Coffee delivery. I use a fairly consistent amount, so I don’t get as overloaded/running out as some other things I’ve tried to subscribe to - and it lets me bypass “big grocery”, and get better quality product directly from the roaster/blender.
I used to love doing that. The gym is so much quieter and empty at that time too. It was messing with my sleep though getting myself that amped up that late at night :(
Thank you. My day has been made.
Almost had coffee come out my nose too!
I did ‘compressed’ a lot MANY years ago, like, almost 25 … life was SO much better. Putting in an extra 2h a day feels like nothing - but getting a WHOLE EXTRA DAY OFF is like 50% more weekend. That was also pre-“you can order literally everything on the internet”, so there was a lot of running around and “weekend chores”/shopping etc. to be done in a standard week - and you were able to instead do those things on your ‘3rd day’ when stuff wasn’t so busy.
It was the happiest I’ve ever been in almost 30 years of working full time.
Big time red flag, bad boss, needs manager training, or basic human decency training.
Maybe you did… you just didn’t know it was you and it had no major impact on you, so you don’t remember it!
Any and all quick fixes will not work if you do not address the underlying issues - the weight will just come back.
Many people have had great success with GLP-1 drugs. You should consult a medical professional though for a qualified opinion and to ensure they won’t conflict with anything else you have going on.
I used to be 10 pounds under weight and about 10% body fat. I’m now so overweight I can barely muster the energy to cook healthy meals to try to stem the problem, and forget entirely about working out. I’ve been on GLP-1 (WeGovy) for two months now and the change is significant - it is much easier for me to say no to bad food (which my family still surrounds me with and shoves in my face constantly), and I’m less inclined to take, say, four slices of pizza - I’ll instead take two, and when I’m done, I don’t even bother going back for more (and this applies to other food as well.) My long term goals are structured roughly around - lose enough of the weight that my body is no longer constantly just fighting and burning all my energy to stay alive and keep my organs working - flip that energy into physical activity and/or healthy food prep - and then as things start to snowball, incorporate the other (physical activity or food prep, whichever is still outstanding). I’m only down a handful of pounds so far as the ramp-up time on the drug is quite long, but I already feel better about myself, generally feel better every day now than I did before, and most importantly have hope and think I can see a light at the end of the tunnel.
It is a tunnel though - and it is a long journey, no matter how you do it. I don’t expect any significant results for at least a year, and even then I’ll still have a ways to go. Nothing short of fundamental and sustained changes can produce positive, healthy results that will stick around though.
This reads like it was written by ‘AI’ :-/
@lety@doesstuff.social 's peertube!
We like it this way. Please stop pulling this thread.
I’ve got the robot vacuum of Theseus here… early, 2nd or 3rd gen Roomba I guess it is, I’ve probably had since 2009 or so I think. I’ve replaced damn near all of it, and I’m ALWAYS shocked when something new breaks, I check online, and I can get a part and replace it! And often times the replacement ends up being an upgrade too. I think it must have come from the Twilight Zone or something, I don’t know.
Lengthy convo about it in response to another comment, that may have some helpful tips!
This. I know ‘nicotine’ is already here, but it’s not the same.
Confused the hell out of me when I was trying to switch to vaping that I’d keep going back to cigarettes - “I’M GETTING THE NICOTINE, WHAT THE HELL?!”, and it wasn’t just habit, it was overwhelming need to smoke.
I finally figured some of those other 2999 or whatever chemicals in there must be addictive too, or something, I don’t know.
I’ve quit drinking, when I was a daily drinker at risk of a seizure because my body had grown so chemically dependent on it. I’ve quit countless other ‘behavioral’ addictions.
NOTHING, was as hard as trying to quit smoking. Until, thank the powers that be, I met vaping, and after a couple months of back and forth, was able to transition to it entirely. Haven’t had a cigarette since, and it’s been at least 10-11 years.
Eventually lowered my nicotine to 0 mg, then gave up the vaping. Haven’t done either since. That was, probably 8-9 years ago now.
I still get the odd craving to vape. Zero cravings to smoke up until last year, first trip in my life to Vegas (and two more since). The casino environment with everyone smoking, I don’t know what it is. Got me looking at it with the rose coloured glasses occasionally while there - but then I quickly remember how hard it was to shake, and how happy I am without it.
I did it my whole life (~mid forties now).
I met and was talking to a guy about 10-15 years ago, and it came up - he said “oh yeah, I used to do that, I just stopped.”
Now, consider that, we’re both addicts and met at a 12-step meeting.
I’m like “You can’t just stop guy, lawl, wtf?”
But he insisted - “No, really, I just stopped.”
So I tried … and was absolutely, completely fucking stunned - it worked - I just stopped.
You’ve got to taper. I’ve had hangovers after multi-week benders that didn’t hurt as bad as trying to drop caffeine cold turkey. I know tapering is counter intuitive and counter productive for a lot of addictions, but for caffeine it’s a must.
That’s a 0 according to the scale provided if I’m not mistaken.
Asked too many questions.
pulls out pen and paper
Oh, wait, this isn’t shitty ask lemmy …
quietly backs out of the room
Yeah I’ve seen it go both ways before. Ideally they just send out some blanket memo “reminding people of our policy on $x” and everyone who may be doing something even a little questionable wonders if it’s about them and adjusts their behaviour.
I actually just had that this week - we had a team thing and our director reminded us about “team norms” and blah blah, and I knew exactly why he was doing it, and who and what the real problem was - but other random people started showing up to meetings on time and such - because they all thought “oh crap, did someone complain about me?”
But, as said, you have zero control over what they do, so sadly it could go either way.