part 367 bears and wolves oh my

[aphanon_meme]

YOU DID IT, I'M SO PROUD OF YOU. Well, it's been a year. I hope it was a good one for you--and that 2018 is even better! And maybe we'll finally get that fansub of even one of the musicals... just maybe.

Enjoy part 367!

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Re: Embarrassingly tl;dr but hope this helps!

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, just ignore them if they want you to eat sweets. Stop caring what they think. They'll learn to buy less next time, or they can eat it and take the weight themselves. Just as you would ignore telemarketers or pop-up ads, just mute the people being unreasonable.

This is the first time I've kept to a diet/weight loss effort for an extended period of time (and, unsurprisingly, therefore the first time it's really worked) and I've found that while most people are supportive or ambivalent, some friends/family will try to sabotage you in good will, because people are under the impression that self improvement is self hate and they want to tell you that you're fine as is. Like... dude. I don't hate my body; I love my body, therefore I'm going to get it into the best shape it can be.

Aaaand there may also be people who hate seeing others get fit because they want to live in their self-defeating bubble believing that your weight is never your own responsibility and diets never work and blah blah blah. And they want you to keep looking the same so they can feel better about themselves. If there's somebody like that in your life, distance yourself from them. There was one person that I'm not even close to but who is in my friends group who was very annoying in this way, and I just stopped talking to her.

The free app MyFitnessPal is really good for calorie counting, makes things much faster. I also recommend getting a food scale. And there are some things I do estimate now, but it's helpful at the beginning to do some measuring so you can have a better idea of what 1 tablespoon of peanut butter or whatever actually looks like - because in many cases it will be surprisingly less than you thought.

I also use reddit subforums for motivation:
https://www.reddit.com/r/1200isplenty for meal ideas
https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit for general feel-good motivational stories and stuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/fatlogic is a significantly saltier sub, specifically for refuting excuses and mocking HAES myths. Probably not for everyone, but I have found it very useful for shutting down my own inner whiny voice.

One more thing - please make sure to calculate your TDEE here (https://tdeecalculator.net/) and eat at least 500 calories below your TDEE. However, don't go below 1200 calories a day.

Again, probably obvious, I'm just saying it because there was a time when I just bought into, oh, ok, women are supposed to eat 1500-2000 calories - which is complete trash. At my height, 5'4" (which happens to also be the exact average height of US women), I would have to weigh 214 freaking lbs to burn 2005 calories a day. And yet the top google result for "how many calories a day" still says "An average woman needs to eat about 2000 calories per day to maintain, and 1500 calories to lose one pound of weight per week." - wtf sort of "average" is this?! A woman maintaining at 2000 is either very tall, obese, or a freaking athlete! And 1500 would cause me to gain rather than lose weight! Ughhhhh.

Good luck, anon! You can do this! :)