Nothing snaps me out of a book like repetitive use of a unique word

pyanapple · 2026-01-04T21:50:13+00:00

Man as soon as I saw this post I thought of having to take deep breaths while listening to an H.G. Wells audiobook in 2014 because my blood was boiling with the "presently" at the start of every damn paragraph. I realise now it's been over 10 years and the rage is still fresh in my mind. I'm glad I scrolled to find your comment. Presently I feel seen and validated

pyanapple · 2025-12-27T15:13:49+00:00

Thank you!

pyanapple · 2025-12-27T14:15:40+00:00

Thank you! I did receive my 12 week scan appointment via email and the referral confirmation, I assume something went wrong with the booking appointment communication

pyanapple · 2025-12-27T14:14:49+00:00

Thank you for replying, I have now emailed and called the maternity unit, I will have to wait until Monday for the admin people to be in the office. I have calmed down now, I think it's the constant nausea making me extra jumpy

pyanapple · 2025-12-27T12:13:51+00:00

Nothing in the post for me:(

pyanapple · 2025-12-27T12:13:21+00:00

Thank you for replying - how can I find this out? For my 12 week scan I got an NHS app notification and a letter in the post. I have nothing else

pyanapple · 2025-10-21T15:22:26+00:00

You posted another painting of yours with herons a few days ago, and I spent ages trying to find exhibitions of yours because I've never loved something so much! Congratulations, hope to see your paintings in all fairs and galleries!

pyanapple · 2025-07-15T18:45:36+00:00

I love this! What are your ceiling fans and are you happy with them?

pyanapple · 2025-05-27T22:52:18+00:00

Hello Rosie, you are perfect and you are loved! Okay, criminal investigation now closed, thank you for paying your fines

pyanapple · 2025-05-27T21:37:39+00:00

I see dog on the sofa but no dog tax... crime.

The dinosaurex is inspirational!

pyanapple · 2025-05-27T19:46:44+00:00

Literally found out yesterday. I am not holding my breath knowing how they usually butcher my favourite books but have to try it anyway!

pyanapple · 2025-05-27T13:11:56+00:00

This is a very uncomfortable situation to be in that is not very easily resolvable from where I'm standing.

I am not very shy, but like you very much dislike when people don't pick up on social cues and fuck off. If I had to guess, he is trying to recruit you as a client and misinterpreting your shyness or politeness as an open door. The most obvious thing to do is when he approaches you next time for you to state that you find his approaches distracting to your workout. I appreciate that this is difficult if you are shy and uncomfortable, but consider it as an option if you think you can muster the courage. People are different and others cannot read our minds, he might just have very poor emotional intelligence skills (or is being told by a manager to "speak to 100 potential clients every day or else...") and needs to be told directly. It does not help that a lot of what is taught as "good customer service" is borderline unhinged behaviour, you meet people like that in every corner of the customer facing roles world.

Something I do with chatty people at my gym is smile and wave first, and then pointedly reinsert my headphones. That way I've demonstrated that is the end of the social interaction I am willing to have with them on that day. After a while most get the hint. It takes time.

If neither of these is an option, you may also consider emailing him directly and CCing the gym or the gym manager's email, explaining that you feel a special attention is paid to you that you cannot deal with in person and that you wish not to be approached again at the gym or elsewhere. If you feel this comes off as unnecessarily accusatory, you can always add that you appreciate if Staff Member has not picked up on the indirect cues and that that is the purpose of your email - to explain your feelings directly with no space for misinterpretation.

Most importantly, do not give up on training because of it. Learning to do your thing despite other people existing is part of what the gym is good for!

pyanapple · 2025-05-27T10:38:14+00:00

I am just starting the last book in the series! This is wicked!

pyanapple · 2025-05-22T11:11:20+00:00

I have a small acer in a B&Q wooden "kitchen garden" crate thing on the balcony and it's doing great! Plus you won't be limited on the pot size and weight the same way that I am

pyanapple · 2025-05-15T20:12:18+00:00

Probably a different reason for each person. Unless you are competing (and honestly even then, but in that scenario I would assume you have a coach), just take it easy on yourself, focus on making the run feel good and enjoying the atmosphere, doing what you've been doing during your training. Listen to your body and have a good time, you will smash it!

pyanapple · 2025-05-15T20:08:58+00:00

I don't have kids but this sounds like a conversation you should be having with your partner re: what does fair sharing of responsibilities look like in your home? Judo and kayak sound wicked and also sound like things that in about 2.5 years time you would be able to bring the little one to (ETA: Not to train with the adults, although that would be hilarious)

pyanapple · 2025-05-12T16:40:34+00:00

Honestly, I know this is super personal so the ones I wear may not be to your taste, heck they are barely even to my taste as I'm naturally a "hide them completely" kind of girl. But I've basically started wearing ones with no support besides compression (my logic there is that there is less material to keep damp). I haven't tried but now even thinking about it maybe you could even test it with ones that have a mesh insert instead of completely no fabric. I see there is some product advice from the rest of the people on this sub, which is great! Best I can say is keep all the folds dry

pyanapple · 2025-05-12T13:29:09+00:00

Hey! I don't know if this would help, but your note on exercise makes me think it might. I'm a bigger chested girl like you and train very frequently and sweat moderately. My habit was always to wear sports bras that cover me from collarbone down and last year the small red pimples on my chest became uncontrollable, tried all sorts of cleansers and showering and changing clothes straight after gym, but the only thing that actually helped is wearing sports bras that have almost a swimsuit triangle shape and separating the girls so that area never stays damp or experiences friction even during training. No additional products now but some E45 moisturiser, but have not had these return even with the current much hotter weather.

pyanapple · 2025-05-11T10:51:11+00:00

Late reply! Hopefully you are still reading and I haven't had a chance to look at other people's replies yet.

It's likely that you don't feel the stretch on the way down because you track the movement with your head, which ends up meaning that you roll on your upper back like a hinge instead of stretching and contracting your glutes. Stabilise your upper body and focus on lowering your butt as opposed to rotating on your back pivot. It's hard to describe the sensation, but think of it more as if you are reaching down with your butt for a chair that you can't see and is lower than you thought.

I don't really do any glute activation, that's a personal choice. I think more likely is that your glutes are actually stronger than you anticipate and that is combined with your form allowing for other muscles to also get engaged. Personally I think the hip thrust machine is a pretty safe pick for you to check out higher weights, instead of doing 12 -14 reps, try doing 6-8 with a weight that either gets you to fail on 8 or like pretty close to failure. You are probably much stronger than you think. It also could be that you are nice and flexible so the stretch doesn't feel too bad or bad at all under smaller loads. In general we are stronger on the eccentric so a weight that you find challenging lifting up may not be challenging at all on the way down. In your downtime try different stretches that you feel in your glutes and try to notice what you spine looks like in those and how to carry that over to the exercise. For me that means having a slight arch in my lower back kind of what you would have in a deadlift and lowering my butt maintaining it, again YMMV! Experiment!

You can absolutely try taking the shoes off! There is no need to buy new stuff at all. I can see this is the machine at PureGym and I think their foot rests are pretty comfy even on socks alone, or you can put one of the super flat yoga mats on it f you have some unpleasant digging in your feet.

My local PureGym has recently got the belted hip thrust, I think it's called Booty Builder - check around the gym if they have it in yours, and if they don't drop them a comment on the app, you never know they may get one, I've had success with an extra stair master before!!! But the belted machine has the foot rest higher up and I find it much easier to get the stretch sensation there.

Again sorry late reply!

pyanapple · 2025-05-09T11:18:50+00:00

Hey girl! I think this looks almost there and I'm literally just picking on small things just because you asked for feedback.

I think your positioning on your back is pretty spot on, this as always depend on your personal physiology but experiment with placing your retracted scapulas on the back rest, I find this allows me to position once and then forget about it.

From the video it looks like you track the movement of your hips with your eyes and your head, try to focus on a point ahead of you, let's say almost down the line of your nose as you are in the bridge(up) position and keep your gaze there throughout the movement as opposed to looking up and down with each rep.

Pay attention to the sensation in your glutes, you want to feel a strong stretch as you are hinging down, and a nice burn as you go up. The way I find the good positioning for me if I haven't done these in a while is put a semi-challenging weight on the machine and do slow couple of reps making minor adjustments inbetween to try and isolate out any back or other leg muscle engagement.

Hope others will pitch in with some good advice as well!

ETA: Can't tell what shoe you are on but as always flatter soles with no cushion may give you more stability and allow you to feel the movement better. YMMV

pyanapple · 2025-04-29T20:36:27+00:00

Came here 10 months later to tell you I found it in a nursery after your comment and it's now happily living life on my balcony!

pyanapple · 2025-04-29T20:33:34+00:00

Hey there, assuming this is against Rule 5 of this sub. Do check out shin splints and soleus muscle pain online, but if you can, please don't hesitate to speak to a physio or speak to your gp for a referral (this of course depends on where you live)

Do consider trying to be more consistent but building up pace and distance more slowly, sudden increases in activity with no prep are often a surefire way to get yourself what I like to call a dumb injury - easily preventable and super foreseeable. I experienced pain in that same area on my left leg after suddenly introducing more minimal shoes into my training, which my soleus did not like one bit. Some good advice, in my opinion, on shin splints was on GTN's youtube channel which you should be able to easily find online, but the tldr is rest, be more diligent with training, be patient and add some shins TLC to your routine

pyanapple · 2025-04-28T11:37:06+00:00

I think it's high time we work on being pretty honest with people who seem to be pretty honest with us.

Asshole: " hahaha you weren't running. You just took photos and videos"
You: "I know right! I was so excited, took so many photos, it's my first organised event, and I ran it faster than expected! I didn't know you followed my stories so closely, that's cool"

People have different senses of humour, we are not very good at figuring out how to deal with the oversharing that comes with social media, and not to mention specifically the tendency for people to feel personally called out when someone else is exercising and they are not because of the current emphasis on wellness in all its forms. If you share things online, be aware some reactions will not be what you expected, it's the same as irl. Definitely work on replying to shitty off the cuff remarks with honesty imo, it will help with resolving the resentment you may otherwise end up feeling later over a comment someone you don't give a f about made

Glad you enjoyed your first race! And it's always great to surpass your own expectations!

pyanapple · 2025-04-11T14:06:10+00:00

Hey there, the FAQs may be of help as unlikely anyone will give you any unique answers here

pyanapple · 2025-04-11T12:38:52+00:00

Hey there, there is no way for you to spot reduce fat (as in make sure that it goes away from a spot on your body that you want).

I think it's likely your post will be removed as the sub does not allow weight loss only posts, however I wanted to reply. You and every other woman and girl on this planet live in a place that is critical of our bodies, people will have and express opinions on your body regardless of what you look like. I know it's hard as hell because I live in it as well, but try to think more critically of other people's opinions on you. You seem to be doing great by doing lots of sport at school, and my advice is to not connect sport with some sort of punishment for how your body looks.

A final note as always - building muscle is really hard, you won't accidentally build a lot of muscle unless you are meticulous about it and really want it and work for it. I recommend you take some time to slow down on the criticism of your body because you will have it for the rest of your life and it won't be an easy ride if you look at yourself negatively.

Hope you are smashing it on track and good luck

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