I mean I would love to have a barbell but I live in an apartment. You can still get a great workout in (even for strength training) without a lot of these things. I’m not a minimalist and definitely think having some weight is helpful for training legs (as recommended even by r/bodyweightfitness), but I wouldn’t say…

For all I hear about “preachy” vegans I feel like it’s often the omnivores who will be the ones who make a big deal of it while the vegan is otherwise willing to quietly bring a dish or subsist on a crappy salad for one meal.

I realize this might not work for an actual pie since it has less protein and generally different chemical properties. But I made a sweet potato casserole (the sweet kind with the streusel topping) subbing canned coconut milk recently and it was fantastic.

Related - my boyfriend likes energy drinks over coffee. People who drink like 5 cups of coffee a day will act like he just told them he snorts cocaine every morning when he mentions his daily cup of Monster.

It’s also OK to be an adult who just doesn’t like coffee that much. I do drink it sometimes just because it’s a nice way to get out of the house to go to the coffee shop now that I work from home. I also like iced protein coffee in warmer weather, as the coffee helps balance out the sweetness of the protein powder. But…

Yup. I mean I think most people know when the most traffic is, but choose to travel at those times to maximize the time they spend with their family without having to take too much if any time off work. I can’t imagine many people who can avoid traveling on Wednesday afternoon are not already doing so. Also, most…

I don’t see it as a diss either. But I still think there are some implications about the bride needing reassurance/having low self-esteem that maybe make it a bit off as a wedding song. It is a perfectly sweet love song, but still not my favorite as a wedding song for that reason.

I agree that I don’t see the song as being about “negging” or anything too terrible like that. I also see it as Billy Joel reassuring his partner. Although, it still seems weird to have a song that implies the bride has low self-esteem and needs reassurance as a wedding song? So I still maintain my preference for “The…

Boyfriend’s mom is making the turkey and mashed potatoes and vegetables, while I have been tasked with the stuffing and sweet potato casserole. Potluck seems like the way to go unless you really don’t have anyone else in the family who cooks.

Are supermarkets not still doing the free turkey as part of grocery rewards these days? My dad always used to get one for free every year.

So I’ve heard and believe the whole idea that most of the “HIIT” people do is actually “MIIT”. That said, I haven’t heard much one way or the other about the effects of medium-intensity intervals over steady state, and I’d really be curious about the research there. I really like doing either group fitness or videos,…

Slightly off topic but it disappoints me greatly that “Just The Way You Are” became the wedding favorite over “The Longest Time”. Maybe the latter isn’t perfect thematically for a wedding with the “maybe this won’t last very long” part. But at least it’s a beautiful love song with zero negative or weird undertones,…

My algorithm is pretty tuned away from that kind of stuff and I still get some not great content occasionally, and I can definitely see how it could have a negative effect on a teenage girl. For example I saw a Reel recently with a woman’s “what I eat in a day” specifically for the week before a bikini competition,…

Oh, and I love a good blow up turkey or cornucopia decoration!

Also by the scientific concept of hedonic adaptation it’s novelty that really provides a lot of the benefits here. Even if you’ve done them in past years, twinkly lights and a tree are novel after 11 months of not having them. But after a month, they are going to start to not be novel anymore.

Does doing it within the same company still count as a boomerang, though?

Speaking of boosters, all of my friends (late 20s/early 30s, healthy, work remotely) are going for them already and I don’t really get it? I know they’re going to be *authorized* for people like us soon (as in, you *can* get one under 65 without essentially fibbing a bit about having a high risk job or medical…

The cost of insurance versus the cost if you happen to need the coverage that insurance gives you is not the only factor to consider, though. The main other variables are: 1. Can you afford to self-insure? Or can you simply go without the item in question or find another way to fund it (like credit) if you don’t have…

This sounds good but I can’t help but laugh at the idea of pasta on Thanksgiving. Holidays were constantly a struggle between my very Irish-American meat-and-potatoes grandfather and my very Italian (from Italy) cousin’s grandmother (aunt’s mother-in-law). She always wanted some kind of pasta served as the main dish,…

I get that food gifts are often something bought for someone you don’t know very well, but I think this comes down to another case of “know your audience”. I am not a vegetarian, but also not a sausage person at all (or a huge meat person in general, especially red meat). I often eat vegetarian purely out of…