Hello, I started working out maybe 3 weeks ago. I used to work out a lot maybe 2 years ago and then stopped and did occasional stretching and daily walks. But I have always wanted to be more toned.
Well I started working out again but have only gained weight because I can’t stop myself from eating. I run 3 miles everyday and do about 15-20 minutes of Pilates/yoga and every couple of days do dance aerobics for 30-45 minutes.
I recently tried veganism but I don’t think I’m getting enough protein and that’s why I can’t stop eating? But then when I feel like I eat enough protein I still can’t stop snacking. I might revert back to vegetarianism to incorporate eggs. I’ve gained about 4-5 pounds in the last 3 weeks.
Any advice would be helpful!

32M, 6’1”, 163lb (recent basic testing in comments)
Over roughly the last 3-5~ weeks, the symptoms listed about have become severe, to a debilitating point. I can’t work. I can’t exercise. I am completely exhausted walking 50 feet to my fridge. When I yawn, it feels as though I’m going to black out. Constant extreme pressure in chest, and very targeted pain in neck and one specific spot in my spine. Occasional bouts of moderately high blood pressure, and regular (daily) high heart rate.
For clarity, I’ve been experiencing these issues in some capacity for a little over a year. I’m diagnosed major depressive, ADHD, chronic vitamin D deficiency. I take lexapro, adderall, and am currently on my 3rd round of high dose vitamin D, as it is not sustaining even with daily supplements. I discontinued adderall about a week or so after these issues took a sharp turn at the suggestion of my doctor. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke (except vaping occasionally), nor do I do any drugs. My diet isn’t great, but it’s not total garbage either. Until recently I worked very physically demanding jobs (FedEx/vending routes), and was generally fairly active. As far as I’m concerned my mental health is currently better than at any point in my past, and my psychiatrist and therapist happen to agree. I’ve lost about 30~ pounds over the last year without any significant change in diet, medication or activity.
One day about 4 months ago I woke up for work, sweating and exhausted. I was exhibiting every sign of a heart attack/stroke as I sat trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I didn’t want to scare my girlfriend, so I drove myself 40 minutes to the ER and was given blood pressure medication and a breathing treatment. After about 3 hours I was no longer hypertensive, without a best guess of panic attack. I have never had panic attacks, I’m not prone to them. At the start of this worsening onset it happened again, but was much more painful. I woke up strained, late in the evening, my girlfriend was awake and called an ambulance. My EKG was normal, with elevated pressure and heart rate. Declined transport to ER but was given nitro and pressure meds, and symptoms mildly improved a few hours later.
My doctor (NP) agrees with the panic attack ideation. My psychiatrist and therapist do not, nor does the managing NP of the clinic.
Now the rub. I no longer have healthcare coverage through work, and state funded (Indiana) is locked due to some clerical error that I’ve been attempting to figure out for the better part of a year. So BOTHE neither the local free cardiologist, or my neurologist referral will accept me because I HAVE Medicaid, but every inquiry and claim is denied. If I leave my PCP, I no longer have access to my psychiatrist or therapist.
I am at a loss.
I made this post because my girlfriend is very scared. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t, but past battles with depression have given me the perfect level of self-apathy for this situation.

I want to find a friend who I can talk to and listen about each other’s lives. I want this to be a mutual thing. You talk and I talk. So only reach out if you will put in the effort. I’m from the US, but it’s okay if you’re in another country, it will just be difficult to stay in touch because of the time differences, and what point does that serve if we would barely talk.
Also, texting is convenient and something we could do to stay in touch, but we also need to add calls to the mix. I don’t want to hear that you need to know me first.
MUST BE OKAY WITH CALLS. I’m not making anyone message me and do calls. That’s your choice, but if you do reach out it’s because you’re going to be doing calls with me :) And I don’t mean share numbers, we can talk on an app.
I enjoy walks and being out in the sun, now that the weather is getting warmer. I also enjoy Korean and Thai shows. I like K-pop and my favorite group is BLACKPINK.
I’m 31, probably too old for some of you. I’m single. I don’t have children. I’m in a good spot but just need that connection with people because I lack social skills.
If you’re married, don’t reach out. It is just uncomfortable. Also, if you’re in a relationship, it’s just awkward. Why?!
If the times below don’t work for you or you won’t be able to talk through these times then it won’t work, so don’t reach out.
I’m in MST, USA. I wake up at 5am Monday to Friday and 6am on weekends. I sleep around 11pm each night. I would like it if we could talk throughout the day and start and end our days together.
Thanks. Send me a chat request if you want to try this. Include your location and in your own words tell me what you are looking for or I will not reply. I will not respond to messages or comments, only chat.
I also have other forms of communication if that works best for you.

See post hx.
After we had our IEP meeting for kiddo going into middle school, where team was worried about transition to hour earlier schedule not even knowing about divorce or that she would be living another 20-30 minutes away she agreed that even when she has the kids for the afternoon and the evening they will still come back to my place to sleep on school nights and I will get them ready for school every school day.
The most time she will ever get overnight with them are every other Friday and Saturday two and a half weeks of school breaks and 5 weeks in the summer.
That is if she and her boyfriend (it's a long story I don't actually care that she has a boyfriend no s*** shaming) ever get a big enough and safe enough place to even host overnight all three of the kids one of whom has special needs.
Her boyfriend will no longer have any incentive to make her happy by immediately getting a place that is big enough to do that.
This weekend where she didn't even take her usual Saturday in our schedule right now because she went to a funeral in her hometown with her boyfriend was amazing she also didn't take her Friday night because I had my best friend and his wife over. It was a great weekend made a special meal for my friend kids got to meet him they stayed up a little bit late and return for not having a bedtime story and they immediately went to bed with no fuss or must even kid with special needs friend was very impressed. Next day went to zipline Park then they went over to my parents and then we went to church and then Sunday was Farmers market Happy meals and dinner out then time at the mall and the mall play place and my oldest finally got over her fear of escalators. Soon to be ex only over about an hour and a half today to see the kids and then walk to the local park. And about to walk back and have some ice cream before putting them to bed.
Oldest and youngest are annoying the crap out of each other on a very healthy 10 v 6 yo way. 9 yo with special needs has had basically no meltdowns this whole time and has slept through the night with no accidents.
I am so f****** grateful that she sees them as too much work I'm so f****** grateful that my parents own the house that we've been renting in so she has no leverage over me I am so f****** grateful that I've been able to take advantage of what is considered a rest rotation at the public defender's office that lets me have all this time to set this up.

I've been playing redfall for almost 30 Hours total now. I've finished the campaign and now am replaying it again with friends and having a blast. Sure, there's a few bugs here and there but that's just the 21st century while developers we love and care for make games for us - it's a work in progress.
The story is really fun to get into and the plot twists and characters are so thrilling. There were a few times I had to pause and just genuinely figure out what's going on and who's who. You can't trust anyone. The cutscenes are great because you can watch or you can just listen and check up on emails.
The mechanics of the game are fun and the animations are great. The level design is awesome and did I say vampires? The game is literally vampires guys and it's awesome. My favourite vamp is Layla's ex boyfriend who's a vampire.. he looks awesome.
It's great that Microsoft and Xbox game studios took a risk like the old days and started a new IP and I hope it improves. A sequel would be awesome.. maybe we can play as layals ex boyfriend the vampire?
I love the game and it was $60 well spent for me.

I was 16 and met a guy older than me. He was a genuinely nice guy and I stuck around. I met him on some nsfw discord server to which I lied about my age to get in. Please note that he never intended harm upon me nor did he ever know I was underaged. He mainly dated those who are somewhere between 30 and above.
Now I am 18 and wish to leave those 2 years behind- however, I still feel guilty to this day because it somehow had ties to my career. Though, my biggest fear is me subsequently ruining his life.

Contact JahCoin#5396 - Or join https://discord.gg/mw2lobbies if interested!
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RULES / MUST READ - 1.If there is another player running around Do Not Kill! They are not a bot, bots will all have the same operator for easy identification! - 2.Never use any Player Killing kill-streaks! Replace your streaks for a UAV and Advanced UAV only! This is going to help speed up your kills and tracking of the players. Do not use counter UAVs, SAEs, Chopper Gunners, VTOLs, Ect. You may effect the lobby of the another person. - 3.Equip a grenade! Equip a Tactical Insert! Equip Scavenger Perk for ammunition. Equip Eagle Eye! When you have 20-25 kills (shortly after an advanced UAV is recommended so you don't accidently NUKE), place a Tactical Insert near the spawn to avoid running around and run 15 feet to kill yourself, and pull your standard grenade and hold in hand until it blows. - 4.Never use nuke! Nuke will end the game, and nuke is a high risk of being banned. You may be penalized one game if you call in a nuke.
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I got banned from the discord server a couple days ago. I missed a message from a moderator cough.player1cough saying to stop talking in leg chat to a bunch of us. So when I was muted for 6 HOURS, which is basically a temp ban as you can't see chats, I protested and asked to be unmuted. They claimed it had been there for a minute when I was waiting for the 30 second chat cooldown to end, as such it couldn't have been. I pointed that out and got told "I didn't ask you". I called them rude and got told to have a nice day. Which is never a good thing to say as it comes across as rude and sarcastic. In response I called them an a-hole and am now banned. I have to wait 2 weeks for an appeal. How is this fair? If asked, I would apologise and we could all be on our way. But the moderators are gatekeeping me from a large part of the community, 500k people I could lfg with. And apparently the mods all agree with the main mod so I can't do anything. Probably won't ever get in anyway given the abuse I sent at one of the mods earlier out of anger at this ridiculous situation. And wow, this is a long post lol.

Hi all! I’ve been following the guidelines found here, and in the precious little sleep book to help my 18 week old boy sleep better at night. Prior to CIO my poor wife was up every few hours, rocking and bouncing him to sleep for 30+ min every night, and resorted to co-sleeping once it got to 2am and he refused to go down.
We went cold turkey on his sleep associations (bouncing, swaddle, pacifier) and moved the crib into our room and have moved on from the bassinet. If we’re making a change we might as well get him to a place where we want him to end up. Eventually we will move him to a separate bedroom but he is EBF and still feeding twice at night.
His routine is fairly standardized, he takes between 2-3 naps of 1-2 hours during the day, and his last wake window is at least 3 hours with lots of stimulation until the final hour which is a calming wind down of bathtime, bottle with rice cereal, baby massage with lotion and calm reading in low light.
Day 1 Put down awake at 8pm, cried for 35min then fell asleep. Woke up after 45 min, cried another 20 min before falling asleep. Only woke up again to feed at 1:30am and again at 5am. He fell asleep pretty soon after the night feedings, no more than 10 min each time. One diaper change after one of the feedings. Woke up to start the day around 8am.
Day 2 Put down at 7:30pm, 30 min crying, stayed asleep until midnight. Fed at midnight, cried for 20 min and fell asleep. Woke again at 2:50am, we let him cry because he just fed, fell asleep at 3:10am. Woke up at 4:30, diaper change, got fed again, went to sleep around 5 and went down immediately. Slept until 7:30am
Day 3 (today) Put down at 7:00pm, cried for 10 min before putting himself to sleep, slept for exactly 40 min before waking up and crying for 20 min. Went back to sleep around 8:15pm.
So far I’m very happy at the progress, as is my wife who no longer has to be his human pacifier! Overall are we on the right track? I think it will take a few more days for him to go down without fuss unless there’s an extinction burst. Big thanks to all of the information here, we couldn’t take much more of his sleep schedule before sleep training.

Hi, I am not a beardie owner but I have them at my work. We have only had one for a while but last week we got another from craigslist. She(? too little to tell) appears to be BAR and is eating well, but my boss told me the bottom of her enclosure was caked in old feces when she was picked up.
I had a bad experience at an awful reptile facility a few years ago where they took in rescues and ended up spreading yellow fungus to 5 healthy dragons and they all had to be put down. I'm traumatized to say the least.
At my current job I bleached all this dragons bowls and decor, designated her own tools, put her separate from everyone else, and I dont interact with her until the end of my shift. I'm part time though so I'm nervous that others may not be so careful. My boss also says she can be integrated once she gets a fecal test and checkup from the vet, but I think at least 30 days in quarantine is more appropriate.
Any advice or resources?

I live in a relatively small town that pretty much died after COVID and fell out with my friends after high school. (Where I was relatively popular) i'm m, 22 and just now going to college. I'm basically completely, utterly alone, I've been this way for two years now, no friends or people that I can trust let alone someone who loves me. My texts, dating apps, facebooks, socials will be completely dry for weeks at a time unless I text my few good friends that are out of state left. But I feel alone. Like I'll never get to enjoy my life or find someone I care about until my 30's, and by then people don't hang out, talk, etc. I'm deadly scared I'm going to make the wrong decision and end working two jobs 20 hours a day or something where I won't have the TIME to do anything until in 30. I'm also worried that if this keeps up, I won't even be able to socialize properly after being alone for so long. I don't know what to do

I'd like to start off by saying, I'm a trans woman (26). I'm married to a cisgender male (27). We've been together for about 2 and a half years, and married in November of last year.
At the beginning of our relationship, we were physically intimate very frequently. We had sex almost daily oftentimes multiple times a day, with plenty of foreplay. Sex with him is by far the best I've ever had. It eventually tapered down to a few times a week, and then was a steady once a week thing. It has now been about 5 or 6 months since we've made love.
I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but it eventually became a once a month thing, maybe every other month. When we got married, I was hopeful we'd make love that same day/night. We didn't, which for some reason that really hurts. We then had our honeymoon shortly after that, and I thought maybe we'd make love then. Again, we didn't. That also really hurts.
I've told him many times, physical touch is my number one love language. Sex is very important to me. He's said it's "shallow." Sex, he's said, is not important. When the frequency started to drop down to once a month/every other month I let him know that I miss him and need it to feel connected. Each time I've told him, he has said that he understands and will work on it. It doesn't seem to change, in fact it seems to just get worse.
I thought it would be a good idea to "schedule" sex, so that's what we tried doing. Throughout the week leading up to it he'd say stuff like, "I can't wait to fill you up." "I want to be inside you." The day would come, I'd ask him if he's still in the mood and he'd say yes. I'd then go to the restroom and douche, because I hate bottoming when I haven't prepped first. Then when I'd come out, he would say "I'm tired" or "I have a headache." Once I asked him, "Is it because of the Kratom shot you took?" He then shouted, angrily, "No, I just don't want to have sex with you!" To this day (which was probably a year ago) it still hurts. I eventually gave up on scheduling it.
After that, the only sex we had was oral and it was always me giving head until he finished. Reason being, when he was in the mood I was afraid of him not being in the mood after I finished prepping back there. I also don't like bottoming when I haven't prepped, so that seemed like the best option. We don't even do that anymore, which is largely because I don't feel it's fair. Sex for a long time with him has felt "unfair."
I'm a trans woman who does not have genital dysphoria, in fact, I like using what I have. I've told him this, many times. I've told him, I'm not a bottom. That's not the only thing I enjoy doing. He's let me top a handful of times, rarely does he ever seem to really try. He's said he enjoys it, sometimes, but for the "role reversal" aspect of it. That bothered me because I feel like that implies that's my role or my duty. I've also only ever received oral from him a handful of times, rarely does it ever extend past a minute, I'm lucky if I get 30 seconds. Meanwhile I've gone down on him for over 30 minutes plenty of times, and almost always I do it until he finishes. I've said many times I enjoy receiving it, and would like more of it. Doesn't seem to matter.
I've told him that I feel sex with him has been one sided for a while now. Bottoming for him was definitely not easy at first, in fact he's the largest I've ever been with, I'm not even being hyperbolic. He's huge. It was incredibly painful at first (and really always is during the first few minutes, regardless of size), but I learned how to do it for him. He's so big in fact, I have anal fissures/scars as a result. Giving oral (deep throating to be exact) was definitely not easy, but I learned how to do it comfortably for him. He says it's literally the best he's ever had. I have never been a fan of giving oral, but I do it because I love pleasuring him and I love him. I do it all, literally anything he wants in bed, because I felt like it would be reciprocated on some level.
I told him all of this. He said that that was wrong of me, to "expect" something in return. He said that was treating sex as if it was "transactional" and made him feel "used and gross." He said that my dick wasn't even meant for anal (that hurt a lot) because it has a curve. I told him that nothing was "meant" to go up there period, and yet he gladly tops me. I told him "You think yours was 'meant' for it? I literally have anal fissures/scars as a result of bottoming for you."
I want to also add, he has made comments about my dick throughout our relationship that have really hurt. What he has said wasn't mentioned during the conversation I just mentioned. He has jokingly made fun of it for being small. He has called it "wimpy" and his "fidget toy." He has told me once before that he was with a trans woman before who was smaller than me, and that's when he realized he was attracted to that. I have mixed feelings over that. On one hand, I thought that meant he genuinely enjoyed what I have. On the other hand, his comments have caused me to have some insecurities I never had.
We're in therapy now, but I'm worried it's not going to work. He has told my husband that the way I felt about sex, hoping my actions would be reciprocated, was not wrong at all. He said that we all do things for people we love, and hope they'll do the same in return. My concern is that he said he hasn't had any sex therapy classes since 1989. He's great in every other aspect, we both really like him, but that fact worries me. We've been to two sessions so far, I'm willing to give it a little longer to see where things go in terms of intimacy. I'm not sure what else to do after that.
I'd really like anyone else's perspective. Advice, or thoughts, are all welcome.

I'm on my first night shift in my new job tonight.
Its a mix of office and field work but I am just wondering if its worth taking a nap on my hour lunch break?
I already dozed off at 2AM for 30 mins so I'm worried if I doze again I won't sleep during the day once I finish.
Any advice/rips?