Awesome dude! Moving in the right direction

New jerb going well. The other pastry cook gave his 2 week notice last friday, then never showed up again lol. So I had to work more hours this week and I'm tired af.

Not eating clean. Pizza and gelato too good. Although from N1H's log maybe that's the secret to hitting PRs every week?

50 lb bags of flour and sugar are easier to shlep around than they were at my last job a couple years ago, so I have some evidence of strength gains. Rolling out dough is good ab work imo.

Sleep has been ok. Anxiety much better. Working all day and coming home tired af and not having the energy to think about myself is great for my mental health.

Congrats mate....how is your social anxiety in workplace going?

Thx. Still working on the social anxiety. It's better than at first just because the people aren't new to me anymore. I still feel awkward in genereal though. Especially since I have a quiet voice and the kitchen is always loud and I have to repeat myself all the time for people to hear me.

Got a call from my psychiatrist's office this week saying she'll only be seeing patients on saturdays now. lol **** that, I'll have to get a new one.

The restaurant is in a strange neighborhood of Chicago. I get off the train to go to work and it's like I've entered a different planet where 90% of the population is 25-30 year old women pushing strollers around all afternoon and going out to eat 7 days a week. Generally ranging from slightly above average to ****ing ridic hot. Sometimes on busy days when service starts at 5pm, the sous chef announces "get ready, the MILFs are lined up at the door!"

There was one on the train this morning. Smooth toned legs, short shorts showing a little cameltoe, perfect round tight ass, tanktop with flat tummy and nice perky boobs underneath. She was bending over right in front of me for like 5 stops helping her little rugrat with a coloring book or whatever. Every guy on the train had their eyes locked on that ass lol.

What neighborhood / el stop?

The MILF parade is on southport anywhere between addison and belmont any day of the week from about 10am to 7pm. I have a friend who worked at another place on southport a few years ago who confirmed this.

hell yeah the girls around Southport are hot. but yeah i know what you mean. its an area with a bunch of mid 20 somethings with some money who just got married/had kids etc that are just starting their lives together.

but nothing beats Lincoln Park girls. im just eye facking every girl when im there.

dood where do you work? i want to come in and try out some food.

wow there's a term for these types of girls. now i know lol

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...Park)%20Trixie

since u and num1 both live in chicago i want to see a nude club trip report please #teamanxiety

Whats the consensus on this forum for using medical marijuana instead of these pills for insomnia? I use Bubba Kush and Grand Daddy like they do in CO and it works great.

Weed might not be great for this specific OP because of his anxiety issues and weed is known to cause paranoia but has to be healthier than taking the prescription drugs right?

But maybe worth a try OP because they have social anxiety weed also.

Has to be? No. It may be, however. Some cannabinoids seem to be good for you and some seem to be harmful. The biggest problem with marijuana is that there are many different strains, each with different ratios of the various chemicals of interest, and you can't really control the dose of the cannabinoid you want. Hopefully more research can be done and we can isolate the parts we want and get rid of the parts we don't.

BK,

I don't smoke weed and don't have any desire to. The prescription meds work, without any significant side effects, so I'm not sure about your assumption that weed must be healthier. If it works for you that's cool.

Yeh understandable. There was a show called Prescription Thugs on Netflix that kinda got me scared about all the drugs doctors are prescribing etc. Just a thought I had about alternatives, wish you the best Krunic.

I don't smoke weed but it helps my wife a lot more with her anxiety than the prescription meds do

Interesting. What about with bad pain, is that real or a stretch??

Yeah I saw that. I think you're taking one guy's heavily biased message a little too far.

There's a good reason to be wary of opioids that are essentially heroin in pill form and highly addictive.

Pharmacuetical salespeople are generally lying liars who lie for a living. That doesn't prove that the drugs are ineffective or dangerous.

I'm well aware of the clinical trials that have shown certain SSRIs to have about the same success rate as placebos. That still doesn't prove that they're ineffective.

The problem with psychiatric drugs is that they affect different people in a wide range of different ways and there's almost no way to predict how one person will react to a drug. Before I got on lexapro I tried Zoloft for 5-6 weeks and it did nothing at all for my anxiety and in fact made me jittery at night and I couldn't sleep. I was very skeptical about taking Lexapro after that because I thought SSRIs were all basically the same. But for whatever reason it had a completely different effect on me and worked great with no side effects.

If I got off of Lexapro and tried, let's say 4 other SSRIs, how many of them would work? Probably none of them would. There's two ways to look at that. I could say "lol SSRIs have a 20% success rate, they suck! No better than a placebo!" Or I could realize that it was a crapshoot from the beginning and probably only one of them was going to work, so the overall success rate of SSRIs is irrelevant to me. The goal is to find the one that works for me, not to see what percentage of them would work for me, and not to see what percentage of people one drug would work for.

136 lbs yesterday. I've lost 6 lbs since starting the jerb. Ironically, it's really hard to eat as much as I was before I started working in a restaurant. Especially protein. When I do eat it's pizza, pasta, or pastry stuff.

I think what I should start doing is put some proton powder in a shaker bottle and take it to work, then add water and heavy cream and drink it throughout the day.

Dude aren't you a pastry chef? Can't you eat some sick deserts?

i dont think he likes to eat. or he just gets full really fast and can't eat anymore.

screw proton shakes. your body needs calories. a serving of proton shake is only like 120 calories.

if u dont like to eat or just get full fast, id go with nuts and some peanut butter. like 2 hand full of nuts(proton) is like 400 calories and 2 tablespoons of peanut butter(proton) is almost 400 calories. thats 800 calories right there easily and should go down easy. mix that shiiet in 227g greek yogurt and 1 scoop protein powder and u get easily 1200 calories.

Or a peanut butter and nutella sandwich on brioche.

That's a 1000cals right there

Sorry I think I'm just reflecting what in would love to eat right now!

Heavy cream would do the trick, but it also might make you feel like ****. Coconut oil would probably be a better choice, along with some type of carb.

Hes allergic to nuts guys

Sorry forgot!!!

Is coconut a nut?