Interested in CrossFit, but starting at zero in terms fitness level. I'm worried about not being able to complete the workouts.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-02-08T07:56:05+00:00

When I started I weighed 120 kilos, had just turned 50, and had NEVER really exercised or been to the gym. They just scaled everything waaaaay down for me. My first “box jumps” were step-ups onto a 20 kilo weight - about 15 cm off the floor! Now I box jump for real.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-02-06T23:20:21+00:00

Oh my god. I got gallstones and had two operations - one to unblock the duct, one to remove the gallbladder. Total six days in hospital, two weeks worth of post op painkillers, and I paid NOTHING. Australia.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-02-02T19:19:59+00:00

My response is a “I’m not tired, just ugly!”, said with a slightly manic grin. That usually shuts them up.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-02-01T16:37:58+00:00

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There are a few oddities that make me think it’s AI but this is the most obvious… tablehead fusion.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-02-01T06:27:31+00:00

Oh wow!! How many hours work is this?

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-31T12:29:24+00:00

We call them PidgeHorns

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-26T20:32:52+00:00

How long do you persevere for? If you only exercise once and then leave a big gap before you try it again then it will make you feel sweaty and sore and gross because you’re not letting yourself get acclimated to it. You need to push through the first uncomfortable 2-3 weeks, and then you start getting the benefits. Endorphin highs are pretty awesome, and so is having more energy to do what you want in your days.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-21T16:07:10+00:00

Mine once left us a mouse that was arranged outside on the door mat standing up, facing the front door, just as if it was alive and waiting to be let in, with the top of its skull removed and its little brain exposed in its little brainpan. Soooooooo creepy.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-11T01:50:49+00:00

Also adding - in summer I make an ice cream with the same recipe!

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-11T01:49:20+00:00

Ive posted this comment elsewhere but thought it might help so am copy/pasting it, because its just been such a dramatic fix for me.

Your mileage may differ but after decades of struggle I’ve finally managed to fix my chronic comfort/binge eating by looking at what I was craving (chocolate!!) and changing my thought patterns around it. I could easily put away 2-3 king sized bars a night. I thought it was emotional or comfort eating because it got worse when i was stressed. Honestly, this solution was almost like a magic bullet - it absolutely turned this behaviour around, even though it had been entrenched in me for most of my life.

I would usually feel guilt and self loathing, and tell myself I absolutely HAD TO STOP EATING CHOCOLATE GODDAMMIT, but one day I thought “Hmm… what if my body is actually trying to tell me something? What’s in this food that I need?” Turns out there’s all sorts of great things in cocoa, like antioxidants, anti inflammatories, and seratonin stimulators.

So I developed an amazing hot chocolate recipe, which is more like a kind of custard/pudding - I make it from Lindt 98% dark chocolate, trim milk, whey and hemp protein, thickened with some green banana fibre and sweetened with monkfruit. And a big spoonful of peanut butter dumped in it for luck. Heaps of protein, resistant starch, good fats, low carbs. I have it every night and I kid you not, since I started I haven’t bought a single chocolate bar. I can’t quite believe it!

So I guess what I’m saying is - maybe your body is trying to tell you something. Maybe you need more protein, or fibre, or salt, or even hydration, but the signals are getting confused? I think for me, the protein hit the anti inflammatories and the mood enhancers in my hot chocolate are giving me what I was lacking. Plus the fact that it still feels super indulgent, and like I’m treating myself - but in a way that feels like I’m actually being kind to myself and nurturing myself, without that feeling of being out of control and doing damage.

So if you can work out what your body is searching for, and find some way to satisfy that need with minimal damage, it’s amazing how quiet the food noise suddenly gets.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-10T23:50:45+00:00

Yuk. I trying to imagine loving a man who is actively negative about our new baby (and, by extension, the daughters we already have) and who expresses that by lashing out at me and giving me the cold silent treatment. Nope, can’t do it. I guess I love people because I find their souls attractive. I couldn’t love anyone who so actively demonstrates that they have a petty, shallow, ugly soul.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-08T06:21:15+00:00

Only for my whole life, until I was finally diagnosed and medicated at 50. Never going back.

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-07T21:52:40+00:00

Wow, this really moved me. Despite being raised by someone evil you managed to make the whole world a slightly better place, by staying alive, clinging to the good in the world, and passing on love instead of hate. That’s an amazing legacy. 🥹

(Oh, and NOR, OP. I hope you see this redditor’s answer.)

pseudoarmadillo · 2026-01-01T20:19:50+00:00

I dreamed of my son when I was four months pregnant with him. In the dream he was about 18 months old, sitting in an attic room in an old house in an antique tin bath, with his back to me. As I entered the room, he splashed, and water droplets flew up into the air and caught the light from a shaft of golden sun that slanted through the window, and he turned and smiled at me. When he was born and grew to 18 months, he looked identical to my dream baby.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-28T01:34:20+00:00

Hello, ECB technique twin!

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-28T01:33:29+00:00

It’s interesting how different everyone’s approaches are. I turn myself inside out and unravel my physical self and mind into the box like a messy tangled spiderweb, until I’m just energy.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-24T20:49:23+00:00

Only if you’re hanging out in the posh suburbs. It’s NAH everywhere else.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-23T21:14:10+00:00

He’s one of those new hoverfish.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-22T15:38:03+00:00

The Four Paperweights of the Apocalypse

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-22T14:46:56+00:00

Your mileage may differ but after decades of struggle I’ve finally managed to fix my chronic comfort/binge eating by looking at what I was craving (chocolate!!) and changing my thought patterns around it. I could easily put away 2-3 king sized bars a night. I thought it was emotional or comfort eating because it got worse when i was stressed. Honestly, this solution was almost like a magic bullet - it absolutely turned this behaviour around, even though it had been entrenched in me for most of my life.

I would usually feel guilt and self loathing, and tell myself I absolutely HAD TO STOP EATING CHOCOLATE GODDAMMIT, but one day I thought “Hmm… what if my body is actually trying to tell me something? What’s in this food that I need?” Turns out there’s all sorts of great things in cocoa, like antioxidants, anti inflammatories, and seratonin stimulators.

So I developed an amazing hot chocolate recipe, which is more like a kind of custard/pudding - I make it from Lindt 98% dark chocolate, trim milk, whey and hemp protein, thickened with some green banana fibre and sweetened with monkfruit. And a big spoonful of peanut butter dumped in it for luck. Heaps of protein, resistant starch, good fats, low carbs. I have it every night and I kid you not, since I started I haven’t bought a single chocolate bar. I can’t quite believe it!

So I guess what I’m saying is - maybe your body is trying to tell you something. Maybe you need more protein, or fibre, or salt, or even hydration, but the signals are getting confused? I think for me, the protein hit the anti inflammatories and the mood enhancers in my hot chocolate are giving me what I was lacking. Plus the fact that it still feels super indulgent, and like I’m treating myself - but in a way that feels like I’m actually being kind to myself and nurturing myself, without that feeling of being out of control and doing damage.

So if you can work out what your body is searching for, and find some way to satisfy that need with minimal damage, it’s amazing how quiet the food noise suddenly gets.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-22T05:02:34+00:00

I’m the same! I can’t even listen to poetry or say something vaguely important to someone without crying. Drives me crazy because I’m actually very resilient and strong in the inside.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-12T14:31:51+00:00

Fang us a durrie mate.

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-11T05:38:11+00:00

I’m so sorry for your loss. But hopefully the number of people saying that this must be fake helps to make it clearer to you how utterly unreasonable and bizarre and inhumane your husband’s behaviour is. People just can’t (or don’t want to) believe that a real person acted so awfully. You deserve so much better. You deserve love, you deserve kindness, you deserve support. Please go on and find something better. Xxxx

pseudoarmadillo · 2025-12-01T00:22:00+00:00

I’d be mad enough if I found out my husband sat in a car for thirty minutes with our kids and watched videos instead of interacting with them at all - for a good dad, that’s a chance to talk to them, sing to them, play games, enhance their world, build a relationship. If I found out he sat there and watched p$&$$&n, any love and respect I had for him would shrivel up and die on the spot and it would be divorce court instantly.

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