[Sylvaa] Music Medley

[zeroh13]

21 minutes ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

 

Traditional sourdough is fermented and the microscopic beasties eat the gluten. Store-bought American sourdough is not fermented and it likely still has gluten. You're lucky to live in the UK where you can still get real food easily enough.

 

How do you even make it without fermentation? O_o 

[Machete]

14 hours ago, Nadoriel said:

 

@Machete 35 pounds cannot be the low rate ;_____; that'd be like... 280 pounds a month per 2 weekly workouts! Plus gym membership... That's 20% of my monthly pay. I dunno. But right now it's really hard for me to do this.

 

And funny you mention Poliquin. My previous trainers were trained by his method. It definitely worked for me! xD I only have 2 problems with him: not enough eggs, not being able to have dairy for breakfast. I'd much rather have quark with cashews than a steak O.o but the training given at that gym was absolutely awesome. I really wish I still lived nearby. 

But I've been reading online, not that many people like his ways at all. Makes me confused.

 

Anyways I checked and I can technically ask my old Poliquin PTs to make me an online plan. I'm just waiting to move to a cheaper gym and check what I have available there. I dunno... It's still gonna be hard to get it done ^^ or maybe I'll just do the same that I did last time... wait until I properly stall on stronglifts/starting strength and on my fat loss, and then get a proper plan.

 

9 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

Per Google, the average cost is 39 pounds per hour, but based upon other conversations on this topic, that seems low to me ($50 per hour). We used to pay 23.40 pounds for a half hour session ($30 / half hour) and that seemed to be better than most people I spoke with. This totally depends on where you live too - larger cities have higher costs. 

 

It's not cheap; it comes down to priorities. I sold cigarettes in college to raise my training money. Then I'd wait for special offers and shamelessly buy 100 sessions at a time (sometimes in change).

 

I also mean "personal trainer," not "rep counter." If you want something done right, you get a professional to do it. Personal training as a service is severely undervalued because of chain gyms that are run like sweat shops. A trainer at LA Fitness for example (where one pays around $50 per hour) gets $12 for that hour. That trainer would have to consistently book 40 sessions a week in order to make as much as the average high school dropout makes. There is very little chance that this trainer is paying any attention to any of their clients; I doubt one can match that many names to that many faces. Lots of them are burned-out. That is why, in typical quality-over-quantity fashion, it is common to see trainers just on their phone while with a client, and prescribing low-risk exercises that require minimal teaching, spotting, and equipment movement. Hardly personal. Consequently, a professional, who makes a living doing this, must charge a premium price to be able to offer more individualized coaching. Unfortunately, good trainers rarely also happen to be good salespersons.

 

Yeah, Poliquin is brilliant, and like many brilliant people, appears to be subject to seemingly magical thinking. He sometimes makes seemingly outlandish claims, and he rubs people the wrong way. The fitness industry is a huge clash of systems and ideas, and they're pretty much treated like politics/religion. But when it comes down to it, he gets things done. People may not like Louie Simmons and disagree with Mark Rippetoe, but Westside Barbell speaks for itself and I'm sure Starting Strength has made a lot of people hella strong.

 

2 minutes ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

Traditional sourdough is fermented and the microscopic beasties eat the gluten. Store-bought American sourdough is not fermented and it likely still has gluten. You're lucky to live in the UK where you can still get real food easily enough.

 

I looooove sourdough. Even Walmart sourdough. I probably haven't tried the actual fermented stuff. Can I buy it without having to make it myself?

[Sloth the Enduring]

How do you even make it without fermentation? O_o 

Great question. According to google it has a smidge of sour dough starter so it can have the label, but otherwise it is regular raised bread with sour flavoring added. If you read labels the tell is yeast listed as an ingredient.

[Sylvaa]

Unrelated:

 

I'm going to a Ren Faire wine festival with a group of friends who dress up as pirates. Where can I find a decent, not crazy expensive outfit? 

[Machete]

28 minutes ago, Sylvaa said:

Unrelated:

 

I'm going to a Ren Faire wine festival with a group of friends who dress up as pirates. Where can I find a decent, not crazy expensive outfit? 

 

Are you going as a pirate, or as a wench? (I don't even know the difference, I just wanted to use the word. Wench.)

[Nadoriel]

@Sloth the Enduringahh I definitely wouldn't say I'm lucky being in the UK. Food here barely tastes like food anymore. Fruit is tasteless and so are veggies. Meat might be the worst. Whenever I go back to Portugal it's a festival of flavors. Bread in there doesn't even classify as sourdough or not. It's just bread. And usually it's sourdough xD hence why I always loved sour bread. 

 

Anyways I used to bake my own sourdough pretty easily tho. I reckon I stopped because of the costs and because I tend to eat too much bread.. Which lead to weight gain... It's one of those things. 

 

I have no ideia what's happening to the food though. It's ridiculous this loss of flavor. 

[Nadoriel]

@Machetegot ya! Better a more expensive but definitely better PT than a fake one that's just consuming money without doing anything. 

 

Hmm is there any reading material to learn personal training btw? See not that I mind having people tell me what to do and I get results. I really like knowing what I'm doing and why? And what changes I can do in case my environment changes. The exercises to lose fat more quickly, how to gain strength to progress with overhead press and stuff like that. Cause i know that Poliquin advises a bit more reps, less rest period between exercises and tempo to lose fat. At least I remember doing that. And it worked. They also got me to progress with my overhead press somehow. I know that eventually eating less calories is the key.. But they didn't even have me count calories. 

 

Anyways I like to learn why I'm doing what I'm doing xD I mean starting strength doesn't last forever anyway. 

[Nadoriel]

@SylvaaOmg i love Ren fairs! I'm sorry I can't help you on that. The fairs in Portugal have costumes already there for us, which is nice. But I really wanna make my own one day ^^

[zeroh13]

10 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

Unrelated:

 

I'm going to a Ren Faire wine festival with a group of friends who dress up as pirates. Where can I find a decent, not crazy expensive outfit? 

I have some some stuff tucked away in the closet I'm not going to wear anymore, if you're interested. I don't know what size you wear, but the majority of it is drawstring anyways. 

[Sylvaa]

11 hours ago, Machete said:

Are you going as a pirate, or as a wench? (I don't even know the difference, I just wanted to use the word. Wench.)

 

I'm going as whatever costume I find that I like the best!

 

1 hour ago, Nadoriel said:

@SylvaaOmg i love Ren fairs! I'm sorry I can't help you on that. The fairs in Portugal have costumes already there for us, which is nice. But I really wanna make my own one day ^^

 

I think some of them over here do that too, but if I'm going to be dressed up for the day, I want an outfit I like!  

 

1 hour ago, zeroh13 said:

I have some some stuff tucked away in the closet I'm not going to wear anymore, if you're interested. I don't know what size you wear, but the majority of it is drawstring anyways. 

 

I don't know what size I wear either! I found this costume online and I want it! But I don't know if it'd be appropriate for the ren faire. 

[Nadoriel]

@SylvaaOmg that costume is soo sexy! I love it! XD I'd totally go for it. 

 

I never bought clothes online though.. I assume you have time to change for a different size/costume if needed? 

[Sylvaa]

1 minute ago, Nadoriel said:

@SylvaaOmg that costume is soo sexy! I love it! XD I'd totally go for it. 

 

I never bought clothes online though.. I assume you have time to change for a different size/costume if needed? 

 

I think it depends on whether or not my size is available right now. I like this one, because you put in measurements instead of sizes though! 

 

I've got about 6 weeks to figure out what to wear, so it should be enough time (even if they have to custom make based on my size, it should only take 1 - 2 weeks per their website). Also, they seem to have a pretty decent return policy. 

 

(Knocking on wood as I type this) I've actually had pretty decent luck purchasing clothing online. I know a lot of people have issues with sizing depending on what country the clothes are coming out of, but that's never been an issue (so far) for me. I actually have a really nice dress to wear for a dinner in two weeks that I got from China without issue. So fingers crossed on this!

[Nadoriel]

I wish you luck! That costume is just fabulous and I'm sure you'll be awesome in it! Gosh xD next year I'll be getting myself an assassin's creed costume :x

[maegs]

13 hours ago, Sloth the Enduring said:

 

Great question. According to google it has a smidge of sour dough starter so it can have the label, but otherwise it is regular raised bread with sour flavoring added. If you read labels the tell is yeast listed as an ingredient.

 

Good to know!

 

13 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

Unrelated:

 

I'm going to a Ren Faire wine festival with a group of friends who dress up as pirates. Where can I find a decent, not crazy expensive outfit? 

I threw together a pirate-y outfit ages back from stuff I already had and some thrift store stuff - black peasant skirt, white top (3/4 sleeves, button down front but not collared), black vest, accessories 

[RedStone]

51 minutes ago, Sylvaa said:

(Knocking on wood as I type this) I've actually had pretty decent luck purchasing clothing online. I know a lot of people have issues with sizing depending on what country the clothes are coming out of, but that's never been an issue (so far) for me. I actually have a really nice dress to wear for a dinner in two weeks that I got from China without issue. So fingers crossed on this!

 

Boom. This is always my concern with online shopping but I've been pleasantly surprised recently, I had great luck with a bridesmaids dress I had ZERO control over from etsy, and will be wearing it to a family event in October! 

 

16 minutes ago, maegs said:

I threw together a pirate-y outfit ages back from stuff I already had and some thrift store stuff - black peasant skirt, white top (3/4 sleeves, button down front but not collared), black vest, accessories 

 

100% me. I think it probably helps that I have a bazillion pirate things lying around tho... 

[Machete]

7 hours ago, Nadoriel said:

I have no ideia what's happening to the food though. It's ridiculous this loss of flavor. 

 

Industrialization. Just like with personal training. Everything is McDonald's.

 

7 hours ago, Nadoriel said:

@Machetegot ya! Better a more expensive but definitely better PT than a fake one that's just consuming money without doing anything. 

 

Hmm is there any reading material to learn personal training btw? See not that I mind having people tell me what to do and I get results. I really like knowing what I'm doing and why? And what changes I can do in case my environment changes. The exercises to lose fat more quickly, how to gain strength to progress with overhead press and stuff like that. Cause i know that Poliquin advises a bit more reps, less rest period between exercises and tempo to lose fat. At least I remember doing that. And it worked. They also got me to progress with my overhead press somehow. I know that eventually eating less calories is the key.. But they didn't even have me count calories. 

 

Anyways I like to learn why I'm doing what I'm doing xD I mean starting strength doesn't last forever anyway. 

 

I mean they're doing SOMETHING, but you probably get what you pay for. If someone sold you a 2018 Jaguar F-TYPE for $500 you would expect something to be wrong with it. But for some reason we think we can get away with this when it comes to a service.

 

I'll probably just send you a DM/PM so I stop flooding Sylvaa's challenge thread with my nonsense. Haha

 

3 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

 

I'm going as whatever costume I find that I like the best!

 

 

I think some of them over here do that too, but if I'm going to be dressed up for the day, I want an outfit I like!  

 

 

I don't know what size I wear either! I found this costume online and I want it! But I don't know if it'd be appropriate for the ren faire. 

 

Do it. If anything says something tell them to consume a phallus.

 

Unless you've found a good Kraken costume...

[zeroh13]

3 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

 

I don't know what size I wear either! I found this costume online and I want it! But I don't know if it'd be appropriate for the ren faire. 

The stuff I have is a tamer version of that. Minus the accessories. Blouse with matching bloomers, skirt, and bodice. (You can see why I don't wear this anymore! XD) I think I still have the pirate/ren pants & shirt around somewhere too. The idea was to have a more practical "sea clothes" set, and a "night out on the docks" set.

 

Glue some gears on and it goes from pirate to steampunk!

[Sylvaa]

8 hours ago, maegs said:

I threw together a pirate-y outfit ages back from stuff I already had and some thrift store stuff - black peasant skirt, white top (3/4 sleeves, button down front but not collared), black vest, accessories 

 

8 hours ago, RedStone said:

100% me. I think it probably helps that I have a bazillion pirate things lying around tho... 

 

This is 100% not me. I don't even own a skirt. And, while I keep hearing about all of the cool things people find at thrift shops, this doesn't happen where I live. It makes me sad, because I'd love to find fun things at thrift shops - but alas. 

 

5 hours ago, Machete said:

I'll probably just send you a DM/PM so I stop flooding Sylvaa's challenge thread with my nonsense. Haha

 

This totally makes me laugh, because you are like so quiet on the forums that your nonsense in my thread is awesome!

 

5 hours ago, zeroh13 said:

The stuff I have is a tamer version of that. Minus the accessories. Blouse with matching bloomers, skirt, and bodice. (You can see why I don't wear this anymore! XD) I think I still have the pirate/ren pants & shirt around somewhere too. The idea was to have a more practical "sea clothes" set, and a "night out on the docks" set.

 

Go big or go home, right?! I'll definitely keep this in my back pocket in case this falls through!

[Sylvaa]

10 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

I don't know what size I wear either! I found this costume online and I want it! But I don't know if it'd be appropriate for the ren faire. 

 

Quoting myself so that I can tag @Taddea Zhaan and get her input. Thanks in advance! 

[zeroh13]

9 minutes ago, Sylvaa said:

And, while I keep hearing about all of the cool things people find at thrift shops, this doesn't happen where I live. It makes me sad, because I'd love to find fun things at thrift shops - but alas. 

Same here. I found a couple of cool things years ago, at one near-ish to my parents place. But the ones by me? I'm lucky if I find something in my size, and double lucky if it's not hideous. 

[Jord]

11 hours ago, Sylvaa said:

 

Quoting myself so that I can tag @Taddea Zhaan and get her input. Thanks in advance! 

 

You can pretty much wear whatever you want to the ren faire!

 

The ren faire is not at all an attempt to be historically accurate. It's more like a fantasy festival. And it's fun as long as you go in what that mentality. You can wear pretty much any version of your choice of pirate attire. You will see some people who are dressing in historically accurate clothing, but most of the outfits, food, and some of the activities are fantasy. For example a big theme for the one in Michigan are these giant turkey legs you can walk around and eat, but turkeys are from the Americas, they didn't have them in the renaissance. 

 

I would definitely go the thrift store route. 

[Sylvaa]

15 hours ago, zeroh13 said:

Same here. I found a couple of cool things years ago, at one near-ish to my parents place. But the ones by me? I'm lucky if I find something in my size, and double lucky if it's not hideous. 

 

I'm so glad this isn't just me! Like, I always feel bad when people recommend it because I don't want people to think I haven't tried, but it's just not that easy here (channeling NTB's thread and frustration over not being able to use people's advice). So I live in an area with a huge income discrepancy, so nice things that get sent to thrift stores are snatched up super quick. Plus, we have a huge religious population, so instead of donating, a lot of people give to the church (which then either goes specifically to community members or overseas). So basically, none of our thrift stores have much of a clothing area anyway, and then unless you get really lucky timing-wise, are usually very picked through.

 

4 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

You can pretty much wear whatever you want to the ren faire!

 

This makes me happy. I'm getting the outfit. At this point, I just want it and need to justify paying that much for something that I won't wear regularly. Of note, I can probably wear it yearly to the Ren Faire and I'm not too concerned about it getting to a point where it doesn't fit (based on the way it is measured). 

[Wild Wolf]

This seemed relevant..

 

 

Wolf

[Severine]

I went to my first ren faire last year and there were people in all sorts of costumes. Didn't really seem to be any rules to me, and that one looks awesome.

 

And I've bought the majority of my clothing from thrift stores since I was a teenager and it is incredibly location dependent. A lot of people who recommend thrift shops as a blanket solution don't actually have enough experience with a bunch of different shops/areas to realize that the idea of "thrift shops" as a uniform category almost doesn't exist. There are so many variations from city to city and shop to shop. Unsurprisingly, shops that are well organized and located in wealthy areas of big prosperous cities have the nicest stuff. Here in Boston I've made many amazing, improbable finds - everything from a $1500 Italian wool coat to high-quality jeans that fit like a glove and are not worn out at all. It's not uncommon to find stuff still with tags on it. But in lower income rural areas I consider myself lucky if I can find one black t-shirt in my size that hasn't started to pill.

 

 

[Sylvaa]

Update time!

 

The outfit is going to be mine (after I order it this weekend - I have to do some measurements or I would have already done so). Spoke to the couple we are going with and the girl is actually looking into getting one too.  I'm a trendsetter.

 

I also think I appropriately updated my original thread - I've been focusing a lot on school this week because I'm taking it easy before the races. I've gotten through some yoga and some ab work and that's about it. I'm almost done with the current school topic I am working on, so I might even be through all 12 within the next week.

 

This week, we are staying in a different hotel and I do not like it. Next week, I'll be in Charlotte for our annual conference, then the following week I'll work from home. So I've got a few weeks until life goes back to normal. I did set up a meet-up with my co-workers for Monday night, so there may be drunk posting? It'll depend on how I'm feeling and if I feel the need to babysit any employees. I started the meet-up 4 years ago for my first work conference, it's basically everyone at my current level and below, so that we can all put names with faces and know who to reach out for with questions (since we work remotely / on projects, I only see all my co-workers once a year - there are some I only know of through setting this up). Since I send out the invites and such, I make sure the tabs get paid at the end of the night and all that responsible stuff).

 

I waiver between being super calm for the races this weekend and freaking out about the races this weekend.