Reblog If You Started Worrying About The Way You Look Before You Were Even 16.

My therapist: we need to talk about your childhood

My brain:

It turns out

You will lose weight if you eat at a caloric deficit. Period.

Basic laws of thermodynamics and the universe say in a closed system,

Energy in = energy out

Your body spends energy by existing -- breathing, walking, talking, getting up to go to the bathroom, chewing on your food, pumping blood to your organs. Every single action requires energy (calories)!

There's something called TDEE, or total daily energy expenditure. It's a calculation of how much energy it requires for you to function and stay at the same weight. Obviously, it matters what heigh and weight you are -- the taller and heavier you are, the more calories you require to simply exist. You can find TDEE calculators all over the internet simply by googling.

So for example:

5'4" female @140lb: 1668 calories

5'0" female @110lb: 1429 calories

What does this mean?

In order for you to lose weight, you just need to eat less than your TDEE.

This is basic physics. The laws of the universe do not change. If you eat less than TDEE, you will lose weight, no buts or ifs. If you "binge" eat 1600 calories, but your TDEE is 1660, you will not gain weight (permanently). It's just not possible (see my notes on water weight below if you have doubts).

1lb of fat is approximately 3500 calories of deficit. In other words, that's a 500 cal deficit per day, for one week, to lose one pound.

So if your TDEE is 1600, if you eat 1100 calories everyday, you lose one pound in a week.

"But I ate at 1000cal/day and I gained .5lb this morning!!!!"

Weight is so dependent on your sodium intake, hormonal levels, what food you've eaten that day that one single scale reading means NOTHING.

Here's a picture of the scale readings over the past two months for me.

See how it fluctuates like crazy? What's important is the general trend-- although one day I may "gain" 2lbs, one week later I'll be 3lbs below that "heavy" weight. I actually recommend stepping on the scale every day, at the same time. It helps move away from "omg I gained 3lbs!!!!" and let's you accurately identify if you are actually losing weight.

So for all you people who are stressed out about eating too much, just do some basic math. Chances are, you can eat a reasonable amount and LOSE WEIGHT. For me, if I try to eat 500cal a day, I do it for one day, then binge eat the next day and ruin my progress. One pound per week may seem slow, but consider how long you e hated your weight, compared to how quickly it'll drop off.

I've hated my weight for almost 8 years now, and in just two months I've dropped 1/3 of the weight I wanted to, while eating at 1200calories a day. In that context, 6 more months of this? Easy!

1200 calories: That's a lot of food! You can eat properly with that! For example one day:

Breakfast

Coffee with condensed milk (60)

Oatmeal (150)

2boiled eggs (140)

Lunch

1cup chicken teriyaki (150)

Broccoli (50)

4 lychees (100)

Dinner

One whole avocado (220)

2 slices of bread (180)

1/2 carton halo top (140)

In conclusion: you can eat a reasonable amount of food and still lose weight (faster than restricting, bc there's wayyy less binges). Your caloric intake will depend on your height and weight-- a 5'0 woman and a 5'6" woman should not be eating the same amount.

Good luck losing weight lovelies ❄️

Honestly, fUck Calories

I want skinny

I'm going to take this month by the neck and get skinny

I have really been struggling lately so I'm going to kick start it with like tops 1000 calories then when I get that mastered ill go down to 900 for 2/3 days then keep going down until 500 and try keeping that up for as long as I can

i need my space unless youre the right person then dont go anywhere

Anyone get that “my childhood was stolen and it’s not fair” kind of angry

[This is only about childhood abuse ty]

all pedophiles should die and theres literally no downside to them all dropping dead

When I was 16, I had a fake I.D. and decided to go to a gay bar by myself because some friends bailed on me. While there, an older gentleman bought me a drink. He wasn’t a creeper, and he definitely wasn’t unattractive. I accepted the drink and began talking to him. No big deal. As the hour progressed, I felt myself feeling strange. I mentioned that I felt like I had a headache, and this guy helped guide me out of the bar. As we were walking down the street, the thought of, ‘Oh god, he’s drugged me, I’m going to die’ came to my head. I tried to get away, but I was so drugged up that I could barely walk, let alone speak. It also didn’t help that I had really large ‘goth’ platform shoes because I was going through a phase. Anyway, this guy brought me to his suv and began undressing me. As a final act of defiance, I hit him over the head with my platform shoe. He then punched me, and I remember thinking, ‘Why don’t they ever give workshops to gay guys about being victims of rape too?’ While I was as careful as possible, I never saw the guy slip something in the drink. I even watched the bar tender make the drink. Anyway, I lied there completely paralyzed while this pervert was lubing up. I locked eyes with his for a moment, and that’s when it happened. A very large and angry drag queen opened the door of the vehicle and beat the shit out of my attempted rapist. She and her other drag friends helped dress and care for me while the police arrived. I was saved by a group of guardian drag queens. They were basically the modern day ‘angels from heaven.’

Reason to Live #2301

For the day that I finally do better than everyone who hurt me. – Guest Submission

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The silence in a room while taking a quiz: ----

My stomach: rawr