I thought one sows one's oats, not feels them ?

I think it's a dominance / power thing If you fake die right away it takes all the fun out of it btw. A couple of those might extinguish the bhvr for good.

I've had my fitbit for over a year and I still wonder where to set my targets. To get a fitbit 8h of sleep I need to be in bed and thinking I'm sleeping for at least 9h. I'm finding that hard to do now that I'm back in school. For the wakefulness stuff, I've found the Sleep with Me podcast works for me. I set up a playlist of my favourites of his episodes on my ipad, skip the introduction stuff on the first episode, have it all queued up and if I wake up, I just turn it on. If I use his podcasts I consistently log way more time asleep. Melatonin sometimes also helps me. L-theanine too. My only issue with the podcasts is that I worry I'll sleep through my alarm - which is not on my ipad. I guess I need to figure out how to set up a second alarm on the ipad in case i'm wearing headphones & figure out how to make it much louder than the podcast volume.

@ScoutTN & everyone else - please get your mammograms if you're of the age to have them! I don't want any of you joining us in the breast cancer club, but if you are going to join, better to join very early! And those who are too young for regular mammograms, do your BSE and don't ignore weird symptoms. Denial is not your friend when it comes to breast lumps. My goals are 3x60 min Zumba classes/week. I've been doing 1/week since September. Before that I was too immuno compromised to really go to group classes so I did my own little zumba classes at home for most of the year. I need to kick up the intensitvy Keep walking - aim for 70K for the week 30 min weights & resistance work once a week- I have osteoporosis now (thanks chemo!) so I'm supposed to do some resistance work to protect my spine Yoga and stretching - my shoulder and arm are still a bit messed up after breast surgery so I need to keep rehabbing that. The full rehab exercises the PT gave me were 20+ minutes & I just have not been able to shoehorn that in daily so I think like Pawz said above, it's better to set a much lower target and actually achieve it. Something is better than nothing. I would like to get into a pool once a week because I miss swimming and I think backstroke would help my shoulder but I'm not sure if I can fit it in this semester. More meal planning & batch cooking food prep on weekends. We're doing the bowls too - we call them Buddha Bowls. Brown rice or quinoa or buckwheat + roasted vegetables (last year I discovered you could roast frozen veggies) + tofu cubes (marinated, smoked, or plain) + some saucy flavourings (curry sauce, garlic hummus sauce, salsa etc).

I agree with others that this sounds weird. I think you should see a proper optometrist (not a dispensing optician) and get a full eye exam, not just a vision test. You need to have your retina looked at, the eye pressure, the optic nerve examined etc. My optometrist is very keen to hear about how I use my eyes and what activities I do and she gives me multiple prescriptions for different uses. I have progressives but also some other glasses that I can wear over contacts, for computer work etc. If I played sports, she would have given me a different scrip for that as well. I get my glasses at Zenni. They're not expensive, and our insurance accepts receipts from Zenni so the last few times I've gotten several pairs of glasses free per year. Remember too that eye exams (again, not just a vision test) can identify other health problems so really they're an important aspect of health care. If you're having headaches or eye strain from vision, it needs to be addressed.

Congrats to everyone - even if you didn't quite meet your goals, awareness and attempts at nudging ourselves to healthier eating patterns are things to be celebrated! @SeaConquest I hear you on the going back to school and eating well thing. Last semester was a bit wobbly for me. This semester the plan is to do a bit more batch cooking on the weekends and have more healthful, portable, and fast options available throughout the week. Dh cooked for me a lot but he defaults to a lot of prepared vegan foods for speed and I want us to move away from that. This was my cancer treatments year & I was pretty happy that I ended the year essentially at my same (normal bmi) weight. However I lost tons of physical and cardiovascular strength during chemo so my 2019 goals are to rebuild that. Chemo also totally fried my ovaries so I went into instant menopause and have been warned that maintaining weight will be harder and harder but it's also increasingly critical in prevention of recurrences. I'm following Dr Greger's Daily Dozen & Dr Kristi Funk's 14 "Eat to Beat Breast Cancer" foods The lists essentially overlap so that makes is pretty easy.

There's really nothing like the love of a loyal dog. Big hugs.

just a psa that romance novels are wonderful

Genetic health testing is not like the ancestry testing that they advertise on tv. I had it to determine if I had genetic mutations for breast cancer and it doesn't tell me anything about relatives. It's just an analysis of my own DNA and assessment of known mutations.

Hey SeaConquest - can you get whoever moderates the WellTrained College Students forums to let me back in? It's asking a password or something.... I guess we'll be graduating at close to the same time; Aug 2021 is my grad date. My BSN is 36 mos and I started in Sep. I'm older than you and still recovering from cancer treatments and still made honor roll in the first semester - you will rock it!

I ditto Duluth - I haven't bought any women's stuff from there yet but I've got t-shirts for ds there and he's been happy with the fit and quality.

IMO, a GP first. Find out if it's osteoarthritis, rheumatoid, gout etc etc. A GP can usually get the first line dx. Often an xray is enough. There are many things it could be though odds are osteo, just based on statistical probability. As far as supplements for OA, the evidence for most is very weak. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/supplements-for-osteoarthritis-evaluating-the-evidence/

We did watch it right through and I really liked it; it was suspenseful and had some good plot twists. But we're not a GoT family so there's that.... He was essentially new to me.

I'm trying to but I'm in such a weird head space. It's so hard for me to get rid of stuff suddenly.

insert whine - we have to think about food again????????? - end whine

Thx for starting this thread. I got some good things for my list too... Over the holidays I binged Big Little Lies and The Bodyguard. I just started The Night Manager & want to finish it off in the next day or 2. When the semester starts again I will need to go back to lighter less cliffhanger/suck you in/can't stop watching things because I can only watch a couple hours/week.

I guess - but why? Life's too short to drink beverages you don't like and it's not really good for us so why bother? I mean if you said learn to like steamed broccoli or brussels sprouts then I could sort of understand it. But coffee, nah

The Infinite Monkey Cage - science & comedy together. Felicia Day's podcast Felicitations. I'm not her demographic and don't even share a lot of her interests but I still tune in because I find her interesting.

again depends on age of youngest but we loved My Family & Other Animals (the version with Imelda Staunton) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482552/ Also Sarah, Plain & Tall

There are businesses here who do that. It's often a combo of services: gutter cleaning, window washing. Sometimes they powerwash walkways, and seasonally will string up & remove Christmas lights as well. We even have a service here called "men in kilts window washing" 😁 Alas, we have never hired anyone for this as dh does it himself, sans kilt....

Did they mention the number of the nerve? You might want to google 3rd nerve palsy & see if that fits; it can be caused by a variety of things. I hope you get more answers & treatment soon!

I own crates and I spend time teaching dogs to like a crate (very slowly, make it a game to run to the crate and lie down & relax in it, at first there are no doors, then I ramp up time and add doors etc) but my strong preference is to not crate dogs just because I believe in giving dogs as much freedom and choice as possible. I have done it once in a while with new dogs, dogs with sketchy temperaments and when I worried about them chewing up each other or the house....but I prefer to give my dogs freedom. For instance, Olive was a book destroyer when we first got her so our bookcases were behind a wall of x-pen panels. I know others who have x-penned couches or kitchen counters in lieu of locking up the dog. I do have crates with no doors on them in the house & if the dogs choose to go in them, that's their choice. If you're looking for a slow protocol to teach a dog to like a crate (for car rides or if they're ever hospitalized or if you decide to get into dog sport and need to crate at ringside), check out Susan Garrett's Crate Games https://www.susangarrett.com/crate-games-online/ or work through the Sue Ailsby clicker training levels. Crate bhvr starts in level 2. http://sue-eh.ca/page24/page26/page10/

I'd be tempted to channel Judge Lessner "in your opinion" from the Good Wife. & reply with "in your opinion" Or "Hm. That's an interesting *opinion*" "Thank you for sharing your *opinion*." & emphasize the word opinion.

It's too late for me to respond fully but I must say this: NEVER PUNISH GROWLING. A dog who is growling is communicating discomfort. If you punish growling, you can suppress this communication but not the underlying discomfort and you end up with a dog who bites with very little warning.