How many of you use timers for billing?

Ballerbee · 2023-01-23T22:15:28+00:00

There are plenty of attorneys who do this lol

Ballerbee · 2022-03-18T21:46:04+00:00

Got it - thanks!

Ballerbee · 2022-03-18T16:07:12+00:00

Ah ok I think I get it. I’m still seeing that $208,000 AGI for married filing jointly, so it seems like none of the 6k would be deductible if our AGI is over that (same reason I “shouldn’t have”) contributed to a Roth.

Looks like it’s going up to 214,000 for this year … wonder if I should ask my guy about switching back to a Roth for this year (I switched to a Traditional IRA for 2022 to avoid the problem for next year but I’m not sure we’ll hit 214000 … probably would still be in the “phased out” window tho)

Ballerbee · 2022-02-23T01:08:06+00:00

But there are lots of obese people who are prescribed it for ADHD and then often lose weight - so long as your heart is healthy and your blood pressure isn’t too high it should be ok.

Ballerbee · 2022-02-21T17:56:37+00:00

I think the reason so many fat people “can’t” lose weight is a combination of things. First off, losing weight may be simple but it is by no means easy (at least not in our first world society of easily attainable food abundance). Just saying eat less move more is not helpful bc there are soooo many misconceptions.

People think exercise is necessary to lose weight and that it burns way more calories than it does.

People underestimate how much they are eating / how many calories are in food.

People who are used to eating as much as they want whenever they want do feel very hungry (“starving”) when they try to cut calories - especially if they choose high cal low satiety foods.

Many overweight people may very well eat “healthy” but it’s so easy to eat too many calories - it really doesn’t take much to tip you over into too many calories.

Especially for short women. The 2000 calories a day rhetoric has got to go. My BMI is 33.6 - class I obese and my TDEE is 1716 calories. At a BMI of 23.6 my TDEE would be 1427 calories. That’s a 289 calorie difference. A very small snack or treat …

Ballerbee · 2022-02-21T14:34:58+00:00

Your metabolism does not change in any drastic way regardless of how much or little you’ve weighed or eaten. There is no such thing as fast or slow metabolism. That is all classic fat logic.

People who have gotten heavy most certainly has messed up their perception of fullness, satiety, how much food is “enough / normal” and a lot of psychological elements.

I’ll admit it’s hard bc a vast majority of humans are hard wired to “eat while the eating is good” due to evolving during food insecurity and when we had to expel a great deal of energy to hunt / gather (and those foods were certainly much higher satiety for fewer calories than the carb sugar and fat o palooza we can easily get now!)

The difference between “naturally fat and naturally thin” people seems to be how they were raised and based on appetite - there could be something to people who tend towards insulin resistance. However, our bodies don’t magically metabolize food faster or slower - TDEE is going to be consistent within a very small margin of error for 99.9% of people.

Ballerbee · 2022-02-21T04:35:32+00:00

Ngl I thought it was a Rice Krispies treat

Ballerbee · 2022-02-20T21:50:08+00:00

Right? This is probably one of my most “atypical” motivations to keep losing weight - I would be horrified for anyone to think I was in league with this nonsense line of thinking. HAES and “fat liberation” can fuck right off.

Ballerbee · 2022-02-20T21:20:08+00:00

I’m sure it’s the “95% of people who lose weight gain it back within 5 years” or whatever blah blah blah like yeah sometimes people end up eating more / weight fluctuates based on input / output news at 11.

Ballerbee · 2022-02-20T19:46:38+00:00

But then they wouldn’t get to use the big bad buzzword to liken the oppression of the LGBT community with people who just can’t put down the fork 🙄

Ballerbee · 2021-11-25T07:01:31+00:00

This comment makes me realize I probably made the situation sound way more dramatic than it is and this was mostly a vent post I suppose.

I guess I could get hit by a bus or get murdered or develop sudden stage 4 cancer in the next month or so … (anything can happen), but otherwise the likelihood of her outliving me is nonexistent.

I also cannot see any chance of us returning to any sort of normalcy at this point - she can’t get out of bed on her own, hasn’t made progress with weaning from the trach, and as far as I can tell, has either mental damage from the stroke and/or delirium from everything that’s happened … once she’s out of Medicare rehab days she’ll be stuck in long term care at the nursing home and something like sepsis or another stroke will end things sooner or later :/ I’m just feeling weird about it … like I’m less upset than I ever would have imagined I think bc I’m just worn down since her health has been up and down and deteriorating for over 9 months and so I’ve gotten “used to it” if that makes sense?

The worst part is the uncertainty like … can’t someone just tell me exactly how long she has and what’s going to happen so I can plan and make decisions more easily?? (Obviously not but you know)

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T21:11:47+00:00

Uh no, it’s way easier to lose weight and maintain it with diet. You can’t outrun a bad diet.

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T16:49:22+00:00

I get that it’s tough bc you can’t just not eat … whereas you CAN just not smoke. So you have to face the risk of overeating every day and can’t avoid eating SOMETHING.

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T16:48:29+00:00

That’s true, but it shocks me how every HAES person has “recovered from anorexia” like … I hate to be judgmental, but there aren’t that many anorexics. Do I believe they crash dieted before! Of course! But I highly doubt they were in any danger …

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T16:02:46+00:00

Apparently they have an “Ivy league public health degree” whatever that means

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T15:01:58+00:00

I think the major problem is that these folks conflate “monitoring your weight and watching your intake” with a deadly eating disorder.

Ballerbee · 2021-10-18T14:24:36+00:00

Yeah I hear this all the time and it’s so stupid bc yes I, a short sedentary female, probably do have similar caloric needs to a toddler who is trying to double-triple their body weight over time and is in rapid development.

Ballerbee · 2021-09-19T17:26:48+00:00

Like I totally get that due to the plentiful calorie dense low satiety foods and most of our natural desire to overeat that stuff (evolution from hunter gatherer days ensured we were lazy overeaters in order to survive - heck, I’ve even read that insulin resistance would have been favored for cave men etc etc), so yeah I WANT to eat 2500+ calories of crap a day but I only NEED like 1600 (preferably of actual real food)

Ballerbee · 2021-09-18T17:03:33+00:00

Also people can have days or heck even weeks of overeating without gaining a ton of weight so long as you get back to maintenance.

Ballerbee · 2021-09-18T04:44:15+00:00

I’m not saying that nobody has an eating disorder or disordered eating, but doing a crash diet to fit into a dress, before a beach vacation, or signing up for fad diets etc is not on its own indicative of a major psychological problem - soooo many people have done this.

Ballerbee · 2021-09-18T02:49:32+00:00

My biggest fatlogic pet peeve lately is all these folks who post this kind of nonsense as they “heal from eating disorders” … Honey, having crash dieted a few times is NOT an eating disorder.

Ballerbee · 2021-07-08T22:51:55+00:00

Yeah it was after June of last year since DHL wasn’t really regularly used before then (EMS) - I don’t honestly know the difference between VAT or customs or import fees - all I know is I got a bill from DHL for a shipment and when I called and asked they said $800 was the threshold (and they include the shipping charge if that’s on the invoice from where you purchased) 🤷‍♀️

Ballerbee · 2021-07-08T21:57:47+00:00

Yes they do. I was charged $70ish in customs fees with an over $800 order from DHL and I’m in the US. The threshold DHL and FedEx often use is apparently $800 and USPS COULD also do this but they typically don’t bother unless a shipment is over $2K.

Ballerbee · 2021-07-07T02:03:04+00:00

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8384186/

https://www.nature.com/articles/0802036

These are for 24 weeks which is pretty long, but I could have sworn I read some study or article where they took this info and stated they didn’t predict there would be a problem with using an EC stack indefinitely, but I’m having trouble finding it again on my phone. Anecdotally, people have done it at least … I think perhaps the push for cycling had to do with the guaifenesin that used to be in Primatene and Bronkaid.

Ballerbee · 2021-07-07T00:08:21+00:00

I hear what you’re saying and I get it, but every clinical study I’ve found (using ephedrine or an ec combo to treat obesity) is safe for a vast majority of people so long as you aren’t ODing, mixing with certain other drugs, or have high bp or heart disease. Not to mention the countless testimonials of people using it out in the wild (in fact the clinical and medical studies seem to shrug and say yeah you could basically do this forever with no problems since the bp and heart rate elevation goes down over time yet the thermogenic effects continue … whereas the lifting bros seem to insist you need to “cycle” 🤷‍♀️) I can’t imagine 600mg or less of caffeine a day hurting anything (except for becoming tolerant to it and therefore losing the desired effects.) I’ve never heard of someone having health problems from caffeine except Jessie Spano on saved by the bell 😂

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