Flame Free Confession III: Even More Flame Free (Part 1)

Same here.

@dt79 saves the internet again!

My hero

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Maybe that is your superpower?

Are you implying that their’s allot of bullshit out there?

I’m shocked :astonished: :wink:

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Confession:
After skipping a meal yesterday and eating a reasonable diet today I’m flabbergasted that I remain 10kg over weight.
I’m not sure this dietary control thing is for me you know…

However today was a good day. PR dead lift. 207.5kg for 2 on an axle. Felt fast also. Not sure rep 3 was in there. 90% it was not. But yeah good day today.

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It’s interesting how that works. You ā€œwake upā€ in a lucid state, then have to wake yourself up. I went through 3 layers before too lol.

I’ve hit 4.

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I confess that I frequently look at my home gym, admire what I’ve built, and then think that I should just scrap the whole thing and start all over with a set of squat stands, a barbell and some bumpers. Back to basics: too much clutter.

Which segues into I confess I really wish training was as simple as Mark Rippetoe believes it to be. I’m actually re-reading ā€œMean 'ol Mr Gravityā€ and find myself heading over to his website to read articles and forum posts. It’s like the professional wrestling of weight training: it’s fake, but I WISH it wasn’t.

I confess that I SHOULD be using my texas power bar for deadlifts tomorrow, but I wimped out and set up my texas deadlift bar instead. I’m justifying it that I’m coming off an 8 hour shift, sleeping for 6 hours and training first thing in the morning before starting another 8 hour shift, so I need to give myself a break but…yeah. Excuses.

I confess I am incredibly excited about my first Tang Soo Do class tomorrow, doing it with the Mrs. We got the kiddo enrolled last month and decided to join in the fun. I haven’t gotten formal martial arts instruction in 14 years.

I confess I’ve become that guy that drinks almond milk…and cashew milk…and eats organic sunbutter. But worst of all, I confess that I like it.

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What’s wrong with liking nut milks? Sometimes, a half-gallon of dark chocolate almond milk hits a certain craving I have better than any other food or beverage combo can.

It’s not milk- more like nut juice

Still delicious though

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I concur, but since they’re always labeled as ā€œmilkā€, I stuck with the known phrasing.

Related confession - in a T-ransformation effort, I’ve completely dropped cow milk from my morning coffee. A quarter cup of sweetened vanilla almond milk is half the calories of a comparable amount of moo milk plus a teaspoon of sugar. Ripped City, here I come.

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I know you know- but that’s what’s wrong with nut ā€œmilkā€

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Are you suggesting we shouldn’t let marketers dictate terminology and resultant perceptions about reality?!

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Nah… As a future marketer, I want a job

It’s been so long since I’ve had ā€œrealā€ milk that I caught myself sneaking sips of my kid’s Fairlife skim milk out of their cereal. It’s amazing.

As for ā€œwhat’s wrongā€, it’s exactly that, haha.

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Good milk is surprisingly, well, good! Especially when it hits that certain nutritional spot.

I’m afraid I’m slow in the uptake this evening - to what does ā€œthatā€ refer?

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The fact I’m so deprived of real milk that I’m sneaking sips of Fairlife skim.

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Haha Maiden had lots of songs that seemed to be based on certain dream states. I mean, they even said Number of the Beast was based on a dream.

This one was obvious:

I think people who have experienced varying states of lucidity within a dream will get it.

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There IS a simple solution to this situation. Just sayin’.

That’s why this is a confession :slight_smile:

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My post steak ritual is to chug milk straight out of the jug until some switch in my head flips that says ā€œOK. That’s the spot!ā€.

Then a nice half hour nap.

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I can’t be the only one picturing you passed out in the kitchen next to an open fridge door with steak juice and milk on your shirt and an overturned gallon of milk pooling around your head.

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