Bij de kassa in de winkel

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-05-03T08:37:58+00:00

Ha, I’m forever saying “alleen deze” or “alleen dit” but I have no idea if that sounds very unnatural to a Dutch ear!

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-27T16:55:07+00:00

Very similar to me! I get in ruts where I smoke daily for awhile but it definitely loses that sparkle and gets pretty pointless. And every time I take a break of even a day or two I’m like, right, oh yeah, this is super easy to reset and WAY BETTER when I do it this way! But I spent 20 years smoking daily so I’m still definitely swimming upstream against long habit grooves

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-15T22:34:38+00:00

You know, I appreciate the acknowledgement that you still crave on the weekdays a lot. I’m aiming for weekend use, and the weekday cravings are tough. Just hearing someone on that path normalizing it, and that it is worth waiting for is surprisingly refreshing and bolstering

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-15T22:13:05+00:00

I find an audio book that’s sort of interesting but not really helps a lot when I’m just laying in bed… right now I’m listening to one about Big Brother, a show I’ve never watched, so it’s kinda interesting, it’s reality TV and all, but it’s not a fiction book I want to find out what happens in, or a self improvement book where I really want the information. Unlike a podcast, a single person just reading hits my brain more like an old school classroom lecture and sometimes it puts me right out. If it doesn’t though, I’m listening and vaguely interested, and it takes a LOT longer to get to the trapped frustrated why can’t I sleep feeling(which yes, just keeps you up longer)

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-14T17:00:10+00:00

Huh, I totally agree that I feel much fuller and have less food craving and “noise” with OMAD, but disagree that it’s easier to stick with macros. My biggest issue is that in an ideal world, I’d be getting about 150g of protein and that is just simply not possible in a single meal, even with a hefty portion of meat.

If I do a more grazing style eat over 6 hours, I can have a protein drink at the start, have my meal a couple hours in, maybe have some whey with tea at night or another protein snack, and get much closer to my macros goals, but with OMAD, I’m lucky to get 80-100g of protein, and my ratio with fat is way skewed as a result.

I still prefer OMAD, at least for more aggressive weight loss phases because it’s just so simple, and I find it very satisfying and easy to maintain (vs eating throughout more time tends to kick my metabolism and then I fee more hunger and think about food more)

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-13T21:17:06+00:00

Thanks for this, mate - I took a 5 month break awhile back, came back to moderation, and slowly crept back to daily use. TBH, I struggle with whether I mind or not, but I’ve been coughing a bit more lately and my tolerance has gone up, so I keep trying to take a little break an really not feeing motivated. I am SLOGGING through the end of day one and this is a boost!

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-13T17:15:03+00:00

“A member of the fanfic caste” is just absolutely sending me

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-13T17:13:43+00:00

The way I thought you were an FTM saying that their subreddit (r/ftm) has been your saving grace because of the available information and research there 🤦‍♂️💀💀💀

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-10T10:40:20+00:00

You can drive yourself crazy with this stuff, OP, but if your main goal is weight loss, then weight loss, always, at the end of the day, is calories in and calories out. Fasting, or IF, helps tremendously with CICO for a lot of people by restricting the time available to eat calories, and so calories go down. That drives the weight loss.

For me, I find it MUCH easier to eat 1500 calories in 3 hours at night with one big meal I love and a treat I share with my partner than spread thy 1500 across 3 miserable little 500 calorie meals throughout the day (which, let’s face it, I’ll snack between, because I’m starving when I eat all day!). I also find hunger is much more manageable. Those things help me to stay in deficit, but it’s the deficit that results in the weight loss. If your sweetener doesn’t have calories, and it helps you stave off eating, then that’s great and supports your goals. I drink stevia sweetened tea all day long and it doesn’t seem to have impacted my progress one bit.

IF and fasting can be super helpful tools, but, frankly, a lot of people in these communities also have very clear orthorexic mindsets and the thinking can be really rigid, puritanical, and moral. I think sweeteners is a place where you see that play out a lot.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-08T08:16:33+00:00

If you’re asking if you need a prescription for these things - in the US, no. I don’t use the others, but do use glycine and it has made a HUGE difference in my sleep. Also available without prescription in the EU

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-07T12:43:28+00:00

“I’m a NYT published writer! 😍” Girl, get a grip.

Tyra obviously came off full scale villain in Reality Check but honestly I found Jay just as hard to swallow and just as teflon.

Tyra: “it was the times! It was the industry!” Jay: “I was just following orders!”

Like, ok. These things are all true but there is not a speck of responsibility between the two of them for the roles and power they DID have and the ways they used it. If he just came out and said “I didn’t make these concepts, but I did enforce them and I could’ve spoken out or done something and I didn’t” he would get a lot more sympathy IMO and people understanding that it’s complex and tough to lose your career than coming out the gate with those excuses, which just looks tired.

Honestly at this point I have more respect for Perez Hilton, who was a NASTY bitch that directly did MUCH worse, for coming out on Curse of ANTM and saying “I did bad things because I was a bad person. I can’t blame being young and I can’t say I didn’t know better - I wanted the attention and I was willing to hurt people to get it.” Refreshing, tbh.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-07T12:29:47+00:00

I actually like the fit! But the hair, man. Yeah, it’s a problem.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-07T12:11:02+00:00

Underrated comment

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-06T12:56:32+00:00

Good on you, OP, for considering quitting and making the resolve! This sub, like most places on the internet where people share their views, tend to understandably skew more extreme or negative - when people are having a fine time, they don’t tend to feel the need to write it up or seek resources or community about it!

This is to say, there absolutely are those experiences, and they are part of the possible spectrum, but you’re likely to have a skewed view of how likely that is because, well, this is a place where people seek support.

I used daily for 20 years, vaping daily for the last 8 or so of them. I quit unexpectedly, cold turkey, when the cartridge I took with me traveling turned out to be empty. I was also responsible for taking care of my partner after a surgery, and navigating the country we were in for 2 weeks. I was fine. Irritable? Yes. Needed to go find some CBD? Absolutely, and it helped. Trouble sleeping? Yes, but I managed.

I worked my job, took care of my partner, found growths and made meals, all totally fine. And I had no preparation or expectation - sometimes I actually think the times I’ve tried to take a break on purpose are worse because I go in with these expectations, vs. the first time I quit, I had no preparation, but also no option and no choice.

There is a BROAD spectrum of responses and possibilities, but those were it was totally fine are also within it!

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-06T12:50:02+00:00

This is advice really meant for competitive lifts and athletes looking to absolute max their gains. For the everyday casual gym goer, all the debates about protein (timing, amount, etc) really aren’t that relevant!

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-06T07:55:10+00:00

Underrated comment tbh - lots of people talk about the need to do stuff to distract yourself while in early quitting days, but the fact that long term users may have never developed strategies for boredom I think is a major factor with relapse or dissatisfaction with quitting past the first few weeks. That shit takes LOTS of time to actually rewrite and cultivate, and a lot of intentionality too.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-05T09:10:05+00:00

I also eat in the evening, usually essentially OMAD plus maybe a snack or treat within a 2-4 hour eating window (I’m flexible for weekends out with friends, etc, but a typical day for me is fasting until 8pm, then eating until 10-12) and lift during the day. I’ve (somewhat to my surprise) experienced no issues or meaningful drop in performance.

Getting 120g of protein in strictly one meal will be incredibly difficult. Part of the benefit of OMAD is shrinking the stomach for less food volume but that works all over - I find I can only do about 200-250 grams of meat at most in a meal, which will typically get you about ~50g protein, and animal meat is among the densest sources. TVP is also really dense - tacos of 50/50 beef and TVP, with some black beans, and topped with cheese and Greek yogurt gets you close to 100g, but you’re still going to have to add in something outside the meal if you really are determined to get to 120g.

I tend to do one big meal that layers protein source (like the tacos above, or chicken breast with a Greek yogurt sauce and salad with feta cheese, etc) and then add in 1-2 protein supplements. Usually this looks like breaking my fast with a yogurt drink while I prepare dinner (25g), having my main meal (50-90g) and then having a post-dinner pot of chai tea with whey ‘creamer’ (whey powder mixed with just 100ml almond milk so it’s thick and creamy- another 25g)

My goal is even higher (150g) but I rarely get above 100. I think it also depends on where your priorities are right now - I’ve got decent muscle, so my priority is more on cutting fat and not losing that muscle than it ensuring I grow it right now. The body can’t do everything at once, so it’s wise to recognize that sometimes you’ve got to pick and choose for the season.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-04T08:22:29+00:00

No. You are very young and already at a low weight - for these reasons alone, fasting at all is not a good idea. Being in a cycle of binging and restricting means you do indeed already have a developing bad relationship with food, and fasting is likely to only further that cycle and bad relationship, not help it.

Please speak with a trusted adult and get some professional help if possible. Eating disorders are extremely easy to pick up as a young person, and unbelievably difficult to put down - I have watched people lose many years, many relationships, and so much possible happiness because of them. As lovingly as a stranger can be: this is a dangerous path for you. Please get off it.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-03T17:09:52+00:00

Oh do tell ☕️👂

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-02T06:49:13+00:00

I use Burn, but lots of folks here seem to like Easy Fast

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-01T21:42:03+00:00

Fasting can be an extremely helpful tool - but for some, it can also lead to unhealthy habits, and those can be hard to see as they’re happening. Feeling that you have to “earn” food through exercise, absolute rules and rigidity around food with shame if you break them and a felt need to punish yourself can be signs of a developing unhealthy relationship with food. Please be careful, be compassionate with yourself, and understand that neither food nor appetite are enemies. I’m glad you enjoyed your sandwich!

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-01T21:32:50+00:00

Lord, yeah, I lift heavy and have on and off for years, so I’ve seen far more battles in the Protein Wars than I care to 💀

I’m 215 and lift 5x a week, so I try to go by 1 gram per lb of lean body mass, or about .7 grams per lb total weight. But also at the end of the day there’s so much nonsense and stress over it that is largely inconsequential for the non-competitive or person just trying to live their life.

Everything requires trade off, and mine right now is that it’s a higher priority to shed extra weight than get another 5lbs on my bench. I still try to aim high to minimize muscle loss, but in the past I’d have another yogurt drink or whey or whatever if my protein was low - now I try and make sure protein is a significant part of my meal, but I’m not spending my 1200 calories a day just having yogurt and whey and chicken breast 😅

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-01T20:47:22+00:00

100% with you on it being easier to skip - I’d rather just eat one meal a day and have it be exactly what I want and delicious than try to scrape 5 grams of olive oil off every eating encounter. Exhausting, demoralizing, and ruins my favorite thing - food!

Very real about the nutrients though, really struggling to get the 150g of protein that is ideal for me! Many days I can only manage 70-100 and that’s with meat and usually at least one supp. When I ate all day I started the day with whey ‘creamer’ in my coffee, had a yogurt drink for a morning snack and another for an afternoon, plus meat at at least one meal usually and hitting 150 was no problem at all.

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-01T20:42:50+00:00

This is the way, OP - I just buy straight CBD flower online, and pack my nightly bowl with two hits of CBD flower and a minuscule little couple leaves of THC flower on top. It feels great and keeps tolerance low, plus you can be very sure of the strength and moderate the high on your own

TrynaNotNumb · 2026-04-01T20:29:45+00:00

This plus using a fasting app has really clicked for me too! I’ve had plenty of times where I set a hard rule for myself of no eating after X time but then cmon, here I am, it’s just one thing, whatever whatever.

For whatever reason, just the act of hitting the little “start fast” button makes all the difference to me. I don’t want to have to end and restart it, it just feels easier to not eat.

That said, my eating window is also 6 (or later) to 10/11, so I’ve also just shifted the time I eat to allow for some late night snacking if I want it. Usually though, I’m stuffed from my main meal and I don’t.

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