I'm still on the side of who cares about downvotes. Sometimes it seems people just don't like you and will downvote. Remove them and they still don't like you.
I downvote when I'm past 'hmm I disagree' and move into 'oh helllllll no'. I'll just start leading in my disagreements with oh hell no, and then you'll know I downvoted.
I even upvote people I don't personally care for. I may not like them but sometimes they're reasonable.
@TNP It's ok. Everything ends happily! It's just all the feels.
Speaking of dogs, I can't be the only one (aside from my bffs husband) who can never hear Three Little Birds again. Thanks a lot Will Smith, you douchecanoe. The neighbors were playing it one day and she was like wtf is wrong with the two of you? Why are you boohooing? Bless all 6'8" of his heart, he's a big softie.
Yeah, but again, not very limiting.
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 understand where @Misadventure is coming from. Speaking in absolutes isn't really a good way to go about saying things. You may end up being hurtful to someone who's been on the other side of shit. I used to staff and things like all staffers eat puppies and are evil can get to be old really quick when you're doing your level best to be fair and awesome.
She's not at all saying the policy is cool with her.
As for the killing of idle players? That's some bs. Sometimes I would walk from a game to regroup. Why do I want to get onto the place where the people are making me crazy and hash things out for no good reason? If you're not in the middle of a plot or important in a big way, why would this even be done? Even if you are, then staff explains why you're out of touch and you have to live with that if you return. Done.
@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.
Tax refunds are in part design, but also done by choice. If you do your exemptions correctly, you won't have a refund but will instead 0 out or owe very little. But no, people love a refund.
I'm not poor. I won't even say that for kicks. Even if I had crushing medical debt I wouldn't. Bad credit sucks, but it's liveable. I have been actual poor. Even then, at the time, I didn't consider myself poor. Even though it drove me to do stupid things that were some of the most degrading horrible things (and no, not being a hooker, I actually have some esteem for willing, independent sex workers). I know actual poor. My mother was raised actual poor.
My point with poverty is that we're so concerned with ourselves and our perceptions and how we rank against others that we don't appreciate what we have. People go hungry in this country and that's just obscene. People who don't appreciate what we have often look to the rich and say 'you solve that problem, I'm poor'. Yes, the fewer rich could give a lot. But what if the many gave just a little?
Along this line, I hate 'poor' people who don't know what actual 'poor' is. Yes, I know some upper middle class who are disconnected from reality but they're not trying to be mouthpieces for a class they are not actually part of but claim to be part of.
The last office I worked in I had to bring pillows to add to my chair. The cushion was gone but that wasn't the problem. Even the women in the office had at least 6 inches and 100 pounds on me. The men easily had a foot and who knows how much more weight. I'm not even that short! But all the chairs wouldn't lift anymore and I couldn't use my desk like a desk. I felt like a kid at the grown up table.
It didn't last long though. I had two conversations with the CPA and he was shocked at a lot of things I said and the money was fishy. So yeah. But still, wtf weird chair situation.
@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.
@Olsson Damnit. Well now I'm obligated...so where should I send all these pics of my boobs to?
@Olsson Im sorry I told you to quit hitting on me. I'm just not into you though. Fucking creeper.
@Misadventure Keto does burn fat instead of muscle. It's a way to do an extreme cut and not lose much muscle mass. A cut or calorie deficit for weight loss will always involve some loss of muscle mass.
Even body builders know this to be true which is why they go through bulk and cut cycles for competition. You need to be at a low body fat to show the muscles, you need to eat more to gain the muscles.
However, this is elite body building. Atheltes. Average obese joe doesn't really need to hold onto this. Just being not obese will get your further ahead health wise than you will be being obese with a little bit more muscle.
And again, starvation mode isn't real. No one in America on a diet who needs to be one is going to starve!!! Fasting won't kill you. Intermittent fasting won't kill you. Eating under 1,000 calories for a few days or even a couple weeks won't cause you to starve! If you're obese (which is a lower weight than most think - 174 pounds for a woman at 5'4" is obese) you're not going to hit starvation mode anytime soon.
@Arkandel This is legit and sometimes you have to go off the rails for your sanity.
My best friend and I were doing Keto together. For our respective birthdays, one month apart, we each had a carb fiesta together of our mutual favorite foods and a Korean cake from tour les jours. A small slice was perfection and didn't break us totally though we were over carbs. Even now that I'm off Keto, I eat within her plan when we're together because she's behind me in loss and that's just what sister wives do.
Support systems are legit and the best. I will gladly pay into that debt because I've gotten so much out of the bank of support. I want everyone to succeed. And everyone can but you have to want to. Support just makes up for when you're weak, not when you flat out don't want to or are not ready to.
Diet coke (aka any soda to non Texans) is legit with heavy whipping cream. Especially cherry vanilla dr pepper and rootbeer. And diet sunkist. Tastes like a melted float. Just a tablespoon will do.
So few people are going to make it to that level of calorie deficit. It's laughable to even think about really. Starvation mode is real, IF YOURE ACTUALLY STARVING. Even though I run 800 cals a day for long stretches, I'm not dying. I'm not losing a ton of muscle. When I stay on my shit, I lose weight at a pretty good clip. I can swap out my macros for more fat and protein and even gain muscle at low calories.
If we risked gaining weight from not eating enough, what's going on with anorexics? No. People who are like 'I need to eat more to lose weight' and who 'can't lose weight even though I totally only eat 500 calories a day' are lying liars who lie. Liiiiiie. So full of shit I can't even.
To top it off, working out to lose weight just is too fucking hard. I have a friend who can take a leisurely walk for 15 minutes and burn WAY more calories than I can running for 15 minutes. This is because she's nearly twice my size. Both our calorie burns could be negated by three bites of food.
Abs are made in the kitchen because if you overeat you're going to be fat and never see your abs. Ever. No matter how good you are with protein or at the gym.
