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Josh is LIVE! Q&A While I Build the LEGO Enterprise

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Joe Concepts

How far along in the Trek franchise will they be when they finally finish this build? I'm going with ... last season of Voyager.

Skullman8942

They'll finish it just in time for Star Trek Enterprise

BN13

As an autistic person who struggles with burnout all the time, I totally get not being able to do something unless your brain is in the right mindset to do it. It doesn't matter how much logical sense it makes to do something else first. I've learned the hard way; at the end of the day, your brain runs the show, and your brain doesn't care what needs to be done first. Listening to what your mind and body actually want to do is not procrastination; it's necessary.

MrDeadstu

Dude, you are streaming before I wake up for work...lol

Chris

Was glad to hear you picked up Imzadi by Peter David. There's an Imzadi 2 that David also wrote but there is some spoiler material in there even though the books are mostly considered non-cannon. He also wrote a great Trek series called New Frontier - about a whole other ship with it's peculiar crew. TOS, TAS & TNG nods galore, though it is spoiler-y since it takes place after certain events in the Trek universe.

Target Audience

Yes, I will be sticking to release date for the books as well so I can only read up to 1994 as of right now, but definitely want to read Imzadi 2 when I can!

BN13

I am also morbidly obese and need to lose weight. Several factors affecting why I have not include; I love food; I hate exercise; I feel like I don't have time to exercise without stranding my special needs children by themselves; I don't like most foods on the Mediterranean diet because they are too tart, and my pallate prefers things that are very sweet; and i eat to comfort myself, sooth stress, and connect with nostalgic memories that i desperately miss. Also part of that nostalgia is growing up, my parents couldn't really cook, so we ate fast food all the time. My grandma also got me fast food all the time, so now fast food is a nostalgic comfort item. Plus, due to autism/adhd, even though I really enjoy cooking when I can hyperfocus on it and don't have my kids interrupting me, it's rare that I'm able to do that, so I struggle with cooking and end up relying on terrible convenience foods most of the time. Also I'm scared that Ozempic will kill me because I've heard horror stories about it. And don't even get me started on bariatric surgery. I'm also resistant to change, and like my routines. Also, I think i have a deep psychological aversion toward anything that can help my health because as a kid, I saw other girls who were like 9, obsess over exercise, what they ate, and how their body looked, and making sure boys found them attractive by only eating salads. Most of these people have severe eating disorders and self-esteem issues now, and probably did even back then. I knew from watching them that that's not how I EVER wanted to be, so I always embraced food. Unfortunately this led to me thinking of those people whenever I exercise or eat a salad, and it makes me feel like weight loss should never be part of my identity, otherwise I'll become them and do what they did. I don't want to be those people, or feel like I HAVE to be those people in order to live. I want to be me. Food for me is freedom, and calorie counting is restrictive. Rules or diets make me feel like I'm being forced into their box. People who aren't obese themselves don't understand that it's not like we just make a simple choice to overeat every day that we can just stop doing if we choose. Obsesity is the combination of MULTIPLE lifestyle choices and psychological frameworks, mixed with environmental factors like how much money, time, energy, and other resources you have available, and what you need in terms of comfort and identity. Our habits are all in place because they satisfy real needs, and we can't stop those habits unless we find other ways of getting those needs met. We created a complex system slowly over decades that we can't easily replace. In order to lose weight, we need a completely new complex system.