#also im excited to try out different soda bread recipes

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alfred jason birthday bread?? does this fic come with a recipe please say yes.

@jpeg-dot-jpeg @ladytauria @paprikadotmp4 come, come, gather around. let me tell u about my wip that is actually a bunch of rambling from discord (about 400 words of rambling even) and not yet a true wip.

alfred jason birthday bread is a wip-to-be that i want to be a fic for alfred and jasons birthday. its gonna involve a little researching, bc i dont want to be culturally insensitive to the irish, but its this whole what-if scenario of alfred's mom being irish and having a family soda bread recipe that's been passed down the family line all the way to alfred, and he makes it for his birthday every year to remember her and celebrate with. alfred thinks that the recipe will end with him (im pretending that his daughter doesnt exist bc idk her and also im a pennywaynes truther), because bruce and dick are disasters in the kitchen and dont have any interest in learning, and then along comes jason. jason, who shares his birthday AND a love for the kitchen. and then jason dies and everything joyous about the shared tradition becomes tarnished :)

i just love the idea of alfred and jason having their own special bonding time and shared tradition. and it gives us some alfred-specific ouchies for jasons death AND a glimmer of hope for when he comes back. anyways, im super excited about it and jpeg i hadnt thought about adding a recipe before your message but now it is a must. i will have to experiment 😈

please ask me about my wips!

[zammiefan]

weight loss journey

So this past summer I decided to take control of my health again. 

At the end of May I weighed myself and realized that I had gained 30 pounds in about 2 1/2 years. This was due to overeating, eating out a ton, lack of exercise, and a lot of other issues. I figured that enough was enough and decided to take action. I weighed 145 lbs in late May/early June, which doesn’t seem like a lot to most people, but because im only 5 ft tall, I was officially “overweight”. I felt it too, I couldn’t sleep, I was sluggish, stairs were a huge challenge, my clothes didn’t fit. I even had to go 4 sizes up in my pants because they wouldn’t fit. 

Just started to swap out sugary drinks with just plain water. No more eating out, or at least only very rarely. I had to start learning to cook and can do basic dishes now. Started taking walks with my dog almost daily (I can actually run about 3/4 of a mile without stopping which I was never able to do), doing zumba once or twice a week, yoga once a week. 

Weighed myself earlier this week, and I am now at 127 lbs!!! I lost around 18 pounds in about 3 months! I am officially back into a healthy weight range. 

All thanks to the fact that I made small changes first. I did things that I could handle, like drinking more water, walking my dog, and passing on all the extra snacking. As time went on, I began to cook more, learning slowly and trying out different recipes. I incorporated more veggies and  started cutting down on servings of rice, beans, bread, pasta. It wasn’t until a few weeks ago that I finally had a piece of bread again. Strangely enough, I don’t really miss it. 

My brain and body have begun to get rewired and now I actually like salad and eating healthier foods. Who knew I would EVER like kale, brussels sprouts, broccoli salad?? Who knew I would ever stop eating pasta and instead make noodles out of zucchini and eggplant? It was all these small changes, incorporating them slowly into my diet, so as not to overwhelm myself. It was tough, especially when everyone else was stuffing themselves with cake and chips and soda, and I could only have watermelon and water and zucchini. I’m allowing myself to enjoy a bowl of cereal every now and then, or a bite of brownie, but I also don’t crave them as much. 

Thanks to school starting up again, I can take fitness classes at my university. I just started cycling about 3 weeks ago, came out of class Wednesday feeling amazing and did not wake up the slightest bit sore the following day. I just started lifting weights and am excited to continue. Going to have to check out other classes as well. 

I don’t look like a model or anything.  I still have soft flesh around my middle (my definite problem area), my arms are still flabby, my triple chin is now a double chin, my stomach still sticks out a bit over my pants and I’m still slightly at risk of being overweight, so I will continue. I feel stronger, happier, and in awe of what my body can do. I’m going to keep going. I don’t care if the scale doesn’t show lower numbers, I want to tone my body, I want to see what else I can do (not just physically but mentally. The number of days that I can’t get out of bed have gone down, it’s easier at times to cope with the loss of my aunt, I’ve had better mental health days). I also want to find great-tasting healthy recipes. 

Note: 

I do not support weight loss by starvation. I just made healthier eating decisions and cutout highly processed foods for more greens and fresh food. I at no point starved myself, just made myself stay away from sugary/fatty foods and exercised regularly.