u/bobothecarniclown

I think it’s actually so hilarious and darling😂😊 They’ll be like “yeah it’s just a bit rude to jump the queue” and what they actually mean is “that was very rude don’t ever f*cking do that again mate”, or “yeah this just tastes a bit funny” when what they actually mean is “this tastes very bad, it’s absolutely rank”😂😂😂

I love it.

When I look at old pics of myself at a healthy weight sometimes i do like the way I look in them a lot. Sometimes even better than I look now at a much lower weight. Or when I look at other women who are a healthy weight I think they look amazing with their curves and even wish I look like them

But for some reason I can’t bring myself to want to actually go back to being a healthy weight again. My brain keeps telling me that I’ll be hideous if I gain weight even though I like the way I looked in those pics and I like the way other women who aren’t ultra thin look. How tf does that even make sense?! Why does this happen? It makes recovery so hard.

Sometimes I look back at pictures of myself at a healthy weight and think that I looked so good in those pictures. Or I’ll see other women at a healthy weight and think how insanely beautiful their bodies look and how having curves like them must be amazing or that I wouldn’t mind looking like them

But for some reason I can’t bring myself to want to actually go back to being a healthy weight again. My brain keeps telling me that I’ll be hideous if I gain weight even though I like the way I looked in those pics. How tf does that even make sense?!

Nobody thinks I look good unless I’m at a very low weight for my height. I never received compliments from my friends, family, strangers or literally anyone until I got to my LW. When I was at a more healthy weight it was crickets from everybody. People also showed me more grace, kindness, and overall interest in me as a person. How am I supposed to give that up?

I started recovery a couple weeks ago but I don’t think I’m ready to go back to never hearing any compliments about the way that I look now and basically just being not worthy if any kind of attention unless it’s negative that I know what the other side is like. I grew up being ostracized and bullied for my looks. If it wasn’t my body it was my face if it wasn’t my face it was my hair. I want to be free but I don’t know if I’m ready to go back to basically being invisible at best, or visible and a target at worst. Feeling like I have to choose between the two makes me cry

For years, I have watched reddit arbitrarily scrap & destroy perfectly functional and useful features from the mobile app interface but allow them to remain on desktop. Mobile being worse than desktop in and of itself isn't unusual, but removing these features just made it arbitrarily worse in comparison than it has to be. Here are just a few of many examples:

- No more adding individual captions on photos in a multi-photo post. Still possible on desktop (scrapped in 2024)

- No more reorganizing photo order by dragging & dropping when choosing photos for a multi-photo post. You must now deselect every single photo then reselect them in the new order. Still possible on desktop (scrapped in 2024)

- No more replacing a photo in a comment when editing the comment. You must now delete the comment & make a new one or edit it on desktop (scrapped in 2026)

- GIFs uploaded to photo posts no longer animate, only works on desktop. This literally just happened 4-5 days ago.

- No more Markdown Mode (still available on desktop). The rich-text editor is also missing the blockquote button, and there’s no workaround since markdown symbols no longer work.

- Completely random pattern of saving comment drafts. It randomly saves things you want to discard and deletes things you want to keep because it lacks the warning prompt found on desktop when you swipe away from writing a comment. You don’t actually get to choose what get saved.

Why? What in the world is the reason for such a discrepancy between mobile & desktop when all of these features were once possible on mobile?

As in there is quite literally no good reason for certain features/abilities to only be available on desktop and not mobile, especially given that some of them were possible on mobile for years but were recently scrapped. Here are just a few of many examples:

- No more adding individual captions on photos in a multi-photo post. Still possible on desktop (scrapped in 2024)

- No more reorganizing photo order by dragging & dropping when choosing photos for a multi-photo post. You must now deselect every single photo then reselect them in the new order. Still possible on desktop (scrapped in 2024)

- No more replacing a photo in a comment when editing the comment. You must now delete the comment & make a new one or edit it on desktop (scrapped in 2026)

- GIFs uploaded to photo posts no longer animate, Only works on desktop. This literally just happened 4-5 days ago.

- No more Markdown Mode (still available on desktop). The rich-text editor is also missing the blockquote button, and there’s no workaround since markdown symbols no longer work.

- Completely random pattern of saving comment drafts. It randomly saves things you want to discard and deletes things you want to keep because it lacks the warning prompt found on desktop when you swipe away from writing a comment. You don’t actually get to choose what get saved. If some would find a prompt to be bothersome on mobile we should at least get the choice of opting in or out of them.

- No editing AutoMod on mobile because Reddit thinks YAML formatting is too hard for a phone screen. But not everyone would struggle so there’s no harm in having the option for people who wouldn’t. Plus, messing up the syntax doesn’t even actually mess up the config because it won't even go thru.

- No editing subreddit wiki on mobile either

All of this just makes mobile arbitrarily worse than it has to be compared desktop. Also if any of these features are still available on your mobile interface, that speaks even more to my point about it being arbitrarily worse. There’s no good reason some of us have these features but others of us don’t.

I can’t help but be bothered by how a lot of fitness influencers (especially women) claim they are eating to “fuel their bodies” but are consistently eating way less than what’s actually healthy for their activity level. So many are shredded and some are even stage/competition lean year round & do intense exercise 2 hrs a day 5x a week while eating like 1500 kcal/day, yet swear it’s “healthy/sustainable” because they get 100g+ of protein or eat a variety of fruits/veggies or hit their daily micronutrient requirements

It feels so crazy how normalized it’s become to think that as long as you get a lot of protein or fiber or vitamins it doesn’t matter what your overall caloric intake is, and how this has been rebranded as “fueling your body” or fueling your workouts. You’re not actually fueling anything without enough fuel🙄

I’m sure many of us have experience with the process of seeking customer service online and initially being greeted/assisted by a CS chat bot, then attempting to escalate to contact with a real human and being told that we’ve been put in contact with one, only to be met with more responses that sound rather AI generated than speaking to an actual human. Obviously, an individual consumer has no way of knowing for sure whether they’re conversing with an actual human or an AI chatbot being presented as a human CS assistant, but I do believe even if as a formality, it should either be illegal or against some kind of trading standards/conduct to misrepresent AI chatbots as human assistants. Consumers have a fundamental right to transparency and should possess the ability to know exactly what kind of entities we are dealing with in trade, and disguising AI as humans infringes on these rights.

This is why my view is that consumers should be able to file a complaint with a federal trading standards/conduct body if they suspect they are being assisted by an AI chatbot being presented as an actual human CS agent, and it be recognized by the body as either illegal or a violation of trading standards. And perhaps a certain number of complaints relative to the size of a company’s consumer base should warrant a full investigation (as it would likely be unrealistic to launch an in depth investigation for every claim, and shallow investigations are likely to be fruitless) and upon investigation if found guilty there should be some kind of penalty, preferably not a fine though, because I don’t think fines are that big of a deterrent

And I don’t mean obvious “naturally sweet” foods like fruits, honey, syrups etc. Ever since I quit eating added sugar 4 years ago things like nuts/nut butters, different vegetables, different dairy items like butter & heavy cream, and certain teas all taste delightfully sweet to me. The natural sugars in them really shine through. Even meat has certain kind of “sweetness” to it that my brain just wasn’t able to detect back when I used to drown my meat in ketchup & bbq sauce lol. Sparkling water with lemon juice added has also made a fine “Sprite” substitute for me. It’s so interesting how quitting sugar (and for me, also reducing my natural sugar intake and not relying on artificial sweeteners) rewires the brain like this.

I recently picked up jars of cashew butter and deep roasted peanut butter (no sugar added of course)— the cashew butter tastes like damn sugar cookie butter and the deep roast peanut butter tastes like dark chocolate and caramel had a baby. I’ve had to restrain myself from going to town with a spoon on the jars😂

Prior to 4 years ago reading something like this I would have made my eyes roll to the back of my head and probably stuck there because I was probably the biggest sugar and HFCS addict the world had ever seen. I used to add sugar & ketchup to my damn Chipotle burrito bowls because they weren’t sweet enough, that’s how down bad I was lol. I’m the type to have to see (taste) it to believe it, and lo & behold. It feels like such a privilege to be able to experience food like this