How about neither?
What about food AND meth?
Personally, I’ve never found happiness in a McDonalds bag. It usually leaves me feeling ill.
you shouldn’t worry about being skinny, only not being fat. the goal should be to avoid the bad thing (being fat, in this case meaning only fat to the point of unhealthiness) not to be the opposite because that is bad too (being excessively skinny can cause just as many issues). as long as you aren’t at the point one way or the other where it is hurting your health nobody actually cares. also I’m aware op was joking but some of y’all need to hear this.
To ammend even further: Health neither stops nor starts at weight in almost any case. Far better strategies for self care will instead look at:
- Cardiovascular fitness (resting heart rate, blood pressure, etc)
- Energy levels, blood sugar and sleep
- Immunity, inflammation, stress
More broad attention to these three rough categories is going to be way more positive than worrying about the single metric of weight or BMI. Doctors may recommend a raise or lowering of weight, but for ALMOST EVERY person that’s only as a means to the end of improving one or more of the broader cardio, energy, and immunity mechanisms.
Any tips on taking care of your immunity, inflammation and energy level?
find new ways to enjoy or prepare fresh fruits and veggies, get cardiovascular exercise, bonus points if in the sun for vitamin d, avoid stress when possible, sleep 7 hours when possible, avoid smoking, alcohol in excess, and other substances that put strain on your body. take care of yourself emotionally and find time to be with people you love. drink water!
no one will be able to do all of these perfectly always and it is normal to struggle attain most or even any. but they are more precise and beneficial targets than “gain or lose weight” and they have much more immediate and noticeable outcomes :)
In addition to what others have said, cut back on the sugar.
Stop eating processed foods. That’s what my doctor told me, and when I started taking the effort to make food from raw ingredients, not only did I start feeling a lot better in general, but my wife and I also learned a valuable life skill. Just the other day, she made chicken alfredo entirely from scratch, and it was amazing.
I didn’t realize how bad I was feeling until I stopped eating so much processed stuff and started feeling better. I was so used to feeling like shit, that my body just thought that was how people normally felt. I had no idea people were walking around feeling this good, and having this much energy.
I would say most comes from eating a healthy diet and not smoking or drinking.
Also at least some movement throughout the day definitely helps.
Feels like a pyramid to me. If I don’t have good sleep and good hydration I struggle mightily to control my food intake, and if I’m eating too much then I’m aching so badly and feeling so sluggish that I barely get anywhere at the gym.
To add to this: pretty much nobody thinks skinny people are attracted. It’s a constructed ideal that many want to achieve, but few want to see in a potential partner.
Source: used to be skinny and bullied for it
Btw it also feels like shit. You’re tired all the time, you’re cold all the time, when you sit on something solid, like wood, it hurts because there’s no fat between your pelvis and the chair, and that’ll give you back pain.
Just thought this was relevant because ‘it’s unhealthy’ is sometimes too abstract for people to care
Be happy because the way things are going, skinny is choosing you.
This is the way. Be happy before the skinny strikes.
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You can still eat junk food and not go up in weight as long as you don’t overeat
This has been my tactic for the last few years. Doesn’t work for everyone, like my ex spouse couldn’t handle it. I keep rough track of calories and if I have a craving for trash I either eat less of it and supplement with low calorie stuff to still feel full, or do a bunch of extra exercise that day
Conversely, though, remember that unhealthy nutritional choices can mess with your immunity, cause inflammation, and really screw with your day-to-day energy and sleep. Nutrition is always a story performed on a much more complicated stage than weight=calories in - calories out! (Though that equation is a good signpost that guides the plot.) See https://lemmy.cafe/comment/9956540
Yes, but when it comes to weight, it really is just calories in and calories out. A healthy diet is more than that though, indeed
Eating healthy sucks if you don’t know how to cook.
As someone who has been both, happy is easier when skinny than it is when fat. There is that popular mantra “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”.
You could also replace “skinny” with young here. I was skinny and athletic when I was young, and now I’m slightly overweighted less athletic working WAY more to keep down my weight and health good and damn I’d be so happy to be able to chuck down a kebab a day still 😭
Sort of, but skinny when older still makes it easier to be happy. I am only 41 so far, but in hanging out with people older than me, it still held pretty consistent for them.
The main problem, of course, is that losing weight (or not putting it on in the first place) is not straightforward. So many people will tell you to “just simply…” not how it works. It’s complex as hell and varies a surprising amount from person to person. You could go to multiple experts for help before finding a solution for everything that was in your way specifically. But everyone acts like it should just be a simple thing “you just aren’t balancing your input and output”, or whatever their one simple trick is.
There could be any of hundreds of things in the way.
Cheese then meat?
I think there’s a second patty under the cheese
But…but… The lettuce is on top too.
Lettuce is a topping. It goes on top.
Blasphemy. Lettuce is the bed to keep the bottom bun from getting soggy.
Put a fat like mayonnaise or butter on the bottom bun to protect it from moisture. Lettuce doesn’t belong on burgers; it will either wilt from the heat or cool the burger.
Eating that will not make you happy.
It will give you at best a brief moment of pleasure, but the pain it will bring later is not worth it!
It’s not just ONE burger–that is yet another burger. An element of self-harm, another step on a journey that takes you FURTHER away from who you want to be! Don’t take it! Draw the line! Let this be the moment you STOPPED the trek toward ruin!
Skipping this one is not depriving you, you’ve had them before; they’re old news. You know what’s GREAT news though? Being able to tie your own shoe laces. Being able to WIPE YOUR OWN ASS. Being able to climb a set of stairs without feeling like you’re about to die. Being able to stand in place without becoming out of breath. Be grateful that you have not crossed those thresholds because YOU STOPPED NOW.
