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on eating better;
Oct. 19th, 2012 03:18 amSo, I've mostly been deliberately not talking about losing weight except to a few IRL friends, but then lately a few other people on my internets have been discussing it, so I figured I'd at least gather a linklist together instead of typing the same comment over and over again.
Why have I not done this before?
-it's like being a fandom n00b; you read all the wank, get to know all the common varieties of tinhattery, batshit and fail and form an overall impression of what canon is and whether or not anyone likes it. I am a total n00b and don't have a lot to go on other than self-experiments, balance of published evidence and smell tests. Those self-experiments have only been going on for a few months so I could easily be wrong even about what works for me, being as hubris is a huge bitch. And being such a n00b I am sure that anyone who's remotely interested must know way more than I do, right, so why am I even saying anything? (genuine apprehension here.) And all the wank brings out my antirealist streak and gives a hard time regarding any of this as true in any case.
-a sort of sj aesthetic purism; most diet writing is bad and exists to make people feel bad, therefore I hesitate to associate myself with it. This is obvious bullshit on my part, I mean, it ought to be like sex, in that the fact that so much of the writing about it is bad doesn't stop me from trying to write better things from my own limited experience and knowledge. But it's so totally my bullshit. (Silence is passagg with clean hands, it's passpass, it's voidspeak for 'shoot me'.) I talked to Ting about this feeling that I should be withholding comment, and she pointed out that when people do want to talk about losing weight it's largely in the spirit of hugboxy mutual encouragement, which does no harm to anyone. She is right but there are a few things in this post that I do not feel hugboxy about, notably cooking. Oh my god do I ever not feel hugboxy about cooking, sorry guys.
-weightloss has this bizarre distinction of being such a socially acceptable (even pressured) conversation topic that no one ever, ever warns for it, yet it's triggering to many people for a wide range of reasons and of all triggering topics it is the one that is most likely to actually maim or kill someone. Engaging with it is just weird, truly. [ETA: if you want me to filter you out of posts like this, or out of any other kind of post, please drop me a PM or something. It's okay, I have bizarrely normal do-not-want topics too.]
So everything else will be cut.
( the linklist )
( a bit about where I am: )
( about the canon )
Why have I not done this before?
-it's like being a fandom n00b; you read all the wank, get to know all the common varieties of tinhattery, batshit and fail and form an overall impression of what canon is and whether or not anyone likes it. I am a total n00b and don't have a lot to go on other than self-experiments, balance of published evidence and smell tests. Those self-experiments have only been going on for a few months so I could easily be wrong even about what works for me, being as hubris is a huge bitch. And being such a n00b I am sure that anyone who's remotely interested must know way more than I do, right, so why am I even saying anything? (genuine apprehension here.) And all the wank brings out my antirealist streak and gives a hard time regarding any of this as true in any case.
-a sort of sj aesthetic purism; most diet writing is bad and exists to make people feel bad, therefore I hesitate to associate myself with it. This is obvious bullshit on my part, I mean, it ought to be like sex, in that the fact that so much of the writing about it is bad doesn't stop me from trying to write better things from my own limited experience and knowledge. But it's so totally my bullshit. (Silence is passagg with clean hands, it's passpass, it's voidspeak for 'shoot me'.) I talked to Ting about this feeling that I should be withholding comment, and she pointed out that when people do want to talk about losing weight it's largely in the spirit of hugboxy mutual encouragement, which does no harm to anyone. She is right but there are a few things in this post that I do not feel hugboxy about, notably cooking. Oh my god do I ever not feel hugboxy about cooking, sorry guys.
-weightloss has this bizarre distinction of being such a socially acceptable (even pressured) conversation topic that no one ever, ever warns for it, yet it's triggering to many people for a wide range of reasons and of all triggering topics it is the one that is most likely to actually maim or kill someone. Engaging with it is just weird, truly. [ETA: if you want me to filter you out of posts like this, or out of any other kind of post, please drop me a PM or something. It's okay, I have bizarrely normal do-not-want topics too.]
So everything else will be cut.
( the linklist )
( a bit about where I am: )
( about the canon )