Scandinavian Vampire

anyone else just woke up one day and realized that our time on this earth is limited and that they really really really want to live despite every bad thing that happens and proceeded to have a break down or is it just me

Flora, woman picking flowers with a cornucopia in the ruins of Pompeii

this is a sign to stop self deprecating so much. like that shit causes so much damage to ur well being.

im serious btw. i know first hand that once u start going down that road its so hard to stop. its so hard to stop the negative self talk and self pitying especially when you’ve been doing it for a long time. feeling bad abt urself all the time and insulting yourself doesnt do anyone any good, it just makes you feel worse in the long run. quite frankly self deprecation is one of the worst things u can do to urself. no one should feel burdened by their existence. you deserve better.

subtle intimacy is so soft. knowing someone’s routine and slowly becoming a part of it. memorising favourite teas and soups and drink orders. good morning and good night texts and messy paragraphs of love written half asleep. nicknames only you know. just small things that say “look how dear you are to me.”

replace the makeup industry with wearing medieval cloaks

Friendly reminder that 1200 calories is the recommended amount for a 5 year old

Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.

Wow. This really hit me hard.

EAT

Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.

Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.

Remember that “calories” are a measure of the “energy” you get from food and not specifically a measure of fat or sugar or any one thing. A single calorie is the amount of heat it takes to warm water by one degree Celsius. Using it as a measure of a “healthy diet” is batshit gibberish.

Friendly reminder that a 2,000 calorie daily recommendation was taken by averaging self reports (which are notoriously unreliable) and then rounding down by several hundred calories. Also what @bogleech says above is technically true, but not accurate. As in, a calorie was established as how much heat it takes to raise water by one degree, but humans aren’t just vats of water. You can heat literally anything, but not everything has calories. Heating a brick of gold could produce results in this controlled system, but my body cannot convert gold to energy. How much of what is in a Snicker’s bar for example is non-nutritive additives? And if, for example, I’m missing a foot of intestine, it might take a lot more calories for me to obtain the same amount of energy. Calories aren’t a measurement of energy, not one that can be reliably and accurately applied across all foods and for all bodies. The only thing they measure is the amount of energy it takes to raise the temperature of one liter of water by one degree celsius.

Reblogging because I hadn’t the time to elaborate before and now there’s more sources on this too

adulthood is just telling yourself “and after i’ve done THAT i can finally relax” with increasing desperation