SysAdmin1138 @sysadmin1138@octodon.social

What many people don't realize is that April Fools is a two-day holiday. That's what you get when you have a global holiday and the weird way we do timezones.

Same thing goes for the Transgender Day of Visibility.

Which means they overlap. TDoV needs a new day.

All this means that I'm staring at the concept of actually /dieting/ for the first time in my life, since my half-diet methods no longer seem to work now.

I don't want to pathologize food.

I don't want my body/brain to forget what 'hungry' means.

When suggesting I should eat my veggies didn't work, my parents went to coercive methods as a kid. The side-effect of that is anything with that green crunch sets off a horrible nausea attack that I have zero motivation to fix. That makes 'eating healthy' much harder.

Due to age and other things my blood-chemistry is beginning to make my doctor say those magic six words every woman hates to hear (you should lose a few pounds). It was "might want to" for a while, but I've graduated to "should". Some of it is bullshit BMI, but the things I'm high on are the kinds of things that weight sometimes helps.

I'm exercising, so some of that is muscle. But not close to all of it.

In the "not helping" category is my problems with certain foods. Like greens.

I was raised by a fat-lady who didn't want to be fat. That has a bunch of side-effects, like dad being very sensitive to the weight of his kids, me following a shame-enforced 3 meal no snacking policy most of the time growing up (it wasn't a rule, but there was judgment when it happened), and my sister having an eating disorder for a few years.

In adulthood, I'm still a 3-meal person. And I've been actively trying to avoid pathologizing my food.

That may have to change.

@jordyd As a kid, a quarter of my film pictures were of cats. Much lower percentage, but still high.

Spring is playing peek a boo.

@brook For shirts online...

If it's fitted, I size to waist.
If it's not, I size to bust/chest.

If I size to shoulders, it's too big everywhere.

@brook Trying things on is the best bet. That said, if you're buying online, the size-guide is useful for figuring out range.

If you want to weed out pants in person, I recommend a string method. Get a pair of M pants that fit you in the waist, and lay 'em on the bed. Run a string across the waistband, and tie knots where they meet the pants. Use that when shopping to pre-check pants, and you'll cut down your returns (or visits to changing-rooms).

@billiebeta This is why we therapy so often.

@alicefromonline @hirojin That's the strategy used by wkthmltopdf, a C project. They create a CentOS chroot, and build a mostly-static binary in there. Most complex, and picky, build I've seen in a while.

@cypnk Bigelo (probably not the right spelling) has had this idea for inflatable station parts and it is amazing.

@sigridellis The wall-archeology has been fascinating. Love that kind of thing. The house I grew up in had newspapers from the 40's poking out in spots!

R/W Replica:
Sipping fruity drink, enjoying the nice relaxing day.

R/O Replica:
Shouting, 'She canna take much more, captain!'

@sigridellis Oh my stars and garters, that's a reno! Congratulations on committing to it, may you enjoy it once you get over the trauma.

@sigridellis A remodel like that is almost as bad as MOVING. My sympathies.

@advicepig And quite a difference it makes, indeed.

@hfrazey I think I know the one you mean. S. R. Harris. It is truly epic.