Back during the build up to the Holocaust the Nazis would use the groomer slander on Jews and other groups they sought to genocide.

Rural Michigan (or anywhere in the west) in a single picture, quite unfortunate. Illiteracy and functional illiteracy serve the bourgeois.

I’ve seen more than one paper or science textbook (at least in the biosciences) that started off with Marx’s “There is no royal road to science…” quote out of Capital vol 1.

Sort of long, but it was non-stop war action, so if you’re a war movie fan I’d recommend. It was cool to see a side of the Korean war that’s rarely revealed in the west.

I lost by using one of those weight and calorie trackers and youtube exercise videos (I like the dance ones). I don’t like the gym either, I feel so self conscious when exercising, so I love those youtube or even VCR age workout videos that I can do at home with the blinds drawn tight. Whatever exercise you pick make sure its something you like and want to do, its hard to get momentum to begin with.

I’ve lost 50 so far, still have another 50 to go. The first thing that really helped me was dealing with my dysphoria which was the root driver of my overeating. Once I was comfortable in my body, I wanted to improve it.

Scheduling helps a lot, I would slowly ramp up the exercise, start off with x2 30min a week and go from there until you’re at your desired amount, could be less or more times a week. Try to schedule eating too if you can, that way you’re not mindlessly snacking on a bowl of cereal at 1AM.

Another big one is to avoid sugar, that stuff is poison in the amounts we typically eat. The artificial stuff is also bad for you and spikes your blood sugar, so don’t get comfortable replacing regular soda for diet, you eventually want to taper off. Drink more water, it’ll help delay your hunger.

For balanced meals more vegetable, fiber, and/or protein source than anything else on the plate helps as a rough rule, not a perfect one though. For example, beans. Could have a lentil soup like shorba paired with some sort of vegetable side dish for example. Root vegetables make good curries, carrot curry, pumpkin, etc, just use non-fat or non-dairy milk where the recipe calls for milk. Soups are generally low calorie, or can be made so.