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getthebutters · 1 year

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Keep Going After January: Top 10 Exercise Routine Longevity Hacks (2023)

So, you started working out on January 1. Good for you! I know a lot of people will give you shit for starting in Jan but fuck them. Start when you want to start. But let’s talk a bit about how to keep you on track past January, prevent burn out and streamline your idea of what this is supposed to be like.

When I originally wrote this guide in 2022, I was 7 months into my exercise journey. Now I’m 19 months in and these tips have helped keep me going. I’ve lost 40+lbs of fat, put on a bunch of muscle. I’m reaching my goals and have settled into this routine as a part of life. If you follow these tips it will help, I promise.

My Progress 2021-2023

Ensure you’re comfortable

The #1 reason I hate working out is cause I get sweaty and hot. But I’ve learned how to make it a shit ton comfier, especially as a 409lb guy. Here’s the 3 biggest. Wear light clothes, even if you hate showing skin. Get some flat shoes without a ton of extra padding. Utilize an anti-chafing cream like Thick N Slide if you find your thighs rub too much.

Check out our 2022 comfort guide for more tips: Exercise & The Fatty: Top 20 gym tips for comfort & success

What’s your reason for doing this? Make it tangible.

Both times I’ve decided to start working out successfully, I had other things going on in my life that made working out necessary. Essentially, I needed to have more endurance and strength to accomplish another goal. This time, The Butters growth (including enjoying the benefits of that) and the desire to toss around large men in bed. I’m just being honest.

Maybe you want to feel more confident in the face of stairs, ride dick longer, give birth easier, construct your body of art, support the weight of your tigo bitties, get out of bed earlier, or even scare people slightly when you shake their hand. Whatever the reason, it’s gotta be tangible and fun. It’s gotta be something personal and actually achievable. Not only achievable but exciting every time it happens.

Don’t make this about weight

Notice I didn’t mention weight loss in the above tip? Weight loss is slow and boring. If you’re working out right, it’s likely your weight loss will be a little delayed, but you’ll feel more functional and healthier sooner.

Overcome gym intimidation

Even though you probably won’t recognize it immediately, a lot of your apprehension is the result of deep-seated intimidation. Most people don’t really know anything about their body or the gym – jumping in can be a lot! Unfortunately, you can’t make this easier except to admit it and coach yourself through it.

Try watching natty or not videos on YouTube. Find out how many people are on steroids or in other ways manipulating their image for profit. This will make you feel a lot better about yourself and your capabilities.

Read More: Doing What’s Best For You Doesn’t Always Feel Good

Recognize you’re weaker than you think but also stronger!

You’re gonna be humbled your first few times in the gym. Your form will be trash. You’re gonna be sweaty, weak, and questioning why you’re doing this. But there will also be moments where you surprise the fuck outta yourself.

When I followed the plan given by my basic Planet Fitness trainer, I found that while I couldn’t lift very much, my muscles respond very well to stress; I got bulky and strong super quick. They call that newbie gains but it hasn’t slowed down. I was super intimidated by the gym at first, but I’ve also found that I’m very good at intuitively training myself. I’ve only ever worked with the trainer four times. But I keep making great progress and it encourages me to continue

Avoid the urge to post on social.

Often, we get in the gym and want to post about it for an ego boost or encouragement. Unfortunately, social media is an exhausting place sometimes. This should be a personal, private experience. Record yourself, yes - That’s very good for monitoring your form and making sure you look cute. But keep the videos off social media and yourself safe from being deflated by low likes and views.

Keep it fun

Look, what’s the point in doing anything if it isn’t fun? You’ll find me on the elliptical, smith machine, rope pull or literally anywhere else rocking the fuck out. The music, dance, and physical exertion makes it fun for me. But I also enjoy testing myself. Can I lift this, how many reps can I hit, how perfect can I keep my form, how long can I hold this? This is where I find a lot of the challenge that keeps me engaged throughout the workout. Since it’s me challenging me, and I hate being told what to do, it’s more fun. Although I can push myself too hard sometimes.

Switch it up

The best way to keep your exercises fun and interesting is to simply change up what you’re doing. I’ve focused on cardio, weight, reps, strength, variety, push/pull, individual body parts, cables, free weights, machines, big 3 lifts. Although some might see it as disorganized, I see it as responsive to my needs of the moment.

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teaandgames · 4 years

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The Tea Times - February 2020

Well, we’re well into the year now. Christmas is a distant memory and all we’ve got to look forward to now are the distant, chocolatey eggs of Easter. Presuming, of course, that we’re still alive by then. It’s gonna be a rough year. We’ve got political upheavals, countries glaring at each other and an extremely infectious virus making the rounds. We’re in for a fun year, folks.

In fact the coronavirus pops up a couple of times in the news section. Was only inevitable, really.

At a Glance

Zombie Army 4, Florence and Lair of the Clockwork God released.

Prince of Persia: The Dagger of Time and Baldur’s Gate 3 announced.

Coronavirus delays!

Bioware are overhauling Anthem

Metro Exodus arrives on Steam

ConcernedApe urges everyone to chill out!

Quantic Dreams goes independent

The Releases

Everyone’s favourite slow-mo zombie shooter got its fourth installment this month. Adolf Hitler has now been banished to hell, which is nice, but Zombie Army 4: Dead War proves that the zombies are still dead and kicking. I’ve played a bit of the preceding game, the Zombie Army Trilogy and it seems like it would be good fun with friends. It was released on the 4th February.

Florence seems like a bit of a funny one. It’s a narrative focused interactive story centered around the life of a girl named Florence Yoeh and the cellist, Krish, who she begins to date. Its dialogue involves puzzles that become progressively easier as Florence gets used to talking to Krish. I love that idea, and how it eschews standard difficulty progression. Looks like a charming game too. Florence released on PC, Mac and Switch on the 12th February (though has been on mobile devices since 2018).

Lair of the Clockwork God may not leap out at most people but it’s by the makers of hilarious ‘Time Gentlemen, Please!’, Size Five Games. Time Gentlemen, Please had a ridiculous sense of humour, which was helped along by the very rough graphics, that just made it a joy to play through. It had Nazi Dinosaurs, after all. Lair of the Clockwork God looks to be fairly similar, albeit with much better graphics. It splits itself in between the classic point’n’click adventure and ‘indie darling’ platformer which are headed up by Ben and Dan respectively. Dan’s Head is larger than his body so it fits at least one of the Indie Darling qualifications. Lair of the Clockwork God was released on the 21st February.

The Announcements

Prince of Persia: The Dagger of Time is an unusual continuation of the series, given that it’s a VR escape room. Still, this is a series that has had quite a few odd continuations in its time. This is not an escape room that you take into your home, though. There won’t be any knocking over of coffee tables. It’s a proper dedicated space that you, and a few friends, can visit. There’s time manipulation mechanics too, which seems pretty damn interesting. It’s coming to places across Europe and the US, so might be worth checking out if Escape Rooms are your cup of tea.

While technically announced in January, I’d be remiss not to bring up Baldur’s Gate 3 at some point. It’s an old classic and laid the groundwork for a lot of modern RPGs. It’s being developed by Larian Games, who made Divinity: Original Sin and its sequel. So there’s some decent chops behind it at least. There aren’t too many concrete details at the moment, but sections of the city of Baldur’s Gate will be available. It’s also based on the 5th Edition of DnD, which I’m sure will annoy people. No release date yet but as we haven’t actually seen any game footage, it’ll be quite some time I imagine.

Viral Delays

There have been quite a few delays thanks to spread of the Coronavirus. The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are both being manufactured in China, so they could both see delays to their release date, effectively delaying the next console generation. It’s not for certain at the moment, but given the spread of the disease it would not surprise me. Rather a delayed console than people working when sick, though.

The Outer Worlds is also facing a delay for its switch release, thanks to the virus affecting Virtuos, the team behind the Switch port. The physical will now be a cartridge as well. Still, a decent game delayed is still a decent game.

The virus has also caused Sony to pull out of PAX East, over very reasonable concerns. My thoughts go out to everyone battling this virus.

Anthem’s Getting Some New Notes

It’s not often that a company admits their issues so much that they retool the entire game. In a blog post, Bioware acknowledge that the players - and they themselves - wanted a lot more from the game than is currently being provided. They’ll be retreating back to the workshop to work on loot droops, long-term progression and the end-game. Apparently, it’s going to be one hell of a rework, as it’s going to be more than an update can realistically provide.

They’ll still be running the current Anthem though, so it shouldn’t disturb any current players. It’ll be interesting to see how people react to the rework, given that there seems to be a lot of effort planned.

No Longer Exiled

One of the first games to become exclusive on the Epic Games’ Store and spark a lot of fury (me included), Metro Exodus, has now slunk its way onto the Steam store after a year of being exclusive. It’ll be interesting to see what this does for Metro Exodus now. Will it see a decent spike in sales or will it go down quietly? Time will tell I guess.

It got respectable reviews either way, so if you were bothered by the choice of game store then you can be bothered no more.

Keep Calm and Play Stardew

ConcernedApe, the one-man-band behind Stardew Valley, put up a tweet reply saying that he was working on two new games. The first definitely takes place in the Stardew universe, though is not a farming game. The second is a little different. He’s unsure where it sits, world-wise, but will likely have some links back to Stardew. As is expected, the tweet blew up massively, with gaming sites picking it up and running with it. A lot of pressure on a man just trying to make games he likes.

As a response, he’s put out a second tweet telling people to calm down. He doesn’t want to generate loads of hype about it as nothing ruins good games quite like hype. In his own words, he is ‘not setting out to make the next indie smash hit’. He just wants to make games he’s happy with. I think we can all respect that.

Quantic Dream is Dreaming Alone

The developers of Detroit: Become Human have decided to go alone. They’ve worked with an all star cast, as well as a handful of big publishers, but it seems they want some control themselves. Not that David Cage didn’t have control, mind you. There’s no doubting where his control was. Either way, they are now free to make the games they want. What that will result in will be anyone’s guess.

It does also mean they are in a position to help other developers, though. A good gesture by them, so I hope we can get some interesting indies out of this. Either way, we’ve had twenty-three years of Quantic Dream being shackled to publishers. Good or bad, it’ll be interesting to see what they’ll do with twenty three years unshackled.

That’s all for February, see you in March!

#Florence #Baldur's Gate 3 #Lair of the Clockwork God #Zombie Army 4: Dead War #Stardew Valley #Metro Exodus #The Outer worlds #Anthem #Prince of Persia: Dagger of Time #Gaming #video games #Tea and video games #The Tea Times #Article #News

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agentangeles · 2 years

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Writing Update (11/21/21) plus some sneak peeks!

Hey all!

First thing's first, my writing blog hit 50+ followers! I just happened to glance over at it, and what do you know but we're at 55! Thank you all for the support on fics, it means a lot!

I posted a fic recently, so if you didn't see it and you like those good good lawyer dads, maybe you should go check it out?

Speaking of fics- hey, November is coming to an end! I know we've been kinda slow on posting, but next month is a new month, so that means maybe more fics, right?

Right?

I maaaaay have forgotten I'm moving? Like as in, we're literally packing stuff and we're starting to take shit next Saturday? Luckily, it's a cross-town move, so it isn't too much of a wacky time, but also i have been in the same room since i was six, and i turn 23 in three weeks, so i mayhaps have a few things in here

I'm working hard on getting stuff ready to be moved, but between that and work (which... is a lot, right now, because we're missing a good chunk of staff atm due to miss rona) things are gonna be delayed.

I was hoping to have TYAC section 3 be a mid-December release, potentially early January, but it's looking like that's being pushed forward. I apologize for how long it's taken to get this section out, but this is arguably the largest part of it! I've gotta work through an entire game's worth of events, in which Klavier is in like most of it. Rewriting Turnabout Corner is a bit exhausting, too, because I'm having to go back and re-watch/replay case pieces to remember who says what and what people should know.

On the bright side, I do have plot down for Pyrrhic, as well as a few other fics, so maybe I can eek out a posting in December!

And, speaking of Pyrrhic... wanna see my tab layout?

The first two are my noise machines- Layton is keeping me company after having been a TAZ lofi playlist, as well as an Animal Crossing playlist. Coffivity is just generic coffee shop noises- sometimes a boy needs people noises!

Next two should be obvious- those are my fics in progress! Pyrrhic is Nahyuta-centric (have I mentioned this? I don't think I have) and, in case the teaser from the other day didn't clue you in, it's a bad timeline. Kinda. Partially. It's complicated. I could explain, or you could wait for it to come out and then see for yourself :3c

Second one is unnamed because I both suck at naming things, and also because it's a bit of a secret (although, if you follow my main at @implodingcacti, it might be a bit obvious)

Last one I'm rec-ing for writers- it's a site where you enter the definition of a word and get the dang word. I can't begin to explain why this is a great resource, so go grab it and save it!

Hopefully my next post is soon and a fic! See y'all then!

-Angeles (they/he)

#not fic stuff #writing update

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fureniku · 5 years

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The return of my blog or something idk

Looks like in my last blog I said I’d not post my semi-private stuff here, only to a private blog.

Honestly, I can’t remember the name of the private blog; let alone the login/password. I think I only made one post there, to zero followers, and kind of lost the point of doing it. So fuck it, lets just go back to being here.

Days since last post: 614 Todays date: 30th September 2019 Start time: 20:39

Well, I guess we have some catching up to do.

I don’t know how many people on here were following me before. So, I guess I’ll start with a sum-up. My previous blog was just me ranting about anxiety/depression related things. It was a good platform for me to vent my thoughts without real life friends knowing; I had a few RL friends who followed it which was great as they could give me some support, but most of them didn’t know about the blog, which was also great as they then didn’t know a side of me I’d generally prefer to keep private. That blog was deleted in early January 2018, when the drummer from my then-band found it. I had made some comments about my frustrations in the band which were true, and I stand by them - but naturally it caused drama. I deleted the account, and instantly regretted it - I only had maybe 50 followers, but now I have two, so yeah. Life since then has been... chaotic. Not specifically in a bad way, just a lot of things happened. When the blog ended I was; - Single - Playing guitar in a band - Working a dead-end job in a Warehouse - Had no ambition/drive to progress life

Three of those things have since changed; I’m still single (not for lack of trying but whatevs). I guess I’ll cover a timeline? Jan 2018: I deleted my old blog, and made this one, and a second one with a more secretive/anon name. I made a couple of posts on each, then abandoned it. Instead, I started relying mostly on just one friend to help me. May 2018: I got a new job, working for a games developer. It literally changed my life. Anxiety/depression started to clear up a lot, things just generally improved. June/July-ish 2018: I left my band. There was an argument about the fact another band was using our space for free, after we had offered it to them at a split rate and they declined. I instigated the argument, other members didn’t see eye to eye with me, so I quit. It was a final nail in the coffin kind of thing, but it was certainly the healthy thing to do. The whole situation had been kind of toxic for a little while, but I now get on just fine with all of them - I think if I had stayed much longer, that might not be the case. Our vocalist left very shortly after me as well - I don’t know the reasons why, but it seems the terms were... less happy.

September 2018: I started taking Japanese classes. Met a girl, had a crush on her for a bit, it didn’t go anywhere as usual. No biggie.

December 2018: Depression came back a bit, as it always does around then. Not much I can do about it so I just power through.

February 2019: I got made redundant from work. I was cool with it, I could see it coming for a while and there was like 12 other people too, my boss had fought hard to keep me but the game wasn’t doing so well, so I totally get it. I got a nice redundancy pay (which they by no means had to give me, so I’m super grateful). I applied for a job with another studio; quite a big one called Jagex. They were far from me so it would’ve involved moving and stuff, so quite scary. I made it to the final stages, but didn’t get it.

I now had a fair lump of cash (I had been saving for a house anyway), but not quite sure what to do with it. Followers of my previous blog can probably guess what I decided to spend it on...

April 2019: I went back to Japan! My mental-health-reset trip mark 2. I spent about two and a half weeks there (despite fucking up and accidentally buying a ticket to return mid-may... whoops). I got detained in China on my way home too but that’s a whole other story (it was all sorted and fine in the end).

While in Japan, I had time to clear my head and think. I decided I wanted to go back to university, so started thinking about how that would work. Here in the UK, we get a student loan to pay for university. It’s a bit complicated, but the way it works is you get your course length plus one year of funding. The day you set foot on campus, you use one year of funding. Now, I had already been to university previously - I studied music production. Totally dead industry, I dropped out about three weeks into my second year. That meant, I only had course length minus one year’s funding left available. So I have to pay the first year of university myself. At a cool £9,250.

My dad agreed to pay one term, so one third of that. I managed to save up another terms worth by working over the summer. I’m sat in my uni dorm right now, still not quite sure how I’ll pay for the third term... but I’ve got 6 months to figure that one out.

May 2019: I returned to my original job, back in the warehouse. Picking and packing sacks of bird food, so much fun. My mental health naturally slipped again, although everyone was really friendly to me while before it was kinda like I didn’t exist, so that was nice.

Around this time, I also joined an Overwatch team. It was a pretty big team with maybe 14-15 members, it was cool to make some new friends. Except one guy, was a dick. This OW stuff is like a whole side story from hereon... Anyway, I said to my squad leader (We’ll call her SN) that this guy is a dick. She said ok and she’d go talk to him. She said do you agree you’re being a dick, he said no. She said do you acknowledge one of the squad members thinks you’re being a dick? He said no again. Some other stuff I don’t know happened, and he got kicked off the team. He turned a load of people against her, caused loads of drama, and everyone blamed her when it was 100% my fault. So that was fun. The only reason I didn’t leave the team right then is because if I had, the entire drama would’ve been for nothing.

June 2019: My old boss who didn’t work there appeared at the end of may. I have a job for you. Ominous... but ok. Turns out, there was a new system being implemented on another contract. As I had experience with QA, and had done some IT stuff for them before, they wanted me to help with the testing and implementation. It was a job that would test my brain, while requiring little physical work - it was perfect for me. I really enjoyed it. It was supposed to be a four week thing, but we found lots of niggly little problems in the system... as far as I know, it’s actually only just gone live - but may have been delayed further.

While working up there, obviously there was downtime while waiting for fixes to be implemented. “What, you want this label a different size? oof, that’s gonna take about three weeks”. However, I got to stay in the office, doing odd jobs and stuff. One of the “odd jobs” ended up being a full on Android app, that my boss and me developed together. It was super fun to work on and really rewarding. That was worked on on-and-off between June and August.

July 2019: an interesting month. There was a major incident at work where a shelf holding very heavy metal shit stirrers collapsed. (The contract was a water treatment etc company, who provide all the clean water and water recycling for my local area. The things on the shelf literally stirred shit.) No one was hurt but it was a lot of drama, which was kind of entertaining to me as I was totally bunking off for the whole week where it happened. Not just the occasionally check Facebook on your phone at work kind of bunking off; I literally just messed about on Discord and worked on Minecraft mods for about two weeks straight. They had given me quite a big project to do, I automated the process... gg ez.

Around this time, the game I had been a part of before was to be officially cancelled. My old work invited me down to the studio to be a part of the formal funeral for the game, which was a big honour. I even got to fly the sky-whale which was awesome. It was bittersweet though, as the game meant a lot to me and had literally changed my life.

August 2019: haaaaaa august was a meme. I’d gotten kinda close with a girl (we’ll call her AP) in my Overwatch team. Like, we’d arranged to meet up at the end of August anyway but yeah, she was the first crush in a long time who actually knew I liked her. And she had certainly implied she felt the same way... like she’d been sending lots of hearts and stuff and talking to me 24/7, tagging me in “X has to take you on a date to Y place” memes and so on. Anyways, so SN had apparently picked up on the fact I liked her, and started getting super pissy with me. I was pretty good friends with SN and we got on well, but in August she suddenly started getting crazy angry with me over tiny things. It all came to a head when I let AP kill me in a game (long story). Turns out, SN was like in love with me... despite breaking up with her boyfriend of over a year like 2 days before this conversation. So yeah, she told me to fuck off and that was that, she left the team etc, which thanks to chain of command meant that I was then in charge. fun.

Anyways, get to the end of August, and I was due to meet AP. We met up, it was pretty cool. We hung out at a gaming festival, then suddenly like half way through she was like “lets split up for a bit” and I was like ........ok thats weird but alright. We didn’t meet up again until literally when she had like 2 mins to go, but it seems like she had a lot more fun without me being there. Clearly I’d done some major fuckup, which I still don’t actually know what it was. I had an anxiety attack before I even reached my car... and not a little one either. It’s quite possibly the biggest anxiety attack I’ve ever had, I barely made it to my car before having a total meltdown. It was the first one I’d had for about a year and it hit hard. It took me about 30 mins to calm down, then I headed home.

I messaged her that night and asked her what happened, and she replied with “oh I never said I liked you”. It hurt a lot, like I’d been totally lead on. But hey whatever, that’s my life in a nutshell right? “Oh you want this happiness? this happiness right infront of you? HA nah”. She said in the same message that I “seemed cool” and she’d like to hang out again sometime. But literally within a week she was clearly interested in another guy, so yeah whatever. We’re still friends and play games from time to time but I know she likes this other guy, so yeah. I still like her but whatever, not much I can do about it.

Work was a meme as well. I got taken off the fun and interesting projects to do paperwork. Literally, my job was to scan 35,000 documents because they couldn’t find a couple of bits of information. I suggested much better and more efficient ways, but the boss of the contract was like “no thats bad do it this old fashioned way we don’t want any fancy apps or anything” (I had suggested a spreadsheet or database). It took me about 3 weeks of just standing by a scanner which would jam up every 15-20 sheets in. It was mental health hell, especially in the last week after all the AP stuff had happened.

September 2019: I had one week left at work. I finished the hellish scanning project on Monday afternoon. “Oh as a thanks for your massive hard work we’ll make sure to find you things to do for the rest of the week” No it’s fine, I’m happy to just finish a few days early so I have more time to prep for uni. “No no no, we’ll find you stuff to do” They did not find stuff for me to do. I literally sat there, with nothing to do bar a few odd jobs “hey can you fix this printer”, for four days. It was incredibly mind-numbingly dull. The only thing ticking me over was “hey, maybe they wanna give me a card on my last day or something to say good luck and bye and thanks for doing this literal £20/hr job for half that because you’re agency staff”. But nah, a few people said cya later, but a lot forgot I was leaving entirely. So that was a fun way to finish what had mostly been a decent job...

I then had two weeks of freedom, before moving to university on the 21st. I was nervous; who wouldn’t be? but it was cool. I finally moved out of my house, and had a place where I could make a lot of new friends (LOL). On the day I moved in, I met up with someone I’d spoken to online a few times who was living in the same building as me, we’ll call her S. She was nice, we got on well, and it was kinda cool to have a friend who was a girl that for once I didn’t have a crush on (coz I’m still totally hung up on AP). We ended up going to a club in the evening which I’ve literally never done in my life, and she brought me out of my comfort zone a lot. She was great for my anxiety and really helpful. We’ve hung out a few times since, but I kind of feel like I was just a “filler friend” until she made new friends. She actually totally blanked me when I walked past her today, so that was fun. She has my Switch atm too coz I let her borrow it, I’ll probably just get it back later this week and then be done, its like I put in all the effort to be a friend and she couldn’t care less.

Anyways, so as I said I moved in on Saturday. I met one of my four flatmates on Saturday and another on Sunday, but hadn’t seen the other two at all. It gets to Thursday and I’m tidying the kitchen a bit, my mum’s about to pick me up so I can move in my last few things, and one of the mystery people appeared - she hadn’t actually moved in yet and was just unloading her stuff. She had loads of kitchen stuff, seems she’s really into her cooking.

Anyway, mum picks me up, we go to get my stuff, then we’re driving back, and my phone starts blowing up. S: Are you in? Me: No, why? S: Your building’s on fire. Me: lol nice joke S: no really *picture of everyone evacuated with fire engines outside* S: It’s your floor too, idk which flat. I wasn’t far out, so found her outside when I arrived. I’ve seen people going in, not being funny but one of them looked like [one of my flatmates]. Shit. A few mins later, the girl who had just moved in came over. You know it’s our flat right? Shit. Turns out the extractor fan on the cooker malfunctioned. I won’t share the video itself coz one of my flatmates is in it, but yeah it just started spraying molten something all over the hob and surfaces. (They said it looked like molten metal, and they were there - but I don’t see how it would’ve gotten hot enough to melt any metal. My best guess is fat that hadn’t been cleaned from last years tenants)

So yeah, we got moved into another flat. The open cupboard right there was my one - I rescued my custom cup from it that the games studio had given me. It’s no good to drink from now, but it still looks ok so I’m glad I can keep it for decorative purposes at least. The rest of the food is waste, and I have to wait for the plates etc to get cleaned. I’m currently eating ready meals out of their cook-in containers, because I don’t have any plates, and only one fork and spoon. I bought some paper plates today though so I’ll use those from tomorrow, but I still don’t have any saucepans or anything.

I wasn’t around when they sorted out the replacement accommodation. Because of that, the other four from my flat went to the same new flat together, with one new person. I was put into a different flat which also had one other person in, my building manager assured me they’re “really nice”. I asked if they knew I was coming, BM said “they’ll know when we get up there :)”. That was Thursday, today is Monday. The only food in the kitchen is mine, I’ve not seen anyone. I’m 100% positive I’m alone in this flat.

And so yeah, that’s my uni experience so far. I had my first lectures today, it was cool because I already knew all the stuff so I got to feel smart (I’m doing computer games programming, and it was mostly about design docs which I read through extensively while working at the studio, so I knew exactly how they worked etc). But, I didn’t really make any friends. I kind of joined in with a couple of other people in each lecture, but it seems like they weren’t really interested, so whatever. I had an anime society taster this evening as well, and it was when I was on my way to that that S blanked me and I just got hit my like a wave of loneliness. I didn’t make any friends at the anime society, so I kinda just gave up and came back to my flat, and started writing this. As I was getting the fire picture from above though someone asked me if I wanted to hang out, so guess I’ll see how that goes. Not holding out much hope tbh and I’m at the point of becoming a full on hermit... I mean hey, at least I’d get a perfect score on my degree if I just focus on that and eliminate any social aspect right?

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#depression #anxiety #new start #moving #relationships #friendships #friends #tw #trigger warning

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getthebutters · 2 years

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Keep Going After January: Top 10 Exercise Routine Longevity Hacks

Ensure you’re comfortable

The #1 reason I hate working out is cause I get sweaty and hot. But I’ve learned how to make it a shit ton more comfy, especially as a 420lb guy. Check them out: Exercise & The Fatty: Top 20 gym tips for comfort & success

What’s your reason for doing this? Make it tangible.

Don’t make this about weight

Overcome gym intimidation

Read More: Doing What’s Best For You Doesn’t Always Feel Good

Recognize you’re weaker than you think but also stronger!

When I followed the plan given by my basic Planet Fitness trainer, I found that while I couldn’t lift very much, my muscles respond very well to stress; I got bulky and strong super quick. They call that newbie gains but I’m 6 months in and it hasn’t slowed down. I was super intimidated by the gym at first, but I’ve also found that I’m very good at intuitively training myself. I’ve only ever worked with the trainer four times. But I keep making great progress and it encourages me to continue

Avoid the urge to post on social.

Often, we get in the gym and want to post about it for an ego boost or encouragement. Unfortunately, social media is an exhausting place sometimes. This should be a personal, private experience. Record yourself, yes - That’s very good for monitoring your form. But keep the videos off social media and yourself safe from being deflated by low likes and views.

Keep it fun

Look, what’s the point in doing anything if it isn’t fun? You’ll find me on the elliptical, smith machine, rope pull or literally anywhere else rocking the fuck out. The music, dance, and physical exertion makes it fun for me. But I also enjoy testing myself. Can I lift this, how many reps can I hit, how perfect can I keep my form, how long can I hold this? This is actually where I find a lot of the challenge that keeps me engaged throughout the work out. Since it’s me challenging me, and I hate being told what to do, it’s more fun. Although I can push myself too hard sometimes.

Switch it up

The best way to keep your exercises fun and interesting is to simply change up what you’re doing. I’m 7 months in and have changed my focus 3 times. Right now, I’m working on my glutes, hips, and balance. I started working on shoulders and chest. Then I moved to cardio and max weight/effort. I started trying to impress myself but now I’m actually just working towards a physical goal.

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