u/dinamet7

CW: Discussion of disordered eating history.

I just started Tirz. about a week ago (after jumping through hoops with my insurance for weeks and being denied coverage, but my Endo still thinks it's worth it for me to be on this med.) I am not weighing or calorie counting due to a history of ED.

My baseline is that I don't have food noise and don't crave foods. I have whatever the opposite is, where I forget to eat and don't snack (I no longer intentionally avoid foods, but my hunger cues have just always been off.) My Endo wants me on Tirz to manage my bloodwork which seem to resist improvement despite all the meds we've tried first. I am middle-aged and have experienced significant weight gain since stopping my disordered eating behaviors almost a decade ago and mentally I am in an OK place with it (and she thinks my years of disordered eating have probably landed me in this position in the first place) but she does think Tirz is our best option right now.

So, my issue since starting the GLP-1 RA is that I am experiencing hunger like I don't think I ever have before. I wake up famished. Before bed, I'm hungry (I normally don't eat meals after 6pm because I also have acid reflux from my history, so suddenly being hungry every night is really confusing because I want to honor my body's signals, but also, I know I will be in pain all night if I do eat!) Everyone talks about the sudden silence they experience and I'm sitting here feeling like my body is shouting for more food (it's coming from my abdomen, not my thoughts, I'm feeling hunger pains all the time and feel like if I don't eat something quickly, I'll start to get the shakes.)

I feel like I am having the opposite experience from what I expected with everything mellowing out. The satiation is there at meals, but then why am I hungry again 2 hours later? Did anyone else have big hunger starting out that leveled out? I feel like I'm exhausting my stash of protein drinks faster than I'd expected! I'm suspecting it has to do with my history and messed up metabolic system, but wondering if anyone else with a history of ED experienced this and how it played out with time?

I am an absolute beginner with no experience outside of my kids walkie talkies. My extended family takes a road trip and glamping/camping every couple of years through areas that have no cell phone coverage - the walkie talkies I bought last year barely connected even in some scenarios where I could see their car ahead of us on a flat road.

This year, I invested in the Baofeng UV-5G Mini (which were shockingly cheaper than the FRS walkies I had before) got the license, got the basic set up done following instructions from a YouTuber (James Burnett) and the Baofeng website, but now I am stuck. We are not listening to the radio chatter casually like so many videos imply, just using them to communicate with one another.

I can't seem to find idiot proof guides or youtube tutorials for setting up the following on the Baofeng Mini UV-5G?

- Setting up those "privacy tones" I keep seeing so when my kids won't talk to strangers (I know it's not private)
- Programming a channel and picking one for an area you are not familiar with (my family is even less familiar with these walkies than I am. I'd like to hand them the Baofeng and say "press this button and say this call sign and then you can talk to us."
- Chirp? Do I need Chirp?

I swear I tried to figure it out on my own before posting, but now I feel so overwhelmed and appreciate any help.

How do you do, fellow kids. I am a middle aged person who used to love discovering new music, but got stuck after about 2010 when it seemed like DJs were all fired from their radio jobs (RIP Jed the Fish) and I never really adapted to streaming over CDs.

I recently retired my 30-year-old analog car and am now trying to set up playlists since my new car only does digital. Even with all the music I could want at my fingertips, I keep going back to the old tunes I have always listened to.

I'd like to listen to new music and stumbled upon some new artists that scratch an adjacent itch to my older music favorites. I would love suggestions for more that might do the same, for example: Mon Rovîa scratches my Iron & Wine itch; Jessie Mazin scratches my Fiona Apple itch.

Ideally I'm looking for artists or albums debuting in 2020 and onward. If you have specific songs to suggest, even better.

The bands/artists in my usual rotation that I'd love any kind of modern vibe suggestions for include: The Shins; Depeche Mode; Siouxie & The Banshees; Violent Femmes; A Tribe Called Quest; RATM; System of a Down; Radiohead; The Cranberries; Bad Religion; Fugees; The Smashing Pumpkins; TLC; Pixies; Tom Petty; The Cure; Fleetwood Mac; M83; MGMT; The White Stripes; Fleet Foxes.

And open to any suggestions that don't sound like any of these bands/artists, but if you like all the same things lmk what 2020 and onward tracks to check out too.

TIA!