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1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2
seeing a lot of people suggest that healthcare CEOs should go into hiding or employ more private security and i could not possibly disagree more. you can't live the rest of your life in fear. i think it's imperative that they get back to work, in person at least 3 days a week at the headquarters address listed on their company's website.
I gave my soapbox speech about how weight loss is mostly bullshit to two different patients in a row yesterday and so help me I’m pretty sure one of these days someone is going to say “but SURELY you agree I’d be HEALTHIER if I lost weight!” bc you can see the disbelief in their eyes. And like. Sure, maybe! You might see some improvement in biomarkers like LDL and A1c, and your knees would probably feel better. But you would be amazed at how much more good you can do for yourself by focusing on things you can actually meaningfully change without resorting to making yourself miserable. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables—it’s hard bc they’re more difficult to prepare and more expensive per calorie and go bad faster than other foods, but they’re what we evolved eating the most of so they’re what our bodies need the most of. And walk around more; sure, cardio is great for you, but if it sucks so bad you don’t do it, it isn’t doing shit for you. And we evolved to walk very very long distances, a little bit at a time, so our bodies respond actually very well to adding walks into our schedules, which is vastly easier than adding workouts that are frankly designed to be punishing when the definition of punishing is “makes you less likely to do it again in the future.”
You get one life. It is shorter than you can begin to imagine. Don’t waste it hating yourself because somebody is going to make money off that self-hatred. You deserve better than to be a cash cow for billionaires who pay aestheticians and dermatologists to make them (or at least their trophy wives) look thin and beautiful no matter what they actually do.
And ONE MORE THING—listen. We are NOT evolved to lose weight, we are evolved to hoard it. We came about in a world of famines. Not only does your brain have MULTIPLE failsafes built in SPECIFICALLY TO PREVENT WEIGHT LOSS, but there are epigenetic factors—factors that are not DNA but travel with it and affect how it is expressed. So if your parents or grandparents lived through a famine, like, oh, say, the Great Depression, YOU are more likely to gain weight and more likely to have difficulty losing it. AND! We live in a world highly affected by industrial pollution—there is no corner of the world free from it, micro plastics and industrial chemical pollution have been found literally everywhere ever studied—and many of those pollutants affect our endocrine systems. Looking at records of lab animals going back to the 1960s, where we have excellent records of what genetically essentially identical animals ate, we know that LAB ANIMALS FED THE SAME AMOUNT OF THE SAME CHOW WEIGH MORE NOW THAN THEY DID THE IN SIXTIES. So no. You’re not fat because your willpower is somehow busted. (Willpower, fun fact, can be depleted! By DEPLETING BLOOD SUGAR! Baumeister’s work in the 2000s demonstrated that.) You’re fat because your body wants you to live, and because the ultra rich have knowingly poured poison into the world because they don’t care if you die.
So YOU need to care if you live. And how you live. Please love yourself, because the billionaires will never give a shit about you. Weight Watchers has a 96-99% failure rate. Weight loss is a scam that makes billions of dollars every year. Love yourself too much to fall for that. Don’t wait until you’re thin to love yourself or to start living, because a) that day may never come and b) it’s okay if that day never comes. You are worthwhile and enough right now. I promise you that.
Did I mention that all studies on the subject are very clear--like, we do not need more studies on this, which is a bananas thing for a scientist to say--exercise does not lead to weight loss. It just doesn't. Anyone who tells you it does is wrong. It's good for you because it's good for you, not because it makes you thin. It improves your blood vessel health; it improves your heart health; it improves your body's ability to manage blood sugar; it improves your muscular health. It does not make you thin.
Reducing calories can reduce weight, but your body, as previously mentioned, is trying REAL HARD not to lose weight. I see a lot of recommendations for 1200 calorie a day diets. Google "starvation study" and look at how much the men in that study were given. It was over 1500 calories a day, and they were miserable. They became skeletal. They felt awful, depressed, foggy--because your brain is the single biggest user of calories in your body. It is so metabolically active that your brain uses around 30% of all the calories your body uses. Guess what happens when you starve your brain? You feel like shit. You feel stupid and depressed. Don't starve yourself. It doesn't work and it makes you feel awful and you will get rebound weight gain above whatever you lost, guaranteed, and then you'll blame yourself for "letting yourself go" because our society is built on lies.
We also cannot and should not ever suggest that anyone can lose more than 5-10% of their body weight and keep that off. It's just not possible. Bariatric surgery is a WHOLE other can of worms, I don't have the energy to explain why I almost never recommend it to my patients, but just know that if anyone has ever suggested you lose more than 10% of your body weight through behavioral changes, they are bullshitting you.
Getting a lot of notes on this post! Many of them are people going "oh thank God" and then there are people going "but SURELY you agree I'd be healthier if I lost weight!" and people going "well I lost weight so it IS possible!" and like. Buddy. That's like two people out of the 10,000 notes on that. You are that rare statistical exception. Feel morally superior if you want to. (Right up until you hit that health problem that leads you to gain weight and suddenly realize, with great shock, that it WASN'T immorality that led you to be sick and fat.)
Lotta people asking me medical questions! No! Ask your doctor. Real professionals need a lot more details than you're going to send me in an ask. Giving you medical advice without knowing your chart and being your doctor puts me at actual legal risk.
Also people going "cite your sources!" No! I spent 10 years working in research before I went back to med school. You know how I find papers on stuff? Google! Learn to fucking Google! If you can find research that convincingly demonstrates that exercise leads to weight loss, shoot it my way, because on my way in to work last week I was listening to a national conference board prep lecture and the speaker very specifically told thousands of family physicians, out loud in words, "Exercise does not lead to weight loss," so you can either assume you know more than me and go prove it, or shut the fuck up.
Also people saying, "Wait, I thought I could lose weight, and now you're telling me I can't?" No. I'm telling you that weight is not the benchmark for how healthy you are, and if you let your eating disorder tell you that thinness is the only thing that makes you valuable as a person, that is a very different disorder--that you can recover from--than being fat.
Also people with just no reading comprehension going "you're saying there are ZERO benefits to weight loss?" to which I say go re-read the first two paragraphs of my first post.
I am literally an expert--on the brain, on bodily health--and if what I'm saying is unsettling, you need to think real hard about why. Examine your attitudes towards fatness. Ask yourself whether you'd still like yourself if you were fat. Ask yourself what you have to offer the world besides thinness. Why do fat people being happy threaten you? Why would you be happier in a world where fat people deserved the things fatphobia does to them? How much of your self-esteem is based on being thinner than someone else?
Okay, I am ADDING THE BARIATRIC SURGERY POST HERE. You can STOP ASKING ME FOR IT.
Hallo!! I really appreciate your blog and how open and invested you are in wellbeing outside of medical fatphobia and other ways medicine as
You know what, while I'm at it, my post about Ozempic/Wegovy:
Because my most popular post is about weight loss and how it's a crock, I get a lot of questions about various things, including bariatric s
And let's address the only two meaningful criticism of my original post series:
The Baumeister research on willpower as a depletable resource is probably BS. People have tried to replicate it and they can't. In my defense, I didn't know that because I finished my master's in 2010 and that conference where I watched his presentation was in like 2009, so I'm out of the loop. However, this criticism is valid. And kind of a bummer? I liked feeling like I was accomplishing something with a little treat. Ah, well.
The men in the Minnesota starvation study were given over 1500 calories a day in a setting where they were burning substantially more than that. Yeah! Grown men do! I have a patient who literally walked into my clinic room and was like "I don't know WHY I'm so tired" and it turns out he's working and also working out while on an 800 calorie a day diet, so it's worth talking about how much grown men should be eating, because they deserve to feel like human beings too--but if you want to get into whether 1500 calories a day is a reasonable amount for a human woman to eat, it's fucking not! ALSO, calorie science is a load of horseshit in the first place. Bomb calorimeters are still, as far as I know, the standard, and the question of "how much energy does this put out when literally burned" has VIRTUALLY NOTHING to do with "is this good for me to eat."
So, now no one can complain I didn't address those issues. I am actually grateful to the people who pointed out the Baumeister thing. I'm just annoyed at people going "he was BARELY hungry enough that he CUT HIS OWN FINGERS OFF AND DIDN'T KNOW WHY" as if that is, you know, in any way a defense for why we continually hear advice to go on a 1200 calorie a day diet.
Evolution and my body has kept me safe when people and misinformation has not.
Medical professionals and whole scale systems acting on research motivated by discrimination has almost cost me my life many times. I lost so many years and the trauma will be with me always.
But my fat body who remembered the famines my ancestors survived would not let the last of my fat reserves be squandered. By body fed me from them when I lay bed-bound unable to move or eat. My fat body was ready for my own famine and did everything to make sure I survived.
When fat people die younger than thin people it is because of discrimination, our bodies are designed to survive. (There’s research on that too)
The 80s was literally like the most depressing decade after WW2 I hate how obsessed we are with that shit still
What people think the 80s was: synthwave neon legwarmers fun movies D&D Stephen King cute boys with mullets kissing each other under the bleachers
What the 80s actually was: AIDS crisis, neoliberalism, Reagan and Thatcher, unquantifiable levels of homo/transphobia, racist/patriarchal backlash against the radical gains of the 60s and 70s, Satanic Panic, rise of the evangelical right, collapse of socialism, collapse of the union movement, nuclear proliferation, tough on crime bills, mass incarceration, and most movies still sucked ass
so tell me,, have u always been silly ?
ye pretty much
From Fantastic Adventures, Dec. 1942.
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Owls confirmed to be the creepiest birds ever. LOOK AT THE FUCKING THINGS. If you fail to notice the one on the left fucking SWALLOWING a rat, then you have the dude singing some satanic chant or something next to him, and then you have those two other fucking psychos synchronized to make you feel creeped the fuck out with their soulless dance of FUCKING DOOM.
I really am tempted to reblog this every time it’s on my dash. That description is one of the best things on the internet.
Yeahhhh, I want this on my blog again.
OMG MY FAVORITE TUMBLR POST EVER IT’S FINALLY BACK YAY!
Here, have another of my all-time favorite Tumblr posts.
We were just discussing this again and I had to reblog it again because IT IS MY FAVORITE
I’m permanently traumatized that you introduced me to this over lunch, EGT.
::bows with a flourish::
There’s a gif out there of some people reenacting this that makes me laugh til I puke every damn time.
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I remember when this was new. I’m dying just as hard now as I did then.
Why the fuck is this
this implies luigi fucked toad’s mom
Rb if you, too are a horror
July 8, 2020 - President Trump’s reelection campaign sent a letter to would-be voters accusing Democrats of trying to “rig the November election” with money from three billionaires with Jewish ancestry.
…“With the help of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — and using the funds of their Leftist billionaire allies like George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, and Tom Steyer — Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer are pushing for ways to rig the November election — from calling for all ballots to be cast by mail, to same day registration, to requiring no ID to vote,” the letter stated.
Soros and Bloomberg are Jewish, and Steyer had a Jewish father.
The three men are some of the most prominent Democratic donors, but some Jews have accused Republicans of perpetuating anti-Semitic stereotypes by singling out their spending on political efforts.
In the final days of the 2016 presidential election campaign, the Trump campaign was criticized for running an ad with flashing images of Jewish financial figures who had allegedly “robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.”
In 2018, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House Republican caucus, was criticized after tweeting that the trio was trying to “buy” the midterm elections.
The following year, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Rep. Tom Emmer was slammed) for writing in a letter to party members that the three billionaires had “bought control of Congress for the Democrats.”
@secr8tnutt -
A brief response to your comment on this post.
Hi, my name is Josh (he/him) and I’m a student rabbi. I just wanted to illuminate a problem in your comment. You mentioned that you are very “pro Jewish and pro Israel,” but yet you made an argument citing the New Testament. Please note that the New Testament is not Jewish scripture. If you would like to be in interfaith dialogue with us - and if you would like to act “pro Jewish,” please make it a point to learn your biases about Judaism and about the Jewish People.
@secr8tnutt
Here’s a little tip. If a Jewish person compassionately corrects you – especially a Jewish leader or Jewish scholar – take what they have to say and sit with it. Think about the words that you used and how you may have been expressing antisemitic ideas.
It seems like you believe that you are not antisemitic. A lot of people use these words– antisemite, racist, sexist, homophobe – and paint them to be the ‘worst thing in the world.’ I mean, I certainly do not want to be a labeled as a monster. That is not what we are saying when we are calling out your bias here. We are saying that you made a mistake when you said something ignorant.
You said something ignorant. Own your mistake, and if you truly are a friend to the Jewish People, correct your biases and ignorance here.
The reality is, is that as a Christian you are a member of a group that historically has oppressed the Jewish People. In that, it seems that you have been taught several ignorant ideas about Judaism. It takes more than saying that you are a friend of the Jewish People or a supporter of the State of Israel to really be our allies. (See more ways to support the Jewish People here)
When I say something ignorant about another human being, faith tradition, or culture and I am corrected, I look deeply within myself and learn from my mistake. I Google it, I research it, I better understand what I do not know. (More about anti-bias training from the ADL here)
As an example, you have conflated the Torah with the Old Testament in your post. (The Torah is only the first five books of the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible). “Old Testament” is not language Jews use. Please don’t use it in interfaith dialogue with Jews.). This is a similar to your mistake in using the New Testament as an attempt to make a theological point with Jews. We do not see the New Testament as anything but a historical document that Christians find meaningful. Please do not use it in interfaith dialogue with Jews in this way. (Also, blind support of the State of Israel without understanding your biases about the Jews who you live among is not how one supports the Jewish People)
It’s okay to make a mistake as long as you own it, apologize, and move on in a way where that mistake makes you a stronger ally to those who you offended.
We Jews need more friends. There is too much antisemitism in our very dark world from people who do not realize they are being antisemitic.
Please do us a solid and correct your mistake here as I have outlined above. If you don’t, don’t be offended when we do call you an antisemite.
@secr8tnutt
I hear that you are offended that I – a Jewish person – am hoping to help you respect the Jewish People and understand your biases so that you do not come across as antisemitic.
I am nearly an ordained rabbi, a Jewish Educator, and a student of Jewish History – having been engaging with these conversations academically and with congregants now for nearly a decade, and for years before that. When I engage with others and teach, I don’t really care about their IQ or age- I think that we all can learn and grow to better the world. And I would speak to you in this way in person. I speak to people like you often in my work.
I cannot force you to dialogue regardless of how patient I am being. But I can use your words as examples of antisemitic talking points so that my followers – both Jewish or not – can better watch out for when they are engaging with the internet. I will go comment by comment. Below you will find a detailed account of every antisemitic and problematic statement that you said. I don’t think your response is necessary here, unless you have taken some time to really think about your biases and can have a calm conversation.
Followers, here is a quick guide to *why* each of the OPs statements were antisemitic.
Keep reading
I wanted to make sure that you had a chance to read my above reflections on why particular arguments that the OP wrote are antisemitic. It’s very detailed and hopefully can help you to fight against antisemitic biases!
UPDATE
I tried an experiment. @secr8tnutt messaged me, and boy has it been an experience.
It is profoundly difficult to help an antisemite understand that they are antisemitic. Please use my above points to educate yourself so that you can help me fight against antisemitic biases in real life and on the internet. We need your help.
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I don’t think Fortnite is to blame for kids nowadays not reading…
That’s the joke. It’s the authoritarian overbearing parent.
He was being sarcastic lol
Reminded me of these
That violin one hit close to home.
I remember doing homework once, asked my grandmother if she was proud of me. “Do some thing for me to be proud of.” That hurt.
That comic up there – I witnessed almost that exact scenario. Teacher wanted the kids to all pick books. One kid spots something on the shelf and gets visibly excited. Pulls it out and starts reading. Teacher sees it, snatches it off him and tells him that this is a book for 8 year olds (the kid was 15ish) and tells him to get a book more appropriate for his age. Kid slouches around the shelves for about 10 minutes, finally picks up a book at random and sits in his chair tucking the edges of each page into the binding to make that looped-page look. He didn’t read a word. He sat there and did this to his book for the remainder of the reading session:
He had been genuinely excited about the 8 year old book he’d picked up. It was a new one in a series he used to read as a younger kid. He’d been actively sitting and reading, and then he was embarrassed in front of his classmates, told off for reading a kids book, and voila. He lost all enthusiasm for reading anything else that day.
What’s worse? That kid had been hit by a car like a year and a half earlier. Severe brain trauma. Had to re-learn a lot of basic things, like how to speak and how to read.
An 8 year old book would have been perfect for him. Easy enough to read that it would have helped rebuild his confidence in his own reading ability. A book meant for 15/16 years olds? A lot harder to read than a book for 8 year olds. Especially if you’re recovering from a relatively recent brain injury.
And yeah, the teacher knew all about his brain injury, and the recovery. He just seemed go be of the opinion that the kid was 15, so he should be reading books for 15 year olds, irrespective of brain injury.
Reading this thread I’m reminded of Daniel Pennae’s The Rights of the Reader, which can be found in a lot of bookshops and school libraries:
The child speaking at the bottom in Quentin Blake’s distinctive spiky handwriting is saying ‘10 rights, 1 warning: Don’t make fun of people who don’t read - or they never will’
I remember at one point at my old school, I’d read so much one year for that AR test thing that they banned me from the Library just cause I was reading so much.
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BLACK JEWS (…nuff said.)
Reblogging because there are enough people out there who don’t get that Jews come in Al l hues.