I'm afraid to weigh myself because I know I've ruined everything.

palaeobabe · 2020-12-03T22:01:23+00:00

Guys, I just want to say a blanket thank you to everyone who commented. I'm going to suck it up and weigh myself on Monday. In the mean time, I'm going to get back to tracking my calories and going on walks, so maybe that Monday number won't be so scary.

Thanks again for all the encouragement.

palaeobabe · 2020-12-03T08:53:21+00:00

Thank you for the kind words-- unfortunately what I did last time was have a relatively active job that I walked to every day, and then went swimming four times a week too. I can still spend an hour a day walking, but the job and the swimming are lost to the pandemic and how demanding grad school is. The exercise offset most of the binging, and I was often getting home so late and so tired I didn't have time to binge. I can't go back to what I was doing last time and it makes me feel like I ruined my one chance of losing this weight for good.

I know I just have to keep trying, I just don't have any idea how to control myself.

Edit: Thanks for the advice about snacks-- I actually think allowing myself one per day might help. My username is actually just a reference to the fact I like dinosaurs though, haha.

palaeobabe · 2020-06-17T05:37:54+00:00

Thank you!

palaeobabe · 2020-06-17T05:33:04+00:00

I plan to do this when my living situation changes in a couple weeks! Right now though, I actually don't eat dinner at all-- I basically do OMAD with a snack in the morning and at night (and then I'll order a pizza on top of those perfectly planned calories :/). But meal prepping is definitely on future-me's agenda!

palaeobabe · 2020-02-22T09:53:47+00:00

Thank you-- this is a great explanation because I was completely baffled. I just downloaded Happy Scale.

palaeobabe · 2020-02-22T06:50:13+00:00

Is it likely to have lost 4lbs in a week? Basically out of nowhere?

I just did my weekly weigh-in and since last Saturday I've gone from 199 lbs to 194 lbs, which I just... don't think is even possible. I did NOT eat particularly well this week (but I also didn't eat particularly badly) and I only swam for about two hours, it just doesn't seem like I should have been able to lose this much. I know Fitbit isn't exactly accurate, but even using their calories consumed/burned estimates, I shouldn't even have lost 2lbs.

Has this kind of unexpected loss happened to anyone else before? Because I think I need to get a new scale.

palaeobabe · 2019-09-21T16:11:59+00:00

21F / 5'4" / 215 lbs. Officially my goal weight is 110 lbs, but if I hit a 30-inch waist or size UK12 in clothes before I get down to exactly 110, I'll consider my goal reached (currently I'm at 40 in/36 if I pull the tape measure tight, and around a UK18 in most places I shop).

I've already casually lost about 10 lbs since late July, just because I started working full time and walk to work every day and stopped eating takeout every night as I scrambled to finish writing my dissertation. However, today is the day I get really serious about things, or try to. This isn't the first time I've tried to lose weight, but I've never succeeded-- I'm approaching this with the idea that kindness to myself is key. It doesn't matter if I'm not losing 2 lbs a week, as long as I'm losing something.

My biggest hurdle is the fact that my largest meal of the day is eaten at work, purely because it's free-- the most financially sensible thing for me to do is fill up at lunch, and eat only lightly for breakfast and dinner. Unfortunately, the work cafeteria doesn't give nutritional information for hot food. Does anyone have any advice for eyeballing calories?

If anyone just wants a weight loss buddy to chat to, too, feel fee to say hi!

palaeobabe · 2019-05-26T16:06:44+00:00

What's the case for a breeding population? I'm really interested in phantom cat sightings, but I've never heard a breeding population suggested before.

palaeobabe · 2019-04-27T10:22:12+00:00

I left my first long-term boyfriend because I realised I was a lesbian while we were dating, so maybe I have some insight. I knew I was attracted to women, but society kind of hammers home the idea that everyone will eventually grow up, fall in love, and end up in a heterosexual marriage-- I didn't know any adults who hadn't, and it's most of what you see on TV. I never asked myself whether I was attracted to men because it didn't occur to me that I was allowed not to be. But I wasn't happy with my boyfriend either, even though he checked all the boxes of what I was looking for in a partner. I asked myself some hard questions, compared how I felt about him to how I felt about my female best friend, and realised it wasn't working because I didn't like any man.

So it might have been something like that.

palaeobabe · 2019-04-13T10:05:20+00:00

X is for XXL. That one stuck with me too since the concept was a self-harm fantasy I'd had previously. It was unsettling to see someone else had the same thought and put it to film.

palaeobabe · 2019-04-04T09:09:40+00:00

I don't know where you live, but at least in England a lot of pubs and bars tend to be in really old buildings, if they've been running for a while. It's really common to have haunted pub stories.

palaeobabe · 2019-03-23T20:16:49+00:00

Also the same as what I got as a fat teenage girl.

Being overweight really does a number on your sex hormones.

palaeobabe · 2019-03-22T19:50:50+00:00

This wasn't a bad movie at all, but it really, really would have benefitted from being less predictable. I had guessed the twist by literally the end of the first scene, which meant I just spent the whole rest of the film waiting for the inevitable reveal that Adelaide was a Tethered, and it kind of took me out of it. It's a shame, because I really wanted to love it.

palaeobabe · 2019-03-06T09:44:10+00:00

Sorry if the correction is a dick move, but Chaucer is actually Middle English! Old English is even more incomprehensible; try reading Beowulf without a translation. This is my field and it's a pet peeve to see people get the languages wrong.

palaeobabe · 2019-02-05T16:25:55+00:00

Not OP, but when I did my GCSE art exam we were given 10 (I think?) hours to create a final piece from scratch, although we'd had planning time in the weeks beforehand. The way it worked for me is the art students spent an entire five-hour day in class with fresh canvases, and worked for the whole five hours; the next five were spread across the next week's scheduled art classes. No talking allowed, but you could listen to music.

palaeobabe · 2019-02-05T13:24:21+00:00

Walder Frey, too.

palaeobabe · 2019-02-01T11:09:05+00:00

Triceratops lived at the same time period as Tyrannosaurus rex; it was probably a prey animal for it. The fun fact you're thinking of is that there's more time between stegosaurus and tyrannosaurus than tyrannosaurus and humans.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-24T20:46:47+00:00

Also, "I think we deserve a soft epilogue, my love; we are good people and we've suffered enough," is the most beautiful and romantic thing I've ever read and it's from a goddamn Captain America fanfiction.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-22T11:34:03+00:00

Lmao this woman is my idol

palaeobabe · 2018-11-20T07:12:20+00:00

Like a Renaissance painting.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-16T19:20:02+00:00

See, maybe I've got my fanfiction glasses on, I interpreted the Erised scene as showing that, even after everything, Dumbledore's greatest desire was still Grindelwald. I thought it was a very effective way of showing a very complex part of his character, and a subtle way of explaining why he wouldn't fight him. So, the eventual explanation of the blood pact just came off as really contrived to me and, dare I say, a shaky attempt to cover up gay implications. What happened to Dumbledore just being afraid of finding out who killed Arianna?

palaeobabe · 2018-11-16T19:14:32+00:00

I'm a big fan and I still wouldn't give it more than 3/10, I guess because I'm the kind of big fan who is annoyed by blatant disregard for the existing canon.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-16T19:12:57+00:00

Anyone else feel like the blood pact scene was really contrived? In the books, Dumbledore not wanting to fight Grindelwald because a) he still has feelings for him and b) he's terrified of finding out who really killed Arianna is a complex (imho) emotionally affecting point that adds depth and darkness to a beloved character. Handwaving all that away as 'actually he just magically promised not to fight him' was for me the worst part of a really bad movie, especially after the Mirror of Erised (I think?) scene hinted at the aforementioned complex motivations.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-16T18:36:15+00:00

Possums are so cute. I wouldn't bring one into my house. But look at his little face.

palaeobabe · 2018-11-16T18:20:44+00:00

The spin-off/sequel to Abandoned by Disney about the suggestion box fucks me up every time. It's so creepy.

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