one does not gain 2lbs of muscle in 6 days and muscle doesn’t look flabby or jiggle.
I’m not convinced it’s fat, but my weight does a weird stairstep thing, each time looking softer
It’s probably not water bc it’s been 3 days and still not gone
Well, no, but 2lbs of muscle results in MORE than 2lbs of scale weight gained.
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Not actually true. There are more things which affect water retention than sodium regulation.
Prime example is stress → increased cortisol-> affects ADH hormone (which is responsible for water regulation).
(edit: No idea why it replied to PWN and not Anna)
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Given where it seems you are mentally with your weight/body issues, it very well might be a good time for you to ask your parents to help you with money so that you can get the help you so desperately need. I’m more than certain that if you ask them for assistance to get a therapist and a coach to keep you HEALTHY that they will consider it a worthwhile investment.
I’m so glad that you’re going to see a dietitian at your school - but you also need to trust her/him and do exactly what they tell you regardless of how you feel about it or if it makes you uncomfortable. Give it time - at least 3 weeks. Your body takes time to adjust to anything new. If you try to stay in control nothing will change. Go in with an open mind willing to try something new if that’s what’s recommended.
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No, close though. That was me raging after a recent trip to aldis and seeing dairy products up 30% from when I last checked
Weather like that reminds me why I don’t want to stay
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Week 1: Day 1
Bench: 1x4-40,45, 1x9-50kg, 2x8-45
lateral raises: 5x12-10lb Dbs
Feet up bench: 1x12-40kg; 1x12, 7x5-35kg EMOM
press: 1x13-30kg; 1x10,14x5,9x4- 25kg EMOM
Conditioning: 6x(10 alternating DB cleans-40lbs+10 pushups+10 lying leg raises+30 jumping jacks)
- felt good, the press was really cool
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“work” from the past week". Very detailed explanations bc I put in a lot of fucking work into these
Dresses 8 and 9 in the chinese collection
- the aysmmetry on this is intentional
Started a new collection with each piece inspired by a soviet song. My favourite jewelry company does art/literature/nature inspired collections for high jewelry. They never touched any Russian themes, so I figured I’d go all out
These are watches, and not very well drawn, but each of these took 8 hours to design and sketch. They look a lot better in my head too 
Both are 4th or 5th drafts. To put that in context, I spent less than 16 total hours working on final projects for 2 classes last semester (got high As on both too)
Inspired by Katyusha, with references to Stalingrad
(the scribbling at the bottom reads “watch gears, too lazy to draw”. I wanted this to show the gears in the blank section)
Symbolism:
- blue is a section of the volga on many battle maps
- pink flowers are apple blossoms and the white ones are pear (from the song)
- 7 apple flowers +1 apple = 8 for august, when the battle started
- 2 plum flowers on the right of the river = february, when the battle ended
- 1943 stones (including the undrawn ones that would be on the band and outside of the case
- open watch gears = industry. Stalingrad was an industrial city and quite a bit of the major action was to occupy factories (ie tractor factory)
Make:
- white gold case
- diamonds in the background and decour on the strap and case
- anything yellow is gold
- lapis inlay for the river
- 37 pink sapphires for the apple flower petals
- ruby for the apple, emerald for the leaf
- mother of pearl for the pear flowers, yellow diamonds as the centres
Inspired by Polyushka Polye. I’m still not too happy with the design of this one
Symbolism
honestly just references to the lyrics.
Make:
- white gold case
- diamonds on the outside
- sky and clouds are enamel on white gold
- spessartite garnet for the sun
- emerald and peridot for the grass (was too lazy to vary the shades of green in the drawing)
- enamel on white gold for the house
- yellow gold for the woman, white gold for the man
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That second dress looks really nice
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Thanks! Ironically that one was the easiest to design and sketch. Only an hour or so
Today’s “work”. New Collection called “flowers” or “pressed flowers”. the national flowers of various countries. All are white gold with diamond band
Sunflower: Ukraine
Make
- black diamond on centre
- yellow diamond on flowers
Chamomile: Russia
Make
- diamond on flower
- yellow diamond on centre
Peony: China
Make
- rubies and spinel on flowers
- yellow diamond on centre
- emerald and peridot on leaves
- chocolate diamond on stems
THese were quick to design and using the template sped things up but drawing and filling those circle things was very tedious
I really hope I can have some of my designs made one day. I don’t even need credit. I just want to see them created
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The peonies are really nice.
Imho, That should be the one that is made.
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@SkyzykS that is my favourite too.
Week 1: day 2
Squat: 1x3-75,80,85, 1x5-90kg, 1x5-85, 80
Lying leg raises: 6x15
Good mornings: 1x15-40kg, 1x12-45kg, 1x10-50kg, superset with 20 air squats
Conventional DL: 2x10-70, 2x8-75, 1x6-80kg
Pendlay rows: 4x8-40kg EMOM
Leg extensions: 1x10, 6x6, 1x5-70lbs, 2x7, 7x6- 65lbs, 1x7,5-60lbs all sets EMOM
DB RDL: 5x(10-40lb dbs+ 20 jumping jacks)
- this felt great, happy that I got 5 at the top set considering how much My squat was suffering in the summer, rest of it was nice and I’m ded today
Dietician has Covid so wasn’t able to meet with her yesterday, but turns out the extra 2lbs was PMS bloating.
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Excellent!
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Week 1: day 3
5min EMOM
10kbs- 40lbs, jumping jacks in the rest of min
Rest 1 min
5min EMOM
5renegade rows-20lb dbs, jumping jacks in rest of min
Rest 1 min
5min EMOM
10kbs- 40lbs+10 lying leg raises
Rest 1 min
5min EMOM
5renegade rows-20lb dbs+ 10 lying leg raises
Rest 1 min
8min EMOM
6kb curls- 40lb kb
- felt absolute shite, got this in to feel looser, got HR up and felt much better
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Week 1: day 4
Bench: 2x12-40, 1x10-45, 1x5-50kg paused
Flyes: 4x10-15lb dbs
Incline bench: 1x8-40kg; 1x8, 2x6, 2x5, 1x4-25kg EMOM
Z-press: 3x5-27.5lb dbs
Deadbugs: 3x10/side
Press: 1x6-35kg; 1x7,5, 10x4,5x3-30kg EMOM
Row: 1x11-40kg; 1x10, 1x8, 3x7, 1x6-35kg EMOM
- felt good, really worked upper back and chest
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Week 1: day 5 (yesterday)
Deadlift: work up to 115kg for 7; 1x4-110, 1x6-105
Lying leg raises: 3x15
Front squat: 4x5-55kg, 1x4-60kg, superset with 20 alt lunges; 3x3-60kg EMOM
RDL: 3x10-60kg, superset with 5 burpees
Snatch grip DL: 3x6-60kg, superset with 8 single leg glute bridges/side-1030 tempo
- felt amazing, definitely didn’t expect to get 7 on the top set given the work on Tuesday, front squats murdered me
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Week 1: Day 6
quick and easy, not feeling as crap as expected, but needed something to get blood flowing
DB incline bench: 8x10-30lb Dbs, super set with 50 jumping jacks
Seal rows: 5x6-30lb Dbs, super set with 50 jumping jacks
HS walk practice
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Week 2: Day 1
Bench: 2x6-45kg, 1x6-50, 1x4-55kg paused
Feet up bench: 1x12-40kg; 1x13, 5x6,2x5-35kg EMOM
lateral raises: 5x10-12.5 lb DBs
Press: 1x13-30kg; 1x12, 4x6-25kg EMOM
Bottoms up KB press: 3x10-15lb DBs
Conditioning: 4x(10 KBS+15 pushups+20 air squats)
- worked upper body, felt good and squeezed in more reps across all accesssories
Updates:
- First day of classes down. Went quite well… sort of… Real analysis prof is really old and 1/2 deaf… looks like I’ll be doing a lot of self study. Also met with advisors. They were quite happy with me
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Week 2: Day 2 (yesterday)
Squat: work up to 85kg for 9; 1x4-85kg, 2x5-80kg beltless
lying leg raises: 4x20
Good mornings: 3x12-45kg, superset with 20 alt bodyweight lunges
Front squat: 1x10,11,12-45kg, 1x12-50kg, superset w/20 alt bodyweight lunges
Row: 1x13-40kg; 1x12, 3x8,3x7,1x6-35kg EMOM
Leg extensions: 1x12, 7x6, 1x5-70lbs, 1x8, 8x6-65lbs, 1x8, 2x6-60lbs, all sets EMOM
- trashed legs, pretty happy with the squats
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