#progress is power

[rainyfestivalsweets]

10/20/23 Things I did to help myself.... what did I have to change? Seems like everything some days.

Healthy Tips

Realistically evaluated my eating habits. It was either not enough or too much, no in-between. That was part of my problem.

Most restaurant meals are too much, even if you think you are ordering the 'healthy option'

It is not normal to gorge yourself on appetizers, drinks, & a giant entree. Choose a moderation mindset: Pick one or 2. Share an app. One drink. Pack half your entree 'to go'.

Our society is driven by consumerism. I had to take steps to stop that. Meet people to do activities, not to consume things.

Water- I shoot for 200 oz of water a day.

I take low cal beverages with me... nearly everywhere. Tea, coffee, sparkling water.

Try all kinds of different tea.

Meals focus on protein and produce. If you are still hungry- eat another portion of meat and produce.

Try to eat as unprocessed as possible. They add stuff to our food to make our brains light the F up. It isn't natural and devastating to people like me who are especially susceptible. Often when I have issues (yesterday!) It is because I had a processed item.

Sometimes I add a fiber supplement to my drink. Adds calories yes but I don't worry about it.

Try to only have 1 sweet thing a day. The later in the day, the better. I will actually be shooting for every 3 days or so.

Some of my craving issues were blood sugar related because I was pre-diabetic and had PCOS- which has an insulin problem.

If you haven't eaten, plan and eat a healthy meal that has a substantial amount of protein.

If you have eaten already, try to distract yourself with a task. If you are still truly hungry 20 minutes later- have another bit of protein & veggies.

Walk daily. But don't count it as your cardio.

If you work at a desk, get a standing desk and try to work up to standing daily.

Cardio 3x a week. Whatever you enjoy. Yes, you have to enjoy it. If you don't, you haven't found your activity yet.

Weight training 3x a week. Lift all the weights you can, as often as you can manage. You are now in training. For life!

Supplements- figure out what works for you. I am currently on: Sam-E, NAC, Nomorbidity, Alkemi, allergy stuff, and some other stuff I rotate in.

Read books that help your mindset. Atomic habits, mindset books. 10 mins a day, make it a habit to improve yourself.

Watch YouTube videos that build your motivation and determination.

Things can get better. I also utilize therapy! There is no shame in needing help!

I am becoming a healthier person and every choice reflects that.

#healthy mindset #positive mindset #growth mindset #healthy lifestyle #getting healthy #losing weight #healthy eating #fitblr #healthy habits #operation lose this gut #weight loss #operationlosethisgut #weight loss journey #build a lifestyle #lifestyle changes #lifestyle modifications #do the work #progress not perfection #progress is power #happiness is progress #keep moving forward #moving forward #onward and upward #do it #then do it again #working for change #habit change #daily habits #good habits #eating for weight loss

[reasonsforhope]

Sometimes you just have one of those moments where the progress we've made as a culture get thrown into stark relief. You look at something and go "Holy shit, that would never have happened when I was a kid."

Today, I had one of those moments when I realized that the teenage boys I'm working with are just. genuinely, openly enthusiastic about going to Build-a-Bear for their outing.

These are sixteen and seventeen year old boys! They just had a whole conversation about what to name their "cute", mostly new squishmallows! They're genuinely excited that they're going to Build-a-Bear this weekend and asking other kids to pick up specific accessories for them!!

Holy shit, that never would've happened when I was 16. None of the boys would have dared to be visibly interested - and neither would most of the girls! There would have been a million gay jokes and "Haha, you're a girl" jokes and "What are you, a baby?" jokes. Teenagers weren't even supposed to care about anything back then!

Less than 15 years later, and I'm watching three 17 year old boys treat all that as not even worthy of comment.

So let's call that a reason for hope. Even when the kids aren't alright, in some ways apparently they are alright. Go Gen Z, honestly. It's so lovely to watch you guys just openly doing and saying stuff that, when I was a teen, would've been a social death sentence.

#obligatory disclaimer that this really really obviously is not universal #I do live in a major progressive city #there's definitely a level of a liberal bubble effect here #but it's still really powerful to see it #because even in a major liberal enclave there were so many limits on the gender roles and homophobia etc. etc. fronts #and also the limits of the oppressive weight of obligatory teen apathy lol #seriously go gen z. so glad you guys decided cringe is dead. I love you for that so much #and I love it for you #not news #life #hope #homophobia #sexism #teens #teenagers #progress #gen z #btw if it wasn't clear I'm a #millennial #plush toy #plushie #squishmallows #build a bear #stuffed animal #like the idea of almost any teenager much less teenage boys #saying IN FRONT OF THEIR PEERS #that they are excited about their STUFFED ANIMALS #when I was a teenager #????? #cannot imagine that ever happening.

[mewvore]

growing close with a four armed girl

#dwpsart #multiple limbs #progression #fluff #shes worried about causing you problems socially #but society be damned that twice as much hug power #hugs from a woman with four arms would fix me

[mobius-m-mobius]

It's a pretty cool name.

Loki + the progression of saying Mobius' name for @percheduphere

#mobius #loki #lokius #mcuedit #lokiedit #marveledit #owen wilson #tom hiddleston #tysm for the amazing request because GOD did making this hit harder than i'd even expected?? #like it's kind of a given mobius fell first #but i've been so swamped all month i basically only had time to finish maybe a gif per night #and let me tell you watching loki progressively fall harder with each and every scene was uh. an experience all right 🙃😳 #in S1 loki's so obviously trying to keep their guard up until mobius gets pruned protecting them and it's like a switch flips #the walls come down and you see the power of being believed in the pure RELIEF mobius' presence brings #how much he's valued and needed and LOVED as loki tries to hold him close only to lose him again and again #leading to desperation building until the only option left is to sacrifice everything not realizing now they're both left wanting #y'all i'll never recover 😭 #marvel #owenwilsonedit #dianagifs

[cheatsylu]

Your art is BEAUTIFUL. Big fan of your characterizations and posing. :)

If you need requests—my favorite LU character is Four!

Four!!! He's one of my favourite's too! Also, thank you for your kind words <3

#linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu four #lu #apologies for this taking a while #my phone got ran over by a dozen trucks #then the power was out for a day cos someones drove into a pole #then i lost a couple hours of progress on majoras mask cos it crashed and i was sad #but i made it out ALIVE!! #I will be drawing him more (in better shading) in the future! #cheatsyy

[blackkatdraws2]

The Main Character.

[Blank Scripts AU]

#take a look at his shounen genre anime/manga acting ahh #okay small talk in tags (im gonna start spouting entire essays at you) #i personally think the TSP community dont give me enough content with Stanley as the main character #like yall are fr missing out #guys think about it #rather than focusing on the narrator (who's basically the equivalent as a high-leveled entity comapred to Stanley) #wouldnt focusing on the weaker person seeing the world filled with unknown monsters be more fun? #because you get to explore the story alongside him #since Stanley is just as clueless as you are #and compared to the already powerful beings #you actually get to see Stanley grow and progress #(I mean this is just me giving yall a prompt lmao dont take this personal yo I just really like Weak to Strong tropes) #(I dont really care-) #(-yall have fun with your stuff man :) #tsp blank scripts au #tsp au #the stanley parable #the stanley parable ultra deluxe #tsp #tspud #tsp narrator #narrator tsp #stanley tsp #tsp stanley #my drawing museum

[minty364]

DPXDC Prompt #89

Danny didn’t know what would happen when his parents portal turned on for the first time but this wasn’t it. He accidentally turned it on and the next thing he knew he was in front of this pool of green swirling liquid with this lady named Talia telling him she’d take care of him. The weird thing is he was now half dead with weird ghost powers and he somehow was turned back into a 5 year old. He met a kid the same age as him and the two quickly became inseparable, his name was Damian and even though he was to be the next head of what Danny assumed was a cult, he knew it was but he was in the body of a 5 year old and couldn’t exactly go home like this.

5 years pass and Danny gets sent along with Damian to Gotham to live with Damian’s birth father Bruce Wayne. Danny didn’t want to go at first but Bruce seemed to welcome him with open arms regardless of his background with the league. Everything is going well for the 2 until Danny meets Tim’s secretary, it’s Sam and she absolutely did not know how to handle her now smaller best friend. Tucker is doing an internship at Wayne Tech too.

#dp x dc prompt #dp x dc #dc x dp #danny fenton #danny phantom #poor danny #writing prompt #The portal worked into the zone and Sam and Tucker solo the ghosts that came through #Since Danny wasn’t around no bigger players came in and they just had to deal with Boxy and other minor ghosts #Danny lost conciseness when he dies but the natural portal that happened to open flung him to Nanda Parbat so that’s fun #Talia keeps Danny far away from Ras especially when he’s just learning his powers and figures Danny could become a protector to Damian #Danny and Damian adopted each other as brothers #Bruce is just happy to get a kid out of the league #Sam and Tucker thought Danny was (fully) dead the past 5 years #all of my prompts are free to use #free to use #Im still working on the SUDP fic #slow progress on that and I’ve also decided to write prompt 75 #Just because I write my own doesn’t mean you can’t use it #You might have interpreted the prompt a different way than me

[transmasccofee]

really hes an icon

#saiki k #saiki k fanart #art tag #physically disabled #disabled artist #im just getting progressively more disabled irl so u kno what that means *looks intensely at the disabled anime boy* #if u think about it his powers (which do physically disable him. tbc.) getting progressively more intense while he has to get more and more #aids to deal with them and live a normal life #Is a lot like my relationship with My Legs #if u think about it #also hes wearing wrist and knee braces bc he is hypermobile #this is also canon he can dislocate all of his joints and also do some wild shit w his bones

[corinnetheanime]

Another concept art wip, but this one I will 100% finish in the future.

“Phantom” eclipses the sun with his newly awakened powers.

Update: this concept art is finished. Check my latest post below the pinned post.

#danny phantom #fanart #my art #dannyphantom #artists on tumblr #wip #concept art #work in progress #will finish later #pose took a while to get right #void powers #eclipse #dp #phantom art #phanart #phandom

[solarpunkwarlock]

Folks, imagine what our lives would look like if we valued redundancy for the sake of safety and quality of life when it came to jobs. How much could we benefit if most single person positions were occupied by 2 folks instead?

2 pairs of eyes on every task instead of one. A single person taking their well-earned vacation or maybe tragically dying doesn't cause an entire department or business to come to a screeching halt.

On top of that, think of how many positions become that much less demanding and straining when you have someone to share the load with. Why should one person break their back for eight hours a day when 2 folks can labor moderately for 4 hours a day?

We need to start demanding a little redundancy. If a job can be accomolished by a team of 4, it should be accomplished by a team of 8. I'm sure this thought won't apply universally to every kind of job out there, but I think it still has some value.

#solarpunk #workers #working class #union #r/196 #worker rights #196 #power of the people #progress #workers rights #socialism #communism #teamwork #comment something! i want to speak with you people! #punk

[starishsky]

mutual on twt said leon got his ass stolen by chris

#chreon #leon kennedy #chris redfield #resident evil #I drew this while I was low key drunk and my handwriting got progressively worse so I had to redo it hahahah #it’s a vibe I love not drawing things that aren’t like full brain power you know #pls look at the link k send #it’s a good link. I love Leon

[snobgoblin]

a compilation of characters in recent times who canonically use they/them pronouns (an appreciation post)

💛🤍💜🖤 💜💛💜

#nonbinary #nb #intersex #stevonnie #steven universe #su #double trouble #dt spop #shera and the princesses of power #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #raine whispers #the owl house #toh #every step counts! every step is progress! every step is more than we had before! #frankie stein #monster high #frankie stein g3

[batcavescolony]

Some of you are expecting show Percy to act like the Last Olympian Percy or Son of Neptune Percy. "why can't he use his powers?" He's hasn't them learned yet. "Why aren't their epic battle scenes?" He has no training. "Why is he so under powered" he's not at that level yet! Percy in the show didn't have a Luke training montage, he doesn't really know how to properly use a sword. He spent like what a week or so at camp? What do you want him to be OP right out of the gate?The second he knows he's has water powers to master them? You need to wait, he needs to progress and get more confidence. Then he'll get better and be able to fight and use his powers.

#pjo #pjo series #pjo spoilers #pjo show #batcavescoloy watches the PJO tv show #batcavescolony watches #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv spoilers #pjo fandom #its character progression. hes gotta walk before he can run #i saw somone say they hated the pjo show because their are no fight scenes and that Harry Potter had fight scenes..... #harry wasnt preforming crazy feats of magic in the first half of the first movie WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE IN THE PJO SHOW! we're in the first #half of the first season. theirs no epic fight sequences because percy doesn't know how to fight yet. im sure at the end of the season when #he gets confidence and more fights under his belt and in the other seasons when he's older the fights scenes will get better #and you know damn well people would be saying percy is a mary sue or too OP if he started using his powers and fighting perfectly the secon #he found out he was a demigod. like give him time to cook. #........ #you're eating flower expecting it to be cake.

[kafkasapartment]

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it."

Ursula K. Le Guin.

#quotes #writing #hope #power #progress #culture #literature #writers #change #liberalism #freedom #democracy

[quitoollero]

Recently redrew an old She-Ra and Catra piece I did a couple of years back. I redid a fair amount of the line work, fixing old issues and beefing up some proportions. Then I recolored the whole thing. It's kind of amazing to see how much my coloring has changed in just a few years and how much that affects the overall look and feel.

#she ra #catra #catradora #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra fan art #catra fanart #etheria #princess of power #masterverse #redraw #art progress

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Power Metal #Folk Metal #Symphonic Metal #Progressive Metal #2010s #2020s #Italy #poll