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11 years ago @ The Toast - "Filles du Roi": Come ... · 0 replies · +4 points

This was fascinating!

11 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +5 points

I don't really share everyone else's intensive Ted hate, but I love this theory.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +2 points

Thank you! It took me years to even bother to get attention (I haven't measured, but I don't think it's 4-5 inches... definitely enough that I feel it both on the inside and the outside). I am pretty sure in my case it's a digestive issue, since it's accompanied by other digestive systems. I tested negative for celiac disease and ulcers am now running through a bunch of potential treatments because the GI isn't really sure what's causing it. I'm really glad to hear you're getting some relief.

11 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +1 points

I LOVED your post. It's something I've thought before but never really been able to internalize as much as I want to.

and, oh, man, so much empathy on the abdominal sweeling/bloating/whatever. I regularly put on pants that slide down my hips in the morning only to find the same waistband digging into me on my drive home.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +3 points

That was fun! and as a bonus, I opened it in a tab to read later and forgot where I got the link from. Instead I assumed it had come from a dudefriend who had commented on facebook about how "this is a realistic approximation of how the super bowl in NY will go down." (dude is a Giants fan, so I was kind of confused)

12 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 1 reply · +1 points

:(((

are you on any medications? I was on an SSRI and after awhile I got that sort of exhaustion as a side effect - no matter how much I slept (and for a lot of this time I was sleeping 10+ hours a night), I was still really tired the rest of the day. It was awful but did eventually go away after a few months of going through celexa withdrawal.

12 years ago @ The Toast - On the 96th Anniversar... · 0 replies · +1 points

This was great. I had never heard of the Halifax explosion, but wow. Got chills reading this.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Goodbye to All That: O... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is how I felt. I really enjoy reading obituaries sometimes, particularly of people who lived a really long time and whose lives spanned eras. It's the stories of regular people living private lives with usually-typical deaths.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Special Down-There Fit... · 2 replies · +6 points

I don't have a mirror in my workout room (aka living room) at home, but when I lift at the gym in front of the mirror, I am basically checking myself out constantly. Probably some of the gym bros think I am staring at them, but nope... much prefer to stare at my own arms.

I don't really get the push-up junk feelings (although I get an awesome psychological rush along with the burned out arm feeling at the end of a long set), but I do get a lot of air moving around various orifices with ab exercises and sometimes squats (particularly if I had a lot of veggies at lunch). Probably why I mostly lift at home (that and I can lift while watching sports on TV, which is my favorite).

Oh, and yesterday at spin I was definitely sitting on my bike seat in a very pleasant way for a little while. It was not orgasmic, but it was nice.

12 years ago @ The Toast - Feel the Burn: Down Time · 0 replies · +2 points

This is great.

When I first got into exercise, I was very adamant about EVERY DAY. OR ELSE. because I felt like otherwise (or like setting up a less frequent schedule) would mean I would never go at all. After a few years of struggling with compulsive exercise and hating myself the few days when I didn't work out, I've settled in closer to this sort of attitude.

It's funny - I've had a lot less trouble doing this with flossing. I recent decided I was going to floss every day because this "eh, I should do it sometimes maybe" attitude was leading to painful dentists appointments. Sometimes I'm really tired and I don't, but the next day I just remember to start over again and have been pretty good about it for a few months. Whereas with exercise there was so much baggage and self-judgment and pride and shame heaped in, that it took me YEARS to get to the same regular but occasionally broken habit level.

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