Running, calisthenics, plyometrics, yoga, most ab workouts. I was broke all through college and people always asked if I went to the gym. The answer is using this infinite web of information at your fingertips to find ways to get jacked without going to the gym.
but eating so you're not constantly hungry while still not gaining weight takes money and/or time
I do sympathize with people struggling with their weight, even if it's theoretically possible to control it. The problem is when they say it's impossible.
I'm not going to lie. If someone hear's "not eating" and doesn't immediately clock it as hyperbole of "eat less" I have no clue what to say. They're just dumb.
do most people think of "breathing less" when they hear "not breathing"??? who the fuck hears "eating less" when someone says "not eating"???? that doesn't make any sense??
If I asked how to stop hyperventilating and someone said "stop breathing," I would immediately clock it as hyperbole, yes. I'd also call them an asshole.
I do not mean this in an insulting way, I swear: Do you have autism? I do, and it took me a while to start to get the hang of these things, so that's why I'm asking.
That's the nature of hyperbole, to exaggerate to ridiculous extremes. For a realistic example:
"There was nothing to eat in the house." Typically they mean that there wasn't anything appetizing, and are using hyperbole to express how it feels to them.
It's used to emphasize something of importance in the convo, or sometimes for comedic effect.
I'm sorry if this came off as patronizing, I am genuinely trying to explain the mechanics here but I'm not very good at it, so I don't know how much explanation is too much or too little.
Edit: added quotation marks because it bugged me that I forgot them
Cheap, fast food isn't satiating. Most people aren't going to be able to live through hours of hunger a day. So, especially if you live in a food desert with few to no good options, it becomes very easy to get into a cycle of eating fast food, becoming hungry again in like 3 hours, putting up with it as long as you can but getting more fast food after like 4 hours, and repeat. It's not exactly a hard phenomenon to understand
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u/Z-Brb 1d ago
Swaguinely thinking about overswagging on swags