When you enjoy dialogue so much that you end up completely avoiding describing the places properly
This addition is actually more accurate to me than the original 🤣
Another year down, 7 more to go.
First day of vacation (I’m not counting the weekend) and I already unclogged my bathroom sink drain and signed up to attend an in-service course on Wednesday.
Maybe I’ll even get around to checking, fixing (or at least attempting to), and putting away my Christmas tree lights today.
always bothers me when "improvements" to unhealthy diets are all about taking tasty things away rather than ADDING new things. like. add new tastes and new flavours and MORE NUTRIENTS and vitamins
there was some awful show on for encouraging middle class mothers to take their eating disorders out on their children and it was like "oh well, this snack doesn't taste as good as my usual one, but it's healthier"
so get one that??? actually tastes as good?
like this thing of. you know this food that you like and enjoy eating? why don't you toss all that out and eat stuff you don't enjoy as much or want to eat?
that's unhinged to me.
like i just think the process of discovering newer, healthier foods should be ADDITIVE, where you're exploring new tastes alongside your usual ones, slowly broadening your palate and your preferences, rather than punishing yourself for "unhealthy" food
(CW eating disorders)
god i feel so strongly about this bc i could not figure out how to strike a balance between “eating foods that make me feel good” and “not relapsing back into disordered eating habits” until i switched my mindset from “i need to remove unhealthy foods from my diet” to “i need to figure out which foods makes me feel good and add them to my diet”
examples:
moving from “i want a snack. chips sound really good, but i can’t eat chips because they’re unhealthy, so i guess i just won’t eat anything” to “i want a snack. chips sound really good, so i’m gonna eat some, but because i haven’t had any fruits or veggies today, i’m gonna eat some grapes with them”
moving from “i’m craving a burger and fries from mcdonald’s, but that’s unhealthy, so i’m just gonna eat some plain brown rice and grilled chicken even though those don’t sound good” to “im craving mcdonald’s, but last time i ate that it upset my stomach, so i don’t think eating it would make me feel good. but i think what my craving is telling me is that i need carbs and protein, so how about i make some steak and mashed potatoes for dinner?”
moving from “i’m in too much pain to cook tonight, but frozen food is unhealthy, so i just won’t eat anything” to “im in too much pain to cook tonight, so im gonna eat a frozen meal, but im gonna add some pre-cooked chicken and frozen spinach to it because i think the protein and veggies will make my body feel good”
and honestly this has been so much better for me and i feel so much better both physically and mentally than when i was just focused on “i can’t eat anything that’s Unhealthy”
I've also found that if I'm DESPERATELY craving sugar or want to eat ALL THE CARBS RIGHT NOW, it's almost always because I haven't eaten enough that day, or haven't eaten recently enough, and my body is trying to get me to pay attention to the fact I need some energy ASAP.
So it can be useful for me to go "well, I just realized I haven't eaten in six hours, so how about I make a sandwich and see how I feel, and then I can ALSO have some cookies if I still want some" instead of just having the cookies and feeling bad and headachey later because I didn't have any protein or anything with it. Sometimes I still want a cookie, and sometime I don't, but I don't get that gross sugar bonk feeling.
I'm glad to see a post like this on my dashboard. Some important insights:
- Taking away food unless for something like allergies or the above reason of the food upsetting your stomach is rarely, if ever, the answer
- Whether you eat a plain avocado or guacamole with chips, you still ate an avocado in both instances. The avocado didn't get cancelled out. No matter how you eat something, you are still receiving that food's nutrients
- Eating vegetables and fruits in an appetizing way to you is far better and far healthier than never eating those fruits or vegetables at all
- Every food can be part of a "healthy diet." There is no such thing as an "unhealthy food." Cake still gives your body nutrients even though society has demonized it. Your body needs fats and carbohydrates.
- If your body is craving sugar, it's almost certainly because you have been restricting sugar. "Sugar addiction" doesn't exist. When you hold your breath and restrict oxygen, gulping for air after you stop holding your breath is not because you have an oxygen addiction. It's because you restricted something your body needs to survive and it is now desperately trying to get back what was taken away for that period of time. The problem of the restriction-binge cycle is not the binge, it's the restriction.
- Intuitive eating is incredibly important. It's what we are born to do, listening to what our bodies tell us. When you intuitively eat, your body regulates its food intake and diet on its own. Please research it and give it a try! It's the act of eating without diet culture and is necessary in order to eliminate disordered eating. Intuitive eating can also be adjusted according to your health needs. And for people who struggle with feeling hunger indicators due to something like ADHD or past eating disorders, a method that can help is setting reminders to eat periodically throughout the day.
- Eating anything at all is always better than starvation. Always.
- Food and exercise have been proven to have little actual effect on weight. Weight is not a calculation of food minus exercise. There are so many factors that decide a person's weight. Intentional weight loss has even been proven to be so unsustainable that 95% of people who lose weight gain it all back and often more than what they started with in 3-5 years. And that is even if they "did everything the right way" and "had the willpower." No amount of dieting, starving, exercising, weight loss pills, surgeries, etc. will make you thin forever if your body was never meant to be thin.
- The most important fact on this list: Fatness is not bad in the first place. Fatness is not a death sentence. Fatness is not ugly or even proven to cause ill health (any researcher can tell you that correlation and causation are not the same and should never, ever be equated to each other, and I can especially tell you that after taking my graduate level research course). Whatever you are doing to chase or maintain thinness is not only useless but usually ends up resulting in the ill health you fear. Ending diet culture also means ending fatphobia. Fat people deserve respect, positive representation, kindness, compassion, and to be treated with humanity just like thin people are.
Yeah, I thought about addressing that since frozen food is often the most accessible food for people at risk of not eating at all plus the fact that frozen food isn't evil either. I guess I forgot to. I'm assuming maybe the person was referring to frozen food having like extra salt added to help the taste or how, from what I've heard, fresh vegetables have more of their nutrients compared to when they're frozen. But frozen food is still good, a "healthy diet" can still consist of just frozen food, and frozen vegetables are still vegetables with nutrients. It is completely morally neutral to eat frozen food, just like how it's morally neutral to eat any other food.
Re: frozen foods. When I started buying frozen veg instead of fresh, i started eating way more vegetables because they didn't rot out in my fridge before I got around to cooking them. Now I grab a handful of frozen spinach to add to my eggs or roast some frozen broccoli when I want and it's great. No more ooops i want to eat a vegetable but it's growing mold.
Another year down, 7 more to go.
Tag Ten People You Want to Get to Know Better
Thanks to @chicgeekgirl89 for the tag!
Relationship Status: Married with 1 child (aka my husband).
Song stuck in my head: I’m Alright by Kenny Loggins
Last song I listened to: I’m Alright by Kenny Loggins. Funny how t hat works, huh?
Three favourite foods: Pizza, chocolate, and I can’t come up with a third (clearly I’m burned out).
Last thing I Googled: How to spell “Loggins.”
Dream trip: Anything that I don’t have to plan. Or pay for. Or spend a long time travelling to.
Anything I want right now: Either a new job that I actually like and for more money in the same field that would still allow me to retire in 2030, or for it to be 2030.
If you could be any animal, what would you be and why? A cat. I’d love to have that kind of attitude and everyone would just accept it. Plus people leave you alone if you give them “that look.”
Would you rather have the power to read minds or fly? Fly. That might solve my dream trip issue….
Tagging @mashmaiden (did you do it already? I can’t remember) @sassyzazzi@cbetham
2x20 “The Job” ➔ 5x03 “Omni”
I do believe that this moment in The Job is the first time Deeks calls Kensi “Kens.”
Feelings Wheel
This is the feelings wheel by Geoffrey Roberts, shown to me by my therapist. My initial thought was, "what amazing synonyms to use for diverse emotional vocabulary!"
More than that, this wheel is great for understanding your characters inner motivations and reactions to situations. For example, if a character constantly feels helpless, then their overarching characteristics will be that they are fearful.
Characters who are less emotionally aware may use words and act in the inner most circle. Those much more aware of their emotions may describe themselves or express and use words from the outer most circle.
Hopefully you guys find this as helpful as I did! Let me know down in the comments.
Happy Writing!
Just thinking that Kensi probably is in her second trimester right about now. Maybe she has a little bump. And Deeks is most definitely playing his favorite John Denver songs through head phones for the baby. Gotta start them early.
I am of the mind that she will have twins (they are more common in women of “advanced maternal age,” which Kensi is). So maybe more than a little bump by now….?
I also think Deeks started talking to the babies the night of Callen and Anna’s wedding. He waited for Kensi to fall asleep and then scooched to the middle of the bed, put his head near her flat belly, introduced himself as daddy, and just started talking. He’s done it every night since and Kensi pretends to sleep for most of them, falling in love with Deeks even more every time.
Deeks only plays John Denver songs for now, since he knows Kensi won’t object to them. But he fully plans to introduce them to his favorite musical theatre scores once he can have them all to himself.
FREEBIES
Hello hello, it's me!
Before listing all my freebies so far, I want to announce the new image of Souls Collide! After over two years, I've decided to give it a makeover and changed the color palette, the fonts, the logo, and the banner! I hope you like it. Also, I am organizing my posts and trying to make them as easy as possible to be found if you're searching for a specific item or master post. (That's one of the reasons I'm making this post, to list all my freebies so far.)
Pro tip: search for #2scfreebies to find out more about my freebies!
THE WRITER'S WORKBOOK
PLOTDECK - CARD GAME FOR WRITERS
AUTHOR'S CORNER - NOTION TEMPLATE
WRITING GAME - 7 DAYS
MY LIBRARY - READING JOURNAL
Disclaimer: all of these items are digital products! As soon as you grab them, you'll have access to them.
That's everything for now! Feel free to reblog or recommend this post to a friend who'd love to grab one of these freebies (or all of them!).
What generation do you belong to
Generation Alpha
Generation Z
Millenials
Generation X
Baby boomers
Silent Generation
See ResultsAdded Generation Alpha because maybe there are some 13 year olds on this site and added Silent Generation because maybe there are some 80 year olds on here too
Anonymous asked:
How bad is the air quality in NYC? The pictures I've seen online are quite alarming. I hope you are staying indoors as much as possible.
typingtess answered:
The last few days have not been pleasant. Wednesday was awful. Thursday was better and today is better than that. Wednesday, however, looked like end times.
Was inside for a lot of it, thank you for asking! It was so much worse for people who have outside jobs in construction, working as first responders - terrible.
I work with young children a bit east of NYC and several of my students were pretty anxious during dismissal. You could smell the smoke and the sky was yellow. Like something out of a movie.
I can’t imagine what people who live closer are experiencing.
hi hi hi what’s your favorite type of pie
apple
pumpkin
sweet potato
blueberry
raspberry
lemon
other
i don’t eat/like pie/see results
See Results
Something that just made me laugh:
If Sam does reveal Densi having a girl or boy in Hawaii and then LA gets a reboot with Gemmill as the showrunner he’ll have to cater the show around someone else’s idea.
Nah, he’ll just change it and say the kid was undercover as the other gender. For security purposes.
Or that’s the cover story people not in their inner circle are told. For security purposes.
And the kid’s gonna go to school at the mission. For security purposes. LOL!
I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test
I’m in the last 47.33%
I shouldn’t have taken that test
Am I fucking stupid LMAO
wait im curious
do you wash your hair daily?
yes, twice actually (what the fuck)
yes.
yes, but only a rinse. i actually wash it every other day.
no, i only wash it every other day.
no, i wash it [insert timeframe here] / other
I don't have hair
See Resultsthis is excluding special circumstances (after going swimming, after doing a hairstyle with lots of product, before/after getting your hair done, etc)!