Not to exaggerate, and sure, some of this is probably depression-related, but I find everything that is happening, lately, to just be... Exhausting.
Particularly the "coof" shit. Australia, where I live, is ground zero for quite literally the most oppressive approach in any supposedly "democratic" country (yes, some parts of the US are more restrictive in some ways, and yes, Ardernistan exists, but, overall, I'm sorry, but I would have to say we are worse), and it is just... EVERYWHERE.
Like, I try to get offline, I really do, but I am not kidding when I say it is everywhere, here. The TV (idiot box), of course, is utterly saturated with it. The newspapers are, naturally, too. When I leave the house, pretty much to do anything, now, I have to "check in" on my fucking smart phone, even just to buy bread, or I am literally breaking the law. This is all anyone talks about now (well, this and Afghanistan). This DOMINATES our fucking lives.
And I can't travel anywhere. Hell, I can barely even go interstate. The prevailing attitude in this country has always been "love it or leave", but now we can't even fucking LEAVE...
So... I'm just so very tired. "Get off the internet" isn't working. "Talk to someone, then"...
Oh sure, let me go talk to my doomer parents, then, who are so brainwashed by the news and their own agendas that they literally regurgitate it all word for word, and then yell me down when I try to literally SHOW them it is wrong. Or how about my girlfriend, who is so depressed, and so anxious, now, that she barely goes out except to work and to walk her dog (much like me), let alone bearing in mind that we live hundreds of miles apart, anyway... Or maybe my grandfather. Oh wait, I can't, because I'm not even allowed to visit him in his nursing home, because, get this, I haven't had the fucking FLU vaccination yet. Not Covid. The flu. Because they fucking can...
So yeah, I'm sorry, I just... I hope y'all are doing better than me, in your "righteous anger", because personally, after having learned that my country is fucking shooting rescue dogs (see the post yesterday), and laughing that "Haha, this is because of Covid", I'm just... Beyond exhausted by it all. And I'm not sure how much longer I can keep living like that, let alone all the other clown world bullshit that is going on, around, and in some cases allegedly unrelated to, the sniffles... :-(
I'll see how long anger can keep someone alive, soon, I suppose. Because there's not much else that burns me enough to keep the overwhelming sadness and sheer frustration at bay...
I know it sucks, but 90% of losing weight is about eating habits. Don't let focusing on what the regime is preventing you from doing, stop you from doing what you can.
Oh yeah look I know that...I'm not making excuses for it...I know that I did a lot of comfort eating in the last year or so and paid the price for it. But it is still maddening to hear advice like that when you're in a climate where you're barely surviving financially and their answer is simply "spend more money you don't have"
I have actually cut back on the comfort eating and dropped at least 4kg from giving up soft drink in the past month so there is that I guess.
But it's no less maddening when someone tells you "spend money you don't have to achieve X results." It's like "are you even listening to what I just said?" when they throw that shit out.
put a calendar on your refrigerator or kitchen door. Every time you open it, or go in the kitchen, use a pen hanging from the calendar to make a mark on the day. Count the marks--whatever your count is, make it lower the next day. 10 marks on monday? Don't go past 9 in tuesday. Keep doing this the number of marks is 3. Keep it there.
You wanna lose weight cheap and easy? Throw out all the food in your house and buy only a chicken, celery, carrots, onions and garlic. Roast the chicken and use the carcass to make soup stock. Congratulations, that's your meal for 1-2 days. 1 chicken and 1 kg of veggies is about 2000 calories. It's soup, it's filling, it's delicious.
If you are obese, you are in no danger of starving and your liver has sufficient storage of most nutrients that you can't be hurt doing this. The chicken has the rest. I lost 12 kg in 2 months doing just this. No carbs, no snacks, no drinks. Just chicken or duck for 4 weeks. I added barley to the soup and ate extra celery after 4 weeks.
Is this fun? No. Does it suck? Yup. Is it cheap? Extremely cheap. Is it dangerous? Nope, not even a little bit. Is it difficult? That's up to you.
The most important thing is to get all of the bullshit and temptation out of the house? Got a bag of chips hanging around? It must go. Tube of cookie dough? Donate that shit or throw it out. Can of beer? Keep the beer, it's fairly benign, but keep it to one a day and no more.
Good luck. Or not if you don't want. It's all on you, man.
Cutting out carbs will do the trick. It doesn't even have to be boring, with chicken every day. 10 minutes online searching for keto recipes will disabuse you of that notion.
The best approach I've found is fasting. Just skip food for a day. The human body is far better equipped to deal with No Food than it is to deal with Not Enough Food. Plenty of additional health benefits beyond simple weight loss from it too.