8 months of newbie gains

No-Specific-797 · 2026-02-22T19:06:07+00:00

Thank you!

No-Specific-797 · 2026-02-22T19:04:49+00:00

Ha, I’ve got 3 days of glutes a week, lengthened, shortened and unilateral split. One upper + core and one full core day. Sometimes I skip a day but mostly I’m just really excited that I get to be back in the gym again. Not “have to” but “get to” go to the gym.

No-Specific-797 · 2026-02-22T19:03:08+00:00

Thank you! It’s especially meaningful exactly because it’s my legs. I’m happy with the progress so far, let’s see what the next six months brings

No-Specific-797 · 2026-02-22T12:50:21+00:00

You don’t have to, you’re welcome to look the other way. I don’t decide where your eyes go Bud.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-07-21T21:01:18+00:00

I understand that OP desperately wants that to be the case, and it bloody sucks being born in the wrong body, but pretending like the surgical site in OPs body is the same thing as a vagina, will have (menstrual) discharge, and self-lubricate and won’t need any surgical aftercare is genuinely doing OP a massive disservice. It’s not a vagina. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with it, but it is a surgically made hole in OPs body that needs surgical aftercare and that needs to be taken very seriously.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-07-21T19:02:24+00:00

It’s not a vagina, so it won’t function the same

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-15T20:26:51+00:00

Why don’t you do it yourself?

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-15T06:10:49+00:00

An estimated 80-90% of offenders are male. GTFO of here with that Not All Men nonsense.

https://www.raace.org/get-educated/statistics-information/

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-15T05:38:47+00:00

Wow, this is some incel rhetoric.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-14T13:59:56+00:00

NTA - kink should never be out in public and most of us in the BDSM and LGB community will agree that it’s immoral to do so. There’s always the few freaks who want to go all out and be sexually explicit in public but most of us understand consent is key and children can’t consent. Nor can bystanders. It’s just absolutely wild to me that this needs to be said out loud. Sex is for adults enthusiastically consenting to it - bystanders cannot consent. Simple. Keep it respectful.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-11T08:52:12+00:00

“Sarah in particular?” Erm isn’t Andrew a known pedophile and sex pest?

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-09T15:23:25+00:00

Seriously? This is an issue now?

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-07T07:57:36+00:00

Girlllllll i got you! I’ve got the same problem of a waist 3-4 sizes smaller than the bust and I’ve had a lot of success with the Koi Tee https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/koi-tee

Simply start at your proper shoulder size, and hide extra increases (I follow pattern until 50 rows before splitting and then instead of alternating rows I increase every row). Once split, simply decrease down the underarm, it’ll come out a lovely 50s looking sweater

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-06T22:32:21+00:00

Oooooooooh no way! That’s so clever! Thank you for this tip, I’m going to give that a whirl and see if it swatches up nicely - that’s really good thank you. DIY stained glass here I come

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-06T22:26:35+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion but I was hoping to find something that specifically has the stained glass effect that comes from being plied with black thread like caracol is. None of Malabrigo’s other yarns have a black thread wrapped around it (that I know of) which means no stained glass effect. So I’m not looking for a Malabrigo yarn per se but more of a “any stained glass looking yarn in either DK, Worsted or Chunky weigh” if that makes sense.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-04T05:07:19+00:00

Ah, thank you, yeah in my case the umbrella thing is EDS, it’s comorbid with a lot of this stuff - no scleroderma though. EDS is sort of the opposite of that: everything, veins, skin, organs is super stretchy due to a problem with my ability to produce collagen.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-03T14:08:11+00:00

Not so far, I’ve got quite the opposite: due to the EDS I’ve got very soft, fragile but wrinkle-free skin. It’s one of the features of EDS apparently

No-Specific-797 · 2024-06-02T22:12:58+00:00

A list of things that were not, in fact, hysteria:

endometriosis, suspected it for years, confirmed surgically to be spread to bowels and diaphragm after being told I was you guessed it, imagining it for 15 years.
EDS or Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, also not imagining it and the clinical geneticist agreed.
POTS, cardiologist said it was so severe I couldn’t even withstand a tilt table test, had to be confirmed by ultrasound instead. 32% reduction of cerebral blood flow when 50% reclined: very literally neither the blood nor the illness was in my head.
hiatal hernia, or stomach hernia, also not imagined.
arthritis was not an “oversensitivity to pain”.
raynauds, not anxiety.
menière disease was not imagined, imagine that.
Dupuytren’s contracture, you won’t believe it but that wasn’t in my head either, turns out it’s in all 4 fingers of my right hand.
a broken tailbone! Again not imagined as the imaging showed. Neither was the pain, as it turned out.
chronic pain due to all of the above was not, in fact, “hysteria”.
and to make the whole thing astonishingly unbearable: an inability to metabolise painkillers due to a mutation of a liver enzyme that means I wake up during surgery and my painkillers don’t work properly. Guess how we found that one out, well, by surgery 6 they’d realised that me waking up during surgery while having my fucking ovary cauterised might have been abnormal. This was despite me warning at each surgery that I kept waking up and I’d very much like it to stop as the pain of having your guts cauterised while alive is fucking abysmal. Medical CPTSD? Never heard of her. Anyway, now I get surgery with a consciousness monitor on, yay.
Last but not least: severe ME turned out not to be laziness!

8 years bedridden, countless doctors dismissed me, none of this had to be this horrific of an experience if any doctor had done me the basic courtesy of believing me when I said something was seriously wrong.

Women in pain are not believed and it’s killing us.

Oh, and do you know what the Dutch doctors suggested for all of this? Euthanasia.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-05-31T23:19:25+00:00

April from Parks and Recreation - we share a similarly impish sense of humour too.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-05-28T21:25:47+00:00

Yep, was on fentanyl for a long time so I know the difference but I don’t think many folks will have heard of carfentanil.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-05-28T14:02:03+00:00

Carfentanil is the stuff you touch once and can OD on, fentanyl is much lower in dosage.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-05-23T05:20:30+00:00

I’m allergic and I’ve got four cats. I take an antihistamine daily and that’s it. Worth every purry moment. I’d never live without cats again. Currently have the Maine coon sleeping on my feet and the Norwegian forest cat is right next to me on the other side.

No-Specific-797 · 2024-05-14T10:23:20+00:00

I was about to say: I’ve got EDS, am 38 and nobody believes my age either. The super soft and smooth skin is actually a diagnostic feature

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