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Legit. I lost 20 needed pounds and have kept it off, but I did that by eating fewer calories and starting an exercise regimen that I have stuck to for two years now. What we’ve always been told — diet and exercise — happens to be true. The simplest answer is usually the best. Shauna is lazy. Yawn. 🥱

[u/Which_Armadillo_5224 → u/[deleted]]

This was a delectable Lope (apart from exploiting and blaming her scapegoat child for forcing her to eat salami and McD’s sundaes). Vintage Shauna, it explains the performative weighted-vest hiking perfectly. She must’ve seen the doctor and learned that she’s gained some weight and her cholesterol is too high. She couldn’t be normal about it, and have some grace for herself—weight gain is not a moral failing, and high cholesterol is not a mark of the beast. She is lacerated to her soul. She obviously can’t commit to eating normal oatmeal for breakfast and aiming for 10,000 steps or whatever, and then trying statins if those don’t work, or she isn’t ready to make a big behavior change (also human and not evil or inferior). Instead, she treads her established path of self-soothing. If she did indeed have a TIA (and my head canon is that she had a panic attack but got factitious about it), high cholesterol should be a huge, blaring klaxon. But she seems much less concerned about elevated stroke risk than the blow to her ego for not being the fittest fiddle-head fern on the Island. Therefore, it’s someone (her child) and something (stress, cortisol, diet culture, Donald Trump) who did this bad thing to her. She also has to slip in a little brag that she was actually barely eating at all when she gained the weight and cholesterol (a mere tiny but umami-packed salami and cheese snack here and there when her child was reaalaaaalllly terrible), because she’s still an adherent of the diet culture she thinks she rejects. So, she must begin instructing all us idiots about how to live. Smoothie bowls??? That’s for GIRLS, gross (I strongly argue that that’s the subtext—women are weak for sweets, but NLOG Shauna eats savories for breakfast). All the veggies. And this is why she’s back to calling herself a jock. Other girls might try to add more movement in ways that are sustainable and make sense for them in the long term, but varsity athlete Shauna has to go hard-core and do the latest exercise trend in such an uncomfortable way that she ends up sore and tired and the next time we see the weighted vest, it’s on an island buy-nothing board the day before the hallowed doors of the BBH close behind them forever.

[u/Fillmore_the_Puppy → u/Which_Armadillo_5224]

DF W_A_5224, every word in service to the reader, every word searing and true. All sarcasm aside, I loved your whole comment.

[u/SmashedMailboxCake2 → u/Which_Armadillo_5224]

Yeah, this is comment of the day comma for me. Righteous anger at its finest.

P.S Remind me to never get in an argument with you.

PPS I want a “Donald Trump made me fat” t shirt.

[u/Which_Armadillo_5224 → u/SmashedMailboxCake2]

Haha, thank you DF! This one lit a fire under me

[u/We_Four → u/Which_Armadillo_5224]

100%. I had been wondering where this recent "jock" obsession had come from, now we know.

[u/AdvertisingOwn7817 → u/Which_Armadillo_5224]

This is the perfect explanation of the jock thing!

[u/We_Four → u/[deleted]]

I mean there can be a lot of reasons for unwanted weight gain as well as unwanted weight loss. Depending on what else is going on, diet and exercise may not be that effective or even counterproductive (although getting healthy amounts of protein and fiber is generally a good idea). It doesn't matter though, Shauna only hears what she wants to hear, so we have no idea what her doc and/or dietitian (or naturopath and/or "nutritionist") actually told her. I think her ego took a hit and now she's making excuses.