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01 Jul 2018, 6:29 pm

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Not sure how some of these relate to L&D! :lol:

Body transformation Day 1, I've weighed in, had my first healthy meal, and am craving the crap I'd been eating lately - but I'm resisting :)

Also had a convo yesterday with someone to clear up where we stand with each other, so that feels good to have clarity.

Excellent work soldier!


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01 Jul 2018, 8:51 pm

I was just referring to the 'red pill movement'; a bunch of dudes crudely disguising sexism as progressive independent thinking. :evil:


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02 Jul 2018, 2:21 am

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got the washer and dryer mostly back into place after cleaning a gallon of laundry soap [the wet kind] off the floor with the GD jug decided to fall off the dryer, soaking the carpet and getting all underneath the dryer, then replacing the GD dryer vent hose when it tore when I moved the GD dryer out of the way to clean the GD floor. that was a royal PITA.
:D Working out what GD stood for on only my third read through.


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02 Jul 2018, 2:30 am

fluffysaurus wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
got the washer and dryer mostly back into place after cleaning a gallon of laundry soap [the wet kind] off the floor with the GD jug decided to fall off the dryer, soaking the carpet and getting all underneath the dryer, then replacing the GD dryer vent hose when it tore when I moved the GD dryer out of the way to clean the GD floor. that was a royal PITA.
:D Working out what GD stood for on only my third read through.

amuuuricans are relatively puritanical when it comes to foul language, so to protect amuuurican sensibilities, I use abbreviations unless i'm royally PO'd. and GD stands for Geronimo's Dominion ;)



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11 Jul 2018, 12:23 am

Body Transformation Day 10 - I've lost a couple of kgs...slower that past efforts but I blame it on Winter. My body is resisting shedding the fat :P

Anyway I'm feeling better about a trip into the city this weekend where I'll be doing my big bout of socialising and flirting and being awkward before hibernating back in my quiet town :)



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11 Jul 2018, 12:33 am

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I managed to get out of bed this weekend, did some dishes and 3 loads of washing.

Bought a new crash bandicoot game which I’ll probably play tonight.


Still looking beautiful though I'll bet. ;-)

Isn,t Bandicoot a bit after school club?



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11 Jul 2018, 12:51 am

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I haven't done it yet, but by announcing that I'm going to, it will make me accountable, so it'll happen :)

My life has been in chaos lately and so the easiest thing to do food-wise is grab quick comfort food instead of cooking nutritious stuff. The chaos is still there, but I can't just keep up these bad habits - the impact on my skin and bodyfat is obvious, and it moves me away from my goal of presenting the best version of me to the dating world (eventually).

So today is cook-up-a-storm day. Foods get stored by their main type (protein, fat, carb, or unlimited extras), then I grab what I need from those to make each meal. Today's collection (to last a few days):

Protein - eggs, kangaroo steak, skinless chicken, choc flavoured protein powder.
Fat - cashews, pistachios, dark chocolate, peanut butter.
Carbs - potato, fruit.
Unlimited extras - mushroom, capsicum, onion, bean sprouts, alfalfa, spinach.

Yum.


I thought kangaroo meat isn't massively popular there?

I'd have some. The eating is most of it I think.



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11 Jul 2018, 1:04 am

Tequila wrote:
yellowtamarin wrote:
I haven't done it yet, but by announcing that I'm going to, it will make me accountable, so it'll happen :)

My life has been in chaos lately and so the easiest thing to do food-wise is grab quick comfort food instead of cooking nutritious stuff. The chaos is still there, but I can't just keep up these bad habits - the impact on my skin and bodyfat is obvious, and it moves me away from my goal of presenting the best version of me to the dating world (eventually).

So today is cook-up-a-storm day. Foods get stored by their main type (protein, fat, carb, or unlimited extras), then I grab what I need from those to make each meal. Today's collection (to last a few days):

Protein - eggs, kangaroo steak, skinless chicken, choc flavoured protein powder.
Fat - cashews, pistachios, dark chocolate, peanut butter.
Carbs - potato, fruit.
Unlimited extras - mushroom, capsicum, onion, bean sprouts, alfalfa, spinach.

Yum.


I thought kangaroo meat isn't massively popular there?

I'd have some. The eating is most of it I think.

It's not massively popular, but is available at the supermarkets. It's the only red meat I cook, because they all taste similar to me and it's probably the most ethical choice.



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11 Jul 2018, 1:29 am

I am treading on your feet here a bit. :)



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16 Jul 2018, 8:38 am

On the weekend I socialised like a normal person instead of staying in my apartment watching Youtube


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16 Jul 2018, 7:51 pm

made it through another long drive back and forth from the north of the next county, getting eye care.



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16 Jul 2018, 7:58 pm

“Most ethical”?

I just met a guy who used to raise emu. He still has one in his backyard. Red meat, tastes just like beef, but almost no fat at all.

I own just over an acre. Emu breeding is starting to look like a viable pastime.



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16 Jul 2018, 8:25 pm

hope you can make a go of it. I can't do much with 1/3 tree-filled acre.



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17 Jul 2018, 10:40 am

Well, oh, well, today is the haughty hottie's birthday. She brought some pastries. I ignored the whole affair from my side of the glass pane, till one of my immediate co-workers-except-she's-a-real-worker-while-the-same-can't-be-said-of-me-with-a-straight-face offered me a piece of cake she'd picked up there. I ate it, failing to come up with any plausible excuse not to. It was good, but judging by its consistency and taste, it seemed unlikely to have been sold by any regular business, so it was probably cooked by the haughty hottie herself. Fortunately, she was away at that moment, and I took care to gobble it down quickly and get rid of all evidence before she came back.

Let's see what happens next year, assuming I'm still here.


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17 Jul 2018, 5:13 pm

AngelRho wrote:
“Most ethical”?

I just met a guy who used to raise emu. He still has one in his backyard. Red meat, tastes just like beef, but almost no fat at all.

I own just over an acre. Emu breeding is starting to look like a viable pastime.

Yeah the other choices in the supermarket are animals that are non-native and farmed, on land cleared for farming. Roos hang out in their natural bush habitat and we cull them anyway because there are "too many" of them, so I think it's best to make the most of them.



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03 Aug 2018, 11:52 pm

I'll let you deal with the emus, I just upgraded jobs from startup nonsense to more or less exactly what I was looking for. Now I get to test & hack 3D mapping software instead of getting yelled at about iffy webware.

In other news, 8856000 pixels worth of monitor tan is really sinking in. Perhaps that gets me somewhere.


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