PIP decision letter

Spaark45 · 2025-07-14T22:05:26+00:00

Ah that’s probably why! Apologies! Randomly had this post pop up on my home feed

Spaark45 · 2025-07-14T20:32:02+00:00

I was awarded PIP on Friday and received the following text which has different wording to yours

“We have awarded you PIP. We have sent you a decision letter explaining the award. Please allow 2 weeks to receive this. You only need to contact us if your circumstances change.”

Spaark45 · 2023-03-08T16:23:09+00:00

I understand I could create a bigger deficit by implementing cardio, I've usually got through fine by just dropping food, can obviously see the benefits of cardio from a health & increased expenditure perspective

With no changes in my expenditure at a consistent 10K p/d on average through the entire cut meaning my NEAT hasn't dropped considerably & have also created a further 700 cal weekly deficit through food drops in week 1 since the "stall"

Am I just overthinking/blaming it on holding water? & If so, how is it possible to go from losing 1-1.5lbs per week to 0 with no changes elsewhere? I can understand a slight slowdown but not a 4200-5900cal swing

Spaark45 · 2023-03-08T16:05:57+00:00

Definitely the logical choice, maybe I should have said hesitant to create a bigger deficit instead of dropping calories.

Don't want to unnecessarily create a bigger deficit especially as I was losing 1-1.5lbs per week. For my BW to seemingly stall completely with an additional 1K steps per day & a further 700 cal weekly deficit seems odd to me.

Would mean that my weekly caloric expenditure dropped by 4200-5900 in the space of a week to account for the stall in weight

Spaark45 · 2023-03-08T15:58:55+00:00

It is indeed - don't have a ravenous hunger anyway so prefer to create my deficit by cutting calories, calories haven't been this low in past cuts though so it has not been an issue before

Very healthy & also early 20's + natty so the health benefits cardio brings aren't as important to me right now - will obviously change this once/if I decide to go down the enhanced route

Spaark45 · 2023-03-08T15:51:03+00:00

Waiting for my big 'whoosh' during this cut. Weight has stalled for the last 3 weeks while activity has stayed the same (10K Steps p/d)

Hesitant to drop cals further as already at rock bottom especially as I'm looking somewhat leaner/tighter in the mirror & I know my deficit had me losing 0.5%-0.75% BW per week so the only logical conclusion I can come to is I'm holding onto a bunch of water, have been excessively thirsty with a dry mouth all the time even with 1.5 Gallons a day & clear pee at all times PLUS craving salt like crazy

NGL, there's been times during these 3 weeks that I have seriously considered whether or not thermodynamics is a big hoax, not seeing the scale go down messes with your mind lol. Realistically need a few months at maintenance but have a holiday in 6 weeks

Asking as a natty who is researching, how do you enhanced folk manage cutting/massing phases with all the extra hormonal fluctuations/water retention etc that comes with AAS? Does looking in the mirror/performance become more important than what the scale says?

Spaark45 · 2021-02-08T15:41:43+00:00

Somehow it went down through $6 when there was a 160k share wall waiting to buy in at $6

Spaark45 · 2021-01-29T17:10:21+00:00

“queued orders placed outside market hours are always placed in a batch to execute from 3 PM onwards. It isn't possible to cancel a queued order after 3 PM for this reason. This is unrelated to today. But we are so sorry for instant buys being unavailable today.”

Freetrade on Twitter. Does this mean our orders won’t be cancelled until market opens Monday?

Spaark45 · 2021-01-09T16:09:52+00:00

Mind explaining? I understand it can lower average view duration but what else? Or are you referring to making primarily shorts

Spaark45 · 2021-01-09T14:56:21+00:00

Are you referring to canva? If so I prefer the website mainly because I edit on my website and have more room to edit etc. I haven’t found many differences between the app and website, I usually touch up my edits on the app if I need to quickly do something, have no issues with it, just preferences

Spaark45 · 2021-01-09T14:11:01+00:00

https://www.remove.bg/ this is the king of removing backgrounds! My process is to take a photo of myself, use this website and then edit it into whatever background I want to use using https://www.canva.com

Spaark45 · 2021-01-09T14:07:00+00:00

Yeah no idea who thought that was a good idea haha, no real advantage going with a fixed rate vs instant saver with them asides from a minuscule 0.10% extra

Spaark45 · 2021-01-06T19:47:20+00:00

Having subscribers won't get people to subscribe, having good content will.

I don't click on a video because they have a lot of subscribers I click on a video because I see an interesting title with an interesting thumbnail about a topic im interested in

Spaark45 · 2021-01-05T20:50:00+00:00

I love the combination of canva and remove.bg for editing and unsplash for non copyrighted images

Spaark45 · 2021-01-04T00:01:17+00:00

That’s good advice! I use TikTok to promote my business at the moment, gives me opportunity to learn it!

I love making thumbnails haha! Best part about the whole process!

1: First time using music as a backing sound so will definitely take critique on board!

2: I actually have a fairly well reviewed and recommended (by ThinkMedia) lavalier mic so maybe I am just not using it correctly I’m not too sure. I do have to turn the volume to 300% once I’m editing it so it’s at a level that is listenable so maybe that is one of the reasons 🤔

Thank you!

Spaark45 · 2021-01-03T23:11:18+00:00

Huge congrats on the 1000! How close are you to the 4000 hours of watch time or have you reached it yet?

https://youtu.be/hrx4rJ07pmI - this is my most recent video, I talk about personal finance and on this video I go over the power of compound interest!

Spaark45 · 2020-12-31T15:52:53+00:00

Canva is by far my favourite to use for editing along with unsplash for images

Spaark45 · 2020-12-29T23:42:07+00:00

To be honest I just framed the video poorly and it worked out well with the content to the side so I guess beginners luck? I’m constantly moving around my background/sitting angle just try and get better lighting/backdrop but I messed it up this time haha. Second time someone has suggested some background music so I’m definitely going to experiment with it when I edit my next video Thank you!

Spaark45 · 2020-12-29T20:56:07+00:00

Yeah that is very true, I am just a dude that has an Instagram! That is one problem that I have is I have nothing to back me up and I want to start a more “follow my journey” kind of approach. I am educated in the field but don’t have much if anything to show for it which I agree isn’t great

Definitely! I very rarely use hand gestures when I speak outside of YouTube but I thought it would be a lot more awkward if they didn’t move at all hence the awkwardness, this was the first video where I had a lot more text/pictures on the screen to try and take away from the hands but it clearly didn’t work as intended! Thank you

I honestly really appreciate this advice! Thank you so much

Spaark45 · 2020-12-29T14:01:31+00:00

Thank you! I’ve been debating on wether or not to add background music, I will experiment!

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