u/Puppysnot

Guys please help me meal prep high protein meals.

I’ve started a new job after working from home for 6 years and i now need to be onsite 3 days a week. The canteen on site serves junk so is not an option. I can bring my own food but i am picky. Any ideas that meet the following:

- cannot be red meat
- cannot be cold like a salad (sensory issues sorry)
- office does have a microwave so can be re-heated
- i do have a thermos so I can cook something & it can be stored hot in that

I need both lunch and breakfast ideas. If i can batch cook it even better.

For breakfast i tried protein oats (whey + oats) in the thermos and it turned into a brick 🥲. I think the whey curdled.

Current schedule is below - each is 3-4 sets of 10-12 with the last set being to failure.

Let me know if there is any doubling up or redundancy built in please. Also i would like to swap one of these exercises out for OHP - which one makes sense?:

- Bench press (barbell)

- Incline bench press

- Seated shoulder press (machine)

- Cable fly cross overs

- Tricep rope push down

- Single arm lateral raise

I don’t know if this is coincidence. But I’ve had myokymia for the last 3 months constantly. I take 1800mg magnesium daily (majority in glycinate). I do this because i get migraines and for some unknown reason they stop when i take magnesium.

I ran out of my magnesium tablets and forgot to order them and then immediately went on a 3 week holiday. So i have not taken them now for 3 weeks. I have also not had my eyelid twitching now for 2 weeks.

So long story short, i think my mag supplements caused my eye twitching some how. This is despite my blood magnesium levels being in the normal range.

My trigger is when i stroke the undersides of my feet, if i feel a rough piece of skin or imperfection, i pull it off. Sometimes i pull very large and deep pieces resulting in injury.

We are having a heatwave here in the UK and my skin is SOOOO dry. It does not help that i am in flip flops all day but honestly its too hot for anything else.

As a result my feet are dry and cracked and dusty af and my picking has gone through the roof. Please give me any tips you have - ideally preventing my feet becoming dry with sharp skin bits etc.

Moisturiser no longer cuts it - it’s like my feet are too dry even for that. The only thing that works is soaking them for 30 mins in water and THEN applying moisturiser but even that only lasts a short while.

I just want to share this with you guys and thank you for letting me vent.

Some context: i am a black lesbian.

About ten years ago i met my now ex (J). We fell in love quickly and J asked me to move in. The relationship was honestly everything i had ever dreamed of and she was a great partner. We clicked perfectly and she made sure i felt loved & vice versa.

After 4 years we began discussing the option of kids which was something we always wanted. I am black and J is white and very fair. We discussed the logistics of it all and agreed on a white sperm donor with my eggs to create a mixed race child.

In the run up to the procedure at the clinic J suddenly got cold feet and said she didn’t want this after all. I was devastated but knew i needed to respect her feelings so i accepted it and we continued as a childless couple. We went on a few holidays and enjoyed life again.

Suddenly J said she did want to do this & she was 100% certain this time. So we rebooked the ivf procedure. The run up to ivf involves a lot of scans, injections and procedures etc. the day before the egg collection J said she absolutely couldn’t do this. Not only that she wanted to break up. Not only that she wanted me to move out ASAP. I told her i needed to understand why and after much arguing she said “I JUST CANNOT SEE MYSELF HAVING BLACK OR MIXED CHILDREN!”.

The ivf clinic explained it was too late to cancel the egg collection due to various medical factors, so they undertook the procedure. I then came home from the surgery sore as hell, packed my bags and moved out and into a studio apartment. She then blocked me everywhere and has never spoken to me since.

To this day i have no idea what the hell happened. I was black when she met me so i don’t know why she went along in the relationship with me for 4-5 years and went to all the IVF appointments with me. I also lost the best relationship ive ever had - I’m not kidding when i say it was absolutely perfect (until it wasn’t). It really threw me for a loop and I’ve never been the same.

Still life moves on and I donated the embryos i made with J to an infertile friend of mine and she has since had a daughter - the irony is that this kid is blonde and white passing anyway!

I’m not talking about enhanced levels. What is the optimal *natural* level required? I am perimenopausal and my level is 0.4 nmol/L - do I need to supplement? Doctors here in the UK are clueless about women’s hormone levels so I have not gotten anywhere through asking them.

I have been reading up on biological changes in old age eg sarcopenia, memory issues etc.

Let’s look at muscle changes. My reading tells me that “age-related denervation is a natural, progressive process that occurs as part of aging, contributing significantly to the loss of muscle mass and strength known as sarcopenia”. If we look at (example) ALS, denervation is a hallmark of the disease and is what ultimately causes paralysis.

Is ALS therefore just a “sped up” version of old age in that it happens suddenly over the period of 2-5 years rather than gradually over 20 years?

Let’s look at memory changes. Google tells me that healthy old people have minor memory lapses as part of healthy aging due to “slower neural signaling, and decreased neurotransmitter production”. Alzheimers and Parkinson’s are both characterised by severely decreased neurotransmitter production and ultimately this leads to death.

My question is: is ALS/parkinsons/Alzheimers etc etc just natural aging/decline but sped up over the period of a few years? If science can cure these diseases, would it also not solve the issue of aging?

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