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"Transportation using lightweight vehicles such as bicycles or scooters, especially electric ones that may be borrowed as part of a self-service rental program in which people rent vehicles for short-term use within a town or city.

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Cycling has a weight problem: a call for the industry to be more transparent about its weight limits (www.cyclingweekly.com)

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Weight limits for bicycles need to be higher and more transparent, especially if the majority of people want to use them.

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[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I never thought about this until it happened to me, but a lot of medications can cause significant weight gain. I used to weigh 110lbs for a good chunk of my existence and was very fit.

I experienced a mental health crisis and the antidepressants made me gain around 60lbs. Don't ask me how, I'm not a doctor. But to go from being very thin to overweight was kinda disturbing...just ballooning up like that. Also...the constipation was the worse I've ever experienced. I could eat salads all day(and did) and my shit was still rock hard.

I've since quit taking them due to side effects killing my quality of life and the weight is slowly coming off...but it's like my whole metabolism is fucked forever now. (I'm doing much better mentally, I was in a bad situation, and leaving it helped immensely)

There are people who need those meds to function, and A LOT of people take them. Probably a contributing factor as to why there's more large people now. Either accept the weight gain and be mentally healthier, or have more mental health problems with no weight gain. Thats a hell of a choice.

Hopefully newer meds are being developed that don't have those side effects.

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Salad is high fiber, it's going to make your shit hard.

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dude, it didn't matter how much water I drank, or how much fiber(Dr's advice was to eat salads and high fiber food) I couldn't shit. Laxatives didn't even help. Never had that issue before or after i stopped taking those meds. It was fucking awful.

Also, without medications messing up my digestive system, salads usually make me poop. Not diarrhea or anything, just...kinda moves things along if you will.

Maybe your body reacts differently? Bodies are weird as fuck like that.

[–] rooster_butt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I had some issues with retention and changing diet to high fiber made it worse... so yeah bodies are weird like that.