my name is meg. i'm an 18yo gemini & i currently live in the cold city of canberra, studying law & psychology. i love music, vintage anything, sylvia plath, my dog, cooking, true blood, winter & my papa. life constantly surprises, amazes, frightens, troubles, confuses & exhilarates me, & i love it.
basically, your body has a genetically-determined body fat ‘set point’, & it is constantly working to maintain that specific amount.
therefore, if you lose weight (decrease in body fat), your body will automatically put mechanisms into place (mainly the work hormone called leptin) to go back to your set-point: you’ll store more fat, you’ll become more hungry & you’ll burn less energy (no matter how much you modify your exercise amount or food intake).
the opposite also is true: if your body fat amount increases, your body will work to get you back to your set-point by decreasing your hunger, increasing your metabolism, store less fat and burn more energy.
this negative feedback loop is seen in ‘yo-yo’ dieting (or in my own personal experience, a certain bitchy politics teacher at salesian).
this is all in spite of any long-term behavioural modifications you may make - it has been repeated again & again in studies where people lose a large amount of weight, over a matter of years they will return to their original weight, despite maintaining the behavioural changes that helped them lose the weight in the first place.
over your lifetime, the most you can really lose or gain & maintain is about 2-3kg.
bottom line: all these websites/blogs encouraging teenage girls to lose ridiculous amounts of weight, all that effort isn’t really going to change that much.
how about encouraging things like a balanced, full diet & healthy lifestyles? it’s things like lowering our risk of diseases and looking after our organs that we should be focusing on - not to mention fostering healthy self-image & positive self-esteem, & encouraging young people that what’s on the inside (both body-wise and personality-wise) is what really matters. :)
my papa just sent me this photo of my puppy dog. miss her & my parents lots. but definitely wouldn’t go back to sunbury. if only i could have both!
friday: i was so so excited about law ball; but i went to all the effort of dressing up but literally only about 3 other people out of 300 were dressed in costumes & i felt like an idiot. the guys on our table were sleazy douches who were subtly making fun of me all night. then annie-mei got too drunk too early so i took her back to my place before the after-party even started & she fell asleep on my bed, so i slept on the floor. i didn’t mind looking after her, but it wasn’t how i was expecting my night to pan out. esp when i spent $110 on a ticket.
yesterday i felt uber sick & spent the last of my money until wednesday payday on groceries & osteopath. i tried to do uni work but i felt yuck so instead i spent ages on coles online & the heart foundation website to buy a whole lot of groceries to help lower my cholesterol & blood pressure.
today wasn’t much better, felt too nauseous to go for a jog so i stayed home. did uni work & finished it, which felt good. somehow found myself looking at photos of my grandparents & crying like a little bitch. forgot that i had a towel drying outside overnight & now it’s even more wet because it rained today, lol.
but this week should be pretty excellent, i have law revue on friday night! :) i’ll get to spend time with my friends, i’ll get to do some clothes shopping, buy some gaiam yoga dvds, & i’ll get my ultrasound results back.
now to relax with trackies, masterchef & pancakes.
fiusbfekugvn :haha it’s crazy how these things happen! :)
naww i miss you toooo!! how are you going? you sound like you’re really well :))) xxx
Tim Minchin - Cont.
wow that’s a bit scary, i suddenly had an urge to listen to tim minchin & then came on tumblr & there’s tim minchin lyrics. jedi mind power.
just read a shitload of research about it, it’s actually ridiculous how bad it is for you in terms of your psychological and even physical wellbeing. i guess i am lucky because i get to work in a place 2 days a week & see what actual lawyers actually do after law school, & it reminds me that the pain is worth it.
i’m motivated by the fact that i get to do something actually useful once this is over, instead of what is happening now: being stifled & restricted to black-letter law courses, a focus on commercial/private practice & a culture that does not promote empathy & emotion nor allows for the gamot of students’ individual skills & strengths to be assessed.
essentially, if implicitly, it is a culture that values you only on your grades, & i abhore the competitive, each-for-their-own mentality in law school. i thought it would be a place where people could be recognised & rewarded for their personal strengths & their goals, but clearly it is not.
so i failed my second torts assessment; but i know deep down that i am worthy to be here & that i can make a good contribution to the legal system. it’s just a necessary evil that in order for me to be a good lawyer, i have to endure law school.
(Source: flushedwithcash)
Denise Hopkins designed this Cookie Monster mug!
She also sells them.
the killing moon (echo & the bunnymen cover) - something for kate
and the news reports on the radio said it was getting worse
as the ocean air fanned the flames
and i couldn’t think of anywhere i would’ve rather been
to watch it all burn away
Yes please.
pretty please with cherries on top.
(Source: g0ld-embers)
