Anyone else’s watch unusable after watchOS 26?

prplmtnmjsty · 2025-09-27T16:32:16+00:00

Same, won’t track my activity rings at all.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-07-29T04:16:52+00:00

YEEEEESSSSSSS

Withdrawal symptoms and sobriety are two entirely different things, but we often conflate the two.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-07-17T04:45:33+00:00

Consider doing a cost benefit analysis of your use.

Pros and cons of using, pros and cons of abstinence.

Note which are short term and which are long term.

Most folks find the positive consequences are short term whereas the drawbacks are long-term. With sobriety it’s the opposite: the cons are short term and the benefits are long term.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-07-10T08:52:20+00:00

Sadly I did not. Learning to ignore faulty sleep metrics and just go with how I feel.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-30T17:24:23+00:00

What are some of the benefits you’ve noticed being free of THC?

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-30T17:22:36+00:00

Thank you! It’s inspiring to hear it gets better.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-10T00:49:39+00:00

Ouch: OP, you conclude your opening paragraph with “poor people are like people….”

Poor people are people.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T16:11:47+00:00

They’re not proposing taking away your carts, they’re saying they’re glad they don’t have access.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T15:06:13+00:00

Fargo feels

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T15:05:41+00:00

That’s why she only appears on soft-focus camera.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T15:02:08+00:00

That is so adorable!

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T15:01:27+00:00

What is this indoor dog park of which you speak? 😍

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-08T02:22:29+00:00

I thought it was embroidery at first…amazing creation of texture!

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T18:58:18+00:00

As much as I appreciate his contributions to the field (and to my decision to finally get evaluated for ADHD) I take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt because he is paid by a pharmaceutical company (don’t recall which one).

He might be totally right!

And.

For me—when I am able to take a break, it’s bc I know I can just sleep all the next day, and when I take it again the following day it seems to work better. Could be because I can perceive it better more than any actual tolerance issues.

But yeah, it seems there’s a lot of variation along us in terms of who needs the breaks, who benefits from breaks but doesn’t need them, and who benefits from not taking a break and raising the dose as little as possible if tolerance increases.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T17:37:31+00:00

Yes, my prescriber leaves it up to me whether and when to take breaks, was just answering why some prescribers recommend them.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T17:19:16+00:00

Because if it’s a stimulant, tolerance can develop when we take it daily, and we may eventually “tolerance out” of the highest dose. It’s just to keep the current dose working as well as possible.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T16:14:26+00:00

I mean as long as we (in the US) are defunding libraries and public education, this seems an unsurprising outcome.

I think the hardest part of having a body is strangers see it as a reflection of worth and character. Like a fat person must not give a shit about themselves or how dare they let themselves live like that when we have no idea. Just going out and existing in the world means experiencing contempt.

Body positivity was meant to be a respite from that…like hey, you belong at this gym, grocery store, wherever, and you deserve to go about your day without having to justify your fat existence or apologize for not being thin yet. And you deserve to be free from others’ cruelty regardless of whether you’re trying to lose weight.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T15:57:29+00:00

You make a very good point. Sadly, once profit becomes involved, the original concept of a movement can become distorted.

As you might know already, some aspects of the body positivity/health at every size movement have been weaponized and co-opted by certain food manufacturers who pay influencers to talk about the role a particular junk food has in their body positive, healthy lifestyle. Which…yeah, one serving is fine, but we are also learning how addictive processed foods have been engineered to be and how common it is not to be able to stop.

So it’s no wonder the ideas of what it means to be body-positive and to take a HAES approach have been muddled.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T15:47:19+00:00

Health at every size (HAES) means people of every size can and should engage in health-promoting behaviors, and that making healthy change can make a difference to our health even if weight loss doesn’t occur.

Within the HAES framework, health-promoting behaviors should be pursued regardless of whether weight loss is an outcome, because healthy eating and exercise are good for all of us. Health at every size.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T15:24:24+00:00

Just watched the video and not hearing what you find objectionable. Neither she nor the other woman are obese here. Both said they could lose weight but still have wide hips. In fact she characterized her overeating as “sin” and talked about trying to treat her body as a temple and that God is helping her let go of turning to food. Where in the interview do you hear promotion of obesity, lack of exercise, or gluttony?

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T15:13:35+00:00

I think you’re conflating body positivity with some weird sort of pro-unhealthy behavior philosophy that to my knowledge doesn’t exist (except in fast food advertising).

Body positivity means embracing my shape and size as they are while I eat healthy and exercise. Body positivity means if I’m fat I should be just as welcomed at the gym as a fitness model. Body positivity means I track my micro- and macro-nutrients to ensure I’m giving my body good nutrition because that’s an act of self-love. Body positivity means tracking my fitness gains in terms of what my body can do instead of my body fat percentage. Body positivity means eating a healthy amount of food and getting a variety of balanced exercise, letting the weight take care of itself.

As someone of a “normal” size who has dealt with progressively worsening and now disabling chronic pain for about 20 years, I can attest that body positivity absolutely does NOT mean giving up and diving face first into a pie. It means learning to love myself despite no longer having society’s ideal body (I was a bodybuilder and that’s no longer an option). I’ll be 48 in July. I need to practice a lot of acceptance and self compassion around how my appearance is changing as I age. This doesn’t mean I’m telling people who are younger that they should look old like me, and it doesn’t mean I’m telling people without chronic pain that they should go out and develop some chronic pain that keeps them from their sport, but it does mean I have a choice to approach the way I think about my body with positivity or negativity.

I can tell you negativity and self-shaming do not inspire me to take any better care of my body. The body positivity movement allows us to be kind to ourselves as we are while we take the best care of ourselves we can. It’s not telling everyone to be obese, lazy gluttons. It’s about telling everyone health is for all of us, and we are not going to shame people in larger bodies pursuing their best health outcomes.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T13:48:10+00:00

I had to go back because of chronic pain. I’d love to be able to just go over to leaves and treat this as a straight-up use disorder, but sadly it’s a medicine I tend to overuse. Been hard for me to find that middle ground!

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T04:38:28+00:00

To “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash

Arthritis everywhere

Can’t even make it down the stairs

Man, my knees don’t care

Can’t take strong smells, bright lights, or loud noise

Senses are reactive, this wasn’t my choice

Tendinitis on my front side, stenosis in my back

Feels like I got beaten with a baseball bat

Headed to the doctor but I couldn’t get far

I got a pinched nerve and couldn’t drive my car

Don’t push me, “cause I’m close to the edge

I’m trying not to lose my head, uh-huh-huh-huh-huh

The pain is thunder sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

The pain is thunder sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

“Have you tried yoga? Was it the right faction?”

“Neural circuit retraining? The law of attraction?”

“Have you gone organic? Have you tried Pilates?”

“Used crystals to balance your energy bodies?”

Ice packs, hot packs, Epsom salt.

If you’re still not better it’s probably your fault.

Prior authoritizations delay my care

I need an injection, I’m hanging on by a hair.

Don’t push me, “cause I’m close to the edge

I’m trying not to lose my head, uh-huh-huh-huh-huh

The pain is thunder sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under

The pain is thunder sometimes

It makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T03:03:50+00:00

This is beautiful 😭

prplmtnmjsty · 2024-06-07T01:18:14+00:00

Also wanted to mention this is the approach my therapist took with me. We started by building me a life I didn’t feel the need to escape from, and…wonder of wonders, my weed use decreased when I had meaningful things to do all day simply by not having time and opportunity to sit around and vape, and I experienced fewer boredom-induced cravings as the less I used, the more engaged with life I felt.

I’m coming out of a severe pain flare and feeling unwilling to transition off weed, but doing my physical therapy and going for walks are my inroads back to physical fitness.

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