Absurdism Ruined Me Mentally Too (in A Good Way), Idk How It Works When You Learn It In Class Or Anything

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My guilty pleasure. Fiber One has always had good stuff, and it’s definitely been effective in getting the bowels moving. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Haven’t tried the other flavors yet but this one is pretty good. 70 calories, 5g carbs, 3g fat. It’s lightly sweet and makes a good choose for a snack if need be.

Egg White Veggie Tamagoyaki 🥚🌸

(a.k.a. Gyeran Mari)

Directions

With a blender or food processor, blend your carrots, zucchini, and onion to chunky bits.

Add your egg whites, hondashi, and sugar (optional). *For salt, a good rule of thumb for seasoning eggs is 1/8 tsp per egg. 3 TBS of egg whites = 1 egg. For this recipe, use 1/4 tsp of salt.

Give your mixture another 3-5 pulses until fully combined.

Heat your Tamagoyaki pan or non-stick pan to medium heat. ( Rectangle pan is best for shape but you can still achieve the rolled omelette with a circle nonstick pan)

Spray the pan with a quick oil spray of your choice.

Add a small layer of the mixture to your pan and reduce the heat to medium-low.

When your layer is 90% set, carefully roll from one side to the other. (This will take some practice)

Gently push back the first rolled layer to the side you started from and add another layer of mixture. Allow some of the mixture to go under your first layer.

Repeat steps 6-8 until you are out of the mixture.

Let your rolled omelette cook for another 30 seconds on each side then turn off heat.

Let it sit on a plate for two minutes before cutting in. Enjoy!

~150cal broccoli/mushroom stirfry~

(2-3 portions)

You need:

-200g broccoli (56)

-200g champignons (44)

-1tsp vegetable broth(10)

-soy sauce, spices (optional)

How to:

-cut the veggies into smaller pieces

-put them in a pan and stir for a minute

- add in ur 50ml vegetable broth and put a lit on top.

-wait for the broccoli to be done then add in ur spices and soy sauce(if you want to)

Enjoy:)

lowcal + healthy chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

You don’t need me to tell you about the charm of chocolate chip cookies, so I’ll hop right into this magical recipe. 

These delicious cookies are only 62 calories per serving! Even better, they don’t have any refined sugar, oil/butter, milk, or gluten. As long as you use vegan chocolate chips, these cookies are vegan. They won’t make you feel heavy or sick, unlike Tollhouse cookies, and have a decent nutritional content that’ll make you satisfied and energized. Add some raisins for a sweet, fruity boost! 

ingredients 

1 cup + 2 tbsp old fashioned oats, blended into flour (338)

½ tsp baking powder (0)

½ baking soda (0)

1 tsp sea salt (0)

⅓ cup cold applesauce (33)

2 tbsp maple syrup (109)

splash of vanilla (0)

⅓ cup sweetener (0) or coconut sugar (238)

¼ cup sugar-free chocolate chips (200)

optional: ½ cup raisins (90)

preperation

Whisk oat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 

In a separate bowl, whisk applesauce, maple syrup, vanilla, and sweetener/coconut sugar. 

Fold wet ingredients into dry. Don’t worry about over-mixing—there’s no gluten in the recipe. Add your mix-ins and gently fold them into your dough. 

Let your dough chill in the fridge for about 10 minutes. In the meantime, preheat your oven to 350F.

Roll roughly 2-3 tbsp of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper. For more uniform sizing, use a cookie scooper. For flatter, traditionally-shaped cookies, press them down a little. You should yield 10 to 11 cookies.

Sprinkle sea salt over the cookies. Bake for about 12-15 minutes. 

Let cookies cool for five minutes before enjoying. 

Enjoy!

Renee Beller thinspo. HER LEGS LIKE CMON.

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Reading, Watching and Listening to Beauty Standards - Saarah

Trigger Warning: This post contains references to eating disorders; reader discretion is advised.

Visit https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/ for help.

This essay will be exploring how beauty standards affect women. There were many ways to approach this but I feel what would perhaps be more interesting is how certain types of media engage and educate audiences on the matter.

It would be dishonest if I were to say I have always been conscious of these societal beauty standards; it would be further incomplete if I were not to include the standards of beauty placed on men who are represented by more muscular ideals. Physical attractiveness is something all of us are judged against. Scientifically, it results in successfulness in procreating. Why then are we beholden to these standards by society, to look conventionally pretty, groom oneself a certain way and attempt to show ourselves in our best light physically?

Outside of genetics and biology and inheriting features from our biological parents, there isn’t a lot we can do to change our look. It is largely outside of our control, and for most of us, our paycheck. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) reported that women had 92% of all cosmetic surgery in the year 2019. While for men, this figure was only 8% respectively. For men a rhinoplasty was the most popular procedure, for women the rhinoplasty came in 6th after breast augmentation (implants or enlargement) or reduction, abdominoplasty (tummy tuck), blepharoplasty (eyelid surgery) and liposuction (removal of fat). My essay however, will focus on society’s fascination with body weight.

Society is constituted of the people around us, our networks, friends, families and colleagues. It is in the media we consume; the celebrities, the books, the films and television we watch. I have selected a book, a film and a music video to discuss this heavy subject, one of society’s biggest social taboos.

Firstly, the book is one I read a few years ago and one that shaped my opinions on this matter: Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield. If ever there was the one book for someone curious about this subject, weight and body dysmorphia, this is one I would press on any willing reader. Fairfield is someone who has for thirty years struggled with anorexia and bulimia. Fairfield writes candidly about how her thoughts take over and control her behaviour and self-destructive patterns. For me this was the first book I read on the subject, and it was the most educational. It taught me how society has a limited view on the feminine ideal and more often than not, it has nothing to do with “health”.

With weight, especially when you're a woman, everyone feels entitled to speak with you about it publicly. Are you pregnant? Dieting? It comes up over a shared meal, when asking if you'd like to have something to eat or, when you haven't seen someone in a long time. It's a shallow thing but people do speak up when they see a change. Plus, these days, it seems as if everyone is in the business of getting in shape…

Weight bias has become a prevalent, socially acceptable form of prejudice and discrimination. In a study by Falkner et al. titled Mistreatment due to weight: prevalence and sources of perceived mistreatment in women and men (1999), a sample of healthy adults (187 men and 800 women) enrolled in a weight gain prevention program recounted their experiences on the matter of weight bias. 22% of women and 17% of men reported weight-related mistreatment. The most commonly reported sources of mistreatment among women were strangers (12.5%) and a spouse or loved one (11.9%) (source: pubmed). Curiously this is not something only the morbidly obese people experience, the study noted. We all have an experience.

A more recent study: A Picture of Health (2016) by Credos et al. found that 41% of boys feel that the portrayal of men in media images is unrealistic. ‘Adults, as well as young people are finding themselves with issues surrounding body image. (Safeline 2021). We see heavily filtered images, badly filtered images on our apps, social networks and magazines. Where there could be an opportunity to help with body image acceptance, instead we find stereotypes, poor representation and incorrect language like ‘thin’ for anorexic sufferers, and the ‘fat humour’ so prevelant in US televisions shows.

Perhaps unexpectedly, it has fallen on our role models to help us feel better. Before we had the more popular clothing retailers offer larger sizes of clothing to fit plus-size women, we had body-positivity champions. My personal favourite is Meghan Trainor, but big stars like Demi Lovato and Beyonce also come to mind. The second media I selected is Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass 2015 song and accompanying music video. It has a memorable message of self-acceptance but was criticized for not empowering every body type. Despite this it reached number 1 in 58 countries. It was relatable and for many people, it was refreshing to hear.

The final media I selected was ‘To the Bone’ a film starring Lily Collins (2017) who plays an recovering-anorexic woman. This was like the other two pieces of media I selected, about conquering a life-long battle and finding your own identity. It is a harrowing depiction of what can happen when beauty standards limit and reduce a person, by going too far. The character’s desires are more complex than wanting to be thin or prettier; she wants to be comfortable, and her reasons are complicated. I selected this because I felt it showed the extreme of body dysmorphia and society being an underhand entity in what shapes us and who we go on to become.

To conclude, this essay is only a brief perusal of the influence beauty standards hold. The media I selected all have their own place in a much broader discussion. Some of these will be triggering, others will be life affirming, but they all exist as art works which can educate and be forces for positive, radical change, embracing identity and not image; and ultimately, standing up to beauty standards.

References:

BAAPS statistics available here: https://www.theprivateclinic.co.uk/blog/baaps-releases-cosmetic-surgery-2020-annual-audit/

How body image is portrayed in the media | Safeline - Believe in you - Surviving sexual abuse & rape https://www.safeline.org.uk/how-body-image-is-portrayed-in-the-media/

Mistreatment due to weight: prevalence and sources of perceived mistreatment in women and men - PubMed (nih.gov) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10574516/

♡ LOW CAL BANANA CREAM PIE (about 130 cals) ♡

you just have to blend some regular plain non fat yogurt, one banana and half a box of sugar free instant banana cream pudding mix.

~ pinterest link btw: https://pin.it/6OZ65z2 ~

Gluten Free Skinny Lemon Bars - 174 kcal/4g protein

Servings: 8 - 174 kcal/4g protein per serving

Crust

1/2 Cup Gluten-free baking flour

1/2 Cup Unsweetened coconut flakes

1 Tbsp Coconut Flour

1/4 Cup Granulated sweetener (Truvia or Coconut Sugar)

2 Tbsp Coconut oil melted

1 Tbsp Honey or sticky syrup

1 Tbsp Water warm

Filling

3 Large Eggs

1/4 Cup Honey or sticky syrup

2 Lemons Juice and zest

1 Tbsp Gluten-free flour

1. Preheat oven to 350 F and prepare a 9x13 inch loaf pan with parchment paper and non-stick spray.

2. Place all crust ingredients into a food processor and pulse until combined. Press the crust evenly into the bottom of the prepared pan. Bake for 12-15 minutes.

3. All the while, prepare your filling by whisking all filling ingredients together until smooth. Remove crust and pour the filling over the crust while it's still hot.

4. Reduce heat to 325F and continue baking for another 15-20 minutes. The filling should still be giggly but solid to the touch.

5. Let cool completely before cutting into squares and serving. Best if chilled before serving.