[ SECRET POST #5430 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5430 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[Graham Norton]


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03.
[pic is from Robot Chicken]


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04.
[Great British Bake Off]


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05.
[Supernatural]


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06.
[Zachary Levi from "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"]


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07.
[Veep]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Calories are just units of energy. If you do any camping or putting up food for disasters, you do it in terms of how many calories everybody will need to be functional and satisfied.

I don't have an eating disorder, I'm not a serial dieter, and I'm not a thin person, but I do perform some math when planning meals or deciding whether to have a 525 calorie malt. Sometimes I do! But I can't do it every day because that isn't the protein and other stuff I need on a regular basis.

Like, calories are just energy.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly. Everyone should have a general idea of what their daily caloric needs are, there's nothing unhealthy about that. It helps keep you from overeating AND undereating. And yes, you should be taking calorie counts into account when eating stuff, too - that doesn't mean "obsessively count every single calorie that goes into your mouth," it means "I had Burger King for lunch so I'm not going to have a frozen pizza for dinner, I'll cook some chicken instead since I already had one unhealthy meal today."

[(Anonymous)]

no, you shouldn't count calories you weirdos. for starters calories do not tell you how healthy a meal was so you're talking nonsense

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, did you read their comment? Because it literally says you should take calories into account while not counting them. And they're right, most people will benefit from taking calories into account. Of course calories aren't the only factor worth being aware of (literally no one said they were), but they're one of the factors worth being aware of, and for anyone who doesn't find it super easy to stay at the weight they want to stay at, they're a very important factor.

Some people's relationship with food is too messed up for them to be able to even track their eating in the most general way without it sending them into an ED spiral, but they are the exception, not the rule. And as someone who did once have a deeply messed up relationship with food to the point that any sort of practical thinking about food could make me feel like restricting, I will say that that is not the end of a recovery journey. "I cannot gently tailor and shape my eating habits without it making me spiral," is not what full recovery looks like. It's better than obsessively starving oneself, but it's not the end goal.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, some people can eat whatever they want whenever they want without gaining weight, but that isn't true for the majority of people. Most people do need to monitor what they eat to some degree if they want to keep their weight steady and not gain. That's just how it is.

I could not eat the same diet when I was working a desk job as I did when I worked retail, for example, because I wasn't burning nearly as many calories. I needed to cut that soda for lunch every day habit down to soda once or twice a week because otherwise I was consuming too many calories that I wasn't burning off.