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@oikonomia I'm so glad! Please don't beat yourself up for caring what other people think! We're a social species; back in the hunter gatherer age, if we were completely ostracized from groups, we'd die! We all care about feeling seen and included in a group, it's normal. But you have to live...

@oikonomia Well... I dunno if this resonates with you at all, but I think a challenging part of freeing ourselves from the beauty standard is that there's nothing to replace it with. Like, you might know you feel better not drinking, less heavy, with less makeup--but since we're inundated with...

@porcelainrose I'm so sorry to hear that. If You're already looking at getting out of academia, perhaps some of that competitive stuff you were talking about is optional? Industry doesn't care how many papers you published in necessarily, they just care about you having the PhD after your name...

@porcelainrose What is the most stressful thing in your life right now? Can you take 4-12 weeks off of it? I work in the tech industry, where we talk a lot about developing or preventing burnout. If you're having physical symptoms of your stress, you're very burned out. So rather than try to...

@a1235 Try a little apple cider vinegar in a pint of water before bed. ACV has pectin in it, which will help keep you full. The taste is a little strong, but I find I don't need more than 1 or 2 tsp in a pint of water.

@iamactullygabenist If your cheat days are usually Friday and Saturday and you weigh on Sunday morning, you may look and feel bloated, or weigh in heavier because you overate a couple days in a row and are retaining water from eating heavily processed, salty foods. It's hard to eat 'healthy'...