Fit & Fluent

Side blog of @ratherstrangely. Fitness, weight loss, screams into the void.

[fitandfluent]

Fit & Fluent

An index of links to posts, mostly so I can reference them when I need to.

Things I've written about weight, moving away from HAES/fat acceptance, and mental health

"I'll never let my kids be fat"

You're suddenly very concerned about the profits of a major airline.

Being conceited is good.

I have four other senses

The connection between weight loss and boundaries

You are confusing a health problem with a moral failing

In defense of counting calories

Weight loss from an exvangelical perspective

Losing Weight is Fucking Weird

I don't Believe in Thin Privilege or Pretty Privilege

Different Categories of Personal Development

Misinformation About Weight Loss

"How People in Other Countries Stay Thin" is a Useless Topic

Obesity is a Medical Problem, but Fat People Don't Raise the Cost of Healthcare.

Book Recs for Neurospicy People

General Fitness Resources

Darebee

Youtube Workout Channels

Note: I live in an upstairs condo and have old lady knees, so I focus on renter friendly/low impact aerobics.

Posturetonic (I do her pilates bar workouts, and they're fantastic)

Elenifit (Her videos are very elegant and flowy with a lot of moves that remind me of ballet and pilates. Great for when I'm in that specific mood)

Pop Sugar Fitness

Vintage Workout Videos

Maybe I'm just old, but I will take neon unitards and bad lighting over watching someone work out in their beige living room any day. I love that younger people are discovering Jane Fonda and other retro workouts.

Buns of Steel (original) 1987

BoS Beginners Workout

Cindy Crawford Shape Your Body (1992)

Jane Fonda Low Impact Aerobics

Bonus: VHS Fitness Retroworkout reviews and Nina Martin's video on retro workouts

Yoga, Meditation, Breathwork, etc.

Gaiam Online

Breathe With Sandy

Yoga Nidra- I'm a chronic overthinker, and this helps me get to sleep and generally chill. Highly recommend.

Food and Meal Prep

My post: "I hate to meal prep" Meal Prep Ideas

I like Mind Over Munch's "Quick and easy' recipes

Cooking is Terrible by Mischa Fletcher. Great recipe/tip book for spoonies, neurodivergent people, or anyone else with an aversion to multistep food preparation.

[zerosugarlover]

The whole "I can't lose weight/xyz condition makes it impossible to lose weight" is what made me stop even TRYING to exercise and form healthy eating habits. It kept me stuck in this mindset of "I'm helpless" and "well what's the point, it's impossible" cycle that gave me the excuses to continue the unhealthy habits that I had formed.

YES you can have PCOS/PMOS and STILL get to a healthy body weight

YES certain conditions can make it harder to lose weight, but also being at a higher body weight can exacerbate the symptoms of a lot of conditions and make you feel even worse.

But continually being in the mindset that "it's just genetics" or "it's impossible to lose weight because of xyz condition" is what's keeping so many people stuck.

[singlethread]

Y’all making women in their thirties feel old is my villain origin story actually

[lily-orchard]

ARE YOU AN ELF?!

[peachtea20]

Questionable math but thirty IS young.

[fitandfluent]

The hardest part of getting over stress eating is that you have to be honest about the stuff that's stressing you out, and I really don't want to do that. Nobody does.

[ssomedaysoon]

[xsfitwitch]

[xsfitwitch]

[fitandfluent]

I hope one day we see makeup the same way we see jewelry: it's beautiful and it can have cultural significance, but nobody thinks less of women who aren't wearing jewelry.

[remanence-of-love]

[loubis-and-champagne]

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[fitandfluent]

The red light therapy machine at Planet Fitness, my beloved.

[dyna-myght]

I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this but body sizes have nothing to do with what you eat. It’s about how much and if you are putting your own body into a caloric surplus. If someone is staying skinny and eating like shit, it is simply bc they are eating shit at an amount that is in maintenance for them. And if it isn’t, and they are eating in a caloric surplus, you will see them gain weight over time if they continue to eat like that. It’s genuinely the most basic science when it comes to weight.

[fitandfluent]

"Eat whatever I want but just eat less of it" is the only diet that has ever worked for me.

[health-is-wealth0]

Hey, this isn’t completely true.

Your macros (protein, fat, carbs) absolutely do influence how your body is shaped (your body composition) how much body fat and muscle mass you have.

Your micro nutrients do affect your hair, skin, nails, eyes, and even how your body uses and metabolizes certain foods, leading to different looks (and more importantly feelings) of people.

[fitandfluent]

Macro nutrients are important for overall health, but the original post was only about weight.

I think we're seeing a lot of "calories determine weight" posts because in the early 2000s, it was "oh no, don't eat that combination of foods! It will take you out of ketosis (or whatever) and you'll just gain weight!" That caused me to give up for a while and think that "welp, it's just biology, guess I'll look into fat acceptance." Cue me spending two decades overweight when I didn't have to because the magic combination didn't make me thin.

[dyna-myght]

I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this but body sizes have nothing to do with what you eat. It’s about how much and if you are putting your own body into a caloric surplus. If someone is staying skinny and eating like shit, it is simply bc they are eating shit at an amount that is in maintenance for them. And if it isn’t, and they are eating in a caloric surplus, you will see them gain weight over time if they continue to eat like that. It’s genuinely the most basic science when it comes to weight.

[fitandfluent]

"Eat whatever I want but just eat less of it" is the only diet that has ever worked for me.

[fitandfluent]

My knees hurt and everything smells like tiger balm.

[fitandfluent]

I think a lot of smart people fall for fat acceptance/HAES because the people who promote it are articulate and use big words. It's a lot easier to ignore the reality of heart disease and joint pain when someone is talking to you about the historical context of fatphobia. It sounds like nuance, and there are elements of important discussion there. But being witty isn't the same as being right.

And it's hard when so many of the pro-health and fitness voices are... to put it charitably, less focused on nuance and context. TBH, if I had to spend a day with either a fat activist or a skinnytok influencer, I'd choose the FA. At least they'd be likely to get my jokes and nerdy references. That doesn't mean they're right about this particular issue. It just means that I can see why otherwise smart people with critical thinking skills can get sucked into really bad ideas and movements.

[tresbongout]

[thememedaddy]

[fitandfluent]

I used to be all in on fat acceptance and HAES. One year of weight loss, and I've turned into my dad after he quit smoking.