I really appreciate that your blog is focused on healthy perspectives of fitness and femliness. You promote wellness and happiness, not toxic ideals of weight or diets. Because of that I thought you’d appreciate this article, as would your followers. It’s a bit long but it’s a good read, and it inspired me to do a lot more research into my own prejudices and misconceptions. I really appreciate that you’re here for all women, and you’re a powerful, strong voice for health and strength and self-defense. I think on of the most important things we can all do for all three of those is learn to love ourselves, and learn about how to be healthy- really healthy, which looks different on every person- and not just the kind of ‘health’ that companies and corporations want you to perceive as correct.
“The second big lesson the medical establishment has learned and rejected over and over again is that weight and health are not perfect synonyms. Yes, nearly every population-level study finds that fat people have worse cardiovascular health than thin people. But individuals are not averages: Studies have found that anywhere from one-third to three-quarters of people classified as obese are metabolically healthy. They show no signs of elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance or high cholesterol. Meanwhile, about a quarter of non-overweight people are what epidemiologists call “the lean unhealthy.” 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.”
from @carefulmimicry
Remember: Healthy looks different on everyone. Our bodies evolved to store as much fat as possible because food was scarce for most of our species evolutionary history, trying to get rid of it with starvation diets sends our bodies into starvation mode where it makes it harder to lose weight and easier to gain it because our bodies, dedicated to keeping us alive, believe there is no food and we need to use less energy until we find food and then we need to pack on as much energy in the form of fat as is possible for the next time food is scarce.
There is also evidence that this type of trauma to our bodies impacts subsequent generations by making it difficult for our descendants to lose weight and easy to gain weight: another way for our species to survive. Basically, if your mom or grandma went through a food scarce period before they had offspring, it affected your genetic code by making it easy for you to store energy in the form of fat and difficult to lose it no matter how active you are or how much you deny yourself food. It’s your body keeping you alive.
I want to stress this with a quote from the article, “Keeping weight off means fighting your body’s energy-regulation system and battling hunger all day, every day, for the rest of your life.”
This is why I tell people to eat a balanced diet focussed on nutrition. If you can’t eat spinach (a good source of iron and vitamin C) then find a different source that gives you those same nutritional benefits. It’s ok not to have your diet (diet here meaning what you regularly eat and not how you alter your food habits for the purpose of losing weight) look like everyone else’s if it means you’re healthier as a result of it.
that post was right i wouldn’t have a sense of humor without spongebob. its still some of the goddamn funniest shit i’ve ever seen. spongebob almost dying because he’s too polite to ask for a glass of water at sandy’s house. mr. krabs and spongebob killing the health inspector. smittywerbenjagermenjensen. “I was born with glass bones and paper skin. every morning I break my legs. and every afternoon I break my arms.” the perfume department on the flying dutchman’s boat. that time spongebob cleared his mind to be a fine dining waiter and forgot his own name because that’s how customer service just BE. the ugly barnacle that was so ugly everyone DIED. the END. the one where squidward buys a pie but it’s actually a bomb. and the MUSICAL numbers like??? the fun song. the christmas song. tony award winning song “this grill is not a grill”. the entire band geeks episode like…this is all from the top of my head!!!!! just from the top of my head!!! there’s so much more!!! thank god for stephen and all the laughs i’ve had because of him.
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