Your Health Is Your Wealth (3 Viewers)

[Reets]

I don’t think I could get away with not being myself here, I know too many people that would call me out on it. There’s people on this forum that showed up for me at my Mams funeral years ago or checked in with me at the time, which is about as real as things get.
It’s a massive difference here to Facebook where there’s nothing but positivity and “look how amazing things are for me #blessed” that can really fuck up peoples heads.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

I think of this as somewhere where I can be myself, and I think any of you who know me in real life can attest to that.

 

[nuke terrorist]

I am doing a 24 hour charity fast from midnight tonight.
I ate nothing today from 11:30 to 7:30 pm.

I only ate 300g oatmeal and a can of kidney beans plus water today until 7:30.
But since then:
3 cans of Kidney beans and about 750g oatmeal and a litre of soya milk
By 10:45 pm I was so stuffed I didn't want to eat anymore.
Fun while it lasted.

Now water is my only friend for next 24 hours.
Thankfully I luv water!

Just putting food away out of sight now...

Goin' well so far.
My stomach has half disappeared.
I have loads of extra free time and got relatively enjoyable chores done.
It is actually more fun than eating.
I got a reset on how much I NEED to eat v what I actually eat, that I will take forward.
And people were really supportive.
And that's just the bits that benefited me.

 

[egg_]

I think of this as somewhere where I can be myself, and I think any of you who know me in real life can attest to that.

Same here, though these days I know v few of the regular posters IRL

 

[Deadmanposting]

This is the bit where you've slipped into thinking everyone else is doing it wrong. People are honest here, and shockingly being honest never going to be constant positivity, but it's a lot more value than sitting about telling each other we are all amazing all day while learning nothing. Nothing worse than being in a room with yes men/women.

I'm not saying anyone's wrong, just making an observation
Mostly informed by one time I said that most people choosing to live with positivity have come from hardship or trauma
This was not a popular opinion
So maybe I've just been working a confirmation bias.

I kinda take issue with your framing above - but it holds with the reaction I received at the time
i.e.
Complaining = truth and honesty.
Positivity = faking and lies.
Aka pain is truth, joy is a lie.

When the reality is they are both just choices we make.
And there is a cumulative effect of always choosing to moan.

Outsider see this about us. They see us as whingers. Adorable whingers, but whingers nonetheless.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

In fairness @Deadmanposting, I’m re-reading that exchange and no one was actually complaining. There was a fairly neutral exchange about numbers versus feelings and then you started posting about only giving us bad news in future and how we always complain. This feels more about you than us. This is not a dig but this is going on ages now and it really does feel like mountain-molehill territory.

 

[seanc]

https://y.yarn.co/c47d42f7-3b11-43d9-9a8f-d64c346eafa3.mp4

 

[nuke terrorist]

I'm not saying anyone's wrong, just making an observation
Mostly informed by one time I said that most people choosing to live with positivity have come from hardship or trauma
This was not a popular opinion
So maybe I've just been working a confirmation bias.

I kinda take issue with your framing above - but it holds with the reaction I received at the time
i.e.
Complaining = truth and honesty.
Positivity = faking and lies.
Aka pain is truth, joy is a lie.

When the reality is they are both just choices we make.
And there is a cumulative effect of always choosing to moan.

Outsider see this about us. They see us as whingers. Adorable whingers, but whingers nonetheless.

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That's just stereotyping that I don't recognise.
I'd say Irish society tolerates lots of bullshit instead of doing anything about it. I am talking about society in general not lifestyle choices.

 

[the_jen]

Did a new yoga video last night.

A youtube, Unicron?

 

[Deadmanposting]

In fairness @Deadmanposting, I’m re-reading that exchange and no one was actually complaining. There was a fairly neutral exchange about numbers versus feelings and then you started posting about only giving us bad news in future and how we always complain. This feels more about you than us. This is not a dig but this is going on ages now and it really does feel like mountain-molehill territory.

Thanks for your wisdom

 

[Deadmanposting]

I said something about VO2 max just being a number and not the feeling of being healthy. It was honestly a throwaway thing, not meant to be a challenge to his worldview!

My worldview is just fine

I've got everything I need

 

[Unicron]

A youtube, Unicron?

Yeah, I've been doing ddp yoga for years off DVD's and it's been great for me but I found recently that there's a couple of things where it's helped me less. Specifically shoulders and hips/pelvis so I went looking around on youtube for videos that focused on those areas and I found a channel that had a lot of workouts related to hip mobility

https://www.youtube.com/@Livinleggings

I think she's very good, I wanted to push myself out of my routine and comfort zone and I'm both pleased and disappointed that I'm finding some of her stuff such hard work.

She also has a site, but it's 50 quid a month and I'm not ready to take that kind of plunge, there's stull loads of stuff on her youtube that I still have to get to. I'll probably end up back at DDPY but I'll be able to use the stuff I've learned from her, the little adjustments and movements to get the most from the positions in those routines.

 

[therealjohnny]

In bits after doing yard work and sere unblocking on Saturday. Ouch.

 

[chris d]

First trip out on the scooters since T1 knocked a tooth out on saturday. T2 fell off. Just a bumped knee thankfully. But I had to carry her home in one arm (500m) sore arm now.