u/Bright_Tax628

I have been spinning for over 2 years and attend at least 3, if not 4, sessions a week. I am fit, of a healthy weight, and bring 500ml of water to drink in a 30 minute class.

At least once a week, towards the end of the class, I have to reduce my intensity as I start to feel sick to the point where I'm scared I'm going to vomit. I'm genuinely calculating the distance between my bike and the nearest bin.

I find that this happens mostly when my heart rate is in the upper end of zone 4 (according to my watch, I am aware of inaccuracies there) so I have to ease off and keep it in lower 4/upper 3.

This morning, I had breakfast 2 hours before my class but I drank two strong coffees, so maybe that was it? I woke up quite hungry though, so maybe I was under-fuelled?

Any advice? Tia!

Lost someone to suicide a while ago. Need a good, long cry.

So far:
Real death/Seaweed- Mount Eerie
Fourth of July/Casimir- Sufjan
One more light- Linkin park
Dead boys- Sam Fender
Saturn- Sleeping at last
Wish you were here- Pink Floyd
Bigger than the whole sky- Taylor Swift
Supermarket flowers- Ed Sheeran
Bright Horses- Nick Cave

I want full-body sobbing. Heavy, sad shit.

When turtles hatch, they instinctively run to the water to survive. When an orca is born, they immediately breach the surface to breathe.

I feel like others are born with instinctual knowledge on surviving and interacting with friends, family and relationships. They know how to move through the world developing and maintaining relationships, bonds, careers.

Sometimes, I feel like I was born without this. A wire or critical component missing. Something not quite right with me.

I can't, despite my deep, crying desire, maintain or develop friendships. I'm sure I am terrible to my friends, even though I want desperately to be a good person.

I wish I were normal, I wish I worked as a person. I wish I were someone else.

I'll probably forget this feeling day 3 into my new cycle, but it will be waiting in the wings to snatch me up again.

I am a psychological, sobbing wreck, don't do it girls x

I want to flirt with a guy who loves tiramisu by bringing in some tiramisu-themed bake to work. Would bring an actual tiramisu but it's impractical as it's not really shareable in my work environment, limited fridge space etc.

Does anyone have any tiramisu-esque bakes which are easily shareable? Open to literally anything.

TIA!

I have always had an hourglass shape. There is a disparity between my larger bust size, my waist and my hips. No matter what my weight is and how my body changes, the proportions stay the same.

It sounds like a stupid issue to have and I know a lot of people would like to have my shape, but I just hate it so much. I hate hate hate it. I wish my figure was flat. I feel so disgusting and sexualised.

I think it looks great on other people but I hate it on myself. I hate feeling this way. I wish I could love myself and I am trying, but it's so hard. It's been one of the worst areas of thinking to dispel.

Lifelong nightly wetter, 20.

I want to do so many things and try so many experiences but I feel like I can't because of my bedwetting.

How can do certain things when I have to rely on pull ups every night? I want to travel, I want to backpack, I want to spend months on a hiking trail. How can I work on a sailing boat doing ocean cleanup if I'm living in close quarters with strangers and half of my bag is packed with goodnites?

I want to meet a stranger in a club and wake up at theirs the next morning without issue. I want to not feel awkward taking things further after a date because I have to rush off instead of staying over. I want to be able to say yes to spontaneous plans at 1am and camp in the back of my friend's car.

I want to be young and impulsive and try things but it just feels so difficult. This feels so life-limiting sometimes 😔

I grew up in an enclave of social housing in an otherwise very middle-class area. Both of my parents work full-time respectable jobs, I am well-educated, well-spoken and well-mannered. All of my neighbours are lovely, hard working people, contrary to the stereotypes.

Maybe it was just naïveté, but when I went to uni, I was so shocked at the attitudes that people have towards social housing. Peers who didn't know my background would refer to people in social housing as scroungers, chavs (council-housed and violent), express that they don't pay any rent etc.

I had very little idea that people genuinely believed this outside of Daily Mail exaggeration, and it's so upsetting. My parents have raised me around culture, literature and education but apparently we're all thick and useless. People are so shocked when they learn that I am one of those "chavs" because they think I come from a middle class background and someone who is well-educated couldn't *possibly* be from my background.

I think I just have the misfortune of being surrounded by ignorant wankers.

Rant over.

Does anyone have any recommendations for something cheaper?

This product has been perfect for my dry, sensitive skin over the past ~7 years, but I can no longer afford it. I like it because it's heavy enough to properly tackle my dryness, but isn't too heavy or too oily. My skin does sometimes break out with "moisturising" products (la roche posay moisturising SPF, for example).

I use it after cleansing with cerave moisturising cleanser and the ordinary hyaluronic acid.

I have studied both French and Spanish in the past to B1 Spanish and B2+ French. (TL)

When learning Italian, I tend to write things in terms of French or Spanish (e.g noting the forms of Italian verbs in their French equivalent, rather than my native English).

Generally, is it beneficial, when learning multiple similar languages, to learn "in terms of" one of the target languages to kill two (or three) birds with one stone? Or, does it invite opportunity for confusion of vocabulary?

Would it be better to stick with my native language and take one target language at a time?

Does anyone have the issues of their boobs getting in the way at the gym?

It very much could be my poor form, but I cannot do dumbbell rows or hammer curls without my boobs getting in the way! I end up hitting my chest with the dumbbell.

So annoying!

My (20F) coworker (21M) and I are both interns in the last few months of our year-long internship. We don't work directly with each other at all but we hang out in a group of interns on breaks.

In the group, he makes an effort to include me in conversation or ask me how my day is going. However, he always returns to work at a strict time according to the length of his break and doesn't go out of his way to extend our conversation/take a bit longer if it's just the two of us. Not a criticism at all, just an observation, as I would defo go out of my way to talk to someone I was interested.

Occasionally we text outside of work, talking about our mutual interests. It's about 60/40 me texting first, as we both have some shared interests.

He asks a lot of questions when we text and does seem a bit interested in getting to know me. He'll text me about something funny one of the other interns said, if I missed it, or if he wants to know what I thought. Or we'll sometimes text about mutual interest in TV and such. That being said, this texting isn't SUPER frequent (maybe once a week-ish).

On occasion, we'll go to the store together at lunch but only if I ask him first.

I would consider myself on good terms or even "friends" with the other interns, but we don't text outside of work at all.

Due to practical limitations, it would basically be impossible to invite him to hang out (even going out for lunch) without it being SUPER obvious that I'm into him. I most definitely am into him and we are seemingly quite compatible, but I feel like it might be quite a risk. We don't work together in the company but it might disrupt social dynamics.

I know the adage is that if I'm asking, he's probably not that into me.

Any advice or insight on this matter is very much appreciated! Don't want any delusions to be affirmed, so please be honest. I can't tell if it's leaning towards friendly, or if he is interested.

Would it be worth doing anything at all, or too risky?

My coworker and I are both interns in the last few months of our year-long internship. We don't work directly with each other at all but we hang out in a group on breaks.

In the group, he makes an effort to include me in conversation or ask me how my day is going. However, he always returns to work at a strict time according to the length of his break and doesn't go out of his way to extend our conversation/take a bit longer if it's just the two of us. Not a criticism, just an observation, as I would defo go out of my way to talk to a crush.

Occasionally we text outside of work, talking about our mutual interests. It's about 60/40 me texting first, as we both have some shared interests.

He asks a lot of questions when we text and does seem a bit interested in getting to know me. He'll text me about something funny one of the other interns said, if I missed it, or if he wants to know what I thought. Or we'll sometimes text about mutual interest in TV and such. That being said, this texting isn't SUPER frequent (maybe once a week-ish).

On occasion, we'll go to the store together at lunch but only if I ask him.

I would consider myself on good terms or even "friends" with the other interns, but we don't text outside of work at all.

Due to practical limitations, it would basically be impossible to invite him to hang out (even going out for lunch) without it being SUPER obvious that I'm into him. I most definitely am into him and we are seemingly quite compatible, but I feel like it might be quite a risk. We don't work together in the company but it might disrupt social dynamics.

I know the adage is that if I'm asking, he's probably not that into me.

Any advice or insight on this matter is very much appreciated! Don't want any delusions to be affirmed, so please be honest. I can't tell if it's leaning towards friendly, or if he is interested.

Would it be worth doing anything at all, or too risky?

I have spin classes at my gym on Monday (eve), Thursday (eve), Saturday and Sunday morning.

I like to strength train on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Because of the practicalities of my job, it's really hard to get in the gym on mornings from Monday-Weds and it's incredibly busy after work.

My commute Monday-Weds is really long and I'm out of the house from 7am-6pm as it is without adding the gym.

My preferred days are essentially Wednesday morning- Sunday.

I was thinking of doing upper/lower/upper/upper/lower Weds-Sunday and then having Monday and Tuesday as rest days, but is this impractical as I'm not spacing my rest days, and I'm also doing an intense spin class on one of the rest days?

I'm still a newbie so any advice welcome 💕