it but i knew it would lead me down an obsessive spiral (and for a very short time it did....i started paying more attention to the calories listed on certain foods and remember freaking out when i had a croissant for breakfast, like it genuinely bothered me the whole time i was at work; i'm very glad i managed to break myself out of that sort of thinking). it's also annoying when people, esp on reddit, are like 'it’s the ONLY way to lose weight', absolutely not. just the concept itself seems so obsessive to me, weighing and logging in every single thing you eat. how do you sustain that long term. and what about when you go out. and also, and i feel like this is the biggest problem for me, how do you track homemade meals that aren't white. how would i calculate the calories in a plate of baingan bharta. and i know you could weigh the ingredients when you're cooking and get an estimate of the calories but it's so tedious.