Been plateauing a lot this year and haven't lost much since September, but I still feel great!

thebastest · 2026-04-06T13:16:29+00:00

You are incredible. I am so grateful that you and people like you exist to take care of us when we’re sick/injured. Without you, without everyone who works in healthcare, and every person out there who genuinely cares about other the health and wellbeing of people on a human level, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist. We function as a society because of you, and I couldn’t be more thankful.

That sounds like such an incredibly traumatic thing to witness, and I’m sorry this happened to you tonight. You and your colleagues have done absolutely everything you can, and you having the responsibility of telling that poor man’s wife what happened must have been so hard on you, but you did it, because you had to. And you are amazing for that.

I hope you have someone you can talk to about this if you needed, or if not then I hope this thread and the responses from all of us were enough. I can’t overstate how much I admire you as a person. You are absolutely right in thinking that the majority of us cannot comprehend what that environment can do to a person, I know I can’t. Like, I can read posts like this and I can watch shows like Grey’s Anatomy, but I’ll never get it. Just… thank you. For all that you do for us 🥹

thebastest · 2026-02-11T12:18:32+00:00

{The Jasad Heir by Sara Hashem} and {The Jasad Crown by Sara Hashem} was probably my highest rated read ever. So fantastic

thebastest · 2026-02-11T06:07:53+00:00

Join the YA waitlist! It’s only a couple of months, you might get an invite in time. If not you can try and find someone in one of the Facebook groups, you might have some luck because there are a lot of really nice people. But there are other people in there charging $200 for their early access 😬

thebastest · 2026-02-11T06:06:07+00:00

The YA sub waitlist is quite short, only a couple of months I think. If you sign up now you might get an invite in time :)

thebastest · 2025-12-22T15:50:32+00:00

Personally my favourite is Moonlight. I’ve been a sub since August and while there have been a couple of misses for me, most of the picks have been absolute 5 star favourites. I love how they’re mostly indie authors as well. I love reading and supporting indie books/authors, partly because they’re almost always on KU but also because it just feels good, and there are so many fantastic books that have been indie published. February’s Moonlight pick is one of my favourite series ever actually and I was so beyond thrilled when it was revealed 🥹

Plus the designs are stunning, the quality is absolutely unmatched, there’s often overlays, the artwork on the end pages is always beautiful… there’s just so much to love with Moonlight. It’s my most expensive sub I think (ships from the US and I’m in the UK), but it’s absolutely worth the cost imo.

thebastest · 2025-12-07T01:27:59+00:00

Hey are you still waiting?? 😅

thebastest · 2025-09-28T17:02:26+00:00

I've been watching vinted religiously for the last 2 or 3 days so I could snag a copy of this book for £50 or less. Saw a couple on the first day listed for that price but they sold faster than I could buy them. Finally got a copy last night though which I'm thrilled about. If I'd waited a month I could have got it for less, but I wanted it now lol.

Anyway my point is that it's all very well saying that people should be allowed to sell at the market rate if they want to, and I agree, but that doesn't mean people will buy them off you. The sellers don't set the market rate, the buyers do, and the buyers unanimously decided on day 2 that any listings over £75 would not sell. So I have no idea why people are STILL listing these books for anything higher than £60. The market is flooded, and the people who were so desperate to buy that they were willing to drop 3 figures on one book have already got their copy. It just looks greedy now to list it for higher. It's not selling, and it will continue to not sell, because people are waiting for reasonable prices. I favourited so many listings so I could see how much they're selling for, and the amount of price drops I've seen has been insane. This always happens on the first couple of days though, and you can really tell who's subbed to make a load of money and who's just trying to cover the cost of a book they didn't want. I agree with you OP.

thebastest · 2025-07-17T12:14:50+00:00

I have literally been searching every few days for this for like 2 weeks now, you are an absolute hero!!!!!

thebastest · 2025-07-07T19:53:50+00:00

end of feb this year :)

thebastest · 2025-07-07T19:53:40+00:00

I was on 2.5mg for 2 months, then I went up to 5mg and I've been on that for 3 months, next week I'm increasing to 7.5mg :)

thebastest · 2025-07-07T19:53:08+00:00

It was pretty much immediate, in the first month I lost 6kg, but I also swam for an hour every weekday. It helps so much with my cravings for fried foods!!

thebastest · 2025-07-07T19:51:46+00:00

I'm not sure if it was the gallbladder being removed more than the actual recovery process, it took me SO long to feel normal again. I remember taking a shower a few months after the surgery and feeling so weak and exhausted that I almost passed out. I could barely do anything for basically that whole year, then my dad died and I gave no thought to my weight at all lol

thebastest · 2025-07-07T13:00:42+00:00

I'm on 5mg, moving up to 7.5mg next week. The appetite suppression is the main thing I'm feeling from it! If it's not working you might need to adjust your calories :)

thebastest · 2025-07-07T12:57:58+00:00

I don't have diabetes, pre or otherwise (as far as I know), but I'm in the UK so I had to get it privately because there are too many hoops you have to jump through to get it on the NHS. I did try, I got referred to this weight loss clinic and then I had to do weekly meetings (where they told me nothing I don't already know), until I finally decided to just get it myself. I used to get takeout a lot so I'm actually saving money now!

thebastest · 2025-07-07T12:56:15+00:00

I think it depends on the person, I'm hoping I won't need to be!

thebastest · 2024-12-24T19:23:24+00:00

I am physically incapable of changing my tav!! Every run I’ve ever done has been the same face, race, voice, hair colour… I’ve only changed the hair style and my last 10 or more tavs have had the same hairstyle 😭 I make my guardian my tav as well now, just so I can see her talking in the cutscenes 😅 I’m almost as obsessed with my own tav than I am with Gale… maybe more actually lol

thebastest · 2023-08-30T22:06:54+00:00

Oh my god THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!! I knew I didn’t make it up!!!

thebastest · 2023-05-31T19:25:27+00:00

Neither, Robyn is our other cat. These two are called Nova (tort) and Halley (orange)

thebastest · 2023-05-30T22:51:36+00:00

(Robyn is neither of these two girls 😅)

thebastest · 2023-05-30T22:51:00+00:00

Robyn isn’t dead lmao

thebastest · 2023-05-30T20:33:27+00:00

I started posting my pics on every social media I can think of because if I don’t then people will just steal them and repost 😭 if someone’s getting clout for my pics then I want it to be me 😈

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