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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • I started on this path a year ago. I homebrew beer and it’s pretty yummy. Years of drinking a couple of beers a night got me over 100kg. That was my trigger. 1x beer about same as a Mars bar in calories. Stopped drinking weekdays. Only vape weed as a wind down now. Switched to whisky ginger ale on weekends. Buy less snacks Drink more water and tea and stopped having sugar in tea.10x teas a day is a lot of unnecessary sugar. Stopped eating lunch, have miso soup sachets. Breakfast is toast and marmite Dinner is full normal meal My stomach stopped complaining it was hungry, though it helped to have awareness that the hungry feeling is a good feeling and to embrace it as a sign of success. I don’t beat myself up for a stumble. Sometimes I snack, sometimes I go out for midweek beers though rarely.

    Over a year I dropped 25kg A quarter of my body mass I’m 52 It helps I’m adhd lol and eating has always been an afterthought But the main weight loss came from significantly reducing alcohol Unfortunately I’ve not made any beer for two years… so there is a downside lol Anyway… just my 2c Good luck 👍









  • diagnosed in my 50’s

    always known I’m different lol

    coasted subjects I liked but failed subjects I hated.

    I was disruptive and constantly outside the headmasters office. in those days I got the slipper and cane…

    mum called me hyperactive and blamed tartrazine from orange cordial. looking back I was casebook ADHD.

    now I have a diagnosis I’m able to get the support and connections to my kids that I never had myself. teaching techniques and understanding what’s going on for them when they have meltdowns.

    to be fair they didn’t have ADHD diagnosis on the 70’s so I’m just happy I can support my kids knowing what I know and why



  • thanks for the long reply. I hope EU actually sends weapons and puts boots on the ground to assist Ukraine. UK has given some cruise missiles and I’m sure other EU countries will do similar. interesting that the EU financial assistance was loans but as you said these can be cancelled easily. I guess loans are easier to sell to you population. I’d also prefer to not have the US involved now the administration has changed, but disentangling so much bureaucracy is difficult and doesn’t happen overnight. I’d suspect Ukraine doesn’t want any deals with the US now but needs to keep playing the game until they don’t need to. Russia wss never going to play the game anyway, never in good faith. The EU really needs to step up… but again this takes time to start building up stockpiles and uniforms… so I can see why the game is being played. I just hope Ukraine wins every hand. thanks 🙏