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@EmmahSue You're a type 1 diabetic. So yes, your body works differently.

Alternately I get filled with a burning rage when people say I have hypothyroid/PCOS/gluten/blah blah all the conditions and I just can't lose weight, it's physically impossible and also those caused me to gain weight so it'll never work. That's simply untrue.

When I say it's a simple math problem, it is for most of the population. Not for all. I don't see many 300 pound type one diabetics going 'well it's just physically impossible, don't bother'. I see many type twos do that, not ones with unusual type two but specifically 'you're diabetic because you're fat' type twos. Or a woman I had to unfriend with gestational diabetes who refused to believe her weight was a factor and would say things like 'I wish I could just have a doughnut without having to have a protein with it'. All my what? Just don't have a doughnut.

You can't outrun your diet. Period. It took me a long time to get where I'm at mostly because of emotional and thought process hang ups. Physically it was very easy once I stopped shoving gobs of food in my mouth. It's not hard but it's hard. I get it. Mostly what I'm saying over all is don't complicate shit. Don't worry about eating six small meals unless that makes you happy. Sometimes a bitch wants some fast food. I get my fast food knowing its my calories for a day in one meal. I eat the one meal and I'm happy. It was a long time getting to that point. Six months ago I couldn't have done that because I would have fretted about an entire day of not being 'able' to eat. Six meals would make me insane. I don't want to mess with that. It would quickly become six meals of fiber one brownies because I'm lazy.

Just do what's right and works for you and know that will likely change over time. Small meals all day works for some because they want to eat all day. I used to. I went from that to four, to two and often times I eat one meal a day and a few snacks. It won't stop you from losing weight to eat once a day, I assure you.

@Arkandel I couldn't work for a shelter.

I always forget the image code but this is the baby possum that lives around the house. I feed him.

@Coin The very beginning?

@WTFE I love you. Tell your wife I'm sorry but I kind of want to steal you. You can be my MSB boyfriend.

I have an anorexic friend. Not anorexia nervosa, but she has problems eating due to some illnesses and stress which is medical anorexia. She's thin and beautiful (two separate things) and she is allowed to be unhappy with her body. I'm fat and I'm allowed to be unhappy with my body. There's this rule that if you're smaller than someone, they will shut you down when you complain.

I'm a size 8, so smaller than 'average' and I'm still fat. I hated being told 'I wasn't obese!!!' when I was MORBIDLY OBESE and I hate now being told 'you're smaller than me so you're fine!' now when I say I'm overweight. It's not even that nice sort of 'I think you're beautiful' but negative. I've lost friends because I was point blank told how dare I lose weight with fibromyalgia and hypothryoidism. That I was a liar and don't have them. What? God forbid you complain that something isn't available in your size.

I hear more now than I ever did before on what I'm going to eat. Is that all you're eating? Have dessert it won't hurt you. Oh you can eat more than that. Aren't you hungry? Ugh. I'm not commenting on your food, don't comment on mine. There's a constant barrage of negative messages like men like meat not bones. I'm so over it.

It's easy to feel you'd be the exception or somehow special. People like that are very good at making someone they aren't paying much attention to special somehow.

It's even easier if it starts with misinformation. Like we're separated or if you have no knowledge of them being with someone. One you're out its easier. Sad and then wtf and then like 'wow, you're not a nice person, bye Felicia!'

When your ex keeps asking you out. Not on dates but to date things. We're divorced dude. No I don't want to eat sushi with you. This makes me extremely uncomfortable.

What happened to the tried and true 'Canadian' boyfriend?!

I live for my imaginary fitness points.

Gas prices. Under $1.50 for name brand? Yaaaaaas.

@silentsophia you should take a ride on the Galaxy 999. I'm sorry, that's stressful.

@ThatOneDude It's y'all. Don't be such a monster, butchering the English language all willy nilly.

Sent 10 or so resumes, got one interview, got the offer letter same night. Yay! Still gives me enough time to finish school quickly, gives me an active company on my resume (most of my old jobs sold the businesses and closed shortly there after), and it's super casual. Shorts and espadrilles all day every day. And they didn't say a thing about my teal/mint mermaid hair. Never never never go from pink to blue. Just never dye your hair blue. It would be purple to pink fade but my new growth won't take hair color. (This is not a good thing. This is an annoying thing but whatever)

@Misadventure A billion years ago I wanted to join the SCA. I was quick to find it was (around here at least) a non-starter if you weren’t rich enough to be fancy, and very inflexible with time and financial demands. It was also full to the brim with the same people who ran in the pagan circles, ie a bunch of older white people who hid their racism by declaring they were into Norse gods and full of creepy old ‘poly’ dudes who were all too eager to ‘help’ you out if you were a rather young woman, who were with old women who looked the other way in regard to the man’s behavior and then punished you for being preyed upon. It was downright absolutely unsafe to be a bi woman.

I would have hoped that in 20 years more progress toward inclusion would have been made. That doesn’t seem to be the case.

This was an interesting read though, I hadn’t considered some of their sticking points to be rooted in victorian colonialism, but it makes so much sense.

I'm over the game of who's TSing what Prince. I want something new and different but still very Amber. Chronicles wasn't too bad. There was lots to be had outside of the official court. I am more about exploring the setting independent of the princes.

I have some ideas but I'm sleepy. So I'll expand on them tomorrow.

Where does Strip Truth or Dare fit on the genre list? Make sure you have that one covered.

I rarely downvote. I mean really though, this is basically who's like is it anyway, everything is made up and the points don't matter. This is like caring about reddit or voat points.

I don't know. Both sides of my family has been here a long time. I also apparently come from a long line of mostly white trash. Me and my brother are mostly different though in our looks, both from family and each other. I'm auburn haired, shorter, fair and freckled with hazel eyes. My moms the only one out of her four sisters like that (though she has brown eyes which are common in her side) and none of my cousins are like me except for one redheaded cousin...and on my moms side I have a LOT of cousins. My brother is taller with olive skin, no freckles, brunette, thin and almost no body hair. He can't even grow a beard to save his life...there are just spots that refuse to grow facial hair at all.

I tried tracing our family back but seriously, we've been here ages and always in the south. I did find out my dads mom lived on a street when she grew up with a black family. I feel sorry for that family. They were the only ones with any damn sense to not have 10 kids. My grandma was a hateful old lady so I can't see the rest of her family being much nicer. There's also census records of a missing kid. Weird stuff.

Anyhow, I'm just some plain old white girl who refuses to live in east Texas like her white trash family. I'm likely three check marks away from being a basic bitch. I'm ok with this.

Can't we all be adults who sometimes don't get along? Being cordial and getting along I feel are not really the same. Isn't it ok to not like everyone yet not feel the need to stir up trouble? At what point do you draw the line and say 'ok, you two are not getting along, so person a is allowed to say what they want but you're making them sad and mad, you're not allowed to say shit'.

I have seen someone literally boil a conversation down to 'I'm right, you're wrong and I find your disagreeing with me to be abusive so stop'. It reeks of 'I'll tattle first and I win' and also a bit of 'I'm going to get the last word in no matter what' rather than just dropping it.

Codeacademy is alright but like any language, you don't use it and forget it. That said, I've used code academy extensively with some degree of success, mainly with JavaScript, Python and Ruby. I learned Logo and Pascal in school, along with basic, C++ and other crap like Visual Basic (I hate you Visual Basic).

The problem is pacing, consistency and application. The key is having a reason why and then applying it. Not a reason like I'd love to learn it because I want to make all the money, but something to create with the code. Like projects. Like you do in school.

At least I've found.

Find a local hack group and go hang out with them. We have chick coding groups in my city.

I'm just not super sold on the free model. Books, classes in various formats with people to turn to and applied projects.

I've always seen an ignore feature as something to be used when someone repeatedly posts things like 'your face is stupid' in individual posts over and over. Not for when people say things I don't like. That seems to be how people use it on Facebook though.

Also, stalker is a word that is super overused. If you have an actual stalker, you need to protect yourself better rather than looking for some button to press because that's actually not very secure.