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https://www.oroweat.com/sites/default/files/recipe/Oroweat%20Rye%20Schwarzwa%E2%95%A0%C3%AAlder%20Dark%207313002502.png
You'd think that this is rye bread, right?
Apparently not. According to AI, and I see little reason to doubt it on this one, it's actually made largely from refined wheat (husk, bran, and germ stripped away), with small amounts of rye added, and artificially dyed dark using malt extract from barley.
What sort of "traditional recipe" (as the front of the bag reads) this could be, I have no idea. Apparently such language is almost entirely unregulated.
I could have read the ingredients list and did some research long before but I mean fuck, is it too much to ask that when a bag of bread says that it's rye bread, it's actually going to be rye bread? Without you having to do research?
I'm not much for capital punishment but this kind of stuff kind of makes me dream about guillotines.
I don't know about other countries, but it seems that in the US you have to research every single item of food if you want to make sure that it's actually even remotely close to what it initially seems to be when you see it on the shelves.
I'm not even sure if this would have been feasible for the average person before AI.
Dyeing rye bread with malt or syrup to darken the color is quite common, and you can find it in a lot of rye bread recipes. Example with malt, it can also be used to counter the sourness found in a sourdough starter. Note, that the example is pure rye, but the color comes from the malt or syrup, rather than the flour.
Otherwise, as a home baker, I can see that the crust is way too soft to what I'd expect from rye, and in general, I don't see the appeal of buying pre-sliced bread.
If you have an oven, and some time, I'd recommend trying to make some rye bread, because it's incredibly easy. Here's a recipe for a pan bread, and here's one that has a more traditional round shape.
But otherwise, ideally this kind of false marketing would be legislated against, and I think the EU forces this to a degree, while the US doesn't care.
Thanks for the advice!
I didn't know that rye bread was often also dyed to darken the color. That doesn't really bother me assuming it's safe. It's the trying to pass mostly wheat bread off as rye that I find annoying.
I wish RFK Jr. didn't act so crazy and/or seem so crazy to people, it was nice to see the left and right getting united on the issue of food safety.
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10 months ago, I made this post. I'm sure nobody cares, but I wanted to write an update, mainly for my own sake - putting this all out in the open should light a fire under my ass. When I wrote the original post, I was recovering from an injury that made me homebound for 3 months and for that whole time I was just trapped with my thoughts with no ability to release that energy anywhere. It got so bad, I was even getting panic attacks every other night before falling asleep. It's gotten better since, but I've still got a long way to go until I'm satisfied. I got in shape, fixed my health, and got significantly more social. Selank was a silver bullet for my social anxiety and I don't know how I've lived my life before it. The levels of stress I was experiencing in social situations were insane, even the times where I would rate my stress level a 4/10 would probably feel like a 7/10 to a normal person, I was just so used to being stressed. Now it feels like I don't have social anxiety. I still have some, what I imagine, normal anxiety here and there, but it's not crushing to the point where I can't function in social situations. My only issue now is my own beliefs and mental limitations that prevent me from getting better. I'm slowly working through them, but it will take time. In those 10 months, I've become a lot more proactive with my existing friendships and that yielded a lot of results - I've got something going on almost every week, and I've taken a few trips with friends. I even was an extra in a commercial my friend produced, something that I would've definitely avoided doing before Selank. My social life genuinely did a 180, and I imagine I'm currently at the "this is what an average 28 year old's social life is like living in the suburbs" level, which is great, but I'm not happy.
All this socializing just makes me face my inadequacy - sometimes people would ask me what I do these days and I would freeze and mumble 'I trade equities and crypto', and I can feel the judgement coming because it usually either means that I'm an unemployed loser or one of those course peddling scammers. And if they learn that I still live with my family, it pretty much confirms their judgement. Not everyone does this, but when it happens it feels horrible. I've caught myself trying to overcompensate for it by doing absolutely retarded things like wearing my expensive watch when I absolutely had no reason to or trying to squeeze status indicators into conversations just to make sure they know (no, my former classmate doesn't need to know my tax bill for the year is 6 figures). It's embarrassing to even write about it. And all this ties to my other issues - I haven't met any new people at all. In fact, I don't even try. Still living with parents at 28. Unemployed, never had a job. Yes, I have some money and I'm doing better than ever, but on paper I'm a chud and I'm embarrassed of it. It's funny, because the solution is so easy - it starts with just moving out, I can definitely afford it. But then I'd be spending an extra ~$30k/year, probably living a worse lifestyle than I do now. My monkey brain is rejecting this idea. Not to mention, that it still doesn't solve the other, more complex parts of the issue such as lack of identity. Trading is a snoozefest, I don't even get dopamine hits from winning trades anymore. I probably have 2-3 more years of it in me, but then what? Not to mention that never having a real job and making money off trading just destroyed my perception of money - losing $50k on a trade is okay in my head, but somehow spending $30k-40k/year on a my own housing is an unacceptable expense.
Anyways, I'm fucking weird, I'll have to get over it and 'grow up'. At the very least, crippling social anxiety is no longer the main issue and that feels liberating. The plan is to wrap all the business up by the end of the year and do some solo traveling. I can be someone else while traveling, so no feelings of inadequacy and no mental limitations to prevent me from meeting people. I'll also be around a bunch of new people that are my age and are willing to socialize, an environment I haven't been in since college. After that, I'll do month long stays in young people hubs - NYC, Austin, etc. Hopefully that gives me some clarity on what I wish to do with my life.
Saying 'I'm an enquities trader' sounds pretty damn impressive. It makes you sound like a finance guy, who tend to make loads of money.
Do you make a regular income that you can live on?
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I mean, in my world model there's no secret trick to this. As in it doesn't work, it's either sitting on money, luck, or is not happening. So you must be a trust fund baby, early retiree due to winning bitcoin lottery, or you are lying/exaggerating. The former two are somewhat attractive to low quality gold diggers and that's about it. If there is a skill I can use my IQ to develop to retail trade crypto and equities for good profit please teach me and I'll gladly update my world model.
The answer is pretty simple. I'm terminally online, have adequate risk management skills and have lived frugally in my 20s, thanks to my crippling social anxiety. And of course luck. I've covered my journey briefly in comments under previous post, but I've been doing this since I got my hands on a computer at 12, so if anything, it took too long to get here given how much time I've spent on purely focusing on money.
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Dude, you are living every young male’s fantasy. The reason “Uhh I trade stocks and crypto” is cringe-worthy is because many of us have tried it, and we’re all bad at it.
They’re assuming you’re losing money. They WANT you to be losing money, because they need to believe that clicking buttons on a computer to earn money is gambling behavior, because if it’s not, then why can’t they figure out how to do that? Why the hell are they sitting at a desk all day, isolated from their friends and children, reading and typing emails, looking at spreadsheets?
You need to phrase it some other way. A very good friend of mine managed to conceal from me for years the fact that he owned his own successful consulting business, and he worked anywhere anytime it suited him, as long as he had internet. He spent several weeks in Asia while working once and I said, “Wow! Your employer seems chill to let you do that.” And he goes, “Heh…yeah…” Anyway don’t do that. He looked ridiculous when we found out, being so shy about it for no reason. Say you’re in investments or something. I PROMISE very few people will ask a follow-up question, but if they do, be honest.
No kidding. Why am I such a retard that I have to spend my days dealing with criminals, prosecutors, and judges (but I repeat myself, har har) instead of making money on the interwebs?
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I can definitely sweeten it up and say something fancy like 'I'm a directional equities trader with some angel investing on the side' and it is all true. They don't have to know I do it from 'momma's basement' and my angel investments amounts to 2 $25k checks into 2 failing companies. It won't make me feel any more important than what I am though, I think I'll still be feeling like a liar ha.
No, don’t sweeten it up…It’s not a job interview.
How do these conversations actually go for you? The ones making you feel unimportant?
What’s home life like? Are you involved in your parents’ lives? Do you share meals? Are you friendly with any of their friends? Or they with yours?
They don't go terrible, most people have enough social know-how or manners to not instantly do a 180 on you right away, but I can usually tell who's judging and who doesn't care after some time.
There's some issues unrelated to me, but I don't know how they are relevant to my situation. Despite living with my parents, the house is big enough for us to live separate lives if we want to. I currently follow a pretty strict routine, so we don't tend to eat meals together but I obviously still interact with them daily. I know their friends, but our social lives are pretty separate.
It's relevant because if you're not actually enriched by your proximity to your parents, then you should move out. Multiple users have told you this, and it's good advice.
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Your perspective on life and yourself is bad, unhelpful to you. You should try to work on that on a daily basis. Establish something more realistic and helpful. Good news: Views and beliefs are all wrong, as in never 1:1 with whatever 'reality' is; never set in stone; and can be changed. You may have heard the saying "all models are wrong; some are useful". So investigate what you've got currently, throw out the counter-productive ones and establish good beliefs. Knowing what to want is as important as knowing how to go about getting what you want.
You have no idea how lucky you are, and how many opportunities may be open to you. You're self-employed and you have a ton of money. That's not something to be ashamed of, at all. You can proudly present yourself as a consistently successful trader. Which is awesome. Maybe don't mention "crypto" to people who may have prejudice against that. Yours is an extremely good position that the vast majority of the world's population does not have. Make more use of it! Move out, into to your own place in a high quality of life area. Spending an extra 30k a year is a no-brainer to go for. You make around 10x that much each year, it sounds like. What good is your money if you don't invest it (outside the markets!) to have a good time in life? What use is your 7 figure hoard if you die a year from now? You never know when death will come for you. And time is the one thing you can never earn or replenish.
Look up the best books on refurbishing your mind and its beliefs, and getting shit done. You already know how to teach yourself difficult things and succeed at them. The advice from @OracleOutlook on having two major hobbies that build you and where you build something is a good one.
Best of luck! Back yourself, man. And please post another update at some point.
Yes, I know. Hard to brush off social pressures and judgements. I'm working on this daily.
it is, but the rational part of my brain is rejecting it. It doesn't make sense money wise, at least while I'm single. I'd be spending more for roughly the same lifestyle. And splitting home chores with other family members is a great time saver. Perhaps I'm also scared of change, I've lived the same lifestyle, for the most part, since I was 12. I know that it's one of those things that I should stop making excuses for and just do it.
It won't be the same lifestyle. Having your own nest that you chose and you take care of is very different, mentally, from living in someone else's. Are you more likely to establish a worthwhile romantic relationship while living with your parents, or while having a nice place or your own? What do you think? Do you want to spend another 16 years in this location? You'll be 44 and still living with your parents. At that point it would make sense to start talking about ending up as a loser. So steer clear of that.
I would start journaling if you're not already doing so. Write down your assumptions and look twice at them. Question if they're true. "Can I be 100% certain that this is true?" Instead of having "moving out" or "living a rewarding life" as big, vague monoliths, look closer and divide them into component parts.
"I know I should just get over the hump and do it" is a line of thought that sets you up to fail and procrastinate over and over, because the entrenched habits, promising safety, will usually win at each turn over the "threatening unknown". In a sense, you're in a wagon-wheel rut in a muddy road. The wheels slot into the grooves almost automatically. This happens before you wake up each morning. Steering out takes effort, and the wheels keep trying to fall back in. Having a simplistic "either-or" dilemma is unlikely to help. You should try to make the new path clearer and easier and more attractive to get into.
Fear of change is likely the rub of the issue. Working up some courage is one part of the solution, but it's not the most important one. If you rely on miraculously waking up one morning and getting over the threshold, years may pass without that happening. So plan things in achievable, bite sized chunks instead.
"It doesn't make financial sense to spend more money to live" is an effective attack from your mind against someone who deals with P&L every day. The human mind mainly wants to do things as it's always done (because doing so has not killed you yet) instead of trying something unknown. And it knows your weak spots. And it's shameless enough to keep hitting them to win each battle.
All valid points.
The reason why I'm thinking this way is because there's no more progression I can do towards the goal of 'moving out'. I know your image of me is probably different given what I've said about myself, but I'm not a slob that has mommy and daddy take care of him at the grand age of 28. I'm fully autonomous, I take care of myself, I cook, I clean, I wash my own clothes and bedsheets. I have the funds necessary to move out. There's literally nothing else to do other than to hop on Zillow, figure out where I want to live and start scheduling viewings.
No, I did not take you for a slob.
I figure you're posting here for a reason. If everything was progressing smoothly for you, you wouldn't be making this kind of post. You said that the obvious first step to improving your status (and self worth, I imagine) is to move out. Yet you have excuses for not doing so. So you need to decide. Staying at home while building up more wealth is a valid option. Traveling the world before taking on expensive rent payments is a valid option. Moving out right away is a valid option. Moving out and then traveling the world is valid too, just more expensive, but comes with the upside of having your own place to talk about when you meet new people on your travels. Just pick the one option that seems wise and stick to it. Not the easiest one. Not necessarily the hardest one. The wise option.
Your mind is furnished with some silly beliefs, viewpoints, verbal lines. You call yourself "unemployed" while you're regularly making good money and you're getting close to being set for life. You say you've "never had a job" - well, good. Bringing in money is the primary purpose of being employed by someone else, so you have that covered better than most people, and you don't need to worry about it. Most people's job/career does not give them a huge amount of status. And what someone does in exchange for money is not the most important thing in life. Far from it.
If there's no huge obstacle and you're still not doing what you think you should be doing, maybe you're just used to having obstacles and this primes you to look for them and act as if they are present, instead of looking for and going for opportunities.
Like I said in a previous post, figuring out what to want is as important as getting what you want. What would make your proud of yourself at the end of your life?
Forget the bullshit 'society' wants and governments want from their peons. What do YOU value and respect? Most people are full of shit and just do what they were indoctrinated to do. The masses are mostly wrong about most things. You see this in the markets, it's part of the reason why you've had success. IMO you don't need "lots of new people" in your life, or respect from most people. You need a few wise people. People you respect and who respect you (or the person you're on the path to becoming).
You're spot on. Last time I wrote about my situation, I was desperate and just wanted to pour my thoughts out, and I couldn't do it in real life because I hid my situation under the guise of just being very introverted. And it was helpful, it kind of motivated me to start working on myself because I knew that others have read the post. I'm hoping this time I get the same motivation to keep pushing, especially now because now my life doesn't seem that terrible anymore and I know it's very easy to get comfortable. I realize I could just relax, blink and boom I'm 35 living the same life I've been living and that would be horrible. I know I need to continue progressing.
I think my beliefs around having a job, status and so on are distorted by me never having one. My imaginary job that could've brought me status and purpose is not the code monkey, office slop, cog in the machine type, it's the agentic one, the one where I'd get to solve interesting problems, the one that would teach me new interesting skills or bring me around powerful and interesting people. Literally what I imagine an impressionable 18 year old's idea of a job he/she is going to have once out of college. Me never going through this cycle of actually getting a real job and getting your dreams and aspirations crushed leaves me with this idealized view and having people around me base like 80% of their personality around their work keeps me coming back to this idea of what could've been, although I fully realize I definitely would've been another code monkey that would've gotten smoked the moment ChatGPT came out because I was always a mediocre programmer (that's what I went to college for).
It's cliche, but after missing out on most of my 20s due to my condition, I just want to live a fulfilling life.. I remember when I was 13, my parents wanted to send me to a summer camp. Naturally, me being fucking terrified of socializing, I rejected the idea. Then, at 15, my parents pretty much just forced me to go to this summer camp because it was the last time I could go (16 is the cutoff), and so I did. Despite my first few days being hell, I found new friends and my social anxiety calmed down and I had an absolute blast. So, so, so many opportunities like this completely lost out on... I just don't want to have any more regrets like this. Now I don't have an excuse anymore - my condition is under control. And I'm also recognizing that now that I'm much older, I don't just get 'free' opportunities any more like I did as a teenager or while in college. Very few people around me have opportunities, curiosity and willingness to live interesting and fulfilling lives, so I can't just be a +1 to someone else's interesting life, I have to be the one that makes my life interesting and fulfilling all on my own.
I agree. But I also recognize that to find these people, I must have indiscriminate curiosity and willingness to connect with as many people as I can and that's what I hope to do.
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I do remember that post and I was wondering what happened next.
Honestly I would start paying rent to the parents. $1500 on the first or the 15th every month, give you some incentive to actually move out.
For never having a job: you're an independent trader who works remote. Everyone who has ever had a boss is a little jelly.
The future divide of people your age when they get older will be people who had assets that appreciated with inflation and those who didn't, and the difference will be a deep chasm. You've already saved your money, go live your life.
Honestly not a bad idea. I already pay for a lot of things around the house, but it's usually in random chunks. I paid half of the roof replacement bill last year ($15k). Making this a stable monthly expense would make me get used to this.
I'm extremely aware, and that's why I think I shouldn't relax now. Don't think I'm there yet in terms of numbers.
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I suspect that the activity of setting up a life away from your parents would help. You have enough to put 20% down on a quadplex - why not do that, live in one unit, rent out the others? Focus on making that building pretty, learn how to maintain things, spend more time having an influence in the physical world. Then your wealth will be concrete to you.
Maybe that's not your thing, but something should be. Seize the means of production!
Besides the career advice, the other thing is that everyone should have at least two hobbies - one where you build something and one that builds you. Like knitting and reading classics. Or wood working and volunteering. The first hobby, you plan, execute, and enjoy a product that you will use in the physical world. The second hobby, you do something that builds you up in virtue and makes you appreciate beauty and virtue in others.
Traveling is good to some extent but I don't think it's what you need to finally put your adolescence at an end.
I'm extremely bearish on real estate. The opportunity cost of putting a chunk of my money (and time!) into this endeavor is just too great, even though I understand that it would give me purpose and something to do day to day. Not to mention that I would also be a 'real estate investor' instead of a 'trader', probably an upgrade in people's eyes.
I agree. I need to work on this. The hobbies I currently have are non-social and all boil down to either increasing my money stack (online poker, side hustles) or keeping me in shape (swimming and working out).
You're definitely right. It seems like a temporary solution to the problem. But also, once again, my economically optimized brain is telling me I should do this now while I'm still young and living with family - going on long travels while paying $2.5k/month for my own place would make me hate myself, it's lighting money on fire for no apparent reason.
What is the point of money to you? It seems like you view money as a terminal goal, instead of a representation of the trade of value/effort between people, which you can then employ in your own goals by exchanging for other people's efforts.
What goals are you working towards achieving right now? If you don't have any, the first goal should be to find that "hobby that builds you." You need to build yourself up to actually find good things desirable and worth pursuing. Money is not desirable or worth pursuing for it's own sake - it is worth pursuing as an intermediary step for other goals.
I grew up in a family that was transitioning from lower class to upper middle class, so I got to experience both the bad times and the good times. And then my experiences got reinforced by the comparison of my family's [new upper middle class] life and lives of all of my lower class friends. Visiting a friend and seeing how his parents sleep in the living room, and him sharing a tiny bedroom the size of my closet with his sister and having to do homework on the kitchen table, then going back home to my own room the size of half his apartment, with my own desk, left a very strong impression on me. So for the longest time, I've treated money as an ultimate goal because having no money leads to a plethora of issues I don't want to deal with. And aside from that, I think the fact that money is such a simple indicator of whether you're winning or losing has always been appealing to me. Other parts of life are a lot more complex and winning conditions are not as clearly defined.
High level goals: 2-3x current net worth, find something I enjoy doing without monetary reward (or at least with monetary reward not being the main aspect), and have a family before I turn 35.
I'm very aware of my issues, when I was a lot younger I was even more money focused. A simple hangout with friends would throw me into an opportunity cost calculation and whether I'd learn anything useful from spending time with them vs sitting alone in my room focusing on my business. I don't know if it was a defense mechanism from my social anxiety that would just try to come up with any and all excuses to not socialize or if it was my actual way of thinking, but it wasn't a good mindset. I'm significantly better than this now. I don't mind spending money on experiences or on friends these days.
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Low seven figures at 28 with no job? You are already winning and this is honestly some ridiculously high agency flexing. Take it from me, someone with a Real Job in Accounting and Tax and who's been permanently burned out because of it: It will not stop the identity crisis or the feelings of inadequacy (if anything, it can strengthen it; impostor syndrome and failure to meet the demands of your job is one of the major things that can crater your self esteem). Professional life is mostly miserable and soul-destroying.
You need to get out more, and honestly travel is a good idea for you (within reason). The issue here appears to be that you've spent a lot of time isolated in one place and as such have a lack of life experience to draw from, which is easily fixable when you have disposable income to spend and enough motivation. Also your mindset isn't productive whatsoever; maybe stop whaling on yourself so much for failing to stick to the straight-and-narrow. Whatever you're doing is evidently working well for you and a job is not an end in and of itself, it is a means.
Yeah, seeing some of my friends get fired in the past year, leaving them with nothing in return, has proven to me that attaching identity to a job is not a good way to go about it. I think I'm starting to realize that what I crave is not exactly identity, but status. And a regular job, which would've probably been in software development since that's what I got my degree for, would've put me in the same mindset that I'm in now anyway if I went the traditional route. And I don't know what to do with this realization.
If you make 7 figures without a job, you can have status the moment you want to go get it. It just takes going into social situations and allowing people to become aware of how you make money.
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One note: don't disdain social signals. Get some nice clothes, a good jacket (or whatever is culturally appropriate for well-to-do young men where you are), pay to have your shirts ironed by a service if you don't want to do it yourself. Wear your nice watch every day because that's what you do with a good watch - I've worn my nice watch every day since getting it on my 18th birthday. Get some good leather boots or expensive trainers or whatever.
It will send the true, correct message to your friends and family: I'm all right, my current lifestyle might be unconventional but it's working out, you don't need to be worried about me or pity me.
And by doing so, it will relax you a little as well.
It's hard not to.
Funnily enough, while being crippled with social anxiety for all my life, I never became a slob that didn't take care of himself. I already have a nice wardrobe, colognes, nice watches. I even have a pretty nice car. I think there's an aspect of me feeling like an imposter. Having some money in a bank account doesn't give me status. Someone that runs his own 'real estate management company' seems more prestigious than the guy that clicks buy and sell in his 'momma's basement' even if he makes more.
No, but the fact that you made that money yourself through trading rather than having inherited it, that does absolutely give you status. From what I've observed from watching other people interact, people are very impressed by that kind of ability. I dunno, maybe the older generations would be more impressed by running a real estate management company. But millennials and younger, I think absolutely are more impressed by making 7 figures sitting in a room trading. Doing that is much closer to our financial dream than running a real estate company is. We grew up with computers after all, the idea of sitting alone in a room on a computer making large amounts of money, with no boss, sounds awesome to us.
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That's kind of what I'm saying. Think of yourself as a professional investment banker for a very boutique firm.
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My bulking plan just hit a snag: back to 22-hour wear with my invisalign setup for another 3 months. Brushing and flossing at work in a public bathroom is... gross. Having to do that every day after eating lunch was such a pain when I had to do it originally that I gave up on eating lunch.
After the 3 months, though, I'm finally done with this nonsense (aside from nightly wear forever).
Gainers do not require you to floss or brush. Could've used them.
Don't a lot of gainers contain maltodextrin to bulk out the carbs? Or is the idea that it's sufficiently water-soluble that a very thorough rinse with plain water afterward is enough to avoid having to brush and floss? I wonder if chewing some xylitol gum afterward would also be a reasonable substitute/addition. I assume none of that is as good as rinsing thoroughly, possibly waiting a while, then brushing when you can.
Rinse+gum are enough.
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All gainers have some kind of carb (or else they'd just be protein powders), so I think some kind of brushing at a minimum would be necessary to avoid forming tooth-damaging acids against my teeth underneath the trays.
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I've been taking 5-HTP every day since engaging in some street psychiatry. The clouds have parted just a little, and the world feels easier. I might take this next month off from drinking and drugs to focus on exercise and writing. Locktober sounds like a fun name for it.
I have pretty much no interest in eating lately which is bad. I'm worried this is going to clip my gym gains. I've been using my unemployment time to wander around on 40 mile bike rides.
What have you read that convinced you to take 5-HTP? Which symptoms were you fighting?
I took MDMA at a party. Taking 5-HTP for a few days afterwards is the established wisdom for not having an awful hangover. I decided to just keep taking it and aside from feeling a bit sleepy, things are pretty great.
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Spent my upper body workout slot at the gym yesterday doing empty can raises. I really did a number on my left rotator cuff, raising even 2kg was uncomfortable. And I managed this despite having like 50% of my warmup dedicated to my shoulder joints and not failing any bench press reps due to pain.
What's good is that it doesn't hurt today. I'll do more physical therapy at home today.
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New Year's resolution check-in:
How goes it @self_made_human, @thejdizzler, @birb_cromble, @ThomasdelVasto and @falling-star?
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Spending is $1,863.17 less than this day last year. I hit my deductible for health insurance, so that might help moving forward.
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I've been AWOL on the check-ins for a few weeks. Work getting the better of me, mostly. I had a minor breakdown last week, but then I've been on vacation with my brother. It's helped.
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