more “advice”
dear raymi
having a serious down day. everybodys giving me the bullshit talk you’re pretty you’re beautiful you don’t need to work out but i’m having one of those nasty days where i hate everything about myself. (insert pathetic female stereotype here) tried to work out but couldn’t when i caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. one of my friends is attempting to tell me to starve myself for 4-5 days. i don’t know what to do. i just know that i’m hungry and want dinner but am afraid to eat because i don’t even want to work out. what good is that?
im not sure why i’m even emailing you about this you’re just the first person that came to my mind. boyfriend is trying to be comforting but he’s thinner than me. easier said than done. half friends smoke pot all day and eat mcdonalds like nobody’s business, half friends are healthy but don’t giev good advice. some friendds can lose 20 lbs in a week. bahhh. i know results are impossible to find in a weekend but im discouraged. derrrrr
do you drink? if you stop drinking you will lose big time i switched from eating super healthy and drinking every nite to eating garbage and smoking weed and im thinner, i was thin before but this is a different thin. booze makes you bloaty all over. you dont look like a drinker so maybe that’s not yer issue. don’t date skeleton boys, date men, men are hot, boys are irritating. also how are they even attractive i don’t get it what are you a pedophile? kidding. you look like a twig in yer photos so i’m guessing you have issue over the last 5 pounds or something. cut out all carbs. whats yer diet anyway?
i think this is all in your head mostly. thin is a trend big time right now and has been for awhile and it’s not going away. what’s more is there are certain styles of dress that only thin people can wear like sickly unhealthy thin and we all want to get down but we can’t and it sucks it doesn’t mean we have to starve ourselves to auswitch style it just means we can’t wear boyfriend jeans.
i watched the party over the holiday, i’ve seen it a billion times but anyway there’s a part where a bikini-clad chick is in a scene and she has meat on her and it looked good and it was mindblowing to see. that shit just doesn’t fly now. in the fashion world she would be considered fat, sorry, “curvy”. it’s not right but it’s the way it is.
if you aren’t happy, becoming the thin you want to be will not make you happy. i have achieved my goal and i am more miserable than ever, this thin is being wasted and i’m still not satisfied or think it’s good enough. also the older you get and the thinner you become, the older you will look. there’s some pretty hagard-looking skeletors out there, young ones too. so try to do it as healthily as possible. some people can be complete drug addict drinking fast food eating slobs and still look like the bane of health. genetics. you can’t change your dna you can only modify it slightly? no you can’t. you can only whine and complain and irritate your friends about it.
if you complain about something ten times and by the tenth complaint you haven’t done anything about it, all complaining privileges should be revoked. that is my advice. act.
i have soooo many things to complain about my life but i know if i opened my mouth here i’d get shit for it, so i suppress and shove it down and distract myself from it (that’s if i plan the do-nothing route). when i DO plan to do something i write one epic post, we all discuss it then i carry it out and then we discuss it again when it’s done. those should be the only times you get to talk about your little problem 1. when you decide to act and 2. when you have completed fixing it.
birdie num num?
i have a friend who CONSTANTLY complains about being fat (mind you, she sort of is) well, not sort of… she IS. it gets very tired and boring and i dont even want to hang with her much anymore cuz the topic of convo is usually her fatness. sometimes i want to just scream at her to shut the fuck up we know you’re fat DO something about it already! how do i handle that one like a nice person, raymi?
tell her DO something about it. 80% of weight loss is nutrition (the crap she is eating) 20% is exercise. i bet she eats poorly and likely has bad metabolism too, plus never exercises? tell her straight, then put her in a time out. when and if she loses weight she will be smug about it and hate you, remind her that you were the friend who had the nards to tell her to get fit. tons of people when they get skinny they get bitter about it once they recognize the difference in how people treat the skinny-them. they think it’s cos they’re skinny now, why didn’t anyone like the fatty? it’s cos the fatty was an insufferable pile of buzzkill complaints, nothing to do with looks at all.
the next time she wigs out about weight be honest in whichever way you have the courage for. if she starts crying do not back down. tell her you’re there for her bla blalblah but her whining is affecting your mood (happiness) and she’s being selfish, not a good friend.
whoa you’re really on the ball today raymi. big step up from “i’m so high, like SO high”, i gotta say.
hahaha, amazing. yea its gets old watching your friend grab her big rolls at the dinner table and bitch. its true though, it totally effects my mood and just makes everyone silent and uncomfortable. totally gona just have to tell her to do something about it and stop whining. it may or may not be in front of others.
B let me know how it works out
ryan SOOOooo baked i love weeeeed sooo much woah i have to let everyone know how i love being high in the form of self-indulgent stoner chat with yer gf but maybe not cos apparently it isn’t allowed anymore i can only post sober blog chats that make everybody happy.
I second the stop drinking & smoke weed notion! SRSLY – it did the same for me. Weed doesn’t leave you gross and bloated for 2 days after smoking it. But a pitcher of beer will.
But dont you find smoking weed makes you mow down garbage? which could = amount of calories in booze??
you burn it off easier with weed
booze fat just sticks forever
alcohol seems to be twice the amount of calories than all the food you consume from weed
some good advice in there; seems like you’re on a roll lately!
i hate to be (ha not) capt buzzkill von grammar-nazi-know-it-all but…its “auschwitz” not “auswitch” HAHAHA
*eats chocolate cupcake WITH frosting*
once my friend and i tried to incorporate “healthy munchies” as in, eat fruit when we were baked. worked once. but hey its worth suggesting.
I know all I talk about is my divorce, but since that was the catalyst to my ENTIRE life altering changes, I will say THE BEST diet is divorce.
OR, quit eating for 5 days straight which reboots your system…maybe three, I was five. Reboot your system then begin to introduce foods you normally ate before. Burgers, fries sweets etc. Your body will tell you what foods are garbage by making you feel sick. So after five days I had a burger..no go, fries no go, which culminated in me realizing meat made me sick and fat. Poultry and seafood only, grilled. No deep fried anything. No sweets. Smaller, like tiny portions and then before I knew it POW 40 lbs lighter in a month. Then came exercise to firm up, now lots of caffeine and little to no sweets. Soy high protein bars by Zone, awesome for killing hunger and keeping the weight off. It’s been a year…still thin. Rad.
I agree on cutting out the booze and pasta/bread/starch carbs. It makes a huge difference, right away.
If you have to drink stick to red wine (blech).
jodie i googled it, google said no z even though i KNEW there was one.
haha steph yeah tried veggie munchies, worked less than once.
wendy show me an updated pic!
that is fucked; i have BEEN to Auschwitz-Birkenau and i know for a fact theres a z in there.
google lies. but we already knew that…
Hey Raymi: I’m gonna chime in. I’m prepared to take the heat. Here is my advice to a correspondent like the one featured here: open your legs and extract your head from up your asshole! Wipe the shit out of your eyes and go visit a freaking cancer ward, for kids maybe, or take a holiday in Africa. Fuck!?#@
very beneficial advice posts. thanks!
so good for me to read this.
I so struggle with weight. Hate it so much but am an emotional eater…blahblahblah….
Feels like I have a drug addiction but to food.
Feels like I will never find love until I fix the problem and lose the weight.
Am definitely inspired to DO SOMETHING.
Appreciate the advice…but have so often tried and failed..blech…fml.
“if you aren’t happy, becoming the thin you want to be will not make you happy.”–so true, if only all women under the age of 30 figured that shit out.
Grammy Liz says: Never date a man with legs skinnier than yours.
i definitely gained weight when i stopped smoking weed all the time and replaced it with drinking more. i’ve often wondered why, given the munchie factor. maybe weed speeds up your metabolism?
80-20? hmmmmmmmmmm, I dunno about that, maybe 50-50, I think that so many people drop the sweating because it takes time for the body to adjust to its status as a cleaner-burning machine….The sad fact is is that we ALL are different levels of SEDENTARY animals now, we NEED to move!
quit eating for five day? wtf!!!
google is wrong
jodie is right
try wiki
good advice generally
alcohol seems to be more fattening than weed
years of experimentation have taught me that calories consumed versus calories burnt is the key
an active lifestyle allows you to eat more without gaining weight – a sedentary lifestyle does not
auswitch sounds like a sandwich i kind of want to eat now.
weed is like one of those things that you can write about without mentioning weed at all. like if you’re talking about wookies and robots that bring you things on spaceships and interstellar travel and making up names like skywalker, you’re fuckin’ talkin’ about weed.
try an apple pipe! and then at least it’s your apple-a-day
dear raymi
hi, i feel really stupid writing this but you’ve been such an inspiration to me i figured what the hell, go for it, right? so here’s the deal, i’m having my broken nose repaired or uh i dunno removed on friday and i want to know what you think is the best way to combine prescription pills i.e. with or without vodka, swallow them or grind them up and snort them, etc. i learned in grade school that you should always take double or triple the recommended dosage because doctors are overly cautious wimps. what do you think about that and btw omg i love your hair! also i noticed on facebook that we have 4 (four!!!) mutual friends so obvs our stars are aligned and you should totally meet me in a dark alley some night. you have the best hair.
i forgot to say i love your hair!
leslie made an extremely funny joke!
dukes a physical trainer told me this information and it’s true. probably even 90%/10% the harsh truth is what you eat is a big one over exercise. one walk will not cancel out thanksgiving.
some years back I was told by a friend that weed speeds up metabolism (aaaand I’m too lazy to look it up, but she is def smarter than me so I took her word for it). she claimed to have lost 20+ lbs doing the “healthy” thing, eating fresh veggies & fruits when the munchies would strike. of course, it takes a special kind of discipline to go for the healthy stuff when there’s a bag of miss vickie’s jalapeno chips in the pantry…
90-10??? You’re going the wrong way hahaha…..I guess they are both MUSTS, healthy eating and exercise, but exercise helps mitigate the bad eating more than vice versa; think of Michael Phelps, he ate McDonalds everyday, but was burning 12,000 calories a day……I just see all this shit around like “Herbal Magic,” or 100 calorie chocolate bars and wonder what people are thinking….
go to my gym and talk to the guy. he doesnt use the internet so maybe that’s a sign. i was eating really healthy when i was working out (also stressed to the max which burns up calories like crazy) and eating bananas everyday (potassium = crapping) as well as drinking still, got in shape.
now i do virtually nothing well, humping, wii fit sporadically, drink practically nothing compared to what i used to drink, and smoke weed, not tons. i do not eat during the day period just coffee. then i start eating around 5/6 or so. anyway this works for me, i am 4lbs lighter now than i was when i was working out eating right and drinking.
the drinking cut-out/down is what did all this i strongly feel and know. plus my metabolism, life change, anxiety/stress.
cool, good on you! S’funny, I just moved from Vancouver to Kitchener (fuck….) and by necessity have switched from weed to booze….hello spare tire!!!!
That said, my lungs feel better thus far,
btw, your blog is entertaining