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someone got this picture of bernie sanders watching this furry fight jack skellington at anime boston

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Holy fuck

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I had a super amazing time at Anime Boston as Kiki from Kiki's Delivery Service and Mirai from Beyond the Boundary!! If you heard the Kiki's OST out of my radio at some point Friday, that was me! I felt so much love from many people. Bf also was a great Tombo (though was called out as Waldo many times). Also look at my amazing haul omg so many Kiki's collectors items for my stash 😱I cannot wait for next year!!'n

#anime Boston #anime Boston 2017 #anime Boston cosplay #kikisdeliveryservice #kiki's delivery service #mirai kuriyama #kuriyama mirai #beyond the boundary #kyoukai no kanata #Kiki #cosplay

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Tribute to The Legend of Zelda by artist Jeremy Fenske.

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bigfatscience

Anonymous asked:

so basically im cursed to remain fat forever? jesus christ i did not need to hear that today.

bigfatscience answered:

There is no permanent and safe way to intentionally lose weight. This is true.

And that means that if you want to truly live a fulfilling and meaningful life, you will need to let go of the fantasy of being thin. You will need to do the difficult self-work needed to unlearn your internalized fat phobia. You may also need to learn how to eat normally without restriction and shame. All of this is difficult. But a lifetime of self-hate, restriction, repeated cycles of weight gains and weight losses, and declining health from the damage caused by under-nourishing your body is far far worse.

And I know you are in pain right now, so I am being gentle with you, but I need you to think about what you said in your ask, and think about who you said it to. I am fat and my life is not a cursed existence. It is never okay to say such hateful things about fat people, including yourself. Don’t do it anymore.

bigfatscience

What is the evidence supporting my conclusion that there is no permanent and safe way to intentionally lose weight?

Over fifty years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within three to five years. And the vast majority will actually regain more weight than they lost. [sources]

In fact, the results of a 10-year study of over 275000 people revealed that the annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for five years is approximately 1 in 1000. [source]

And those very few people who do maintain a significant weight-loss for more than five years do so by engaging in unhealthy, disordered eating and exercise. Consuming just 1300 calories per day, recording everything you eat, and exercising for one hour per day is not healthy, and in another context, would be considered evidence of an eating disorder rather than behavior worth emulating. [source] [source]

bigfatscience

“Well I lost weight so anyone can!”

Nope. One individual’s experiences do not negate 50 years of scientific research with thousands and thousands of people.

“Just change your *lifestyle* by doing blah blah blah and then anyone can lose weight!”

Nope. Any attempts to intentionally lose weight by manipulating food intake and exercise have the same result. Scientists have tried it all! The result it always the same. Weight regain.

(PS: As stated in my FAQ, weight loss tips and pro-dieting talk are not welcome on my posts. There are many other spaces where such talk it welcome. Post there instead.)

bigfatscience

“Actually, 1300 calories per day is totally enough!”

No. A systematic review of research using the doubly-labeled water method to assess people’s energy needs revealed that healthy adults over age 25 need between 2500 and 3000 kilocalories per day on average. People under the age of 25 need about 500 calories more per day than their adult counterparts. People who are bigger than average (including fat people) also need more energy than average to thrive, as do people who are very physically active. [source] [source]

“Buuuut the nutrition guidelines say we only need 2000 kilocalories per day!”

Those guidelines are wrong. They were developed on the basis of faulty science that used self-reports to assess people’s energy intake. And it turns out people habitually underestimate their energy intake by about 25%, most likely to bring their intakes in line with the perceived norms. When energy needs are assessed objectively, the results I described above emerge. [source]

bigfatscience

Another study that is open access demonstrates similar results. [source; results in Table 4 in the row labeled “TEE”; 1 KJ = 0.24 kcal]

Objective assessment using the doubly-labeled water method demonstrates that adult women with a BMI in the “normal” range require about 2400 kcal per day on average, whereas women with a BMI in the “overweight” range require about 2750 kcal per day on average. However, individual needs also vary by about 400 kcal in either direction depending on height, age, and activity level. So if you are a young, tall, fat, active women, this study suggests that you may require well over 3000 kcals per day to meet your energy needs.

#as someone with PCOS this hits home hard