sarakingdom

58 minutes ago, Mistr said:

No spring cleaning yesterday, but I did do zen and aikido.

The book you want for this challenge is A Monk's Guide to a Clean House and Mind by Shoukei Matsumoto.

6 minutes ago, ViperN7 said:

Sage advice

Please do not ask me to resist that right after a Pratchett quote.

Here you go, as requested.

On 3/25/2024 at 4:23 PM, Heidi said:

When I was going through some of my worst work stress related mental shenangians in 2017, I found that working out for at least thirty minutes made a huge difference in the overall bandwidth that I had available to devote to negative self-talk and negative thought patterns. I would lift, then row, then swim, (and then sauna becuase wow, the sauna).

As someone who frequently does her workouts in shorter chunks throughout the day, I do not like this. Time to get back to the longer walks, I guess.

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

I went to look up the new one to see the subject, and it looks like the title's been announced too

"Into this man’s blameless life would come Thomas Nightingale like a carelessly thrown brick in the glassware section of Lillywhites." I mean, I'm sold based on that.

1 hour ago, Jarric said:

If you're carrying a reasonable amount of fat then your body should be able to burn that to keep you from going into true starvation mode even if you're below your BMR. I wouldn't recommend doing it, because you probably still won't feel date and the diet will probably be miserable and difficult to stick to, but it's probably not dangerous so I also wouldn't worry about accidently dipping below your BMR if you don't have a good way to reliably calculate what your BMR is.

Anything you accidentally do once or twice is unlikely to be dangerous. (Apply advice within reason. Certain food items, as the late Terry Pratchett observed, are obviously edible, but only the once.)

The caveat to Jarric's advice I'd give is that it may not apply if you've been chronically dieting or at calorie restriction. Chronic undereating is thought to not go well. I suspect it may have been a component of the really unfortunate results I saw, where my body chose to drop my BMR rather than my weight. Sometimes a brief reset at maintenance is suggested.

Basically, calculating the numbers is easy - pick a number between your TDEE and BMR that means somewhere under a 7000 calorie deficit for the week. Applying them in real life can be more fiddly, because bodies don't always listen to calculators in the expected way, in both good and bad ways.

9 minutes ago, Jarric said:

Spent the morning reading Winter's Gifts by Ben Aaronovich (thanks @sarakingdom for alerting me that I'd missed this one!)

My library system doesn't have it as a book! Maybe just a matter of time, they have most of the others. I may have to relisten, though, despite the reader making me want to painful things with a spoon.

(The next novella is coming out this September, by the way. Title not announced, but subject announced.)

3 minutes ago, Sea-to-sky said:

Snowdrops are good too

The best.

14 minutes ago, Cheetah said:

3/27 I ate

 

A Monster

4 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

I also wouldn't take any calculator number seriously as the errors on calorie absorption  is like 20-25% anyway. The only way to really figure out how much your body needs is to track with your current diet for a few weeks and see what happens with your weight and adapt from there. Keeping in mind that this figure changes with time, mental and physical stress, NEAT, diet changes....

The last time I did this experiment at six calorie levels for six months, I had a spread of over a thousand calories (net, total adjusted to account for exercise) where I maintained my weight at every tier of deficit. But at the lower tiers, my joints ached all the time and it took me three days to recover from the short hikes I was doing every day without effort at the higher tiers. My metabolism shifted down to stop doing physical repairs instead of dropping weight. (I had to stop the lowest tier early, I was just too unwell to go the whole month.) And it turned out I still maintained at 400 calories above what I thought my maintenance was.

So it can get complicated.

8 minutes ago, Sea-to-sky said:

We had a section of garden under trees with heavy shade in our previous house and went wild woodland garden for it as not much else would grow there. Highly recommend bluebells and primroses. Also native cyclamen are fun. Native wild strawberries. 
all incredibly low maintinenece. 

Hellebores are also an interesting thought...

2 hours ago, Mad Hatter said:

I feel called out. 😛 

3 hours ago, Everstorm said:

I've seen that too.  I can't think its purpose unless you want a private tracking post?

It's used for moderating content, usually. Like removing spam or something that needs an admin discussion, or holding back something not ready to go live yet. It makes no sense to me why non-admins have a hide button when they have no unhide button and can't access the post once they hide it, but there you go.

If you hide anything accidentally, a guild leader or someone can unhide it for you.

I'm doing stuff. Mostly. But not tracking. Fuck tracking.

On 3/26/2024 at 3:19 PM, Laghail said:

I think so! Lemme get his sign off before I post a link, but should be fine 

17 hours ago, Scaly Freak said:

The other day, I learned that the producers' first choice for playing Navarre was... Kurt Russel.

Unacceptable. Both for that movie and because the world needed one movie with Rutger Hauer as the romantic lead. Roy Batty sadly doesn't count.

I too have requested Ladyhawke from the library. There will be a rewatch.

On 3/26/2024 at 7:12 AM, TimovieMan said:

I just realized I've never posted a song by The Who before. 😱

That borders on blasphemy in my book, so here's one of my favourite songs of theirs, from the "Who's Next" album, which is easily one of the greatest albums of all time.

That particular album is a religious experience at the proper volume, it's true.

26 minutes ago, Jarric said:

I beat you to it by a whole 6 minutes, but you're not far off on the theme. Great minds think alike?

Woo-hoo! That was easier than convincing @Mistr to let Molly into her life.

2 hours ago, Jarric said:

This is very true. Thank you for the reminder.

Can I tempt you with a "showing up is half the battle" challenge this go around?

I have been reminded to plant fennel in the garden. I love fennel.

I turned to find a stocky black woman in a strapless red dress, cut low enough to show off broad, muscled shoulders, and cut high enough to reveal legs that could do an Olympic time hundred meters without taking off the high heels. Her hair was shaved down to a fuzz, and she had a wide mouth, flat nose, and her mother's eyes. I was caught in a wash of clattering machines, hot oil, and wet dog. The cold didn't seem to be bothering her at all.

Madame Tang bowed, properly. As well she might, given that she was in the presence of a goddess -- that of the river Fleet.

19 minutes ago, Jarric said:

Thanks man. You're right of course, and it was still better than nothing, which is something.

Showing up is the win. That's the keystone habit, as the cool kids say. Some challenges, that's what the challenge is.