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But does anyone have any New Years resolutions?

I want to read 15 books next year. And try to bake something new every month. Got to make lists for both.

I support you in your goal for 15 books.

15 books was my goal for this year. So far I've read 10, but all but one of those were children's books, and the majority of those are books my boss has read aloud to the children at work or had me read to them.

I was going to do one a month, but figure this might be a bit better.

I want to stretch myself when it comes to driving and become a bit more independent. I have a few stores/restaurants that I've mapped out non-highway routes to, and I'm going to try doing more of that. And a couple other adult-type stuff like getting a credit card.

I know this is cliché as hell but I want to lose 30 pounds. I don’t know if I can and I doubt if I do that I’ll be able to keep it off long, but I’ve spent my whole life barring the first couple months pudgy to fat—I’m so short that at my current weight of 144 lbs I’m obese and 120 is my highest possible “normal” weight, which I haven’t been since I was 12. I’m on track to keep my distance walked at 5 miles a day for the year—last year was 2.9. I may even have gained some weight since last year, but I like to cook and love to eat and hopefully put on some muscle.

Aside from not eating prepared food/snacks/refined sugar and cutting portions in half, I can’t think what else to do. I’ve never dieted and think fad diets like Paleo are stupid and keto is straight up dangerous. I don’t drink alcohol and have maybe two sodas a year, and I haven’t eaten meat in decades. I guess I could cut out dairy, but man that will suck. There’s no point in cutting out eggs because my hens lay no matter what I eat.

Keto isn't dangerous if you do it right. If you do it by eating sticks of butter and bacon then, yes, it's dangerously unhealthy. It's not dangerous if you do it while eating loads of leafy green veggies, meat, nuts, and cheeses while ditching sugars, grains, and artificial foods.

AYRT—I don’t have epilepsy so I’m not gonna bother with a keto diet. There is no way in hell I’m eating meat just to lose weight, and no way I’d deliberately induce ketosis unless my doctor ordered me onto a supervised crash diet prior to surgery or something.

You do realize that ketosis is the state we're all born in, right? It's not dangerous. It's literally just your body using fat for fuel.

You might be getting it confused with ketoacidosis, which is very serious and very dangerous only really happens to T1 diabetics who shouldn't be doing keto anyway without a doctor's supervision. If you're not a T1 diabetic, keto is perfectly healthy for you.

Keto was originally developed to treat epilepsy, yes. And it does so with a very good success rate. That being said, medical keto and dietary keto are two different diets as medical keto must be rigorously conformed to certain percentages of micro-nutrients and their protein/fat/carb ratios must be spot on at all times. Dietary keto is much less strict, and is only really concerned with limiting your carb intake in order to reach a state of ketosis. The exact percentages of fats and proteins are not a concern in regular dietary keto the way they are for someone using it to treat epilepsy.

You do you, of course, and eat the way that makes you feel healthy! I just wanted to clear up some (very common) misconceptions people have about keto.

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Yeah, they obviously are misinformed. You make a good point, maybe they're confusing it with ketoacidosis or something, who knows. And I mean, if they just don't want to do it that's fine, but it annoys me that they're saying it's dangerous when they clearly have no idea what they're talking about.

AYRT— Since keto is, along with paleo, the trendy diet du jour, I’m gonna skip it and stick to cutting my portions in half, because I eat like a much taller more active person (or someone who eats a lot of minimally processed food because that’s how I grew up), and I should definitely eat less refined everything.

I dunno if it’s possible to have diet-related PTSD, but I grew up not allowed white sugar, white flour, or processed anything, and finally being able to eat whatever I wanted without being yelled at and having my sugary/greasy contraband dumped in the trash was like reaching the promised land.

Eating nothing but veggies, beans, brown rice, tofu, whole grain bread (often sprouted), small amounts of organic, free range (before either was a buzzword) meat, eggs and dairy, and fruit, with soy sauce instead of salt, honey as my only sweetener, nutritional yeast, alfalfa sprouts, and spirulina as garnishes, and carob powder instead of cocoa really did a number on me. My dad would disrupt girl scout meetings to throw away our spaghetti dinners, fed me adult vitamins until I barfed, lurk in the bushes outside restaurants... As soon as I could I went off healthy food the way religious fundies fleeing opressive upbringings become atheists.

But it’s not like I forgot how to cook that way and if I really wanted to keep eating like a horse I could stop taking public transit and bike everywhere instead like I usually had to as a kid (because cars and fossil fuels are almost as evil as white sugar.)

But like fuck am I giving up chocolate. I’ll just stick to the good stuff.

Keto is not dangerous, and the latest research shows that. I work in the medical field and the doctor I work for recommends it to his patients who are having a difficult time losing weight. I don't know where you've gotten your information, but it's either out of date or just flat out wrong.

Get back in shape (or at least physically healthier so that I can sleep through the night and have energy during the day), but I'm trying to start that, like, now.

Building my self-esteem.

Building UP my self-esteem.

Plan a camping trip with friends. Spend more time outdoors.

Continue losing weight! I've lost 75 pounds this year, and I've got 106 to go until I'm at my goal weight (I'm fat, I know) so I'm going to keep on keeping on with what I'm doing.

(And, other weight loss anon, I do keto and my everything is healthier and my doctor is 100% on board with what I'm doing.)

That's impressive AF, anon, way to go!

I need to lose at least twenty pounds. I've gotten really uncomfortable with how my body looks and want to change that. I've been walking in the mornings and afternoons, but I know I need to make some major diet changes. Cutting down on my sugar intake is hella hard though 'cause I love sweets.

I'd like to read at least 15 books, but that's true every year.

I also want to log every film I watch on Letterboxd rather than just logging the ones I watch in theatres.

Read 50 books. It's been my goal for years but I've never actually achieved it, although I'm up to 45 right now (and am almost finished with my current one, Handmaid's Tale, which is taking me longer than usual because it's so depressing) so I'm hoping I can this year.

And I don't have a specific number, but watch more movies. That probably sounds dumb, but I've only watched three movies this year, and I feel left out of conversations when I haven't seen the movies everyone around me is talking about.

Also, write more. I have an idea for a book (I feel weird saying that, but it's more than just a story) that I'd love to write, but it's really involved and complicated and would require a ton of a research and I don't know that I could pull it off.

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