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Healthy, sensory friendly, & low-effort meal/snack ideas? Anonymous 20611[Reply]

Been struggling greatly with eating, as, not only do I have a diagnosed sensory processing disorder and issues with executive functioning due to neurodivergence and mental illness, but I also have a chronic stomach condition (it is similar to acid reflux but no doc has been able to find the root cause) that will be aggravated if I don’t eat healthily. This has caused eating to be an extremely stressful activity for me and I have lost quite a bit of weight due to this, whereas I used to be a lover of food and look forward to every meal.

Do any nonas have some nutritious, safe, and easy go-to meals and snacks that they’d care to share? Any foods/drinks/activities that you use specifically to help keep your weight up?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out a little
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Anonymous 20874

>>20873
Oh sorry I bought this fancy bougie healthy hazelnut butter with cocoa powder ($18 for 4 cups of this stuff!!!) and it is sweetened with maple syrup, not corn syrup and other bad stuffs. No soybean oils or anything either. I just said Nutella because I thought it was the universal descriptor for hazelnut chocolate butter lol

Anonymous 20875

>>20874

>sweetened with maple syrup

that's a bit better but not if you combine it with so many different foods. think of your digestion as a washing machine and you can only do one load at a time and some clothes you can't wash with other clothes.

ideally you would eat similar stuff and then wait a few hours to digest it; which does take a bit of the fun and spontaneity of eating. you have to decide if you want food to be entertainment (in which case it will make you sick) or fuel that keeps you running smoothly.

modern industrial food is contrary to what animals and wild humans ate to successfully made it to today. restaurants want to advertise you complicated gourmet meals with many different side orders and many ingredients (koreans lost their mind with how many side dishes they eat for example). if you want to do yourself a favor, try simply meals with few ingredients, reasonably spaced apart as to give yourself time to digest.

here is what i do currently: nothing but a few apples from morning till late in the evening, coconut water (from the box unfortunately) mixed with grapefruit and limejuice for when i am thirsty (yes fresh squeezed from real fruit!), gigantic serving of soup with vegetables (and sometimes rice noodles) as the big evening meal of the day. i barely cook the vegetables, i just load a huge bowl full of spices, pour boiling water over and then throw vegetables in and i call this soup but i am not getting out a big pot and start cooking the vegetables till they are dead, that'd be too complicated. is more like a broth with vegetables in. love it. gives me energy to go hard every day, if i could give you a spoon full through the screen so you can try how good something this simple tastes, i would.

Anonymous 20880

>>20875
Nona are you underweight by chance? Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy. There is barely any protein in your day. Wheres the meat? Or if you are vegan, the nuts, the chickpeas, the beans?

Anonymous 20882

>>20872

nutella popcorn is sooooo yummy. messy tho

Anonymous 20888

>>20880
>Nona are you underweight by chance?

i have done quite a few experiments with fasting, the lowest i experienced was like bmi 18. when i was this light, my bones actually kind of stuck out of my skin, which was awkward and also i instantly noticed that i can no longer lean against stuff because it would hurt my bones since they did not have their cushion at that time. that was too light.

now in the colder part of the year you find me at bmi 21 because i do still like complicated lavish (mostly raw vegan) meals but the meals can not settle in my body because i am very active, i exercise and i also don't sit around all day, i am constantly doing stuff. eating raw vegan and then sitting around in front of a screen, that is it's own form of torture because it releases so much energy which then wants to be turned into something.

in the warm part of the year i eat even more fruit and i go down to bmi 20, which is my favorite weight. i have tried a few different weights and bmi 20 is my favorite. it is not what you would call underweight, it is being light as a feather and having enough muscle mass to be active all day every day. when i am active all day, not having excess weight to carry around turns life from a boring dystopian chore into an exciting wonderful life-affirming dance full of twirls and dance moves. there is nothing like it, can nobody tell me shit about how being heavy feels good, no. being slim without starving is the best for everything.

>Eating apples until evening for your big meal doesn’t sound healthy.
then how come i have so much energy and do so much all day? you see how much i type? that's me having energy for anything easily available.

>There is barely any protein in your day.
protein is a big myth. the body does not use protein, the protein is cracked into smaller amino acids, which strains the body a lot. i don's strain my body, my food contains all the amino acids directly. think of protein as a box that your body still has to unwrap, why would i do that to myself. that's you just being a follower and looking around to other people on what to imitate in your quest for being normal.

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Anonymous 20715[Reply]

I’m about to get prescribed meds that’ll decrease my appetite. I’m pretty excited about it. Any tips for foods that I can eat so I don’t pass out from hunger? I barely notice when I’m hungry now, until I start to shake. Just because of the meds I already take
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Anonymous 20878

>>20877
>this would be quite the spectacle for a reality show.

It would, but you're right about them not being able to commit. There are already reality shows about morbidly obese people trying to lose weight, and a lot of the people end up literally dying because they're too fucking obese and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

Anonymous 20879

>>20878
>and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

i think the only way for obese people is to introduce the change in steps so small that they go completely under their radar, since they are not all of the sudden going to rediscover willpower, patience and strong nerves.

i've been thinking about this for many years. something like reducing their portions by 1% and enduring the discomfort until they can reduce another 1% looks to me to be the only way to do it.

might be all in vain though since the underlying root cause of their obesity is never addressed, which is irresponsibility: denial, lack of curiosity, identification with illusion, separation of cause and effect

Anonymous 20881

>>20879
I would phrase it instead as introducing things into the diet. E.g. you must eat one whole carrot a day before having junk food. You're not banning something (and thus there's no fomo), but you are making a rule that will
A) Make the bad habit inconvenient
B) Slowly introduce good habits

One of the best ways to "quit" something is to not frame it as quitting. Always try and frame it as a gain and you'll generally do better.

Anonymous 20883

>>20881
NTA but this is how I quit vaping, actually. It also ties into this discussion regarding weight loss: I slowly phased in exercise and over time I didn't want to vape as much because doing so made exercises more difficult after I got the hang of enjoying the movements. I'm no longer overweight.

Anonymous 20886

>>20881
>making a rule

your overall approach would work but getting the person to do it by making a rule; that is you not understanding the depth of the underlying psychological problems responsible for obesity. the whole reason the obese person bends itself into a prezel psychologically (including multiple personality behavior) to do harmful things is to avoid the many disadvantages of a life of rules. rules are not the solution, they are the underlying problem. they may work for you but that is because you have cut off the spontaneous and creative parts of you that the obese person tries to protect from a life of rules. look at the people who do what they do because of rules, not because they understand and agree with something and you will find a host of problems, mostly of the mental health; emotional damage but also physical in terms of cramps, various stiffnesses in all systems of the body, heart issues and a general disconnectedness and difficulty to relate to other members of their species that are not part of their bonded group.


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Diet Thread Anonymous 6210[Reply]

Who here is on a /diet/?

I'm 5'4 and 165lb and trying to lose some weight. I started a diet yesterday. Trying to eat lots of veg and lean proteins and keeping my total calorie intake below 800.I'm so hungry tho
How's your diet going?
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Anonymous 20800

>>20798
>I ended up losing 1.5kg last month walking on top of dieting taking a break from eating candy.

Anonymous 20863

>>20800
Dieting usually involves eating less food, yeah. I'm not a big candy person but I still eat pastries/cookies almost daily.

Anonymous 20865

I try to stick to 16-8 intermittent fasting. If you do that youll also start to eat healthier because if you just eat candy and carbs youll burn though your energy and get super hungry during the fast, but if you eat naturally filling food like protein or vegetables that take longer to digest you will be less hungry.

Anonymous 20866

>>20720
>doesnt my body know
If youre eating poorly and are overweight my theory is youre basically being mind controlled by your gut bacteria who are just making you pig down carbs to feed them and expand their numbers.
Gut bacteria can influence hormones and the brain so yeah if you lack self control with eating it's likely the one in control is the bacteria in your body rather than your own cells and 'higher self'.
Orrr youre just an impulse eater and don't have aspirations to self improve on a deep level.

Anonymous 20868

>>20866
>basically being mind controlled

yeah and seduced by overavailability of unhealthy food.

i vaguely remember seeing a meme where there were two screenshots of legacy media newscasters 🤮 side by side, lets say the pictures were a year apart. the text underneath read "when a taco bell opens up across the street from where you work" and on the second picture the two casters were noticably fatter. a fitting punishment for spending their life's energy on lying to the people.

some people are such agentless passengers of their own life, so puppeteered by what happens around them, so effortlessly seduced by everything: all it takes for their bodies to be ruined is for conveniencefood suddenly being available close to them. they are so mindless, they don't care that they are getting sick and that the quality of their life will decrease massively because consequences don't apply to them. i noticed this in quite a few disgraceful occupations that are a negative on society. the people start to believe that cause and effect no longer apply to them. they get away with being evil and pretending to the people that something is true that isn't and forcing perspectives on the people that train them to act against their own self-interest, well why wouldn't they get away with eating food designed to make people sick, in consequence they preach self-harm all day long so it was bound to make the round back to them. irresponsibility, not even once.


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Suppliment Thread Anonymous 20827[Reply]

I'm getting really into supplements recently and I honestly feel amazing on them.
My current setup is multivitamin + glutathione + NMN, and I'm thinking of adding CoQ10 next. I basically want to repair all my cells and DNA.
Any experience with these or others? Any recommendations?
Let's talk about supplements.

Anonymous 20828

>>20827
>I basically want to repair all my cells and DNA.

how'd they get broken

Anonymous 20841

>>20828
op has cancer I guess

Anonymous 20843

>>20828
People accumulate DNA damage through exposure to UV and oxidants. The body has repair mechanisms for these but it eventually builds up. So I've been boosting the repair pathways and also trying to reduce the damage rate in the first place via antioxidants.

Anonymous 20855

>>20843
>People accumulate DNA damage through exposure to UV and oxidants.

this would sound very nice in a marketing paragraph but i don't have the means to verify this sadly. so i don't know but i would expect this to be bs just from living in a culture of weaponized for-profit health products.

plus fundamentally the human digestion has been learning how to digest alive nutrients since the begining of life and processed food only for a few hundreds or thousands.

your capsules and tinctures are all highly processed dead isolates foreign to the human body and may be hard to digest while potentially doing little to no benefit. since digestion is a process requiring a lot of the body, you might be weakening yourself for little to no benefit, which is the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve.

unless you are talking about herbal supplements, which i very much respect.

Anonymous 20862

>>20855
Well everything I take is endogenous to the human body or plants (the glutathione comes from white tomatos) so it's not synthetic molecules per se. I do get what youre saying about getting it from foods and stuff rather than pill form, however its not fully practical because of the massive amounts of tomatoes, grapes, etc. you'd have to eat every day to get the effective doses.


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Why am I the only one who notices this? Anonymous 20832[Reply]

I always notice how girls want their eyebrows to be thicker and acting like it's the beauty standard, but if that's the case why do most of the prettier girls (usually asian) have lighter, thinner, almost nonexistent eyebrows? In addition how do i get mine like that? I've already tried waxxing and plucking but when i look at their pictures in comparison their eyebrows are just lighter. Am I supposed to dye them or something? I feel like having light/thin eyebrows is one of the factors you need to be a cute doll-looking girl, along with all that other easy stuff you can just fraud with make-up. I feel like having thick, dark, arched eyebrows just gives a masculine drag queen look that I'm not sure why other women think looks good
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Anonymous 20840

Because beauty is mostly subjective and different countries ahving vastly different and sometimes opposite beauty standards is a concrete proof of that. You just basically said "why do others think it's pretty when i don't?

Anonymous 20842

>>20840
evil gang stalking asshole

flower like faces and curly hair. entangles people in their mess. deserves to get people of their gender attacking them they dont even know

Anonymous 20844

>>20832
>to be a cute doll-looking girl

wow what an effortlessly irresponsible life you must have to worry about unimportant details like how your eyebrows look. i could appreciate you taking the time and energy to look a certain way, but i don't. it is a waste of the short human life to worry about superficiality.

Anonymous 20845

thick eyebrows are ugly and only look good on social media and not irl

Anonymous 20861

>>20832
Fashionable "beauty" is different from true beauty.


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Anonymous 20622[Reply]

What hairstyle do you like on guys?

Anonymous 20623

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They left out his TMH era. He was so hot. Anyway I don't mind buzz cuts or short hair, but I really adore long hair.

Anonymous 20642

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>>20623
Love it but I also have mixed feelings cause I can't have my own hair be as pretty ffs

Anonymous 20643

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This new kind of mullet.


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too discouraged to go to gym/work out Anonymous 20676[Reply]

can any fit/muscular nonas help me? i am a recovered ED patient but i still struggle with working out.

i really like the idea of becoming stronger. i have tried to strength train in the past, but faced three main mental barriers that always lead to me quitting early.

>1.
first and foremost, i find it extremely discouraging because of how much more easily men build muscle. they barely have to do any work and in the first few months will gain strength extremely fast. the first time i started working out, i would go to the gym with my boyfriend on his membership. he blew past me in terms of progress, improving at roughly double my rate, until i was left in the dust. i got gradually more upset and quit.

some time later, i started to go the gym again. this time alone, so i wouldn't have anyone else to compare myself to. i went to planet fitness, so i used the smith machine for bench, squats, and deadlifts. i also used the bicep curl machine, free-weights, bar for deadhangs and pullups, pulleys, and treadmill. but i stil felt like i was improving extremely slowly. i wasn't noticing any benefits to strength training; everyday objects weren't noticeably easier to move/carry and i was unhappier with myself than before. at that point i felt like the psychic damage and time investment of 3-4 days/week wasn't worth it. some days i could run farther without stopping but that's about it. it gave me the impression that as a small woman, i'm simply not made to get stronger or build muscle. which makes me feel pretty sad and inferior.

>2.
like i said, i have a history of eating disorders and i'm about 90% recovered (back at a healthy bmi for years and don't restrict/binge). but when i am supposed to eat a lot of protein and be in a calorie surplus, it still fucks me up. i feel like i can see my body get bigger and am afraid that i'll never be able to lose that weight during the cut. i don't idealize thinness anymore, and would like my body to look more toned, muscular, and stronger. i would feel more proud of a having strong body vs. having my current average office-worker body for the rest of my life.

>3.
many people say that exercise improves your mood, but when i go to the gym i just end up feeling pretty bad. i dread going, i don't like feeling the physical pain from running/lifting, and i am disappointed with my performanPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>20677
thanks so much for reading and the constructive reply. i will look back on this post as reference when i start going to the gym again.

i always have heard people, mainly moids say that "if you're not going to the gym at least 3x a week you won't get any improvement" or something. but i've never really listened to any actual personalized trainers or people with similar experience. you made me realize improvement is definitely more nuanced and dependent on the individual. generalized overrepeated tiktok brainrot advice will probably have major flaws.

being patient is probably my #1 important thing to work on, also thanks for covering diet and outlining the goals, actually helpful.

good luck with your training nona ᕦ(ò_ó)ᕤ

Anonymous 20679

>>20678
Is pic male or female?

Anonymous 20682

>>20679
female, rin hoshizora

Anonymous 20683

>>20682
I'm disappointed.

Anonymous 20852

>first and foremost, i find it extremely discouraging because of how much more easily men build muscle.

i see you have chosen to compare yourself to others. this is absolute poison and it will ruin any attempt at improving your situation. don't dwell on what you believe is other people having it easy, this will only cripple you. if you have to, try to satisfy your negative habit of comparison with how many reps or minutes YOU did last time.

>i wasn't noticing any benefits to strength training;

i think strength training is stupid in general. if you lift heavy stuff often or pull a plow on the field by hand, you get stronger naturally. strength tries to keep up with how much you demand of yourself in your life.

>everyday objects weren't noticeably easier to move/carry and i was unhappier with myself than before. at that point i felt like the psychic damage and time investment of 3-4 days/week wasn't worth it.

3-4 days/week? that's quite a lot for someone who has not built the habit. way too much. try once a week and ease into it over the time.

>some days i could run farther without stopping but that's about it. it gave me the impression that as a small woman, i'm simply not made to get stronger or build muscle. which makes me feel pretty sad and inferior.

don't feel inferior, this is psychology from the conveyorbelt designed to turn you into a mindless peon, don't agree with it by practicing destructive modes of relation like competition. you are you whether you like it or not so make the best of it. you can absolutely get stronger and more physically able and it is worth it.
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wanting to leave, not finding the way out Anonymous 20849[Reply]

how do i find a place to live that i don't dispise, where the people aren't sick and corrupted? i keep hearing how young i look but that's just because i seclude myself from the toxicity that is normal here. i've been wanting to be gone from here for so long but i make very little progress, which is frustrating me, i'm sad all day because of it.i' ve made almost no progress in the last 5 years.

i wish i traveled more when i was younger, i don't know where it is nice. maybe nowhere.

i'd appreciate any bits of advice on how to find a place, preferably on another continent where technology has not wrecked havoc on the human cultures.

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Anonymous 20826[Reply]

Which glasses frame is your favorite?
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Anonymous 20834

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>>20829
Cool

Anonymous 20835

I like cateye frame glasses

Anonymous 20836

What shape would you recommend for a roundish/squareish face?

Anonymous 20837

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Anonymous 20838

>>20837
Thank you.


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Sterilization Anonymous 20639[Reply]

Has anyone else considered or has gotten sterilized?
Did you get a tubal ligation or a hysterectomy? Which do you prefer?

I've been looking into getting my tubes tied. My nexaplon is expiring soon and I don't want to replace it or go back on bc or iuds. I am afraid of getting hysterectomy because I don't want osteoporosis and going through menopause sooner. I know I would have to go through that anyways, I still feel like I am in my prime. Although I am still on the fence because I get pretty bad periods, like super bad sometimes.
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Anonymous 20710

Hysterectomy also increases dementia risk.

Anonymous 20712

>>20710
What doesn't?

They say keeping mentally active helps prevents dementia. I don't know how the disease works but I feel like it usually comes to people who've already mentally clocked out.

Anonymous 20796

I was trying to make an appointment to get my tubes tied but then Trump won and now I can get a hold of my gyno.

Anonymous 20822

>>20710
Dementia increase sterilization risk.

Anonymous 20824

>>20712
Well shit I’m neet and let my brain rot on vidya all day
Time to learn piano songs and teach myself a new language methinks


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