Well now I have to use those too! As for pronunciation of that other one, you could say it any way you wanted and I’d believe you.
But I’m betting it’s pronounced kinda like the word phthalates. And if so, then it might phonetically be like, “thigh-sis” or something similar.
Is there are word for having thighs so big it is tough to find jeans that fit? I suggest “phthitis”… 
Oh that’s a good one. Right up there with swolliosis.
Hahaha this gave me a good laugh! Hope you get a great night of sleep and wake up feeling fantastic. Though it’s been fun having a sick buddy. 
Never heard of swolliosis.
But I remember having rickets… to the gun show!
Okay, that one needs some work.
Hahhaha!!! I shared your pun with Chris just now and we both laughed out loud.
What do you call a snowman with a six pack?
The Abdominal Snowman!
(Had to be that or Frosty something. Fasty?)
This is why Fasty has a corncob pipe…
New gym has tanning booths, and the last time my immune system was awesome, I was combining vitamin D with regular tanning. So, I went to the gym mainly to get some intense blue light and possibly some treadmill walking.
But the front desk guy wasn’t there to turn the booth on yet, and I got tempted by the weights so I lifted (and kept my distance from other people and disinfected everything I touched).
Rope Pull Thingy
Lateral Raise
Chest-Supported Row: high grip and low grip
Arnold Press
Rear Delt Cable Thing
And then 4 glorious minutes of full body blue light.
But aside from a little aching in the lungs and some mild stabbing in the head, I’m feeling way better. The bummer is that I have to miss the final practice tonight and the improv performance tomorrow night. I would need to stay out late when my immunity is already compromised, and I can’t risk it. Improv also involves getting close enough to breathe on other people, and nobody needs my germs.
What’s weird is that I caught the same type of junk in October and November so I need to get this immunity thing figured out; I’m getting really tired of this diphtheria.
The good news is, I signed up for another 8 week class. So, I’ll perform next time.
Roxy says hi.
I don’t want to alarm you. I’m glad you are doing better. But you just might have bicycle face or wandering womb. So, ¡Cuìdado!, chiquita.
That’s probably it! 
Just to be safe, I recommend sticking to the elliptical.
YAY!!! I’m so glad to hear this! Now, the goal is to stay well for the rest of Ebola season!!
How’s your ebola? While my energy is back and I’m not as congested anymore, I’ve got a constant stabbing on one side of my head. It’s tolerable but annoying enough to wake me up at night.
So, almost out of the woods, but you’re right about this:
What are your strategies going to be for staying healthy during ebola season?
Well… it’s kind of up and down. I’m still more tired than usual (unless this is the new normal…) and the worst thing is my smell and taste are messed up. Like, I can taste “sweet” and “salty” but not the actual food. Last night I made a chocolate protein shake and it just tasted sweet - not chocolate. So freaking weird. I hope that goes away soon because it SUCKS!!
Three things:
I kind of feel like #3 is going to be the game changer. lol
Vitamin D + everything QQ said.
Bro Science n=1: Biotest Curcumin (storytime):
I caught covid (likely delta variant) a couple years back, but I was back to work in 3 days, back to training in 5 days, and back to full strength in 7. (was not and am not vaccinated)
I can’t prove it, but one of the 3 days I was out of it, I didn’t take curcumin - the other two I did. I swear the one day I didn’t was the worst day.
All I did was sleep a lot, drink shitloads of pedialyte, take vitamin D and curcumin. And enough robitussin to have me not care if I was dying.
We are still praying for you. Man that sounds terrible! It seems like you might’ve caught a variant of that awful thing. I hope you’re back to normal soon!
I love your three things. Especially the third. Hopefully you are stocked up with some good books and are able to get plenty of rest.
This is a cool story and I admire people who experiment. Trying stuff (based on previous information/experience) and seeing what happens is an underrated skill. If you have any other stories like this – times you experimented and it worked out – I’d be interested in hearing it.
It just seems like our current culture, the media, and conventional medicine has infantilized adults to the point that we don’t even know how to freaking tie our shoes anymore without talking to our doctors first.
At the same time though, I think people who’ve had a huge physique transformation are constantly doing this to some extent. Keeping what you’ve built tends to require trial and error.
I believe it. I’ve been taking double doses of curcumin and definitely think it helped. I also think it might’ve helped with body comp too, and if that’s just a placebo, I’ll take it. Because the crazy thing is, catching this junk made me pretty sedentary, but my appetite didn’t really decrease. So I ate the same as usual (maybe more) and yet the first couple days back in the gym, I felt kinda ripped.
Or maybe this new gym just has great lighting and we all just think we look better than we actually do. 
One last thing. I’ve been testing out saffron. I heard a podcast with Dr. Amen where he was recommending it supplementally for mood and female sex drive. I don’t know that it’s changed anything on that front, but I can’t keep my hands off my husband. So if you want to turn your wife into a cuddle-monster, consider saffron.
My log is full of them lol. Everything from training and diet to social skills, beating ADHD and the medications for it, and experimenting with different anabolics and biohacking.
I’ll test it. “For science” 
How much saffron do you need, though? Last i heard, the stuff is very expensive.
I’m curious as well.
