Survival

I should be packing for our trip to MA, but I'm not and I'm not really doing anything.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:34:16 -0400

What is wrong with me?

I’m doing absolutely nothing on the internet.

And I’m eating leftover birthday cake and drinking almond coconut milk because my brain thinks bikini season isn’t a thing right now.

Look how nappy Spock is. I just bathed him a couple weeks ago...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:37:22 -0400

Look how nappy Spock is. I just bathed him a couple weeks ago and had him all fluffy and nice. He’s such a dirty little boy. All he wants to do is lick and hump Rosalie and it’s awful.

Am I the only one who cannot handle Chris Pine's beard?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:31:38 -0400

Like it’s ruining my life.

I don’t even like beards.

In other news my husband has decided to grow a beard.

thehealthycook: Calorie counting is common within the...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:10:23 -0400

thehealthycook:

Calorie counting is common within the weight-loss community, but it doesn’t mean you should do it. Here are 10 reasons why counting calories doesn’t always work:

Counting calories over-simplifies healthy eating. Eating a healthy diet is complicated and nutrition labels over-simplify it. We are led to believe that low calorie foods are good and high calorie foods are bad. But it is a lot more complicated than that. This way of thinking can lead to eating disorders, infertility, illness, and depression because it encourages the consumption of processed foods instead of nourishing foods.

Counting calories prevents a positive, healthy relationship with food. Always being calorie-conscious changes your focus from how you eat to how much you eat. This can prevent you from having a positive relationship with food. Instead of thinking of food as life-giving nourishment, counting calories can make you feel apprehensive toward food, or even make you think of food as being bad for you as if it is the enemy.

Counting calories creates a stressful relationship with food that can interfere with digestion.Feeling stressed while eating is bad for you because it can interfere with digestion. The sympathetic nervous system triggers responses in the body that can shut down the digestive system so the body can deal with the stressful situation.

Counting calories can also increase your feelings of depression. You may feel depressed when you feel you’ve eaten too many calories because you ate that burger and chocolate shake you feel you shouldn’t have. The constant pressure from tracking calories and feeling like you’ve let yourself down when you go over your daily caloric intake can increase feelings of depression.

Counting calories is extremely inaccurate. Not only is it wrong to think calories from different foods are the same, but you shouldn’t always believe the numbers of calories printed on labels because they are often wrong. The calorie tables we use today are outdated. Dietitian Rick Miller says, “We’ve known for some time that the calculations for certain foods such as vegetables and high-fiber foods are inaccurate. The calorie figures you see on a food label aren’t always the amount you will ingest.”

Quality of calories is more important than quantity. If you count calories, you may become obsessed with calorie counting. You may buy low-fat this and fat-free that, but these foods lack much needed vitamins and nutritional value. Can you lose fat by eating low-fat and fat-free foods? Yes, but it’s far from eating healthy because you are not getting all the nutrients your body needs. Plus, these foods often replace the fat with sugar, which then gets stored as fat in your body. Your calories should mainly come from whole, natural foods that don’t have labels—the foods that are made by Mother Nature. And, you should avoid eating processed and packaged foods as much as possible, including those that are labeled as low-fat and fat-free. In many cases, these foods are worse for you than the full-fat products.

Calorie counting adds more work to your already busy life. It’s work to constantly tabulate calories for every meal, or record everything you eat in a food diary or journal. You probably don’t need to add more work to your already busy life, so forget calorie counting and focus your efforts elsewhere like exercising or cooking healthier meals for your family.

Counting calories encourages calorie-restriction, which slows metabolism and makes it difficult to lose weight. The biggest problem with using linear calorie equations for fat loss is thatthe fewer calories you consume, the fewer calories your body burns. When you start a calorie-restricted diet, you will probably find that you lose a pound or so in the first week but less in subsequent weeks. This phenomenon is believed to be a metabolic adaptation to prevent starvation and keep your body balanced. But a slower metabolism means slower weight loss, and counting calories encourages this.

Counting calories is not a way to guide your nutritional health. Counting calories should be used as just one tool for weight loss and should not be used as a long-term solution. It should be used as a learning tool to become more aware of how many calories are in junk foods and sodas, for instance, but it’s not a tool for guiding your nutritional health.

Calorie counting interferes with “intuitive eating.” Humans are, by design, intuitive eaters. This means that if you knew nothing about calories, carbs, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals contained in foods, you would naturally eat the foods your body needs to stay healthy. Sometimes your body may crave carbs while other times it may crave fats, and there are reasons for this. Your body intuitively knows what it needs to stay healthy and balanced, and counting calories interferes with this intuitive ability to eat healthfully. (source x)

So I go to facebook and it's trying to promote a page that says it has the secret to lose 2 dress sizes in 2 months...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:03:57 -0400

Um hi, no thanks. Stop assuming all females wants to lose weight, advertising world. Also if you could stop with the ads on the radio about how your product, no matter what it is can help you lose weight that would also be fab. Some of us would like to accept our bodies, not hate them.

Other people are in agreement that our friend/neighbor looks like Jeremy Renner

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:56:13 -0400

Now I feel awkward looking at pictures of him…Jeremy that is, not our neighbor…

While at the grocery store I saw some Camembert and expressed my interest in buying it

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:32:45 -0400

Blaine thought I said I wanted to buy Cumberbatch.

k-lionheart: thespockyhorrorpictureshow: Okay this is now my...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 22:19:01 -0400

k-lionheart:

thespockyhorrorpictureshow:

Okay this is now my FAVORITE GIF EVER.

SPREAD THIS LIKE FIRE

Oh gods, I just remembered my Teddy Lupin twitter exists.

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 11:14:07 -0400

Maybe I should investigate what’s going on over there…Or maybe I shouldn’t since apparently other people decided to make their own Teddy Lupins. Just remember that I was the first Teddy.

Omg I also just remembered why I stopped. Bitches were hatin’. Like okay calm the fuck down, dude. We’re just role playing on twitter. It’s not the end of the world if Teddy goes back in time and dates Sirius okay, jeez.

englandisenglandyet: beachbody-thundercats: brittaniethekid: i...

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 10:57:05 -0400

englandisenglandyet:

beachbody-thundercats:

brittaniethekid:

irisplayground:

Appleflap Candyland

Jinglebells Crumplebutt

Basildon Clusterfuck

Mandarin Zippleback

Benefloop Crinklewham

Handygit Thunderclap

HAHAHA YOU’RE ALL SO FUCKING CLEVER LOOK AT YOU

MOTHER FUCKING COOTERCAT

SYNONYM TENNISMATCH

Excuse my lame tumbling at the moment. I’m in a stupid/weird/self-loathing mood.

Fri, 31 May 2013 23:35:23 -0400

Excuse my lame tumbling at the moment. I’m in a stupid/weird/self-loathing mood.

Poem

Fri, 31 May 2013 23:21:20 -0400

I feel as though I’m teetering on the edge of sanity

About to fall into the pit where there is no humanity

Like I’m about to fall with the slightest gust of wind

Where I wallow and am swallowed by my own imagined sin

I die and die again every night I’m paralyzed

And I cannot fight this fear, all this hatred that’s inside

I lie in bed and fantasize about a different life

Where I’m perfect, tiny, beautiful and no one sees my lies

But in the morning I’m still here, still the me I cannot stand

The me that pulls away, won’t accept a helping hand

The me that’s terrified of absolutely everything

The me that won’t recover, that let’s this thing keep lingering

And I sigh as I’m defeated and accept this ugly truth

That I’ll never get away, I never will break loose.

"Fat for an Asian:" The Pressure to be Naturally Perfect

Fri, 31 May 2013 22:12:41 -0400

"Fat for an Asian:" The Pressure to be Naturally Perfect:

I try not to talk about it, though, because the moment I do, someone always says, “Shut up, you’re Asian. You have genetics on your side.”

I'm re-reading my old Nancy Drew Books

Fri, 31 May 2013 12:12:00 -0400

Seventeen years later I am still squeeing over how adorable and perfect Nancy and Ned are.

notsupposedtotalkaboutit: themadhatter-steacup: jaystilesmorgan...

Thu, 30 May 2013 22:35:41 -0400

notsupposedtotalkaboutit:

themadhatter-steacup:

jaystilesmorgan:

Ladies and Gentlemen the supernatural fandom

khawlabentalazwaar: clatterandclank: ashortinspiration: Ugly...

Wed, 29 May 2013 18:07:07 -0400

khawlabentalazwaar:

clatterandclank:

ashortinspiration:

Ugly Fruit

The idea came from the fact that US markets toss out 15 billion dollars worth of fruits and vegetables each year

just because they are bruised or discolored. But they are still fresh and edible. I felt there was an opportunity to stop

the waste, so Ugly Fruit was born. Ugly Fruit is a stand that makes juice, jams, and dried fruits out of unattractive

produce donated from our neighborhood grocery stores. Ugly fruit, pretty yummy!

More on: mirimseo.com

tyleroakley: middy118: ZUBRO IS SCARY AS FUCK. THESE SHOULD...

Wed, 29 May 2013 18:04:28 -0400

tyleroakley:

middy118:

ZUBRO IS SCARY AS FUCK. THESE SHOULD EXIST.

ALL OF THESE ARE PERFECT.

Interpreting Anti-Obesity Campaigns with a History of Disordered Eating

Wed, 29 May 2013 17:47:40 -0400

Interpreting Anti-Obesity Campaigns with a History of Disordered Eating:

Advertisements bemoaning the evils of obesity, begging us to eat healthier and to exercise, surround us every day. Big corporations and governments alike have jumped on the anti-obesity bandwagon, …

sian-valentine: Today when I was eating dinner, I came to the conclusion that if Sherlock was a...

Mon, 27 May 2013 16:43:25 -0400

sian-valentine:

Today when I was eating dinner, I came to the conclusion that if Sherlock was a vegetable, he’d probably be a broccoli

A Sherlockoli

Diagram:

Let's make Dean in gym shorts the most reblogged picture on Tumblr.

Mon, 27 May 2013 09:41:44 -0400

“Challenge accepted!” —SPN fandom.

omg this is still going

IT’S A RULE TO REBLOG EVERY TIME IT SHOWS UP ON YOUR DASH.

i’m not even in the supernatural fandom and i’m still going to reblog

lost count of the times i’ve reblogged this