/hb/ - Health & Beauty

Radical acceptance? I was asked by my husband how I would rate myself on looks. I said 5 and he laughed. It really hurt. I took a lot of selfies and looked at them and realized I don't look as great as I thought I did. I did try to improve my makeup. But I've mostly just accepted I'm not beautiful.

You have to get over the childish need to be seen as beautiful. One way to do this and that has worked for me is taking on the mindset that if you're not meant to be desired and looked at then you're meant to desire and look at others. Once you start seeing yourself as part of the audience or consumers you stop caring about your looks and start wanting everyone else to be beautiful instead so you can enjoy the view. It's really nice.

The insults hurt but you eventually get over it and have to develop a personality, skills, whatever, to substitute for no looks. Men will treat you like shit regardless of if you’re ugly or beautiful, they’re just more upfront about it if you’re ugly

I have an addiction on nicotine right now - hopefully ill get my diagnosis soon so ill get adderall and itll actually improve my cognitive performance

Stimulants like caffeine and nicotine help me stay focused on one thing for longer (~60-70 mins without a break versus ~20-30 mins without a longer break) so I think adderall and adhd meds would make me more functional but I never tried them cause of all the testimonies about feeling like a meth zombie. Even rl friends have told me as much unprompted. For me taking magnesium helped fix my adhd. For me magnesium oxide and magnesium citrate work to cure it (magnesium oxide's cheaper since you can get it in a powder and mix it with seltzer for 2 weeks of doses. It just tastes like a mix of salty and slightly oceany/seafoody so pills may be better for some of you). Lions mane has worked to cure adhd in my friends but not me, its another option to try. Basically I dont like the idea of being dependent on my prescription and this fixes me 80% of the way where just a cup of coffee or zyn pouch throughout the day keep me functioning fine.

>>21191
Tried to find the website I learned this from but couldn't. In case anyone wants to try mixing magnesium hydroxide (not oxide like I said previously) heres the process.
You'll need a 1 liter bottle of club soda/carbonated water/seltzer water (I can find it for a dollar at walmart)
You'll also need a bag of magnesium hydroxide (I've had luck with the bulk supplements brand. Spent $15 on a bag a year ago and still using the same one. ~2 year shelf life according to the exp. date)
Measure a teaspoon of magnesium and sit it aside.
Open the seltzer water and put a large funnel inside it. (The one I use is a bit bigger than a coffee cup)
have the cap ready in one hand and the measured magnesium in the other.
slam the spoon in the base of the funnel and then immediately pull the funnel out. Immediately screw the cap back on (you'll have ~5 seconds before it spews everywhere. It needs the carbonation so the magnesium sticks to the water and gets distributed)
once capped shake for 30 seconds. sit in the fridge for an hour. shake again for 30 seconds. You now have ~2 weeks of magnesium. 2-3 swigs a day.

>>301649
>>301648
I did this too. Stay away from Adderall though, it has the same effects of meth but less effective . The chemical structure of Adderall is identical to meth but has structural differences that weaken its effect. Meth is an upper, it makes you productive, dopamine = attention/learning,
Increase dopamine = increase attention span. Adderall is marketed as "fixing dopamine deficiency"

Anyway just search up medical journals or ask an AI if you don't believe me.

>>20738
I don't eat that much but when I do its ramen and monster or something. I'll try to drink water and eat more healthy!

candy, instant-food, drinks made from chemicals: those will all cause problems and pimples in the face is only one way this manifests. you can easily understand this for yourself. eat only candy (for a week) and just see what happens. how you feel, how you look,…

when i did this (20 years ago) i gained weight, got pimply and my armpits start to hurt then i stopped eating the garbage and ate better, pimples went away, armpits stopped hurting and i began to lose weight again.

a nice way to gently transition away from the garbage is this:

when you eat your silly ramen, prepare it as usual but do it in a bigger bowl and add tons of raw vegetables on top. tomato, bell pepper, spinnach leaves, rucola, celery, spring onion. you can only add a bit of it at first but then gently start to tip the scale so that it is more vegetable then sillyfood.

instead of energy drink you can do this: buy lemons, limes and/or grapefruit and some maple syrup. make a big jug in the morning consisting of: water, your citrus of choice and a bit of maple syrup. in order for the lemons not to spoil, you can juice all the lemons you buy and fill the juice in an ice cube tray, that way they won't become moldy after a few days and making your drink in the morning is less work.

The only things that work against acne are retinoids

Yes cleansers are good for aiding but virtually all cosmetic skincare is useless for acne if not paired with retinoid medication

>>20760
To adress what others have said: while eating 'clean" helps gut health and yadda yadda, it will not impact your skin THAT much, it will not clear up your acne, as food doesn't control our oil production but hormones do.

That's why a lot of women have breakouts during/before period, that's when our oil production skyrockets. And most adult men don't have acne because their hormones don't change the same way ours do, so they can eat like shit and they won't have painful cystic acne from it.

god-tier japanese brands that have saved my skin: gyokujun (affordable) and curel (more expensive)

i 100% recommend the blue line from pyunkang yul. i have extremely sensitive skin prone to cystic acne and hyperpigmentation and that line (in addition to the skin 1004 centella line) has been the best for my skin. PKY blue line products have no fragrances and are very gentle and i think you’d benefit. plus super cheap (around $8-10USD for their products which is much cheaper than popular kbeauty brands)

>>20900
it could be endometriosis? even if you get checked it usually takes 7 yrs to diagnose since symptoms start. periods pains are suppose to fluctuate in intensity during premenopause not be constantly more painful

>>20901
I'm not sure if the test was ultrasound or what. It was a little uncomfortable.

The change lines up exactly with the onset of stress and a big change in eating patterns (longer periods between meals, less calories). I guess I should do the obvious and work on that.

>>20902
I have some of those symptoms according to google. I also have a pain in my left side near my waist during the spotting/bleeding which makes me think it's something different.

>>20903
Periods can definitely get weird if you change your diet and/or are stressed. Mine once stopped for 10 months during a particularly stressful year. But I’d still get a second opinion just to be sure.

i think i might have endometriosis. my periods are heavy and irregular, my cramps are HORRIBLE, i get spotting and i only recently(months ago) started getting lower back pain. my mum also has it so i guess it's likely that i would have it too. i booked an appointment with my gp and in a few days im having a speculum examination and i am fucking terrified. does anyone have any advice on how to manage the pain, paracetamol and ibuprofen dont do much and weed helps but i have an addictive personality and i really dont want to end up losing control and becoming addicted again. and does anyone have any advice about how to prepare mentally for a speculum examination. all i know is that another woman is doing it which gives me some peace of mind but i am not looking forward to the (potential) pain. i've heard from other women that its unbearable. ;_;

>>20766
>nobody has to.
You don't know how the world works. Where I live the only food you'll be able to afford to make from 'scratch' is instant noodles unless you have a high paying, skilled job or you work a lot.

>>20772
You don't know how the world works. Where I live the only food you'll be able to afford to make from 'scratch' is instant noodles unless you have a high paying, skilled job or you work a lot.

sounds like a horrible place, too bad for you the only way to be alive as a human today is to live in the exact place that you live in and there are no other places you could go where there is food available.

>>20783
There is plenty of food available, but you won't be able to afford making everything from scratch unless you have the time the money and the energy

>>20785
>There is plenty of food available, but you won't be able to afford making everything from scratch unless you have the time the money and the energy

i call bs, go prove it. make an example calculation and then i will ridicule it and point out all the flaws and the countless things you don't understand or know so i don't have to hear your silly theater anymore meant to display your highest priority in life: irresponsibility.

>>20786
eh

>>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

>>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.

>>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?

>>20872

nutella popcorn is sooooo yummy. messy tho

>>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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how do you stop nail biting, it's the worst habit i have

>>20227
weirdly after trying all the things they reccommend like wearing gloves, putting chile or anti nail-biting polish, keeping my hands busy, nothing worked. I just bit them as much as I wanted for years since I had given up, and all of a sudden a few days ago I realize I have nails. weirdly only on my right hand. i guess i now only bite my left hand. Idk what it is, i guess i got my fix and now my brain decided its done? Sorry I cant help you more, i dont really understand what fixed the habit

>>20227
I managed to fix my nail biting habit by using anti-biting nail polish, it made them taste awful and after a few weeks I'd basically stopped doing it

I stopped biting my nails in my teens when I got grossed out by pieces of nails getting stuck in my teeth lol

>>21044
in my experience, a simple gel polish manicure (just color, no design or acrylics) would last me around 2-3 weeks, sometimes longer depending how tempted i was to pick and bite the polish off. obviously it will last longer if you don't do what i did. you can get your manicure redone even if the nail polish is intact though for long term nail health i am not sure if it'd be healthy. if you want acrylics, i've heard the shortest they will last is around 1 week and the longest is 4 weeks but it depends on your nail tech i guess, since acrylics and press ons stay longer when you have clean nails and cuticles pushed back. for just a gel manicure i'd pay roughly 50-80 dollars when i still got them done, i've never gotten acrylics or any fancy designs so i have no idea how much they cost. i'd recommend saving money if this is too expensive for you.

I like cateye frame glasses

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

>>20837
Thank you.

>>20836
I have a round face and wear wayfarers. I get unsolicited compliments on them so I think they suit me.

you shouldn't be doing that, Nona

see a therapist, talk to your doctor

If you are fat, just fucking exercise and eat better. Getting an ED will just fuck with your head and make you gain the weight back instantly as soon as you touch a calorie because it teaches your body you are not to be trusted. If you actually have a normal BMI and just want to be a skelly, please go to a therapist. Trying to look like a Lich isn’t going to solve your body image issues.

Inducing vomiting will break down your teeth enamel then you will be fat with rotten teeth too. Heal your relationship with food.

>>21010
People with Down Syndrome can have normal intelligence. It's a misconception that they are all retarded.

>>21011
I had no idea.

>>21011
I've never seen a downie with an average IQ but downies in general have a high IQ when it comes to emotional intelligence and subtle social cues. Has anyone else noticed that? I don't know how to put this right, but it seems like they're good at picking up on complex emotional bids that average adults don't pick up on.

>>21013
I never actually considered this before but looking back on the downies I’ve interacted with, you’re right. They struggle intellectually, but they’re often the first to pick up on someone being upset and quick to try and cheer that person up.

>>21013
>in general have a high IQ when it comes to emotional intelligence and subtle social cues
Not really. They might be less inhibited in that area but that doesn't make it "high IQ." It just shines more because everything else is poop.