u/Bunny_Hunny4

I know a lot of us can be quite sensitive to smells (I personally can find your traditionally ‘unpleasant’ smells much more overwhelming than most, am much more sensitive to the smell of spoiled food and for some reason I still struggle with aerosols/spray on deodorant?) but I have a big hyper fixation with fragrance and perfumes - wondering if there are any fragrance girlies in the sub?

Let me know in the comments what your favourite fragrance notes are and if you have a favourite perfume you own, or want to buy/try ❤️ can also include things like laundry detergent/comforter, soap, shampoo/conditioner, body oil, lotion, shower gel ☺️

I was going to make a purchase on cult beauty or Sephora yesterday, and then heard Alone Time by Mac has been reformulated to be more warm toned. It’s supposed to have rolled out everywhere by now. However, when I checked Boots I read a review from a few months ago that they were still selling the old formulae.

I went in my local Boots today and the staff were kind enough to open a lipstick for me and let me look at the bottom of the bullet - on the sticker it said ‘Lustreglass lipstick’ whilst the new packaging is supposed to say ‘Lustreglass sheer sheen lipstick’.

So PSA for anyone who is searching for old Alone Time - check your local Boots and see if you can get someone to let you look at the bullet label! You might just be lucky ❤️

Edit: another clue you can look for - on the old packaging the weight was 3g, on the new one it’s 3.5g

Hello everyone. This is a long one for what might seem a small potatoes topic, so thanks to anyone who takes the time of day.

As a neurodivergent person, I can get a bit lost in the weeds and details, and overcomplicate things. One of the things I’m trying to work on is improving my speed at estimating Kcal, protein (grams) and fluid (ml) intake, but find that it can take me quite a while because I get tunnel vision and worry I’m not getting it right.

For example, say someone has an intake of 2x weetabix with semi skimmed milk, half a milky coffee, 2-3 spoonfuls of your average carehome lunch, a creamy yoghurt, 2x juice, 1/2 of a large fish and chips, 4 sips of milky coffee and ‘they keep biscuits in their room and they do eat them but we don’t know how much or how often because family bring them’ - I can get a bit lost in the weeds of trying to get it all as ACCURATE as possible.

I’m sure when you first start out you might have to quickly look up things like what your average kcal of semi skimmed milk is in a bowl of cereal or a creamy yogurt, and then along the way it’s just in your brain, but how do you quickly calculate the murkier stuff that maybe you don’t come across often or you’re playing a bit of a guessing game?

I find it can take me some time trying to work out what would be reasonable for say a ‘large’ fish and chips (like some fish and chips in the UK can get well over 1000 depending on if it’s restaurant or takeaway), how many calories and pro is really in a ‘couple spoonfuls’ of a meal, what does a couple sips of a drink look like and is it even worth trying to calculate it or am I wasting time? How broad do you go with calculating the biscuits if you don’t know the amount and neither do the carers? (a couple to a whole pack?)

Or for example in mental health inpatients, a patient might have about 20 drinks listed on a random day but about 15 of them were tiny sips or 1/8-1/4 consumed. If they were 0 calorie it wouldn’t matter (still need to add up ml tho) but if it’s juices and milky drinks, it all adds up to something, but I find it would personally take me a lot of time trying to work it out and add up.

Obligatory I am not currently working as an RD, my career journey has been very unusual and complicated and I’m hoping to get back to it eventually. However at the moment I have no mentors and when I’ve tried to ask before I’ve just got ‘you’ll get faster as you go’ instead of a proper sit down and explanation of process which I feel is what I needed as a neurodiverse person. If you read this all you’re a ⭐ and any advice will be extremely appreciated.

Sephora are advertising a Spin to Win 20% off your favourite fragrance. I mean really, WIN 20% off? When you click on it as well the options are you’ll either win 10%, 15% or 20%. It doesn’t even work properly because I won 15% the first time and the code didn’t look all that unique, seemed like a generic code everyone would get. I used the same email, it let me spin again and won the 20% off. So it’s not even like you only get one go.

This is like the Black Friday deals and Sephora sales, where they want to convince you that 20% off is some sort of steal.

So, I’ve not watched love island properly in a long time until this season. I believe the last season I fully watched through was season 5, so that was a good 7 years ago.

Now this might just be the fact I’ve not watched in a while, and that at the time I was 20-21 and I’m now 27 turning 28 by the end of this year. But I found everyone (in varying degrees) to be SO immature and insincere, to a level that I felt I had not experienced before. Did anyone else feel this way? Has this been the case in the more recent years? Or has it always been like this and my rose tinted glasses have just slowly come off with age?

Do not get me wrong. Even when I was 20, I certainly did not find a lot of the people who go on a show like Love Island to be especially thoughtful, selfless or wise. 99% of people aren’t going on Love Island actually looking for love. And I understand that the contestants are quite young. But I was really, really shocked with the frequency at which I found people childish, unkind, uncaring, thoughtless and disingenuous. Interested to know everyone else’s thoughts.

Edit: just editing to say I am aware APP is not a skill cert, but is a hygiene cert. I am merely using APP in the post because that is what most people advise in this sub, and I think a lot of people think APP means ‘highly skilled’ when that is not the case :) even APP piercers who ALSO seem highly skilled on paper can be quite the opposite IRL.

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There have been a few badly done navels on here recently and I know the advice is often to go to an APP accredited piercer. Of course this is good standard advice, but I just wanted to add onto this as a layman, NOT professional (any professionals please add onto this discussion with any tips or corrections if I get something wrong) going to an APP accredited piercer does not guarantee they will do a good job.

I went to a very highly qualified (on paper), credited and seemingly respected APP piercer in my country for several of my piercings. From research alone you would have thought I could not have picked better. However, over time it became very clear they had done a terrible job. I had to remove these piercings before they rejected and felt so upset at thinking I had wasted my money, time, letting this person pierce my body which I am very precious and protective of, when I had done so much research and letting this person convince me for months that I was imagining these problems (piercings being pierced too shallowly, crooked, too deep).

I went to another APP piercer who on paper is actually less experienced, but yet the service was night and day. This person showed me how the piercings should have been placed and I finally felt heard. So some tips to look out for:

- make sure the piercer marks you before piercing and lets you look at the markings beforehand

- make sure the piercer discusses the process thoroughly with you

- make sure the piercer tells you they are going to pierce you before they do it

- make sure the piercer allows you to look at your piercings before you leave and voice any concerns

- make sure your piercer appears calm and not in a rush

- if anything does not seem right to you, please stop and/or have the piercing removed. I spent so long being told I was imagining issues that I was NOT imagining because this piercer was rushing and not up to date on their skills or best practices for all anatomy.

Hi everyone. I just want to start off by saying that I realise to a lot of you this will seem incredibly basic knowledge and baffling as to why I’m even making this post. I have made similar posts before but I don’t think I was wording them quite right. To make a very long story short, I’m from the UK and had some pretty unique placement experiences which meant I got near to no hands on experience with malnutrition patients at Uni- this included patients on ready made bottle feeds/ powder feeds like ensures. I never even completed a patient assessment from start to end WITH supervision, let alone without.

I graduated a few years ago and it’s been incredibly hard few years. I haven’t worked as a dietitian in over a year due to struggling so much to meet performance autonomously. I worked as an assistant for a year since then but that job ended and I’m looking for a new one (job went fine but of course I wasn’t working independently and had much reduced responsibilities). I’ve let my license expire and will be retraining when I feel mentally ready and prepared enough, plan to do a lot of CPD whilst away from it all.

While I do think my experience at uni played a big role in things, I have also been on a journey to realising I’m autistic and have probably had autistic burnout for the last 6 years and have developed a bit of a ‘I can’t do anything right’ mentality. I’m finally at a stage where I am determined that is not the case and that I can learn how to do this, I just need to do it in a way that works for my brain.

I’ve decided I need to go back to the proper BASICS of basics and have all the information broken down into little pieces in order to understand where I’m struggling to grasp things. I’ve mostly found myself circling round and round this area of ‘how do you work out how to decide which supplement drink you prescribe and how many of them?’ For way too long, and I’m pretty sure a lot of it is because of this ‘I can’t do anything right’ mentality I’ve developed from the burnout. The ‘how many do you recommend to prescribe’ element of this has been the biggest mental block.

So, if any of you have read far enough into this to be so kind, I’d love to know what your mental process is when making this kind of decision. And I really mean spell it all out, like you’re talking to a new intern who needs help. From reading a bunch of articles and manuals etc etc, this is what I’ve been able to come up with:

- calculate the energy and protein deficit and intake to understand the nutritional gap.

- if patient is able to partially increase their calories with food and drink include some snacks, nourishing drinks, extra puddings, fortification ideas into your care plan to help close the nutrition gap.

- consider the patients conditions (eg. Renal, liver, COPD, dysphagia, post surgery, burns, gastro issues, T2D, etc) when deciding on particular supplement

- consider if they have tried supplements in the past and how they got on with them

- consider patients appetite and satiety when considering which kind/ volume/ how many.

- consider whether the patient is able to or has someone able to prepare powder ons for them

- consider any taste fatigue and personal preferences

- consider fluid needs and/or restrictions

- consider the goal of nutrition (eg. Weight restoration vs comfort and QoL). + what patients personal goals and wants are.

- consider cost effectiveness (possibly more of a thing in the NHS? I see this discussed more in UK literature).

If anyone’s read to the end thank you so much. I understand this must seem really really basic but my brains been stuck on this for so long that I’ve somehow built it up in my head as totally impossible, and want to know if I’m on the right track (currently have no mentors to talk to and never really got in depth answers when previously asking this kind of question to mentors previously. I think a lot of them just couldn’t understand why I’d need explained at a basic level as I should already know it). I’d love to know if any of you have a unique way of thinking about this and breaking this kind of decision down!

Gone but not forgotten 🥺😔 may all of us who attended tonight’s live show take a minute of silence to express our sorrows over the awful injuries plant injured endured❤️

5 ft 1inch, last week my starting weight was 93.6kg/206.4lbs. Heaviest I have ever been. Today I weigh 92.4kg. I went shopping for a new blouse since my old one doesn’t fit.

I saw myself in the full length mirror and processed how much weight I have visually gained. Last time I did this, at a much lighter weight, I felt shame and dread at the road ahead. Today I feel excited. How wonderful will it be to look at myself in the mirror when I reach my goals and see how far I have come! Thank you to my current body for all that you do for me, now it is time to look forward and see all the good things I can do for you!