What are you on right now?

René wrote:It's also worth bearing in mind that eating too much protein will actually suppress your testosterone production, which can reduce your libido for instance. This is part of a negative-feedback mechanism that regulates protein synthesis.

Yeah, I don't really have much productive use for a libido for the foreseeable anyway. I think my body has already accepted that and put that department on furlough.

Frigid wrote:

René wrote:It's also worth bearing in mind that eating too much protein will actually suppress your testosterone production, which can reduce your libido for instance. This is part of a negative-feedback mechanism that regulates protein synthesis.

Thank goodness, I want to suppress it because my hair is getting a little thin could also be the years of excessive self application of bleaches and dyes. Though also if we're doing PSAs, water intake needs to be increased to help the kidneys deal with the extra protein.

Oh don't worry on that front, I'm fine for water. I get through about 4 litres a day at the moment.

Brenden wrote:

Marmaduke wrote:

René wrote:MyProtein Impact Whey Protein powder is the best I've found so far and comes in lots of nice flavours. Just watch out for the codes you sometimes have to use to get it for a reasonable price, like "BEST" at the moment.

I don't think that appears to really bring much to the table apart from simple addition of protein? I think, unless you can convince me otherwise, a product that delivers a comparable amount of protein whilst also delivering carbs, fats and a mix of vitamins and minerals would surely be better?

Your body can produce all the glucose it needs. Adding carbs to liquid food just gives you an insuline spike, telling your cells to store nutrients and energy, when ideally you’d want the lipids and amino acids to remain circulating so they’re specifically available to muscle tissue when you’re actually working out. Also, you can add fat to the MyProtein whey by mixing it in whole milk. You can get the vitamins and minerals from a tablet that’s far cheaper than Huel, which doesn’t even have that many vitamins and minerals (it’s only like ⅓ of RDA per serving, and for many vitamins RDA is like a lower threshold to prevent deficiency).

Frigid was right, you two are on the take from this protein racket. I wouldn't be surprised to learn you secretly owned it.

Brenden wrote:MyProtein makes similar products to Huel, and I advise against them just as much!

Frigid will tell me the truth of this.

Frigid wrote:

Marmasex wrote:Yeah, I get much the same way. Plus, I ordered it on subscription, but didn't actually get myself into the routine of using it regularly until some considerable time after I started ordering. So I've accidentally built up a supply that I need to get through anyway. Tbh, I'm almost toying with adopting it fully for a little while and seeing how I get along. Because I get the feeling I'd start going to the supermarket just to have somewhere to go, and with no plan I can't be trusted in the supermarket. I buy all manner of shit.

Fools seldom differ. I've got four bags of the fucking stuff sitting on my kitchen counter because I had it on subscription but didn't routinely use it. All the while I've been toying with going full huel for exact same reasons. My 'essentials' yesterday were a bag of lime and corriander popadoms, a bag of quinoa sour cream crisps, and 2 boxes of millionaire bites.

Oh god, don't. After queuing to get into Sainsbury's last Sunday, having only gone in to get some bagels, some sandwich bits and pieces and some milk. I came out with those things, £45 worth of craft lagers with stupid names, some apricot and almond turnovers which I completely consumed on the walk home, Yuzu Cheesecake Mochi, of all fucking things, charcoal face masks and a houseplant. I cannot be trusted alone. I'm an absolute magpie.

Frigid wrote:

MarmaNOPE wrote:Or! Counter-proposal! If you don't die of viral plague, you bake me a cake and bring it to me in three months?

I will see you on Friday 3rd July.

How did it escalate from proposal to me baking you a fucking cake and hand delivering it?

I'm a shrewd negotiator.

Frigid wrote:

Marmajustice wrote:

Daddy wrote:MyProtein makes similar products to Huel, and I advise against them just as much!

Frigid will tell me the truth of this.

Daddy is pretending he disagrees with mummy. But it's a conspiracy to make us look into it. Clickbait.

Never go away again, I don't know what I'd do without you pointing this behaviour out. I just blindly trust them.

Frigid wrote:

Marmagpie wrote:Yuzu Cheesecake Mochi

I'm curious

If there's a big Sainsbury's near you, they sell it at the Sushi Gourmet counter. It's pretty good.

Tonight's craft lager du jour, however, is not that good. Avoid Disco Forklift Truck if you see it on the shelves, it's a bit to sharp and tangy an IPA for my tastes.

Frigid wrote:

Marmaduke wrote:

Frigid wrote:

Marmagpie wrote:Yuzu Cheesecake Mochi

I'm curious

If there's a big Sainsbury's near you, they sell it at the Sushi Gourmet counter. It's pretty good.

Tonight's craft lager du jour, however, is not that good. Avoid Disco Forklift Truck if you see it on the shelves, it's a bit to sharp and tangy an IPA for my tastes.

Sushi? No thanks. And I don't drink lagers but thanks for the quality review.

It's not actually sushi, they just sell it at the sushi counter. Because Japan.

It's rice dough wrapped around yuzu cheesecake filling. It's texturally odd, sure. But it's good. Go buy some immediately. You've only got 15 minutes until they close.

René wrote:I actually defer to Brenden.

It's too late. Michael has shone his spotlight of truth upon you and what I have seen cannot be unseen, no matter how you try to manoeuvre around it.

This feels like the doing of my old enemy. Eons since we last feuded, I knew he would one day return to make good on his omnious lingerings and rain spam down upon us all.

This is the Baidu Spider. He hath cometh, in different form but same menace.

Cannabis as always. I've been getting the "cherry bomb" strain a lot lately. Which taste great and is easy on the lungs. But probably not the best night time weed but good right now so its cool

Magic J wrote:They got the impression than I had been experiencing a kind of low grade depression for years, punctuated with more acute episodes. This suggested to them than it required more sustained use than for a simple acute episode, in order to minimise the chance of relapsing into my usual quiet existential despair.

Sounds like you got a rather good doctor who took time to listen and think about what might be going on. I don't think my doctor was that caring other than to follow what must be the standard procedure i.e prescribe me anti-depressants and put me on a long list for counseling. The anti-depressants didn‘t make me feel any different and the counseling came too late as I sought help because I was on the verge of having a bit of a crisis, then when counseling came I was well going through it. I started on CBT but I thought it was the most frustrating thing ever. I had been feeling lonely and pretty unhappy for years but this was just "negative thoughts". I ended the counseling after a few weeks, changed the anti-depressant to something that might have helped a bit better but was hard to say then stopped them after a few months. Still going through shit now a few years later but just coping by myself.

I don't think the health service could help as would just mess me around with different anti-depressants or offer CBT again which I don't want.