[ SECRET POST #2178 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2178 ⌋

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

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02.
[Leverage]


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03.
[The Bloggess]


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[Jahmene Douglas/Nicole Scherzinger and James Arthur/Nicole - UK XFactor 2012]


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[Left 4 Dead]


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06.
[Community]


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07.
[The Tribe - Alice&Lex]


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08.
[The Perks of Being a Wallflower]


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09.
[Bioshock Infinite]


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10.
[Inception]


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[Cassandra Clare]


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[Homestuck, MS Paint Adventures]


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13.
[Disney's Sleeping Beauty]


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14.
[Homestuck]


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15.
[xxxHOLiC]


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[Sherlock]


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[Boktai]


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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If you are gaining weight, you are eating more than you need, even if it doesn't feel like it. People do often underestimate what they eat and office workers need very little compared to people doing more physical work.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1454084
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10490791
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10076581

Unfortunately you can't compare yourself to your husband or to anyone else. For all we know, your husband might have an intestinal disorder that prevents him from absorbing everything, so he won't gain weight no matter how much he eats. It isn't fair, but some people can get away with it.

Being occasionally hungry does not mean starving yourself, but that people should avoid snacking constantly. Skipping meals can be a major factor in your gaining weight, because it is really stressful and messes up your body. It's better to have regular smaller meals during the day than to starve yourself and then eat one huge meal.

[seashadows]

"If you are gaining weight, you are eating more than you need, even if it doesn't feel like it."

Not necessarily. The human body secretes several chemicals and hormones - cortisol and epinephrine, most notably - that prompt the digestive tract and glands to go into "starvation mode" when you're under great stress. When your body is storing everything, you may gain weight, whether or not you're actually embodying (no pun intended) unhealthy eating habits.

I packed on a few pounds this semester after I came down with the flu, followed shortly by pinkeye when my sinuses backed up. My normal regimen of five-times-weekly swimming was drastically interrupted. Combine that with the fact that my body was stressed both from a very nasty sickness and from catching up to my eighteen credit hours, and the weight is very easily explainable. (I was eating no more than usual.)

In addition, the "right weight" for every person is going to be different. The body is not a furnace and not every person uses calories the same way. I am a size twelve and hardly ever get sick, the flu notwithstanding. In fact, I got over the worst of the fever and aches within three days. My father, on the other hand, is over six feet tall and is pencil-thin, yet he can hold on to colds for over a month. Evolutionarily speaking, it's far more healthy to hold on to a bit of extra poundage - for protection against sickness AND for reproductive potential - than to engage in diets that make your weight constantly fluctuate. Honestly, fluctuating weight in times of "feast and famine" has been pretty thoroughly debunked by evolutionary scientists. A body type that goes from thin to fat over and over would not only kill you faster, but would nigh-on destroy your reproductive capabilities.