if you mention health in your recipe, i will assume the recipe is Austerity Food and does not taste very good. i will not give the recipe a chance. i will not try it. there are fifty thousand other search results. i will continue searching until i find a recipe that appears to be written with the intent of making food that tastes as good as possible, and also doesn’t expect me to do something like scramble three eggs in a single teaspoon of flavorless oil.
by the way, a piece of life advice: a generous splash of olive oil will keep the eggs from sticking to the pan (i know you burnt three or four batches before you got that pretty picture), taste really good (FAT IS FLAVOR say all the real chefs), is good for your heart (yes really), and if you’re on a diet (which you shouldn’t be) you can burn off that many calories by folding a basket of laundry. it’s not like you shanked an orphan. please calm the fuck down.
It takes far more than that to burn a “generous” amount of olive oil. While it may not be terrible for you, it’s still an increase in caloric intake.
i can’t believe i was reblogged by a blog with the tagline ‘anti fat acceptance, obesity kills’. i am honestly furious, and that’s hard to do on the internet these days.
take your pro-eating-disorder, anti-feminist, anti-health bullshit far away from my posts. SHAME KILLS.
fatphobia is the reason I didn’t know until Jesse started posting about it that most of my weight gain is from not getting ENOUGH calories.
fuck blogs like the one up there. fuck em.
since adding ~200 calories a day to my food intake i have had more energy, had an easier time working out, done longer and more productive workouts, and in 2 weeks i have gained noticeable muscle tone. not from trying to live on chia seeds and kale, but from eating regular food like egg and toast for breakfast, pbj and fruit for lunch, chicken and rice for supper, and adding a high-protein snack like yogurt and red bean jam or cheese and nuts.
diet culture is just purity theater. calorie counting is cargo cult medicine. your body wants to be active and healthy, stop punishing it and start cooperating with it.
i’m gonna bring this back. if you’re struggling with your weight, try ADDING a small snack to your daily intake. your body is probably in famine mode and conserving energy, storing every spare calorie as fat under the assumption that you’re experiencing famine conditions and the food is running out.
repeat: dieting convinces your body there’s a famine.
your body responds by hoarding calories.
this is an evolved survival trait.
you will be fat and fatigued because your metabolism is preparing for weeks or months with no food at all.
stop starving yourself. it’s not working.
The diet and fitness health industries are basically a two-man con. Diet says: you’re so fat, cut your calories. Fitness says: you’re so out of shape, you need to exercise more. So you cut your daily caloric intake to 1500, and you go to the gym, and you can barely go fifteen minutes before your heart is pounding and you can’t catch your breath and you’re about to fall off your treadmill, what is wrong with you? How do you fix this?
Diet says: You’re so fat! Cut calories!
Fitness says: You’re so out of shape! Exercise more!
You need energy to exercise. The energy content of food is measured in calories.
It’s a brilliant way to part people from their money, and also slowly suck all the vitality out of them. Like, seriously. The average adult human burns over a calorie a minute just paying the metabolic rent on having a warm-blooded body. There are 1440 minutes in a day. If you want to get fit, that’s a great goal, but don’t do it while cutting your caloric intake down to starvation levels. Calories are literally energy. You need energy to exercise. You need energy to live.
this is a great addition. between all my disabilities, it’s hard for me to get enough food, even with barb and seebs helping. when i’m having a good day and can fill in the gaps myself, and i get up somewhere near the 2600 calories an adult male my age needs, i get this amazing rush of energy. if i can keep this up a few days running, i noticeably put on muscle.
after that last run of prednisone ended, when i was feeling so healthy, i ate everything in sight for a solid three or four days. a week later, when they weighed me at the clinic, i’d lost ten pounds.
why? because instead of having to twist my own arm to exercise, i stayed an extra fifteen minutes in the pool, then took a walk in the evening. just because i felt energetic! i helped more with chores, played more with the cats, got next to seebs more, and in general just did more stuff, then slept better at night and woke up easier in the morning.
now, a lot of that was the prednisone. but my arms are bigger and i can lift more than two weeks ago, and that doesn’t come out of a blister pak.
eat enough. you will exercise more.
by the way – if you’re about to add a comment reminding everyone not to stuff their face with cake, or flatly stating that something i’ve said is wrong without providing any evidence or counterargument, ask yourself what your motivation is.
because the comments and reblogs are absolutely full of those, and the smug/desperate combo going on there is really telling. do you need to identify yourself as being on the socially acceptable side of this ‘debate’? do you need to double down on calorie restriction to justify the effort and suffering you’ve already done? do you just feel like taking a cheap shot at what you percieve to be an easy target?
if i remind you that i’m not a soft, anxious, plump young woman like the one you probably envision when you see fat-acceptance posts, does that change how you feel? if i point out that i’m an adult male built along the lines of maui from moana, does your urge to argue fade?
the diet industry is an industry built on misogyny.
fat-shaming is bullying disguised as concern trolling disguised as friendly advice. fat people are an Acceptable Target because we’re seen as weak. weak-willed, physically weak, morally weak. the fact that this is not true is something a lot of people don’t want to hear because we’re the only ones left you can make mean jokes about in public. and now we want to take away that last precious outlet for petty assholes’ innate cruelty. of course they’re gonna fight us on it.
ask yourself if that’s you. ask yourself if that’s what’s making you feel like this issue is about you and requires your commentary. because if it was REALLY about being so very very concerned about our health, you’d listen when we told you what goddamn works, you ankle-gnawing garbage trolls.
tl;dr: cosmo is not a medical magazine.
Tag: fatphobia
I want to make one thing very clear: we as a society gaslight fat people
First off, I’m speaking as an abuse victim that has experienced gaslighting and spoken about it often with my therapist, so I do not use the term either lightly or loosely.
The scientific understanding of obesity post-WWII is incredibly fucked. Before WWII it was largely understood that obesity was caused by hormones, and it was studied by endocrinologists specifically. Weight loss, gain, and maintenance is intricately tied to hormones. This is why endocrine disorders often result in weight loss or weight gain and why dfab folks who go through menopause tend to gain weight.
Long story short, the reason people have become larger on average isn’t because we suddenly got lazier and hungrier. Calories in/calories out is a fad diet that was born of the very poor nutritional science that has been conducted after Ancel Keys came dicking onto the scene. What your calories consist of matters far more than the number of calories you’re taking in. For instance, a 2300 calorie diet that is 60% carbohydrates will likely cause more weight gain in your average person than a 2300 calorie diet that is 60% fat.
But it’s important to keep in mind that everyone is different. Insulin is a fat storage hormone, and that’s what’s released to deal with glucose in the system. Some people release more insulin than others in order to deal with the same level of glucose in their body, and in this way, two people can eat exactly the same diet and have wildly different body fat percentages.
But we don’t recognize any of this. We don’t recognize even the basic realities like the fact that your body handles different calories in different ways. The way your body breaks down bread is not the same as the way you break down bacon.
Instead, we shame fat people. We do not recognize the drastic changes that have taken place in the human diet, that agriculture is only something like 12,000 years old, that processed foods, refined sugar, vegetable oils, and high fructose corn syrup are brand new and our bodies aren’t equipped to handle them in these amounts.
But yet these are the only foods many people can afford. Or we tell people that severely unhealthy foods are in fact healthy for you.
So we tell fat people that they’re lazy or gluttonous. Even when they work out or eat less, we mock and judge them. They can tell us of their struggles to lose weight, and we roll our eyes and say you must not be trying hard enough. Fat people can be anorexic, and we don’t believe them. We assume they’re lying or hell if we DO believe them we congratulate them on their self control. Fat people follow strict low fat diets that are then in turn high in carbohydrates and don’t lose weight or lose weight only temporarily, and we tell them they’re lying when the reality is that their body does not handle carbohydrates well.
Dieting as we understand it in our society has a SERIOUSLY low success rate, and yet we pretend that the rare exceptions prove somehow that this bullshit fad diet of CICO works.
I lost a significant amount of weight by ignoring all of this and learning about actual legit nutrition science, not bullshit. And what this has taught me is that we fucking gaslight fat people left and right and that this idea that everyone can be thin if they want to is bullshit. Some people can lose weight by going low carb but you know what? Not everyone will. I advocate low carb diets for the health benefits for most people, but the reality is that some people can’t go low carb and some people will never be thin even if they do, and that’s okay.
Let fat people be fat. Believe them when they tell you what they’ve done to try and lose weight if they have because chances are they’re telling the truth. Recognize that the diet industry advice works VERY rarely in the long term and nobody NEEDS to be thin in order to be worthy of respect.
I could go on about this but I’m already not articulating myself very well.
i'll apple your turnover 