Do try to be healthy. Eat nutrient dense foods. Be active and exercise. Try to reduce stress and work on healthy coping mechanisms. This last part includes not feeling bad about your body, and not feeling bad that you can’t do a thing that 95% of people can’t do.

[Edit: And yes, learn from others. Don’t exclude learning from the people who fall into the 95%.]

I’m not saying that the 2% who succeed don’t matter, I’m just saying that the 98% matter just as much.

Also, if you want people to lose weight, it’s wild to ignore the fact that while 5% manage to keep weight off, 60% gain weight.

From https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/everything-you-know-about-obesity-is-wrong/ :

Since 1959, research has shown that 95 to 98 percent of attempts to lose weight fail and that two-thirds of dieters gain back more than they lost. The reasons are biological and irreversible. As early as 1969, research showed that losing just 3 percent of your body weight resulted in a 17 percent slowdown in your metabolism—a body-wide starvation response that blasts you with hunger hormones and drops your internal temperature until you rise back to your highest weight. Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.

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A 2016 study that followed participants for an average of 19 years found that unfit skinny people were twice as likely to get diabetes as fit fat people. Habits, no matter your size, are what really matter. Dozens of indicators, from vegetable consumption to regular exercise to grip strength, provide a better snapshot of someone’s health than looking at her from across a room.

The responses you get here will be subject to survivorship bias,

a form of sampling bias that can lead to overly optimistic beliefs because multiple failures are overlooked, … [It can] lead to the false belief that the successes in a group have some special property, rather than just coincidence

I think this is the least bad choice available. The state wants us to think lethal injection is somehow humane, but we know it gets botched at high rates and has a completely unnecessary paralytic that is likely concealing even more.

Also, I’d consider it just because it reflects the inherit brutality of what’s happening.

Fuck the death penalty and fuck south carolina

Biden ought to detain every congress member on record against the bill until it passes.

Thanks. The “take small bites to feel less hungry” thing is dark

Is there a citation for this? Not that I doubt McD’s would do this.

had Democrats been in power from 2016 forward

They had a 60-seat senate majority in the senate in 2008 and chose not to codify Roe. They twirled their thumbs while Republicans openly plotted to do exactly what they did, for decades. If Democrats had been in power in 2016, Republicans would have done the same thing in 2020, or 2024, or whenever they got power back.

I’m not saying don’t vote Democrat, but electoral politics is not enough.