@fawnforthegirls I had lost 30lbs, no one noticed, i started Reta and 3 days after the first pin suddenly people noticed. Iv lost 10lbs more since and nothing. I think people are just bad at it unless its dramatic
There is a mountain of unworn clothes in the driest desert on earth, large enough to be photographed from space. It grows by 39,000 tons a year and almost none of it will ever rot.
The Atacama, in northern Chile, is a place where it may not rain for a decade. On its edge is a duty-free port called Iquique. Every year about 59,000 tons of clothing arrives there from Europe, America and Asia. It is last season's stock that never sold, and the bags people leave at charity shops.
Dealers pick through it for anything they can resell across South America. Two thirds of it is worthless. Nobody will pay to ship it back out, so lorries drive it into the desert at night and tip it.
The local landfill refuses to take it. The reason given is that the clothing does not biodegrade and is full of chemicals. Most of it is polyester, which is plastic, and in a place with no rain and no soil life it will lie there for centuries. Some of it is set alight, and the smoke drifts over a town of 100,000 people.
In 2025 a Chilean court ruled that the dumps had done serious damage to the land.
For most of history this could not have happened. Clothes were wool, linen and leather. They were worn out, handed down and patched, and at the very end a rag merchant paid for the scraps. In Yorkshire, from 1813, old woollens were shredded and spun into new cloth. Anything left went on the fields, where wool breaks down in months and feeds the grass.
Nobody ever had to find a desert for worn-out wool. We invented a fabric that cannot die, and then we started making it to be thrown away.
I actually laughed at this because people really don’t understand the obese brain (which is a good thing)
Yeah taste was part of it, but for me it was more like: how full can I get?
I wanted that almost high from being stuffed. That calm/peace afterwards. If I wasn’t full to the point I could barely breathe, I didn’t feel satisfied.
And obviously there’s more to it than that too.
Trauma, stress, comfort, routine, reward, using food to regulate how you feel, you see that pattern constantly in shows like My 600-lb Life.
So when people say “just eat 1700 calories” or “just skip a meal” lol yeah no shit.
For me the biggest thing a GLP changed wasn’t knowing what food was healthy.
It was turning down the compulsive part of my brain that kept asking for more.
It’s so shitty that in order to heal from cptsd I have to receive consistent positive social feedback from other people, meaning that the health of my nervous system is essentially out of my ultimate control. Is there another way to understand this (please)
yea reta MADE ME stop eating after 5pm, avoid all carbs, jog 5k, and progressive train my lower body… yes one injection did that yes doctors hate me!!
i changed what i ate and how i ate nga. i didn’t just starve you bird chested loser. men are so fucking stupid sometimes holyyy