California. Fat girl. đłď¸âđ Full time educator of small children. Reading. Writing. Cats. Walt Whitman, Douglas Adams, Sarah Dessen. Often lost, less often returned.
I donât think itâs a radical ideal for the want of Hawai'i to become their own independent country. It should have never been taken over by the US in the first place. For a country whose entire foundation is based upon âseparation from a colonial countryâ itâs laughable that they made an entire population that was self governed into a state. Itâs insulting. Itâs already blatantly obvious that this whole country was based on lies and blood, and it only continues to perpetuate that. Iâm shocked that the Hawai'ian sovereignty movement isnât mainstream even though they have been fighting for it since 1997. Fuck the American government.
âFor 60 years, doctors and researchers have known two things that could have improved, or even saved, millions of lives. The first is that diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolismâa body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your bodyâs energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.
The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call âthe lean unhealthy.â A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people.â
A surprising article to find on the Huffington post. I think, especially towards the end, thereâs still a saturation of healthism and diet talk (just of the âclean eatingâ variety), but the information about weight discrimination is absolutely on point, especially within the medical field ignoring decades of research.
Not only do we know that weight loss isnât sustainable or possible, we also know that weight discrimination kills, in a myriad of ways. If you actually care about âhealthâ then start unlearning your weight bias NOW and realize that fat people are just people who are a different shape.
Altogether, I really like the way americans say “can I help you?” as a polite general one-size-fits-all stand-in for “who the fuck are you/what the fuck are you doing here/how the fuck did you get in here/what the fuck are you staring at/what is your fucking problem.” Such a polite way of going “bitch what the fuck.”
It’s that time of year again when I have to remind everyone in my family that if they gift my child an elf on the shelf it will immediately become firewood because one thing mama ain’t raising in a snitch.
Things I’ve done to children instead of elf on a shelf:
Told 4-7 year olds that throwing tantrums makes their teeth come loose
Green vegetables taste bad because they have the same stuff in them as the ninja smoke bombs that make people pass out, but if you eat a little bit at a time you will become immune and thus defeat ninjas.
The dentist knows the tooth fairy
Dogs and cats know when you say swear words and it hurts their feelings
Monsters in the closet think the floor is lava and can only walk on toys and clothes you haven’t put away
The good spirit of the house likes the sound of water, so flushing the toilet and washing your hands will remind it to protect you
So many child psychologists must know about me.
Okay but the dentist does know the tooth fairy that’s just facts
shitty MS Paint 3 minutes doodle, nto entirely accurate: When you have your pinky hooked on the âbottomâ edge of the phone for the extra security so it doesnât slide out of your hand that easily, youâre wreaking damage on your hand, since the pinky is extremely askew from itâs resting position. You might have noticed that when you hold your phone like that for long time it begins to hurt, like when you are gripping a pen too tightly for example.
Green lines - the fingers are going their natural way. Red line - the pinky is way off, thatâs bad.
Me: Oh, good thing I never-
Me, looking down at hand: By talos this canât be happening
I always wondered why the Western Zodiac and the Chinese Zodiac were both called zodiacs if one was associated w astronomy and the other w time in general. Like what defines a zodiac that the word is only used to describe these two things? Looking up the word âzodiacâ in the dictionary didnt help bc it only talked about the western one.
Well, I decided to look up the etymology for zodiac and it turns out it comes from the Greek for âcircle of little animals.â I love humans
was unwilling to accept this outright so i checked etymonline and, truly:
No matter how suspicious you might find the neighbor who never opens their blinds, they will never be as suspicious as the neighbor who wants free reign to peek in through people’s windows.