"The Angst Monarch"

my imagination:

Like. I know that I can't get mad at Girl Scouts for giving JK Rowling money here, because that is explicitly the opposite of what is happening. Girl Scouts is getting money. And I don't know enough about how advertising and contracts and corporations work to know the kind of veto power they have to say "can you please talk about anything else?" Maybe they very well could and should say that. Maybe Broadway.com would say "fuck you, this is our standard presentation, we aren't making a new one, you don't get our money." I don't know. I work wiping asses, not in anything remotely like this. So I don't know if I should be mad at girl scouts for not telling Broadway.com to talk about the Lion King or Wicked or Aladdin or something if they want to talk about family friendly shows.

Like. I know that I can't get mad at Girl Scouts for giving JK Rowling money here, because that is explicitly the opposite of what is happening. Girl Scouts is getting money. And I don't know enough about how advertising and contracts and corporations work to know the kind of veto power they have to say "can you please talk about anything else?" Maybe they very well could and should say that. Maybe Broadway.com would say "fuck you, this is our standard presentation, we aren't making a new one, you don't get our money." I don't know. I work wiping asses, not in anything remotely like this. So I don't know if I should be mad at girl scouts for not telling Broadway.com to talk about the Lion King or Wicked or Aladdin or something if they want to talk about family friendly shows.

If your doctor is fixated on your weight that is a RED FLAG. Yes even if you do have health problems, because here's something nobody wants to acknowledge: weight loss is not a proven treatment plan for any health condition, because it cannot be sustained. Upwards of 95% of intentional weight loss attempts fail and actually result in more weight gain long term. Not to mention weight cycling damages your metabolism and causes or worsens many of the same issues associated with high weight.

Intermittent Fasting, namely only eating during specific, arbitrary time frames and completely restricting everything other than water the rest, so starving yourself.

Eating on smaller plates so I feel like I ate more than I did.

Stop eating all fruit because it's sweet.

Eat only spinach, fish, and blueberries.

Keto, despite that being a specific diet for kids with epilepsy that is usually only successful under the strict and constant guidance of a dietician. I was not referred to a dietician by the doctor who suggested it.

Low-carb in general which is, at it's core, starving yourself.

Stop eating so much fried food. Without asking me what I was eating already which was, incidentally, not primarily fried foods.

To be happy about my colon cancer scare because the severe, painful, chronic diarrhea was great for helping me lose weight.

Most doctors don't know anything about nutrition at all. The doctor who tried to get me to do intermittent fasting? After going gluten free I told her I was worried about not getting enough folic acid and iron as I know a lot of grains are fortified with those and I won't be getting that supplemented in my diet like that anymore, and asked if she had any advice, and IN FRONT OF ME JUST GOOGLED WHAT FOODS HAVE FOLIC ACID AND IRON IN THEM and then told me as long as I eat veggies I should be fine. A woman who just told me to starve myself didn't even know what foods have folic acid or iron in them off the top of her head.

And even nutritionists aren't safe, my second one ended up being my last because she admitted she said she had no idea how to help me because she "just microwaves some lettuce with cheese" and that's a meal for her and me doing things like *checks notes* eating at chipotle was confusing.

Doctors will just fucking give you eating disorder advice and pretend because they have a degree it's fine but fr, see a registered dietician, those guys are the only ones actually qualified to give you advice on what you eat outside of gastroenterologists and allergists.

That’s the number of people at level 1 literacy or below. Level 1 literacy is like grade school level. Able to read labels and straightforward instructions and whatnot.