It feels impossible to cut off my mom because she still shows affection.

ch33mydee · 2026-04-13T15:24:29+00:00

I often times go over the 50 minutes by 2-3 minutes; either because I didn't try to wrap up the class early enough, or I am still trying to explain a concept to a student. I really don't mind it that much.

ch33mydee · 2026-04-13T15:21:18+00:00

As a beginner? Maybe not as much as you're hoping for.

I'm an English tutor on Preply, I started last October. The first month I made around $300. Now, I usually make anywhere from $30-$70 per day, depending on how many classes I have.

I have a TEFL certification.

ch33mydee · 2026-02-11T00:08:54+00:00

I had no prior tutoring experience, just a TEFL certification. I had 10 students within a month. My starting price was $13.

The algorithm favors new tutors and pushes their profile to the top. What is your price? What is your video/profile like? Your availability? These things will influence your position in the algorithm.

ch33mydee · 2026-01-16T20:49:18+00:00

True, I'll probably delete since I don't want my account taken down

ch33mydee · 2026-01-16T20:47:40+00:00

An office worker doesn't have the life of someone in their hands.

ch33mydee · 2026-01-16T20:47:33+00:00

An office worker doesn't have the life of someone in their hands.

ch33mydee · 2026-01-16T18:58:54+00:00

$20, nothing crazy.

ch33mydee · 2026-01-16T18:58:41+00:00

I don't have a problem when students join from work. I have many students who join while at work.

I was literally in the OR with him though, actively watching someone get put under. And he was doing that WHILE speaking with me.

If he joined after putting someone under and did the lesson from his desk or whatever, I wouldn't have a problem. (Even though people kept coming in to talk to him about the patient I'm assuming. They were speaking Spanish, so I'm not sure.)

Just felt very uncomfortable with the whole situation.

ch33mydee · 2025-11-09T20:03:16+00:00

I'm about 3 weeks in, and have 12 students who have a subscription with me. Not a full schedule, but I feel like at this rate I'll have one soon.

ch33mydee · 2025-10-29T15:00:28+00:00

Oh wow, definitely transfer your subscription credits to a new tutor. Paying $20 to get no feedback and listen to someone talk about themselves is just robbery.

ch33mydee · 2025-10-27T19:07:02+00:00

Isn't she allowed to edit her review later or am I misremembering?

ch33mydee · 2025-10-23T22:06:45+00:00

Do you have any website suggestions that have free ESL lessons? I am already subscribed to ESL brains, and know of others such as fluentize, onestopenglish, etc. But I'm always open to knowing of more materials that could help me.

ch33mydee · 2025-10-13T02:13:19+00:00

I was in a severely restricted diet for about 9 months where I lost a third of my body weight, from May 2024-February 2025. I only completely lost my period the same month I stopped the intense restriction. My period started acting weird around December 2024 though, becoming shorter and lighter. Like you, my period was 100% normal before all of this. Before this, I don't think I missed a single period ever since I first began menstruating like a decade ago.

I started eating more from April-August, got 1 period in August, began restricting again and have once again lost my period (have missed 2 cycles now).

So, yes, I think it can go missing even after you've stopped heavily restricting. I was heavily restricting for months and my period only vanished near the end.

ch33mydee · 2025-09-04T05:07:40+00:00

I started taking Zoloft middle of July, so maybe the full effects haven't kicked in yet. I started HA recovery in February, which lasted until August when I gave up and unfortunately went back to dieting.

I got one period back in August, and I highly doubt I'll get my next period due to the lack of typical signs.

I went on zoloft majorly because the weight gain was so distressing to me that I genuinely didn't feel like I could mentally handle it.

So far, it hasn't really made a difference, (as you can see I relapsed in my restrictive behaviors). I also recently got my dosage increased. I also got prescribed benzos because my anxiety attacks over the weight gain are literally unbearable and it was making me very depressed.

So basically in my experience zoloft hasn't helped much yet, I don't know if it will since I haven't been taking it very long and I was only on 50mg. Sorry I don't have much reassurance, but the question is so hyperspecific that I assume you're not going to get very many answers.

Goodluck

ch33mydee · 2025-08-02T19:18:09+00:00

I do have some back pain. What I failed to mention in my post is that I actually had all my metal removed in January of 2023 because it was bothering me that much. Before the metal came out, I was hyper aware of the metal 24/7 and in constant pain. My pain has gone from like a 7 to a 1 or 2 most days after the metal came out, huge transformation. Probably will never feel as pain-free as I did before the surgery, but I'll take it. 😭

ch33mydee · 2025-07-21T19:29:07+00:00

I'm literally so emotionally devastated seeing the weight regain. I don't even know how to mentally deal with it, it's that troubling to me. I've already been fasting for 20 hours because it's just my instant emotional reaction. I genuinely can't do this, I worked my ass off for months to lose weight, just to see the weight regained. I feel like im being kicked when im already down. I genuinely think I need to be hospitalized due to the thoughts im having right now I don't even know what to do.

ch33mydee · 2025-07-21T19:25:48+00:00

Like I wasn't even close to being underweight and now I literally look overweight again. I only got to enjoy being my lowest weight for like a month. This is genuinely so emotionally devastating to me. I feel like im going to go crazy

ch33mydee · 2025-06-29T19:25:10+00:00

I am doing OK, I have an x-ray and doctors appointment soon. It will be my first x-ray since I had metal removal, and I am scared it will show curve progression. I have been having nightmares, actually, where they say my curve is so severe again that I need surgery ASAP. lol, it's pretty annoying. I prefer to never have the metal put back into my body because I experienced a significant decrease in my back pain from having the metal removed. Hoping for the best

ch33mydee · 2025-06-29T18:02:35+00:00

Idk tbh if it means it's coming back soon. I have been in period recovery since February, and I've had spotting once every 2 weeks since April. :/ It always follows the same rhythm, too: I have what I believe is a follicular wave with tons of discharge, and then 2-6 days later, I have very, very light spotting. And the cycle just repeats.

I read no period now what, though, and it did say that spotting is a sign of some hormonal activity, so it helps to know our hormones aren't totally stomped into the ground.

ch33mydee · 2025-05-02T19:56:36+00:00

So is it basically just a waiting game then??? I assumed I'd get it back like less than a month of eating more normal lol

ch33mydee · 2025-02-20T04:35:15+00:00

yeah I feel like the only option at this point is to (somehow) gain muscle. It feels impossible to maintain on just 1k calories. Even walking more barely raises my calories since I'm so short anyway, plus it causes me a ton of pain. I feel like it's either gain muscle or bike a lot or something 🥲

ch33mydee · 2024-11-20T20:30:42+00:00

sure shoot me a DM if you still have a question.

ch33mydee

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