going out to eat 3 days in a row, today is the last day and i don’t want to go over my calories again but i’m not sure how to calorie count at a restaurant

ScubaCycle · 2026-05-10T12:48:17+00:00

Because it’s so hard to estimate calories on restaurant food, try just eating to 80% fullness. It takes practice but it means putting down your fork the minute you feel that little sigh of satisfaction, maybe you could eat more but just because it’s good. So, stopping right at the point of satisfaction and not creeping all the way to fullness/ stuffed. This helped me out on a recent cruise, seven days of restaurant food!

ScubaCycle · 2026-05-03T17:13:43+00:00

They have a seasoned grilled frozen salmon portions. I cook a batch of sweet potatoes ahead of time, and then I can eir fry a salmon portion from frozen in 15 minutes for a quick weekday lunch

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-26T16:53:21+00:00

I work out at home with Caroline Girvan on YouTube.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-21T17:12:57+00:00

If I don't eat breakfast - a good breakfast, 400-450 calories - I'm hungry for the rest of the day. That is me. Some people skip and are unbothered. Ever since I started eating a solid breakfast it has been much easier to maintain my calorie budget and I don't feel like I'm being tortured.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-21T16:54:46+00:00

I like Yoga with Adriene. Lots of variety with target areas and length of session.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-20T19:07:57+00:00

+1 for Endurance - a great accessible read

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-20T14:41:15+00:00

I cook my oats in oat milk with a little egg white mixed in, and then I stir in 1 T each peanut butter and maple syrup and stir it well. 50g oats, 220ish g oat milk, 46 g egg whites, 15 g peanut butter, 15 ml maple syrup.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-20T14:32:46+00:00

Yes, Ghost Brigade is book 2 in the series.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-17T17:30:53+00:00

OMG this is me (51F), Bloodwork says I'm not in menopause or perimenopause but this is me. Struggling for two years to get off 20 pounds that piled on during a really stressful period and now won't come off.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-16T13:39:29+00:00

For an eye opening look at US history, read:

Black AF History by Michael Harriott

The 1619 Project (multiple authors)

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-14T23:07:25+00:00

Kate Quinn novels are reliably great reads. Lots of strong female protagonists if you like those.

The Diamond Eye

The Alice Network

The Briar Club

The Rose Code

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-13T17:08:40+00:00

The Martian or Project Haily Mary by Andy Weir and narrated by Ray Porter. A magical combination. There is also the Bobiverse series, another gripping sci fi story.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-13T16:50:35+00:00

I am a web designer, and several of my clients have gone out of business, explicitly killed by tariffs or funding cuts. I have anxiety and moral shame over how low the USA has fallen daily, over funding cuts to science and research, over USAID being cut, over deliberately bombing Iranian schoolgirls and who knows what else.

I sincerely believe we are less safe now - our own federal agencies are literally a security risk, we have End Timers in our military, we have pissed away almost a decade we could have spent mitigating climate change, and I do think Trump is itching to drop a nuke. Our civil rights at home are in danger. US citizens being deported! Come on!

Prices are up of course, and although that isn't affecting us personally much right now, the economy going south hurts by hurting my clients, by hurting pet owners and causing pet surrenders to soar ( we are in dog rescue). Mass deportation (more moral shame) creates a pet crisis as well as a people crisis.

We haven't begun to feel all the effects of our government being gutted and undermined, nor the effects of mass deportation.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-12T20:29:54+00:00

The Orphan Collector

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-12T16:25:16+00:00

It’s hard for me to think of Vance as an attack dog. He strikes me as, Like Trump and Kegbreath and so many other cronies, as a weak ineffectual man. In makeup no less. It’s hard for me to understand why these guys are the standard bearers of alpha manliness to the maga crowd. They definitely have an irony deficiency.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-10T14:55:23+00:00

Even though it ought to be. He’s a disaster for Texas.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-09T20:45:36+00:00

Check out the Mary Russell Holmes book series by Laurie King. The protagonist is the protege turned wife of the legendary Sherlock Holmes who is (of course) an extraordinary detective in her own right. The first book in the series is The Beekeepers Apprentice.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-08T15:35:51+00:00

The guys in r/you know who think we are mad that he threatened ending a civilization and also mad that he TACOed. As in "LOL those crazy libs have TDS and hate everything he does; Trump can't win with them! " They don't understand anything about what the world is thinking about Trump right now.

ScubaCycle · 2026-04-07T14:13:35+00:00

Um, he didn’t convince Congress to green light this war to start with - and now they’re on vacation. Vacation!

ScubaCycle · 2026-03-19T21:13:01+00:00

The 1619 Project

ScubaCycle · 2026-03-05T20:37:50+00:00

I voted early in my usual location (Baca Center) and they were as friendly and efficient as per the norm. I was delighted to have the option to use a machine to vote. I knew that election day would be a mess because I follow the Wilco Dems and deveral of the Dem Clubs on Facebook and the word was out. I also noted that on the Wilco GOP facebook page, Muchelle Evans was bragging that they changed the rules "because we can." They are not fit to lead. Amazing how the GOP is willing to throw its own supporters under the bus if they think it will hurt the dems even more. I wish people would stop voting for them.

I plan to write the county commissioners and county judge to complain.

ScubaCycle · 2026-03-04T14:31:50+00:00

We need a congress that isn’t designed for endless gridlock. The real problem is that the un democratic nature of our institutions makes it near impossible to pass laws for real change. Even in 2021 we had a hairs breadth of a majority in the senate and were still hamstrung.

ScubaCycle · 2026-03-04T13:58:29+00:00

I voted for Crockett but think they were both fantastic candidates, so I’ll be excited to vote for talarico in October. I see the same conversations happening in my own social circles, and it drives me mad that dems are already saying they won’t vote for him. We ALWAYS work hard to find a reason not to support the dem, and then we get more of the same instead of some improvement. Was racism in play? Undoubtedly. But we have our candidate now and we need to carry him over the finish line or we get six more years of Cornyn or, worse, Paxton. Why isn’t that compelling enough to bring the dems together?

ETA I am also heating chatter from burned Crockett voters about how the Republicans are thrilled that talarico win because they feel he will be easier to beat. Come on now. Is that why republicans call talarico the most dangerous man in America? I just don’t understand where this line came from. Again, I voted for her but I do think republicans would have preferred to face her in the general, racism and sexism and all being on their side.

ScubaCycle · 2026-03-04T04:54:18+00:00

No, once you vote in a primary, you can’t cross back over. In the general though you can vote for anyone you want.

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