We artists have been biding our time in hiding, building our numbers, preparing for the day we have the strength in numbers to overtrhow the gallery visitors and establish a fortress inside against the world. But don’t tell anyone. /s
Eating super refined sugar like candy causes a chain raccoon of events in your body to occur:
Your blood sugar spikes. Even in non-diabetic people, eating a sugary treat can cause a spike above 150mg/dL (healthy levels are usually below 100 when fasting and below 130 after eating)
Your body ramps up insulin production to help use the sugar.
Because your levels have (probably) spiked so high, your body produces a lot of insulin, but your digestion isn’t sending any more sugar - you already finished digesting it and got the whole load at once.
Your body burns through all the excess sugar in your system and your blood sugar levels fall… precipitously because there’s still a lot of insulin floating around.
Your blood sugar levels fall low enough that your system decides it must be time to eat.
You get the munchies. And since your blood sugar is now lower than your body wants it to be, you crave something extra carby. …Like more candy.
Repeat this process long enough and your pancreas (which makes insulin) burns out. Congratulations! You now (like me) have Type 2 Diabetes! 🎉✨💫
So… To not eat all your candy at once, do a few things to keep your blood sugar from spiking, triggering cravings for more.
Eat fibrous veggies. And eat them at the start of a meal. Getting the fiber into your digestion first slows down processing the rest, keeping your blood sugars from spiking.
Eat carby treats as dessert to a meal, not on an empty stomach. Same reason as above.
If you’ve really gotta indulge, try to drink a Tbsp of vinegar (diluted in a glass of water, so you don’t melt your teeth) just beforehand. The acetic acid in vinegar interferes with digesting carbs. It’s not as good as broccoli, but it helps. (Citric acid does not work like this.)
In addition to the other tips here (Especially keeping treats out of sight), keeping your sugar levels from spiking and crashing helps a lot to curb carb craving.
@livus Lol yeah, it seems more people sit and maybe comment but there's just so much room for people to talk about the topic and even do there own posts but I guess most people just want to look at it and not interact.
@SamXavia I think this is something about the fediverse though - in the old, centralised media we were often relatively passively consuming content spoonfed to us by alorithms. Here in the fediverse, it pays to be more active in building and finding content.
It's a bit of an adjustment in mindset and we're all in various stages of that.
If the community is too small, there’s little to no response to what I want to say.
Just like getting buried in too many similar comments doesn’t make an interaction, being the only comment with no reply or making a post with no discussion underneath also doesn’t make an interaction.
People on the internet suck. No matter what, there will be someone that is upset with your words for some reason. This opens you up to harassment.
I just don’t want to.
I hesitated replying to this post because you are responding by redundantly @ing the user you are replying to. That is a mega pet peeve of mine and I hate it.
Sorry it auto does the @ on my instance (I use Mbin btw). But yeah I know that some people are hateful, I guess it's because people feel they can be more open without consequences often.
none. chromium is a google (-endorsed) product, who put their own little tracking tidbits into the chromium project. if you still want to use a chromium-based browser, i have two ‘suggestions’:
brave. renowned in the privacy community but has had a few suspicious moments, and honestly i just don’t trust their whole big-tech thing they got going on.
ungoogled-chromium. basically just the chromium browser but without the google shit in it. no extra privacy-advancing features as far as i’m aware though, and extensions don’t seem to work.
now if you really want a good browser, go for either of the following firefox-like browsers:
firefox with arkenfox user.js. firefox as you know and love it, with the arkenfox privacy tinkering. i haven’t tested it and its apparently a bit difficult to install and configure, but i’ve heard its really helpful with privacy.
librewolf. a privacy-first firefox fork developed by an independent developer and contributors, no big-tech bullshit. my personal daily driver.
Gopher, I found his channel learning how to mod various Bethesda games over 10 years ago but he has let’s plays for various games that are great and put me to sleep when I’m tired
Which sites work better in Chrome? I’m forced to use the Google suite at work, and I do everything within Firefox. Even sites that insist they only work in Chrome have always worked for me merely by switching the user-agent header
I had issues with what my work use for online training with Firefox, not often, but occasionally a module will just break. I just use edge in those cases, given its basically chrome anyway.
The website i work on has some pages that absolutely don’t work on Firefox. I know this because I often have to switch to chrome to see if the code is broke or the browser isn’t rendering correctly.
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