u/External_Week_3069

Just posting because I'm happy. I've set a goal for five pounds per month between now and end of January to get to my goal weight (180lbs to 140lbs) and I'm at 174 today.

It's been hard getting on a diet because I spent so much of my teens and twenties with disordered eating and I was really nervous about getting back into counting calories and using a scale without triggering myself into unhealthy behavior.

I realized a month ago that the scale has crept up to a place that isn't healthy for my height. I knew I needed to address it but I had so much anxiety about getting back into bad habits.

I've spent the past month loose calorie counting with a goal of 1,800 and no less than 1,600 per day, trying to hit between 6,000 and 10,000 steps, and absolutely no "safe" vs. "unsafe" foods. I've increased the portions of veggies and fruits, eaten breakfast religiously (something I often skipped) and focused on increasing water intake. I'm not cutting out any of my favorite foods, just trying to watch portions and balance with healthier choices - last night I enjoyed a slice of cake with zero guilt :)

Waking up and seeing that I'm one pound under my goal for this month without having starved myself is such a freeing feeling and I just wanted to share here because Im so proud of myself. Not just for the weight loss, but for the kindness that I'm having for my body.

This feels doable. This feels sustainable. This feels GOOD. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Are just boobs. That's how real boobs look. Between ads for fixing this non-existent problem and ads for GLP-1s I feel like I'm in early 2000s hell all over again. Just let me like my body.

Edit to say: all boobs are good boobs including boobs that have implants, boobs that have been augmented, boobs in push up bras, boobs with different shapes. If advertising makes you feel good or helps you find products you want that is wonderful. For me, I am seeing/interpreting some of these ads as trying to convince me that there is a body "problem" that requires a "solution".

Yes, he's worse than Hendrickson. Yes, he's worse than Love. He's worse than Paco's abusive stepfather. He's worse than his own abusive parents.

Joe is without a doubt the most horrible person on the entire show. Any act of kindness is from a place of psychopathic narcissism. If the straight up murder isn't enough, it's how carelessly he ruined Ellie's life and Nadia's life. He is a stalker and a liar and a manipulator and calling him "not a rapist" is just toeing a fine line because not one of his girlfriends would have slept with him had they known the truth (except Love who did know the truth and matched his freak). He's a terrible father who does not care about his son at all, he just cares about what "being a good father" means for his own self image.

If Joe weren't played so charismatically or if we didn't get his inner monologue and instead sat in his long awkward silences this wouldn't be an unpopular opinion. Joe is a monster and the fact that there is any argument about that is the point of the show. Team Peach 🍑

Cons:

• Occasional cravings (mild)
• Smoking dreams

Pros:

• Better sleep and way cooler dreams
• Little to no anxiety
• Little to no depression
• Better poops (tmi but honestly)
• Better appetite / more meals fewer unhealthy snacks
• Reading more
• Writing more
• Going outside more
• Healthier lungs
• Higher libido
• More creativity
• Better memory
• Sense of pride!

Regular smoker for 10+ years, high potency vape cartridges for the last 5ish, going through about 1/2 a gram cart per day. Stopped after a very scary psychotic episode: first time that had ever happened to me.

I don't know if I'm quitting for good but each day I feel better so each day I feel less likely to go back. Honestly I feel like that incident just took all the joy out for me so even though it sucked I'm grateful that it happened.

NEGATIVE:

• Insomnia

POSITIVE:

• Better gut function
• Less anxious
• Actually using boredom to do creative things, read, exercise, do chores
• Better appetite, eating better (more meals fewer snacks, not fasting all day and eating one big dinner anymore)
• Better memory
• Better performance at work
• Not coughing up pleghm anymore
• Vivid dreams, fewer recurring stress dreams
• Self pride

Cravings have been okay, not intense. This is worth it.