What made me unhappy today ?

[TrevorD]

How about push-ups?

pushups are interesting because anyone can do them and even if you can only do 4-5, if you do them daily soon you'll do 20, then 25 and thirty. Pullups, most people say they can do them but they really can't. Plus, getting to ten, I've never done ten in my life, so yeah thats a bold goal for me.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Interesting. Different muscle group, probably. I haven't done a pull up in forever but 30 is my normal pushup set. Time to experiment! That curtain rod looks stable....

 

[Daisy Lee]

Actually I wouldn't mind, cream cheese isn't that hard to find

Here's a link to the recipe I use. Saves me from having to type it out. Scroll down to about the middle. Hope they come out good for you. I am on modified Keto, no more than 40 grams a day.

DIY Starbucks Sous Vide Egg Bites %%page%% %%sep%% Keto Breakfast Ideas

This is a low carb version of Starbucks egg bites with bacon and cheese. Just mix and bake in the oven for some tasty keto breakfast on the go.

www.flavcity.com

 

[DLC]

pushups are interesting because anyone can do them and even if you can only do 4-5, if you do them daily soon you'll do 20, then 25 and thirty. Pullups, most people say they can do them but they really can't. Plus, getting to ten, I've never done ten in my life, so yeah thats a bold goal for me.

Yeah, I do pushups and body weight squats, since forever. Pull-ups are hard, it's been years since I tried but, like pushups, it depends on how much you weight. Also, don't eat sugar, look both ways before crossing the road and wear glasses if you need em.

 

[TrevorD]

Interesting. Different muscle group, probably. I haven't done a pull up in forever but 30 is my normal pushup set. Time to experiment! That curtain rod looks stable....

uuffF..sounds dangerous, lol. Actually, if you try, let me know how many you can do

 

[Homer Potvin]

uuffF..sounds dangerous, lol. Actually, if you try, let me know how many you can do

Funnily enough, I perused my office and then my house when I got home for anything that might double as a chinup bar. There's a gas pipe in my basement that looks sort of secure? Hold my gin and tonic, please....

 

[TrevorD]

Yeah, I do pushups and body weight squats, since forever. Pull-ups are hard, it's been years since I tried but, like pushups, it depends on how much you weight. Also, don't eat sugar, look both ways before crossing the road and wear glasses if you need em.

Pullups are rough because if you have a weak spot in any of the muscles that's involved, its a bitch getting the chin over the bar. Plus, I used to do pushups and I'm not dissing them because I think they're an excellent exercise of multiple simultaneous muscle groups, it's just I do the world's sorriest pushup technique and bank every one I do, regardless of whether it's fake or whatever, lol.

 

[Amontillado]

I went on a weight loss tear a few years ago and lost from 265 down to 190. I felt great. Then came new opportunities at work with lots of hours and I'm back at 250.

If I walk one to two hours a day and add a little mild exercise, I can lose 0.2 pounds per day without feeling any privation. Lather, rinse, and let the calendar do the real work.

In fact, it got easy to get through a day with less than 1500 calories by suppertime. I always porked up my intake when it was that low.

But I couldn't do pushups. I couldn't when I was a kid, either. I swallowed my pride and did ten knee pushups a day, something I'll never admit to. After a week, I could do three real pushups with my back ramrod straight. After a year, I could do three sets of 25 every day.

The human body is a remarkable machine.

I can't try pushups of any kind until I clear my hands of poison ivy. My guess, two weeks until rash free.

 

[That Guy Named Aaron]

Father's Day Weekend is difficult for me for reasons I can't talk about. The level of depression it gives me gets worse year to year.

 

[Trish]

Father's Day Weekend is difficult for me for reasons I can't talk about. The level of depression it gives me gets worse year to year.

Sorry to hear that. I get it though.

 

[That Guy Named Aaron]

Sorry to hear that. I get it though.

Thanks. I had a great idea for a story for the first contest, and it knocked the want to write from me. Honestly, I've not been in the mood to write all month.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Father's Day Weekend is difficult for me for reasons I can't talk about. The level of depression it gives me gets worse year to year.

I'm very sorry, Aaron. I was a carer for my grandmother for many years. Please accept my condolences.

*offers hugs*

 

[Trish]

Thanks. I had a great idea for a story for the first contest, and it knocked the want to write from me. Honestly, I've not been in the mood to write all month.

Definitely understand that. Here's hoping it fades a little quicker every year

 

[That Guy Named Aaron]

I'm very sorry, Aaron. I was a carer for my grandmother for many years. Please accept my condolences.

*offers hugs*

Hugs gladly accepted and appreciated. Mine's a phucked-up mostly self-inflicted ordeal that someday I'll be brave enough to share with the world. But it makes great fodder for a even more screwed up slice-of-life book.

 

[Amontillado]

Father's Day Weekend is difficult for me for reasons I can't talk about. The level of depression it gives me gets worse year to year.

Aaron, you're not alone. For probably unrelated reasons I have burdens every Father's Day, too.

Be well, sir. Seize every moment and fill that minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run. It's worth it.

 

[Set2Stun]

Jumping back a touch - cheese is rare in Asia? That's surprising to me, but only because of the historical dairy-based culture of the steppe, in particular Mongolia, over millennia. I reckoned that would've spread about a bit. I might have some googling to do soon based on this revelation.

 

[DLC]

You need the right animals

 

[Iain Aschendale]

Jumping back a touch - cheese is rare in Asia? That's surprising to me, but only because of the historical dairy-based culture of the steppe, in particular Mongolia, over millennia. I reckoned that would've spread about a bit. I might have some googling to do soon based on this revelation.

Mongolia is, well, a world away from Japan culturally. The cheese we have here is mostly either "mozzarella" shred for topping pizza toast or a Kraft Singles version of mozzarella. There is also a curious soft-ish white cheese in the 6p cheese packs that's uninspiring but goes okay as a beer snack:



But for real cheese, well, my local gourmet/imports food shop sells an "extra-mature Cheddar" that is aged at least... 12 months. At prices more in the "aged 5-6 years" range to my mind (grew up in northern Illinois, not far from Wisconsin, so my cheese radar may be overcalibrated). It's not a total desert, but even a local supermarket in the Chicago area has a greater variety and depth of cheeses than a high-end department store's cheese corner in Osaka.

 

[Naomasa298]

Jumping back a touch - cheese is rare in Asia? That's surprising to me, but only because of the historical dairy-based culture of the steppe, in particular Mongolia, over millennia. I reckoned that would've spread about a bit. I might have some googling to do soon based on this revelation.

Yes. In East, Southeast and South Asia, certainly, cheese has not, and has never been part of the culture. It has historically not been drunk, partly, as I mentioned earlier, due to the prevalence of lactose intolerance. The two countries there that I'm most familiar with, Japan and Thailand, don't have any native historical cheese products. Japan did once, hundreds of years ago, have a product that could be loosely described as cheese-like, but it was so long ago, around the 12th century, that the recipe has been lost.

How to make 'so,' Japan’s 1,000-year-old dessert that’s back in fashion

One thing Japan has plenty of these days is milk. Schools across the nation closed are closed as a countermeasure against infection, and that means not only no classes, but no school lunches either. Having temporarily lost some of their biggest customers, dairy farmers are hurting, and since...

japantoday.com

Once you go south of the steppe, dairy as part of diet has been much, much rarer. I don't know of any native southern Chinese dishes. South Asia has paneer, but that's used in a rather different way. The thought of putting cheese in every dish would fill most rural Pakistanis with horror.

 

[Naomasa298]

a Kraft Singles version of mozzarella. There is also a curious soft-ish white cheese in the 6p cheese packs that's uninspiring but goes okay as a beer snack:

I had a cheese-filled taiyaki last time I was there. Apparently, the Japanese believe that cheese is supposed to burn the roof your mouth off, and at the same time, squirt out and dribble down your shirt, and this is "indulgence".