I love slow television like this its so dreamy and all to replace test pattern programming! I didnt know this was in Toronto. It was also a hit with inmates and insomniacs.
I heard one of the producers also composed the music and songs. Someone ought to create a stage musical of this and put it on in Toronto.
continued…And of course 95% of “diets” will fail. “Diet” implies that the person is going in with the attitude of making temporary changes, when permanent weight loss takes permanent habit changes. Diets fail, permanent habit changes do not.
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*sigh*
Have you ever been fat?
You’re writing sounds awful thin to me.
Some things are just better understood once you’ve experienced them.
I’ve been fat a very long time.
I’ve been to doctors, specialists, dieticians. I’ve been trying to solve this puzzle for quite some time. I have done my research. I think if you know me, you know I do quality research. I know what a good source is and I know what is nonsense.
I said nothing pseudoscientific.
I specifically said that metabolism does not typically cause exaggerated weight loss or gain.
I did cite a specific circumstance that can cause a metabolic slowdown. I also linked to a well-researched article that expands on that information. You can also google that and find sources for yourself.
You keep trying to simplify a very complex topic. And I’m sorry, but you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
Yes, you can lose weight if you eat fewer calories. But you are ignoring psychology, hunger responses, sustainability over time, and risks.
If it were as simple as you think, dieticians could take a ten-minute class on thermodynamics and get certified directly after.
You are talking about counting calories. WHICH IS A DIET. I’ve done exactly what you are talking about. When you go from eating a lot to eating a little, you feel hungry ALL THE TIME. Perhaps you are conflating actual starvation with a starvation-style diet. There is a difference.
You can call it a “permanent habit change” but you still need to eat certain things to make sure your calorie intake is right. Again, that’s counting calories.
*whispers* Which is a diet.
I mean, technically, I guess a “permanent habit change” would always succeed. But how the fuck do you know if it is going to be permanent?
You can say “I’m going to do this forever” and then a month later find it is not sustainable. There is no way to predict your circumstances years down the road.
If you look at all the people you know who have lost a significant amount of weight, I’m willing to bet most of them have only lost it for a year or two max. Ask yourself if you know anyone who has done it for 5 years. 10 years. I’m not saying it never happens. It’s just rare.
People say things like “lifestyle change” and whatever the nonsense thing you called it… but it is still diet and exercise. Eating less and moving more.
The statistics do not care what you call it. Everyone who tries to lose weight has only about a 5% chance of having long-term success.
Some people are much better off not focusing on the number on a scale. They should try to make healthier meal choices and get more active if they are able. But without the pressure of trying to shed tons of weight as fast as possible. If they do lose weight, it should be slow and steady. Improving health and reducing risks should be the goal.
Feel free to read this article. If you are skeptical, follow up on the names of the experts. Check their credentials. Read their research. Google the claims that are made. If you are going to call me pseudoscientific when the only thing you seem to know about is counting calories, then maybe you need to expand your knowledge a tiny bit.
I’m not discouraging anyone from trying to lose weight. But I do want people to know the realities and even some of the dangers. Yo-yoing can be dangerous. Sometimes obsession over weight can lead to eating disorders. Failure can lead to depression. Depression in combination with poor body image can even lead to suicide. I just want people to be careful and make smart choices.
The best thing we can do is help our kids stay healthy and teach them how to make healthy choices. We need to improve school lunch programs. Eliminate food deserts. Make P.E. much less lame. And educate parents on how to help their kids stay fit and active. Not gaining the weight in the first place is our best hope at curbing this epidemic.
I’m going to tell you the absolute truth now.
One more time.
I’m going to make it as clear as possible. You can believe me or you can tell me I’m a pseudoscientific delusional fat person. Up to you.
Due to several debilitating illnesses, I am physically unable to do any sort of activity. I cannot burn additional calories.
This means I must eat very small amounts of low fat/low calorie food to lose weight. I know this because I have done this. Several times.
It was very challenging. Even the slightest moment of weakness would erase tons of progress. I felt hungry all the time. It was miserable. It was so fragile that I could not sustain it.
Weight loss is hard.
Not everyone can do it.
If people have physical limitations, they might consider focusing on healthy choices instead of a number on a scale.
Okay?
OK, I told myself I wasn’t going to be a nerd and bring up the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, but I’m going to have to point out that the subjects, during the “restricted calories” part of the Experiment, were living on 1,560 kilocalories per day; so a 2000-calorie/day diet is only 440 calories more than the diet that volunteers in 1944-45 were going to pieces on.
So can we please stop framing him as some sweet little harmless old dude now?
George W. Bush helped shape the conservative “anti-abortion” movement as a political movement with teeth. He denied funding to health organizations that performed abortions or even that handed out condoms or other forms of birth control. I am not surprised in the least that he is throwing his weight behind anti-abortion Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh would have been exactly the Supreme Court nominee he would have chosen to help smooth the path after losing the popular vote to Al Gore but getting the electoral college and to help support him in starting an illegal war.
A lot of millennials were just children when George Bush was president. Many of us began truly paying attention to politics during the Obama Administration.
In turn, many of us don’t remember that George W. Bush was literally so evil and was the literal figure head and one of the fathers who pushed America’s current state of social ignorance. Islamophobia, Homophobia, Welfare discrimination, anti choice rhetoric, and imprisonment rates of Black Americans and Latinos. He was a vehement liar and a vomit inducing scoundrel. He catapulted this country into a useless war over oil and resources. Which has lead to the death and displacement of millions of innocent Middle Easterners/South Asians and built a strong base for Islamophobia. Literally, his administration set the base for the hundreds of thousands of current refugees.
Read up and get educated on why he isn’t just some “old man who likes to paint in his free time now that he’s not president”.
Kavanaugh was first nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President Bush in 2003. His confirmation hearings were contentious; they stalled for three years over charges of partisanship. Kavanaugh was ultimately confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in May 2006 after a series of negotiations between Democratic and Republican U.S. Senators.[4][5][6]”
—-Wikipedia, because that was the fastest way to find this all in one place
Mama Dvorah had to stop by the butcher to rendezvous with somebody, and while she was there she bought me a few livers… just wait for me to liveblog my demise from hypervitaminosis A like a classic arctic explorer ( ;
She also reports that fresh beef heads (tongue included) are only twenty bucks, so we may have a pit-roasting adventure this weekend. Proper-ass cabeza en pozo, thank you, and none of this rump-roast nonsense!
There’s some prime twitter discourse going on between Twitter Maoists and Boots Riley (writer of Sorry to Bother You) on the use of strategic reforms for the building of a revolutionary movement and honestly? All power to comrade Riley ✊
A few things that caught my eye, though I haven’t decided whether or not to offer/request yet:
• Oz – L. Frank Baum Button-Bright , Dorothy Gale, Patchwork Girl, Polychrome, Princess Ozma, Toto The
inclusion of Button-Bright interests me – he’s an Oz character I’ve
always had a bit of trouble getting a handle on – likely because he was
introduced as a toddler, then I think Baum must have aged him up to
about nine or ten and given him his own spin-off series, before bringing
him back as an Oz regular. As a toddler he’s a bit irritating—as an
older kid he retains something of his initial stolidity, but it’s become
less a matter of “too ignorant to panic” and more “has realized a
wait-and-see approach works for him.”
• Parker Pyne – Agatha Christie Ariadne Oliver, Claude Luttrell, Madeleine de Sara, Parker Pyne There’ve
been Mr. Quinn requests again this year, but here’s another of the less
well-known, potentially fun-to-play-with Christie series.
• Watership Down – Richard Adams Bigwig , Blackavar, Fiver , General Woundwort , Hazel , Silverweed Inclusion of Silverweed notable.
• A Canterbury Tale (1944) Alison Smith, Bob Johnson , Peter Gibbs, Thomas Colpepper Finally!
• Ich möchte kein Mann sein | I don’t want to be a Man (1918) Dr Kersten, Dr Kersten’s Valet, The Governess, Ossi Oswalda
• Hilda the Plus-Sized Pin-Up – Duane Bryers (Illustration Series) Interesting
but very open-ended, as the original works are basically single-panel
cartoons. Hilda seems rather fun and outdoorsy, so camping adventures
are a possibility, or maybe she could help out the girls fixing their
car from this Norman Rockwell cover.
I believe weight loss is possible. I have lost weight in the past.
It’s just that statistically it is extremely difficult to lose weight and keep it off for long periods of time.
And in some cases when people have disabilities and cannot exercise, they must rely on starvation diets or dangerous surgeries to lose weight.
Those are not healthy or desirable options. They are incredibly hard to maintain over long lengths of time. And they can lead to yo-yoing, eating disorders, busted staples, and other complications. Sometimes those options can be more dire than not losing weight in the first place.
You have the physics right, but you aren’t including every variable.
There is a complicated psychology to factor in. Things like depression can snuff out willpower and motivation. Food can be very addictive. It’s easier to gain than lose. So one might spend a week losing a few pounds, but then they have a couple of meals at a wedding or party and those few pounds come right back. Then one gets frustrated and thinks, “why am I bothering?” They eat their feelings and the cycle repeats.
The math is easy. The weight loss is hard.
Research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. Why do you think the weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar venture?
I’m sorry, but that makes me think it is a little more than just “fat people are lazy” or that we are fucking reptiles.
I see so many people lose a hundred pounds and immediately claim victory. Sometimes they will even deride other fat people and tell them it isn’t that hard. They parrot all the stereotypes saying it is a character flaw holding people back. Everyone is just “making excuses.”
“Maybe if they were better people, they’d be thin too!”
But that person doesn’t realize the stats are against them. Maybe they are the 5% that keep it off. Or maybe they’ll blow out their knee. Maybe they’ll get depressed. Maybe they’ll just miss eating cookies and pizza. And a few years later they are back where they started.
Circumstances matter.
These are not just excuses. Having problems is not weakness. It’s just bad luck. Not everything is always within our control.
No, I don’t subscribe to the typical “fat conspiracies” as you might call them.
I don’t believe everyone who is fat is healthy. And if they are healthy I know they have increased risks. And I know some people are unhealthy because they are fat. But thin people can be unhealthy too. Which means health is more than a number on a scale. So maybe weight loss isn’t always the only path to health.
I freely admit there is a line where the health risks are almost certain to come to fruition. I am not naive. I don’t say I have slow metabolism or bad genes or I’m big boned. I know it’s more complicated and most of those reasons do not always hold up well scientifically. Instead, I think it is a hundred little things that add up and contribute rather than a few common tropes.
Yes, I believe in body positivity. I don’t think shame is an effective motivator. I think respecting fat people will improve their health. I think the words “glorifying obesity” should never be spoken again. I think sometimes not losing weight is the best option for certain people. And in some cases, it might not be a viable option at all. So… not impossible. But maybe 99.99999% unlikely. I think people can make healthy decisions no matter what they weigh without the pressure of trying to shed mass. I think some fat people can be delusional but I think society and people like you help to fuel that.
If those are the conspiracies you think I ascribe to, then I am guilty as charged.
I got fat as a kid because I snuck food and didn’t know better. I have found over several decades that it is very hard for me to lose weight.
It just is.
I promise you.
I have on many occasions put in considerable effort to lose weight. I once lost 90 pounds on a starvation diet (basically what you described) and it was miserable. The hunger never went away. It felt awful all of the time. I doubt you would want to live like that perpetually. I sure didn’t.
I was balancing a delicate house of cards to keep the weight off. I ate rice cakes and crackers and salad and not much else. And you’re right, I was able to burn those calories as you described.
And then my best friend died.
I gained it all back in just a few months.
How does your math account for that?
How many kcal should I have eaten to satisfy my unbearable grief?
Yes, I personally am unhealthy because I am fat. I have diabetes and sleep apnea. But… my options suck. I don’t qualify for weight loss surgery. My CFS has become so intense that I can rarely escape my bed. My energy is so minimal that preparing meals is difficult. My money is so tight that I must buy food that is easy to cook and sold in bulk. I’d love healthier options. I’d love to get Blue Apron’s diabetic meal plan. But usually all I can afford is a giant frozen bag of chicken nuggets.
Got any equations for that?
Any fancy formulas to address that happenstance?
Also, I have food addiction issues and my depression has killed any sense of willpower I once had. But I need food to survive so it’s not like I can avoid eating.
Is there anything in the laws of thermodynamics to solve that?
Will the Pythagorean Theorem cure addiction? Or depression?
You don’t know what you are talking about and it is insulting you think you can simplify this issue in a Tumblr ask.
Bottom line… effective long-term weight loss can be immensely complicated.
So maybe don’t go around patronizing fat people because you took a physics course.
The 95% of people who fail to lose weight would like to tell your laws of thermodynamics to go to hell.
I’d add the the person arguing with sirfrogsworth is acting on the assumption that a living body is a fairly simple machine, that does not react to its environment and, say, adjust its metabolism to burn fewer calories if fewer calories start coming in.
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