“Eat less and move more” is based on the assumption your body treats calories like a transaction. Whatever you put in is whatever you’ll use through direct actions like exercise. But in reality, your body treats calories like a thermostat. I’ll explain a bit more

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For survival reasons, your body has evolved to be not lose weight super easily. Your body has all sorts of checks and balances, many of which are subconscious, to try and stop you from losing weight. These can include things like hunger signals. If you eat way more food today

For those of you considering moving overseas, I just paid around £780 (so around R18600) to rent a room in a house with 2 bathrooms and 6 other people. This is the best space and best price I’ve been able to find for a decent sized room relatively central in London Studios tend to start at around £1700 (about R40,500). Everyone I know who is splitting a decent sized apartment with one friend is paying around £1100 (R26,200) in rent. To SPLIT. Don’t come to London you aren’t willing to deal with a certain level of scammery

The more radfem discourse I see on here the more I’m convinced that there are some women who call themselves feminists but don’t really recognise women as decision-making agents who are actively making choices to make navigating society easier/better And I started noticing this when I read more into sex workers, saw how many sex workers had chosen sex work over other economic opportunities because sw gave them better earnings & control over their schedules, & read how many spoke of feminists who had proposed+

I remember reading that part of the reason women pushed for public restrooms was because a lack of them meant that women couldn’t be out for long & was an effective way of keeping women out of public spaces. I think about that a lot now when it comes to trans people The bathroom debate is a convenient smokescreen for eliminating trans people from public life altogether. The people arguing against trans people in bathrooms don’t want to keep women safe. They want to stop trans people from existing