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sweetestsugarxoxo · 2 days

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Hot girl summer or fat girl summer?

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creature-wizard · 16 hours

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"This Law of Assumption practitioner posted photos, doesn't that prove something?"

There's people out there claiming they've seen proof that the Law of Assumption works by way of photos posted by people who've claimed they've supposedly manifested their dreams.

So I'm going to talk about some of the ways that photographs can be misleading.

First of all, there are a lot of tricks people can use to make their bodies look different. If you watch how-to videos on contouring, you can see how people use makeup to give the appearance of drastic changes to their facial structure. Or heck, just search DuckDuckGo for "contouring before and after" to see what a difference makeup can make.

It's also very easy to fake before/after weight loss/muscle gain photos, even without Photoshop. Simply changing one's clothes, changing the lighting, and posing differently can make people's bodies look very different. People faking photos like this to promote weight loss and fitness products is actually pretty common. Go check out how Danae Mercer and Andrew Dixon demonstrated how easy it is. Go search up "how to look thinner in photos" to see just how many little tricks there are for this.

Photos can be misleading in other ways, too. One Instagram influencer - just as a prank, mind you - was able to pass off photos taken in an Ikea as a trip to Bali. Meanwhile, other Instagram users employ numerous tricks to make themselves seem more affluent than they really are, from using green screens to Photoshop to renting expensive goods to just posing with unbought merchandise at stores. One YouTuber, Byron Denton, spent a week manipulating his photos to make himself appear wealthy, and he was shocked at just how easy it was.

And of course, people can just steal photos or find them on stock photo sites. If you run a reverse image search, you'll sometimes find that the photos somebody posted came from somewhere else.

So yeah, photos don't necessarily prove that a Law of Assumption blogger has actually been manifesting. Photos can be misleading. (And this is why I challenge people who claim they can manifest anything to manifest and post photos of something that would be truly difficult to fake - like an ancient psychic tandem war elephant.)

For anyone reading this: If you are leaving or questioning the Law of Assumption and need help, please see this post.

#loa #loassumption #law of assumption #loablr #loa tumblr #tw weight loss

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thebibliosphere · 11 days

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Man, fuck doctors sometimes. I was finally able to see a neurologist with the intent of figuring out why about a month or so after a surgery I suddenly couldn't stand or sit upright without lower back pain. Like, very, VERY suddenly this came on.

And they told me to try losing weight about it after giving me a once-over.

And when I directly asked them if I wasn't what sh considered 'overweight', would she order many tests? Yes, she said she would.

I -did- get to make her backpedal by explaining I had worked hard to gain weight since for most of my life I was extremely underweight due to neglect, at least.

All this to say I relate to your tylenol woes. May we both find the help we need soon.

Man, doctors have such sticks up their asses about weight. I'm so sorry that was your experience.

I remember when I first moved here, and I started seeing a new healthcare provider. My symptoms weren't as bad yet, but they were heading that way, and the advice they kept giving me was to "lose weight."

I was 125lbs soaking wet. If that.

When I dropped... gosh, I think it was 30, almost 40lbs in about 3 months last year, I actually had a nurse congratulate me on it. Like no, Deborah, that's a sign there is something very, very wrong. (spoiler alert, it was my mast cells burning down my GI tract.)

Fatphobia literally kills.

#chronic health tag #fatphobia #medical fatphobia #tw weight loss

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kwulmi · 9 days

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⋆˚ ౨ৎ ˙˖° female horror game protagonist th1nsp0 ⋆˚ ౨ৎ ˙˖°

#thinspø #tw weight #tw ed but not sheeran #bulim14 #i need to lose so much weight #weight loss journey #bulimima #i need to lose this weight #i wanna lose weight #tw weight loss #thin$po #tw thinspi

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ms-demeanor · 2 months

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Going off that post about nutrition and science, I'd love to hear what you think of the 5:2 diet/The Fast 800 and its creator, Dr. Michael Mosley. For context: in order to get an NHS-funded breast reduction (it's a gender thing, but also just a general quality-of-life thing), I need to be a certain BMI, so I've been referred to a weight management clinic. The lady I've been seeing initially just put me on a low-carb diet (130g or less of carbs per day, with an aside from her about how bullshit Keto and BMI limits for treatment are), but now she's said that, if I wanted to speed up the weight loss, I should include the 5:2 diet: 5 days in a week where I eat "normally", and 2 fast days in which I restrict myself to 800kcals. I did a little looking into it myself, and found that 5:2 - which I HAD heard about before - is now being sold as part of "The Fast 800", with Dr. Mosley being the creator of it. I was shocked by that, because I was already a fan of Dr. Mosley's work (he has a podcast called "Just One Thing" that I really liked, and thought contained reasonable-sounding advice), and yet having a diet plan that he's clearly making money off of does immediately make me feel suspicious. I've borrowed his "The Fast 800" book from the library, both to find out more about the diet I've been put on and to see if it's at all backed by evidence, and he does cite a bunch of scientific studies which seem to back up his ideas, but I don't know how valid they are, and I don't just want to accept them at face-value (especially since he's a "we got fat completely wrong in the 80s, therefore we should eat a Mediterranean diet!" types). Obviously I'll go with what my weight management lady suggests, since she's obviously more qualified to talk about it than I am, but I am curious to know what you think, and whether I'm right to be distrustful of all of this.

I am, generally speaking, against any diet for rapid weight loss. They're not sustainable so people gain the weight back (often with more weight getting added on).

There have also recently been findings that suggest that BMI cutoffs for top surgery are detrimental to patients as patients in higher BMI categories are more likely to have minor complications like UTIs or to be readmitted, but are not likely to have major complications or be at risk of significant harm from having top surgery. I don't know if anybody will listen if you bring up that study, and I know that GCS is fraught in many places for many reasons.

I'm also just.

I'm so mad. I'm so fucking mad! I'm so mad about this!

One of my best friends is a guy who was pressured into a pattern of disordered eating and unhealthy exercise in order to qualify for top surgery; since then he has not been able to eat in a healthy way and has struggled with alternating between exercising to the point of harm and other destructive behaviors that make him unhappy and unsafe. And he didn't need that. He didn't need any of that! He needed a very safe surgery that had perhaps a slightly higher risk of minor complications at his size and instead he got top surgery and an eating disorder! I hate it! I'm so fucking mad about it!

Also as near as I can tell Michael Mosley qualified as a psychiatrist in the 90s, spent very little time working as a psychiatrist, and then became a media personality. From what is visible on his website and every biography I've found for him he apparently doesn't have any background in nutrition beyond whatever is standard for someone in medical school (which is NOT MUCH).

Hey I just looked at his website and this is straight-up fucked up.

Anybody recommending an 800 calorie a day diet for 2-12 weeks in a context that is not heavily medically supervised can fucking choke. That is *ridiculously* dangerous and the website says that this can improve insulin resistance but there are a shitload of studies about people on crash diets like this *developing* insulin resistance (oh hey like my friend who became prediabetic after his rapid significant weight loss).

Also in regard to the studies he cites on the website, the "two years later patients are still going strong in their diabetes improvements" it's really important to put shit like that in context

at 5 years 13% of the original intervention group were in remission from their type two diabetes; the average weight loss experienced by the intervention group as a whole was 6.1kg compared to 4.6kg in the control group. That's 1.5kg lower for the people who went through a twelve week medically supervised very low calorie diet compared. That's an average difference of 3.3 pounds between "starvation diet" and "no diet" for the Americans in the audience.

Yours is the second comment I've seen that has been leery of the Mediterranean diet, btw, and the Mediterranean diet is fine. It's very achievable and not super gimmicky and is based on very reasonable reassessments of fat, not the hardcore "you are fine to eat 100g of fat a day" kind of attitude that you get from the keto crew. There isn't really one Mediterranean diet and it certainly isn't low carb (which the bits from Mosely's website seem to indicate it is).

So, no, honestly I don't think much of Mosely and I'm very sorry you're in this situation, that sucks and I hate that they're refusing you treatment until you undergo an exceptionally difficult and potentially harmful weight loss excursion.

I know you're probably stuck with that and it's bullshit and I think it fucking sucks and unfortunately the medical advice you're likely to get is "eat in a significantly disordered manner at least until it is time for surgery" and it blows. That just fucking sucks.

If you're looking for rapid weight loss that you don't plan to sustain (and you shouldn't plan to sustain it, it won't stay off) you may want to look into body building forums for how they discuss cuts. It's still disordered eating and it's still not healthy, but at least they're effective and can tell you what supplements will keep you from becoming malnourished while you prepare for surgery. This is a terrible idea. I don't actually want to give this advice to anyone but bodybuilders are the exact kind of people who know how far and how fast they can push weight loss while having an awareness that it isn't really good for them and it won't stay off.

I cannot overstate enough how much I hate the thought that people are being encouraged to rapidly starve themselves in order to prepare to recover from surgery. I am so sorry and I'm so mad and

#tw weight loss #tw diet talk #tw disordered eating #tw calorie restriction

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cheeseburgersinparadise · 1 year

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just a reminder that diet culture is rly gonna ramp up in the new year so please don’t let it make you think you’re not good enough or worthy or can’t be happy or aren’t attractive until you lose x amount of weight because actually. you can and you are and you will right now. body size means literally nothing when talking about happiness or ability to achieve goals or feel fulfilled in life. literally nothing. eat what you want and live your damn life how you please. tell anyone who says otherwise to eat shit.

#thanks #anti diet culture #tw weight loss #tw diet talk #tw diet culture

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flamingostalker · 7 months

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#personal #tw weight loss #WHEN DOES IT END #WHEN DOES IT STOP #FUCK. OFF.#I’LL KILL YOU

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healthy-liiviing · 5 days

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Here's a Sample Meal Planning Structure:

Breakfast (300-400 calories): Greek yogurt with berries and a sprinkle of granola, oatmeal with sliced banana and nut butter, whole-wheat toast with scrambled eggs and spinach.

Lunch (400-500 calories): Tuna or chicken salad sandwich on whole-wheat bread with lettuce and tomato, lentil soup with a side salad and whole-wheat crackers, leftovers from dinner (controlled portion size).

Dinner (500-600 calories): Baked salmon with roasted vegetables and brown rice, chicken stir-fry with mixed vegetables and brown rice, vegetarian chili with a side salad and a dollop of Greek yogurt

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lylahammar · 3 months

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man I wish people would quit saying shit like this on my fat positive posts like literally just read the room and get help and keep your shit off my doorstep because that is the opposite of the point I'm making here

#I'm not entirely sure what to tag this with but I'll try my best #tw diet culture #tw weight loss #tw fatphobia #<- internalized at least #tw ed #I blocked this person instantly upon seeing that comment in my notifs so idk if this applies to them #but I get a weird amount of pro ana freaks interacting with my fat positive/fat liberation posts and it's sickening #at least they make it easy for me to block them lmfao #lyla's talking again

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sweetestsugarxoxo · 21 hours

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Your actually vile to look at xoxo

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ace-and-the-rpg-horrors · 1 month

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absolutely hate how certain non-Muslims make Ramadan seem so... shallow???

"ehe, i bet you get to lose so much weight!1!1!!"

sister if it were not the holy month i would be killing you with my mind

#that. is not why we do that #would it kill you to do one millisecond of “education” (a Google search) before opening your mouth. i think not #ace's rants :(#orphic dont look #tw weight #tw weight loss

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thebibliosphere · 10 months

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Lying in bed thinking about the conversation I had with my mother tonight. I called her to let her know the GI doctor seemed good, and we'd be going ahead to schedule the colonoscopy + endoscopy, and how I'm hopeful I'll finally get some answers and maybe start a treatment plan that might help alleviate the excruciating pain I've been in since May.

Her reaction was catastrophic devastation. "Oh no, how awful, those procedures are so horrifying, this is devastating. Are you sure you have to do it?"

And, I'm just like... as opposed to what I'm dealing with now?

I can't eat solids. I am barely tolerating liquids. Everything hurts. I can't sleep. I can't focus. I've dropped 40 lbs since May. I am barely functional right now. And I know neither procedure is pleasant. Name a single medical procedure that is. But if shoving a camera on a roto rooter from one end of my digestive tract to the other tells them what the fuck is wrong with me (chrons is suspected + MCAS complications), then it'll be worth not dealing with this anymore.

And there's a small, jaded part of me that knows her and knows how she thinks and the way she used to control my food intake that can't help but wonder if she's just glad I'm thin again.

Maybe I'm being cruel. Maybe I'm projecting back the childhood trauma she gave me. But I also can't help but recall how she saw a picture of me holding my niece at Christmas, both of us beaming and laughing, and the only remark she made was, "Are you still on the steroids? They make you gain weight, you know."

#chronic health tag #tw fatphobia #tw weight loss #tw restricted eating #medically restricted diet #MCAS

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kwulmi · 8 days

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their ex thinks you're a downgrade. prove them wrong, continue fasting ! 💗💕

#meanspø #i need to lose this weight #i wanna lose weight #tw ed but not sheeran #tw weight #tw weight loss #bulim14 #bulimima #thinspø #weight loss journey #i need to lose so much weight

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ms-demeanor · 2 years

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Actually I do think that it's super important to talk about the fact that cutting 500 calories a day for a 1lb a week weight loss is considered "slow" or "moderate" weight loss.

*IF* you can sustain that for a year that is a 52 pound loss in a year, which is pretty fucking fast, actually, but people act like you're a hopeless defeatist if you start talking about weight loss in terms of 1 pound a month because people want *results* but if you're talking about being able to sustain weight loss (which some people just straight up cannot for a variety of reasons and is not reasonable to *expect* everybody to be able to do) then it's kind of fucking bonkers that doctors and the American heart association and diabetes infographics and whatever talk about doing the kinds of diets that typically only last 3-6 months (12-26 pounds at a pound a week) and expect people to maintain those losses.

When you talk to doctors it is extremely reasonable to say "okay, and how, specifically, should I do that?" when they say to lose twenty pounds, but what is ALSO a very reasonable question that I never see brought up is "okay, by when?" and if they say "within the next year" it's also perfectly reasonable to say "why does it have to be in that time period?" Because if we're talking about the benefits of a 5% weight loss for reducing the weight-associated risks of heart disease or diabetes, then losing that weight over five years instead of over six months should be as effective, and is much more likely to be a lasting change instead of something that kicks off a bunch of weight cycling (which has its own terrible side effects that are bad for you).

There are some people for whom, for a number of reasons, it is impossible or near impossible to lose weight in the long term. It is possible for most people to lose weight in the short term, with a significant amount of effort. Maintaining long-term weight loss is exceptionally difficult and it seems like it's not feasible for large numbers of people, and I can't help but wonder if that's because what we're considering 'long term' really isn't long term at all.

If you've spent time around people trying to put on muscle you'll see something that I think is actually a more reasonable approach to long-term body changes, and that is recognition of the fact that you can only put on a (relatively) tiny amount of muscle in a year. For most people who have been training for any length of time, it's between 5-7 pounds and it gets harder to put on more the longer you've trained. Lifters and bodybuilders who recognize this and still want to put on muscle understand that they are in for an extremely long-term project that they have to intentionally maintain and put a lot of effort toward.

I want you to think about anyone you know who is a serious gym rat. I want you to think about how many hours a week they spend in the gym, and what they're giving up in exchange for that time. I want you to think about how much they spend on equipment and gym memberships and protein powder and first aid and very specific foods. If you know someone who's a very serious gym rat, you probably think they're a little unreasonable, that that's too much effort to put into looking good in a tank top.

But that's pretty analogous to the kind of effort, planning, and expense that needs to be put into maintaining a long term weight loss. And that effort needs to be put in forever - no matter if you're having kids or your partner is hospitalized or if your financial situation changes or if you are permanently injured, just like a bodybuilder can't expect to keep their gains if they're suddenly spending ten hours a week at the hospital instead of the gym.

I mean, people talk about weight loss and they get angry when you bring up the statistical failure of things like Weight Watchers or if you discuss how destructive dieting can be and they go "so, what, are you saying it's impossible to lose weight?" And the answer is, no, not for everyone.

It is possible for most people to lose weight. Just like it's possible for most people to become competitive bodybuilders. But we frame "mid-30s mother with two kids and a long commute and a full time job needs to lose 10 pounds and keep if off" as a task with a difficulty curve similar to learning how to cook a few crockpot meals, not similar to becoming a competitive bodybuilder.

#diet talk #tw diet #cw weight talk #tw weight loss #tw calorie restriction #calorie counting #calorie restriction #tw disordered eating #disordered eating

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muckyschmuck · 6 months

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a little problem

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littlehorrorshop · 3 months

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I've lost 15 pounds so far this year 😇 I've been exercising every day and have been careful not to overeat. I already fit into some old clothes I haven't been able to wear in a while. Slay

#tw weight loss #tw body image #tw weight talk #i dont talk about this stuff irl cos i know weight is a touchy topic. so im putting it here #i feel so much healthier tho!

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