#trying to lose 130 pounds

[blkgrlchasingfit]

Week 3 (early) Recap

This was recorded on Christmas, but here are some insights I had 😊

[elastica1995]

hm. i think i've lost 5 pounds. :/how'd that happen

[genuinelysleepy]

Yes you should get fat!

People often question if they should try gaining especially if they're new to the community and to me the answer is always a resounding yes! If you at all think you would enjoy being fat or even just enjoy being a bit heavier than you are now I say totally go for it.

I think when people who are currently thin in this community have anxiety about starting to gain there's this subconscious fear that when they start gaining they'll just wake up fat one day and never be able to lose it. The truth is your gain will be slow and as long as you're listening to your body and yourself you will be able to know if you've gained too much.

I guess here's what I'm saying you don't need to gain all the weight you want to gain all at once. If you think you want to gain 50 pounds in total start by gaining 15-20 and see how you feel. If it's too much for you or you just don't like that a very manageable amount of weight to lose. You're currently like 130 and think you want to get massive (like 350-400) but are on the fence start by gaining 50 pounds. It's enough that you'll both look and feel much larger but not enough that losing it would be a major problem if you decide it's too much.

Lastly, never force yourself to do something that feels like too much or that you don't like. We see online all these people that are eating 7000 calories everyday and have gained 50 pounds in 6 months but the truth is most of us are not cut out for that lifestyle (certainly not discouraging you if you feel like you are though!) and you shouldn't feel bad about it. Finally if you decide that gaining really isn't for you no one will give you crap about it if you decide to stop gaining.

Anyways, that's all I had happy eating!

[scarybabe]

So, are you losing weight because of any health issues or just because you want to? Not hating or anything. I'm just curious

Btw loving your booty! I really wanna see more... please

neither!! I never wanted to lose weight AND I don’t have any health issues (besides gerd) - my natural set point has always been much, much lower than the weight I gained to. Naturally hovered around 120-130 pretty much my whole adult life WHILE doing huge stuffings, because I wasn’t eating like that daily it never affected my size.

That’s pretty close to my physique when I’m eating whatever and not trying to manipulate my weight at all.

I was only able to break into the high 200’s - 300 with extreme eating, not only quantity but only as calorically dense foods as possible and my nutrition pretty bad. Gaining to 200 was honestly pretty easy because before my recent weight gain my metabolism had slowed down a LOT from restrictive eating, I was around 97-105 before my newest gain. My metabolism sped back up by the time 200 lbs because I was eating so much more, and my gain slowed back down. Took me until December of 2021 to get to the 230’s. In this pic I’m around 235 I think.

After I hit 300, I wanted to let my body rest and listen to my cravings for vegetables, meat, etc. and drink WATER 😆 I deadass drank NO WATER while I was gaining because “it had no calories so it was a waste of stomach space” 💀 I still treat myself, but I listen to my body and I don’t ever force myself to eat food that makes me feel sluggish, nauseous or sick in any way.

I’ve gained a little since my BBL but because I used to be so big and have muscle mass now, I carry it differently than when I first entered this weight range (low end of 200’s).

I think the 230’s looked great on me but I know if I ever want to gain again it will NEVER be enough for people, because even gaining 200+ pounds wasn’t enough so a mere 10-20 lbs won’t matter. So I’m just riding the wave, focusing on healing from my surgery & building physically and spiritually healthy habits so when am well enough to make 🌽 again I can be the best creator that I can be.

PS: I do have loads of post surgery vlogs, updates and pics on my OF - it’s more educational than horny but you can tip $5 to request it all be sent to ya if you have that morbid curiosity

My belly in the above picture is just the size it is now!

[rapha-reads]

IWTV rewatch

Season 1 episode 7 [The Thing Lay Still] - part 3/3

- Okay, the triple confrontation Daniel/Louis, Daniel/Armand and Louis/Louis is long but there's so much to say, I have to quote it entirely:

[Daniel] "Well, isn't that neat and tidy?" - THANK YOU DANIEL, I know I can always count on you to point out the flaws and holes in the fabric of Louis' recollection.

[Louis] "'There was a ship. We did get on it.'

[Daniel] 'Yeah, I read that, the first 50 pages. Not exactly the, uh, adventure-of-our-lives feeling I'm feeling.'

[Louis] 'It was a traumatic escape.'

[Daniel] 'Yeah, but she didn't say that explicitly. […] But, um… there's a feeling that she hated your guts there for a while. Why is that?'"

Trust Daniel to always see the little thing that would be inconsequential to anyone else.

[Louis] "'I was haunted by my brother's death, by the abandonment of my sister, by the murder of Lestat, I…'

[Daniel] 'Murder? What murder? It was an act of mercy. You didn't kill Lestat. You spared him out of some fucked-up idea you had about love.'

[Louis] 'Love? I bled him like a pig and waited for the death rattle.'"

Oh, Louis. You are so good at lying to yourself. Good thing Daniel's too much of an excellent investigative reporter to let you fool him like you're fooling yourself. Notice how Louis looks as Daniel undoes all his lies and smoke mirrors? Like he's still trying to cling so hard to the story he's told himself for the past 80 years, like the lie is the only thing that keeps him upright, like if he admits the love, admits he wanted to save Lestat, that would completely undo him and there would be no going back?

[Daniel] "You were shot point-blank by an alderman. You were dropped a thousand feet and survived. You torched Antoinette just to make sure. Where does the trash go, Louis? You take the trash down to the street, some guys show up in a truck and they throw it in the back, and then, they drive it out to the middle of nowhere, right? No. They take the trash to the dump. And having lived two blocks away from the dump just outside of Fishkill, New York, with my first wife, I can state, with authority, what else you'll find there. Rats. Big fucking rats, the size of Kevin Durant's sneakers. Enough blood in them to bring back the dead. Especially one in a trunk with locks on the inside. You knew it, Louis. You had to. The biggest rat eater of them all."

Thank you for bringing back Moonlight Sonata! Haven't figured out yet if it's intra or extradiegetic tho. I love its presence in this episode. It's my favourite piece of classical music (I know, very original) and it's so gothic par excellence.

Mention of the first wife, Alice/Armand, no, I will not get down from this hill.

I love how Daniel's theory posit Louis as having done some planning for himself outside of Claudia's and even Lestat's, with the trunks locking on the inside and the rats needed to revive.

[Rashid/Armand] "'This session is over.'

[Daniel] 'How many days in the Islamic year? How many names are there for Allah?'

[Rashid/Armand] '355 and 99.'

[Daniel] 'Why does a 200-pound bouncer pass out after he sucks him off, and you, a wet T-shirt away from 130, doesn't even blink?'"

Ha, Daniel said 'okay who the eff are you and why am I smelling bullshit'. Meanwhile Armand said 'oh shit we're getting too close to dangerous waters and Louis is about to lose it, better reassert control'. But also, Muslim!Armand. Definitely. Not a throwaway line, not just pretence. Rolin Jones I'm counting on you to not fuck this up.

[Louis] "'I couldn't burn him.'

[Daniel] 'But Claudia could.'

[Louis] 'No', she couldn't.'

[Daniel] 'She stuck a pen in his neck. She recorded his last words in his own blood. The girl did not have a fuckin' problem tossing him on the grill, okay?'"

And Louis' wall of lies is breaking and shattering… And the pebbles of the zen garden, his other big trauma, don't help either…

[Daniel] "You cursed her into the darkness. You chose Lestat over her time and time again. You don't need a memoir, Louis. You need a hundred sessions of EMDR. You know the shit they put soldiers through when they see one of their platoon buddies get blown up in front of them?"

Say it, Daniel! These messy vamps need therapy.

Making jokes to avoid the sheer anguish in Louis' face, voice and body language, both in the 1940 flashback (the image of Louis holding Lestat's body and yelling is tattooed on my eyelids) and in 2022 (Louis sitting in his zen garden hugging and rocking himself, eyes screwed shut, trying to block Daniel and Armand's voices and the memories lives rent free in my mind).

[Daniel] "'144 years and you're still Louis the Pimp, paying a whore to sit in a room and talk with you. 'Cause why? You got some story you wanna tell the whole world about yourself?'

[Rashid/Armand] 'When you hear it you'll be ashamed, ashamed of what you say to him now!'"

Please don't hold back, Danny, do tell us what you think exactly. But hey, Louis needs to hear it.

The fuck are you talking about, Armand… Also notice how agitated he is? Feeling protective of Louis, or feeling like he's losing control of the interview, the interviewee and the interviewer all at once?

Love Armand taking off is gloves in the background. So subtle, so crucial. And then the lenses.

[Daniel] "'This is the same shit that happened in San Francisco.'

[Louis] 'Not exactly.'

[Daniel] 'How is it any different, Louis?'

[Armand] 'This time I won't save your life. Louis can sometimes act out. I protect him from himself, always have. Stopped him that night in San Francisco.'"

Oh, hello, Armand's decided to play Superman. Aaaaah, Armand's orange eyes, I love them!!!

Can we talk about Armand's infantilisation of Louis? "He acts out, I protect him from himself"… Like a child that can't regulate his feelings and needs to be put on time's out. The manipulation is deep and multi-layered, it's not just the memory alteration. Notice how Louis is pretty much dissociating, staring at the grey wall, face slowly becoming inexpressive and voice returning to flat and empty, from the moment Armand started telling off Daniel?

[Daniel] "'You were there.'

[Louis] 'You don't remember.'

[Daniel] 'No, I don't remember.'

[Louis] 'What was that you said about memory? 'A monster', was it?'

[Daniel] 'But I saw you standing in the sun.'

[Armand] 'As we age, the sun loses its power over us. What's a mediocre star to a 514-year-old vampire?'

[Louis] 'Daniel Molloy, I'd like you to meet the vampire Armand, the love of my life.'"

One, don't be too cocky, Louis, there's plenty you don't remember about that night too yourself.

Two, and we've come full circle again, the monster memory making itself fully known after lurking all season long.

Three, shut up Armand, the Sun is not a mediocre star, it's part of the entire reason there's life on this planet, show some respect. Sun deities are some of the most frequent deities around the globe. You need to come back down to earth.

Four, all the books being out of reach to Louis, another way Armand's exerting subtle control.

Five, "love of my life", BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGA *deep breath* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA, that line kills me every time I hear time. Why you lying Louis, stop fucking lying all the time. Sorry, Armand.

Daniel seeing them side by side and hearing that stupid line after listening to Louis ramble and compose poetry on the spot about Lestat for the past week or so: "hm. I sense bullshit of the highest degree. Time to destroy that whole tower of lies one by one.".

Aaaaaaaaaah, that was such a rich and intense episode!!!! What a grandiose season 1 final!!! So many different elements that have got to be revisited by other perspectives to get the full painting. So many seeds planted for season 2 and even season 3!! The writing is flawless, the acting is exquisite, the music is gorgeous, the costume, set design and stage direction are masterful. I am in love with this show.

ep1 | ep2 | ep3 | ep4 | ep5 | ep6 | part 1 | part 2

[jav-uni]

Hi! Regarding Ozempic, I ALSO ended up in the hospital

So I had a really bad leg injury 3 years ago (talking snapped leg in half, compound fracture) & because of it I basically had to relearn to walk. And to this day, I still can’t do a squat, run, or go up an incline… it just hurts (I’m sure I could if I put my mind to it but like I’m not much of a hiker anyway or runner so that’s not critical to me haha).

Anyway, I was pretty down / depressed & I gained a lot of weight. I mean like I went from 150 to close to 200 pounds. So even though I don’t have diabetes, my doctor (who is a true weight management specialist, specializing in diabetes) recommended me to try it after I explained I’d been doing water aerobics for 6 months, changed eating habits with no luck. She said I’m young (25, was 24 at the time), healthy, it would help my eating habits and probably benefit me.

Unfortunately, I had a horrible reaction and I couldn’t keep ANYTHING down, not even water and I had to go to the hospital because I was losing consciousness from how dizzy and dehydrated I was. I even spent the height because of the fluids I needed.

From what I’ve noticed, people taking this drug “recreationally” (for lack of a better term) just for weight loss, normalize the vomiting / throwing up. Basically they’re giving themselves an eating disorder and once they’re on it, they’re scared to get off because of how easy it is to gain weight back.

Long story short - I lost all the weight (I’m down to 130) but I didn’t lose it in a healthy way. And to this day my stomach is still not back to normal and I’ve been off of the medication for about a year. It paralyzed my stomach & I’ll probably never eat normal again.

I would strongly advise EVERYONE to try working out first (which I did, but working out hurt), try to change your eating habits. Because even though I lost weight, it’s not worth it.

Wow. I have no words. Thank you so much for trusting me to share your story, and I am really sorry about what you've been through.

[notskinnyenoughforestnymph]

Looking for a friend to restrict with <3

Unnecessary Story time!

So, I used to be small a couple years ago... actually no it was like last ish year. December of 2023 I dropped so much because my eldest sister was getting married. I'm 5'8 and was around 125-130 pounds at the time. After that I started college and I thought "oh... maybe I recovered... I stopped sh-ing and everything. I broke up with my toxic ex and met this super nice amazing guy. I love him a lot if you can tell. But he has a thing for chubby girls.. so he fed me all the food I never got to eat and made me feel loved regardless... so obviously I gained a bit...not just a bit... I was around 160 when I first started my journey and I dropped to 125 in around a month and a half... and I kept it off for like I want to say 4-5 years. A month ago, I met an old friend from when I first lost weight and I reminded me of how I felt back then... I felt hot. Now... I feel loved but not hot. After that I couldn't stop feeling like a cow, I realized that all the clothes I loved didn't fit anymore and that I wasn't small anymore. I weighed myself and the scale flew to 177.

Something in me snapped, I didn't know what to do I felt like shit but I couldn't not eat. Me and my boyfriend live together and he's like a huge gym/fitness freak. He goes to lift like everyday for 3 hours and I join him. I started eating less and working out more... he didn't seem to mind at first but then he started asking questions.

But before I could find answers for them, I was saved. It is summer break and his parents asked him to come back home ( he's an international student). I also came back home to my parents. But when I got home it wasn't a great greeting. My parents immediately let me know that I got fat. "You were so skinny before when u went to college what happened? Don't people lose weight when they go to college? Your pants look so tight."

That was all the motivation I needed. I have been on and off fasts and if I do eat its only around 500cal a day. I work out as much as I can.

This morning my weight was 163. I glad I dropped but not happy yet. I hope I can get through this. It's a bit hard since my boyfriend calls and wants to eat with me... I told him I feel ugly and I want to diet. He wasn't happy at first he didn't want me to get too skinny but he came around and is a bit supportive now. He doesn't know I'm fasting tho.

I have a internship that needs me to use the computer a lot and it's been giving me a headache. Especially with the fast. Last time I did this it was like 6 years ago. Im a bit older now, I don't know if its gonna work the same but I'm trying.

I love watching those tw ed videos on youtube they really help get me through my thoughts.

Thanks for going through that if you did. I want to document my journey this time. Cuz last time... i was all alone and meanspo hit hard. ( I was bullied a lot for being chubby when I was little till like highschool ).

Meanspo isn't hitting this time other than the fact that I hate myself lol.

if there are any older ppl (20 - 24) here I'd love to find a friend to restrict with.

Looking forward to being hot again<3

[aestheticlifestyle33]

Body ck!!!

Too scared to ck weight on scale cus if it's not where I thought it was at, I will lose 100% motivation..

Idk why I'm like that but whatever🙄

But looking at my body it looks like I'm back at 160s again..

Thank gawd.

But if that's the case...25 more pounds until I'm 135 and 30 lbs until I'm 130...give or take!

But bf said he's going to be here around his bday and that's on the 22nd😳 8 days away!

I need to hustle!😭

There's this youtube exercise I would do where you will shrink 4 inches in a week, and yea, it works! Doing! And going to try to do a 48 hr fast as well!

Just want my waist shrunk♡

[blkgrlchasingfit]

Semaglutide (GLP1) medicine & Your Cycle

If you still have a period on a monthly basis, be prepared for Semaglutide to mess your cycle up 😫

Nothing terrible -- but be prepared for spotting and such

[thehorrorsaregettingtomee]

scared of boys not liking me bc i’m 130 pounds but also scared boys won’t like me bc im anorexic and actively trying to lose a smith weight as possible

[thatkdpoh]

Introduction i think?

Ok so I’ve been like really excited to do this I don’t know why but this is I think controversy? I don’t know how controversy works but this is how it happened.

I am 12 yrs old, My height is 5,1 and holy shit wanna kms but I am 130 pounds. This will flucate and idk how to spell it but it’s like a line with a dot in the front or end and it goes left to right so I flucate to 130 to 140 I hate that.

How I know about ED/Backstory/rant (cringy ik sorry :c :

I was always a fat kid and I’ve hated it, I understand that I didn’t care about my weight but when I was like what 8 to 9 whenever my dad would say cow to me in taqvaylit I don’t know how to write it but I know something’s like amcic or tizizwith or afkroune which is cat, bee and turtle in that order. I would feel self conscious and sometimes cry to because I’m very sensitive which is like cringy i know lol. My heaviest had to been this year like 140 pounds but I think it was water weight and shit. Anyways my mom tried to get me to fast and she would force me or smth maybe not force but like tried to get me to lose weight. She’d say it directly and it would always make me feel bad but like I understand being 130 for like 8 yrs or 9 to 12 is very heavy and embarrassing considering I always saw kids would be more skinner than me I’d feel very bad. Until recently like last year in 6th grade I was reading fanfics of a human au of TMNT i didnt know what ED’s were so when it showed up the word bulimia I thought it meant bullshit but it didn’t sound right so I searched it up and saw the symptoms that’s when I also learned about anorexia and pica etc. When I saw the symptoms I started copying them now this is the part that I think is controversy I copied the symptoms which I know was bad but I was fucking lazy and still am couldn’t do a workout for the life of me or restrict food, I was used to eating a lot and when I saw the symptoms I copied them and they worked!! I loved it and then the minute I knew how to starve myself, I actually don’t know how to continue with that but I didn’t know how much of a deeper hole I got into but I really loved it and still do EMBARRASING. I did do exercise I did like 100 sit ups a day which did nothing but it did make my body ache and stopped, 5th grade was the worst out of all my grades for now but 6th might be second but it wasn’t that bad just a lot of crying and seeing how fat I am made me cry that’s it. Now if I don’t starve at all or try too I would feel like shit. In 6th grade I also saw that purging was a symptom so I made myself throw up but only if I ate way to fucking much and I’m so bloated it hurts and I can’t take the pressure so I throw up just to take off a little pressure and go back but then I’d feel sick which sucked :C. When Ramandan came though I was A BEAST not an actual beast but like it was my oppertuinity to fast without anyone questioning because I live in a studio apartment with 5 other people that are my family >_<. Obviously with my blabber mouth which I hate told everything to my mom but I think she thinks that I’m ok now :D. Any way I’d only eat 5 tablespoons of soup every night and I was very tired and I lost 6 pounds!! Which isn’t a lot but I made it to 124 pounds!! But then I gained it all back in summer break, cried, tried to fast for 3 days but fainted on the 36 hour?? I’m not sure because when I stopped the fast because my mom told me to eat and spoiler alert I cried cause I have little bitchitas if u know Kubz scouts u know. I paused at the 38 hour so like 36 is my highest to fast which is embarrassing again. ANYWAY NOW IM IN 7TH GRADE STUGGLIJG EITH THIS THINGY :]] I sound like those I guess I deserve it heh thing but like no I’m not seriously I just wanted to be silly. Anyway I’m gonna try that ABC diet which I think seems kind of mid to hard but I think fitnesspal would help me with it <33

BYE EVERYONE HAVE A GREAT DAY OR NIGHT HAVE A GREAT THANKSGIVING SND MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! :33

[scarybabe]

I'm sorry if this is insensitive question but you accidentally popped on my for you page (I dont know how, I'm here only for memes and chosen few writers) and scrolled a little through your dash. Well, i don't understand why are you gaining weight? As in actively seeking to gain it. Is it something you just enjoy? Kink? Fetish? For the first time in my entire life I saw anything like this and I'm not quite understanding. Im not hating or anything, I'm just a? Curious person?? Passing by.

Also good luck with anything you try to do here even tho I'm flabbergasted.

yeah that’s exactly it! My fiancé and I have a lot of mutual kinks, and weight gain (feedism) is one of them! I get a lot of satisfaction from being this size, and both of us are enjoying it a ton. I have only been fat for about 5 years of my life (3.5 ish this weight gain attempt) and my body is honestly fighting me to gain more 🥲 most of my life I was 130-140. My fiancé and I want to start a family in a few years so within the next 2 years I plan on lifting weights and not actively gaining and seeing what size my body wants it to be when I eat intuitively - I wanna be feeling my best for that 😊 it’s been a great experience though! A lot of my hobbies involve heavy physical activity so it’ll honestly be cool to enjoy those without worrying about losing weight - after I enjoy being 300 pounds for awhile, I’ll get rid of my scale 💗

[psychoptimistic]

Lost 4 pounds in the past couple weeks or so! I was 140 lbs and now I'm 136 lbs. I know it's not much but I don't want to lose too fast then gain it all back. I want to keep it off for good this time. I'm hoping to reach my first gw (130 lbs) in the next couple weeks. I haven't been heavily restricting these past couple weeks. I've been staying around 1000 kcals a day because I figured that would be the best way to avoid binging. I was right in doing so. I haven't binged yet and I'm glad! I also started a new job that requires me to stay on my feet for long periods of time and moving around a lot so I'm sure that's helping too. I know eating disorders are a horrible thing but mine brings me so much comfort (when it's going well and I'm not binging anyway). I've been so anxious this week wondering how much I weigh. I'm trying to only weigh once a week so I don't get discouraged by water weight or bloat. Anyways, all that anxiety melted away this morning when I discovered I'm down a few pounds. I love having my eating disorder back ❤️

[und3rcoverchaos]

My husband has been losing weight, which is awesome. He has been unhappy with the extra weight for awhile, though he wasn't particularly big. But he has always been slender, so the added pounds were impacting his health and fitness levels. I am proud of him.

But he told me the other night that one of the big reasons he wants to get near his old weight is me. He wants me to find him more attractive and he knows I have always liked skinny guys. My boyfriend is also VERY thin (but he has an ED, so that isn't a good thing), at about 6'0 and 130 lbs.

Apparently, hubby has been worried that I find him less attractive than my boyfriend since he gained a bit of weight. This isn't true at all, I love him and his body whatever size it is. Twenty pounds isn't going to change that, and the only worry I had was his health as his dad has T2, and hubby's fastest blood sugar has been pre-diabetic for awhile.

I feel so bad that he has been feeling insecure. I need to make a concentrated effort to reassure him more and show him that I love him as he is, no matter what. I don't think I've done anything specific to make him feel how he does, just maybe that the BF and I are pretty physical. My husband is very...I dunno, rushy? He runs around like crazy and is always working on some passion project or hyperfixation. So I tend to just give him the occasional hug and kiss through the day, and vice versa, before he rushes off again. My BF is more chill and we spend more time being physically affectionate and stationary.

But my husband and I spend our evenings together snuggling and watching stuff (currently X-Files and Regular Show rewatches). Our sex life hasn't been very active lately, but hubby quit drinking a month ago and it's been stressful for him and impacting his brain chemicals. It's making him stressed and depressed, as is a current health issue. I have been trying to be supportive, but I can see why he would worry about it.

I dunno, I just feel shitty. I never want him to doubt my love or attraction. :(

[retphienix]

I'm unusually bothered by a very specific custom trait added by TTW so I just want to say it to feel better by getting it out of me.

This trait, like most base game traits, wants to add flavor through a pseudo perk that has a minor downside.

I'm not gonna look at all of the TTW added ones right now, but I recall them doing an okay job at it- the traits added by the perk pack mod I am running do a kinda dog shit job of it where they add "minor (not great flavor) buffs with MAJOR downsides" which defeats the purpose- anyways.

This one, is not egregious- but it is so fucking annoying to ME because it focuses so hard on trying to add flavor that it is just worthless on its face but a good GAMEPLAY IMPACTING alternative that encourages certain playstyles slightly IS RIGHT THERE AND NOT HOW IT WORKS.

+25 pounds, but you lose a bunch of stats if you go under 160 pounds of weight.

Simple, fine, not offensive.

BUT.

A full set of power armor and a fully loaded rifle size (or larger) weapon + basic stuff on hardcore mode is like 80~ pounds, with a mid (6) strength build having like 270 weight limit with said power armor's buff.

Carrying TWO full size weapons would easily push you over 100 weight, often inching to 120 or 130 since a full size weapon is like 15 pounds + 10 pounds of ammo (MORE if alternative ammos are being brought as well).

If this trait was "When over 100 weight" then it would immediately encourage playstyles that use multiple weapons at a time by "lightening" the impact of their weight pains WITHOUT removing the impact entirely (they'd still be adding 25+ weight more often than not and even if they play under this, they spent an entire trait on it).

Instead, this bizarre trait demands 160 pounds which would be 3-4 full weapons on an "empty" loadout and the 25 pound buff is literally unnoticeable due to the ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY POUNDS of weight you have to dedicate to get the trait working without hurting your stats.

Now, obviously, the flavor intended is "You can loot 25 more pounds of stuff when doing loot runs :)" but if you nerf yourself across the board when under 160, you'll want to always be above 160, so it defeats the purpose for looting since you spend over half your capacity to gain 25 weight.... unless you're outright deciding you don't care- you want the 25 weight potential and are totally cool with being a weaker character at all moments that you're not actively loot hauling back to your base. Which is fine, it's a minor debuff- that's fine! But I just HATE it lol

It just feels... planned out on paper and not considering actual impact?

It bothers me. It shouldn't. It's fine. It works for some players I'm CERTAIN, but I look at this and go "Oh... that trait just nerfs you. Full on, that's all this does." and then I dwell on how 100 being the trigger would literally fix it and give it purpose, less so for looting, more so for multi-weapon characters- WHILE STILL MAKING IT FAR MORE USABLE FOR LOOTING FOCUSED GAMEPLAY TOO.

TTW really good :) It's late and I needed to rant on the most meaningless part of it lol

[cybergoth66]

Celebrated my birthday all weekend. Had my husband grill chicken and shrimp so I can track my calories. I think I did well. Still maintaining 130 which was my goal because I did not want to gain weight and be miserable. I’m trying to finish this bottle of vodka so it can be gone. Time to get back on track so I can lose these 10 pounds. Let’s get it! 💪🏾