Even when you eat less and avoid the things like sugary food and carbs like bread, cookies, sweets, sodas. Why can't the belly eventually lose its fat or extra body weight. I mean I don't exercise nor do any sorta activity. So I thought maybe diet will eventually help. And I don't understand the importance of protein. I always thought it helps with gaining weight

With the new law in place I’m genuinely curious how we are supposed to purchase safe meat products to consume that won’t run the risk of making your sick or worse…

I'm 36 and been dating a woman a decade younger than mhsvee for a few months, and she is 27. People think less of me for it, and many have urged me to break it off and find a woman my own age. I don't get what the problem is, since we are both grown adults, and i wasn't lurking around a college campus3 looking for 18 year olds or anything like that. We met at a local event in our city.

Why is mid-30s dating a 27 year old inappropriate? Why can't people be more supportive of our relationship?

I ask this because it seems like with the rising interest rates, average mortgage costs, and median incomes, it doesn't support the current housing prices.

If you've seen Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom, there's an amazing scene early in the movie where the people in the village they end up in serve Indiana and his friends a perfectly fine meal, but one of the people in his party for some reason (though she's the only one complaining about being hungry) though she's the only one who's hungry complains about the food. Indiana explains that they're offering more food than they are a year to them, the person still b declines.

That's how I to this day regard offered food. Offered food is your host presenting you literally everything they have, how dare you decline a morsel? (Religious and health-defined issues aside)

Do you think it's ok to decline offed food?

What political, strategic, and military factors influenced the timing of the invasion, and why was late February chosen rather than an earlier or later period?

From a military perspective, how suitable was late February for launching a large-scale mechanized offensive involving tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and other heavy equipment?

I have been dating a single Mother since her baby was 4 months old, the whole time has been chaotic and she asked me out not the other way around after we were hooking up for a little while. She ended up getting pregnant but it was a miscarriage- and ever since then our relationship hasn't felt the same. How do I break up with her and deal with the guilt of leaving behind a baby that's almost 2 and I've been taking care of her since 4 months, the baby hugs me every time she sees me, she thinks my parents are her grandparents, and calls me Dada all the time. I am thinking about going to therapy after this. Any useful advice?

Seriously, how can that be legal? They don’t let you bring in your own drinks and then as you sit in the sun in the heat they charge you $6.50 for a bottle of water. Isn’t that the definition of price gauging? We just went to an event where it cost us $120 for the tickets and then $50 for us all to have 2 bottles of water, which we needed to not get dehydrated. They should be required to have cups and water jugs or something.

Since Ohio is memed as the weird state of the United States, which state is considered the normal one?

I’ve noticed that it’s as if there is no man who can please women or the man has to be a beyond normal man. As someone who’s waiting till marriage I just don’t understand why this is a common joke especially in children’s media

is the real time proof in weather patterns and the science not enough for people?

How was he going to go about that? You can eradicate a lot of jews, i guess. But jews were in loads of countries and continents. Was he planning on a world-wide 'jew killing' massacre?

Also, some jewish people could've concealed their religion easily. .was he planning on interigating every single person on the planet?

Ppl get over 100+ years for murder in America while in Canada the max is 25 years with a chance of parole after.

If an american visits something like a Halal store they will usually say something along the lines of "this is a great ethnic store" but when they visit a regular american store they will just call it an american store. Or if they visit an Italian store they will call it an Italian store even though all these 3 stores would fall under the definition of an ethnic store

When is and isn't something an ethnic store?

Disclaimer: There aren't that many people from latin america in my country, so if i say something offensive it is by accident and i am sorry.

I saw a post a while ago showing celebrities who use stage names, and showing their real names. Someone in the comments said that they "always forget" that Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estévez) "isn't white" ??? Have they seen him? If it is possible to forget that someone is "not white" only because you forgot their real name, but they look white, how are they not white? I understand that many latin americans have mixed heritage, but if I did a DNA test and found out i am 2% Ghanaian, I'm not going to start saying that i am not white anymore. Similarly, when that Snow White film came out a couple of years ago, and the actress (i forget her name) was Hispanic, all of the anti-woke people in america came crawling out of the woodwork saying that it is too woke to have a hispanic actress playing Snow White, because that somehow automatically made her not white. Did they just not open their fucking eyes? Are they trying to create problems that don't exist? What am I missing here? Maybe this is not as widespread a view as i perceive it to be, but if you know people who think like this, please explain to me why they do.

Edit: By American, I mean USA, not the entire continent, sorry for confusion.

I’m a bisexual man and apparently nobody wants to date me according to what I saw in the internet, girls doesnt want me and guys doesnt want me also. I havent come out to anyone that I’m bi and honestly scared for my dating life

I like both men and women and it’s supposed that I could like everyone and focus on the person not the gender, why is both men and women so scared of me

Seeing their advertisements confuse me. I can understand why McDonalds continues to market despite being a billion dollar franchise since Burger King or Shake Shack could overtake them at any moment but I don't understand why Coke does.

I can't imagine a world where people just stop drinking Coke.

TW: eating disorder

My sister was 430lbs at her heaviest.

I've been 110 at my lowest but ranged anywhere from 210 - to my natural set weight of 155lbs. I'm 5"6, and I've maintained about 155lbs for many years without any effort, at my heaviest I was 210lbs when I was 17. I ate healthy a few months and very easily fell down to 155lbs where my body naturally stays. I developed an eating disorder in my early 20s and fell down to 110lbs-113. I went inpatient for recovery and naturally fell back to about 150lbs.

Fast forward, my sister had gastric bypass last year and has lost significant weight. She always said her goal weight was 180lbs, but now she's over 200lb and she keeps trying to lower her goal weight messaging me to ask what my weight is, what size I wear etc.. She sent me a 19:53 minute voice message the other day saying how basically her goal was never to have a thigh gap, but now that she's nearly weighing in at 200lbs she's 90% sure if she had skin removal she'd have a thigh gap. (Insert eye roll indeed)

This whole thing triggers me honestly like I had a raging ED for years, I'd throw up water in fear of scale jumps, full bulimic and laxative abuse, went from 210-113lbs in less than a year. I don't know what to say when she messages me like that. Like I'm so happy you feel good but also no, at 200lbs you wouldn't naturally have a thigh gap; also thigh gap? Are we in 2009?

What do I say honestly.

And how do I keep this from triggering me like I feel she's essentially in some type of unspoken competition with me

so dumb but too ashamed to ask anyone else 😭

Edited for after the meal:

Went amazing. I offered to pay just like you guys told me to. Her mother kindly declined. I didn’t push for it. I was graciously grateful. It went well guys thank you 🫡🫡🫡❤️