yep!
I am guessing it’s a bottle that is double metal walled (“insulated”). In the nicer ones like Yetis and hydro flasks there is usually a near vacuum between the the two pieces (thermos brand stuff works the same). This creates an “air gap” with very few molecules present for the conduction of heat. Therefore all the incoming radiation heats up the outside of the bottle but not it’s contents (inner wall is close to equal in temperature to the liquid).
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Didn’t want to discuss in the flame free thread, but what are you eating to justify this daily work? The guy you’re emulating for that might as well be hooked up to an IV of meat and butter.
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A lot of chicken (.99/lb), canned sardines and eggs (conventional and not very tasty, but can’t afford the good ones). Testing out nutrition protocol for next semester now that I’m out of the house.
It’s my birthday Saturday so will hit a massive workout then go to a very expensive steakhouse for dinner
I do daily work to help with posture. At this point, it’s nothing to me. Funny thing, I remember how difficult 50 swings were a year ago when I did the 10k swings challenge. Now I can rep out 100 no problem
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Maths final grades came out- I GOT A 97!!!
solidly in the A territory!
That is my last maths course in uni. Will probably study stuff on my own time, but I don’t think I can/want to handle the stress of being graded again/ risk running in to a crazy prof
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Nice work.
See? You panicked for no reason. You know how to work hard, that will get you where you need to go academically.
Also, rolling the dice on professors is part of the fun of undergraduate school.
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well… I was getting C’s on the HW before realizing that the prof gave answers during office hours 
Thanks! this means a lot
I’m very risk averse- have just been extremely lucky and am in a major where all the professors for my required courses are beyond nice
I don’t really believe either sentence here, especially the second one, given that you typed this in the flame free thread
I don’t think there’s much of a point in discussing this any further, though.
In other news, congrats on Math. That’s tough stuff to be getting such a high grade in.
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You are likely going to destroy your joints in short order keeping up this work level.
I know you like to work hard, but there is a such thing as working too hard.
Walking 3 miles each way to the gym and any workout there is plenty of activity, even just 3 days a week. If you really must do something on the other days, yoga or Tai Chi is where it’s at.
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Week 1: Day 3- cardio
Eliptical: 3x(5 min (alt 1 min easy, 1min hard)+2x(10 burpees+20 alt lunges+40sec plank)), 20 min easy (done later)
- gym wasn’t going to happen today so did some cardio, got HR up and felt really good, eliptical is harder than it looks
- lame excuse, but got stuck in a couple of meetings, did research work → skipped daily work. might still get the rows in anyhow later @flappinit @cyclonengineer I posted that on flame free because of the irrationality of not wanting to do something so easy, like procrastinating taking a shower or not making the bed b/c you’re tired
Note:
Next week is going to be crazy. going for blood work and a colonoscopy on Monday so will have to do some catch up. Plan is to make up supplemental work tomorrow, hit next week’s heavy day on Saturday (along with a hellish birthday conditioning workout)- sunday and monday to recover, then do the supplemental work (no gym required) on Tuesday, lower body hypertrophy wednesday, upper body hypertrophy thursday and I’ll be caught up
Hopefully the colonoscopy actually reveals something useful. I’d like to fix my stupid digestive system.
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If I may add…I think you’re doing great. However, I’ve noticed that you seem to place a lot of your self worth in success. I see you post a lot about higher level learning, advanced academics, etc.Then you also feel the need to excel in training, etc. All of us already know of your skewed view concerning food, and how you view your body.
I’m asking this:
If all of that were to be taken away, how would you view yourself? Would you still accept yourself as you are? Would still be proud of yourself even if you didn’t hold up to certain standards? What if you didn’t go to school, or you didn’t take all these advanced courses? What if you weren’t allowed to train or just didn’t? What if you didn’t have to “have it all together?” You are more than just success.
Without actually having met you, the only thing I can go off of, is what you post, and how you post it. There’s nothing wrong with the pursuit of success. I’m not saying don’t go to school, or challenge yourself, or anything like that. I absolutely applaud all of the hard work you put into your own personal life/goals.
The problem however, seems to be that you’re striving for something akin to…perfection almost. And I say this with nothing but kindness in my heart…but you are doing too much. I’m willing to bet that perhaps familial pressures along with societal pressures could be to blame as well. Which I think then leaks into every other facet of your life, and what we see when you post, as fellow online friends are just symptoms of a much more sophisticated thing with which you deal with. Of course many of us comment on your food intake and training, but I find through my own personal struggles, and things akin to this type of stuff, it’s merely a tangent, alongside deeper things that cause these outwardly behaviors.
And I just wanna let you know that you’re doing great. And that you’re enough. You’re smart enough, beautiful enough, and strong enough. Like…you’re enough. You really are.
If given the opportunity I’d give you a giant hug. You don’t have to match up to anyone but yourself. I say that because reading through your log I saw this:
Your friend is not you. You aren’t her. Everything your friend isn’t, you probably are. Somethings she might have to bust her ass for, for years, might come as naturally as breathing to you. Im not saying to make that into a competition, but to provide perspective for you.
And if you all of a sudden, sometime in the future just decide to do something else, you do it. Even if it causes rifts along the way, with whoever, it’s still okay. You wouldn’t be selfish for looking out for your own mental health, etc. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. If you don’t hear it from anywhere else, you at least will read that from me.
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Thank you- this really means a lot
yes
very shitty, but studies show that ppl tend to overestimate how unhappy they will be when bad things happen. I’ve experienced this to some extent with missing BB training during COVID and kidney surgery
My workload isn’t that much. My maths prof literally gave us answers to the HW
No- we are very different. He’s been very very good to me. Fall semester, he actually switched into diff eq last minute for me and is a major reason I passed.
He’s also a machine. He’s better at maths, can handle higher workload and is doing better than me in terms of research and work
I can cook, write better and am probably twice as strong as him (he hates working out, which is why I disqualified him)
Here’s the problem. Although I’m better than him in some aspects, the stuff he’s better at matter more in the grand scheme of things. He doesn’t need to cook, be strong and writes well enough to publish papers.
I have come to a realization though. I don’t need to be the best. I just need to find the best people and convince them to work with me.
I full on thought my life was gonna be crap because I switched from Optometry to Psychiatry. I thought I’d never finish school, but alas, here I am moving along. I’m definitely not immune to doing that myself.
But my point is, your life wouldn’t be lesser because of you know? Sure it would be a let down, but what then? Eventually you’d…find importance in something else. And even then it wouldn’t take away from you still having done good for yourself.
I’m hinting at just your life stressors all together…in general, I guess I should say. It’s good that math is less stressful in that aspect, but wouldn’t that be just a part of the whole concerning the overall workload you have in your life? Again, I’m not saying to just ditch hard work, but more so…prioritize.
Oh apologies for the wrong pronoun.
But yes that’s what I’m agreeing with, and kind of stressing to you. He’s good at certain things, excels more at certain things, handles stressors differently, etc.
And sure he’s doing better at certain academic things, but that’s my point here. Who knows where else in life he may actually struggle a lot? It’s none of my business and I’m just drawing up examples, but I think you get it. And that’s not to say your viewpoints aren’t valid. They are, of course, valid. I guess just adding in more room for perspective can be helpful when you feel as though someone’s doing perceivably “better than you”, even close friends.
Hey now, don’t disqualify the man for not being an iron head like you and us lol. All jokes aside, I understand. As far as potential partners go, but things don’t always have to line up for a good relationship to work out. Compromise has its place. Granted I know you know that 
Hmm…so I may I ask what “grande scheme of things” means to you personally? And may I ask how you think that would tie into your later years in life? I’m not asking this to try to dismiss your viewpoints, I’m just asking to understand really.
And he may not, but you take interest in such things and are good at them no? That’s a strong suit you have. Some, maybe most don’t have those. I for one, cannot cook whatsoever, but I managed to find someone who couldn’t care any less lol.
For work and academic purposes I’d say that’s a way to be content with your success, but again, even if you don’t have a means of convincing people, or say you never do convince anyone. Say it’s solely just you, and whatever your success looks like…that’s…well that’s what it looks like. Would you think you did good? Could you be able to adjust your perspective in such a way where you’d still view yourself as successful regardless?
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There is no “best” professionally. There are certain benchmarks that people meet to qualify to certain standards. Once past that, there the guy who is really good at X, another who is great with Y, etc.
Best is what kids try to be. The one you call for “this” is what adults/professionals are.
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Just to add to this, I’ve learned recently that I don’t have different buckets for “training stress” and “work stress” and “life stress”. It’s just all one thing. If my girlfriend is fighting with me and I’m stuck in exams I’m just not going to be able to push myself like I can when things are going okay.
This article has some more stuff on that topic:
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This one hits home for me. I am now 10 years past undergraduate school and still feel stuck in this same mindset. It’s a difficult one to get out of. I still want that perfect job, physique, monetary status, etc… I am still not sure how I define myself. It’s getting better slowly (diving into spirituality has helped), but the struggle is intense. It also doesn’t seem to matter how many times my wife tells me I am an awesome father or provider or…that nagging doubt and perfection struggle remains.
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Achievement/success/making an impact in his field. Sure, being fit and an above average amateur cook is cool, but it’s not going to meaningfully help me contribute to the world or make myself rich or respected.
There are certain skills/ attributes that are just more valued than others. There was a nice discussion on the higher ed thread about the value of certain fields. I feel that the same logic applies to skills (context dependent of course). As an extreme example, if I were an aspiring world class oly lifter, being good at maths doesn’t really matter. I want to be an academic.
He’s good at the things that matter in my context.
TBH, not sure
@wanna_be care to elaborate 
My fear is not being “really good” at anything.
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I don’t think I’ll ever get the physique / strength stuff out of my head. For the other stuff, I like to think about how I would be fine with much less. If something were to happen with employment, I would be fine. I don’t think many others actually give much of a shit what car I drive, or how big my house is. I think most people think others care, but they really don’t much. Would you think less of a friend for driving a used corolla? Probably not, and they probably wouldn’t think less of you if you did. Maybe some do, but in general, those type of people I find annoying anyways.
Lately I have been thinking more and more about about lowering my expectations and how it may make me happier. Thinking about how much freedom having really low cost living brings. Basically, I don’t think chasing status is a path to happiness for many people.
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I don’t want to lower expectations for myself- it feels like giving up.
in terms of physical stuff, I agree.
exactly
I don’t necessarily want status or massive wealth for the sake of status or massive wealth. I want success- getting rich, getting abs, winning prestigious grants are measuring sticks
I am discovering this too. “The pursuit of happiness” is a futile effort I think. I have been driving the same car for 9 years now and intend to drive it into the ground because not having a car payment feels much better than having a shiny car. My fear if I get unemployed is knowing how quickly I would have to find another job before my family and I are in deep crap.
Finding less value in “stuff” and more in relationships/actions is an ongoing journey (can be kind of tiresome for one who finds too the company of more than a couple of people draining.)
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