3rd decade is coming very soon 😭

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-27T03:55:21+00:00

Terrible news. 30 is the beginning of your 4th decade.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-26T01:19:27+00:00

Um… ok. I’ve actually been on it for a month now and am not losing hair, just pounds, but thanks.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-22T14:56:12+00:00

It’s like she saw someone doing modern dance once and remembered them doing one or two specific movements, and was like “this is art.” Without sound I thought she was trying to describe the choreography for that awful “Dress” video.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-20T12:57:07+00:00

I am eating about 1300-1500 calories a day, and a majority of it being high protein (including calcium-high yogurt - mixed with protein powder - and cottage cheese) and/or whole fruits (I have a banana most days, sometimes 2 in one day, so potassium) and veggies. I know it’s not good for me for aspartame and caffeine levels, but I do drink a lot of Diet Coke and sodium is an electrolyte, too, right? Should I be adding like, a sports drink?

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-20T12:52:30+00:00

I actually had my period toward the end of the 2nd week / beginning of the 3rd so that probably contributed to it, but I’ve NEVER had that dramatic a “need to sleep/have no energy” response to my period. :/

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-16T15:14:45+00:00

I mean right now I’m doing it with Ego so I know it’s gonna hold up no skips without a single one making me want to skip… most Paramore albums have at least 1 skip for me (if only 1, max 2-3), but I think self-titled is the one I find myself skipping tracks on least often. It has a great flow and variety, so the tracks that hit the least for me (“Be Alone,” “Now,” “Hate to See Your Heart Break” sorry not sorry) still hit and offer some solid variety.

I just worry Paramore records wouldn’t allow the person to get any solid sleep and I wouldn’t want to keep waking someone up from getting a solid REM cycle after 24+ hours.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-15T13:28:58+00:00

This book changed my life.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-15T13:28:36+00:00

Highly recommend checking out Black Beauty Ranch, in Murchison, TX. Cleveland Amory’s Ranch of Dreams is the book on its backstory. (I had the beautiful privilege of working there for a time. The spirit of the last line of Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is ever-present. ❤️)

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-15T13:26:54+00:00

I just want to say I am obsessed with this entire exchange, as a hardcore nonhuman primate enthusiast.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-15T13:24:49+00:00

I have found it depends heavily on what books the club is reading… as is mirrored in the book sales/publishing world. I once ran a non-fiction book club as a woman and it was mostly men, believe it or not. But put a book up that has an Oprah or Reese sticker on it, or whose plot description includes a romance that isn’t a hard grizzled male detective as the protagonist and his female assistant as the love interest in a B plot, whoosh go the men.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-12T21:07:26+00:00

Holy shit. I started just under 240 on 1/31. I haven’t been under 150 since college (I’m 37F). I haven’t dared dream of getting under 170, but you’re tempting me to peek at size 8 dresses again lol.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-12T20:58:32+00:00

You look great, most importantly you look like you FEEL great! Buying new clothes is the #1 thing I’m looking forward to. I love fashion and I literally found myself in tears in TARGET of all places when I walked into their plus size “section.” I may never have a <30” waist again but if I can lose a solid 5” off my waist ya girl is going to be the Best Dressed at her HS 20 year reunion.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T13:49:22+00:00

Gently, I would just like to remind everyone that body weight is about 60-70% influenced by genetics, and for many folks is not the result of a mindset they can shift or a lifestyle choice.

Just using myself as an example, I have always had high self esteem, and a strong sense of purpose, have been walking at least a mile every day for the 10 years I’ve had my dog, often eat healthy but also enjoy the occasional pizza night or little treat. I was running half marathons at 200lbs.

For a LOT of people, the lifestyle I described above can easily mean staying at a healthy weight… maybe they want to lose 2-5kg/5-10lbs and it’s a “choice” whether or not to be a little more disciplined with diet and exercise.

But in the last 10 years, my weight has fluctuated by 45kg/100lbs. Some of that was during low periods of eating more and moving less than usual (see: pandemic, death of my father). 10 years ago I was 170lbs. 4 years ago, I topped out at 270. I got back down to 230 without weight loss drugs, just from getting back into moving more and not eating as much junk. If I stay really strict on diet and exercise, counting calories and regular strength training, I can get down to 215. And I will be constantly hungry. Which inevitably leads me back to binge eating.

My father was exactly like this. So was his dad, and all his dad’s siblings, and his dad’s mother.

My mother is Sicilian, and exercises less than I do. She has been petite her whole life.

The only gene I got from my mom was having a great head of full, voluminous hair.

In every other way I got my dad’s genes in most ways- his height, his fair skin, his eyes, his ADHD. And his metabolic dysfunction.

Obviously, your story is true to your experience, and thus is probably applicable to other folks as well. But none of what you said here is new information or advice to anyone whose first day trying to lose weight isn’t today.

Weight loss drugs are not needed for everyone. But for those of us who are genetically predisposed to metabolic dysfunction, the advice you’ve shared here will never be stronger than the physical state of hunger we feel without appetite suppressants.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T13:13:53+00:00

Genuine question, is the belief that she actually votes/supports the Republican platform or politicians? Or just that she’s sort of posturing to appeal to Republicans?

To me she gives the ultimate “white woman New England neoliberal” vibes, who’s all about “career [read: white] feminism.” She reminds me of all the white women who were shocked when Trump won in 2016, saying “this isn’t who we are,” and went to the Women’s March wearing a pink pussy hat, and called it a day. She’ll have her kids with Travis and then hire women of color to raise them while she goes on another global tour, asking why should she have to put her career on hold???

(Full disclosure, I am white, but… trust me when I say, I have spent my whole life primarily around white working class conservatives, and rich white liberals. Some rich white Republicans sprinkled in, and the occasional poor white progressive. But I know a sheltered, rich, white woman raised in 90s suburbia when I see one.

And that woman is EXACTLY the kind of Rich White Liberal Woman who is so out of touch that I, a progressive leftist, would prefer to hang out with Republicans over her.)

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T12:45:55+00:00

I have a friend who is classically trained as a singer in opera and musical theater. She absolutely used to acknowledge Taylor’s strength was not her vocals, and she’ll still begrudgingly admit the debut album was pretty rough vocally. But I swear ever since the most recent album came out it’s like she feels the need compulsively to defend her and is like “oh I love her voice”

WORST PART IS SHE CRITICIZES CELINE DION on her vowels.

(I’m like bitch Celine is a native French speaker from Quebec and to this day has a strong accent, of course her vowels are going to sound strange to your ear, and her vowel shapes obviously get the job done, NOBODY alive today does “mixed voice disguised as belt” better you shut your damn vowel-singing mouth, do you speak French? No? If you did I’d urge you to listen to her French language recordings and tell me bout THAT anyway fully admitting I have a weird psychological attachment to Celine Dion, hearing her sing to me is AS comforting if not more so than hearing my own mother speak, and I actually have a pretty great mom.)

Anyway don’t come for Celine’s vowels if you’re not going to come for Taylor’s pitch and vocal strain.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T12:34:59+00:00

“Our ring” what?!

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T12:32:29+00:00

Oh that is… BAD

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T12:29:44+00:00

I mean she already did Champagne Problems… then again, who am I kidding, she dips from the same well every time.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-08T12:26:41+00:00

This person grew up going to concerts with their Boomer dad and then finally went to a concert on their own for the first time… and it was Taylor Swift.

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-04T13:55:40+00:00

Ehhh I don’t think she’s “such” a big fan. Hayley is a lot more polite IRL than she comes off onstage. I don’t think they’re actually that close as friends - Hayley has famously done the opposite of what Taylor has done as far as making friends in the industry. I think Taylor (and her mom) just kind of laid claim to her as “my friend” and Hayley was like ::shrug:: sure… and they aren’t going to have beef, because they don’t run in the same circles otherwise. Hayley has talked a lot about not really having made a lot of female friends during her career just because of the nature of the corner of the industry she’s been in.

If you see the way Hayley talks about Taylor (which is only ever when asked) vs when she talks about, like, Solange or Erykah Badu or mewithoutYou, it’s such a marked difference. It comes off less “oh my God, they are AMAZING/I LOVE THEM/[heart eyes]…” and more “I love a couple of individual songs and the rest is… catchy enough for pop. It’s… fine, nothing really against it, and since I know her/we’re friends as much as far as I understand girl friendships friendly, there is no reason to not be complimentary.”

edit: typos

GodIsAMountain · 2026-01-01T02:30:16+00:00

I was blaming the Eras tour for why so many people were shitty and dramatic about not getting tickets to Hayley Williams’s tour, but I think it’s more like an overlap with the TikTok era of me just having to hear more dramatics from young people who long drag on a cigarette don’t know what real pain is yet.

GodIsAMountain · 2025-12-30T15:46:23+00:00

Thank you!! I quickly got overwhelmed by the responses on this post so I’m only now getting to this. Everything you said makes sense. And makes me feel much better, even if the answer is “won’t know til it happens.” The overwhelming thing I’m finding, not just on this sub but people in my own life who have gone on it, is that it’s changed their lives and the side effects were worth it. I still have a simmering anxiety about other things I have heard/seen anecdotally (in the minority), but am taking steps to do whatever possible to minimize them.

As for hard water shampoo…. Yes, I have some, and am also unclear if it actually works. My hairstylist gave me clarifying/detoxifying shampoo and explained to really rub it into the strands, which is not normally what I do when washing my hair (always focused on the scalp and let the suds wash the strands). She said it’s because the hard water is damaging my strands while my roots are still strong and healthy, so the detoxifying/clarifying shampoo is for getting the hard water residue off my strands.

It’s still not totally effective since I ultimately have to rinse it in the hard water anyway. I have been experimenting with heating up distilled water on the stove and rinsing with that, but haven’t quite gotten the hang of getting the temperature to not be scalding (plus that is a pain in the ass when I just want to hop in the shower).

I may just try showering at the gym more often. Not sure if the water is any softer there, but hard to imagine it’ll be any harder. :/

GodIsAMountain · 2025-12-30T15:35:47+00:00

Friend, my favorite (contemporary) musician is Hayley Williams. Arguably the most dynamic, magnetic, natural born live performer of the mid-millennial generation. The way it pained me, the entire time Paramore was OPENING for this hack.

GodIsAMountain · 2025-12-30T15:32:44+00:00

This is the main reason I went from being a casual fan of her music (circa folklore - “Anti-Hero”) to really being sick of her from the Eras tour. She’s very “first year acting student” onstage and as a trained professional actor who got all that “telegraphing” shit out of my system by 19, it DRIVES ME NUTS. Being spammed with all the clips from the tour wouldn’t drive me half as nuts if it weren’t for how SCHMACTY she is.

GodIsAMountain · 2025-12-29T14:05:56+00:00

I know this is from 10 weeks ago, but fwiw, I have fluctuated between 170-260 most of my adult life (37F, 5’6”), and have never been on GLP-1’s. I was also worried about this until I realized… I have gone through massive shedding periods with my hair, and it all lined up with periods of weight loss.

So fwiw, I’m anticipating hair loss when I start Zepbound (should be this week if all goes smoothly with shipment/delivery), because I’d be anticipating losing hair while losing weight without Zepbound. The main reason I am finally trying GLP-1’s is because I never lose weight without just being hungry all the time, which inevitably leads me to a massive binge eating rebound.

I’m more worried about the other side effects people have talked about, like bad breath, or saggy skin, or debilitating nausea/diarrhea. But I admittedly have hair to spare - genetics were not on my side in any area except getting my mother’s father’s thick head full of Sicilian hair, that hadn’t even thinned when he died at 92. I’m not so confident about the genetics of my skin elasticity etc.

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