Myth #2: High cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. 

Conventional medicine is primarily focused on suppressing symptoms. If your blood pressure is high, you take a medication to lower it. If your blood sugar is high, you take a medication to lower it. If your cholesterol is high, you take a medication to lower it. In most cases there is rarely any investigation into why these markers are high in the first place, with the possible exception of some basic (but often incorrect) counseling on diet and exercise.

You know, posts like these make me feel better about the shit week I’ve been having. You know why? Because I’m not so superficial to only care about my weight. My goals aren’t even to get thinner anymore. My goal is to be happy—a mental journal, one that many people don’t overcome in their entire lifetime. Being 100lbs and unhappy is just as disappointing as being unhappy at 250lbs. And I would CHOOSE to be happy at 250lbs over being unhappy at 100lbs in a heart beat. 

What’s more unfortunate is people like you are extremely unhappy on the inside. How can you be happy when you’re so consumed with the public image and media pushing you to solely concentrate on your outer image. They push you to believe that an appealing outer image is your key to happiness. Trust me darling, it’s not. Do you know how I know you’re not happy or satisfied? You’re on tumblr messaging some random stranger who has had success with weight loss, on anonymous mode, trying to justify yourself and your “meal plan”. LOL. How silly. 

Copy & Pasted from an article “Top 10 Useless Professions”

Registered dietitians go to school and learn complex food chemistry as part of a rigorous four-year degree program. Anyone with regular bowel movements who ingests organic oatmeal can call themselves a ‘nutritionist’. Qualifications: An ability to find out which cantaloupe is ripe simply by tapping on it.

That’s basically how I feel about nutritionists. A nutritionist is the equivalent to a tumblr user who spent a year reading a text book and writing a 5 page research paper about food/nutrition. The only difference is that they got accredited for it and you didn’t. Woopdeefuckingdoo. Stop wasting your money—hire a dietitian if you have serious weight problems that you can’t seem to figure out how to manage yourself. 

You know what actually doesn’t help anyone? When an anon can’t read, and attempts to target someone who doesn’t give a shit about other people’s opinions. Perhaps the 20min you spent writing your message could have gone to better use… like a walk in the sun or some yoga. Maybe that’s why you’re still fat because you spend your days going around tumblr sending people unnecessary messages? Nailed it.

I never said, “never snack when you’re trying to lose weight”. You can stop bullshitting. I snack when I feel like it. And most of the time I don’t need to snack because I’m full as fuck from the delicious paleo food I eat. Your metabolism doesn’t need snacks in 3-hour intervals to “keep itself going” or to “boost”. Those are myths created by the diet industry and media. Regularly snacking creates a habitual snacking habit. The reason you feel like shit when you don’t eat every 2 hours is because you’re so dependent on sugar and carbs that you crash after each snack/meal. So even when you’re not hungry, you’re likely to snack during the same time period each day. Your body does not need the excess food that snacking establishes. Eat when you’re hungry, not when your body is craving something due to a habit you’ve setup. Not snacking keeps my blood sugar stable and eliminates mid-day and late night cravings for me. This doesn’t translate to ZOMG NEVER SNACK EVER EVER EVER like you seem to think.

“How about you actually learn to read and get your shit together before you start typing?”

ggwp better luck next time though. :)

LOL I never get bored of this argument, it’s my favourite. Eating at night makes you fat is a myth that has been debunked by controlled clinical studies. And the idea is just stupid because it doesn’t make sense. You gain weight from overeating crap. If you eat crap at night, you’ll gain weight at night. Not because you ate at night, but because you ate crap. If you eat crap during the day, you’ll also gain weight. Truth is, people tend to eat tons of crap at night than they do during the day. 

LOL @ the metabolism argument. Yeah… your metabolism slows down. So what? That means nothing. Your metabolism is the total energy (calories) burned in a 24-hr period. Your metabolism is NOT the amount of FAT your body burns. On average people’s metabolisms slow down about 10-15% probably peaking around 35%-40% at a certain POINT (not the entire duration of the night). A 15% drop in metabolic rate is NOT significant.

Similarly, you can’t lose more weight by sleeping LESS (preventing your metabolism from slowing down at night to sleeping levels). 

So, with that said. Here are links to my previous answers to questions like yours. Read up, dear. Stop being ignorant.

• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/20854368749/polefitnutritionist-inspiremethin
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/27886978024/eating-at-night-does-make-you-fat-no-calories-dont
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/27454958949/every-damn-dayy-healthybmas
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/20856815483/you-and-this-girl-need-to-chill-out-i-love-your-blog
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/44159116099/shanghaibelle-shedyourpounds-omg-this
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/19143186012/dirtylittlemessynotes-lol-they-dont-but-your
• http://inspiremethin.tumblr.com/post/37002880314/if-you-dont-believe-in-the-calories-in-calories-out (not pertaining to eating at night, but the basis of why you dont gain by eating at night, but rather depends what your diet consists of)

I know there’s more I’ve written on about this topic in my archives (especially answers to asks). I just don’t have the time to spend 2 hours going through all 600 something pages of my blog. But this information should suffice.