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I stress-eat.
I gain weight. Then I look at myself and think, “It can’t get any worse,” and eat again. And trust me, it does get worse.
I’ve been stuck in this cycle for several years now. I try not to let my weight go over 100 kg, but I’m constantly on the edge.
I’m embarrassed to exercise. I’m afraid to go somewhere to work out because I live in Asia, where everyone seems so tiny and slim. I’m embarrassed to go back to the dance classes I used to attend. Sometimes I’m even ashamed to leave the house because I might run into someone I know, and they’ll see that I’ve gained so much weight.
I’m 170 cm (5’7”) and currently weigh 86 kg (190 lbs). I’ve managed to lose weight from 95 kg (209 lbs), but I’ve started binge eating again.
Today, for example, I ate an entire box of pastries and a ton of noodles, and now I feel absolutely awful.
What do you do when you’re constantly thinking about food and hate your body and yourself?

What’s a musical performance you just can’t stand listening to?
There are musicals where I absolutely LOVE the songs and the actors’ voices… and then there are Gerard Butler in The Phantom of the Opera and Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia! 😭
I know they technically can sing. I know. But to me, they sound like a rusty wheel being dragged out of the bottom of a very deep well.
I just can’t do it.
Do you have an actor in a musical whose singing everyone else seems perfectly fine with, but your ears simply refuse to accept?

I watched Disclosure Day by Steven Spielberg today.
What can I say? It was a huge disappointment.
Not only do the talented actors have almost nothing to work with, but the script is full of illogical plot twists that never make you feel like the characters are actually in danger. Spoilers below.
The assassination attempt on the main character makes no sense. Once they took control of his girlfriend’s mind and found out where he was, they could have simply handed her a knife and waited. Instead, they organized a chase and sent in a tactical team, which ended up sabotaging their own assassination attempt.
The protagonist’s girlfriend had already been identified, photographed, and even kidnapped earlier in the story. So why did they only start investigating her past and the monastery where she lived after she escaped? And if they knew about the monastery, why couldn’t they find them there?
Why can’t anyone see the main character hiding behind a fence that’s basically made of three wooden planks?
Why did they only start checking on the missing employees after they were spotted with Hugo? It was already obvious those employees were working with him.
What was the point of all the conversations about God and religion? And why were people trying to kneel before the female lead? None of it seems to lead anywhere.
Every escape and every major plot twist exists purely to benefit the female protagonist, who conveniently unlocks a new ability whenever the story needs it. She’s basically a textbook Mary Sue. The biggest question is: why do these powers suddenly appear now?
I could keep listing plot holes, but honestly that’s not even the biggest problem.
A movie can survive some dumb writing if it makes you care about the characters. This one never does. It never gives us a reason to care about the protagonists, the aliens, or the outcome of the story.
A recent Ryan Gosling film (without naming names to avoid spoilers) did a much better job of building an emotional connection with its characters. Spielberg’s movie, on the other hand, simply tells you how to feel: this character is good, cry for them because the music is sad and everyone else is crying. That’s not how emotional storytelling works.