I don't have any words of consolement, but I'd just like to say that you were one of the first lemmy users I found on beehaw and I've enjoyed your comments and posts.
My hot take, I feel like federation is almost not worth it for beehaw. It's billed as a place where folks will be(e) kind with each other yet some rando can walk in from the street and start slinging garbage without care. I know mods could intervene but sometimes the line is not clear and there's nothing stopping that person from creating another account on limitless instances.
This change is also bad news for America as a whole: Participation in a religious community generally correlates with better health outcomes and longer life, higher financial generosity, and more stable families—all of which are desperately needed in a nation with rising rates of loneliness, mental illness, and alcohol and drug dependency.
This is the problem statement of the article. Seems like we could push for systems that address these issues without the belief in a puppet master in the sky as a prerequisite.
Yep. I was a keto "success" story, felt like I could maintain lazy keto forever.
Then it hit me that I was literally scared of pasta.
I have friends that eat when they are hungry and aren't guilty after having a milkshake. They never diet. They don't stress about food or think about calories or macronutrients. They seem fine and often are athletic!
I wanted to get more of that. It cost me my flat stomach, but honestly just being able to enjoy good food without binging + binge regret is worth it alone. There are other benefits, too, but going anti-diet does require a different king of mental hardiness and effectively makes you counter culture.
It's not easy telling people that I don't want to lose weight or that I'm not watching what I eat. I try to avoid it. If they press it, I end up having to defend the idea that people can do what they want? I dunno. It's a whole paradigm shift.
Anyway, I have mostly become one of the aforementioned people. I eat to my heart's content and some might think I moderate when watching from afar, but IE is truly "no food rules". When you don't restrict, food becomes more neutral and thus regulation can become internal instead of a mental game of willpower and calorie/carb math.
I truly think it's the best thing I've done for myself in years but I am always reluctant to spread the word because everyone's journey with their body is hyper personal. Being anti-diet doesn't mean you persecute people who do diet...that would be mean. Everyone is just doing their best.
Practicing intuitive eating repaired my relationship with food after 8 years of (maybe disordered) keto dieting. Then, I had to challenge body image issues—ongoing—but I feel so much better in my body and my relationship to food and movement than when I strictly dieted and exercised.
I don't have any words of consolement, but I'd just like to say that you were one of the first lemmy users I found on beehaw and I've enjoyed your comments and posts.