eating dessert for breakfast is one of the weirdest things normalized in the US
hey i do them too, still weird how much sweet stuff is considered breakfast
Who has the energy and will to live to actually get up and make pancakes in the morning?
Grandmas. Mine used to come over twice a week to send me to (elementary) school. All you can eat pancakes she would garnish with Pepsi. I love you grandma.
When I was in school there was a study that said kids do better on tests when they've had a breakfast. Before our end-of-year exams they would give us a very cheap "healthy" cake donut and a carton of milk. These were the years leading up to and during 'no child left behind' so every school was really anal about test performance. Any other time of the year, however, you're on your own. So you can go a whole school year without having consistent breakfast and never learn anything but on test day you get a dessert and that's supposed to make you do well.
I think the mentality behind this was that your brain functions mostly on carbs so giving you a fuck ton of simple sugars right before a test would give you just enough to stay awake before the massive increase in blood sugar made you tired and hungry. Also America runs on extremely cheap processed garbage food (and Dunkin' ™️)
The school near me has been handing out food every other week since the pandemic started. It's cheap stuff like you'd expect but hell it's better than nothing and it really draws into focus the fact that our society could just hand out food all the time but chooses not to.
In 2013-2014 in my state at least, they switched to having a "smart period" which was a 30 minute unsupervised break after first period. They wheeled out snack carts with whole grain pop tarts, apples, and fruit cups with milk or Sunny-D as the drink.
After a while, they switched smart period to supervised and increased the amount of cops in the school though :/ then the cops started using smart period to search kids for drugs.
They just had the cops steal the food in my school. That kid made some dope ass kool-aid...
"Nice snack shop you've got there. It would be a shame if anything should happen to it."
That's why you move the stash house from time to time and never use your own locker. You hook some homies up with snacks to use some locker space. This becomes increasingly important if you're selling drugs instead.
cops
in a school
:kombucha-disgust: :acab:
...is that like the norm in america? or just for extreme cases or something? why the fuck would cops be allowed in a school? don't american cops have guns usually like wtf
I was in a very white suburban school and we still had 2-3 depending on the week. The ones closer to the city usually had a patrol car and 4-5 officers. Some have metal detectors at the entrance now.
They're there to "prevent school shootings" but in practice, they just harass and assault all the black kids and poor kids. Our SRO (School Resource Officer) broke a friend of mines ankle tackling him one day. Even the elementary schools have cops in them. They still harass the black kids there, but are even worse because they fuck with the parents too (your kid seems hungry, would be a shame if we called CPS on you and they found weed or something).
I was arrested by one when I lived across from a school, so they have some ability to fuck with people.
Back when I was a big fat boy (lost 80 pounds in like 3 months and then plateau'd woohoo) I would eat a muffin and an omelet for breakfast before realizing that the muffin alone was like 700 calories. Legit just morning cake.
Edit: now that I think about it, I probably could have saved calories by eating a slice of actual cake
Use real units lol. Anyway good for you Mr. Cat. 3 months is very fast. You're like on pace of 100g per week for the year. Plateauing is to be expected. I'd maintain for half a year and then see. Are you doing strength training?
Fine, 36.36kg.
Thank you for your encouragement, but this was years ago. I'm still the same weight as I was when I first plateud (plateued?) which is about 9kg overweight (I'm 1.85m tall and 81.8kg). I know I could get it down if I made significant lifestyle changes again, but going from sedentary snacker to vegan fitness guru is, at least for me, much harder than cutting out all sweetened beverages.
I don't really think it would require drastic changes to lose those last 9kg. Like instead of sedentary snacker you just need to be snacker who goes to the gym 3 times a week for like 45 to 60 minutes. I was against it for a long time but lifting heavy stuff and putting them down can be fun and rewarding. Building muscle mass consumes a lot of energy and increases your base metabolic rate which helps keep the weight of. I would encourage you to try. You only need to really do bench presses, squats and deadlifts. Seeing your weights go up gets you hooked like an RPG.
I've been telling myself to go to the gym for a while, and even bought a gym membership but the second I walked into the locker room I was overwhelmed with flashbacks to high school and quickly left. Guess I just gotta stop making excuses like "oh I don't have a way to get there" and bug my roommate to give me a ride when he's going. Gotta love medical conditions preventing you from driving in a place with god awful public transit!
Gotta love medical conditions preventing you from driving in a place with god awful public transit!
That sucks.
Don't feel intimidated. In my experience regular gym people are super courteous to everyone who puts the required effort regardless of level. Everyone started not knowing what they were doing. Just make sure to follow established etiquette.
While I agree with the overall sentiment here, it is just hilarious that you don't think this is a drastic change for most people.
If I say to go once weekly it wouldn't be. For someone who calls themselves sedentary you can't tell me that's drastic.
I literally cannot eat this crap unless I'm incredibly stoned. It's sugar-glazed sugar with sugar filling, sprinkled with some more sugar on top.
I got free/reduced breakfast and lunch, and I remember these trays of rectangle coffee cake thingies, just wet cinnamon dough with 1/4 inch icing on top. Good times
I dont think I get it, donuts would have been a massive step up from the no breakfast we got
American cereal is also hilariously bad but fuck if some of them arent good af
when i was a kid somehow i figured out you could just dump a bunch of sugar in Cheerios and it made it a lot better to my young self. Now a days though I can still get down on honey nut cheerios without any added sugar, but damn, as a kid it was incredibly addictive to have that bowl of 15 grams of sugar or whatever in the morning
Eww, who jizzed on that one donut
Also kinda not impressed by these donuts in general
