When I get fast food, I don’t eat the fries until I get home.
Make and bring my lunch to work every day. It takes planning and discipline, but over a year, saves me about $12/day, or $3,130 a year.
Meal prepping my lunch and breakfast for the week. Makes it so I don’t eat junk food or if I do it’s rationed in such away it’s premeasered. But chicken and salads everyday this way and I mix up my proteins. Least over steak go great with A1 sauce. Pulled pork with BBQ sauce on a salad to die for.
Just easy for me to pull it out and now exactly what I am eating
Any tips on how to avoid salad getting soggy? I have to meal prep most of my food and soggy veggies are my nemesis.
Put the dressing in another jar. I use small mason jars. I have some glass Pyrex with a snug lid I just pour the dressing on at lunch time and then shake the shit out of it
Every day I get up, get on the exercise bike and watch an episode of Star Trek.
Thanks to this, I’ve seen nearly every episode of Star Trek multiple times.
Branch out to another long-running show like Doctor Who.
I do not care for that show.
But I might rewatch the aughts BSG
ToS, NextGen, DS9, Voyager or are you a heretic I need to burn at the stake?
What’s the problem? Has it been a long road? Getting from there to here?
Long, hard, and throbbing.
T’Pol would like to know your location.
Busy hanging with my bro Teal’c.
Ask him some for some kell no ream if you know what I mean. ;)
I rotate between all of em.
Except Picard and Disco…
Enterprise really gets the heart rate up
No doubt that… It’s been a long road
It’s been a long road
Aren’t they cold by then?
Potatoes when cooked then cooled actually greatly lowers the glycemic index, so it’s weird but actually not a bad habit to have!
Maybe true, but they still taste nasty when cold
I prefer them fresh but if needed, I retoast them when I get home especially with undercooked fries like Wendy’s . Ensures they are hot and crispy
The best (IMO) fast food place by me isn’t exactly close. By the time I get home I have to nuke fries and burger. 🤷🏼♂️ Still didn’t have to cook or do dishes!
You need an air fryer. The fries will be back to crispy.
When I feel bad emotionally, I clean. I do the nastiest, most unpleasant jobs; since I’m gonna be miserable no matter what, I might as well get some use out of it.
I think I might try this. It sounds useful in so many ways.
I also recently discovered this and it is so nice and genius
Stealing this
There’s definitely something to this. I tend to get a lot of chores done before my weekly floor disassociation time.
Do you feel that getting the worst jobs done also helps to boost your mood, because that awful thing you didn’t want to do is now done?
Not in that way, but:
A) my environment is usually nicer afterwards, which improves mood, and
2] if I was miserable due to fighting with my partner, seeing me do chores usually improves her mood, facilitating reconciliation
I am sorry you are fighting with your partner. Have a heart ❤️ that means nothing to you.
That’s kinda genius.
That’s interesting. I wonder if I can trick myself into doing stuff like that as a form of punishment. Generally I find myself unable to move so I just stare into space. Sometimes I have a hard time even moving my arms and legs to drive home from work. Or to get out of the car once I’ve parked out front. How do you manage to start?
It’s a practice. It’s about bringing your focus back to the present moment. When you’re sitting in your car your head is probably swimming in the world of what happens when you step out. But you’re not out yet, you’re in your car. Breathe and remind yourself of that.
Think of it like restarting your computer when it freezes. You’ve overwhelmed your system, it’s easier to reset than try resolve the issue through direct control.
I don’t force myself to start right away. After years of “well I guess I might as well” I now more-or-less automatically start washing dishes, doing laundry, and tackling yardwork when my mood dips. I still need to make the conscious choice to tackle bigger jobs like mucking out the basement or turnjng the compost.
Doing my job consistently enough to pay my bills
I’m extremely consistent with my weightlifting program (1.5 years aww yeah!)
Starting to lift with the best decision I ever made and the best habit I’ve ever formed. Nagging aches and pains are basically a thing of the past. I’m way more useful, and my lower body, which was once withered and useless after a decade of working in an office, have been replaced with tree trunks and a dump-truck ass
A couple of the accessory benefits of this that in order to support my lifting progress I now eat way better, quit drinking and prioritize proper sleep. Overall it’s just been a huge increase in quality of life
Same, except I lift with my teenage son and daughter. We got a power rack in the garage and now they drag me out to it with them. We’re all feeling better about ourselves!
I’ve been really good with taking my medication first thing these days. I also walk during my lunch hour, and use that time to listen to audio books. Sometimes I don’t wanna walk, but I still want to know what happens next, so I go for that walk.
Reading
Perfectionism, I always strive to make whatever I create or do as close to perfect as possible!
Daily reminder on al devices to think of three things for which I’m grateful every day. I’ll do today’s list now:
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Despite the terrible heatwave in California, I now live in a place with AC for the first time in two decades (uncommon in the Bay Area)
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My current work is so chill that I can be on Lemmy most of the day between calls
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My partner genuinely loves our (my) kitties and takes great care of them with me
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I’m paranoid about losing my wallet and other daily carry stuff, so I haven’t. Been carrying stuff for like 30 years. Never lost a wallet, cell phone,pocket knife, or keys. Couple close calls.
Me too. Often when I leave a grocery store or my home I check all my everyday carries. But I still lost my wallet last month. Forgot in on a car roof when I fled from attacking wasps. It flew somewhere and I lost some cards.
Dragging myself out of my house to deal with this maddening existence called life, despite every fiber of my being telling me to stay home and avoid all you annoying flesh-bags that just do everything you can to irritate me.
That and I read daily.
Handtool woodworking, especially if you tackle the hard stuff. I resaw 50% of my stock, by hand, then smooth, by hand. Just in the last 3-4 months when I started taking it seriously, I lost 20 pounds, with basically few dietary changes. It also keeps me so preoccupied I don’t think about eating lol.
I clean up when I’m done. Never leave dishes in the sink and such. I’m not a cleaning freak or anything, it’s just that I prefer not having to deal with these kind of obstacles before I can begin doing something else in that area.
Doing many small tasks is easier than doing a large one. Kinda like the inverse of “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
Yes, for some things. Some tasks are better done summarized. Cleaning generally isn’t, because it easily conflicts with other tasks when not done.
I’m a rather busy family man, so if I have 20 minutes to cook a meal for the family before I have to drive someone somewhere it can really mess up the entire day schedule if the sink is full of dishes and the trash bin is topped up with unsorted garbage. So I try to be on top of it for my own sake. “Keep the tools sharp” goes for everything, even a diaper supply.
Dishes especially are one of those things that doesn’t take any quicker to do in large batches. It’s faster and easier to just do them after eating before things get dried on.
Even dish-cleaning-youtube experts don’t use their dishwashers anymore.
This is the way! I never understood people waiting for the dishes to pile up before cleaning them. I’d just be more demotivated to actually clean them up.
