• Instigate@aussie.zone
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    3 months ago

    Mate; good fuckin’ work. You’re a champion. Looking after yourself is the first step towards looking an after others. Keep it up!

    • pieland@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Looking after yourself is the first step towards looking after others

      that’s been one of my motivations :) i have a wonderful, but very picky senior kitty who has a lot of food allergies and now needs frequent medication. i always worry that if something happens to me, she’ll be put down since she’d be harder to adopt out. not to mention she loves me very much and i don’t want her to be sad. fediverse cat tax?

      i would also love to be in a place where i can have more pets and a family someday

      and i’ve experienced and witnessed a lot of injustice being as sick as i have all these years. i don’t want anyone to go through what i’ve been through. i’ve thought about getting into politics a lot. and i’ve thought about taking another shot at entering the medical field. not in any position where i can work yet, so i still have time to think about all of that.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Same here, although it was more like the first time since 12:45, been carrying all the snacks and drinks today for an afternoon out.

  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Now if you eat a person that weighs 100 pounds you’ll still be under 300 pounds.

    I’m assuming you won’t eat the bones, so I’m not sure how much under 300 pounds you’d be, but that’s a pretty big accomplishment.

    Assuming you want to and will eat a person. I don’t know why you would. I wouldn’t. But that’s the lay of the land for you right now.

    Hell, if you ate Ariana grande you probably wouldn’t even hit your pre weight loss weight.

    Really makes you think, you know?

    Congrats on the weight loss. And for not eating people.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Possibly.

        I wasn’t about to jump to that conclusion.

        People just focus so much on a number on a scale, when the focus should be on being healthy. Sometimes weight is a part of that, sometimes not.

        I’ve met people that couldn’t weigh more than 100lbs soaking wet, yet they’re unhealthy to high hell, and frequently paying the (medical) price for that. Meanwhile, I’ve known people who can’t, by any means, get below 200lbs and they’re in near perfect health.

        Weight does not equal health.

        Being healthy doesn’t require that you are a particular weight.

        • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          I don’t disagree, but there is a so called ‘healthy weight’ which is vastly different for different people. It’s not the be all end all, but it is still an important metric for living a healthy and comfortable life.

          • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I won’t argue with you there.

            My entire point for my comment from earlier is that I don’t know what a “healthy weight” is for that person. I also won’t assume that “under 200lbs” is either above, or below, that amount.

            I didn’t make any assumptions about it. My comment being “if it makes you happy?” Is more of a question of, if being under that weight is bringing you happiness. Because I will neither speculate, nor assume, what a healthy body weight is for that person, and I’m not going to ask for their private medical information on what a healthy weight is, so my only hope is that they’re happy about the change.

            I probably could have said it better, but it would not have been as terse.

            I find that the more terse I can be, the better my comments tend to do. It would seem that most people don’t want to read an entire encyclopedia for an answer to a relatively basic question. The issue I have is that, when I include context, I want to make as few assumptions about the reader as I can. About what they know or don’t know, or if they are familiar with medical terms or caught up in colloquialisms. Clarifying each point to the extent I need to in order to accommodate for those assumptions I am not making, is a verbose task.

            • Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works
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              3 months ago

              I totally get you.

              I was just a bit worried about the ‘healthy at every size’ nonsense that started to appear a few years ago. It’s a dangerous idea and people need to be educated about it.

              I also have no idea what a healthy weight is for OP and won’t be jumping to conclusions.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      My relatives called it ONE-derland, because all the weights start with 1.

      Congrats to the OP! I hope every new resident of ONE-derland got here through healthy means and is here to stay.

  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Oooohhhh yeahhhhhh we going lower or feeling good for now? Well can worry about any of that later maybe after some responsible celebrating :) hehe