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Dusty May just won a title at Michigan and now walks straight into rebuilding the Mavs around Cooper Flagg, and college coaches have a rough history translating to the NBA.

Taylor Jenkins gets picked right back up by Milwaukee months after getting fired in Memphis, right as the Bucks start life without the Greek Freak. Feels like at least one of these six new coaches is walking into a disaster season before it even starts.

Days after winning the World Cup and the Golden Ball with Spain, Rodri's now under the knife for back surgery that could rule him out of City's Premier League opener. Comes right as his Real Madrid contract situation is still unresolved, and honestly City might be better off just letting him walk at this point given how often his body's broken down.

Something I didn't realize until a friend pointed it out was how fast I ate compared to everyone else. We'd all start eating together, and before anyone else was halfway through their meal, I was already finished and thinking about seconds. It wasn't like I was trying to race anyone. That's just how I'd always eaten. Looking back, I rarely gave myself a chance to actually notice I was getting full because the meal was over before my brain had time to catch up. I spent years thinking I just needed bigger portions when maybe I never gave my body enough time to register the ones I already had.

Something I didn't realize until a friend pointed it out was how fast I ate compared to everyone else. We'd all start eating together, and before anyone else was halfway through their meal, I was already finished and thinking about seconds. It wasn't like I was trying to race anyone. That's just how I'd always eaten. Looking back, I rarely gave myself a chance to actually notice I was getting full because the meal was over before my brain had time to catch up. I spent years thinking I just needed bigger portions when maybe I never gave my body enough time to register the ones I already had.

For the longest time, I thought my issue was just that I liked food more than other people. Then I started paying attention to how much mental space food was actually taking up. I'd finish breakfast and already be thinking about lunch. If someone brought donuts into work, it would be hard to focus until I'd decided whether I was going to have one. Sometimes I'd find myself planning dinner while I was still eating lunch. The strange part is that I wasn't physically hungry most of the time. Food just seemed to be running in the background of my mind all day long.

Looking back at it now, I think I got so used to it that I assumed everyone experienced food this way. Does anyone else feel like food takes up way more of their mental energy than they'd like to admit?

A friend once asked me why I kept treating every overeating episode like proof that I couldn't succeed. At the time I thought that was exactly what it meant. If I overate, I assumed I'd failed because I wasn't disciplined enough. What I didn't notice was that most of those episodes happened after periods where I was trying really hard to be "good" with food. I'd cut portions, ignore hunger, avoid foods I enjoyed, and tell myself I just needed more self-control. Then eventually I'd end up overeating and feel like I'd undone all my progress. Looking back, it seems like the more I tried to white knuckle my way through hunger, the more likely I was to swing in the opposite direction later. It took me a long time to realize that maybe the overeating wasn't happening because I lacked discipline, but because I was asking discipline to do too much for too long. Does anyone else feel stuck in the cycle of trying to be perfect and then ending up overeating?

For years I assumed successful weight loss meant eventually reaching a point where I just wouldn't want junk food anymore. Instead, every diet felt like a daily fight against my own brain. What surprised me was realizing that the periods where I craved food the most were usually the periods where I was trying hardest to restrict it. Looking back, I spent years blaming myself for something that may have been a fairly normal biological response to perceived scarcity. Does anyone else feel like the harder they try to eat less, the more they end up craving food?

For years I assumed successful weight loss meant eventually reaching a point where I just wouldn't want junk food anymore. Instead, every diet felt like a daily fight against my own brain. What surprised me was realizing that the periods where I craved food the most were usually the periods where I was trying hardest to restrict it. Looking back, I spent years blaming myself for something that may have been a fairly normal biological response to perceived scarcity. Does anyone else feel like the harder they try to eat less, the more they end up craving food?

Whenever I hear people talk about GLP-1s, I find myself thinking less about the weight loss and more about the habits behind it. I've lost and gained weight enough times to realize that a lot of my struggles were tied to stress eating, boredom eating, and reaching for food automatically without even thinking about it. That's probably why I've never been particularly drawn to GLP-1s. If I ever manage to keep the weight off for good, I'd want it to be because I changed the behaviors that got me there in the first place, not just because I felt less hungry.

Whenever I hear people talk about GLP-1s, I find myself thinking less about the weight loss and more about the habits behind it. I've lost and gained weight enough times to realize that a lot of my struggles were tied to stress eating, boredom eating, and reaching for food automatically without even thinking about it. That's probably why I've never been particularly drawn to GLP-1s. If I ever manage to keep the weight off for good, I'd want it to be because I changed the behaviors that got me there in the first place, not just because I felt less hungry.

Even after losing weight, I still catch myself thinking like the person I was years ago. I still expect to struggle in situations where I don't anymore. It's weird how the body can change faster than the story you've been telling yourself for years. Curious if anyone else has experienced that disconnect.

I used to think productivity was mostly about forcing myself I didn't want to do. The older I get the more it seems like managing energy, stress, and attention matters more than constantly pushing harder. Some of my biggest improvements happened when I stopped trying to win every internal argument and started reducing the number of arguments in the first place. Has anyone else found that?

I used to think productivity was mostly about forcing myself to do things I didn't want to do. The older I get, the more it seems like managing energy, stress, and attention matters more than constantly pushing harder. Some of my biggest improvements happened when I stopped trying to win every internal argument and started reducing the number of arguments in the first place. Has anyone else found that?

For years I blamed almost every struggle on not having enough discipline. If I kept repeating the same mistake, I needed more willpower. If I fell back into an old habit, I needed to try harder. The older I get, the less convinced I am that discipline was actually the thing missing most of the time. I'm curious if anyone else has had a similar realization. What's something you spent years trying to force through willpower before realizing there was something else going on?

For the longest time I thought it was normal to spend half my day thinking about food. Not even eating it, just thinking about it. What I was going to eat later, whether I should eat something now, trying not to eat something, regretting what I ate earlier, promising I'd be better tomorrow. I assumed everyone was having the same running conversation in their head until I started talking to other people and realized some people barely think about food at all. That realization kind of messed with me. Did anyone else think their experience was normal until they found out it wasn't?

This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I spent years convinced that food was the thing I needed to fix. Every binge just led to more attempts to control it. What's weird is that the biggest shift I've had recently doesn't feel like better self-control. It just feels like less fighting, if you know what I mean. I don't know if that makes sense, but it's making me wonder if I was aiming at the wrong target all along. Has anyone else had that experience?

I've been realizing lately that whether it was food, procrastination, or something else, the thing that exhausted me wasn't always the habit. It was spending hours thinking about it, arguing with myself, promising I'd do better, then doing it anyway. Looking back, the actual behavior might take a few minutes, but the mental back-and-forth could take up half my day. Makes me wonder if I was spending all my energy fighting the symptom instead of whatever was driving it. Anyone else relate?