/hb/ - Health & Beauty

>>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

>>20766
>nobody has to.
You don't know how the world works. Where I live the only food you'll be able to afford to make from 'scratch' is instant noodles unless you have a high paying, skilled job or you work a lot.

>>20772
You don't know how the world works. Where I live the only food you'll be able to afford to make from 'scratch' is instant noodles unless you have a high paying, skilled job or you work a lot.

sounds like a horrible place, too bad for you the only way to be alive as a human today is to live in the exact place that you live in and there are no other places you could go where there is food available.

>>20783
There is plenty of food available, but you won't be able to afford making everything from scratch unless you have the time the money and the energy

>>20785
>There is plenty of food available, but you won't be able to afford making everything from scratch unless you have the time the money and the energy

i call bs, go prove it. make an example calculation and then i will ridicule it and point out all the flaws and the countless things you don't understand or know so i don't have to hear your silly theater anymore meant to display your highest priority in life: irresponsibility.

>>20786
eh

>>20694
THIS.

This so much! Improving my posture has given me so much confidence. It helps me feel more feminine. People even started viewing me more feminine.

My slouch was so bad I was growing a literal hump.

It's even given me power in the work place. People started to listen to me more. They no longer treat me like a push over. I noticed the male co-workers started listening to my orders.

You need to work on your back. Maintaining posture requires muscles in your back.
The first day it hurt so much I was in tears.


Now if only I can change my face for free.

I've been working on my posture by doing some crunches on the pullup bar. Doing work on glutes with lunges and goblet squats and going crazy on the leg press as well. This evening when I go to the gym I'm going to try and start doing some more ab workouts with weights.

this post has been up for 3 months and nobody said dancing?

dancing. the answer is dancing. go and dance. during the long winter nights when it is dark, cold and windy outside you better have your place in good shape with clean floors that aren't cluttered (because you want all that space to move around in, all graceful and elegant!) and then find some music you vibe to and dance!

and if you can't do it, maybe try some wine or some weed, that might help. go feel the music, be kind to yourself, feel wonderful and enjoy the health benefits that dancing tries to bring into your life.

dancing is this kind benevolent thing that only wants to help you and improve your life in various ways and you stand in the way of it. if only you knew how good it was, how essential it is to a complete human life. makes the body feel better, builds muscle, burns calorie, makes the mind work better, soothes the soul, makes you sweat and smile and breathe deep.

>>20695
Do you have any posture guides pls link here

I’m growing a hunch back and phone neck day by day

>>20774

>Do you have any posture guides pls link here

make sure when you sit at a table, that the table is so high, that you have to sit very straight to use the table (to eat or to type). height adjustable table helps with this, it also helps so you can work at a computer or eat while standing up.

also make sure your sink in the kitchen and in the bathroom are the right height. for the longest time i was using a kitchen sink that was apparently made for children because i always had to crouch down. so i put a little stool in front of it where i would always put one knee on as to lower myself down to the sink to use it for more then 10 seconds.

last thing i can think of: make sure your bed is not too comfy, it needs to be kind of hard (which is only bothersome in the beginning and soon becomes normal) for your back, otherwise backproblems are inevitable, at least this was the case with me. i am so glad i just spontaneously bought a slightly too hard matress many years ago and all my backproblems went away.

phone neck: lift the phone in front of your face or even better, get used to using it less, phone is awful. it is a machine that tries to distract and disable you and leave you depressed. do arts and craft instead, internet turns worse by the minute.

>I’m growing a hunch back and phone neck day by day

>>20735
Avoid sugar

>>20736
thank you!!
I don't wear makeup so it probably might be my diet, I don't eat that much but when I do its ramen and monster or something. I'll try to drink water and eat more healthy!

>>20738
I don't eat that much but when I do its ramen and monster or something. I'll try to drink water and eat more healthy!

candy, instant-food, drinks made from chemicals: those will all cause problems and pimples in the face is only one way this manifests. you can easily understand this for yourself. eat only candy (for a week) and just see what happens. how you feel, how you look,…

when i did this (20 years ago) i gained weight, got pimply and my armpits start to hurt then i stopped eating the garbage and ate better, pimples went away, armpits stopped hurting and i began to lose weight again.

a nice way to gently transition away from the garbage is this:

when you eat your silly ramen, prepare it as usual but do it in a bigger bowl and add tons of raw vegetables on top. tomato, bell pepper, spinnach leaves, rucola, celery, spring onion. you can only add a bit of it at first but then gently start to tip the scale so that it is more vegetable then sillyfood.

instead of energy drink you can do this: buy lemons, limes and/or grapefruit and some maple syrup. make a big jug in the morning consisting of: water, your citrus of choice and a bit of maple syrup. in order for the lemons not to spoil, you can juice all the lemons you buy and fill the juice in an ice cube tray, that way they won't become moldy after a few days and making your drink in the morning is less work.

The only things that work against acne are retinoids

Yes cleansers are good for aiding but virtually all cosmetic skincare is useless for acne if not paired with retinoid medication

>>20760
To adress what others have said: while eating 'clean" helps gut health and yadda yadda, it will not impact your skin THAT much, it will not clear up your acne, as food doesn't control our oil production but hormones do.

That's why a lot of women have breakouts during/before period, that's when our oil production skyrockets. And most adult men don't have acne because their hormones don't change the same way ours do, so they can eat like shit and they won't have painful cystic acne from it.

>>19545
>Does anyone here know a female only forum like this one specifically for female bodybuilders?
not what you're looking for but iirc lc has a thread for bodybuilding

I have started my fitness journey with a 4 day rotation of strength training and on my off days I do 45 mins cardio.

Currently I weigh 151 lbs. Will report back with results monthly!

>>20680

I'm few months into lifting (5x a week) and weigh about the same. What do you do for cardio? I have a bad habit of skipping cardio bc I hate most of it, and I need to find something I like enough to do consistently

>>20684
Just went on a 4h hike uphill and it is way better than the step master

>>20684
Oops sorry I meant to reply to myself (I am going to reply to Myself every time I do a good exercise to help keep myself motivated & let others see / get inspired by my progress)
But on my 45 mins days I do the step master or elliptical with a good podcast episode so it isn’t as gruelling. I am aiming to do long hiking trips on the weekend.

Being active makes me feel alive. My weights fluctuated over the years (115-200lbs) and my healthiest and fittest I’ve been was 130’lbs where I didn’t count calories but made sure I exercised everyday and I skipped junk food, sugary drinks, and ate whole carbs (rice, potatoes)
I’m aiming to get back there again. Would not recommend starving yourself. You don’t feel as good. When I was 115 lbs I’d easily faint sometimes… I did look good in photos but feeling bad ain’t worth it

Keto chow is incredible

I sometimes drink slimfast for a meal replacement because I don't always like eating breakfast/lunches but I need something to keep my stomach quiet.
It's fast and simple and I can drink it on the way to work.

>>20640
>something to keep my stomach quiet

are you in conflict with your body? it sounds like it is bother you and keeping you from climbing the corporate ladder.

>>20669
>corporate ladder
Lol. Don't care.
I like to keep my body in a state of limbo where it think it gets food only to deny it and gorge later on after work.

>>20675
>it think it gets food only to deny it and gorge later on after work

that does sound like corporate ladder a bit but feel free to remain in denial about it…

i can tell your relation to your body is out of sync when you feel the need to fool your body. i guess you tried just not eating all day and only eating in the evening but your body rebelled against your management. in theory this should not be a problem, one meal a day. i guess you eat a lot of candy and drink coffee and potentially use medication that also stresses your body.

i just eat fruit all day and when i am eating something heavy, i eat it in the evening. that's almost one meal a day with the added benefit that i don't need coffee to help me poop.

girl, just two bananas (or how ever many) during the day could save your life from this industrial nightmare wrecking havoc on your body and keep you from turning into a muppet with age.

Non-oily sunscreens market themselves as non-comedogenic
For avoiding white cast, look for chemical sunscreens since they don't use whitish minerals to absorb and deflect UV rays, but if they irritate your skin too much, then avoid products with oxybenzone in the ingredients
Picrel seems good
If you have to use a mineral sunscreen, then avoid products with titanium dioxide since that's worse for white cast, and apply sparingly

my rec is don't use it. only stay few minutes in the sun when it is hottest and learn your safe window.

where i live, when i avoid the sun from 2 hours before 12:00 noon and 2 hours after 12:00 noon, i'm fine. where you live most likely you can find a similar window.

with disappointment i see that again crystal cafe is a breeding ground for victims of consumerism. i wonder which brand of sunscreen the wild animals buy from the wild animal convenience store🙄

>>20630
Living on the equator my only safe zone to go outside without sunscreen is when there is no sun or very slight sunrise/sunset (MAYBE up to 6:00 am and starting 6:00 pm if i'm not anal about being exposed to residual sunlight but even 5:30 pm sun is still too bright)
Putting on sunscreen is always a hassle though so I just walk out with a cap when the sun is already halfway past going down/is still weak going up. I'll only apply it if I really have to go out in the middle of the day

la roche poosay

>>20632
i'd try a parasol

>>20584
Everything about phones and the apps on it is designed to be addictive so it isn't a shocker that you are.

is just a stupid, wasteful approach. human life is short. transcend the desire to flee this place, this mindlessness that addiction needs to survive. fight it. if you shelter yourself from it, you will spend your life fleeing from it when you can just learn to ignore it. it is not hard but it takes time that the addiction convinces you you don't have. all these dumb young people saying "doesn't matter what i do, i'm not gonna be old anyways" and then they turn old and their whole basis for existence turned out to be invalid.

the first part of the fight is the hardest, that's when the addicted is still the weakest. but with every little success, the decision muscle grows and the fight becomes easier and at some point it is guarenteed victory over addiction every single time, reidentification with free will, transcendence of the desire to flee into illusion.

>>20590
>human life is short.
Yet you are here, on an obscure image board you would only know if you're pretty addicted to screens yourself. Don't act like you're above it lol.

>>20592

this place isn't even real. it is carefully curated.

>>20606
truth this place is just pixels on a screen, made up of triads, made up of atoms, made up of mostly nothing, nothing exists. yet everything exists, curated by god himself. god created cc.

>>20562
if you have an android phone you should have a digital and wellbeing tab in your settings where you can put time limits on apps and control when you can access them. you can easily turn them off so I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for though

vindicta is shit girl get off there now

>>20474
i’m not on it much i mean sites that follow that theme

>>20495
What theme are you referencing?

Why would you want something similar to r/vindicta though? It's extremely retarded, their advice is basically to kill every shred of individuality you have and get plastic surgery for any flaw nobody except for them would even notice in order to fit male fantasies (and their idea of what men want is very narrow and only really applies to wealthy men from New England with country club passes)

i followed his advice a few years ago but there is too much contrary evidence to me. i wish i had a strong background in physiology to do more of a deep dive but from the research i can do too much of it just doesn't hold up.
>>19729
increased vaginal discharge, higher libido, better masturbation. i stopped taking it because when ever i took it i got purple dots on my skin (petechiae?)…it was supposed to be bio-identical progesterone.

>>18376
i love his principles mainly because i get to eat whatever i want lmao

>>18448
Ever tried cod-liver? It isn't for gourmets either but I imagine it tasting better than regular canned liver

>>20435
not really anything. you have to stay away from pufas which is in pretty much anything processed. i love cooking with coconut oil though and eating haagen dazs every day is a bonus haha.

>>20464
yeah i know, but tbh i don’t take the pufa avoidance super seriously, esp because i really don’t think it can be avoided completely. i’m more mindful of just eating more saturated fats + avoiding things that cause inflammation in the body, like most cooking oils, preservatives, additives, etc.