Space and Sloths
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‘fun’ fact: you can starve to death and be fat the entire time. this piece of information saved my life, so i’d like to share it as widely as possible.
there’s a common misconception that starvation will necessarily make you emaciated, and that if someone is fat they must be getting enough to eat, or an excessive amount.
this just isn’t true. fat is an organ, not an inert storage of 'excess’ calories. the old idea that gaining weight is caused by taking in more calories than your body needs, and its corollary that reducing caloric intake will automatically result in weight loss, is simply not true. the human metabolism is just way more complex than that.
one thing that can commonly happen is that, faced with repeated or long term caloric deficit, the body chooses to prioritize fat accumulation over other things in hopes of assuring survival. this can occur due to food insecurity, eating disorders, illness, dieting, or other factors.
caloric deficit can sometimes cause weight loss, certainly. but not in everyone, and not in the long term. 95% of dieters, for example, regain the lost weight and often more in addition. the science overwhelmingly supports this, including studies created by people who were trying to find long term weight loss methods. intentional weight loss is impossible in the long term in most cases, and the methods people use to attempt it are harmful to their health.
so yeah. whether due to anorexia, food insecurity, illness, or anything else - a person can be starving and still fat. or become fat(ter) due to repeated or ongoing caloric deficit, or both.
you can be fat and need a feeding tube, though medical fatphobia often makes medical professionals insist otherwise, to fat people’s detriment or death. people can starve to death while fat.
Someone doesn’t have to be emaciated to be anorexic. It’s behavior, not physique, that makes it a disorder.
your comment is correct but one of your tags is not.
“#fat stores mean you can survive the next famine”
the entire point of my post, indeed the first sentence, is that you can starve to death and remain fat. having body fat very much does not mean that you can survive famine. because, as i also said in the post, fat is an organ, not a 'store’ you can draw on as needed.
when starving, the body begins to consume itself. it does not start with the fat preferentially. you also begin to digest muscles, which includes your heart, and organs. fat is an organ and having a larger fat organ will not in itself save you.
i am not trying to tell you off here, but make an important correction for others who may see this. if my tone comes across as harsh, please excuse me. i’m very tired and lack the energy to modulate the tone of this. it’s not personal.
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is so frustrate frustrate frustrate
people stop trigger warning facial scar , scar , burns , body difference , People Real Body . this include fiction fictonal character
lot lot many time that oc fictional character you trigger warning because scar body different ,
There is real person who is like , and you is say “it is trigger , it should be hidden” . tell real person with scar “it trigger , should be hidden “—
tell self , Why are you uncomfortable, Why is it “horror grotesque “ to you when no have that body
enforce ugly law in brain , “people different body uncomfortable , should no see , you you make uncomfortable because looks . hide hide it scare mee . “
you are for disable people until body is look different .
human body not horror , stop treat like threat(via medievalwizard)
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fat people don’t have to be attractive either to deserve basic love and respect
“fat people can be hot too” yah we’re sexy. but attractiveness shouldn’t be used as a scale to measure worth
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if you’re fat and physically disabled you might hear a little voice in your head saying you wouldn’t be disabled if you lost weight. this is actually the voice of the devil and you should not listen to him.
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mutuals dm me if you want into my wizard tower
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the most “cocomelon shit” i’ve ever experienced in my life was the time i was in calculus II and some girl in front of me was googling “assorted animals” and scrolling through pictures of clipart pigs and horses and shit on her laptop completely focused like it was her tax form
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my brother started calling our cat “doobie brother” which he then lengthened to “dubious brother” and has since morphed into “brother dubious” like he’s some sort of fucked up little monk
brother dubious
“My liege, I’m afraid I have reason to believe your concubine plots against you. Worry not, your eminence, you can still trust me, of course…”
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i don’t think people take me too serious when i say i’m legally blind. Like, guys I am legally never allowed to drive, I need assistance with a lot of stuff because I can’t see. People both irl and online tend to be like “oh but you’re not THAT BAD OFF” it’s not a thing of whether my eyes are “that bad off” it doesn’t matter, they’re still blind. i still use magnifying and screen readers. i’m learning braille because my eyes are getting progressively worse and I’d like to be able to still read.
I may not be totally blind, but that’s the thing, a lot of blind people AREN’T Totally blind. Blindness is a spectrum. and i don’t think a lot of people realize that. And I’m just as valid in my blindness as someone on the spectrum with better eyesight than me, or someone with worse.
(This is OK to reblog. I hope that sighted people who might read this really get it into their heads that blindness is a spectrum…)
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in every workplace there should be a secret button you can press and if everyone presses it the workweek immediately ends and you can go outside and play instead of sending email
ok i made this post and this afternoon our server locked us out and i spent the rest of the day shooting the shit with my coworkers outside in perfect spring weather. i do believe in magic but mostly i believe in the secret button
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THE WRITER AND ACTOR’S STRIKES HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PAUSED THE PRODUCTION OF 4 MARVEL MOVIES!!!! thank you striking creatives.
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I love you public history people I love you museum people I love you archivists and I LOVE YOU architectural historians!!!
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Even if it was for one year in fifth grade <3
Have you ever played an instrument?
Guitar/Ukulele/Banjo
Violin/Bass
Flute/Piccolo
Clarinet/Oboe
Trumpet/Trombone/Saxophone/French Horn
Drums/Bongos
Piano/Harp/Accordion
Two or more
Something not listed
I never played an instrument
Extra points for leaving in tags for how many years and if you still do
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