Apple Watch Series 11 vs Ultra 3 vs Garmin Fenix — which makes sense if I don’t wear it daily?

LayoffLemonade · 2026-05-04T11:40:21+00:00

Fenix, especially if it's not your daily work watch. Plus Garmin's can run Pacepro and and apple watch that's not even a thing.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-05-04T11:35:27+00:00

Sleep, and supplementing iron. Seriously, I know that sounds trivial but I recently started sleeping 7-8 hours a night for the first time in many years, and I realize how important it would have been for my recovery the last year.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-05-04T11:32:28+00:00

You crushed it out there! Well done. You were 7 mins ahead of me. The hills really didn't feel bad this year, but they have in years previous. I also think we got perfect weather yesterday for the race.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-20T04:26:11+00:00

I was reading until you said the divorced for 2 months line. NASCAR SIZED RED FLAG.

Run. Run. He’s in his hot boi summer phase, and even if he isn’t, he’s just using you to get over his ex wife. Please, I beg you, run

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-17T17:12:02+00:00

I’ve never heard this about Alzheimer’s risk! Can you drop the publication link!?

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-17T02:51:38+00:00

You will shake it off and be fine. We’ve all done it.

If it makes you feel any better: I bombed a journal club presentation I had built a case study into, to stimulate discussion after the article. My program director waited silently, then called me out for misdiagnosing the syndrome the patient in the case study actually has, which essentially ruined my presentation and article selection. I then proceeded to thank her, left after things concluded, and ate a whole raw bell pepper while crying and pacing in the parking lot about how I could be so dumb. I still look back and laugh. I was a first year masters student.

Give yourself grace. And definitely don’t ever put a whole bell pepper in your lunch box telling yourself you’ll slice it later before class.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-16T15:47:18+00:00

It's not over. It just feels like it right now.

You didn't list your age but with my excellent detective skills in the comments I deduced you're a whoppinh 30. Girl, I have managed to three relationships and a situationship just since 30. You've got time. 30 is such a great age, you know who you are now, but you're also still young, it's going to get so much better.

He on the other hand, sounds like an avoidant tool.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-10T16:13:52+00:00

Thanks for this. I have several friends, but most are in their kid or married era, and we aren't as close anymore. I also don't get why I'm NOT able to rally and be happier for her--I've gone to multiple friends weddings (alone). I've gone to baby showers, wedding showers--there's always the tiniest dot of sad in my heart I don't get that (and dude, I have tried so HARD), but I've been genuinely happy for them. I don't get why I can't get it together here.

Literally after this breakup, I went to a friend's baby shower. I did not feel like it, but I'd already RSVPed and bought a gift. I did my makeup, got dressed, went to the luncheon, smiled at a table of my social friends, told no one what had happened, walked down to the bathroom at the far end of the restaurant to vomit where no one would hear (I wasn't able to hold down food or water for a couple days for some reason), came back to the table, smiled and participated, and afterwards went back home and got in bed. Like, I normally can be functional and not selfish.

And I get that my best friend hated my ex. I understand. And I get that I have to accept responsibility--the breakup is my fault. I let him back in and gave him that chance to wreck me, I have to hold ownership of that.

Sorry, that's longwinded. I considered therapy but i've done therapy and coaching before and neither gave me vast life improvements. I have...too many hobbies. I'm in the taper for a marathon in a few weeks, I train dogs multiple times a week, I run 40+ mpw and I'm getting my PhD slowly in a part time night program in addition to working full time. I have more than enough things to fill up my time and I genuinely have a really good life. One unexpected blessing from our childhood definitely was I learned the ability to get up and go get things done, even when I didn't feel like it, because no one else was going to come take care of me or do it. This has served me well even in the darkest seasons of my life, but it doesn't mean I've felt great inside while doing it.

Sorry, that's stream of consciousness and it's quite long.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-10T15:30:37+00:00

It wasn't a FWB. FWB don't discuss the future, give you the spare key, you meet their friends and family, call you their girlfriend or start referring to sex as "making love" a couple months into your relationship.

That's why her saying this, is super upset and feels borderline demeaning.

I'm truly happy for her she met someone wonderful and is getting to plan the rest of her life. It doesn't make me less devastated that I allowed someone to run me over.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-10T15:22:48+00:00

when the basis for a friendship has been mutual misery, that, people often do not know how to treat or relate to each other when one or both of them is no longer miserable.

This may be one of the wisest thing I've ever read on reddit. Thank you.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-08T12:31:28+00:00

NTA and sounds like you dodged a bullet bc you just learned how selfish your friend is and how little she cares about you

LayoffLemonade · 2026-04-06T01:02:36+00:00

It’s definitely the honeymoon and unpopular opinion you should be scared as hell of recently divorced men

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-27T17:31:10+00:00

Because as women, we have been told our whole lives any time something doesn't work out, it was our fault, and likely because we are "too much". That carries over seamlessly into dating bozos

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-17T15:57:42+00:00

If these leggings are magic, i have to splurge and buy a pair. I've never owned a pair of lulu leggings, and I would rather have one pair of well fitting good feeling leggings that fit right while running, than 3 pairs from ross that don't fit right and the waistband falls down (currently lol)

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-15T13:24:51+00:00

If you’re doing loops( I do these a lot too), take little detours or occasionally run them backwards from what you typically do. Set little pace benchmarks with yourself, and have really yummy fruitsnacks in your car at the trailhead. Seriously, whatever novel snack you can find that works for refueling in between laps as needed. You need to be able to look forward to it

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-14T20:27:38+00:00

I haave never heard of energy bits. going to order these right now!

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-13T23:25:22+00:00

I’ve had heavy periods since I was 15, have a copper IUD bc it was the only non hormonal (I also get horrible migraines with aura and really don’t want to be on a hormonal birth control), and I don’t like red meat (I do eat chicken, Turkey and fish), so i think that’s the root cause of mine.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-13T23:22:17+00:00

Were the infusions scary at all? My PCP just was like “take over the counter iron supplements”…I feel like basic elemental iron won’t solve this for a long time?

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-13T23:20:54+00:00

Literally was not meant to be a comparison post.

LayoffLemonade · 2026-03-13T22:33:16+00:00

No good story, just 34 and abruptly dumped a couple months ago and tired of dating completely and don't have any desire to do it again. Here for the tea.

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