🧵1/ 🛑 Before You Spend Another Dollar on Weight Loss… Learn About the “Net Calories” Trap
The billion-dollar #weightloss industry thrives on confusion, false hope, and repeat customers.
➡️One of their most misleading tactics? The misuse of “net calories.”
In my 20yrs of experience as a fitness professional, this misunderstood metric is one of the most underreported reasons people abandon their #goals.
🔻The Problem:
Some weight loss and #fitness apps push “net calories” like gospel, feeding…
@stavvers 
"trans ally": vague, clichéd, often claimed by those doing the bare minimum
"trans henchperson": implies loyal, action-oriented support. Suggests you may have a Tommy gun under your coat.
@stavvers "trans ally": vague, clichéd, often claimed by those doing the bare minimum "trans henchperson": implies loyal, action-oriented support. Suggests you may have a Tommy gun under your coat.
But! Felicitously, “noölogy is confronted by counterthoughts” — note the plural — which are violent in their acts, discontinuous in their appearances, and the existence of which is mobile in history.” In other words, *there is an escape hatch from the Idea and the image of State thought it incontinently propagates across the entire field of the real*.
D&G tell us that these counterthoughts “are the acts of a ‘private thinker,’ as opposed to a public professor,” and they name three candidates:
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, “or even” Chestov (the Russian existentialist generally rendered in English as “Shestov,” born Yeguda Lev Shvartsman). And then this gorgeous encomium: “Wherever they dwell, it is the steppe or the desert. They destroy images.”
Wow: #goals, right? I’m sure as shootin’ not here to tell you what to do, but I think we could all do a whole lot worse than to live in such a way that it is said of us that wherever we dwell, it is the steppe or the desert.
Drinking earl grey tea, eating greek yogurt with maple syrup poured over top of it
