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[baboon2004]

A wonderful pairing.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

I'd say that a lot of this stuff is actually displaced anxiety about other things...since I started really getting into a good diet and running and weights to look better, I've actually felt better because it's the best thing for my brain chemistry, far better than being on bloody SSRIs or god knows what else I'd be prescribed.

both true, & the two go hand in hand - living healthier often helps to deal w/all that displaced anxiety from other things. Sit mens sana in corpore sano & all that.

 

[Mr. Tea]

She's lovely. Not sexy, but just...lovely.

As long as she keeps her fucking gob shut...

 

[scottdisco]

I've been hearing that bullshit for years & that's what it is, bullshit, it makes me really angry actually. a girl I went to high school with was a communist & I remember her attempting to explain to me how it was bourgeois to encourage people to eat healthy food. it also goes back those comments I made about my disgust w/the entire concept - the bourgeois marketing myth - of "health food" as a privilege that only the relatively wealthy can enjoy. a bourgeois myth which ironically (or, again, not) communists are in this case buying into.

anyway the cultural chauvinism comes from how you say it, not what you're saying. if you put it across in a sneering, superior way then sure, it's kinda offensive & people won't listen. I'm all about positively encouraging - not ordering - people to eat better. & explaining why it will be to their benefit instead of just telling them it will be.

Johann Hari peddles this too, and i know of one or two other people - who are in virtually all respects otherwise politically very sound - who keep it up as well.

avocados are amazing, i love 'em.

@Baboon: who are those two women you posted at 6:35 PM yday? they're both really pretty. the one wearing the necklace looks vaguely familiar.

Tea's Krod woman is definitely hot.

(w' the usual obvious disclaimers re health food stores as currently constituted experience being expensive temples to cod liver oil and pricey quinoa.)

 

[scottdisco]

Wholly ot

(Contains 150% of your RDA of Matt Lucas.)

aha! who's that coming over the hill? why it's Georgie Dawes!

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[3 Body No Problem]

I love avocados, but they give me migraines. It's on a whole list, with most of my other favorite foods: bananas, olives, capers, red wine, almonds, chocolate, etc. I've noticed I can get past this if I have just one thing per day, but if I mix two off the list, I'm done for. French foods, which I love, are murderous.

It's funny but the food that triggers migraine seems to be culture dependent: Wine can be a migraine trigger -- strangely white wine triggers migraine in France and red wine is a trigger in England. In Italy, everything seems to trigger a headache. This suggests that food is not fact the trigger.

 

[Client Eastwood]

Im coming over here for a bit after the Industrial Music thread.

Bollywood actress. I think she does mostly comedy.

Mallika Sherawat

Love the eye liner : )

 

[3 Body No Problem]

You may already know all this but there's a few pretty simple things you can do to eat better [...] Always having healthy snacks - fruits, veggies, nuts, etc. - around, especially when you're out & about, so you can eat them in place of giving in to junk food urges.

In my experience, it's always having food around that causes obesity, because your body gets accustomed to always eating. I suspect that others find it similarly difficult to control themselves in the face of food -- probably similar to ex-smokers/drug users/alcoholics, who can handle the absence of their drug as long as it's not easily available. I've noticed that to this day I'm unable to resist food that's right in front of me, but if there's no <i>easy</i> opportunity to eat (i.e. if I have to go to the shop and buy food, or if I have to cook first), I have no problem with eating only every 8 hours or so.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

In my experience, it's always having food around that causes obesity, because your body gets accustomed to always eating. I suspect that others find it similarly difficult to control themselves in the face of food -- probably similar to ex-smokers/drug users/alcoholics, who can handle the absence of their drug as long as it's not easily available. I've noticed that to this day I'm unable to resist food that's right in front of me, but if there's no <i>easy</i> opportunity to eat (i.e. if I have to go to the shop and buy food, or if I have to cook first), I have no problem with eating only every 8 hours or so.

quickly - to be more clear, the idea is to also have reasonable amounts of food around. e.g., having an apple and a handful of almonds & raisins in your bag, or whatever. also, to have healthy food in the house, under the theory that whatever is around is what you're likely to eat. of course whatever works for you, that's the best strategy.

re: time between eating - generally it's better for you to eat smaller meals more regularly. as mentioned it helps to maintain steady levels of insulin, avoids surges & crashes energy. caveat that peoples' bodies of course function differently & everyone has to find what works for them. it also depends on what one's metabolism is like, how physically active you are, etc.

 

[gumdrops]

this thread has been totally derailed.

back on track.

 

[Mr. Tea]

back on track.

And how!

 

[baboon2004]

Who's she?

 

[nomadthethird]

re: Body image issues

I'd say that a lot of this stuff is actually displaced anxiety about other things. I used to hate the way I looked, but it wasn't really about looks, it was about losing certain people in my life and feeling alienated and alone. I'm just a normal looking guy really. Instead of thinking about the really painful and important things, I could obsess about being too short or paranoid bollocks about girls hating me or whatever. And the ironic thing is, since I started really getting into a good diet and running and weights to look better, I've actually felt better because it's the best thing for my brain chemistry, far better than being on bloody SSRIs or god knows what else I'd be prescribed.

Well, body image issues are also just part and parcel of early adolescence/puberty, as well. There's a huge difference between body dysmorphic disorder and plain old "my body is changing drastically, my hormones are raging, this is all quite traumatic" teen angst.

It's a good thing you waited yours out and they went away. But some people really do need medication. And they're not depressed because of body image. Or because of anything in particular.

(A British scientist told me that so many English people are on Paxil for SAD that there's paxil in the ground water there now...)

 

[nomadthethird]

It's funny but the food that triggers migraine seems to be culture dependent: Wine can be a migraine trigger -- strangely white wine triggers migraine in France and red wine is a trigger in England. In Italy, everything seems to trigger a headache. This suggests that food is not fact the trigger.

It's weird I've heard conflicting information about this. It could also just be the vasodilation from consuming food after going hours without it?? Not the specific foods?

I can say without a doubt that if I eat banana or capers I get a migraine within about 20 minutes...but maybe it's just psychological because I'm so afraid of getting one? They're so awful.

 

[poetix]

No new-skool folk babe has quite the sultry intensity of the young Anne Briggs -

although that may just be because everything were black and white in them days. That said: Rachel Unthank

and Lisa Knapp

 

[cobretti]

She looks an awful lot like George Harrison

 

[baboon2004]

@Baboon: who are those two women you posted at 6:35 PM yday? they're both really pretty. the one wearing the necklace looks vaguely familiar.

Sorry, forgot to post their names - Olivia Hallinan and Lenora Crichlow at around the time of Sugar Rush. I would marry, well, both of them in a second.

And yeah, Anne Briggs is amazing in every sense.

 

[zhao]

It's funny but the food that triggers migraine seems to be culture dependent

coffee is cure for my girlfriend's migraines. i don't understand the phenomenon at all or even know what a migraine is since i've never had one. even when people complain of headaches i kind of stare at them blankly because i think i simply don't get them ( not even hung over)

 

[zhao]

I just wish people loved themselves more*, as they were, w/o having to resort to all this craziness.

but then they would no longer be emotional cripples dependent and addicted to capitalism. also it might even lead to them having autonomous thoughts. and these are things which MUST. NOT. HAPPEN. at any cost.

 

[zhao]

me and girlfriend always play the "if you have to choose someone from this party to sleep with who would it be" game. it's fun. any of you ever do that with your lovers?