Josie Levels Up

A place where this nerd can document her struggles, wins, and general thoughts   on her health and fitness journey. Expect sweaty post-workout pics, selfies from hikes, and that occasional Flex Friday. I have joined the Rebellion.

[thebyrchentwigges]

I don’t know where this came from but I NEEDED it

[tejuina]

wish women’s fitness was more about boosting our energy and getting our bones and joints ready for our old age and getting strong enough to punch men and less about losing weight while getting a bigger ass

[thinfatfit]

random self-care/health tip i once got that basically blew my mind and i think might be helpful to other people too: when trying to “eat healthy” (w/e that means for you), instead of focusing on trying to take things away, focus on adding things. so instead of being like “ok i’m not gonna eat chips anymore”, be like “every day i’m going to make sure to eat one piece of fruit”. it’s a way of approaching healthy eating from self-love instead of self-hate (like, i love myself yay i deserve one piece of healthy fruit, vs i hate myself i want chips but i can.not.eat.them.they.are.bad.). also by adding healthy things to ur day maybe u’ll be less hungry for unhealthy things, so it can have that effect too.

[teethwreath]

this is so legit, positive reinforcement - “I ate a mandarin, i did a good thing and it tastes good” - is more effective at changing behaviour than punishment. and its much more sustainable to build habits with small, easy, self-rewarding steps!

and the thing about ~eating healthy~ as i understand it is one of the crucial things is ADDING vitamins, nutrients, variety, and so on. So whatever you chuck into the mix is helping :)

[romancememes]

me? back on my lovey dovey bullshit? yeah i am

[jk-bees]

Crafty Minotaur

[kamibanani-archive]

i snorted so fucking hard omg

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

omg fuck me i snorted coffee

[bogleech]

For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of lives. It's time for a new paradigm.

“Diets do not work. Not just paleo or Atkins or Weight Watchers or Goop, but all diets. 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. “

[chrisco90]

Fatsplaining at its finest. I don’t give a fuck when someone chooses to not be healthy, but don’t sit there and make bullshit excuses and blame anything other than yourself and your lack of self control. Take responsibility and own up to it, you’re not fooling anyone.

[bogleech]

I’m sorry other people’s shapes make you so angry that you pretend science is wrong

[mschaos]

Obviously this person must think climate change is wrong and vaccines cause autism

[runcibility]

Author posted some great follow up tweets: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1043141336239497217

[rocket-pool]

@neierathima

[vendetta06]

me wearing a good outfit: it’s because I’m gay

me wearing a bad outfit: it’s because I’m gay

[lantemancer]

#theyre the same outfit

[the-social-recluse]

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

finding someone aesthetically pleasing

being sexually attracted to someone

being romantically attracted to someone

#and its ok if you can’t figure out what the fuck you’re actually feeling

[rotulus]

First hike of the year, March 1st. Spent a wonderful couple of hours tromping about 4 miles around Powell Butte.

[rotulus-nfa]

Opted out of the gym last Friday since it was feeling like a chore rather than and went on a hike instead - something I was actually excited about.

I'd forgotten just how much I love walking in the forest, how grounding and comforting it is. The damp woods smell, the quiet and crisp air, the sunlight slanting through the branches and illuminating the budding green of early spring.

Tldr: walking in the woods is good for the body, mind, and soul.

[catsuggest]

morninge beauté routine

awaken whenever im want

stretch

screme if necessary

appreciate myself exactly as im am

[shitpostsampler]

[revisitingleverage]

416: The Gold Job

[poppetawoppet]

GUYS GUYS THEY ARE WEARING MATCHING OUTFITS.

[secondalto]

OT3! OT3! OT3!

[oliviafitmomof3]

[isohels]

My tummy doesn’t have to be cute. It holds my internal organs. My thighs don’t have to “crush men’s skulls”. I use them to carry myself. My stretch marks don’t have to be tiger stripes I earned. They came when I grew.

Stop.

[ortolana-deactivated20160716]

feeling this

[truffledmadness]

This!

I feel like even body positivity is too focused on, like, the appearance of the body. I know I became a whole lot happier with my body when I started thinking of it less in terms of how it looked (to me or anyone else) and realized, that, like…

When I feel cool breeze on my skin on a really hot day, my body did that for me.

When I step into a bath after a hike, and my muscles ache, but in a good way, and the steam all around me makes me feel like a flower blooming, my body did that for me.

And the hike before it, and standing on a large rock breathing the raw winter air seeing the power of the half-frozen river. That too.

When I’ve had a plate of pasta puttanesca, and I chopped and sauteed the ingredients and now I’m full-but-not-uncomfortable, and warm all over, and perfectly content, my body did that for me.

My body doesn’t have to look awesome to be awesome. It’s awesome because it’s where I live.

[isohels]

Best comment.

[blackgirlspiriting]

“[My body is] awesome because it’s where I live.”

Words. To. Live. By.

[willowofthehearth]

Finally, some real body positivity

[zesti]

You are your body. It’s not something seperate from yourself. It’s you.

[imfemalewarrior]

Your body is awesome because it’s where you live and keeps you alive and gives you so many amazing experiences. 

-FemaleWarrior 

[systlin]

So apparently Senators Collins and Murkowski have pissed of the white male members of the GOP to the point where some members have said that they’d challenge them to a duel if they were in South Texas

Anyway so I’m calling Rep. Farenthold later to accept on Sen. Collin’s behalf and I’m choosing Fists. Can take place in Iowa because if two parties agree to mutual combat, under state law it is totally legal here.

[systlin]

And if he accepts yes I will stream that shit live don’t be silly.

[systlin]

And after I beat his ass once for Collins, I will duel him again on Murkowski’s behalf.

Square up, bitch.

[nyokoko]

OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU SO MUCH GOD CSPAN BOUT TO BE LIT

[systlin]

Submitted

[frenzy5150]

[systlin]

SO I CALLED HIS DC OFFICE AND SAID BASICALLY THE SAME THING I SENT VIA EMAIL. 

After about 20 seconds of dead silence, the staffer let out kinda a little laugh and said “Well ma’m, I’ll be happy to pass on your…”

“I’m not joking.”

“Ma’m?”

“You think I’m joking. I am dead serious. You want my address? Or I’ll meet him at the airport. I am absolutely serious about this. Oh, and as the challenged party, I get to pick weapons. I choose fists.”

Another 20 seconds of somehow even deeper silence.

“I…I’ll pass your challenge on to the congressman.”

“No. He issued the challenge. I’m accepting. Unless he’s backing out like the spineless coward he is.”

More silence. “I…I’ll let Congressman Farenthold know, ma’m.”

“You do that.”

ANYWAY SO HOW DID YOU ALL SPEND YOUR LUNCH BREAK TODAY.

[themonstermesh-blog]

I LOVE THIS DO IT B

[dzamie]

followup when

[systlin]

FOLLOW UP; He has proved himself a faithless coward and refused to meet me in honest physical combat, so I cursed him. Specifically, called on his past misdeeds to be visited upon him and justice he’s evaded  to find him. 

He’s now retiring after his history of sexually assaulting women came to light and will not be seeking re-election anywhere. 

[badscienceshenanigans-deactivat]

reblog to bring truth out of her well to fisticuffs mankind

[dahliavandare]

An inspiring thought-

Improve my physical condition, not for my own well-being, but so that I am read to throw hands with US Senators should the occasion arise.

[sixpenceee]

A compilation of gothic/Victorian style homes. 

[chelseamourning]

I could cry 😍

[albatrozmundi]

Wow!

[ms-cellanies]

My favorite architecture.  I’ve always wanted a turret room.

[wearepaladin]

“Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just… start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via shadaras)

[bigbfbear-deactivated20190423]

The only thing I think I wish would have happened in Into the Spider-Verse that didn’t happen was Gwen’s reaction to like Peter B. Parker at least.

Like her best friend, Peter Parker, died. And here she is meeting him like when he’s way older. Did she manage to disconnect him from hers that easy? I feel like seeing a grown up version of my best friend who died would give me some difficulties.

Like even a couple of seconds, nothing big dedicated to that, would have been cool. Idk, I remember wondering how she’d react like on the bus back to Queens and nothing happened.

[kingkirkwall]

i ghostwrote this???? like, okay:

When we see Gwen’s explanation of “okay, let’s do this one last time, My name is Gwen Stacy etc” she says that the collider blast ’knocked her into last week’…Doesn’t that mean that she was in Miles’ universe prior to the original Peter Parker’s death?

Doesn’t that mean that she had at least a day or two to acclimate herself? And since she’s been Spiderwoman for the last two years of course she would notice that this universe has a Spiderman swingin’ around…so i feel like that must mean that she would have had the time to AT LEAST follow him around or like,, make plans to talk to him and try and figure out how to get back home. (Since obviously plan B was to do the same with Miles after she figured out another spider person was there!)

Since the original Peter Parker was so surprised to meet another spider person when he ran into Miles, that obviously means Gwen never talked to him. Did she realize that in this universe the Spiderman was Peter instead, and that Peter wasn’t dead? Was she working up the nerve to talk to him and explain? Where are the moments when Gwen realizes not only that Peter is alive is this universe, but when she sees the news of his death on tv????

How much did it hurt when she was confronted with a third Peter, this time grown up to an age that her best friend never lived to see? (or a fourth Peter?)

What was it like for her to see Peter B and Aunt May share this intimate moment to comfort each other in the knowledge that each of them had lost the other in their universe, while she stands on the sidelines like an observer, as if she hadn’t went through a very similar experience of losing a loved one? Is she close with May in her universe?

Why did Gwen say “She’s not your MJ! Trust me, I’ve been there!” to Peter B Parker when he was distracted while they were sneaking into the fancy gala? How long did she agonize over seeing her best friend alive again, several times over?

WHERE ARE MY GWEN MOMENTS SONY? pls answer my questions sony