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Megan Lee's avatar

5 is definitely much too young to ditch your kid at a birthday party!!!! Poor kiddo! 🥹 And, as someone who has an obsession with Europe/British shows... I'm going to look up Big Boys and fantasize about watching it even though I don't have Hulu. 🥲

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Kristina Nasti's avatar

Ugh it’s soooo good you’ll have to bum a login from someone!

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Kate Bradbury's avatar

LOVED Big Boy, I know exactly what you mean. I'm saving the last series so as I don't want it to be over. I need a time that no one is home and I can cry and laugh and then watch it a second time with my husband (as I did last time).

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Kristina Nasti's avatar

You’re going to looove it

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Sarah's avatar

Hurts my heart for you sooo much to see that you care this much about being skinny. It’s okay to just accept your body. Wrote a piece recently about affirmatively staying fat that might resonate with you/help you out of the fatphobia spiral on display here

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Alyssa Savino's avatar

Someone left a 5 year old at a birthday party??? Hoping that's some sort of wild miscommunication because that's unhinged.

I took my son to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese last year and spent so much time dreading it but it was SO bizarre and, as you mentioned, the pizza was not the worst I'd had! I'm of firm belief that a child is more likely to be hurt by someone they know than a stranger, but when I couldn't find my son for a few minutes, I was panicking!!! That place would actually be ideal for creeps- so much chaos and SO loud even the loudspeaker couldn't overpower just the general noise level.

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Mara Reed's avatar

The idea that the decision to reduce caloric intake is met with resistance is one that is really only online. Most women (above the age of 30) are constantly talking about diets and praising each other for weight loss (regardless of the means). I agree that Ozempic is essentially an ED in a shot, nurtures life long dependance, and nukes your gut health and metabolism in the process. What is crazy to me is that people will shell out hundreds of dollars for a GLP-1 but can not be bothered to go see a licensed dietician who can identify root issues and come up with plans for long term weight loss solutions. Everyone has a right to body autonomy, and if you don't like your body everyone has the right to change it. I think its time for us to realize that weight loss is not a matter of control, which is what skinny-tok is about. We all wish we had control over our bodies, and sometimes when feel like we do(via weightloss), the high can be addicting. That feeling is fleeting, and without addressing root causes one will be doomed to constantly trying to recreate those 15 pounds you lost that one time, often escalating the means to do so.

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