so cold 
Tommasi
joined 4 years ago
down with cis
animal violence
One of the dogs managed to catch and kill one of the mice that lives in the garden and I'm devastated, I loved those little guys 
(also 3 people so far have told me stuff like that just happens and I KNOW, but that doesn't make me not sad)
I agree that it's useless, moralizing advice for people who struggle to lose weight. That doesn't mean the theory itself is unsound, and for people who don't have larger issues regarding their weight but want to regulate a little bit it's basically the only thing they need to be aware of.
It's not a falsehood. First of, one example wouldn't disprove literal decades of research proving the contrary, but also this example isn't incongruent with CICO at all. You can increase caloric consumption and lose weight if other factors causes your body to burn more calories.
When I say CICO is the only way to regulate body weight I don't mean calorie tracking. Calorie tracking is absolutely not required, or arguably even helpful, for most people. But you have to do SOMETHING that either changes the amount of calories you consume or how much your body burns. If you don't nothing changes.
It's useful because for most of us it's the only way we can realistically regulate our own body weight, which a lot of people want to do. For people who struggle to do that, as well as obviously for people who chose not to, I agree that it's completely useless and somewhat insulting medical advice. But there's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The reason Ozempic is used for weight loss is because it slows down your digestion and reduces appetite and cravings. It literally just makes you eat less. How is that an argument against CICO?
Never heard of it, but if there's a good non-amazon alternative maybe I should actually keep track of the books I read this year
scary!
imagine being a cishet 
I'll try to remember to post a pic once it's done 
My wrists are actually not sore at all, weirdly my fingers are where I've felt the most tired
mood
While feelings of inferiority to cis women passed quickly for me, the sense that I've lost something I can't get back by not having the right childhood or adolesence definitely lingers, and the lack of those "universal" experiences of womanhood sometimes makes me feel like there's this huge gulf between me and the people around me. (even though i logically know they're not universal even among cis women)I try to cope with the otherness of it by thinking about how stuff like this affects a ton of people. A lot of people lose the opportunity have a "normal" adolesence for all sorts of different reasons, we as trans people aren't alone in this. Tons of cis people aren't able to have babies and don't function "right" biologically. And while I don't think it will ever not hurt it doesn't have to define us.