I like that Tess Holliday's fat positivity gives support to a choice I made many years ago: to use the word "fat" as my tag for the topic of being fat. I've been criticized for using the word as if the word itself is an insult. "Thin" isn't considered an insult. Likewise, "skinny." Say "fat" for fat.
July 1, 2018
"Holliday identifies as a fat woman; we chose to give her a platform because she has insightful things to say about thriving in a world that devalues bodies of size."
I like that Tess Holliday's fat positivity gives support to a choice I made many years ago: to use the word "fat" as my tag for the topic of being fat. I've been criticized for using the word as if the word itself is an insult. "Thin" isn't considered an insult. Likewise, "skinny." Say "fat" for fat.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 222 of 222" I’m guessing you’re referring to an EP lab."
They are still cath labs. This particular one had been built for the physiology guy. Others were for cardiac angiograms.
Now there are cath labs for endovascular procedure and even such things as transvenous valve replacement.
That article is four years old. They were doing this when I was still teaching then.
Lots of cath labs. All they have in common is lots of fluoro and sterility.
Tess Holliday's health is none of your business.
That's hard to square with the existence of a health care system dependent on taxpayer funding.
Autonomy is to be expected when one takes full responsibility for the consequences of that autonomy. (That means money, Tess.) If someone else foots the bill, you ain't autonomous, and you should not expect taxpayers to tolerate your habits.
Dust Bunny Queen, fyi, you are actually eating a decent amount of carbs. 35 grams would be considered low. 50-75 a maintenance moderate level. I'm sure you are into the well over 100 and maybe into the 200's some days.
If your husband needs the pill, that is the proof of it. The pill is to regulate excess blood sugar, as you know, which is being put in there by the carbs, not the fats and proteins (they do cause a little insulin response too though).
But eat what you want (as if you need my or anyone's permission, ha). Carbs taste great, no denying. And life needs to be enjoyed. But to lose the pill, if he ever wants to, he'll have to cut down on the carbs. Just the way it is, unfortunately.
”Lots of cath labs. All they have in common is lots of fluoro and sterility.”
Sure. I was the technical director of our cardiac cath labs. My training and experience is x-ray imaging.
I stopped judging people by race, economic strata, education, etc a long time ago. Now, I only judge them based on how useful I think they would be as a fellow survivor during an apocalypse. She looks like she'd be useless.
Unrelated, serious, if progressives could wave a magic wand and install single-payor healthcare, what sort of impact dies that have on ol' tons o' fun there?
Thriving seems a good description... if she were a watermelon.
Scott M: "I stopped judging people by race, economic strata, education, etc a long time ago. Now, I only judge them based on how useful I think they would be as a fellow survivor during an apocalypse. She looks like she'd be useless."
Look, I'm not trying to stir up trouble, but in a apocalypse/survivor scenario, I'm pretty sure she could supply a small group with sufficient protein for at least 2 weeks.....
Dust Bunny Queen said...
Jumping in here rather late regarding diet and weight loss.
I would cut a few things.
Fruit is metabolically little different than a candy bar. Fruit juice in any amount is going to trigger insulin release. Otherwise you might as well just start scarfing snickers bars.
There is a 30ish minute window during/after hard exercise you can ingest sugar and I find it helps me with soreness. But other than that no fruit. I do miss pineapple.
Pasta is the devil incarnate. Any amount of pasta destroys any low carb diet. Bread is the same. Ice Cream! Tasty. But bad and dairy.
The breading on General Tso's chicken accounts for all of the carbs I would eat in a typical meal. Enough to keep your guy bacteria alive and fuel a couple metabolic processes.
If you do it long enough eventually pasta and bread look nauseating. I think I will always look longingly at ice cream and pineapple.
Drago said...
Scott M: "I stopped judging people by race, economic strata, education, etc a long time ago. Now, I only judge them based on how useful I think they would be as a fellow survivor during an apocalypse. She looks like she'd be useless."
Look, I'm not trying to stir up trouble, but in a apocalypse/survivor scenario, I'm pretty sure she could supply a small group with sufficient protein for at least 2 weeks.....
There is surprisingly little protein in that.
As far as Scott's original point, everyone always makes fun of the redneck.
Until the zombie apocalypse.
"If you do it long enough eventually pasta and bread look nauseating"
And..you realize it's just a cheap filler at restaurants and not cost effective at home.
Halo Top ice cream seems a lesser evil...despite being in the news for underfilling pints ;)
Fruits and candy are not the same metabolically. One, the kinds of sugar contained in them are different. Two, fruits have fiber, of course, which slows the release of sugar into the blood stream (not to mention vitamins, minerals, water, and antioxidants). Their spike is not as high as candy’s.
Vegetables and fruits are technically carbs, but to be obvious, there are good carbs and bad carbs.
Achilles: Your use of sugar after a workout makes sense. I'm sure Doc Mike can tell us the physiology responsible for it.
https://www.precisionhydration.com/blogs/hydration_advice/why-theres-some-sugar-in-the-new-precision-hydration-electrolye-range
glucose might be better
https://www.rei.com/product/109746/vitalyte-electrolyte-replacement-drink-mix-80-servings
HT, when eating whole fruit, the fiber breaks down in the gut and ferments the sugar into glucose which does not go through liver metabolism.
Also, Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes are a great source of soluble fiber which does not break down in the gut, rather is the colon... it'a a pre-biotic
"None of your business," an article in which Tess Holliday talks about - her health.
Just not from the perspective we all were hoping to hear. In the article she talks about verbal abuse, utter childhood instability - basically stress which is a risk factor for obesity, even more so in childhood (or especially so).
Speaking of physical health, in a way she is lucky in that her body expands so that she doesn't have to dump all that fat into her liver. A lot of morbidly obese people have normal metabolic markers, and she is apparently one of them. The stress on her vital organs, now that's another matter. But none of my business.
Who is the tattoo on her upper arm? I feel I should know but can’t place her.
Vegetables and fruits are technically carbs, but to be obvious, there are good carbs and bad carbs.
Thanks for all your concern guys :-)
Glycemic Index.
We follow the diabetic diet suggestions, given to us by our dr and dietician, which do include some whole grain carbs at most meals. Including modest amounts of whole wheat pasta and other low glycemic grains.
A Keto diet can actually be harmful for some diabetics and needs to be done under Dr. supervision.
As to fruit. A couple of strawberries, half of an orange, a few slices of an apple or a fruit juice (no sugar added) popsicle once in a while isn't going to harm. Especially if it keeps you away from the cookies :-) Type 2 not type 1 diabetes
When dieting, you don't want to feel totally deprived, so an occasional "treat" is warranted to keep you on the main track.
Mayo Clinic suggestions which we follow.,Make your calories count with these nutritious foods:
Healthy carbohydrates. During digestion, sugars (simple carbohydrates) and starches (complex carbohydrates) break down into blood glucose. Focus on the healthiest carbohydrates, such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes (beans, peas and lentils) and low-fat dairy products.
Fiber-rich foods. Dietary fiber includes all parts of plant foods that your body can't digest or absorb. Fiber moderates how your body digests and helps control blood sugar levels. Foods high in fiber include vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes (beans, peas and lentils), whole-wheat flour and wheat bran.
Heart-healthy fish. Eat heart-healthy fish at least twice a week. Fish can be a good alternative to high-fat meats. For example, cod, tuna and halibut have less total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol than do meat and poultry. Fish such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, sardines and bluefish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which promote heart health by lowering blood fats called triglycerides.
Avoid fried fish and fish with high levels of mercury, such as tilefish, swordfish and king mackerel.
"Good" fats. Foods containing monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats can help lower your cholesterol levels. These include avocados, almonds, pecans, walnuts, olives, and canola, olive and peanut oils. But don't overdo it, as all fats are high in calories.
Glad I ended my subscription to Self years ago, when the articles became more and more leftist. I doubt any medical doctor would call her healthy. And yes, I only care about her health if I have to pay for it.
I don’t know if anybody is still reading this thread, I stopped reading it when the hate spewing Mrs Magoo took over, but I have so many anomalies in my heart that I have no idea where the A-fib comes from and I am just very happy that losing the weight helped a great deal. I never had it full time, just a couple of episodes. I once listened to an interview, I think it might have been on NPR, with an electrophysiologist who took questions, and he talked about four conditions, and I had already been diagnosed with all four.
I am not going with ablation, A-fib is not that bad, and the structure of my heart precludes a two lead pacemaker, since I have an extremely rare anomaly. It would be nice to drop the blood thinners though.
“I don’t know if anybody is still reading this thread, I stopped reading it when the hate spewing Mrs Magoo took over...”
There’s a lot more wrong with you than what ails your poor heart.
My lunch just took a holliday.
I finally broke down and read another of your comments, which proved the wisdom of my rule not to read them.
I love how liberals think that just saying something is such makes it such. "You can't tell how healthy someone is by looking at them." Oh, okay. "It's abusive to show concern" [if it concerns something self-abusive that a liberal woman wants to glorify]. Gee, okay.
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