Lyle sat with their hands together, fingers interlaced, their attention fixed heavily on the planks beneath them. Their mother and father sat a few feet away, two more faces among the dozens of others in the moving wooden crate.
They were all fleeing their home and the weight of it could be seen in every dull eye.
The attacks had been relentless, days and days of fire coming from the sky. At first, the city tried to strike back. Those that stood against the dragon wound up as piles of molten metal and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Lyle looked into his mother’s eyes. There was fear, there was pain. She broke her gaze and looked down at her chest, touching the crystal briefly before collapsing to the cart. His father screamed, pulled against the rail, and tried, in vain, to reach out to his love with his one… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
O: I wish you to sire my children. This is not obvious? Why would you ask me this question? Do you doubt my commitment to you?
B: No, I just wanted to hear you say it.
O: Devil. You know of my great affection for you.
O: You have proven yourself to be a capable lover, more than able to complete the task. You have met my family and shown great humility and kindness towards them. I have seen your love first hand and, as a result, I wish to create and raise children with you.
Weight management really is as simple as calories in, calories out. However, that's the beginning of the conversation, not the end. What else is there in your life that affects that? Medication? Hormones? Activity level? Ability? Diet restrictions? There's so much else!
That goes for gaining, losing, maintaining, whatever your goals are. We start with the base idea of calories and then we build upon it for each individual. "Just eat less" is terrible advice that just so happens to work for a few people. It's not viable for most.
Everybody and every body is different. We all have so many things that change how things work for us. If you want to move your body around, it's good to keep the basics in mind but you have to account for everything else too.