u/foodie121

thanks again :)

need help transitioning to veganism , thanks!

I have a relative who wants to be vegetarian but says it is hard for him as he cannot eat many carbs (which is true) & this is hard outside of the house. He also says he must rely on meat to get his protein and other vegetarian protein foods like soy etc are processed.

Any advice?

Hi all I'm vegetarian and been transitioning to veganism and one of my first steps is to remove all my junk food snacks with vegan ones! So far I've got oreos.. and that's about it lol

Anything else y'all love that I can find in the supermarket?

Hi all, I made a post earlier about treating my room. Thank you so much for all the suggestions.

The biggest thing I've noticed so far is that it sound staticy when im recording, im using a focusrite, mac and smure sm58. I only have a cable plugged in between my mac and the focusrite.

The staticy noise disappears completely when I turn down the gain to 0, and also when I do sing it becomes quieter (i guess buried behind the vocal) but it still doesn't sound very good

at the same time the vocal is even a little staticy I would say and could be clearer.

Any idea? I've looked online to figure out what it could be, switched the XLR cable as well and same thing.

My vocals sound terrible, I am using a dynamic mic.

Using ableton , focusrite scarlette & the shure sm58.

Im not a ex-vegan in any way. But looking on the vegan sub, I’m like if you truly want to encourage people to be vegan , you guys are not helping your cause.

Telling people to go cold turkey is the only way is idiotic. If I wanted to go vegan, baby steps is actually a better way , you’d probably be more likely to sustain it long term .

And the other thing, them saying vegetarians are not doing anything more to reduce harm to the animals makes no sense to me. I understand the dairy and egg industry are harmful, but if someone removed all fish, pork, seafood, etc from their diet and doesnt add more milk and egg products I’mm not sure how that is even worse. A lot of vegetarians do not know how closely the dairy and egg industry are to the meat industry even. And If you wanted to also convert a vegetarian to vegan, going from eating meat to vegetarian to vegan is an easier transition than swapping one day from omnivore to vegan so telling them they’re just as bad may very well make them go back to their original diet and i dont know how that helps your cause at all?

I dont have any vegan friends in real life but the extremist views on there, it has to be 100% or you’re doing nothing, does not help your cause!!

Curious.

Before I was vegetarian I actually ate very little meat anyway, but I now explicitly say sure lets find a place with veggie options, or can we order another dish since I cant eat that?

It felt somewhat different in the beginning like I was inconveniencing people but eventually I got over it being an inconvenience because at the end of the day I fully switched over for the animals.

The other thing is people ask me quite a bit why are you vegetarian?

Have you all noticed any differences?

Had 2 consultations i guess you could say. My upper retainer is slightly broken basically & theres cavities back there.

My dentist said they can fill it and put it back on

The other one said theres a lot of build up so its best to remove it now that its been 10 years & I could just opt into a removable retainer?

Im really not sure what to do to be honest. Im worried about teeth shifting.

I’ve been vegetarian for four years and I realize for instance gelatin is not vegetarian and present in jello.

But as I do more research I realize things like even marshmallows arent vegetarian!

Please give me other ones!! I mean I found some like

Rice krispies

Parmesan at times??

Whats good to look for on the ingredient lists

Edit : thx for the responses

Heres the ingredients you all gave me, alphabetically if it helps someone!

Animal rennet
Bone char
Bonito flakes (miso soup)
Bovine collagen
Caesar sauce
Carmine/ E120
Chicken bouillon
Chicken broth (more obvious ingredient)
Cochineal
Collagen
Confectioners glaze
Fish paste
Fish sauxe
Gelatin
Isinglass (in wines)
Lac resin
Lard
Pharmaceutical glaze
Shrimp paste

I’ve been slacking off and just really trying to find the best thing thats low maintenance but is effective.

Also by the way, I try to use eye charts to monitor my progress but I can barely see anything because i have -7 and -5.75 in one eye so I cant even tell if Im improving which makes it less motivating.

Please give me some motivation especially if you were a high myope and saw improvements

I have a sibling who wants kids thankfully . And theres not anything I can really do if i dont want kids but I feel bad about it sometimes.

My grandma also said to me yesterday , when your parents become grandparents, they will know the same love I feel for you. (I would never tell her i dont want kids or she would probably go insane lol )

producing & writing a song by myself

I got great feedback on echio for the music production itself but I guess the actual vocals might not be fitting well with the song and I really need a 1-1 session where I can get professional feedback

does anyone know any reputable websites where I can get 1-1 feedback and if you have a specific person even you recommend, that'd be great!

producing & writing a song by myself

I got great feedback on echio for the music production itself but I guess the actual vocals might not be fitting well with the song and I really need a 1-1 session where I can get professional feedback

does anyone know any reputable websites where I can get 1-1 feedback and if you have a specific person even you recommend, that'd be great!

Im only 26 right now but I guess one thing is not rushing to find a person to settle down so i can have kids

Thanks for all your comments everyone! im glad to see this decision has let everyone do better in life :)

Got the melody, lyrics but the singing placement is off and I just desperately need help fine tuning it. I have my vocal coach for weekly lessons but shes been so unresponsive lately.

Is this something anyone has done like hire a vocal coach for helping with own song? I dont want to find someone online and do online, want an in person coach?

Any advice? Because all I see is vocal coaches for weekly lessons when Im researching.

Thank you in advance

Personally i only did eye exercises very passively and on and off since around 15 up to 25 years old which kept my eyesight minimally progressing over 10 years. I also wore weaker glasses on the computer. It did go down 0.25 one time.

This year i’ve taken up sunning and palming in hopes as well now that my eyesight is stable as an adult , my prescription will go down. I also am doing the 20-20-20 rule on devices

I also just added nightshift modeto my phone to help me. And finally I also am trying to incorporate more yawning into the day as that keeps eyes moist

. Also my prescription is -5.75 & -7.25. But at 15 it was -5 & -6.75 . So not a bad increase i think after the eye exercises because before 15 it would go up like 0.5 every eye doctor visit to even up to a diopter.. 😅. And i started wearing glasses around 8..

I think it’d be helpful if we wrote our gains etc, things we noticed during the week.

I know like you can take measurements with the eye chart, but for instance with my eyesight

-7.25 & -5.25, I cant see much on the eye chart.

How do you see if its been improving then?

Basically i planned the whole release announced it & my intuition was right that some of the vocals arent hitting as hard as I thought sooo its not going great on the promo end lol. Im just a beginning artist so its not like i have a big following.

I was thinking of just taking down my promos & putting only the only music sections of the song for now, saying something like, “technical issues need to be pushed” lmao.. its only two days in at least. And the release date is 3.5 weeks later so i can cancel it I guess? Using distrokid.