intuitive eating principles, #1

1. reject the diet mentality

truly the IE principle of first importance, “reject the diet mentality” requires us to critically examine every message we have received about food and our bodies while living under diet culture (most of us have never lived anywhere else).

diet culture says: thinness means good health and fatness means poor health. weight loss is always good (and possible) and weight gain always bad. restricting our food intake is right and eating according to our bodies’ cues is wrong–bodies cannot be trusted, we must override our instinctive biological cues with Correct Dietary Knowledge and Practices.

every claim in the above paragraph is false. diet culture is a facet of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy; it’s a damaging, deceptive, lucrative method of social control. it doesn’t honor the natural spectrum of human bodies and experiences, and it diverts our energy from more constructive pursuits for individual and collective health.

so how will it look and feel for you to reject the diet mentality? it may reorient your entire life! it will mean learning to hear and respond to your body’s cues, and learning to accept and honor your body’s inherited weight set point. it’ll require you to trust your body as you learn to become an intuitive eater, and as you (possibly) gain weight. the body may temporarily overshoot its weight set point as it repairs damage from restriction. weight may creep upward for longer than you think you can stand. you may be very uncomfortable responding fully to your hunger. the more diet culture has informed your thinking and behavior, the tougher this process may be, mentally and physically. but it can lead you to peace and freedom that you never thought possible.

no more diets. diets have harmed your mental and physical health for too long. no “wellness diet” lifestyle change, no whole 30, no keto, no [current fad diet], no just another [x lbs] to lose. from now on, your body is the final authority on what it needs. it will probably take years for this practice to become instinctive again! (it was when you were a kid, before the diet mentality took hold.) be very patient with yourself, and mean as hell to the diet mentality. 

“that food is bad”? NO. “that weight is wrong”? NO. “your body can’t be trusted”? GTFOH. saying no to the diet mentality is saying yes to life.

Don’t I have enough armed lunatics following me already?

DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (2009) Bioware

Hey y'all why are writers always cold?

...why?

They're always surrounded by drafts!

How many mystery writers does it take to change a lightbulb?

Oh god.

How many?

Two! One to change the bulb, and the other to give it an unexpected twist at the end!

What do writers have for breakfast?

Coffee?

Synonym buns!

Where do all the struggling writers live?

How are you coming up with all these?

Where?

Writer's Block!

What do writers suffer from each spring?

(I've heard a lot of them over the years.)

Allergies. Next question.

you were close; A case of allegories

Why are writers always in great shape?

Circular prose

Nope! It's because we're always running out of ideas!

Did you hear about the famous writer who turned out to be a fraud?

I did not

His life had it's prose and cons...

Why is editing a better job than writing?

It's more rewording?

Correct! I am out of jokes. :(

skree-ee! (thump thump thump)

A desperate cleric slamming every healing spell so hard to bring someone back to life the ground is forced to grow plants and flowers around the body.

Decades later, guarded by a forest of roses and thorns, lies a corpse refusing to rot.

might as well make a post where i put alduin and akatosh’s designs together, bc i designed them with very specific intents in relation to each other

akatosh as an entire entity has 3 faces representing different facets (ie the general akatosh invoked by the imperial cult, auriel, and alduin).

alduin an aspect of akatosh (more or less IS akatosh by some interpretation) so he appears roughly as akatosh without the human or elf elements,just the face of a dragon. 

both of them are in reality infinite serpents (and in this concept, alduin would appear first as a mass of coils draped over the fields of sovengarde), but take the more mundane form of a dragon when manifesting themselves on tamriel.

God-Emperor Ronald and the Hamburglar Heresy

I hate that you’ve forced my synapses to connect in this way. Because now I need to fill in the blanks.

The traitorous Grillmaster Hamburglar was joined in his heresy by Fulgrimace, who was seduced to the path of corruption by the siren-song of milkshake (which, as we know, brings all the boys to the yard), while God-Emperor Ronald’s forces were led by the loyal Bourger McCheese, master of the celebrated XIII Nugget Legion.

Oh dear gods. Why? Why would you do this to us?

Before the rise of the Golden Arches, the galaxy was ruled by the Fry Guys, whose mastery of the liminal realm known as the Fryway extended their reach across the stars. Their very primacy proved to be their undoing, however; with nothing left to challenge them, the Fry Guys grew greasy and decadent, and though some cautioned that their single-minded pursuit of gluttony would be their undoing, the warnings came too late, and the entire Fry Guy civilisation was devoured in an orgy of salt-lipped consumption. The few who survived on the most distant Macworlds now vainly champion the healthy eating practices that might have saved their forebears, while in the depths of the Fryway, the self-styled Dark Fry Guys carry on their shattered empire’s debauchery in service to a terrible new master.

Me: *doesnt connect emotionally or socially with my peers*

Adults: 😊🙏😊 Look at you!! 😊🙏😊🙏🙏 you’re so mature for your age 😊😊😊🙏🙏 Such an old soul!!! 😊🙏😊🙏😊😀😀O h m y g o o d n e s s 😀😊🙏 a truly G I F T E D child 😄😄🙏🙏😊🙏🙏

Me, now an adult: *has no idea how to navigate social relationships which are needed for things like jobs* Older adults: Why are you so immature?

shout out to the hot girl in my playwriting class who responds with “yeah, but that’s derivative of neon genesis evangelion” every time somebody brings up some artsy film i’ve never heard of and they immediately shut up and can’t argue without admitting they’ve seen nge. us regular-looking people could never get away with that. THAT’S what we mean when we say “use your privilege for good” 

Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus coronatus), L6 Female Photos by Frupus

egg on main i guess

(seriously tho…..go read @boethiah‘s Egg of Time​.)

is moon sugar a stimulant or a depressant?

my first impulse was to say hallucinogen, but moon sugar seems to have addictive property not usually seen in those 

so according to the UESP:

“ Moon sugar has a variety of uses; it is alternately a seasoning and a magical ingredient, a source of communion with the holy moons and a dangerous and addictive drug.“

“It has analgesic and soporific effects; it makes users "happy and stupid."

“ In humans and Mer, the effects of its consumption is exacerbated, causing a euphoric state followed by complete exhaustion”

Something close to opiates I’d say, since the main effect seems to be the the analgesic/soporific combo and the strong addictive properties

Opiates - and, I figure, moon sugar - are closer to depressants but not quite, because they also have some stimulant effect in specific brain areas, so they have a class of their own - narcotics - because they combine euphoria with sedation. 

so the tl;dr: narcotics with depressive central action and endorphin mimicry

her truth

not to be ladphobic but I think ppl who go for a bit of cheeky nandos in public are disgusting :/ It’s adam and eve not banter with steve

what language is this

almaflexia

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i’m so used to video games autosaving right before something is abt to kick ur ass that whenever animal crossing new horizons autosaves i instinctively think “oh god oh fuck what’s coming” and then my mint squirrel villager walks by with a basket of apples