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anyone else just woke up one day and realized that our time on this earth is limited and that they really really really want to live despite every bad thing that happens and proceeded to have a break down or is it just me

harveyguillensource

Full set of WWDITS season 5 character portraits 🦇

#what we do in the shadows #wwdtis

happyheidi

𝗂. 𝗂𝗇𝗀𝖾𝖻𝗈𝗋𝗀 𝗐𝖾𝗌𝗍𝖿𝖾𝗅𝗍-𝖾𝗀𝗀𝖾𝗋𝗍𝗓 𝗂𝗂. 𝗃𝖺𝖼𝗊𝗎𝖾𝗌 𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗂𝗇 𝗂𝗂𝗂. 𝗍𝗁𝗎𝗋𝖾 𝗐𝖺𝗅𝗅𝗇𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗏. 𝖼𝗅𝖺𝗎𝖽𝖾 𝗆𝗈𝗇𝖾𝗍 ~ 𝗏𝗂𝖺

#art

paperlignes

guillermo and nandor from what we do in the shadows (2019-)

#what we do in the shadows

illustratus

zoeflake

Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia in the ruins of Pompeii

#art

cherryhub-remade

this is a sign to stop self deprecating so much. like that shit causes so much damage to ur well being.

cherryhub-remade

im serious btw. i know first hand that once u start going down that road its so hard to stop. its so hard to stop the negative self talk and self pitying especially when you’ve been doing it for a long time. feeling bad abt urself all the time and insulting yourself doesnt do anyone any good, it just makes you feel worse in the long run. quite frankly self deprecation is one of the worst things u can do to urself. no one should feel burdened by their existence. you deserve better.

constellatedlove

subtle intimacy is so soft. knowing someone’s routine and slowly becoming a part of it. memorising favourite teas and soups and drink orders. good morning and good night texts and messy paragraphs of love written half asleep. nicknames only you know. just small things that say “look how dear you are to me.”

vladtheunfollower

replace the makeup industry with wearing medieval cloaks

vivienvalentino

My Place: Florence Welch

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Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old

rambirb-deactivated20221115

this hit me.

another fact is that 500 calories isn’t even enough for a new born.

why did I go so long convinced that going over 500 in a day was the end of the world?

naamahdarling

Another friendly reminder that the United States used 1,000 calorie diets as torture for political prisoners and justified it using the diet industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/17/bush-torture-memos-commer_n_188190.html

In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.

“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”

Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).

And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.

Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.

Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.

naamahdarling

Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.

to-dance-beneath-the-diamond-sky

Wow. This really hit me hard.

radicalduck

EAT

bigmouthlass

Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.

crazy-pages

Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.

bogleech

Remember that “calories” are a measure of the “energy” you get from food and not specifically a measure of fat or sugar or any one thing. A single calorie is the amount of heat it takes to warm water by one degree Celsius. Using it as a measure of a “healthy diet” is batshit gibberish.

living400lbs

More reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Starvation_Experiment

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25782294

This article poses a response to one argument supporting the force feeding of political prisoners. This argument assumes that prisoners have

sagevalleymusings

Friendly reminder that a 2,000 calorie daily recommendation was taken by averaging self reports (which are notoriously unreliable) and then rounding down by several hundred calories. Also what @bogleech says above is technically true, but not accurate. As in, a calorie was established as how much heat it takes to raise water by one degree, but humans aren’t just vats of water. You can heat literally anything, but not everything has calories. Heating a brick of gold could produce results in this controlled system, but my body cannot convert gold to energy. How much of what is in a Snicker’s bar for example is non-nutritive additives? And if, for example, I’m missing a foot of intestine, it might take a lot more calories for me to obtain the same amount of energy. Calories aren’t a measurement of energy, not one that can be reliably and accurately applied across all foods and for all bodies. The only thing they measure is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one degree celsius.

bogleech

Reblogging because I hadn’t the time to elaborate before and now there’s more sources on this too