Yeah zachri, 0.4 lbs. isn't shit. There was one time I went to the gym where I weighed like… 205 lbs. and then after working out, I was 202 lbs. =P
There are a lot of factors that can cause your weight to fluctuate, including that you're heavier when you first wake up. You can also gain that miniscule amount from simply drinking too much, which obviously isn't going to stick around in your body for too long.
But basically, it's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Hurp I was only like 'wakurhwkuh WAT' about it because yeah :U
Half of me doesn't give a fuck about my weight whilst the other half is like '@ A @ you chubby bitch'
RIP - my hair
Just kidding, it's awesome~
Ok lets try this (posting random stuff)
Today my dad, sister and me drove to hungary buying cigarettes
I'm watching Berserk for the first time today.
After all the hype I decided to give it a look. Initially I had thought that all the fuss was due to the series' high violence and vulgar content.
I'm now on episode 13 and I must say that this show is surprisingly well written. It's not over the top. The way the story is set up isn't even cliche.
The series' praise is definitely well earned!
Boooo…
You should be reading it.
@Uncle:
Boooo…
You should be reading it.
I'm gonna watch it, then begin reading where the anime left off at.
I do that with all of the series I get into
LA LA LAAAAAA. LA LA LA LA!(-Dearly Beloved)
I'm gonna watch it, then begin reading where the anime left off at.
I do that with all of the series I get into
You'd better read it from the start since the anime only covered volumes 3 through 13 and it skips many things.
You'd better read it from the start since the anime only covered volumes 3 through 13 and it skips many things.
Goddamnit! Why does anime always have to leave out vital things!
Today I had to fix my stove.
The worst part was, that I had no clue how to fix that shit…LOL.
The good part was that a friend helped me fix.
When AP used to be good:
NEVER FORGET !!
I just ordered One Piece DVD Collection 8 and One Piece Season 4 3rd Voyage~ <33
Slytherin all the way, baby~
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I just gone through watching the entirety of the Berserk anime, and I went back to the manga to read the portions the anime left out.
Berserk is a piece of work, I tell ya.
It's really good.. but.. after watching and reading all that somber material I find it hard to put a smile on my face.
I definitely can't be reading Berserk every day, that's for sure.
Now… what can I read/watch that will cheer myself back up?
LA LA LAAAAAA. LA LA LA LA!(-Dearly Beloved)
lolyh it's official this bitchass scale is drunk.
GO HOME SCALES.
U DRUNK SCALES.
Seriously. 9.7 yesterday morning, 9.2 this morning.
:I not like it bothers me but still.
Today I had to fix my stove.
The worst part was, that I had no clue how to fix that shit…LOL.The good part was that a friend helped me fix.
I take it you Tim Taylor'd that stove but good :ninja:
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lolyh it's official this bitchass scale is drunk.
GO HOME SCALES.
U DRUNK SCALES.
Seriously. 9.7 yesterday morning, 9.2 this morning.
:I not like it bothers me but still.
Decides not to tell her that she mistook a .9 for a .2
Ugh what a week…Comiket is no fricken joke. I'm still feeling the aftereffects of waiting in line for 10+ hours (in the rain too for the 31st). At least I managed to pick up some rarities, but I find it hard to concieve that folks do this twice a year with other events scattered in between.
@No:
I take it you Tim Taylor'd that stove but good :ninja:
If it wasn't for my friend,I would probably have destroyed that stove. 
When AP used to be good:
NEVER FORGET !!
@No:
Decides not to tell her that she mistook a .9 for a .2
I'm sure as hell I saw a .2 and not a .9.
I feel awesome with my new haircut and new jeans which I got from my granddad's sister. I don't know why, but her present was the only one in years that I truly felt was just for me and no one else. And we are as distant as possible (long story) and we rarely meet. She still went out of her way to find me a fitting present. It's so simple, it's just regular jeans with the American flag printed on it many times in small (these ones have 5 stars). She said it symbolizes my English knowledge.
On the contrary, to my surprise, that guy (whom I was in love with) whom I had to buy a present (school tradition) gave a present to me (what are the odds? Someone probably switched with someone else who didn't want me). What do I get? The most generic girl present possible. Also he said so many times that this school tradition is so useless and won't work this year, it didn't work last year etcetera. Plus, I got him a personal present (a music box playing a song from his favourite composer).
More importantly, I love these jeans.
@No:
So that's a yes then ? :ninja:
16 characters of Yeap 
… wait, why ... HOW the hell is it Thursday 8pm?!
I just returned from work, and I worked Wednesday 6am-11am. Then I went to bed at 6pm … and now it's more than 24 hours later.
How did that happen?! Are you telling me I kept drifting in and out of sleep for 24 hours?! That would explain the sheer number of nightmares I had, but still.
I just lost an entire day to terrifying shit. I feel betrayed and angry.
@Nolus: Good to hear your hair survived :D
Bought a shitload of dvds today,
Watching cyrus right now,
I like this kind of movies. Funny sad movies about Weird losers…
Kind of reminds me of someone...
@Nia:
… wait, why ... HOW the hell is it Thursday 8pm?!
I just returned from work, and I worked Wednesday 6am-11am. Then I went to bed at 6pm … and now it's more than 24 hours later.
How did that happen?! Are you telling me I kept drifting in and out of sleep for 24 hours?! That would explain the sheer number of nightmares I had, but still.
I just lost an entire day to terrifying shit. I feel betrayed and angry.@Nolus: Good to hear your hair survived :D
This is why you never sleep, Nia. Instead, you feast upon the souls of the living.
Or watch youtube I guess ~
I just gone through watching the entirety of the Berserk anime, and I went back to the manga to read the portions the anime left out.
Berserk is a piece of work, I tell ya.
It's really good.. but.. after watching and reading all that somber material I find it hard to put a smile on my face.
I definitely can't be reading Berserk every day, that's for sure.
Now… what can I read/watch that will cheer myself back up?
Have you read gintama? It's mostly comedy, I'm sure it will cheer you up. The anime is also superb.
Finally picked back up on Black Butler (watched the first episode subbed ages ago then yeah ended up busy)
Three words.
Mother.
Fucking.
Grell.
Not having a chapter of One Piece can really mess with your head. I've started oversleeping again 12+ hours and I think I'm doing it on purpose so I can at least get an anime episode of Punk Hazard in a few days. But it's just so counterproductive and so not me, I hate oversleeping. I'm banning this bed, it's sinfully comfortable.
And you would think toxic waste has spilled over into the One Piece manga section, holy shit. Not having a chapter isn't just affecting me, it seems.
Yeaaah a lot of you really have some problems that manifest when OP goes on break. Thank god you aren't nearly as invested in HxH or Berserk.
I was about to say, honestly OP isn't that great.
Like don't get me wrong, I really enjoy reading it and all. But I'm not going to lose or gain sleep over it.
I got a huge report due soon, but I'm juuust sooo tiiiired. ~_~
@Uncle:
I was about to say, honestly OP isn't that great.
Like don't get me wrong, I really enjoy reading it and all. But I'm not going to lose or gain sleep over it.
Finally, some coherency among a sea of loonies. If one ends up having a dependency on OP chapters to get them through the week, they really need to take a step back to reevaluate their lives and realize how sad that is.
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Finally, some coherency among a sea of loonies. If one ends up having a dependency on OP chapters to get them through the week, they really need to take a step back to reevaluate their lives and realize how sad that is.
I'm pretty sure the whole "The world is about to end without My One Piece Chapter" isn't suppose to be taken seriously. People are just over exaggerating and having some fun. No one needs to reevaluate anything.
Have you read gintama? It's mostly comedy, I'm sure it will cheer you up. The anime is also superb.
Yes I have read Gintama. Indeed, it is funny. I have to remember to go back and read it.
I'm back to reading Berserk again LOL. It's just really hooking me in!
ALso, thanks for the heads up regarding the anime skipping some parts of the manga. The anime didn't even introduce Puck. That's madness!
[h=5]Copy pasted from Facebook
Cyprus was a tiny land filled with more energy than I would have expected before I came. But it was a real place of life and love that deserves more land than it has and has lost. It's dry, rugged, beautiful, and populated by a beautiful people who speak Greek but look like every region that has ever passed the island by. It felt both nothing like home and a bit like home, it's about the size of Connecticut and in a way each distance between cities was like back here. Paphos was Stamford, Limassol was New Haven, Larnaca was New London and Nicosia was Hartford. Familiar in a surprise way!
Chrissie's family was more welcoming and loving even than I ever could have expected, I was an awkward foreigner who could barely communicate with most of them, but they took me in as family, and now I have family halfway across the world. An island on the scary distant words of Europe and Asia that I can feel welcome on. Chrissie's mother was a wonderful lady who had the same homey mothering vibe that my grandmother does, and her father, well boyfriend's fear the girlfriend's father by nature lol but I have been nothing but lucky and blessed to be so welcome by him. He really does care for his little girl, and I feel honored to see that he trusts me to make her happy for all time :). Her brothers are both great guys, Theo gave me a really wonderful goodbye on the phone from his job that I did not expect and made me really touched, and the times me and Chrissie spent with her brother Alexis and his fiance Antonia were some of the most outright fun I had on the trip no question (all without me being able to really talk to either one!). And Myria was like a slice of home, reminding me of my own silly lovable teenage female cousins. A whole cast of cousins and uncles and aunts were there too, most of whom I did not see enough of and look forward to getting to know more on future visits.
I did not get to know Gucci very well though sadly.
I also met Christiana's favorite priest, and what an amazing rarity of a man. Growing up in the US there's a lot of really ugly forms of religion here that easily make my generation throw the baby out with the bathwater in our rejection of it. It didn't help again to recently see multiple talking heads trying to connect the Newtown massacre with the US "rejecting Jesus" or whatever. But this man was…was everything a holy man should be as far as I could see. When he ran across his living room to hug Chrissie like she was a dear friend I was kind of speechless in the best way possible. To use as a nerdy a reference as possible, it was like meeting Yoda or something and I'm not going to forget lighting candles in mountain cave shrines for Saints anytime soon for a variety of reasons. Plus Orthodox Priests really rock those beards and black robes.
The political situation on the island is a really sad story with no winners as far as I could see. The Greeks lost so much, much of which has been literally left to rot unused. And the Turkish Cypriots have lost participation in a real country and the life and success that comes with it, the north I saw was a non-functioning rump state that seemed alternatively angrily jealous and paranoid (Turkish Nicosia) and almost sadly wordlessly wanting to apologize and rejoin the south (Turkish Famagusta). Maybe I imagined that with the latter, but the Turkish Famagusta was a dead city in both areas. The cordoned off abandoned ghost city part obviously, but so too with the populated Turkish part. The absence of the Greeks who used to live with them was very clear, and they seemed aware that this was so. I don't know what will help an acceptable reunion happened, but I do have to give this island credit. I've researched and studied lots of such places with divides like this, from Georgia, Yugoslavia, to the Koreas, and the civility and respect even through the anger I see here is something that should make the whole world humble.
Last and most of all was my cat herself, Chrissie. It never ceases to amaze me how much good she's brought to my life since she entered into it. And getting to understand her and where she comes from allows me to appreciate and love her even more. I want her to know she is a truly amazing person, that she should love herself as fully as she does the people in her life from me down to her little tri-lingual pre-schoolers 
S'Agapo Cyprus, S'Agapo Chrissie [/h]
BONUS:
What little I saw of Germany….how the heck is it possible for ME to feel not white hahaha. Seriously! Also the creepy unspoken Amish silent treatment relationship between the Germans and their immigrants I noticed really made me....corny as this sounds...proud to be an American. We have many kinks to work out in our diverse society, but we are lightyears ahead of that and returning to the insane world in miniature of NYC really allowed me to appreciate that all over again after Munich.
And Greece (which me and Chrissie will visit later this year)...it's easy to sit back and read articles about the Greek economic depression and scoff at that screwy Greece and it's clumsy economy. But the human toll there is horrible considering it's first world. It's NOT a bunch of lazy whiners crying about not being able to retire at 55. It's a Depression with a capital D. I was in Athens, Athens, not some podunk Greek Detroit. Countless stores were shuttered and closed down, there was threatening graffiti everywhere including some that were clearly neo-nazi in origin, the city was littered with tension, sceevy looking dudes, homeless people, and a general atmosphere of decay and anger. It was seriously scary and sad.
@No:
This is why you never sleep, Nia. Instead, you feast upon the souls of the living.
Actually, I feel like my soul has been feasted upon during those 24 hours.
If it wasn't for work, I'd totally spiral out of control. I don't handle having lots of free time very well.
@Uncle:
I was about to say, honestly OP isn't that great.
Like don't get me wrong, I really enjoy reading it and all. But I'm not going to lose or gain sleep over it.
I see it as that too. Nice to read some speculation and theories every once in a while but I just read it every time there's a new chapter which is like 5 minutes of my time and that's about it
@Uncle:
I was about to say, honestly OP isn't that great.
Like don't get me wrong, I really enjoy reading it and all. But I'm not going to lose or gain sleep over it.
Meh. It was really just an excuse for why I'm really oversleeping but this ain't the confession session. But nah, One Piece is still my favorite media I've encountered so far, and this is after abandoning my old "just watches/reads anime and manga" phase.
Oversleeping is even understating it. For a few days there I was sleeping up to 16 hours a day. I've stopped … hopefully. Getting back into my routine of working my body and eating about 6 meals.
Meh. It was really just an excuse for why I'm really oversleeping but this ain't the confession session. But nah, One Piece is still my favorite media I've encountered so far, and this is after abandoning my old "just watches/reads anime and manga" phase.
Oversleeping is even understating it. For a few days there I was sleeping up to 16 hours a day. I've stopped … hopefully. Getting back into my routine of working my body and eating about 6 meals.
Offtopic but maybe fyi
Meal frequency does not matter, read leangains or the warrior diet.
I think its much more satisfying eatin 2 or 3 large meals than 6 tiny ones
Offtopic but maybe fyi
Meal frequency does not matter, read leangains or the warrior diet.
I think its much more satisfying eatin 2 or 3 large meals than 6 tiny ones
There's no topic in the PHYDW section :P It shifts all the time. I'll have to consider that. When I was on it, I was eating 2 bananas 1 apple, 2 PB sandwiches, 3 eggs, 1 serving Whey protein, dinner (no control over that really, random # calories and protein), and 2 bowls of whole milk + cereal (wasn't steel cut oats though, probably should be), 125oz of water and a few servings of V8 veggie juice. I have no idea if this is correct or not but I felt really "on" when I was eating like that. If you have any suggestions to tweak it that'd be cool… I'm very new to working out (minus the one thing I have been doing consistently).
As a skinny beginner, your diet isnt that important. Just eat normal with a little surplus and be sure you get enough protein. On bodybuilding sites, they san 2 or 3 grams per kilogramm bodyweight. But if you do not have the ambition to be a real 120kg sub10 body fat bodybuilder, 1,5-2 are enough.
Your biggest meal should be after your workout. And before you go to sleep, eat some casein.
If you are overweigh, Eat with a calorie deficit, and enough protein and lift. As long as your bodyfat is over ~20 and your deficit is not that big, you should be able to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. Noob gains ^^
If you are skinny-fat, the hardest starting point, you can eat a small deficit and lift. Your progress in the short term is
slow, but in the longterm its okay.
Or like i do it. 2 month bulk, 4 weeks extreme cutting and repeat.
The most important thing as a beginner is progression. Every trainingsession you should do more repetitions, or use more weight.
I had good experiences with 5x5.
As a skinny beginner, your diet isnt that important. Just eat normal with a little surplus and be sure you get enough protein. On bodybuilding sites, they san 2 or 3 grams per kilogramm bodyweight. But if you do not have the ambition to be a real 120kg sub10 body fat bodybuilder, 1,5-2 are enough.
Your biggest meal should be after your workout. And before you go to sleep, eat some casein.
If you are overweigh, Eat with a calorie deficit, and enough protein and lift. As long as your bodyfat is over ~20 and your deficit is not that big, you should be able to lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. Noob gains ^^
If you are skinny-fat, the hardest starting point, you can eat a small deficit and lift. Your progress in the short term is
slow, but in the longterm its okay.Or like i do it. 2 month bulk, 4 weeks extreme cutting and repeat.
The most important thing as a beginner is progression. Every trainingsession you should do more repetitions, or use more weight.
I had good experiences with 5x5.
Alright, yeah I'm from the skinny beginner standpoint. You could launch a (toy) plane off my chest and have a perfect launching point. What I was doing was about 2800+ calories and about 130g protein. I'm 6'2 and last I checked I weigh about 130-135lbs. But, that isn't accounting for dinner which should usually give me a good amount of protein. If not, I can really just try an extra serving of Whey (stuff's priceeeey though). So diet's not that important just gotta make sure I get the protein and calories. Got it. Reason I was worried about calories is I do jog along with my workouts about 3 miles - 6 miles and I like to make up for that.
Never knew about the biggest meal being after workout. Makes sense. I knew a girl named Casein. She was strange. (No I didn't, I am sorry for lying to you)
Yeah I just got back into but for now I am adding something every time I go. I'll try 5x5 after I absorb a lot more info about working out. Right now I'm just doing Starting Strength.
And a major thank you for all the info!
The whole thing about working out is a trial and error thing.
What works for me, maybe does not work for you.
And if you get stronger, heavier but not fatter, you are doing it right.
You shouldnt worry that much about nutrition in the first year.
If you get stronger and gain between 2-4 lbs per month, youre on the right path :D
I got everyone talking about weights and whatnot.
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I got an offer from my University of choice today so I'm SUPER happy.
But it's a really tough offer, so I might well not get in :(
I got an offer from my University of choice today so I'm SUPER happy.
But it's a really tough offer, so I might well not get in :(
I don't know if I'm too late but I'm STILL trying to submit my personal statement
We were told we have 4000 words maximum… and it's 45 LINES maximum, and my statement is ONE LINE over and I can't get rid of anyhting without fucking up my chances so basically I'm doomed
I don't know if I'm too late but I'm STILL trying to submit my personal statement
We were told we have 4000 words maximum… and it's 45 LINES maximum, and my statement is ONE LINE over and I can't get rid of anyhting without fucking up my chances so basically I'm doomed
After years I started to see that uni was surprisingly kind to me. Your studies are hard. Like annoyingly hard.
I don't know if I'm too late but I'm STILL trying to submit my personal statement
We were told we have 4000 words maximum… and it's 45 LINES maximum, and my statement is ONE LINE over and I can't get rid of anyhting without fucking up my chances so basically I'm doomed
I think you made the classic mistake of confusing 4000 characters with 4000 words . . . or something.
Maybe get rid of a line break? I nearly just got rid of all the spacing lines but then I managed to cut it down anyway.
And, uh, when's the deadline?
@Monkey:
**Copy pasted from Facebook
Cyprus was a tiny land filled with more energy than I would have expected before I came. But it was a real place of life and love that deserves more land than it has and has lost. It's dry, rugged, beautiful, and populated by a beautiful people who speak Greek but look like every region that has ever passed the island by. It felt both nothing like home and a bit like home, it's about the size of Connecticut and in a way each distance between cities was like back here. Paphos was Stamford, Limassol was New Haven, Larnaca was New London and Nicosia was Hartford. Familiar in a surprise way!
Chrissie's family was more welcoming and loving even than I ever could have expected, I was an awkward foreigner who could barely communicate with most of them, but they took me in as family, and now I have family halfway across the world. An island on the scary distant words of Europe and Asia that I can feel welcome on. Chrissie's mother was a wonderful lady who had the same homey mothering vibe that my grandmother does, and her father, well boyfriend's fear the girlfriend's father by nature lol but I have been nothing but lucky and blessed to be so welcome by him. He really does care for his little girl, and I feel honored to see that he trusts me to make her happy for all time :). Her brothers are both great guys, Theo gave me a really wonderful goodbye on the phone from his job that I did not expect and made me really touched, and the times me and Chrissie spent with her brother Alexis and his fiance Antonia were some of the most outright fun I had on the trip no question (all without me being able to really talk to either one!). And Myria was like a slice of home, reminding me of my own silly lovable teenage female cousins. A whole cast of cousins and uncles and aunts were there too, most of whom I did not see enough of and look forward to getting to know more on future visits.
I did not get to know Gucci very well though sadly.
I also met Christiana's favorite priest, and what an amazing rarity of a man. Growing up in the US there's a lot of really ugly forms of religion here that easily make my generation throw the baby out with the bathwater in our rejection of it. It didn't help again to recently see multiple talking heads trying to connect the Newtown massacre with the US "rejecting Jesus" or whatever. But this man was…was everything a holy man should be as far as I could see. When he ran across his living room to hug Chrissie like she was a dear friend I was kind of speechless in the best way possible. To use as a nerdy a reference as possible, it was like meeting Yoda or something and I'm not going to forget lighting candles in mountain cave shrines for Saints anytime soon for a variety of reasons. Plus Orthodox Priests really rock those beards and black robes.
The political situation on the island is a really sad story with no winners as far as I could see. The Greeks lost so much, much of which has been literally left to rot unused. And the Turkish Cypriots have lost participation in a real country and the life and success that comes with it, the north I saw was a non-functioning rump state that seemed alternatively angrily jealous and paranoid (Turkish Nicosia) and almost sadly wordlessly wanting to apologize and rejoin the south (Turkish Famagusta). Maybe I imagined that with the latter, but the Turkish Famagusta was a dead city in both areas. The cordoned off abandoned ghost city part obviously, but so too with the populated Turkish part. The absence of the Greeks who used to live with them was very clear, and they seemed aware that this was so. I don't know what will help an acceptable reunion happened, but I do have to give this island credit. I've researched and studied lots of such places with divides like this, from Georgia, Yugoslavia, to the Koreas, and the civility and respect even through the anger I see here is something that should make the whole world humble.
Last and most of all was my cat herself, Chrissie. It never ceases to amaze me how much good she's brought to my life since she entered into it. And getting to understand her and where she comes from allows me to appreciate and love her even more. I want her to know she is a truly amazing person, that she should love herself as fully as she does the people in her life from me down to her little tri-lingual pre-schoolers
S'Agapo Cyprus, S'Agapo ChrissieBONUS:
What little I saw of Germany….how the heck is it possible for ME to feel not white hahaha. Seriously! Also the creepy unspoken Amish silent treatment relationship between the Germans and their immigrants I noticed really made me....corny as this sounds...proud to be an American. We have many kinks to work out in our diverse society, but we are lightyears ahead of that and returning to the insane world in miniature of NYC really allowed me to appreciate that all over again after Munich.
And Greece (which me and Chrissie will visit later this year)...it's easy to sit back and read articles about the Greek economic depression and scoff at that screwy Greece and it's clumsy economy. But the human toll there is horrible considering it's first world. It's NOT a bunch of lazy whiners crying about not being able to retire at 55. It's a Depression with a capital D. I was in Athens, Athens, not some podunk Greek Detroit. Countless stores were shuttered and closed down, there was threatening graffiti everywhere including some that were clearly neo-nazi in origin, the city was littered with tension, sceevy looking dudes, homeless people, and a general atmosphere of decay and anger. It was seriously scary and sad.
Miaoh~ 
Im watching smash cut right now (trash horror)
Its weird to watch a movie starring sasha grey with her clothes on
So like… the off-shore office called and I'm going to work! I'm working for 4 weeks, 84 hour weeks, lowest they can pay me is 9 dollars an hour and then after 40 hours that's automatic overtime. So do that math real quick. 44 of my hours out of each week will be time and a half. For 4 weeks.
Looks like Uncle Kenny is about to get paid.
@Uncle:
Looks like Uncle Kenny is about to get laid.
This is how I first read your sentence.
Is there something wrong with me.
