I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I love Reddit because it’s anonymous and there’s a downvote system which helps moderate the worst of the worst. Whatever your area of interest, you can find subs that discuss it.
Ignore the rest. The “terminally online” people will say anything to to get attention, or vent their ignorance. But if their comment isn’t popular, then it will be downvoted. If there isn't much “karma” (points on Reddit) for a poster’s account, you should just ignore them for the trolls they are.
In general — I think Reddit is a great site, and more worthwhile and useful than other social media sites.
Oh, Vegas, you and I are going to become VERY fond of one another!
I just love the report button.
Since you're new I should clue you in that this is where we come to just chat--called "discussions". Free to join, but definitely not compulsory. Just kind of here giving our opinions about nothing much. Seems you are a PERFECT fit for it!
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I think they may have have chosen this bunch as a sort of thing to say how awful and over the top it can get on Social Media. I doubt it was a good dissection of the norm there. Couldn't be!
I think there must be a lot of truth in the idea that people (including me) like to numb their feelings, with food. Momentarily it makes you feel better.
I started this bad habit years ago. Maybe it's just like any other addiction. Some people turn to alcohol, some to food...I have to stop. Maybe there's something missing in my life, and I use food to try to solve that.
I think it is very funny how different things are so different for other people. I am very food driven or food motivated, and I can spend a LOT of time thinking about food. What I want to eat today. When to make a big pot of whatever. What to get at Trader Joe (Classic Potato Chips for certain). I will bring up food and my partner doesn't get it. He says he NEVER thinks of food (and skinny as rails, his entire family).
I think surely there are worse things to numb ourselves with, Venting. Vodka? Smokes? Opiates?
And there’s no doubt, one can always find something worse: but I still want to improve ME. I know numbing my feelings with food is bad. I’ll try to change that. I’ll try to figure out what’s missing in my life. Maybe it’s self-confidence.
We all have vices or bad habits we try to change.
Mine is nicotine, I've beaten it , mostly pretty much only because if I smoke now I'd be so 🤢 . But I still crave them from time to time
I think the key for me is to not be mad at yourself when you slip up, and not give up, when you fall off the horse, you dust yourself off and get back on.
I knew I was (not celiac) but a bit wheat intolerant. Read about building the gut genome. Started eating more a variety of fruits and veggies and am now TOTALLY addicted to fruits and veggies. Go figure. I can't get enough of them, even to kimchi and Wild Brine's red cabbage and beet sour Kraut.
They say out gut has 5 POUNDS of good bacteria in a healthy genome. Mind have begun to scream for fruits and veggies even more often than Trader Joe's Classic Potato Chips, hee hee!
But whatever. Life's short. I am eating what I want to eat, and on I go. Until I don't go on, that is. At 81 I beat them all; the rest is gravy. Literally.
Sence we where talking about eating healthy,
Skinny pop popcorn, is surprisingly good too
That ain't no fun either. When ever I start putting on a few pounds, I'm like no worries, I'm sure something will stress me out soon
I am one of those people who simply can’t eat if I am stressed. Just the sight of food will turn my stomach.
I get sick to my stomach if I try to eat when I am overly stressed. I completely lose my appetite.
I can’t force myself to eat anything because I feel like I would throw up.
Take my coffee away and then I would be very upset! 😝
Chocolate pudding, kids push up yogurts, that are more like sugar Twizzlers, and those red fish. And extra protein boost. Is pretty much my stress diet.
It's about for me keeping something going in no matter what. So next time stress closes your throat , just keep trying till you find something you can get in and keep down
So I'll keep my disfunk eating habits. Lolol
He had willpower that’s for sure .
People make it sound like your a failure if you quit smoking and start again, same with dieting. I felt as more of a learning experience every time I quit I learned something, then I would try again . I think it's like that with dieting,
Never feel like a failure, when you slip , just take what you learned and start over, when your mind is in the right place again!
We have our grandpup over while my daughter is visiting her ‘long distance’ boyfriend until Tuesday.
Oh, he’s very attentive when I am spoiling him with scrambled eggs, cheese or treats, but when I call him over so I can measure the summer bandanas that I am sewing for him, he can’t be bothered to move off of the sofa! Grrrrrrr…
I found this cute fabric a beach scene on it. I am making it reversible with a check fabric on the other side. Two looks with one bandana!
I have made several bandanas for our daughter’s dog, my nephews dogs and friends’ dogs. They look so cute wearing them.
I just heard a doctor say that insurance companies may start approving some of the new drugs that are out now for weight loss.
I also heard that her say that some people aren’t using these drugs appropriately.
These drugs have to be taken for a certain amount of time before they are effective.
People don’t see immediate results and they are stopping them too soon.
He is very smart. He knows where he is when we are driving him to the park.
They are beautiful dogs, very sweet but they can be stubborn!
Given the cost of it I find this utterly shocking.
The cost is amazing. Right now there is Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro.
I have seen some people experience side effects, while others don’t. Drugs affect everyone differently.
My primary care doctor’s nurse has lost 50 pounds since she started taking Ozempic. She says that she feels better after losing weight and is not having side effects.
I barely recognized her when she walked into the room and I said, ‘You lost a lot of weight!’ She shared her story with me.
I hope insurance companies will start paying for these drugs and give people who are struggling with obesity a chance to lose weight.
Huskies are awesome dogs, and definitely very stubborn and independent, but they do it with a smile.🐕
Alva - you mentioned Ozempic. Oldest son, who is diabetic, is on that. It hasn't helped him so far and he hasn't changed his eating habits - reuben sandwiches and fries are not a good choice for a diabetic - mainly bread and potatoes. He is trying everything except changing his eating habits. I said it a few times but not any more, Both he and his g/f are obese and suffering the consequences and it will only get worse as they age, but mother (me) has to keep her trap shut unless asked. It's not always easy when you hear the litany of woes that are due entirely to bad eating habits.
Some people are on meds that interfere with a person losing weight.
I think it’s sad that a person will go on meds for their mental health and it causes weight gain, so they have to deal with that too.
A woman that I worked with told me that when she was going through cancer she started taking meds to help her cope.
She started gaining weight and her doctor told her that weight gain was common with the drug that she was taking.
He is younger and will hopefully change. My dad diabetic, lived on white bread, pasta, and potatoes, couldn't get them to understand for nothing why they should cut way back on that stuff.
My oldest is in the hospital with kidney stones, it's not a surprise, runs in the family from his dad's side
He will be fine.
Funny though, my first instinct is to not tell mom, my sister's instinct would be call mom and tell them he might be getting a kidney removed. I just don't understand why she does that!
need - as far as I know most antid's cause weight gain in most people who take them. My dd is an exception, fortunately. At the end of her life, mother went up sizes when she was medicated for depression and dementia. I had to buy new sets of clothing for her. I'm not sure that dieting helps a lot with that. It's a bit of a catch 22 - get depressed, take antid's, gain weight, get depressed...
On another subject, some of my clothing took a bit of a beating during the move - two rain coats, in fact missing a button each. I'm past sewing on buttons, but R might do it for me, One coat was mother's and one is a lovely London Fog gaberdine belted trench coat I have had for over 40 years so it doesn't owe me anything, but still looks good, That fabric never looses its pizzazz. Maybe it's time for a new one and in a bright colour!!!