/hb/ - Health & Beauty

>>20877
>this would be quite the spectacle for a reality show.

It would, but you're right about them not being able to commit. There are already reality shows about morbidly obese people trying to lose weight, and a lot of the people end up literally dying because they're too fucking obese and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

>>20878
>and can't stick to even the most mild calorie deficit.

i think the only way for obese people is to introduce the change in steps so small that they go completely under their radar, since they are not all of the sudden going to rediscover willpower, patience and strong nerves.

i've been thinking about this for many years. something like reducing their portions by 1% and enduring the discomfort until they can reduce another 1% looks to me to be the only way to do it.

might be all in vain though since the underlying root cause of their obesity is never addressed, which is irresponsibility: denial, lack of curiosity, identification with illusion, separation of cause and effect

>>20879
I would phrase it instead as introducing things into the diet. E.g. you must eat one whole carrot a day before having junk food. You're not banning something (and thus there's no fomo), but you are making a rule that will
A) Make the bad habit inconvenient
B) Slowly introduce good habits

One of the best ways to "quit" something is to not frame it as quitting. Always try and frame it as a gain and you'll generally do better.

>>20881
NTA but this is how I quit vaping, actually. It also ties into this discussion regarding weight loss: I slowly phased in exercise and over time I didn't want to vape as much because doing so made exercises more difficult after I got the hang of enjoying the movements. I'm no longer overweight.

>>20881
>making a rule

your overall approach would work but getting the person to do it by making a rule; that is you not understanding the depth of the underlying psychological problems responsible for obesity. the whole reason the obese person bends itself into a prezel psychologically (including multiple personality behavior) to do harmful things is to avoid the many disadvantages of a life of rules. rules are not the solution, they are the underlying problem. they may work for you but that is because you have cut off the spontaneous and creative parts of you that the obese person tries to protect from a life of rules. look at the people who do what they do because of rules, not because they understand and agree with something and you will find a host of problems, mostly of the mental health; emotional damage but also physical in terms of cramps, various stiffnesses in all systems of the body, heart issues and a general disconnectedness and difficulty to relate to other members of their species that are not part of their bonded group.

>>20827
>I basically want to repair all my cells and DNA.

how'd they get broken

>>20828
op has cancer I guess

>>20828
People accumulate DNA damage through exposure to UV and oxidants. The body has repair mechanisms for these but it eventually builds up. So I've been boosting the repair pathways and also trying to reduce the damage rate in the first place via antioxidants.

>>20843
>People accumulate DNA damage through exposure to UV and oxidants.

this would sound very nice in a marketing paragraph but i don't have the means to verify this sadly. so i don't know but i would expect this to be bs just from living in a culture of weaponized for-profit health products.

plus fundamentally the human digestion has been learning how to digest alive nutrients since the begining of life and processed food only for a few hundreds or thousands.

your capsules and tinctures are all highly processed dead isolates foreign to the human body and may be hard to digest while potentially doing little to no benefit. since digestion is a process requiring a lot of the body, you might be weakening yourself for little to no benefit, which is the opposite effect of what you are trying to achieve.

unless you are talking about herbal supplements, which i very much respect.

>>20855
Well everything I take is endogenous to the human body or plants (the glutathione comes from white tomatos) so it's not synthetic molecules per se. I do get what youre saying about getting it from foods and stuff rather than pill form, however its not fully practical because of the massive amounts of tomatoes, grapes, etc. you'd have to eat every day to get the effective doses.

Because beauty is mostly subjective and different countries ahving vastly different and sometimes opposite beauty standards is a concrete proof of that. You just basically said "why do others think it's pretty when i don't?

>>20840
evil gang stalking asshole

flower like faces and curly hair. entangles people in their mess. deserves to get people of their gender attacking them they dont even know

>>20832
>to be a cute doll-looking girl

wow what an effortlessly irresponsible life you must have to worry about unimportant details like how your eyebrows look. i could appreciate you taking the time and energy to look a certain way, but i don't. it is a waste of the short human life to worry about superficiality.

thick eyebrows are ugly and only look good on social media and not irl

>>20832
Fashionable "beauty" is different from true beauty.

They left out his TMH era. He was so hot. Anyway I don't mind buzz cuts or short hair, but I really adore long hair.

>>20623
Love it but I also have mixed feelings cause I can't have my own hair be as pretty ffs

This new kind of mullet.

>posts AI slop
you deserve heavy hair

Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize. The longer the curls are the harder the it is for the tips to stay healthy. This is why traditionally most cultures with curly hair have protective braiding styles, but we live in the age of fancy shampoo and abundance so we can take advantage of that!
I've noticed most shampoos are too stripping for me so my current shampoo is actually a cleansing conditioner by Aunt Jackie's. To me that made the biggest difference and a massive one at that. Now I don't really notice much of a difference between using a regular conditioner or a heavy duty one so I think the worst thing I was doing to my curls was stripping the hair of too many oils with my shampoo so the conditioner had to work double time against the damage and barely contained it. Once a week I'll use a conditioning mask in the shower but mostly just use normal conditioner that I leave in while I wash my body. When I get out of the shower I gently towel dry and use some sort of sealing cream. I don't like the idea of product buildup (especially now that I'm using a cleansing conditioner instead of regular shampoo) so the stuff I'm currently using is basically just emulsified oils as I'm trying to avoid silicone or anything else that would build up over time. Then I let air dry and my curls are actually really happy and bouncy!
If I skip or forget to put in a sealing cream while my hair is wet my hair will be a bit frizzy but not bad so I really must stress finding a non stripping shampoo or cheating by using a cleansing conditioner personally. I originally bought after shower hair creams first and found myself using a lot but when I swapped shampoos I barely needed any and found my hair looked better too. On top of that, get a good wide tooth comb and comb daily to move the oils from the top of your scalp down to the tips. I used to avoid brushing but that was when I had a shit brush, now I notice my hair and scalp are so much healthier now that I'm combing through it. Good luck with the hair journey! My go to brand is Aunt Jackie's cause it's cheaper than the other stuff I've tried and it works miles better than this 70$ Kevin Murphy cleansing shampoo/conditioner combo I wasted money on one year. I don't have Afro hair, but the products still work amazing. I just don't go for the sealing cream for the super tight curly hair and it doesn't overdo it so long as I don't use too much

Hysterectomy also increases dementia risk.

>>20710
What doesn't?

They say keeping mentally active helps prevents dementia. I don't know how the disease works but I feel like it usually comes to people who've already mentally clocked out.

I was trying to make an appointment to get my tubes tied but then Trump won and now I can get a hold of my gyno.

>>20710
Dementia increase sterilization risk.

>>20712
Well shit I’m neet and let my brain rot on vidya all day
Time to learn piano songs and teach myself a new language methinks

i have some advice. worry about more important things then how you look and when the sun is out, do something so that your skin can soak the sun up, it is very healthy. you have to know the sun where you live. where i live, i just avoid the sun when it is hottest from 10am to 2pm during the hot part of the year and otherwise i don't need any sun protection and can stay in the sun as much as i like.

I’ve been pale maxxing, I went all in on skincare and decided to give up most makeup. I like the minimal holo look so I pick glossy products without or almost no color, I use highlighter that has subtle shimmer. People have complained I need to choose saturated colors and actual eyeliner/mascara to correct my appearance but I prefer looking like an aylmao.

>>20714
wear dark clothes for contrast in fall and winter and bright colorful clothes in sprint and summer
eat more vitamin a from cod liver or any type of liver, eggyolks, etc
this will give you good glow

>>20811
Bring goth and emo back.

Most women are naturally beautiful in their own way. It’s not a competition.

>>20806
>>20806
>>20806
that's some crazy cope

>>20810
Is it cope? I don't think I have ever seen an ugly woman unless she is obese/a drug addict/alcoholic but those are by choice

Men however are almost always ugly balding fucks after they turn 30

>>20813
>Is it cope? I don't think I have ever seen an ugly woman unless she is obese/a drug addict/alcoholic but those are by choice

good on you for understanding this, most people are still in the dark about how deeply their choices and habits effect them. they spend their whole life smoking, drinking alcohol, eating sickening food and not exercising, meanwhile they go around telling everybody what an unlucky hand they were dealt in life with all their ugliness and frequent health complications, never once questioning themselves. addiction to irresponsibility.

>Men however are almost always ugly balding fucks after they turn 30
same problem, foolish and unnecessary choices. you have to see a few good specimen making good choices to understand how much the years of making bad, shortsighted choices ruin a person.

even more befuddling to the average fool is the guilt of being a problem in this world instead of a solution and how that affects the body and the mind of a person. given enough life experience you will find that there are jobs where all the people who do that job become sick and ugly and die early while suffering depression and all the other easily preventable idiocy.

>>20817
>If depression was easily preventable, this site wouldn't exist

i understand many people are depressed, however this is horseshit. depression is not the only reason to like imageboards and i would very much hope they would still exist.

>broadly speaking. Depression isn't easy to get out from once one is in it.

to a difficult irresponsible person, everything is complicated and nothing is easy. you can find people to whom cracking an egg is hard, however once you know how to open the egg, they will agree that it is easy and always has been easy and that they were merely inexperienced.

>Not everyone can afford fixing their life
there is a lot people can't afford if throwing money at problems (or more broadly speaking: conventional, unreachable solutions) is the only solution that is being considered. i am still waiting on a single example of any of you believers of the unaffordability that i can not easily poke a hole in. this is nothing but pessimism and nihilism in denial.

>if for no other reason than lack of cognizance and perspective that would allow them to do so.
and who chooses your perspective?

>>19482
mine are exactly like that like even down to the weird shape so it only ever looks okayish when its cold. having badly shaped tits are way worse than having super small ones that have a good shape. i think a boob job is my only option :(

>>3427

>How has having small breasts affected your body image and confidence?
>If you have been berated for having small breasts, how have you coped?
I hung around a lot of online spaces when I was 12-14 YO (male dominated spaces since the internet in general is male dominated). Can't believe my self-esteem got so low that I used to joke with them about being "flat". When I was 17 an ex-bf told me I was unattractive because I didn't fit into Eurocentric beauty standards which I suspect is partially due to my small breasts (I'm Asian). I coped by developing a hatred of men kekw.

I miss having small breasts so much. Back when I was in high school I was 5'9 and weighed 129 pounds and was a B cup at most. Now it's 10 years later I'm 226 and my breasts are fucKing huge. I can't find bras that fit me at Walmart or any of the normal stores and even when special stores have them they are expensive and few and far between. I hate that can't do jumping jacks, I hate that I can't really wear sports bras (I'm autistic and it gives me sensory issues). I remember an ex of mine brought up how small they were in a text telling me off after I broke up with him. It really didn't affect my that much because I liked the way they looked. I guess the only thing that ever really hurt my self-confidence is when people would mistake me for a guy, but at the time I associated that with me just being an ugly girl. In hindsight, it probably had something to do with it. It doesn't matter to me now, I would do anything to go back to my old body. [spoiler]I just wish I could stop overeating. I have like no self-control.Or stop eating for a while in general[spoiler] I guess I like that guys like my breasts and they can be kinda cute in some outfits. I would kill to have small breasts again though.

>>20688
I miss having small breasts so much. Back when I was in high school I was 5'9 and weighed 129 pounds and was a B cup at most. Now it's 10 years later I'm 226 and my breasts are fucKing huge. I can't find bras that fit me at Walmart or any of the normal stores and even when special stores have them they are expensive and few and far between. I hate that can't do jumping jacks, I hate that I can't really wear sports bras (I'm autistic and it gives me sensory issues). I remember an ex of mine brought up how small they were in a text telling me off after I broke up with him. It really didn't affect my that much because I liked the way they looked. I guess the only thing that ever really hurt my self-confidence is when people would mistake me for a guy, but at the time I associated that with me just being an ugly girl. In hindsight, it probably had something to do with it. It doesn't matter to me now, I would do anything to go back to my old body. I just wish I could stop overeating. I have like no self-control.Or stop eating for a while in general I guess I like that guys like my breasts and they can be kinda cute in some outfits. I would kill to have small breasts again though. Please delete the above post the spoiler text didn't work right

>>20689

>I would do anything to go back to my old body

first thing to lose weight is to continue to hold the thought that it is possible.

i mean that literally.

you hold the thought in your head. you give the thought the stage, your attention. you say to yourself that it is possible, read it to yourself in your head, your attention is currency. there are other things claiming to be the currency, having people all over the world call it the currency and these things come up when you search for currency but they are not the currency. whole world is wrong. your attention is.

so you bathe the thought of the possibility with currency. let your attention rain on the thought, hold it in your brain. i have done this to cultivate other habits.

i held the thought of the thing i wanted to change in my head the first day and once i got antsy and wanted to grab my phone and doomscroll some mindless feed, i said "no, just a few more seconds" and i did not grab the phone and kept thinking about the thing.

first day i thought about it maybe 30 seconds. then over night it grew. second day i thought about it a few times, a minute each. third day i thought about it even more and by the fourth day my attention had generated so much energy that i could no longer sit still and be in denial about it. I CAN EASILY DO THIS LITTLE THING THAT BRINGS ME CLOSER… and the gears started to turn, like holding magnifying glass under sunlight just the right way, my focus on the thing made my energy start to burn.
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>>20436
Stomach vacuums train your transverse abdominal muscles. These are not the sixpack muscles but something like a corset all over your belly and therefore they give your core stability. You can easily try it daily. Just suck in your belly and hold it for 30s or suck it in and then release throughout a minute or something like that

My mother encouraged me to do this when I was very young, and I stayed a lot thinner that way compared to my peers. I love her for that!

I'm assuming it's this

>>20461
There’s more technique involved than sucking your tummy in.
Vacuums are a breathing exercise, you have to completely empty your lungs and stomach until you feel your diaphragm “plug” and then the negative pressure will lift your organs for a lack of a better description. Posture is extremely important to avoid involving the wrong muscle group and to take care of your spine. You also need to do them 3 hours after you’ve eaten so usually they’re best first thing in the morning.
There’s a lot of postures to try from beginner to advanced so I highly encourage anyone wanting to do them to do a lot of research first, don’t just hold your tummy in you have to create negative pressure within your core to do it properly otherwise you risk increasing said abdominal pressure and blowing your pelvic floor muscles out, I received training from a PT I advise anyone interested to get some coaching if you can afford it