u/PoppyOvergrown

want to start this off by saying that i am a girl so im not sure how this advice would work for men/people who don’t want to look LEAN.

for ref, i was almost 130 lbs as a 5’3 girl and i personally feel like I look my best around 105lbs. I lost the first 15 lbs by strength training, yoga, 10K steps, dialing in my eating and focusing on Whole Foods and eating my body weight in protein each day. So, this isn’t to say that increasing your protein doesn’t fill you up faster and therefore you eat less. But i just could NOT lose that last 10 lbs that i wanted to, no matter how much cardio and how dialed in my diet was.

then one day, i ran out of protein powder and decided not to repurchase it and i lost that last 5-10 lbs with in the next month.

lately, every single food has to be turned into some 30-40g protein version. protein coffee, protein cereal, protein pancakes, protein desserts, protein everything. i feel like there’s this implication that if something has a ton of protein it automatically makes it better for getting lean, when at the end of the day you can still very easily eat more calories than your body needs. sometimes the “high protein” version of a snack is just… a much more calorie dense snack with protein powder added to it.

i’m not anti protein at all. i just think the fitness industry has successfully turned “get enough protein” into “more protein is always better,” and those are two very different things.

does anyone else feel like the protein obsession has gotten a little out of control?

I used to get in the car and immediately put on a playlist or a podcast but recently I’ve started driving in complete silence.

I’ve been doing this the past couple weeks since I’ve been on a roadtrip across the US and I feel like I’ve been so much more present in my driving and noticing more beauty in my surroundings.

Driving is one of those rare occasions in this modern society where you quite literally CANT be on your phone so I’ve found that just completely using that time to be alone with my thoughts has really helped me to think through life and not constantly overstimulate my brain with new information from podcasts.

I still love music, but i think i had gotten so used to constantly consuming something that silence started to feel uncomfortable. now driving quietly feels weirdly peaceful.

has anyone else tried this?

so im in the manifestation stages of my van life journey and in deciding whether i want to build my self or buy a pre-built van i find myself wondering do i really need an inside kitchen?

for ref, i work remote and i don’t necessarily need to be economical about food and i love trying new restaurants in new places (that’s one of the reasons i wanna do van life).

my plan is to kinda forget the kitchen set up and just get a mini fridge and a portable stove for when i wanna cook outside at campsites. and i also want a shower to use for cleaning myself and dishes.

but every van i see has a whole sink and kitchen set up and im thinking i would wanna use that space for something else (a desk and couch set up) but i fear im missing something that i wont know about till im actually on the road. do you think im underestimating the necessity and convenience of an inside kitchen or is it something i could possibly live without. please let me know if there are flaws in my plan!

everyone always says “pick a niche” but what if u genuinely dont have one 🥹

i like hiking, yoga, books, fashion, camping, road trips, nature… like my interests are all over the place. some of them “make sense” together but some of them are so out of left feild that it feels weird to post it all on one channel if that makes sense … i do
sometimes i wonder if im just making excuses bc i cant commit to one thing lol

idk. has anyone actually been in this situation and figured it out? did u eventually just force urself to stick to one thing or is there another way to think about it?