Wiki Wednesday #338 - Neko Mineko / 猫ミネコ

 so I need to actually go beyond pulling an all nighter and also pull an all dayer.

Wiki Wednesday #338 - Neko Mineko / 猫ミネコ

Cats. The entire biography is just cats.

Who is Mineko Neko?

Art from Bank 

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TW: discussion of fad diets. Skip to the "how does this bank sound" section to avoid reading about fad diets!

I wanted to fact check myself. So I looked up if grapefruit actually affects birth control. Apparently, grapefruit doesn't affect a single drug that I'm taking. I could just go out and eat a grapefruit. That's crazy! 

Even crazier, only specific antibiotics affect birth control. There's apparently a lot of stuff that supposedly affects birth control that doesn't actually affect it. (Technically grapefruit does affect birth control and can cause side effects, but it doesn't make you more likely to fall pregnant.)

Grapefruit was a trendy diet food. I had a phase of eating a grapefruit for breakfast. I had to add sugar to be able to eat it. That kind of defeats the purpose, but I'm extremely easily swayed when it comes to food. That's why I have trained myself to focus so much on macros. Macros don't lie! Fads lie. 

I feel like it's rarely good form to outright call foods gross. Someone out there loves that food! And I pretended to be that someone because some weirdo one hundred years ago decided that grapefruits were THE diet fruits.

The grapefruit was actually irrelevant. The original grapefruit diet was just keto... And a grapefruit.

I get it to some degree. Grapefruits are not easy to eat. You can't just peel it and snack on the segments. You need to go through a whole routine as far as I remember. 

I am obsessive with food. That's just part of me. I spend more time thinking about food than anything else in life. I have extremely vivid memories of food - way more vivid than literally anything else in my life.

Now we have a lot of research into everything and can understand the idea of how things work. A fad diet like the eighteen day grapefruit diet "will work" for everyone who completes it because anyone who starves themselves for eighteen days will lose weight! But it's not healthy weight loss. Once you stop slowly destroying your body by not eating enough, all of that weight pops back on.

I do know how silly it could sound that I'm railing against fad diets while openly being on Weight Watchers. I'm kind of treating it like a fad diet. I'm eating a ton of fruit instead of actual meals. That can't be healthy, right?!

I track my macros. When I'm going crazy because I need refined sugar, I eat my health food cookies. I get most of what I need from Huel Black (vegan Ensure for cool people with soy intolerance). I could say WW isn't a fad diet and has a ton of science behind it... But naw. Just know that I take dieting very seriously and I have learned from my mistakes in the past. I know what happens when I don't get enough protein and I'm never willingly going back there again. (Seriously, I love Huel Black.)

How Is Neko Mineko's bank?

I saw there was a functioning C+V bank, so I made Mineko sing in English. The voice is very heavily edited so you may have trouble with the bank. But the voice does feel like cats.

Where Can I download Mineko Neko?

You can find Mineko on their wiki page. Cats!