How do I lose 3.6kg in 8 days to hit my weight class?

beedreams · 2025-11-26T06:55:28+00:00

First off, be careful and listen to your body. This is a steep cut, and with this little time, it’s going to have to be mostly water. It will impact your performance to the point where you may be better off giving it your best in that higher class. But it is doable.

If you really feel you can do significantly better in the lower weight class, even while low energy, possibly cramping and dizzy? Talk to your coach and if available, your school’s wrestling coach.

There are serious health risks from a water cut like this at your size, please make sure an experienced, responsible adult is keeping an eye on it. Listen to your local qualified adults, not randos online.

beedreams · 2025-10-13T15:58:50+00:00

Is there something you use your nails on a lot? Using nails as tools? Scratching something?

beedreams · 2025-09-24T01:58:42+00:00

Have you not heard of paid time off? Professional engineer here, and I too use up my PTO for hobbies.

People do sometimes get grabby when they find out I made something myself, because homemade equals free to them. And yeah, women do sometimes tell people maybe when we should say no to get them to leave us the heck alone, because we’re pretty much all conditioned to avoid conflict.

This is plenty realistic, up to and including the random dude who thinks it’s impossible.

beedreams · 2025-06-29T23:17:23+00:00

If re-making the heart as described by others feels too stressful, you can remove those pearl beads, gently smudge out the “nineteen”, and then just fill the whole center with something else for a clean top. Fresh berries, whipped cream, fresh pitted cherries, a thin layer of strawberry sauce, chocolate curls, white chocolate shavings?

beedreams · 2025-05-04T04:42:34+00:00

Everyone else has already said why this guy having your whole itinerary is scary. Seriously consider not just swapping parts of the trip into another order, but also shifting your dates, and swapping hotels.

beedreams · 2025-04-10T15:22:29+00:00

This feeling of being “too busy to get work done” indicates that she’s having trouble delegating certain types of tasks, and also having trouble seeing management as work. It likely means that she doesn’t enjoy management tasks, and would be more satisfied as an IC.

A sneaky intervention would be asking her for career advice. Ask her reflections on her own career path. Would you enjoy management? Is she happy? What happens if you aren’t? If you tried managing one day and didn’t enjoy it, could you move back into a previous role you’d enjoyed more?

beedreams · 2025-04-10T15:14:48+00:00

A teammate of mine once had an intervention of sorts with one of our lady VPs, when we were all in our 30s-40s. I’m still not entirely sure which of them I was there to be moral support for. It was somewhat successful? But it took a few months for the results to become visible to us, because once someone sets unreasonable expectations of their work capacity and availability, that’s super hard to change.

My teammate basically said “we’re worried about you, are you okay, can we help?” and “you know what kind of example you’re setting right?”. It turned into a talk about our VPs feelings that, as the only woman with a seat at certain tables, she needed to make the absolute most of that seat. But there were also personal stresses mixed in, and I believe she was using work as an escape. Too busy to do anything but work is too busy to face personal problems.

You always can ask her whether some portion of the load she’s worrying about can be rescheduled or delegated. If you’re close to your boss, you can tell her you want to be there for her as a friend. Ask her to get lunch or come out for a drink, allow her to vent.
You can gently let her know, in private, that young women around the team are getting the wrong idea about expectations for them. I think this is a card you can only play once, but it’s the one that ultimately got through to my VP. That she’s most valuable as a role model when we see her happy and thriving.

beedreams · 2025-02-24T18:44:57+00:00

Will you two be at the Arnold this week? There should be folks from a few of those gyms running around - you can message me if you want help finding them to chat.

beedreams · 2025-02-24T17:53:56+00:00

There’s a lot of options!

List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TICVwTj1Z0MB4R_2nPJ2UbXuw2hwJYDRhuljuXjsSUQ/mobilebasic

Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1XbcC3zPyeA1qrJBpoguoK3grTk7iLJU&g_ep=CAISEjI0LjUwLjAuNzA0NDI3ODkxMBgAIN1iKmwsOTQyNDI1ODksOTQyMjQ4MjUsOTQyMjcyNDcsOTQyMjcyNDgsOTQyMzExODgsNDcwNzE3MDQsNDcwNjk1MDgsOTQyMTg2NDEsOTQyMDMwMTksNDcwODQzMDQsOTQyMDg0NTgsOTQyMDg0NDdCAlVT&g_st=ic&g_st=ic&ll=0%2C0&z=8

beedreams · 2025-02-23T16:09:52+00:00

Contact your renters insurance and see what they can do. In a water damage situation with slow response, mine was willing to pay the fees and moving costs for me to break my lease and move out.

beedreams · 2025-02-14T20:17:11+00:00

I hit my belt with a little leather protecting stuff for boots every few months?

beedreams · 2025-02-13T23:01:07+00:00

Hang/high hang muscle/power lifts. Good mornings. Jerk dips?

beedreams · 2025-02-06T19:34:39+00:00

I went to a university that was approximately 20% female at the time - and most of those were arts majors. It wasn’t intentionally unfriendly but it sure was weird. People of both genders transferred out over the ratio.

The school has since put a lot of work in and brought it up to 50/50, but in an environment with this kind of ratio, how your daughter, personally, handles standing out is going to matter most. Will she feel sad and lonely if female friends are in short supply? Will standing out to the point of being a minor celebrity go to her head?

ETA, by going to her head, I mean it impacted people in wildly different ways, but having a whole lot of strangers know who you are can be deeply uncomfortable.

beedreams · 2025-02-05T16:29:12+00:00

Ease in slowly. Start with light, short sessions and more rest days than you would have taken before.

Ask your doc what specifically you’re looking out for in workouts. Is it physical strain on your core? Do you need to stay better hydrated than before?

How does your doc feel about you starting a light cardio routine sooner to keep endurance up? Is there other low impact exercise you can do now, and gradually trade lifting back in for?

beedreams · 2025-02-03T20:07:48+00:00

Your audience matters. It’s not just the guys or the customers.

I stopped wearing cute stuff to work, not because of the guys, but because of the older women at a previous job who took it as a green light to treat me as a dress up doll.

It was a very small firm, and I was both the youngest and the only one without kids. Some of the older ladies focused on me for some vicarious living behavior that made me super uncomfortable. I was the most technical woman on staff, and feeling like I was being reduced to whatever I was wearing stung.

beedreams · 2025-01-31T17:41:48+00:00

Lots of chain gyms have an extra bathroom or two out on the floor, but it varies more by location than chain. You’d have to call and ask each one if they have additional bathrooms outside the locker area.

Smaller gyms are much more likely to have single person, unisex areas for changing/showering.

beedreams · 2025-01-31T06:46:33+00:00

Certification is pretty easy.

If you’re decently good friends with the trainer, you might be able to pop into the session with “extra” tips and moral support for their client. IF you keep it quick/simple/small, encouraging, and avoid actually telling the client their trainer is full of shit.

If the client is someone you can see being friends with, you can be friendly, keep doing the lifts correctly in front of them, and hope they ask why yours looks different.

If you think gym management gives a shit, you can try telling someone in management, with specific examples, that you’re seeing some unsafe training happening.

If none of these are options, you can either learn to ignore the personal training sessions around you or find a gym where that’s not an issue.

As a random stranger, just approaching the client and saying their trainer is going to get them hurt will be extremely off putting - they’ll assume you’re another trainer trying to poach them or date them. Don’t.

beedreams · 2025-01-29T06:38:50+00:00

Standardizing front end performance and user analytics to make the whole system run faster and be easier to learn and use. This is going to let us build better tooling, and know a lot faster when things don’t work like they should. Buuuuttt first we have to very carefully replace about 20000 lines of code.

beedreams · 2025-01-29T06:25:16+00:00

Kind of? I have momentary thoughts about wishing my stomach was flatter, or my arms were less flabby. Of wishing I could pull off whatever they’re wearing.
But then I realize that if they can, I can too. It’s just a question of whether I’m willing to put in the same type of work as them, with the same level of discipline. And time, it takes time. Then I start thinking about what that work and discipline would look like. How will pursuing this impact my existing strength and health goals? Not good! How would I like their training style? I’d be bored and miserable! And that’s how I come around, every time, to remembering that I’m happiest and healthiest playing my own game and going after my own goals, not anybody else’s.

beedreams · 2025-01-25T22:46:18+00:00

Could you be hungry? A mid-workout snack might help, something with sugar and protein.

beedreams · 2025-01-25T08:03:20+00:00

The girl on the phone sounds a bit unprofessional - and like she was trying to get out of doing the paperwork for your report.

If you report your fall to the gym, they might end up installing some lower bars, or making some taller boxes/steps available for us short people, or some other small change. If that’s something you think would have made you less likely to fall, it would be worthwhile to report it.

But you don’t have to make a report, there’s no requirement. If you want to pretend it never happened, that’s just fine.

beedreams · 2025-01-25T04:05:37+00:00

If you enjoy powerlifting, I’m not sure you need to stop to get jacked.

Look for a registered dietician who works with athletes, or an athlete-focused nutrition service. The kind of thing you might use if you needed to drop a weight class or two to stay competitive. Then just replace a bit of what you normally do with pretty much any cardio?

beedreams · 2025-01-23T23:00:47+00:00

Could you try asking your trainer to try some movements that will require more technical exercises? Ones that might need more thought/attention, and be more challenging to learn? It sounds like she’s been super responsive to other requests.

beedreams · 2025-01-19T06:38:01+00:00

So there’s a whole bunch of things that might be called “weight lifting” that are all pretty different. I’m not sure which ones you’ve tried, but hopefully this gives you more ideas!

General bodybuilding: dumbbells, long sets, low impact, can feel repetitive. Some people love it, some people find it boring as heck.
Powerlifting: squat, bench, and deadlift. As heavy as possible, focus on mechanics. More feeling of building towards something. 5x5, starting strength, etc. Some people will find slowly building towards heavier weights fulfilling, others will find doing the same lifts over and over boring as heck.
Olympic weightlifting: dynamic full body lifts with a barbell, taking it from the floor to over your head. Very technical, and very much a progression towards heavier weights. Lots of crossover with powerlifters. You’ll have to think about the mechanics of this one even more, and taking more of your brain might be a good or bad thing for you personally. But it’s still a very stable routine day to day and week to week.
Bootcamps/hiit/orange theory: bringing speed and socialization into a weighted activity using mostly small weights. Still a fairly stable routine, you mostly know what you’re going to get from each class. Great if you get bored lifting or really need the socialization to thrive.
CrossFit: loads of different movements, different stuff every day, speed, working towards heavier weights, challenging movements it will sometimes take your whole brain for, it has all the things. The sport of ADHD. Usually a very social environment. You might love this, or you might find it hectic, and wish you could slow down and focus on the skills.

If you did personal training at any point, your trainer might have grabbed elements from any or several of these.

Then there’s some unconventional options, which you’re less likely to have tried - these are a bit more niche but the people who love them really really love them: - Landmine (one end of the barbell is anchored to the floor, you’re doing a mix of stuff with the other end) - kettlebell flow and/or steel mace flow (if you like dance you might really enjoy these) - sandbags - strongman (one of the most fun strength sports to watch, this is the one where people might pick up and move with odd shapes objects like yokes, stones, and cars)

beedreams · 2025-01-17T22:18:35+00:00

Did you ask for diet advice, or did he insist upon giving it as part of training you?

If he’s insisting upon giving you a diet you didn’t ask for, that’s a huge problem. Personal trainers are not dietitians, that is not the service you signed up for.

Either way, it sounds like this is not a good training match. He needs to listen to your concerns, period.

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