Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels

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Modern Version of Botticelli’s Venus ▫️ Proud Owner of a Big Butt ▫️Dad Joke Collector 🕸️ https://beacons.ai/professordemilo 💘 https://marigoldgift.com/gemdemilo/gemdemilowishlist

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Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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Giving one of my all time favorite comfort shows a rewatch. Can you guess what it is? I’ll give a few hints: it’s a drama, it debuted in the late 90s (a couple years before The Sopranos), and surprisingly, it contains no wizardry or ruby slippers, despite its name.

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I am officially down 45lbs. I’ve felt ambivalent about saying anything publicly about this. I know that in the age of GLP-1s and heroin chic/early 2000s super skinny culture making a comeback, discussing weigh loss publicly can be especially fraught....

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It’s what works for me and has kept me consistent, and I can’t imagine a life without fries and dessert. I do hope to continue progressing in both weigh loss and my health in general, but it’s not tied to a specific date or number or size.

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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We all deserve to feel healthy and happy in our bodies, and we all deserve to have enjoyable, pleasurable experiences in our bodies. Even if we have a ways to go. Even if we make mistakes. We don’t have to be anyone else’s definition of perfect to be healthy, happy, beautiful, and desirable.

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
@gemdemilo.bsky.social

I am officially down 45lbs. I’ve felt ambivalent about saying anything publicly about this. I know that in the age of GLP-1s and heroin chic/early 2000s super skinny culture making a comeback, discussing weigh loss publicly can be especially fraught....

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I take barre classes 3-5x a week. I volunteer at an animal shelter to walk dogs. I make healthier choices in cooking and when I go out. I don’t religiously count calories/macros. I still get fries and dessert sometimes I don’t beat myself up if I miss a barre class. I don’t weigh myself every day.

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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I’m sure many fitness influencer types would say I’m not doing enough: that barre and walking aren’t good enough, that I need to eat X amount of grams of protein, that I need to weigh myself everyday, that I should never eat fries and dessert, etc. Oh well...

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
@gemdemilo.bsky.social

I am officially down 45lbs. I’ve felt ambivalent about saying anything publicly about this. I know that in the age of GLP-1s and heroin chic/early 2000s super skinny culture making a comeback, discussing weigh loss publicly can be especially fraught....

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Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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It hasn’t been the fastest weight loss. In fact it has been intentionally slow. I made a conscious decision to make the primary focus my health. I focus on exercise that’s sustainable and enjoyable to me. I focus on making and eating healthier meals. I focus on how my body feels over what it weighs

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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I decided not to take a GLP-1. I wanted to see what I could do on my own first, then revisit it if it felt necessary. I wont pretend that aesthetics weren’t part of the equation; they most certainly were. But I knew when I made that the primary focus before, it set me up for constant self criticism

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
@gemdemilo.bsky.social

I am officially down 45lbs. I’ve felt ambivalent about saying anything publicly about this. I know that in the age of GLP-1s and heroin chic/early 2000s super skinny culture making a comeback, discussing weigh loss publicly can be especially fraught....

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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I certainly don’t mean to make anyone feel bad about where they are with their weight or imply that everyone must lose weight. However, I have also put a lot of consistent work into becoming a healthier version of myself, and I do think that’s worth celebrating

Gem DeMilo 🩷 Chicago + Travels
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This makes me so happy 🥹. Deborah Vance is one of the most complex, intelligent, compelling, well written, brilliantly portrayed TV characters to ever exist, male or female. Congratulations on your very well deserved 5th Emmy, Queen Jean 👑

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Jean Smart won the Emmy for best actress in a comedy for her role in “Hacks,” making her the first woman to win best actress for each season of a show’s run. nyti.ms/4j4iQFe

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