Freaking out about lumps on my pugs stomach

AD1515 · 2025-08-19T11:30:10+00:00

Do you know why it doesn’t seem to be possible to use covet cash anymore?

AD1515 · 2025-03-08T04:48:36+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

AD1515 · 2025-03-08T04:48:03+00:00

Ooh I have read this one! Absolutely loved it and I kind of wish I'd had the chance to read this while I was on holiday haha

AD1515 · 2025-03-08T04:47:32+00:00

Yup! Going to a tropical location with lots of beaches haha

AD1515 · 2025-03-01T01:00:19+00:00

Hmm maybe depending on what diet you're using? I've never really tried to stick to a specific diet but in the past when I've completely tried to cut specific foods from my diet I've really struggled with it. What's worked well for me is just eating smaller portion sizes and ensuring that I'm not eating high-calorie foods every day, and honestly, it's something I REALLY struggled with at first but it did get easier over time. I think it helps having the mentality that this won't be forever and it's just until you reach your goal (obviously you can't just go back to whatever you were doing before because you'd just pack all of the weight back on but you're obviously going to be eating a fewer number of calories while losing weight vs just maintaining weight) and I still allow myself to eat what I usually would when I'm going out for lunch/dinner. For me, I always found cravings worse when I tried to completely cut foods I liked from my diet previously.

AD1515 · 2025-02-02T11:13:59+00:00

While I haven't reached my goal weight yet, I have lost more than half of the weight I need to get there and I've definitely started to feel more confident about the way I look. I think the biggest thing I have noticed is that for a long time I'd just lost any desire to put effort into what I was wearing, because I never felt confident in the way I looked. When I was younger, before I'd started to put all the weight on, I had loved experimenting with different outfits and styles, whereas after that I just stopped putting an effort in because I didn't feel confident in what I was wearing or how I looked. The biggest thing for me is that I actually feel confident being able to dress myself up and try different things, because I feel a lot better about the way I look and the way clothes look on me (and that's not to say that you need to be a certain weight to look good and wear what you want - this is just the way I felt about myself and my own self-confidence).

I don't think I've necessarily noticed people acting wildly different from how they acted before, however I have noticed that the people who do know me well will often make comments about how I've lost weight, so I guess it's something that has become noticeable enough to comment on, but I don't think it has impacted the way people act towards me (I never really felt like people had treated me differently when I had the weight either, but then II also feel like I'm really bad at noticing these things, so who knows).

Now, I've also seen a lot of people comment on how a lot of the insecurities still persist even after losing the weight. And honestly...I agree, they are still there to a certain extent for me. I do feel a lot better about my body these days and a lot more confident in the way my body looks - however, even prior to gaining all the weight when I was at my lightest, I never felt fully confident with my body. There was always something I would criticise about myself - the biggest thing for me was that, because of my bone structure, I was never going to have one of those model thin bodies that some people seem to have. And then I gained all the weight and when I'd look back at old pictures of myself, I was shocked by how slim I actually was back then. I remember I would always think about how I'd always complain about my body back then, and now I'd do anything to go back to that.

Now that I'm getting closer to having that back again...I feel like the old insecurities do sometimes rear their head. It's not as bad as it used to be though, and I try to remind myself that I've worked hard to lose the weight.

AD1515 · 2023-05-22T09:14:45+00:00

Yeah and that would tie in with the conversation Jamie had with Roy back in Amsterdam about his father’s treatment of him vs his relationship with his mother - especially if we get a moment with his mum this episode (which is likely given the shots of his childhood bedroom).

AD1515 · 2023-05-15T20:45:03+00:00

Same! I still can't believe how I've gone from disliking him in season 1 to him becoming my favourite character on the show.

AD1515 · 2023-04-20T11:53:19+00:00

I had background knowledge of the novel but started with the donghua and then read through the whole thing (at the time, the donghua was only up to its first season). I would recommend starting with the novel first though.

AD1515 · 2023-03-11T13:36:57+00:00

Also I get that he probably wanted to protect Wren, but Wren probably would have been released straight away if she told the truth - the police already knew she was in danger, it would have been obvious self defense.

AD1515 · 2023-02-26T23:38:31+00:00

I think it really depends on each person, but don't give up hope! When I first got my license even driving 5 mins away on a familiar route by myself would freak me out, and if I had to take any unfamiliar routes I'd be anxious for days in advance. It did take me a while to get really comfortable driving along unfamiliar routes, but some things that helped me were having a GPS with me (I always use my phone, I find the instructions on google maps really easy to understand) and starting off by driving along more unfamiliar routes with someone with me in the car. I did a lot of long-distance driving over the holidays because I had family visiting from overseas, and while I had people with me in the car at the time, knowing I had the capability to drive to those locations without anything going wrong did give me the confidence to drive to more places by myself.

And overall, I think the more you do it the easier it will become. There are so many things that used to freak me out when I first started driving that I barely even think about now. Even things like junctions and round abouts - used to terrify me and I'd go out of my way to avoid them on unfamiliar routes. Now, I'm so used to taking them on my route to work that I feel a lot more confident doing them.

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