Do you take care of your health?

[dolf]

It's a broad question, I know. It has many aspects, and most people do better at some than others. I'll break it down into four rough categories:

• diet
• exercise
• medical
• general care, wear & tear

I'm pretty saintly on the food front these days. The more research I hear about on the impact of gut flora and long term health, the more careful I am. Like... Fibre could make cancer treatment more successful?! Wtf?! I don't fall for fads and I track my macros.

Exercise, I could do better. Winter always sucks, because walking and running is what I prefer. I've been slacking off on the weights too. I feel like my body is still in hibernation. Fuck you, winter

Medical, I suck. I don't remember the last time I saw a doctor, I don't respond to my yearly checkup invitation, and slightly concerning changes in my heart arrhythmia are observed and then ignored. I doubt that I'll change any time soon

Wear and tear, I'm back to the halo polishing. I watch my posture, lift from the knees, wear good shoes, etc. Ear plugs for music venues, shades in the sunshine, and factor 15 minimum if I'm in the sun, and I never fall asleep before brushing my teeth.

 

[toeskr]

It's a broad question, I know. It has many aspects, and most people do better at some than others. I'll break it down into four rough categories:

• diet
• exercise
• medical
• general care, wear & tear

I'm pretty saintly on the food front these days. The more research I hear about on the impact of gut flora and long term health, the more careful I am. Like... Fibre could make cancer treatment more successful?! Wtf?! I don't fall for fads and I track my macros.

Exercise, I could do better. Winter always sucks, because walking and running is what I prefer. I've been slacking off on the weights too. I feel like my body is still in hibernation. Fuck you, winter

Medical, I suck. I don't remember the last time I saw a doctor, I don't respond to my yearly checkup invitation, and slightly concerning changes in my heart arrhythmia are observed and then ignored. I doubt that I'll change any time soon

Wear and tear, I'm back to the halo polishing. I watch my posture, lift from the knees, wear good shoes, etc. Ear plugs for music venues, shades in the sunshine, and factor 15 minimum if I'm in the sun, and I never fall asleep before brushing my teeth.

But yet you are hell on wheels with big, comfy and stretchy jeans.

 

[dolf]

Being hell on wheels is fun though. Some people play at being wizards or soldiers or soccer playing cars in their spare time, and I play at being cranky, judgemental and mean.

 

[Saint Peter]

It is your special gift!


My health exams are generally free of excitement. Bodily things have settled with age.

I am a fair weather smoker. When the nights are warm and the stars are out I love to smoke a cigar on the back deck. When it is raining and snowing I do not. The "how many cigars do you smoke a week" question will get different answers based on when it was asked.

 

[toeskr]

Being hell on wheels is fun though. Some people play at being wizards or soldiers or soccer playing cars in their spare time, and I play at being cranky, judgemental and mean.

You do it well. Good for you.

What the hell is soccer?

Sounds like some sissy European shit.

Do you get to keep that if you brexit?

 

[Matthew Craig]

I'm here for a good time, not a long one.

 

[dolf]

It is your special gift!


My health exams are generally free of excitement. Bodily things have settled with age.

I am a fair weather smoker. When the nights are warm and the stars are out I love to smoke a cigar on the back deck. When it is raining and snowing I do not. The "how many cigars do you smoke a week" question will get different answers based on when it was asked.

Well at your age, "I ain't dead yet!" is good going

 

[toeskr]

Well at your age, "I ain't dead yet!" is good going

You should go with that one as well.

 

[toeskr]

Well at your age, "I ain't dead yet!" is good going

Coppa feel fer gramma.

Screw the monkeys. Lol

 

[dolf]

I'm here for a good time, not a long one.

A couple of things changed my feelings on this one.
First, obviously, having kids. Eating, drinking and smoking habits are contagious for kids. And I didn't like the thought of not being around when they needed me.
Second, working in palliative care for a while. Reckless people rarely die young and pretty. They tend to end up housebound, hobbling wrecks, dragging their oxygen cannister behind them as they wheeze their way to the bathroom, but wearing a diaper because they rarely make it in time, waiting for a call from the kids that half wish they'd hurry up and peg it so that all the whining stops. That shit sucks balls.

 

[toeskr]

A couple of things changed my feelings on this one.
First, obviously, having kids. Eating, drinking and smoking habits are contagious for kids. And I didn't like the thought of not being around when they needed me.
Second, working in palliative care for a while. Reckless people rarely die young and pretty. They tend to end up housebound, hobbling wrecks, dragging their oxygen cannister behind them as they wheeze their way to the bathroom, but wearing a diaper because they rarely make it in time, waiting for a call from the kids that half wish they'd hurry up and peg it so that all the whining stops. That shit sucks balls.

Dolf, the board darling had a second world job in palliative health care? American sosh progs will be so disappointed...

you had not only one job but two.

Give me free monkey shit.

 

[Jada59]

I take good care of myself in every way. I still have medical problems though.

 

[CandiCame]

It's a broad question, I know. It has many aspects, and most people do better at some than others. I'll break it down into four rough categories:

• diet
• exercise
• medical
• general care, wear & tear

I'm pretty saintly on the food front these days. The more research I hear about on the impact of gut flora and long term health, the more careful I am. Like... Fibre could make cancer treatment more successful?! Wtf?! I don't fall for fads and I track my macros.

Exercise, I could do better. Winter always sucks, because walking and running is what I prefer. I've been slacking off on the weights too. I feel like my body is still in hibernation. Fuck you, winter

Medical, I suck. I don't remember the last time I saw a doctor, I don't respond to my yearly checkup invitation, and slightly concerning changes in my heart arrhythmia are observed and then ignored. I doubt that I'll change any time soon

Wear and tear, I'm back to the halo polishing. I watch my posture, lift from the knees, wear good shoes, etc. Ear plugs for music venues, shades in the sunshine, and factor 15 minimum if I'm in the sun, and I never fall asleep before brushing my teeth.

Diet: I eat what's in front of me. Like I eat healthy food but I also eat absolute crap. I just eat what's there. Knowing this, my gf postulated that we could just buy healthy food, and lost her absolute shit when she found out that fried okra/kelp nuggets/corn nuggets/any deep fried vegetable was a thing. I like my food to taste good I'm sorry if that's a fucking crime. Also I eat like 3x what the portion is supposed to be. You ever look at that shit? "Feeds a family of three" my ass. Feeds a family of me. Portions are laughably small. I went on a buisness trip this weekend and I ate a bunch of popcorn, like instead of lunch because we didn't have time to sit down and eat, so for three days I just ate like 2 bags of popcorn for lunch. Apparently that's EIGHT servings. A bag of popcorn is supposed to feed 4 people. They're out of their goddamn minds. I've never had popcorn or chips or whatever and thought, "Let me find three other people to enjoy this treat with me." Like I will. Like if there are other people there I'll be like, "Do y'all want a handful of this?' but like... nobody buys a bag of snack food thinking it's for everybody. You don't go to vending machine thinking, "My whole family will love this!" That's how they get you. They only do that so they can make it seem like it has fewer calories. They know you're gonna eat that shit yourself.

Exercise: Ok so- this one was a shocker. I fucking hate exercise. I hate it. But apparently I do it a LOT. I went to the doctor the other day and found out that doing shit, like literally anything, is exercise, so apparently I exercise for like 4 hours a day. Built a deck? Exercise. Clean after animals? Exercise. Feed the outside animals, like chickens and shit? Exercise. Pack coal in for your gramps because he won't use the fucking heat pump you bought? Exercise. Run after your kid in the yard trying to catch her and bring her back in the house? Exercise. Fuck somebody? Exercise. Go up on the roof trying to fix the leak in the bathroom- Jesus Christ I still have no fucking idea where that's coming from- Exercise. Clean the house? Exercise. Walk the dog? Exercise. Walk down to your uncle's house to mail something because he has the only mailbox in the holler- that's literally exactly the same as a 30 minute hike. Hiking is just walking outside. So it's exercise. Cut the grass? Exercise. Fix anything? Exercise.

So like... I thought I didn't ever exercise but we added it up and apparently I exercise a fucking lot. I just didn't know that doing nothing counted as exercise. I go to this nutritionist and a bunch of weight experts because I'm the caregiver for my grandma, who has anorexia, so we were trying to figure out how, given my food journal and the fact that I sometimes eat 3,000kcal a day and have a desk job, why I'm underweight (because I have a genetic risk for anorexia). Turns out I just exercise a lot and didn't know I was supposed to count any of that. I burn all of that off. I burn 1300kcal just breathing and being alive, and another 2000kcal just living my life, so if I did try to exercise I would probably die. There's not enough food in the world. Also I'm low on calcium and vitamin D, so now I gotta take vitamins and I know I won't. Like I know for a fact I'll forget those exist. I don't even entertain the notion that I'm going to take those.

My point is that you exercise a lot more than you think. Packing groceries in, is another one. Putting down gravel was another- I just put gravel down and that's great because no more getting stuck in the fucking mud. Anyway, y'all probably exercise a lot and don't know it. Especially if you have kids. Bending down to pick random shit off the floor that a kid has left there is the same as doing a lunge, apparently, because when I go down I tend to go all the way down with my whole body because my back hurts when I bend over, so if I'm not getting sexy endorphins from that I don't do it. You tell me to bend over you better be putting something inside me. Because if not I go down like I'm doing a lunge with my back straight to avoid the pain.

Medical: Idk man, I go to the doctor if something's wrong with me. I don't just go to go. Bitesize has to go to go because you just legally have to take your kid to the doctor every six months because I guess they spontaneously combust. She's too old for SIDS so idk why that's still a thing. I know that even as an adult you're technically SUPPOSED to go every so often to make sure you're not dying, but if there's nothing wrong with me I don't. I don't just go get physicals or anything. If you go to the doctor they'll find something wrong with you because I've got insurance and they can make money off of it.

Even with kids it seems like overkill sometimes just because we only have one doctor in town now so it's like... it's your day. You gotta plan to go down there and sit for four hours so they can tell you there's nothing wrong with her. Like, "This is a perfectly healthy child. We'll bill your insurance. Go to all the specialists so they can also tell you she's healthy."

I actually don't mind them though because they get you in and out. But I still don't go myself. Like I go to the dentist because my teeth are fucked but I've not been to an eye doctor since I was 18. I have the same pair of black framed emo glasses that I've had since I was a teenager. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for new glasses unless I absolutely can't see. Insurance doesn't cover it and I don't have the fucking money. My gf goes every year because she wears contacts and they wear out. I'm like, "Just get glasses. Glasses last forever."

And she's all, "I hate glasses. I want contacts."

And like, she's on my insurance. We gotta buy that shit. I bet she fucking does, since she ain't the one working paying for them. Then she'll touch her eyeball and freak me the fuck out. But I'm spending something like $20,000 altogether on my new teeth so I can't say shit about vanity. I'm trapped. It's a pot/kettle thing. But I can't put contacts in. I tried contacts in middle school and I can't fuck with my eyes. I can't even use eyedrops. Idk how people just put shit in their eyes.

Wear & Tear: I didn't know this was a category, but SPF 15 don't do shit. You need 30 or higher. I wear 100, 150 when I can get it. Which might be what's fucking up my vitamin D but I tan SO EASILY and if I get a tan it fucks up my make-up, my vampire aesthetic, and my passing privilege. I need to be white as a sheet of paper. I worked at a water park for 3 years and got ONE tan, because that first year I didn't reapply during my breaks. I learned that lesson REAL fast. Always, always wear your sunscreen. This is another place where my gf is a goddamn idiot. I spray Bitesize down every morning with my sunscreen, the SPF 100. Gf says she doesn't need it because Bitesize takes after her with the dark skin. I don't care if you're purple-black, you need to wear your fucking sunscreen because sunlight causes cancer even if you don't burn. Black folks get sun cancer because of this mindset. People are out here thinking, "Oh I don't burn so I'm not getting radiation damage" and it's like, "Yes, yes you are, you just can't see it!" Like why the fuck does this bitch think she has freckles? Freckles are a sign of sun damage. If I'm gonna send this kid out in the sun without sunblock I might as well smoke in my own goddamn house, because we've decided at that point that we don't give a shit if she gets cancer.

Also I am METICULOUS about my teeth. It takes me like 20-30 minutes to do my tooth routein, brushing, flossing, mouthwash. I've been like that since I was a little kid, but my teeth are still shit.

I also always stand/sit up straight but it's because if I don't my back hurts. And because I might legit have been traumatized by dance teachers. Be a male dancer and watch them lose their shit. There's like three of you in the whole state, you can NOT fuck up. They'll legit hit you and scream, "POSTURE" and if scary bitches do that for ten to twelve years you stand the fuck up. Plus I wear a lot of platforms, because I'm short, and if you don't stand up straight you'll fall. So this is another one like the exercise where I'm accidentally healthy. Sometimes I'll even put shit on my head, like an Indian villager, for no reason. I have no idea why I do that. Like laundry and shit. It's real weird and I legit have no idea why I do it.

Also, I sit up straight because I don't wear my glass a lot of the time, so I can't see something if I'm too close to it. So I can't like, hunch over my phone. I have to hold it an arm's length away. People will come up to me- this is apparently an annoying thing I do, and put a phone IN MY FACE to show me something, so I grab them by the wrist and move the phone back to where I can see it. Because I can't fucking see it. And if I look at something I can't see, it gives me a headache. So I need to stand/sit up straight and hold the phone or gameboy or computer or whatever an arm's length away so I can see it. My shitty eyes are looking out for my spine.

Also I had vocal coaches do that same thing, scream "posture" at me because you can't PROJECT if you can't sing from your diaphram. "CAN THEY HEAR YOU FROM THE BACK ROW?" "YES, YES THEY CAN AND I DON'T HAVE AN INSIDE VOICE NOW I HOPE Y'ALL ARE HAPPY!"

Basically the universe has conspired to make me healthy and attractive. I don't do anything, really, but I've been pressured into exercise because shit just needs doing, and pressured into standing up straight because I was, idk, I guess traumatized into it.

Also, I feel like this counts in maintenance- I shit using my gf's pregnancy shitting platform, and if y'all aren't doing that, you should be. You have been shitting wrong. You just have. You clean out your entire intestines every time you shit. It's amazing. Like it is life changing. It's so clean. You can (and people do) eat off my asshole. You lose like 5lbs every time you take a shit. And they don't like, card for that shit. You don't have to be pregnant. You can just go buy one. Put it around the bottom of your toilet and change your fucking life.

 

[CandiCame]

Just to clarify, when I say, "If you go to the doctor they'll find something wrong with you" I mean in this area, my area, specifically. The reason that we only have one GP in town is because we used to have three, but 2/3 of our GPs got busted for being nocdocs and arrested. So now they're in jail and if you want to go to the doctor you gotta make an appointment (the last one standing doesn't take walk-ins) and take the day off work because you will wait for four hours. When I had the flu I got there when they opened at 8, my appointment was at 8, and they saw me around noon. I didn't get out of there until 2:30. All I fucking needed was for her to verify that I was too sick to work. I didn't need a prescription or any kind of treatment, just verification that I wasn't lying about being sick. I had to sit there in a fucking fever dream while my brother read to me random memes and Bitesize read from some kid's magazine about owls. I did not retain any of that information because I was that sick. I didn't need to be sitting in public all goddamn day. I needed to be at the house with my vics and my flat 7-up. Also I smelled really bad because I did keep slathering vics on my chest the whole time we were there. So it was a shitty experience for everyone.

And my kid stuck vics up her nose, while we were there. That happened.

So that's why I don't go to the doctor. It's a clusterfuck. If the healthcare system wasn't a clusterfuck I'd go to the doctor. But it's a goddamn ordeal.

 

[toeskr]

Diet: I eat what's in front of me. Like I eat healthy food but I also eat absolute crap. I just eat what's there. Knowing this, my gf postulated that we could just buy healthy food, and lost her absolute shit when she found out that fried okra/kelp nuggets/corn nuggets/any deep fried vegetable was a thing. I like my food to taste good I'm sorry if that's a fucking crime. Also I eat like 3x what the portion is supposed to be. You ever look at that shit? "Feeds a family of three" my ass. Feeds a family of me. Portions are laughably small. I went on a buisness trip this weekend and I ate a bunch of popcorn, like instead of lunch because we didn't have time to sit down and eat, so for three days I just ate like 2 bags of popcorn for lunch. Apparently that's EIGHT servings. A bag of popcorn is supposed to feed 4 people. They're out of their goddamn minds. I've never had popcorn or chips or whatever and thought, "Let me find three other people to enjoy this treat with me." Like I will. Like if there are other people there I'll be like, "Do y'all want a handful of this?' but like... nobody buys a bag of snack food thinking it's for everybody. You don't go to vending machine thinking, "My whole family will love this!" That's how they get you. They only do that so they can make it seem like it has fewer calories. They know you're gonna eat that shit yourself.

Exercise: Ok so- this one was a shocker. I fucking hate exercise. I hate it. But apparently I do it a LOT. I went to the doctor the other day and found out that doing shit, like literally anything, is exercise, so apparently I exercise for like 4 hours a day. Built a deck? Exercise. Clean after animals? Exercise. Feed the outside animals, like chickens and shit? Exercise. Pack coal in for your gramps because he won't use the fucking heat pump you bought? Exercise. Run after your kid in the yard trying to catch her and bring her back in the house? Exercise. Fuck somebody? Exercise. Go up on the roof trying to fix the leak in the bathroom- Jesus Christ I still have no fucking idea where that's coming from- Exercise. Clean the house? Exercise. Walk the dog? Exercise. Walk down to your uncle's house to mail something because he has the only mailbox in the holler- that's literally exactly the same as a 30 minute hike. Hiking is just walking outside. So it's exercise. Cut the grass? Exercise. Fix anything? Exercise.

So like... I thought I didn't ever exercise but we added it up and apparently I exercise a fucking lot. I just didn't know that doing nothing counted as exercise. I go to this nutritionist and a bunch of weight experts because I'm the caregiver for my grandma, who has anorexia, so we were trying to figure out how, given my food journal and the fact that I sometimes eat 3,000kcal a day and have a desk job, why I'm underweight (because I have a genetic risk for anorexia). Turns out I just exercise a lot and didn't know I was supposed to count any of that. I burn all of that off. I burn 1300kcal just breathing and being alive, and another 2000kcal just living my life, so if I did try to exercise I would probably die. There's not enough food in the world. Also I'm low on calcium and vitamin D, so now I gotta take vitamins and I know I won't. Like I know for a fact I'll forget those exist. I don't even entertain the notion that I'm going to take those.

My point is that you exercise a lot more than you think. Packing groceries in, is another one. Putting down gravel was another- I just put gravel down and that's great because no more getting stuck in the fucking mud. Anyway, y'all probably exercise a lot and don't know it. Especially if you have kids. Bending down to pick random shit off the floor that a kid has left there is the same as doing a lunge, apparently, because when I go down I tend to go all the way down with my whole body because my back hurts when I bend over, so if I'm not getting sexy endorphins from that I don't do it. You tell me to bend over you better be putting something inside me. Because if not I go down like I'm doing a lunge with my back straight to avoid the pain.

Medical: Idk man, I go to the doctor if something's wrong with me. I don't just go to go. Bitesize has to go to go because you just legally have to take your kid to the doctor every six months because I guess they spontaneously combust. She's too old for SIDS so idk why that's still a thing. I know that even as an adult you're technically SUPPOSED to go every so often to make sure you're not dying, but if there's nothing wrong with me I don't. I don't just go get physicals or anything. If you go to the doctor they'll find something wrong with you because I've got insurance and they can make money off of it.

Even with kids it seems like overkill sometimes just because we only have one doctor in town now so it's like... it's your day. You gotta plan to go down there and sit for four hours so they can tell you there's nothing wrong with her. Like, "This is a perfectly healthy child. We'll bill your insurance. Go to all the specialists so they can also tell you she's healthy."

I actually don't mind them though because they get you in and out. But I still don't go myself. Like I go to the dentist because my teeth are fucked but I've not been to an eye doctor since I was 18. I have the same pair of black framed emo glasses that I've had since I was a teenager. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for new glasses unless I absolutely can't see. Insurance doesn't cover it and I don't have the fucking money. My gf goes every year because she wears contacts and they wear out. I'm like, "Just get glasses. Glasses last forever."

And she's all, "I hate glasses. I want contacts."

And like, she's on my insurance. We gotta buy that shit. I bet she fucking does, since she ain't the one working paying for them. Then she'll touch her eyeball and freak me the fuck out. But I'm spending something like $20,000 altogether on my new teeth so I can't say shit about vanity. I'm trapped. It's a pot/kettle thing. But I can't put contacts in. I tried contacts in middle school and I can't fuck with my eyes. I can't even use eyedrops. Idk how people just put shit in their eyes.

Wear & Tear: I didn't know this was a category, but SPF 15 don't do shit. You need 30 or higher. I wear 100, 150 when I can get it. Which might be what's fucking up my vitamin D but I tan SO EASILY and if I get a tan it fucks up my make-up, my vampire aesthetic, and my passing privilege. I need to be white as a sheet of paper. I worked at a water park for 3 years and got ONE tan, because that first year I didn't reapply during my breaks. I learned that lesson REAL fast. Always, always wear your sunscreen. This is another place where my gf is a goddamn idiot. I spray Bitesize down every morning with my sunscreen, the SPF 100. Gf says she doesn't need it because Bitesize takes after her with the dark skin. I don't care if you're purple-black, you need to wear your fucking sunscreen because sunlight causes cancer even if you don't burn. Black folks get sun cancer because of this mindset. People are out here thinking, "Oh I don't burn so I'm not getting radiation damage" and it's like, "Yes, yes you are, you just can't see it!" Like why the fuck does this bitch think she has freckles? Freckles are a sign of sun damage. If I'm gonna send this kid out in the sun without sunblock I might as well smoke in my own goddamn house, because we've decided at that point that we don't give a shit if she gets cancer.

Also I am METICULOUS about my teeth. It takes me like 20-30 minutes to do my tooth routein, brushing, flossing, mouthwash. I've been like that since I was a little kid, but my teeth are still shit.

I also always stand/sit up straight but it's because if I don't my back hurts. And because I might legit have been traumatized by dance teachers. Be a male dancer and watch them lose their shit. There's like three of you in the whole state, you can NOT fuck up. They'll legit hit you and scream, "POSTURE" and if scary bitches do that for ten to twelve years you stand the fuck up. Plus I wear a lot of platforms, because I'm short, and if you don't stand up straight you'll fall. So this is another one like the exercise where I'm accidentally healthy. Sometimes I'll even put shit on my head, like an Indian villager, for no reason. I have no idea why I do that. Like laundry and shit. It's real weird and I legit have no idea why I do it.

Also, I sit up straight because I don't wear my glass a lot of the time, so I can't see something if I'm too close to it. So I can't like, hunch over my phone. I have to hold it an arm's length away. People will come up to me- this is apparently an annoying thing I do, and put a phone IN MY FACE to show me something, so I grab them by the wrist and move the phone back to where I can see it. Because I can't fucking see it. And if I look at something I can't see, it gives me a headache. So I need to stand/sit up straight and hold the phone or gameboy or computer or whatever an arm's length away so I can see it. My shitty eyes are looking out for my spine.

Also I had vocal coaches do that same thing, scream "posture" at me because you can't PROJECT if you can't sing from your diaphram. "CAN THEY HEAR YOU FROM THE BACK ROW?" "YES, YES THEY CAN AND I DON'T HAVE AN INSIDE VOICE NOW I HOPE Y'ALL ARE HAPPY!"

Basically the universe has conspired to make me healthy and attractive. I don't do anything, really, but I've been pressured into exercise because shit just needs doing, and pressured into standing up straight because I was, idk, I guess traumatized into it.

Also, I feel like this counts in maintenance- I shit using my gf's pregnancy shitting platform, and if y'all aren't doing that, you should be. You have been shitting wrong. You just have. You clean out your entire intestines every time you shit. It's amazing. Like it is life changing. It's so clean. You can (and people do) eat off my asshole. You lose like 5lbs every time you take a shit. And they don't like, card for that shit. You don't have to be pregnant. You can just go buy one. Put it around the bottom of your toilet and change your fucking life.

5000 words or less dummy.

Good hell, ain't nobody got time to read your rants.

Phew.

 

[dolf]

Seriously, I'm English. SPF 15 is plenty enough for 9 months out of 12. I saw the sun through my window yesterday, but it was gone by the time I got out of work.

 

[toeskr]

Seriously, I'm English. SPF 15 is plenty enough for 9 months out of 12. I saw the sun through my window yesterday, but it was gone by the time I got out of work.

Cereal.

 

[Salacious_B_Crumb]

I exercise and am careful about what I don't eat. However I still don't eat nearly as well as I should. Not balanced at all and I tend to eat one big meal in the evening which is like not good at all.
But that's my only real vice. No longer smoke, rarely drink, no fried foods, exercise most days. My bp, cholesterol and heart rate are very nice but I'm about 20lbs overweight still and my eating is what's making it hard to lose that 20. Slow going anyway.

 

[CandiCame]

Seriously, I'm English. SPF 15 is plenty enough for 9 months out of 12. I saw the sun through my window yesterday, but it was gone by the time I got out of work.

It's not though. It won't even work against diffused sunlight. That's not me being a dick. Because the atmosphere has changed and is less effective against blocking dangerous radiation, 15 SPF doesn't work anymore. You need at least 30 to be doing anything. 15 ain't worth having.

I know this changed prior to the time I started working at the water park, because as an owner of any place where people work outside you're legally required to make them wear at least SPF 30 as a workplace safety thing. There were people I worked with who WANTED to tan, who got written up for wearing SPF 15 thinking the owner wouldn't notice. But it doesn't actually do anything, and if it's not enforced you can get sued when you later develop cancer from working outside.

It actually dosen't get much better than SPF 50- like SPF 100 isn't twice as effective, but I'm not taking any fucking chances. But after 50 the SPF thing is kind of a lie. It is monitored, because it's a medical thing, by the FDA here in the states, but there's not been any longitudinal research study done that proves it offers twice the protection against skin cancer. And I know that, but it's also not super expensive so I get that anyway.

https://www.aad.org/media/stats/prevention-and-care/sunscreen-faqs

But yeah, never wear less than SPF 30 because it doesn't fight the sun anymore since we collectively decided to fuck up the atmosphere. It did work, back in the 50s and 60s when it first became prevalent, but it stopped working as the radiation got stronger. Even in diffused sunlight.

AND you can't double up and expect it to double. So say you have a makeup primer that is spf 15 like a lot of them are. If you put sunscreen on first, like SPF 15 sunscreen and then the primer, it's still just spf 15. That doesn't make it 30. I thought for a long time I was doubling up because all my moisturizers and shit have sunblock on them, and my setting spray, and I wear all that over sunblock. But that's not how that works.

Clothes don't really work either unless they're specific sunblocking clothes. People make that mistake a lot. And even the special sunblocking clothes only retain their sunblocking properties for a few washes. It's not the heat that's the problem, it's the radiation. You wouldn't stand in an x-ray machine for 8-12 hours like, "Oh I'm fine because I'm wearing clothes". You know that for that to be safe you have to have radiation shielding clothes, specifically made to block radiation. And that those need to be replaced as they lose their radiation-shielding properties.

I hate the fucking sun.

 

[CandiCame]

I exercise and am careful about what I don't eat. However I still don't eat nearly as well as I should. Not balanced at all and I tend to eat one big meal in the evening which is like not good at all.
But that's my only real vice. No longer smoke, rarely drink, no fried foods, exercise most days. My bp, cholesterol and heart rate are very nice but I'm about 20lbs overweight still and my eating is what's making it hard to lose that 20. Slow going anyway.

I could never stop eating so I feel like if I ever needed to lose weight I'd just have to do a lot of cardio. My brother is on a diet because he's about where you're at, and that's the difference between us. I feel bad making him do stuff, because he's a kid and he helps me out a LOT, like he does shit for our grandparents, he watches my kid, he cooks sometimes, etc, so I don't make him do those chores that are keeping me skinny.

So he started doing cardio and strength training, cut out pop (not to lose weight, in solidarity with me because we were the only ones who drank it and I was going to keep drinking it if we kept it in the house, and my teeth were rotting out which is like... the most painful thing ever). He's lost around 60 or 80lbs in a little over a year.

He looks WEIRD. I don't really like it. He's always been a bigger kid and I didn't realize he had that same harsh bone structure that I do, because it looked cute when it was smoothed out with his extra weight, but now his face is all sharp, like an adult, and he looks like... god, a good like... before he lost weight weight he looked maybe 12 or 13? Now he looks like he's maybe 22 or 23 (he actually just turned 19 last month, but I don't think he'll get carded now), just because his face looks older without that fat on it. I don't like it. I really don't like it. He looks so weird. But he is healthier and he's really proud of himself so I say, "Man you look great!" Because I'm not gonna be a shitty.

My point is starting on that cardio and weight training really helped him in his weight-loss journey, so I thought I would throw it out there because you're in a similar situation. And you said that you were exercising every day, but I think the kind of exercise might make a difference? I just know that this worked for him, so I thought I would share. Take it with a grain of salt. Diets tend not to work, because it has to be a lifestyle change. And he didn't spend money on it. He just goes out into the woods now and walks around/runs, for free, and we got the weight set he uses from one of our cousins who did that thing where he was like, "I'm gonna get in shape!"

2 months later all that shit was sitting under his house not being used. So I bet you could also get them for free or really cheap off a swap shop or craigslist or something because I feel like that happens all the time. Especially right now. Because I bet there are tons of people who bought weights around new year like, "I'm gonna get in shape!"

And three months later they're sitting there like, "Wow I hated the shit out of that. I'm never going to use these weights."

Also he's a fucking brute. He makes fun of me because he's so much stronger than me. He put my gramps's new dryer in BY HIMSELF. Carried a fucking dryer like how the FUCK?? I was like, "Hey quick question, have you been shooting super soldier serum? Because what the FUCK?"

Is that... normal? Are normal human people supposed to be able to do shit like that? Because I can't.

 

[JohnnySavage]

My body is a temple

 

[CandiCame]

My body is a temple

My body is one of those abandoned temples where tourists go to look at the crumbling architecture and leave half-eaten bags of chips and cigarette butts everywhere and so now it's been overrun by racoons.

 

[dolf]

Candi, during winter I'm running/walking before dawn. I get maybe 1minute of exposure walking from house to car to lab. The lab has no windows. By the time work kicks out, the sun is on or below the horizon, and it's dark by the time I get home. I take vitamin D because I don't get enough daylight.

I'm not being a dick here, but most of the time factor 15 is overkill. You're applying your life and situation to me, and it really doesn't fit.

 

[dolf]

My body is a temple

To Kali?

 

[JohnnySavage]

To Kali?

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