I’m 10 days into one meal a day with no carbs, and I feel amazing. Today I feel like my mood was better than its been in months. Not hungry at all between meals, really enjoying what I’m eatin, which recently has been a 250g steak, a zucchini, an avocado and one other random veg, sometimes eggs sometimes not. One black coffee, one serve electrolyte drink, and lots of water
Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024
Submitted 6 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
Comments
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
do you find you have cravings or need of pear juice?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Nope. Interesting question, why do you ask?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Onya mate 👍
Serious question: Are you gonna go low carb beer or none at all?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I will drink scotch or like vodka soda when I drink
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m interested to know how you feel after eating your breakfast compared to the other meals, which I presume would contain a “normal” amount of carbs?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
There are no other meals lol! That’s it. I feel very satisfied and full and that lasts me until the next morning
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
sounds awesome
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I have a turps headache. And this paint job is not looking good.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Huff more turps and paint Starry Night
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Curious choice for a knife block. May attempt after head behaves…
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Airhorns and hangovers don’t mix well.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Dammit. I got whammed. Made it to the 19th December though so thats an honourable showing at least. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whamageddon
Aradina@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I can’t be whammed due to not knowing what the song sounds like
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I think it’s kind of easier these days if one avoids retail spaces. Good work nonetheless.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Well done anyway 🏅 wear that proudly.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Does it count if it’s only in your head?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
does it count if it’s a cover and not the original?
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I heard a pretty lacklustre cover yesterday that I’d have been happy to be ignorant of for the rest of my life.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Well I heard the original then a Mariah song then a cover so I got got twice!
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I don’t think I’ve ever heard it. I don’t know what it sounds like so wouldn’t recognise it
I have however listened to wake me up a few times
SituationCake@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sigh. Just spent an hour past my appointment in the GPs waiting room. Why do they always run so late? Surely they should leave some buffer time or make appointments longer? So annoying. Seriously I would be happier to drive further to a clinic that can manage their bookings rather than sit endlessly at one that can’t.
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It’s a symptom of the system as a whole not working well enough, not necessarily the clinic.
People don’t book long enough appointments due to cost because the rebate is too low, doctors need more than 15 minutes to properly document visits or fill out paperwork, good GPs will be proactive with things the patient didn’t come in for, people show up late, emergencies come up, etc. etc.
My GP charges the same gap fee no matter the length of the consultation, so I usually always book a double to hopefully at least give them a few minutes of their time back.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Mine have recently started charging more based on how long the consult actually takes, on a sliding scale. Which makes sense, and I love how thorough my GP is, but it gets a bit exxy.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
My GP doesn’t even allow you to book double length appointments online. You’re limited to 10 minutes unless you call them up, which is a minimum 20 minute hold time somehow, usually closer to 30/40 mins
I try not to judge when he runs late, because he’s a good egg, and having been that person who really needed a double length consult, I’m damn glad he didn’t just kick me out half way through
They’re also fucking expensive and waste their money on fancy artwork on the walls 🙄
I don’t have to worry about costs RN because they entirely bulk bill under 18s, and once they don’t, I have a little bit of funding to cover medical bills. But once it’s on my own dime I’m gonna switch quicksmart. The trouble is, decent GPs very rarely work in those lower cost clinics which sucks
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Why do they always run so late
It’s a cascade. One appt. goes over, the next does and so on. They pack 'em in tight.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Magpie/dero rambles
Yet another person going out of their way to go right up to the water dish and gawk… perhaps if I wrote ‘wildlife water’ on the side? Or if I got a proper birdbath and put it more inside the property boundary. (Not sure whether I would have to remove it once I left though.) A bit worried about potential problems though. When he went up to it a magpie kind of flew up to him and hopped after him as he walked off. The other day someone else might have got swooped as he was loudly complaining about the birds being annoying and saying ‘X says some pr-ck in this area is f-cking feeding them’. Now the birds were already here and would be regardless of whether I was kind to them. Plus there are a lot of sketchy randos cutting through the block and a lot of them act seriously alcohol affected/unpredictable so I don’t really care about them getting swooped. I actually wouldn’t mind if these disruptive people were deterred from my place. I’m more just worried about stupid people having issues with the birds and me being blamed for it, or about being harassed to stop giving them water. People here are genuinely the type to do that. To come trying to intimidate you and start dictating what you do on your own property.
SituationCake@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Are they going into your property or is it a common area? Any option to put the birdbath where the public can’t access it?
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Not sure public or private property. I’m trying not to give doxable descriptions but it within easy reach of drop kicks and I might have to move it to a less ideal spot
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The NBN box has landed back in the state (though considering it’s taken 3 days each way, I’m guessing they stuck it on a truck not plane). It processed through Melbourne airport yet again last night, and now it’s at essendon fields
If they would be so kind as to put it in their little van and take it to my local facility, that’s the last thing they’d have to do and I could have it tomorrow
indisin@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Quick question, do you mean the actual NBN box or a router?
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The “connection device”
Context: aussie.zone/comment/13618475 aussie.zone/comment/13686928
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I have decided to bake some biscuits for Christmas. I have narrowed my selection down to 8, lets see how many I end up doing! The current shortlist is:
- pfeffenusse
- Scottish shortbread
- coconut macaroons
- cranberry-coconut oatmeal
- embossed lemon shortbread
- Pizzelle (wafers)
- Chocolate Brownie Cookies
- "Oma’s biscuits" - another shortbread variation
I’m focusing on recipes that are not too complicated to make, keep fairly well, with at least a few that can be dunked in a cup of tea. I’ll give a few as gift boxes and take some to work, with the bulk of them to be a gift to my Mum - she has been making her own biscuits for years, but recently has started to find the effort a bit much, so I’d like to fill her biscuit jar with home made biscuits for a while.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Mice!
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
This is the first time in years I haven’t made lebkuchen (like pfeffenusse) so I vote for the pfeff… coconut macaroons are so easy and yum too.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Lemon shortbread!
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Picked up some of these earplugs recently and highly recommend them. A nuclear bomb could go off down the road and you’d die of radiation poisoning before you ever woke up. Great for tuning in to the harsh inner critic while travelling this holiday season, so if you ever want to be trapped in your head with only the voices to keep you company, pick yourself up a box.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
they don’t drown out the louder tinnitus I got from my covid vax 😖
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I imagine they would have made tinnitus dramatically worse
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Did the vax do that? My tinnitus has got worse over the last couple of years and I can’t work out why
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
how good are they at blocking occlusion? 'cos I’m an absolute bastard for that.
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m not sure I’ve experienced occlusion effects so I can’t say with confidence
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Those extra 4 mins looking up the weather meant I was too slow * deletes other thread*
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thank you, Blesséd Weather Deity!!
🙌🏼🌦️🙌🏼
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Good night everyone 😘
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thanks seagoon for posting the thread 💜
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Lower decks ending. Well, time to cancel paramount plus.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Why don’t they play THIS in the shops. Instant customer identification is very high indeed.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I keep getting a server error 😕
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Sorry, fixed it now I think. Let me know if I didn’t.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
It worked. How about this one?
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
today’s randomness:
Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650’s chained together. I have a chainsaw one that’s actually just a buncha nicads. They don’t do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?
(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin’ soldering lithiums)
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I am not fuckin’ soldering lithiums
I’ll do it for you. All I ask as payment is a will kit, a fire extinguisher and a prosthetic hand.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
no eyebrows? Great deal!
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Fuckin eh! I’m not keen on doing surgery on the cats’ twitty bird because I expect it to be a soldered coin battery. Fuck anything bigger.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Battery world in Greensborough prides itself on having every possible battery in stock. And they do same day delivery. www.batteryworld.com.au/stores/battery-world-greensborough
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
nah, they don’t tend to do tool batteries. There’s one not far from me in mentone - I’ve recycled a UPS there, gotten a new battery for my 2009 ebook…not so much on the tool front.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I have a random deposit in my bank account this morning of $45.67 as Direct Credit ATO 🤔 feels incredibly scammy
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I just saw on the news the ATO has issued a reward to those that have paid their HECS debt on time.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh that might be me. I finished paying off my HECS this year (was for like one semester study lol)
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
That’s nearly enough for a slab.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
My mind went to: approximately 3.3333 Coles roast chickens.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’ve had those before and usually followed with a mailed letter. Might be some tax adjustment or similar.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hmm ok good to know. Thanks
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Random thoughts that prevent sleep. I have no idea what a chickpea plant looks like. To the interwebs!
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Beep Beep 🚚
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I was just about to check my email for the estimated time for my grocery delivery today when they delivered it. Faboulous timing, they most often deliver around 11am for this time window. Mr Woof Is not happy about someone encroaching on our territory though.
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Huh, TIL that annoying classical hold music song that sounds truly dreadful, and has that high pitched bit that ALWAYS crackles out is an actual song that was released on CD as part of an album in the 90s. It’s actually not as annoying as it is on the phone. If it wasn’t hold music and I still stumbled across it, I would probably actually put it on for a bit of a chill vibe. As it stands, I think I’d just get
war6 hour hold time flashbacks from it(High pitched bit that sounds like it’s melting the phone lines starts at 2:50)
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I spent the morning browsing biscuit packaging ideas and printing some bags. So I didn’t actually start on biscuits until after lunch. I have made the cranberry coconut oatmeal biscuits & have the pfeffenusse dough chilling in the fridge.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Onya Renegades 🏏 🔴🔴🔴
Baku@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Outside has descended to 30, and inside has climbed to 28.7. I reckon it’ll be cooler outside than in soon, so I might put one fan at one end of the house sucking in air, and the other at the other end blowing it out once it gets there
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Had a long chat with a cousin this morning and that’s set a relaxed tone to the day… screw uni, there’s nothing I could do with this processed data until mid Jan anyway and I NEED A BREAK. Feeling so happy that I have a day of no obligations!
Just lounging around finishing up Happy Valley (such a good show!) and then I’ll cook up what I can in the crisper (sad red cabbage), appeal my stupid parking fine online, set up my new phone (still haven’t done it…) and head to t’shops for a few little gifts if I feel like it.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Maybe a gift for yourself as well?
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Nah, I never really cared for Xmas gifts. I’ll wait till the new year to think about getting a second hand benchtop dishwasher and maybe an instant pot. Will be heading interstate in a week so no point getting much food, and my unit is so small I’m trying to acquire as little as possible