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⌈ Secret Post #2425 ⌋

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

01.
[Kate Mulgrew as Galina 'Red' Reznikov in Orange is the New Black]


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02.
[Teen Wolf]


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03.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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04.
[Brendan Fraser]


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05. [SPOILERS for Supernatural]



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06. [SPOILERS for Arrested Development]



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07. [SPOILERS for Degrassi]



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08. [WARNING for abuse]



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09. [WARNING for eating disorders]



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10. [WARNING for underage/abuse/etc]

















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Comments

Re: OP - Clarification

[thene]

I love food too. I lost of lot of weight last year partly by refusing to eat boring things ever.

I dunno if you've ever tried counting calories but I think it's worth at least looking at as a brief exercise, because until I tried it I had no actual idea how all the different foods I liked fitted in to the overall equation. Turns out there's some things I love and eat all the time that take up a lot of calories, and some things I love and eat all the time that take up hardly any. Having that information (even just vaguely) makes it easier to keep on track.

Re: OP - Clarification

[(Anonymous)]

I think counting calories can potentially change one's relationship with food forever - for the worse. Everything becomes good/bad, and instinctive eating . That's great if it works for you, but please be cautious recommending it to everyone else even as an exercise.

Re: OP - Clarification

[(Anonymous)]

* instinctive eating becomes very hard. If you're already down the rabbit hole of guilt then maybe it can help, else I would advise against it as the first go-to in negotiating one's relationship with food.

Re: OP - Clarification

[thene]

You say 'instinctive eating' like it's a good thing - instinct would have me drinking a fuck of a lot more alcohol than I do, and would never have taught me to measure my cooking oil. That's like saying everyone should be 'instinctive shopping' instead of looking at price tags and knowing roughly how much money they have in the bank. If that's how you shop, you're going to be responding to heavily marketed, high-cost items...which, surprise, is what happens with 'instinctive eating': you get the disgusting food and drinks industry we have, that pushes instant gratification at the cost of our health later in life. Like with shopping, calorie budgeting doesn't make items good/bad, it just makes them easily affordable/needs moderation, and fortunately there is a huge variety of easily affordable food out there. Counting calories for a few months last year changed my relationship with food much for the better.

I do get why you're cautious, because eating disorders are serious business, but whether or not someone has an eating disorder isn't going to be affected by looking at the calorie labels on their food or downloading a calorie app for their phone; just looking at the math is not going to make an otherwise-healthy person snap and become anorexic. In this case it's a much healthier option than what OP was considering doing instead.

Re: OP - Clarification

[visp]

I lost of lot of weight last year partly by refusing to eat boring things ever.

I've always found this effective. Get snobbish about your desserts and you eat far less, and enjoy what you do eat far more.