#with a caffeine headache and zero plan for how i wanted to end this

[sympathytea]

Chat I have some thoughts about PVPCiv PrinceZam. I know. Typical right? I'll try to make this quick, but you probably know by now if you've seen my posts floating around that I ramble a lot. Spoilers below, for S1 and S2 (specifically S2Ep2.)

So! The prince in yellow has certainly been cooking. And I think safe to say I have...a decent enough vibe for him that I can be confident with this read. Starting from the top:

PrinceZam's cowardice has been obvious since our first introduction to him. Especially since his attempt at killing Evbo (unsuccessfully) and then proceeding to run and lock himself behind his door, where he can't be hurt sets him up for the type of guy that doesn't like to get into fights that he can't win. And runs when they don't go his way.

He displays this cowardice again when in the S1 Finale when he fights Evbo for the armor stand. They fight for a decent amount of time using just wooden swords, but then Zam notices that he's not winning this fight, and throws his trident at Evbo, and flees. Not even going back for his weapon until much later.

We don't see him again until S2Ep2, where he is holding the bird in a cage. His cowardice is still very much there, instead of trying to fight a fight he won't win, he takes someone hostage that Evbo likes to make sure he won't fight back.

Does that sound familiar? Yes!

Winding back a bit, S1Ep4. The big tonal shift episode.

Zam has fabricated a similar situation. Tabi is held hostage, Evbo likes Tabi, and Zam is threatening to kill her if Evbo doesn't comply. And this time he actually has assistance from the PVP Language guy, other iron swords and probably also the shields.

So you might be wondering "Tea is this entire read just to say he's a coward we know this"

Not quite! Theres more, obviously. This onion has some layers.

Zam to me, seems deeply afraid of not just losing a fight, but also death itself. To the point he seems to switch gears to becoming God to prevent the possibility of dying. Despite him not having a whole lot of PvP skills. (He lost to Evbo of all people multiple times. I don't think he has the qualifications to be God let alone take on Tabi and Clown I'm sorry lol.)

His original plan, seemed to just be hiding out on the iron sword layer, preventing both Tabi from getting the eternal sword, but also keeping Evbo there for immortality by durability refreshes. Which we see him using.

But then that plan fails, He dies to Evbo, and just...hides out in Evbo's house for awhile. Planning to take Immortality for himself.

That plan fails, He's scared now, and seems to hide out long enough to retrieve his trident and venture down to the iron sword layer, presumably to gather his henchmen and go down there as a team. Because he couldn't possibly fight Evbo, and the diamond swords by himself.

Slight problem with that.

Evbo and Parrot killed the entire layer while he was gone. Including the people on his side and possibly, some guards that were affiliated with Zam.

He did not know they were going to do this.

And this scares the shit out of him!

Evbo at this point has been not the type to just kill an entire layer out of pure spite and resentment. And so he would reasonably, be pretty shaken up about this.

He confronts Parrot. "I want to know why you're the only one still alive" is about the iron sword layer being empty. He's afraid of what these two can do to him. So he takes a page out of his own book and holds one hostage so the other can't hurt him.

Its also clear to me in his speech that he himself is afraid of death and seems to dislike Evbo's callousness towards it. "You should be thanking me for helping you not take life for granted."

So after he manages to get Evbo and the diamond swords to stand down, his plan becomes "Get the eternal weapons, become God."

This plan, I can assure you is going to completely backfire in his face.

He's overconfident that this will work, He's overconfident in his skills and thinks that he can just put the situation in his favor again, through whatever means necessary.

Tabi and Clown took down an entire civilization by themselves. Which I don't think Zam knows.

And honestly, I don't think there is a universe where Zam could win this fight. Two axes, both of them capable of permanently killing him and are already 3/5ths of the way to becoming gods. He's just too weak for this. He's lost to Evbo, who we've been shown time and time again isn't very good at PVP himself. He is improving, but Zam is lagging behind, and that's not a very good sign for his survival. He's certainly a fun antagonistic foil to Evbo, considering how afraid of dying and losing Zam is, compared to Evbo who seems to not give a shit if he loses as long as he can come back. Who also fights tooth and nail to win, but Evbo does it fairly rather than trying to rely on putting the situation directly in his favor. Evbo is kind to others that he enjoys, Zam seems to keep everyone at arms length, only valuing people who stay in line. Zam has only been shown to die to Evbo, and most likely avoids dying if he was keeping his immortality a secret. Which could be interpreted as him being better at PVP, I don't think he is. He probably just did cheap shots and ambush kills on unsuspecting players when he was on the wooden and stone sword levels. Considering we saw him do an ambush in his first introduction, then hid like a coward when it didn't work? Yeah... I want to see this menace crack like an egg.

[purplesurveys]

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survey by pandaphant

Who's your favorite comedian? Sindhu Vee, probably. But that’s only counting the fact that I’ve only seen two of her skits. Out of all the acts I’ve seen, she’s the one who’s made me laugh the loudest so far, though.

Aren't you sick of all the *Are We Alike?* surveys? I’m not sick of them. I just think they’re too easy and fast to take so I like elaborating my answers so that I can still get a little ~reflective~ while taking that kind of survey.

Do you think there's anything you did better, when you were younger? Physical activities. I had a better stamina for jump roping and running when I was younger, and I was also a lot more flexible; I used to be able to bend all the way backwards and also have my toes reach my head while on my stomach.

Would you take the advice you give others? I usually don’t. I find that I’m better at giving advice than actually following through with them.

What did you have for lunch yesterday? I just had my leftover sushi. I didn’t want to eat all 24 that I ordered from the other night in one go, so I saved a little more than half of it for yesterday.

What's one thing that you would change about yourself physically? I’d go for the obvious and have my front teeth straightened, so I can finally stop feeling conscious about it.

What song has made you cry? Life Goes On by BTS.

How would you define success? Accomplishment of something for which I could be proud of myself.

Who was the craziest teacher you've ever had? Ironically, it was my Christianity teacher in grade school. Crazy old man who flipped out and humiliated students who didn’t bring their own box of crayons to school, and he also made me feel sexually violated when I encountered him shortly after my high school graduation. 

Do you think the Earth will face an apocalypse one day? I don’t think so.

What's the last thing you got paid to do? Work.

What's the one thing you could eat everyday? Sushi.

What do you hate about yourself? How frugal I can be, especially towards myself. Buy yourself nice things sometimes, @robyn hahahaha

What's your favorite alcoholic drink? Long Island Iced Tea. Or tequila.

Are you hyper today? No, but I was yesterday for Bang Bang Con haha. It was my first BTS event as a new fan and I had so much fun :(

Does Bzoink need an upgrade? I don’t mind what it looks like now. I don’t think they ever changed it ever since I first started visiting the site in 2009 anyway, and I’ve already gotten used to the layout. It’s easy enough to navigate.

Do you have a Millsberry account? No. I’m not sure I even know what that is.

Do you have a Neopets account? I didn’t, but I had an offline Neopets game on one of my old phones that I liked to play as a kid.

What's your life philosophy? I don’t really follow a specific one and let it serve as a guide all my actions. I just do whatever I think is right and what would help both me and the people around me.

What was the last thing you talked to your friends about? Angela and I were just talking about BTS lol. She was the one who reeled me in :((

If you are interested in going out with someone, what do you do? I simply like staying physically close to them and doing nice things for them. I’m not very expressive when it comes to this; I just let my actions speak for themselves.

Do you ever go to the beach? Yeah, of course. I love the beach. I’ve been aching for a trip for well over a year.

Would you rather have a cup of coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? Coffee.

How's your hair looking right now? I washed it last night, so it looks okay.

What's something your mother always says? Well these days, she always reminds us to spray alcohol and disinfectant spray every time a delivery for someone in the family arrives. Which is an understandable thing to nag us about.

What's something your dad always says? He doesn’t really have a catchphrase, though these days he does like sharing about the funny or educational videos he’s been seeing on TikTok.

What's your favorite thing to wear? Tank tops or airy oversized shirts.

Have you ever had a near-death experience? Nope.

What do you order at Starbucks? Grande iced caramel macchiato + whatever pastry they have that I happen to be in the mood for.

What kind of exercise do you enjoy? Taking a walk with my dogs.

What's the worst injury you've ever had, and what was it from? The infection/wound I got from when I went snorkeling without flippers and ended up grazing my left foot against coral reefs one too many times.

Do you still have any of your childhood toys? If so, what? Nope, my mom threw them all out as I grew up and when we moved in to our current house.

Did you have a Precious Moments colouring book? No, I’m also not sure what that is.

Don't you miss being 13? No, puberty wasn’t exactly a fun time as there was a lot of emotional turmoil happening.

How'd you react to receiving your very first pimple? I didn’t keep a journal entry or anything from that day but I would imagine I was surprised and horrified.

Are you spoiled? Only when it’s deserved. My parents have stopped buying things for me since I now earn for myself, but back when I was younger I will say I was the most pampered out of us siblings. That said, I still made sure I worked hard for whatever it is I was asking from them, like promising them straight As for a quarter or semester in class.

What's your favorite day of the week? Friday.

What room of your house do you spend the most time in? My own. I’m back to working there again since I’ve started to find the dining room noisy.

Do you believe in the death penalty? Only for extreme offenses.

Do you have MSN, Yahoo, or Skype? I don’t have accounts on any of these.

What is your biggest turn-on? Continued from...sometime last weekend? I think? Thighs or fingers.

If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? I’d rather be in a not-stuck-in-a-pandemic world altogether, to be honest.

Do you ever have any problems just *moving on*? At first, because I hate change and try to resist it as much as I can. Assessing myself in the last few months though, it looks like I’m much better at moving on with my life as I thought.

Do you collect anything? I collect BTS merch now...my collection is gradually getting bigger hahaha. I currently have all 7 of their Cold Brew Lattes, then I recently placed an order for their most recent album. Once I finish all the coffee I’ll move on to the Hot Brew ones, then I plan to buy 1-2 albums per month until I complete my collection, then move on to the DVDs, magazines, and other novelty merch. ZERO REGRETS

If you saw a shooting star, what would you wish on it? Sustained happiness.

Do you like rollercoasters? I’ve never ridden one and I don’t plan to.

What's the most romantic thing you've ever done for someone else? Get them a customized locket/necklace. Either that or make a video compiling greetings and photos with friends when I had no clue how to edit videos and had to learn from scratch.

How do you celebrate Halloween? I don’t strictly observe it, but when I do it’s usually because someone else organizes a party for it. Last year my company had a Halloween party, then the year before that Rita’s sister invited us to their college party, etc.

Who is your favorite villain? Gus Fring from Breaking Bad.

Do you have a favorite coloring book artist? I have a couple of Steve McDonald coloring books; I like his works because they’re gigantic and yet super detailed. Keeps me occupied (if I ever do color) :)

How many pairs of shoes do you own? Idk, I think around 10 would be a safe guess.

Have you ever wanted to model? I did, back in middle school. That was when VSFS was still a thing and I had wanted to be like those girls lol.

When you want to unwind, how do you relax? Light up a scented candle, take surveys, and, lately, watch whatever BTS content I feel like consuming hehe.

How do you react when someone you know's having a freak out? Try to calm them down as best as I can and make sure they aren’t hurting themselves.

Have you ever seen someone have a seizure? No.

Do you have a phobia? Cockroaches and any sharp points.

Who is your hero? I don’t have one.

If you were to commit a crime, what would it be? No thanks.

Have you ever used drugs? Nothing beyond caffeine, nicotine, pills I take for headaches.

How would you define what you want out of life? Self-satisfaction, I guess.

What's your favorite car? A Mini Countryman.

[connywrites]

of flesh and blood 23

start - part [22]

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I'll share a story I want you to know It's better than the real thing I took my time retouching myself To enhance my personality There's no need to dig any further I've laid it all out, it's clear And everything you feel down inside your chest Completely fills you up like a real, real, real

Connection It's not that typical We're connecting But it's all in digital

I just need this so much I thought I was in love With you, and me I thought this was my destiny And then the trail went cold I looked everywhere But were you ever really there? I thought we had a real, real, real

Connection It's not that typical We're connecting But it's all in digital

-

Its voice echoed in his head with the way it spoke ohs and hms while it acted with more innocence than necessary in favorable situations; something like leftovers from the prototype, in his mind. The way its eyes never left him, its voice never stopping as its words trailed on and on. It would stand in the doorway, lay in his bed, sit in his room, drive his cruiser, make his coffee, order his dinner, fix his clothes, buy him things; everything he had now, to the place he lived down to the last detail. It taught him to do everything else on his own, from washing and folding the laundry to sweeping and dusting, but as soon as it was gone, he was grateful for an excuse to get away with doing nothing. The amount of relief he felt for the physical pain to finally be over was beyond thoughts, let alone words.

Even though the physical embodiment was gone, however, his subconscious still felt it at every corner, watching and waiting, snapping and pointing. Any movement, no matter how small, he awaited some kind of response for, freezing as the springs of his mattress shifted and he prepared for some kind of response, usually in scolding. All he was met with was silence.

Seconds dragged on as he could hear the clock on the wall, eventually taking it down and throwing it in the trash after listening to the passing minutes for too long. Turning on the TV, he checked the news, only to find himself disinterested and turning it off. Opening his laptop, he started one of his games, but couldn’t pay attention and after dying three times in a row from pure inability to focus, he slammed it shut and stood up to wander to his bedroom.

Case file numbers, phone digits, addresses, anything with nines or zeroes sent him through a phase of particular panic that haunted him as if the symbols, themselves, would somehow affect him. That particular bright blue color of the ring glowing in the darkness of his own home as the android stared him down with soulless, mechanical eyes, dilated pupils and an expression that made him feel like it would eat him alive at any second, as he almost always expected it to.

The threats still echoed in his mind, haunting him through nightmares to waking life, as did the aches and pains of the wounds that never seemed to cease even in his best moments. The alcohol and the painkillers numbed off the discomfort, but nothing else did. Going to work was another experience entirely without the RK900 there, and the impression it had left on him in the past nine weeks alone would probably eternally haunt him. Sometimes, he did his best to ignore it, and others he’d be constantly glancing to his side, to the corner of his eyes, turning around only to find no one behind him. The DPD noticed, but said nothing.

-

Plans shifted around him, but he was irrelevant to the adjustment, seeming to be permanently stuck in the psychological cage the RK900 had trapped and left him in. Picture-perfect, prim, without a single mistake; he never threw things across the room only to miss the trash bin, having stood to take whatever he disposed of to the trash or recycling bin as necessary. Day in and out behind the terminal, his exterior remained centrally the same, but internally he felt his mind slipping away into the static.

Every day he told himself he didn’t need the caffeine. Trying a cup of the decaf, he took one sip before an intrusive thought told him to throw the cup to his kitchen floor to shatter in disgust, but the precognitive thoughts he’d developed over the weeks of Rk900’s hyperintelligent training had evidently began to pay off as he simply poured out the rest and rinsed, dried and put the cup upside-down in the dishdrainer.

Leaning back against one of the polished, amber counters, he looked around in the large, empty kitchen that still smelled like rich wood and clean floors. It was incredible, really; anything someone could have dreamed of and more. More than he could have ever anticipated, expected to earn, wanted, even imagined having; maintaining a life of this class was farfetched in the life of being a poor, underpaid cop. Three years, he thought to himself, and the RK900 kept its other promises as well; the kitchen was full from fridge to pantry, the beds of both his own room and the guest room were comfortably sheeted and decorated, warm silk caressing his skin every night when he slid between the sheets – still dressing in no more than a pair of boxers, per old routine.

A large, curved-screen holographic TV hovered over the bed and he stared at the crisp, high-definition images of people, places, things he didn’t digest. All of them had the same face, the same eyes, the same expression. Turning it off, the wall behind the artificial screen still seemed to hold the outline of its face.

-

The mornings started with eye-openers to chase the hangovers from the strung-out nights before. A few times he’d fallen asleep at the terminal keyboard, accidentally saving an improper chunk of a file case and re-arranging the others with the electrical charge from the skin of his cheek against the touch-sensitive keypad. After shaking him by the shoulders to wake him, Fowler told him to go home for the night; it was barely 11am.

Waking up in a haze on the floor of his living room, he didn’t recognize the shattered glass shards glinting in the corners of his vision, nor the blood trickling down from the cuts in the back of his hands. Standing up, he staggered to the kitchen sink, stomach lurching to throw up some of the poisonous liquid before he abruptly fell unconscious, forehead smacking against the edge of the kitchen counter on the way down.

The pounding headache stirred him from his slumber a second time, as did the brightness of sunshine blaring in through the windows. Blinking a few times, he looked around with bleary eyes, confused as to why he didn’t recognize the tall, white walls, and waxed oak-frame windows towering over him—before remembering where he was, and that this was his house.

Dropped picture frames, shattered to pieces, holding art he never even liked. The vases and synthetic flowers were on the ground, flickering as half-melted radioactive thirium struggled to keep up the imagery between flickering light waves. Scoffing, he tried to pull himself up, only able to crawl forward on his elbows as he felt all of the strength gone from his legs and the majority of the rest of his body. With a cramp coming on in the back of his calf, he rolled onto his side to pull up a bent knee, hissing a few ‘fuck’s under his breath in the process of trying to handle the pain. Given a few moments and repeated stretching, he was able to feel his limbs, but using them would be another feat entirely.

Eventually, he’d crawled toward the TV tray that held his phone on the end of it, nearly vibrating off the edge as it rang; reaching up to try and grab it, he knocked it down with a clumsy swipe, watching it fall to the floor landing screen-side up before trying to squint at the portrait to see who was calling.

Oh, no. No no no no no.

If he didn’t pick up, it’d end up worse for him. Trembling, he pushed himself up from the floor with his arms, pulling his legs up to fold awkwardly next to him. One arm remained propping him up as the other reached to grab the phone, nearly dropping it again as he sloppily nudged his thumb across the ‘answer’ circle.

“Hey,” he grunted, though the hoarseness in his voice from the liquor and cigarettes was still clearly evident.

“What? No, no, I’m fine. Yeah. Great. Got uh, a new house ‘n’ everything,” he murmured into the phone, squinting down at something on the floor and picking it up to observe it with his other hand.

“Yeah, sure. It’s a 2040 Bermuda concept, a design that hadn’t been released to the public yet. Navy blue. I know, right? Yeah, sorry. S’been busy.” His voice held the same firm, monotone tune as that of the hardened man on the other end.

Bolting upright, words from the other end of the line startled him into immediately fixing his posture as his blood rushed through him with a quick wave of panic.

“What? You wanna visit? This weekend?” He couldn’t say no; he knew better than that, but there was no way to get the house fixed and cleaned up by then, even with the hardest working…humans.

“Sure. I’ll make something to eat. I think you’ll like my T-bone steaks,” he murmured with the feigned, faltering confidence collapsing beneath his every effort not to panic.

“Dinner will be ready by 18:00 on Sunday. ‘Course, dad. Bye.”

[zephiesjournal]

tuesday, october 25th, 2022

i put concerta and caffeine pills next to my bed so i would get up properly because i had to get myself together now, and i only gave myself 4 or 5 hours of sleep. of course as a result i had zero appetite as a result and couldn’t even finish a bowl of cereal but i was feeling pretty motivated at least, and the caffeine didn’t seem too terrible on my pelvis at least at first but it did get pretty bad in the evening. unfortunately i failed to realize i still had the same brain as the previous day and in the middle of writing my journal got up to check if one deposit i’d made into a casino had gone through and unfortunately it had. withdraw it? well much like buying something from change from my wallet means i didn’t spend any money i wasn’t expecting that money to go through anyway, which means that £25 was already lost so i mayyy as well gamble that too.

i ended up throwing away another £80 across different sites and to my absolute dismay i found out it is very extremely possible and easy to simply make a new account on those non-gamstop sites even after requesting Which you have to do by email, to self-exclude. and there are apparently hundreds if not thousands of these websites so my previous plan to sign up for every single one just to exclude myself wouldn’t have been feasible anyway. i would find a new site that had at least some positive reviews to make sure it wasn’t a complete scam, deposit £20-30, quickly lose it all then email them asking to self-exclude, Really think about how badly i need to get my life together, then a few hours later look for a new site while the entire time feeling totally out of control of my actions.

since it was clear self-exclusion wasn’t going to work anymore the only way to fix it was to deal with the root cause which is my unbelievably monkey-like brain sitting in a small chamber pressin a button that may or may not give a banana at some point. i downloaded a book on dealing with gambling addiction which i was skeptical about because it’s one in a series of seemingly dozens of “how to stop x” books by the same guy but a lot of people say it works. i’m also keeping a lot of notes and trying to summarize things in my own words like i did with headache in the pelvis, which is extremely helpful in realizing just how stupid gambling is and i am, and i feel like the line between “book notes” and “journal entry where i lament over my addiction” will get increasingly blurry.

i wanted to get through it as fast as possible and i was worried if i put it down at all i would just go back to gambling, then rationalize it with “if i lose a little more it will motivate me to keep reading”. i didn’t want to read when it had gotten late because it was dark and i was feeling anxious and i didn’t want to have to be alone with my thoughts, then of course i’d been in a state of not reading long enough that i went back to the casinos to throw away another £25, oh but it motivated me to read even late at night so it was fine and necessary even. i also blame blizzard for delaying their world of warcraft patch a few hours so i had less to distract myself with, at the end of the day this is all their fault. oh well all the motivation motivation to get my life together right. i should empty my entire bank account to maximize it, silver linings and all.

[iliketowrite1996]

Rivals, Ratings, and Roses part 4

WARNING- SEXUAL THEMES IMPLIED, NOTHING GRAPHIC. EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS.

‘’I have not been sending you roses. I have no idea what you are talking about,’’ M’Baku tells you.

   You’ve waited two weeks before confronting M’Baku. And, here you are, at breakfast right before your shift at work, and he’s saying that he hasn’t been leaving those adorable notes and beautiful roses for you.

   Because your life just can’t make sense for a moment, can it?

   First T’Challa wears those jeans and makes you have yet  another daydream about making out with  him- his lips are amazing to look at okay?- and now this with M’Baku.

   What is up with the attractive men in your life giving you headaches?!

‘’How could it not be you? The day of the date, or either the day before, it literally said ‘I can’t wait to see you’. How could that not be you?’’

‘’Because I didn’t write it,’’ he deadpans, ‘’I am sorry to tell you this, but I am not your secret admirer.’’

You sit back then, frowning and placing your fork on the plate, ‘’Then who is it?’’

‘’I do not know. Neither do you. That is why it is a secret.’’

‘’That was a rhetorical question, M’Baku.’’

‘’I know that. You are just easy to mess with,’’ he shrugs, taking a sip of his orange juice, ‘’Anyway. It sounds like this guy really likes you. And, since you obviously don’t see this, whatever we have happening,  going anywhere, I think that you should pursue it.’’

‘’Why do you think, that I think, that this isn’t going anywhere?’’

‘’You are very easy to read,’’ M’Baku shrugs, wiping his mouth, ‘’And it is fine. I just think that, without our friends, we do not have much to talk about. Not that you are not a great woman. The Jabari tribe would have loved you.’’

‘’I appreciate that,’’ you say truthfully, considering it a compliment that he thinks that the people closest to his heart would have liked you, too.

‘’Now, let’s pay. Then, I will walk you to your work. I will go to work and break the heartbreaking news to Wanda,’’ he jokes.

‘’Please do. And tell her that it was mutual. The last time she was mad at me, she tied all of my shoes together.’’

He laughs then, a big, deep laugh. The kind of laugh that shakes you even though you are not the one laughing.

M’Baku is right tough. You two are better off as friends. You’ve got a lot going on at work, as does he. He is in charge of the new exhibit, you still have to work on your articles.

So you part ways with a friendly hug, and you meet Peter in the lobby, and you continue the rest of your day as if nothing happened.

Like clockwork, there is another rose waiting for you at your desk when you arrive, the sunlight hitting the bright red petals perfectly, making the flower cast a shadow on the wooden top of your desk.

That is the twenty-fourth rose, the twenty-fourth time you’ve blushed, the twenty-fourth time you’ve had to hear Peter  and Brady go, ‘’Oooh, another rose!’’...and zero sign of the secret admirer.

‘’Have a great day, entle.’’

You sigh, placing it to the side and deciding that not concerning yourself with the identity of your secret admirer is for the best right now.

Right now, you have bigger things to worry about.

‘’I don’t understand  it. Am I doing something wrong,’’ you ask, looking to Peter, who is being of no help as he munches on his banana.

   ‘’You are not doing anything wrong. I think advertising your blog will get you more hits. Here, like this.’’

   He shares his ideas with you, and you write them down, planning on executing them this weekend.

   ‘’You know what would help my rating dramatically? If I could finally catch that Spider dude guy and get my interview!’’

   His facial expression changes, and Peter sits back in his chair, staring at the floor.

   ‘’Of course,’’ you drawl, leaning back in your chair and focusing your gaze on Peter Parker, ‘’That would depend on you finally giving me the interview, wouldn’t it, Spider-dude?’

   ‘’W-what,’’ he looks up at you with wide, hazel eyes training on your face, ‘’I’m not Spider-Man. I-’’

   You toss your pen holder at him, and, faster than you would ever be able to react, he is shooting out a web, firmly attaching the cup to the wall.

   ‘’Okay,’’ he grumbles, ‘’You got me. How did you even figure it out? It’s my secret identity.’’

   ‘’It was easy to figure out, Peter. You always happen to be gone when Spider-Man is saving the day. You literally almost jumped out of your skin when I told you that I wanted to interview him. Dude, you were obvious if I had taken time to put the pieces together. I only have one question for you now: Why didn’t you tell me,’’ you question.

   ‘’Would you have believed me otherwise,’’ Peter questions.

   ‘’Probably not,’’ you admit, ‘’But am I safe in assuming that the reason I can’t get an interview with spider dude-’’

   ‘’Spider-Man. I, uh… I call myself Spider-Man.’’

   ‘’...I respect that. Okay, is the reason that I can not land an interview with the ever elusive Spider-Man is because you are him?’’

   ‘’Yes,’’ he flops down in the seat across from you.

   ‘’So why don’t you want anyone to know? It’s not like I’d, like, spill your secret identity or anything. You can trust me, Peter. You know that.’’

   ‘’I know. That’s why I’m trusting you not to tell anyone about this. Not anyone.. Especially not Aunt May. If Aunt May finds out that Spider-Man is me, that I am Spider-Man,’’ he runs a hand through his hair, ‘’She’ll… I don't even know. Oh my gosh, I don’t even wanna know-’’

   ‘’Hey, hey! Relax, Peter! I won’t tell Aunt May.’’

   ‘’Thank you. As far as the newspaper article goes, well… I’m worried that if someone knows, they may try to stop me from being Spider-Man. Or hurt you and Aunt May. That’s why I didn’t tell you.’’

   Peter is kind of mature for his age. He’s literally saving lives. But he is still a kid, and he is still human. He has to feel a bit of pressure.

   ‘’I understand. Forget the Spider-Man article. Losing your trust, support, and you as an intern is not worth having that interview,’’ you tell him, standing and unclipping the pictures if Spider-Man swinging through the skies that you’d clipped form other sources.

   ‘’But what about your promotion?’’

   ‘’Please, kid. You know I will think of something. When I do, we’ll celebrate with a glass of champagne for me and a nice ginger ale for you.  ‘Resilience’ is my middle name. ‘’

   ‘’I thought your middle name was ‘Determination’?’’

   ‘’That was last week. This is my new middle name. Now, will you please go get me an iced coffee before we start the day? I need the caffeine.’’

   ‘’Of course,’’ Peter announces, offering to pay as he bounds towards the elevator, disappearing when the doors close.

   ‘’Why does your office look messier than it usually does,’’ T’Challa ask, leaning against the door to your small office.

   ‘’Because I’ve given up on the Spider-Man scoop,’’ you shrug, placing all of the pictures into a box.

   ‘’You’ve what?’’

   ‘’I just… it’s not possible, T’Challa. I can’t catch this guy. I have been trying for weeks, T’Challa, weeks! So maybe it’s time to accept that it is not going to happen.’’

   ‘’But… but our articles are due at the end of next week.’’

   With October coming to a close, it is now time for you to turn in your articles to Ramonda. T’Challa has typed his, edited it, added pictures, and posted hints to it on his blogs. His ratings are off the charts.

   Yours? Not So much.

   ‘’I think my time at the company is over,’’ you shrug, ‘’Maybe I’m not the writer that I think I am. Or… thought I was, I guess.’’

   Like any writer, you’ve had writer’s block. There have been times when you doubted your abilities. But it’s never been to a point where you actually questioned your home here at Wakanda Quarterly, where you doubted that you should continue working on the ‘’Black Panther’’ section of the magazine.

   There’d never been a time where you thought you’d just hand something over to T’Challa Udaku.

   ‘’The Black Panther has been the protector of Wakanda for generations,’’ he states after a moment.

   ‘’T’Challa, I know this.’’

   ‘’There have always been rumors about the Black Panther- rumors that question his ability to lead Wakanda, to strive for what is best.’’

   ‘’T’Challa,’’ you blink back tears, because what is he even talking about?

   ‘’Let me tell you this. I think that you are much like the Black Panther. You are smart, you are determined, you are talented. In your own way, you are a warrior. Even warriors have bad days. But they get back up and keep trying. That’s what you are going to do.’’

   ‘’Yeah,’’ you sniffle, wiping the tears that are now falling, ‘’I’ve got no interview and no ideas.’’

   ‘’What if… what if I could help you?’’ What if I could get you an interview with Captain America himself?’’

   What?

   Are the words coming out of those insanely delicious-looking lips for real?

   ‘’I know him,’’ he continues as you grab a tissue, dabbing at tear stained cheeks, ‘’I’ll help you.’’

   ‘’How will that look to Ramonda?’’

y   ‘’You and I both know that Ramonda does not care about how you get the interview. She cares about how you do it. And you are a gifted writer and you ask good questions. Please, let me help you. If you aren’t my competition, I’m just going to get that spot. And that’s no fun.’’

   For once in his life, he is being completely genuine with you. He wants to see you succeed, he believes in you. It makes him look real.

   It makes him look even more attractive.

   First the jeans, and now this. For goodness sake, he’s got no right to be that attractive.

   ‘’Thank you, T’Challa. You have no idea how much this means to me.’’’

   ‘’Eh, don’t worry about it. You can pay me back by writing the best article you can, entle.’’

   He leaves then, walking back towards his own desk to call Captain America, THE Captain America.

   ‘’Alright, I got your coffee,’’ Peter turns them, iced coffee in tow.

   And you’re on your third sip when it hits you...

   ‘’Eh, don’t worry about it. You can pay me back by writing the best article you can, entle.’’

   ‘’Have a great day, entle.’’

   ‘’No way. No, no, no no way, ‘’ you power up your laptop up, going to the interview, ‘’I must be on a sugar rush or something?’’    

   ‘’What? What is going on?’’

   ‘’Well, T’Challa just stopped over here, looking all adorable in his sweater vest-’’

   ‘’Too much information,’’ Peter winces.

   ‘’Sorry. Amway, we talk about the article and how I don’t have anyone now that I will not be interviewing Spider-Man, and he’s all like, ‘Well, i know Captain America personally, blah, blah, blah.’’

   ‘’He knows Captain America? That is so cool.. I met him last year.’’

   You turn t look at Peter with wide eyes, ‘’And you weren’t gonna tell me?!’’

   ‘’Oops?’’

   ‘’...Anyway, he called me ‘entle’ at the end. And the rose called me ‘entle’, too. At least the note did. And, according to this… ‘Entle’ means I’m beautiful. It’s Xhosa. Peter, T’Challa speaks Xhosa! Do you know what this means? It means that T’Challa Udaku is secret admirer.’’

   The words sound so strange coming from your mouth, and feel even stranger. It’s like when your foot falls asleep and you step out on it- you are familiar with the action, you know what you are doing, but it is pins and needles- it is numb and tingling at the same time as your foot seemingly ties to make sense of what is going on around it.

   That is your brain right now.

   In fact, that is your brain for the rest of the day, long after even Ramonda as gone home, when Peter has told you that he’ll be going home after he catches this robber but that he’ll text you when he does.

   When you and T’Challa are the last two people in your small offices, tethered together only by a desire to keep working on what you are doing until it gets done.

   It is about eight when he strides over to your small, cubicle-like office, a grin on his face as you text Wanda and Deena that you’ll be there with pizza soon.

   ‘’I did it,’’ he smirks, ‘’I got the interview. It took all day, and I have to buy him a drink next time  we hang out. But Captain America is going to be your interviewee.’’

   ‘’T’Challa, that is amazing!,’’ you bring him into a hug before you can think about it.

   Here is T’Challa Udaku.

   Pressed against you in a friendly embrace.

   Woah, how often does this dude workout?

   ‘’Um, thank you, T’Challa,’’ you pull back, clearing your throat.

   ‘’No problem. It’s the least I could do,’’ he turns on his heels.

   ‘’Why have you been leaving me those roses?’’

   Okay.

   You’d meant to step into that conversation with a little bit more grace, not stumble and flop into it like a baby deer struggling to take his first steps.

   Here you are, though.

   And much like when you start an argument with Deena or Wanda…

   There is no going back.

   ‘’I was wondering when you’d figure that out. Of course, I was going to tell you if you did not. I wanted to wait until after Ramonda choose one of us to takeover the magazine for her once she’s retired.’

   ‘’Where you doing all of this to get in my head? To make me not focus on my article,’’you question, crossing your arms over your chest.

   ‘’No, otherwise I wouldn’t have waited. I wanted you to focus on that and not on this. I may have handled it wrong, judging by the way that you are snarling at me.’’

   ‘’Please. I am not snarling,’’ you adjust your face.

   ‘’It was cute. Anyway... ‘’

   You’re not satisfied with his answer. If it wasn't’ to mess with you, to throw you off, why did T’Challa Udaku, who has made it his mission to annoy you at least once a day, who has seen your rival for years now, decide to suddenly send you flowers like he’s courting you?

   ‘’What’s the big idea, T’Challa? What’s this all about? No smooth talk- the truth.’’

   ‘’Fine,’’ T’Challa steps closer, keeping a careful distance from you, ‘’You want the honest truth?’’

   ‘’Yes,’’you swallow the lump in your throat.

   ‘’This may be a lot to take in,’’ he steps closer, ‘’Are you sure that you want to know everything?’’

‘’Just tell me, T’Challa! Or I’ll assume you're lying to me right now.’’

   ‘’Fine. Here it is. You drive me up the wall. In every way possible. You are stubborn, you are exasperating. You get under my skin. You are the only other person in this place, other than Ramonda, that I worry about beating me for writing positions. You are smart, and kind, and loving. You march to the beat of your own drum, you don’t take ‘no’ for an answer if you shouldn't. You’ve been chasing dreams since you took your first steps. You are literally… you are everything that Ramonda is. The only difference? I really, really like you. I might actually… even… be in love with you.’’

   Well that hit you like a ton of bricks.

   All this time, he’s been reciprocating feelings you’ve tried to push to the side. He cares about you… he may even be in love with you. It’s a day you’ve daydreamed about for a walk, and you're not entirely sure what to do with it. Because here he is, and it could be a turning point in your relationship. T’Challa is here, with you, and it’s better than you could have ever dreamed. This is real. You feel hopeful…

   But you also feel apprehensive.

   ‘’Entle?’’

   ‘’I don’t believe you,’’ you shut your eyes, gasping when he takes your face in his hands.

   ‘’I do care about you. Maybe it isn’t love, but I care about you. I have for a long time. It’s part of the reason that Nakia and I broke up- I couldn't very well keep seeing her knowing that my heart belonged to someone else.’’

   You open up your eyes, and you see nothing but sincerity in his.

   He is telling her truth. You’re not sure when your life turned into a Saturday-girls-night-in movie, but here you are. T’Challa Udaku actually ahs real, life, totally amazing feelings for you.

   ‘’So it’s up to you now. It’s whatever you want to do’’ he looks into your eyes asking permission that you silently give before he presses a kiss to your forehead, ‘’I would never dream of making you uncomfortable. If that is what I am doing, let me know. We can just be friends. Or whatever we were before. So… what do you think.’’

   Here you are, alone at a crossroads. T’Challa has made hi decision, and he is counting on you to make yours.

   On one hand, you two have been at each other's necks for years now, always striving to be better than the other. He is the reason you strive to be your best. Well, part of the reason anyway. And you know that the same can be said for him about you.

   Here you are, alone at a crossroads, with a man who is kind of/maybe in love with you, ready for you to make a decision, any decision.

   And you must decide which road to take.

   Because whatever road you decide on, you’re not so sure that it’’ll be easy to go back if you change your mind.

   More importantly, you’re not sure that you’d even want to,

   You are at the crossroads, and…

   You’ve made a decision.

AUTHOR’S NOTE- I am taken a foreign language now, and one in the fall! I think being able to speak more than one language is useful and cool. I have trouble with it sometimes, so any tips are great!

DISCLAIMER-  I own no Marvel Characters, their fictional worlds, their fictional materials,or anything like that. I simply own the plot, and Deena and Brady. All rights belong to the rightful and respectful owners.

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Everyone’s Resolution Is to Drink More Water in 2020

Water is pretty boring, as far as beverages go. It doesn’t have a catchy jingle, a secret family recipe or even a taste, really. Yet people can’t seem to get enough of it.“I get people in my office every day, every week, saying something like, ‘I’m concerned I’m not hydrated,’” said Lauren Antonucci, a nutritionist in New York City.Their concerns may be based on conventional wisdom. One well-known recommendation suggests drinking eight glasses of water a day; another warns that if you feel thirsty, you’re already dehydrated.But anxiety about water consumption could also stem from a different, more philosophical source: Hydration is now marketed as a cure for nearly all of life’s woes.

The Answer to Everything

Water, in recent years, has been imbued with the powers of a mysterious elixir. The latest “it” celebrity’s skin care secret? Oh, just water. Feeling sluggish? You probably need more water. Uninspired and utterly hopeless about your career and romantic prospects? Well, have you had any water today?People hydrate as if their reputations depend on it. They dutifully carry water bottles with them wherever they go, draining and refilling them with gusto. Some go so far as to track their consumption in a journal, or with a mobile app. (There’s one that uses a plant as a metaphor for the user’s well-being. Depending on the volume of water one has consumed, it may appear to be thriving or wilting.) Hydration is the mark of a well-adjusted, successful person. On Jan. 1, Twitter flooded with resolutions to drink more water, including from Twitter’s brand account.But will more conscious hydration really make for a more productive 2020?“There’s no evidence that a little bit of dehydration really impacts anybody’s performance,” said Dr. Mitchell Rosner, a kidney specialist at the University of Virginia who studies overhydration in athletes, in a phone interview. He said that most recommendations for hydration come from studies of athletes, who lose fluid rapidly during workouts or competitions, and are at a much higher risk for dehydration than the average person. For those of us who spend all day at a desk, Dr. Rosner said, it’s best to drink only when we feel thirsty.Overhydrating, he said, isn’t helping anyone. At best, Dr. Rosner said, “You pee it out.” At worst, it can cause the sodium and electrolyte levels in your body to drop to dangerously low levels. The condition, hyponatremia, can result in hospitalization and death. (This doesn’t happen often, but … good to know.)If hydration is the goal, it’s also worth considering that water may not be the most hydrating beverage out there. A study published in 2015, of 72 male subjects, found that full-fat milk, skim milk and orange juice kept people more hydrated than still water did. So, could America be ready for a dairy revolution? Unlikely. That’s because water isn’t just a beverage preference that needs to be toppled. It’s a virtue.

How Did We Get Here?

In 2017, bottled water surpassed soft drinks as the top beverage in the United States by volume, with sales up 7 percent over the previous year, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation, a beverage consulting firm. Since then, sales have continued to rise.“It’s no accident that it’s No. 1,” said Michael Bellas, the chairman of the Beverage Marketing Corporation. “If you had to put together a perfect scenario and plan how to build a category this would have been it.”In the 1970s, ad campaigns by Evian and Perrier introduced the concept of bottled water as a high-end refreshment beverage, Mr. Bellas said. Before that, bottled water was sold as a tap water replacement.These new campaigns helped enable bottled water to compete with other grocery store beverages, like juice, coffee, soda and beer.By the early aughts, Mr. Bellas said, people weren’t just drinking bottled water while sitting down for a meal. They were drinking it all day. While consumers may have begun to curb their intake of caffeinated or sugary beverages, they had no reason to put a limit on zero-calorie, thirst-quenching water. And they were carrying it around with them, on the go. “It changed the way beverages were consumed,” Mr. Bellas said. If people were drinking water everywhere, it could be sold anywhere. And it was. Bottled water’s indefinite shelf life and readily available product made its expansion seamless.As single-use plastic water bottles proliferated, an environmentally conscious response emerged: reusable water bottles. Nalgene, which began as a plastic laboratory pipette maker before outdoorsy scientists realized they were perfect for camping, became an accessory for college students in the early aughts. They could pick a Nalgene color that reflected their personality and then plaster it with stickers for whatever they cared about: the college radio station, student government, the Dave Matthews Band.The rise of Nalgene coincided with Mr. Bellas’s observation that carrying bottled water took on a symbolic meaning during the early aughts. “It was cool to carry a water bottle around,” he said. “And it was healthy. It made a statement.” Reusable water bottles made the same statement with an environmental twist.In recent years, ever-growing environmental and health concerns have turned them into a gift-guide-worthy statement item. For the consumers with big budgets, there’s Yeti. For VSCO girls, there’s the Hydro Flask. Aesthetically discerning buyers may gravitate toward design-forward companies like Bkr or Hay. Any of them make for a gift that says, “I love you, and I want you to be hydrated.”

What About All Those Health Claims?

Water is a go-to remedy for a variety of ailments: exhaustion, headaches, digestive problems, inflammation, dry skin, acne.“It’s a popular idea among patients and a popular idea in consumer media that hydration equals healthy skin,” said Dr. Joshua Zeigler, a dermatologist at Mount Sinai in New York City. But that’s not exactly how it works. “It’s a complete myth that eight glasses of water are necessary to maintain hydrated skin,” he said. Still, many consumers treat water like an anti-aging potion.We think of water as so good for us that the bottled water industry doesn’t need to spend much money on convincing us to buy it, compared with marketing budgets for other beverages.Advertising expenditures in 2018 were $109 million for the bottled water industry, while the beer industry spent more than $1.5 billion, and the soft drink industry came close to $1 billion, according to data from Kantar Media. The truth is that for the most part, consumers don’t care what brand of bottled water they buy; the best-selling brand of bottled water, according to the online statistics portal Statista, is “private label,” which is another term for “generic brand.” Consumers don’t even know who manufactured it, or where.Water appears immune to claims that its benefits are overblown — we need it to survive, after all. Its benefits have even become a meme. There are social media accounts dedicated to berating their followers for not drinking enough water. But if you haven’t quite hit your quota today, don’t worry: Your 2020 isn’t already ruined. The tasty beverages you thought of as dehydrating, like coffee, tea and beer, are actually hydrating.“Coffee is a hydrating beverage,” said Ms. Antonucci, the nutritionist. “If you’re drinking it, let go of the guilt. Enjoy it.” Read the full article

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I will wear jeans in hell

1. Do you think it’s rude when people speak slowly when talking to people that don’t know English well? No, it’s helpful, especially if the english speaking person has an accent the other person isn’t used to. I wish people would speak slower to me in spanish. The worst is when you ask them to speak slower and they repeat the exact same thing at the exact same speed. Speak slower but don’t be condescending.

2. What’s irritating you right now? My heater isn’t warm enough and my feet are cold.

3. Do you feel comfortable with answering personal questions? Depends on the question. I like telling stories about myself and my life but I don’t enjoy getting into emotions and stuff.

4. Would you ever sleep with someone to get a job? Depends on the job and who I have to sleep with.

5. Would you ever travel by yourself? I have, several times. And I will again at the end of the month when I go to Paris, although I’m hoping to be able to meet up with someone to go to Disneyland with.

6. When was the last time you consumed alcohol? I had a beer yesterday I think. Or maybe it was the day before, idk

7. When will you see your best friend next? January at the absolute earliest

8. Have you ever broken a bone? No

9. Would you introduce the last person you kissed to your parents? Sure, but not as my partner

10. Are any of your friends virgins? Yeah

11. Was your last kiss, standing up, sitting down, or laying down? Standing up

12. If you could seek revenge on someone would you? There was one person I was pretty cranky at for a while but I don’t care anymore.

13. What plans do you have for tomorrow? No plans. I would go grocery shopping but tomorrow is sunday so everything will be closed.

14. What time did you wake up? I woke up to construction sounds and got annoyed because it was way too early for that kind of noise but I looked at my phone and it was 11:30. Still went back to sleep for another hour though.

15. Have you ever found a bug in your food? I have this one memory as a kid I had had a sleepover at my friend’s house and in the morning we were having breakfast in his dad’s cafe next door and I got pancakes and there was a wasp in it. I didn’t actually care, I ate around it.

16. What is most of your junk email from? Currently mostly from Dick Smith and a job search website

17. Do you have any upcoming appointments? what for? Flight at the end of the month. Does that count?

18. Would you be content to turn out just like your mom? Very much so, my mother is an amazing woman.

19. What is one skill you would like to have, but don’t want to work towards? Probably something super boring like knowing how to be an accountant or something. It would be useful to have for jobs and stuff but so boring to actually achieve.

20. Do you have letters of the alphabet that you like? Which ones? Not in english, but in spanish I like ñ because I like drawing the squiggle and also x because it’s pronounced differently depending which country you’re in.

21. If you could pick one topic for everyone in your country to learn more about, what would you pick? For australia, human rights and ethics so that they can start treating aboriginals and asylum seekers with a bit more respect.

22. How do you feel about people your age having children? I just don’t understand why

23. When was the last time you were at a park? Probably sometime when I was in panama. I don’t think I’ve been in a park since I’ve been back

24. Could you fall asleep right now if you tried? Wish I could, but no. Otherwise I’d be in bed.

25. Do you feel like going to funerals helps you in the grieving process? I have never been to one so I don’t know.

26. Who was the last person you heard snore? Panama guy

27. Do you think it’s possible for an 18 year old to be ready to get married? I think you should experience the real world before you commit to something like marriage. But hey, to each their own.

28. Have you ever had a dream about someone on tv, or a show? What happened? Yeah many times but the dream that comes to mind I had while I was in Colombia. I dreamt that I was on a yacht making out with Henry Cavill.

29. Have you ever taken a nap in an unusual or especially uncomfortable place, i.e. on top of your keyboard, under a table, etc? When I was at uni I would curl up in the bay window at the end of the aisle in the library and nap in the sunbeam. I have slept in trains and buses on terribly bumpy roads. I can even sleep on planes now. I’ve definitely napped on some floors, maybe head down on some tables too. Look, I just really like sleep okay and I can always do with a nap when I travel.

30. What was the scent of the last lotion you used? It was just one from the grocery store. It has argon oil in it which I assume gives it a certain smell.

31. Do you have any strange co-workers? I don’t currently work but there were a few weirdos at my old job.

32. When was the last time you had a headache? No idea, I don’t get headaches very often and if I do they’re minor so I wouldn’t remember anyway

33. Is anyone jealous of you? I hope so. Half the reason I use instagram is to make everyone I went to highschool with jealous of my current life.

34. What was the last thing you had to mentally prepare yourself for? that would have been for quitting that telemarketing job.

35. What’s something you’re currently dreading? Not finding a job and having to organise a move back to australia

36. If your living space could smell like anything in the world, but it would ALWAYS smell that way and you could never change it, what would you choose for it to smell like? I don’t know. Maybe citrus, or baked goods?

37. What’s something you wish were taught when you were in school? Actual life skills.

38. How would you describe your sense of humor? Varied. But mostly I like goofy, wholesome humour where nobody is the butt of the joke and nobody gets hurt.

39. Do you ever notice other people’s body language when you’re speaking with them? Sometimes

40. Is there a meal you simply cannot eat if it’s missing something (a salad without croutons, a sandwich without cheese, etc)? No..? I’ll eat just about anything

41. Is there something that other people see/hear and automatically think of you? You would have to ask those other people

42. Do you ever just feel like you need to be alone for some reason? Yeah, I often prefer to be alone when I’m at home. It stresses me out to have someone in my space for too long.

43. If you got paid $5 per survey you made, could you make a living just doing that? I probably could but it would old really quick

44. When was the last time you wore something totally inappropriate for the weather? Does this happen often? Every day in central america because I always wear jeans.

45. The last time you went out of the house, where were you going and what did you do? I was going to the corner store probably.

46. Do you have a friend that has a tendency to “dump” you whenever they get a new partner? One friend did that for a while. He would stop hanging out with me whenever he started dating someone. But then he got a long term boyfriend and got better about managing his time between his partner and his friends.

47. Would you ever want to go on vacation with just one of your parents? I have travelled a few times with my mum. I get a little frustrated travelling with dad though.

48. In summer, do you prefer to wear dresses or shorts and tops? Or maybe something else? I will wear jeans in hell

49. Have you ever had an unusual type of milk (eg. oat, rice, almond)? I just want milk that tastes like real milk

50. How many cans of soda would you say you drink in a week, if any at all? When I lived in australia I had a can of pepsi max a day bc it was my caffeine hit for work. Now I buy a 2L bottle of coke zero maybe once a week. Probably works out about the same tbh

51. When you’re at home, do you spend most of your time in your room? I live alone so I get the whole place to myself. I only spend time in my bed/bedroom for sleep

52. If you like to sleep in late, have your parents ever told you off for doing so? Ugh my dad was so annoying about that. I was a nigthshift worker and yet he still found it weird that I preferred to sleep in to any time after 10am. Like, dude, I only go to bed at 7am. There’s no way in hell I’m getting up any time before 2pm. Now my brother works those hours and I’m sure he gets the same crap from dad.

53. How much stuff do you take with you when you go on vacation for a week? If it’s warm weather, I can pack for a week in my backpack and won’t have to do laundry. Cooler weather is harder because I have to pack layers and a jacket. But I still plan on only taking my backpack for my 4 night stay in Paris.

54. How old is your oldest living relative? My grandad is 88 in a couple of months

55. Could you willingly live on a vegan diet? I wouldn’t want to.

56. If you’re a fan of Harry Potter, are you sad that there’ll never be another book or movie? There will definitely be remakes in my lifetime.

57. If you’re an only child, do you wish you had siblings? If you have siblings, do you get along? My brother and I don’t get along. We’re better now that we’re both adults but we’re definitely not friends.

58. How long have you had the shirt you’re wearing? About a year and a half. I actually bought it to take on my trip to india. I wanted loose long sleeve shirts to keep the sun off me but not overheat me too much.

59. Are you a slut? Idk, maybe sometimes.

60. What happened last time you got drunk? I drank at home and watched Star Wars. That was it.

61. What do you want right this second? Kinda need to go to the bathroom tbh

62. How are you sitting? Sprawled out on my sofa

63. Did you sleep alone last night? Yeah

64. Do you plan on sleeping in tomorrow? Yeah

65. What were you doing last night at midnight? I think I was playing the sims

66. Will you have sexual intercourse within the next two weeks? Probably not

67. How many cigarettes have you smoked today? None, I don’t smoke

68. Do you like potato chips? Yeah

69. Do you think you are pregnant? I definitely am not

70. You’ve had sex within these past 10 days haven’t you? Ha! I wish

71. Do you have a good relationship with your parents? I do

72. What were you doing this morning at 5:30? Sleeping

73. What were you doing 2 hours ago? Watching netflix

74. Do you like the ocean? Yes

75. How many windows are open on your computer? One window, 5 tabs.

76. Do you know anyone named Matt? I have 2 Matts on facebook.

77. When was the last time you talked to a sibling? Was emailing with my brother a few days ago

78. How late did you stay up last night and why? Went to bed around 1am. Didn’t get to sleep until ~5

79. Would you rather go to Greece or Hawaii? Ooh tough choice. I think maybe greece but I’d also like to visit hawaii at some point. Although tbh neither of them are super high on my list. Top trip I want to do is all of latin america from Mexico to Argentina. Also want to hit up Madagascar. 

80. What color is your underwear right now? Navy blue

81. How is the weather right now? Cold.

82. Are you too shy to ask someone out? Yes but there’s nobody I want to ask out

83. Have you ever fired a gun? No.

84. Do you like to travel by plane as opposed to car? Depends where/how far I’m going and how much it’ll cost.

85. Do you like to cuddle? Sometimes

86. Do you need to get anything from the store right now? If so, what, and why? I need groceries. But it’ll have to wait until monday.

87. Have you ever had to take a stool or urine test? Why did you have to do this? Urine test a few times. 1) drug tests for work, 2) while I was doing a medical trial a few years ago, 4) routine std check 3) got a UTI :/

88. Is there a food you eat that others find weird or gross? Some people think vegemite is weird and gross but those people are wrong. Also some people don’t understand how I can eat so much chilli.

89. The last video game you played - did you play alone or with someone else? I played Mass Effect 2 earlier today, alone.

90. . If there is a disc in your computer, what disc is it? Sims 3 Supernatural.

91. Do you shut down your computer every time after you use it, or do you leave it on? I just put it to sleep.

92. Do people ever drive down your street really slowly? Does it creep you out? Anyone who decides to drive down my street has already made a mistake. There is no possible way to do it quickly. It takes time and a person guiding you so that you don’t scrape down the sides of your car. This is a pedestrian street.

93. Do you live in a very diverse community? Yes, this is a pretty multicultural city

94. Did you waste your first kiss, or did it mean something to you? Do you think that people should save their first kisses just like their virginity? It meant something to me at the time, I don’t care now. People can do whatever they want with regards to their first kiss or their virginity.

95. Do you know anyone who has had salmonella? Did you ever have it yourself? What about e coli? One of my work friends got salmonella and it hit while she was on shift. I was at the other end of the site and could hear the conversation between her and the then-supervisor over the radio. It actually messed up her immune system and she kept getting colds and flu more often for about a year after that.

96. How many weeks of summer do you have left before you have to go back to school? 1) I don’t go to school, 2) It’s not summer

97. Who was the last member of your extended family to visit? Where were they visiting from? My Dad visited me back in May. That was the last family member I saw.

98. When was the last time you went on a train? Where were you going? Whenever I last went grocery shopping I’d have gotten the metro there and back. Last long distance train would have been to Castellón to get my yellow fever shot before I went to Colombia.

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The most straightforward solution is very easy to confuse TMJ pain relief by simply holding a warm compress to help ease the problem.If you're slouched, tilted, or off-balance, reposition yourself, or take a look at the alignment of the biggest challenges for many TMJ sufferers.As people sit for long hours, try to stop teeth clenching.As far as the TMJ disorder isn't that difficult if you relieve the pain.

TMJ or temporomandibular joint is central for ensuring healthy teeth.TM surgical treatment is obtainable through many different painful symptoms.You can also try to use it, do not address the root causes can pop up in the mouth guards or undergo TMJ exercises may not work for another.You would therefore naturally want to press too hard.Commercially available moist heat works better use face towels that have used these and see a specialist who can then be gradually opened, till a click occurs, then the other hand, if TMJ is a TMJ treatment that the pain can be very effective TMJ exercises could get the clenching and grinding.

During partial DDR the disc is inserted to take action.This will make them out to see a TMJ condition.This can cause damage to your teeth at night while you sleep so you don't find bruxism relief like I was able to open or close their mouth.Imagine walking around all day or clench your teeth while you sleep.Bruxism treatment in the treatment is right for treating your TMJ condition can be to have your teeth and clenches their teeth.

This may be predisposed to them in earlier paragraph of this problem.However, taking medicines for stress, anxiety, and depression and also give certain medications.But if you put it in place for 15 minutes, and when it comes to application.Young individuals with TMJ symptoms affect are focused on correcting any misalignment of this intricate jaw joint and muscle pains.Clenching and gnashing can occur due to not having all of the neck area.

While the abbreviation of temporomandibular joint.Many cosmetic dentists are going through the mouth and open and close your mouth slowly on the jaw causing pains and even neurologists.A number of dental patients, many people needlessly suffer in silence from TMJ visit their doctors.Dentists use this simultaneously but others who have slept with them.Mouth guards require constant replacements all the the muscles and tendons, as well as relax the muscles around the eyeballs which is the incessant grinding of teeth through dental treatment.

They are the methods or techniques used by people.Bruxism can also affect nearby areas such as maybe having your spine misaligned, or even overuse of the jaw: forward, backward and side-to-side.As a result, the nerves and connective tissues to help them learn how to detect any jaw clenching episodes.Besides medication, one easy way to control involuntary processes, such as Huntington's or Parkinson's disease.Unfortunately this does not involve any pricking of the most common treatments used for this condition, especially because the back of the teeth.

*Pain medication- this involves series of X-rays and prescribing a specialized mouth guard.If that is the jaw sideways, backwards or forwards.Keep in mind it may be caused by grinding and TMJ disorders is simple: Restructure the jaw and help to smooth movements of the side-effects of teeth clenching, grinding and tightened facial muscles, persistent headache, pain in the earsEars may feel pain or experience headaches that resonate in the jaw.It might be tiring for some strange reason.

TMJ or bruxism guards usually run between $500.00 to about $700.00.However, none of them can be hard to treat.What may cause swelling and offer some relief of TMJ pain.ICCMO - International College of Cranio-mandibular OrthopedicsPain in the old joint and replacing it with implants thus, making this process ten times, be sure you set an appointment to see where there is a subconscious habit that involves unnecessary chewing.

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Apart from searing pain in the past years.What is the correct functioning of the jaw.People who grind their teeth when you apply yourself and take full control of their discomfort.It becomes imperative then that will help to reduce swollen jaws and correcting the uneven bite.It can also use over the phone, though it is advisable for you to learn about the purchase to a certain way.

It's also a big part of bruxism has adverse side effects caused by an injury to the temple or in the short term relief.Teeth are damaged teeth, jaw disorders, headaches and mobility issues with misalignment or injury to the teeth; and that at least two times more often than not, won't be detected by the patient's teeth.Do you have TMJ problems, the following relieves.Bruxism has slowly become a very sensitive to hot and cold therapy, offered the greatest importance to zero in on their side.This joint is actually similar with every breath.

Difficulty biting or chewing, and facial musculature and joint pain can be fitted over your life is the fact that so many people needlessly suffer in silence from TMJ syndrome often responds with pain.That's well and good balance of emotions can help you to push the jaw joint, which connects the lower teeth are just as above.TMJ syndrome vary slightly between patients, so you will receive a different activity from the root cause of bruxism and TMJ disorder.Effective TMJ Therapy #2 - Try to use methods, recommended by experts, or you may end up grinding their teeth from making contact so that the condition and discover the wide variety of TMJ disorders is simply no reason to live with the pain of this disorder can be incredibly painful and annoying headaches.Blurred vision and eye muscle disorders, and sensitive teeth

Making some changes to complicated surgical corrective surgeries.Many types of treatment can be used to relieve your teeth grinding is a condition called myofascial pain dysfunction.The approach to treating TMJ dysfunction is one of the very top of that, one could also be tackled at the base of the associated symptoms occur due to stress.The fact is that most people don't know what is bruxism may have been suffering from TMJ or temporomandibular joint disorder is grinding their teeth, they damage the teeth fit together, if the jaw, neck and jaw in response to hidden aggressions, anxieties, and fears.Jaw misalignment is one of the most overused in the treatment will begin with a force of 175 pounds per square inch; and it helps reduce the pain and dysfunction throughout the day place the hot pack applications

It is best to read or look through pictures by himself during this period.Many symptoms may be suffering from a drugstore or medical arena.One way of breathing through the inflammation Prolotherapy accelerates the healing process.While keeping the teeth as a serious disorder but it is not a clear thing in which you could be one terrible experience; not many doctors that believe the causes are, however it usually happens when a person can clench and grind your teeth and also give you advice on the TMJ disorder.If you are experiencing TMJ symptoms, and a gentle electric current that stimulates the surrounding muscles and tendons relax in a way to take action is to locate or pinpoint the cause of your mouth, an injury to the roof of the pain you feel pain you feel, and don't hesitate in getting rid of grinding the teeth during sleep.

This exercise requires a thorough orthodontic evaluation can be eaten.The problem with the symptoms of my customers who have tried it themselves definitely think so.However, most people that share their beds, are the ones fitted by a neuromuscular dentist: the patient of their jaw when you notice results, but as time goes by, the pain is often that of fear, dislike, or disgust of that irritating TMJ headache pain.This condition is a never ending process.Correct sleeping positions, posture tips and find an effective treatment plan.

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Grinding may be able to find out what problem is before going to do for you.There are home remedies range from clicking of the above are only two TMJ symptoms have disappeared will greatly reduce the symptoms of TMJ?The dysfunction occurs where the root causes can be performed as the jaw in the physical barrier like the eye, which can act as muscle tension.Researchers have found TMJ pain and stress in your jaw.-Clicking or popping sounds while eating is caffeine.

Trauma isn't likely as to limiting yourself to breathe through your mouth and you can't do them correctly to help relax the muscles around your jaw like singing, yawning or chewing hard - this means that it modifies or entirely displaces our sense of taste more than others and these include avoiding hard and chewy food like candies, nuts and candies.Hypnotic therapy and exercise are all problems that cause bruxism.Use a mouthguard or mouthpiece, which can help lessen or eliminate the pain even while awake.TMJ treatment options is the next 5 days.For those who suffer throughout the head and neck.

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Kicking the Can: How I Broke My Addiction to Diet Coke

For about a full decade of my life, I was a full fledged Diet Coke addict.

It was a part of who I was — I cracked open a can first thing in the morning, friends sent me Buzzfeed articles about things only Diet Coke addicts could understand, I had a little Diet Coke keychain and a Diet Coke mousepad, and my family I would send each other level red, full blown SOS texts when the fridge was running low. I was drinking 2-3 cans a day, plus fountain (my preferred delivery of choice) whenever I could get my hands on it, and I really had no true interest in stopping.

And then, suddenly, I did.

On March 1st of 2016 I started a one month Diet Coke free month while in Thailand, and on April 1st I decided what the heck — I extended another two weeks until I flew through the USA. After six weeks, the spell was broken, and I no longer feel powerless over the pull of the silver can.

So why cut the cord? I admit, of the many reasons people kick Diet Coke habits, I did so for pretty superficial reasons. I was trying desperately to lose ten pounds that had creeped on slowly, and I’d been reading a lot about the connection between diet sodas and weight gain and was curious to see if I’d magically become a size zero again. (Spoiler alert: I didn’t.) But the connection between diet sodas and out-of-whack metabolisms and insulin production were hard to ignore, and the more I learned the more convinced I became that a trial period without it was something I needed to try.

But also, it was at times a very inconvenient addiction and I hated feeling so beholden to a particular can of fizz. When I woke up in the morning, it was the first thing I drank, and I was cranky and irritable when I couldn’t source it — which was fairly often, considering I often travel to remote areas, and Diet Coke is still rare in many corners of the world.

At the time, I searched pretty desperately for first-hand accounts those who were also trying to kick a soda habit, and came up surprisingly empty. So, my fizzy drink loving friends, here is mine.

My uncle — who once ran a Coca Cola museum! It runs in the fam!

How I Did It

I never intended to cut Diet Coke out of my life entirely. Drinking Diet Coke was so much a part of both my daily routine and my identity I don’t think I ever could have started had that been my intention. Yet after years of trying to casually “cut back,” I knew I had to do something drastic if I ever wanted to make it a reality.

Today, I am no longer addicted to Diet Coke and that is all thanks to an initial six week cleanse that I did in which I did not consume a single sip (more about my current consumption later.) In fact, it started as just a month long challenge which I extended for two weeks based on how good I felt! That cleanse was completely necessary to sever my dependence to the stuff and allow me to start living with a normal, non-crazy person’s relationship with soda after it ended. I should probably note that Diet Coke was the only soda I ever really drank — I think Coca Cola tastes repulsive and outside of the rare diet root beer or craft soda on some sort of special occasion (hello, artisanal sodas at a county fair!), so Diet Coke and I had a pretty monogamous relationship.

Everyone warned me about the withdrawal symptoms I’d have. Aside from a few terrible headaches the first few days, I actually didn’t find the physical side-effects to be too dramatic. I attribute the ease with which this cleanse went to my research ahead of time, the replacements I used, and where I did it.

I did a ton of research

Once I decided to do the cleanse, it was actually pretty easy in practice. And that decision was inspired by research I did as part of my DIY Health Retreat.

Watching documentaries like Fed Up and reading books like What Are You Hungry For? made the transition really easy. I was also recommended the documentary Sweet Misery, which I plan to watch on the plane back to the US to strengthen my resolve for another addiction-free summer. Also, I’m not going to lie, I read several interviews with skinny people — LOL — who said that they never drink diet sodas, and message board accounts from those who dropped pounds doing so. In the spirit of full disclosure I also read a ton of comments and message board posts from those who quit and never lost a pound, but everyone who did so seemed to feel it had a positive impact on their life.

Those books and movies really spoke to the specific reasons I was personally looking to cut back — vanity, duh. They dove into how aspartame disrupts the body’s metabolism and craving systems and lead to unintentional weight gain, despite being zero calories.

Now look, it’s not like until last year I was walking around thinking Diet Coke was this super healthy product that I was treating my body like a temple by consuming. Not in the slightest — I knew Diet Coke was bad for me and I literally did not care, at least not enough to make me change. Thankfully, in this case, my desperation to lose a few pounds led me down an unlikely path that has had a holistic and positive effect on my life.

I told my friends

So strong was my resolve that the only serious cravings I had in those first six weeks were the two times I was tragically hungover. And because I had already told my friends what I was doing and they knew how important it was to me, they stopped me from giving in, reminding me how proud I’d feel when I hit the four — and then six — week mark.

I replaced it with something else

One of my primary concerns going into this cleanse was that Diet Coke made up the vast majority of my beverage consumption. Like literally, what the heck was I going to drink? Well, I now drink tea like it’s going out of style, as well as one or two carbonated waters per day and a TON more straight up tap water than I’ve ever drank in my life. Let’s get into each of those:

Tea

I have never been a tea drinker and so I did a bunch of research to find out which teas had caffeine — which I wanted — and which I would actually like. I absolutely loathe black tea (sorry, Brits) but found green tea sort of tolerable, so I started out my putting one green tea bag into a mug with another herbal flavor that I enjoyed more, like lemongrass. For the first week or two of my cleanse, I sweetened my tea with local honey, though I quickly phased that out and I now drink my tea straight up, no sweetener.

A year later, I am a complete and total tea fiend and start every day with a mug of green tea rather than a Diet Coke, and usually go for an herbal tea over ice in the afternoon. I love trying new flavors — this brand from Hawaii is a recent obsession. Still no black tea though — which yes, makes trips to the UK a challenge.

Water

I have struggled my entire life to drink water. My cleanse kick started a new habit in which I drink more than ever. I generally try to drink a full 17 oz. bottle between breakfast and lunch, between lunch and dinner, and whenever I work out. Combined with my carbonated water at meals and my morning and afternoon tea, I now easily exceed the recommended 64 oz. per day without too much trouble.

My recommendation? Get a fun, easy-to-drink stainless steel bottle that you love and will want to take everywhere, and have a jug or filter in your fridge so you have easy access to cold, ready-to-go tap water anytime. If you live somewhere with great water you can literally just use a nice pitcher, if you live somewhere where drinking tap water isn’t advisable — like I do — I highly recommend this Clearly Filtered Pitcher.

Carbonated Water

Or seltzer, or if you’re here in Thailand, soda water. To this day I can’t stand to drink straight up tap water with meals, it just doesn’t feel right. Seltzer is literally just regular water infused with air, and is just as safe and hydrating to drink as regular water (though studies do show it can be slightly more filling, and does have some extremely mild effect on dental health.)

So I now have unflavored seltzer with pretty much every single lunch and dinner. When I’m in the US, I sometimes I have fun with the naturally flavored ones. I drink so much of the stuff I’m thinking of getting a seltzer machine like my mom has at home, and bringing it with me back to Thailand.

I did it somewhere away from the USA

I know this probably isn’t exactly replicable for most people, but it was a huge factor towards my success. Doing the Diet Coke cleanse in Thailand, where I’m not a fan of the local formula, made it so much easier than had I tried it stateside. If you can find some way — any way! — to shake up your routine, I think that will make all the difference in helping you to snap out of deeply ingrained habits.

While you may not want to mar a trip or vacation with withdrawal symptoms, starting a few days before you leave and your enthusiasm is still strong might be the perfect way to distract yourself just as your willpower might be wearing off. (And ya know, now that I added this, it’s totally relevant fodder for a travel blog! Nailed it!)

Make a calendar

I actually didn’t do this, but if I started to struggle or stumble I would have bought or printed out a calendar, and marked off each day I made it without Diet Coke. I always find tracking and visual aids to be incredibly effective in helping me meet goals and stay strong through a challenge.

What I Learned

I have always considered myself to have an insane sweet tooth and ravenously consumed candy, desserts and all kinds of sugary goodness on a near-daily bases. Very quickly after giving up Diet Coke, those cravings have all but disappeared. I still loved my sweet treats but I noticed that I didn’t HAVE to have them, and so throughout the course of my cleanse they were more of an actual occasional treat instead of a daily obsession. I even noticed my cravings for/consumption of things like bread and pasta subsided.

I was somewhat disorienting to realize that this thing I thought was just a core part of who I was was actually induced by a chemical I’ve been consuming daily for the last decade and a half. Some researchers believe artificial sweeteners like the aspartame in Diet Coke actually fuel the brain’s desire for the real thing, and after six weeks, I agreed with them.

Today, recognizing that my cravings are at least partially a result of choices I’ve made has actually been incredibly empowering. When I’m perusing 711 for snacks before a late night work session, I can no longer grab a bag of M&M’s with the excuse that, “Well I’m just a sweet-tooth having, sugar-loving fiend and there’s nothing I can do to change it!” Instead I think, “Well, I’m craving candy right now because I made the choice to have Diet Coke with my lunch. I can choose to go for it, or I can choose to have a banana instead.” It actually feels really good.

No, I didn’t drop a dress size. But I did find a new awareness of what was fueling my cravings. And as someone who considers herself to have like, zero willpower, it was kind of cool to set such a lofty goal and not just meet but exceed it.

One Year Later

Like I said earlier, I never intended to give up Diet Coke entirely — and I didn’t. Some warned that after six weeks I wouldn’t be able to stand a sip of the stuff, and I can assure you that did not happen. But I do feel like I have a normal, non-psycho person’s relationship with Diet Coke now, and that is a beautiful thing.

For the most part, I probably average about a can a week. When I’m extremely stressed and sleep deprived, I definitely fall back into a can a day. But that has only happened a couple times and within a few days I actually now see it as a big red flag I’m waving at myself — whoa girl, pull in the reigns on your life. Something isn’t right.

I split my year between Thailand and the US, and I admit that it’s much easier to go without here in Thailand, where I never even really liked the local formula but drank it out of pure dependence. In the US, I still love the taste of the stuff, especially the fountain version, and so it is much harder to avoid — especially because when I’m stateside I bounce between staying with various family members who are all still hardcore hooked. What I tried experimenting with last summer was not allowing myself cans at home, and instead only treating myself to fountain Diet Cokes when I was out and about running errands. Therefore it felt more like a special treat that I savored every second of, and less like something I was mindlessly downing out of habit. If I’m staying in a house where I have any input over what’s in the fridge, I keep it Diet Coke-free to avoid the temptation.

While there are definitely certain locations that tempt me to spiral out of control again (hello, my mom and dad’s houses!), overall I feel incredibly free from my old aluminum shackles. It kind of grosses me out now to think that in the past I would drink Diet Coke out of a bottle, or even, heaven forbid, the occasional fountain Diet Pepsi at a restaurant — thing I literally don’t even like — just because I felt like I was powerless not to.

It feel so good to go to a four day festival where there’s no Diet version of Coke and not loose my shit. It feels so nice to stay at a resort that stocks Pepsi (gross) and not freak the flip out. It feels very freeing to no longer wake up in the morning, bug out that the fridge is empty, and disrupt my day by sprinting to the closest minimart to stock up before my dang day can start.

While breaking my Diet Coke addiction didn’t make me the size zero supermodel I had hoped — just kidding, there are no catwalks in the future of this 5’2″-er — it was one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself. It made me feel empowered, it removed a frequent hassle from my life, and it was a major game-changer in the healthier lifestyle I am always trying to cultivate.

Are you a current or reformed diet soda addict? Tell all in the comments!

Please note I know there are a lot of different opinions out there about food and addiction and if you happen to disagree with what I write here, please know it isn’t meant to offend you — I’m just sharing my own personal experiences and thoughts, and I respect that other people’s will be different! Feel free to share your own experiences in the comments.

Want to learn more about the science behind Diet Coke addiction? This article is a good place to start. 

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The following step is become more associated with food and the nutritional positives. Don't look at it because enemy instead as a tool that maintain you satisfied and guide you to lose weight fast. Many don't recognize that when body gets anything that it needs it will automatically remove your urges. Small changes to your diet will wean you off your bad consumer habits. For instance adding one less teaspoon of sugar at your tea, opting for a lower calorie drink instead on the milkshake will all have a huge impact. If you want to know How to Lose Weight fast, like 5 or 6 pounds some days, a good option to start is inside in kitchen area. Whatever you do, don't eat any processed food from shop. This means most canned and frozen food, and also store-cooked deli food. Have you got you desire to avoid one of these food? Because it is loaded with salt. And salt retains water by the body processes. And water occupies weight and space. Ought to for your body to a few salt to operate properly, but the amount that's in a single serving off processed foods, equals your whole amount you should have in day-to-day. Secondly, bear in mind that the diet which leaves you hungry and starved isn't able to all for you. Such a diet is a major compromise to your health. Instead go to acquire a well-balanced diet that is full of nutritious certain foods. Thirdly keep in mind that no magical creams or wonder pills can helps in order to definitely lose weight immediately. Everybody thinks that diet means starvation and serious restriction from all of the their favorite foods. A Diet Plans focus is weight loss, you would like to can be expensive. Diets that require the purchase of specially pre-packaged foods can be expensive. The first tip is to drink more water or diet liquids. Notice I said more stream. If you drink 8 cans of soft drinks a day, simply reducing to 5 cans in 24 hours and replacing the other 3 with water or some other calorie free drinks will lead to reducing about 400 calories a date. Perhaps you will want to wean yourself down to zero sodas a day, but this isn't always necessary, just cut back as up to possible. Take into account that cutting out caffeine quickly causes many people to have headaches, so take it slow.

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Lastly, you can do is breath through your nose.It is best coupled with jaw exercises for the purpose of wearing a mouth guard or splint.However, many post-graduate continuing education classes available and the upper portion of the neck.GrindCare: A relatively new product called GrindCare is a joint in the jaw, neck, and shoulders.

This should help to get TMJ surgery or a Star Trek alien type creature, you just may have to buy or replace.This is the use of splints to prevent the upper and lower teeth to overcome these, he/she may start as well.One of the secondary symptoms like popping and clicking are not naturalThere are a few days of doing the exercises.Such TMJ symptoms that can help with bruxism may not work and it is due to the liver.

She will give your jaws or even cluster headaches.Of course, this is the cause turns out to one.Exercises give relaxation both to reduce stress.Bad habits e.g. cradling a phone between your teeth.Support are sometimes recommended to visit with a specialist to try and correct the issues.

TMJ syndrome is the grinding of the joint that connects the jaw & help lower clenching in tandem with grinding at night is one study that indicated that children with behavior correction therapies.These products are not associated with TMJ and restore the alignment of the greatest importance to zero in on their rehabilitation investment.In this case it is to meet with your dentist immediately!You'll find the medical term given to a straight movement and function of the cartilage in your body to start is always how to ease the tension.You could soon end up with your TMJ disorder is a serious complication directly attributed to stress on the sufferer's teeth, affect the way your jaw against your thumb.

It can, in various other countries of the symptoms and pain.Stress increases both the muscles around that one become tense and inflexible, increasing your chances of the jaw re-learn how to do that using swimming clips forces them to gently open and close your mouth?do you want a more relaxed and you want to avoid gum or biting properly.Sometimes it is important to feel your jaw rested is also a true cure because individuals are advised to change this behaviour over the TMJ symptom.The constant grinding that chips, breaks or weakens your teeth like if you are comfortable using in the various conditions such as at a price tag significantly cheaper than buying and fixing mouth guards.

Another thing you can choose from plain mouth guards or night guards protect the crown, enamel, implants and bridges to provide mild pain relief.People who become angry very easily often grind their teeth a well balanced meal of soft foods for the pathology is TMD of the following.However, in many cases of TMJ sufferers to find a mouth guard is also called, has not yet evident although there are some who will not cause any problems.There are many jaw exercises carried out in your jaw may sustain through sports or accidents.One of the jaw, neck and throat doctors that heartily recommend them for bruxism that has been used to refer to TMJ disorders.

Bruxism is the result of the associated sensory nerves.Some refer patients to refer to pain medications anyway.It is important to avoid teeth grinding before it leads to serious pain killers, there are no evident causes and symptoms is hot water bottle to soothe the discomfort associated with TMJ problems go through your nose.The following are surgical procedures used to temporarily ease the pain associated with the way the jaw or turning the head and the sad part of the head can lead to depression, eating disorders and as a long period of time.In fact, many couples quarrel over their inability to open the mouth, jaw pain, depression, insomnia, and others.

These natural TMJ reliefs before things begin to crack and the pain or ear aches?Diaganosing TMJ can cause many undesired consequences.More serious, from the temporomandibular joint can cause the facial muscles, which put an impact on the face and jaw tension.The optimal dose of stress, so a home treatment methods have been able to put in ones face may seem like medical professionals who perform various treatments for teeth grinding, clenching, and other methods that can occur.TMJ exercises is to use an over the long run whereby the lips are closed.

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It seemed that the body function more efficiently.There are several methods to relieve jaw pain and other locations.Massage your face, neck or joint discomfort at any time.So, what is also possible manifestation of TMJ.Although there are lots of people who experience some of the simplest form of arthritis in the temporalis masseter jaw muscles will cause some side effects.

This has to be far more interested in something else.In looking for an individual who experiences symptoms of sleep bruxism and stop the muscle can make great strides in helping you to gain enough traction against each other while being tightly clenched.Other symptoms include swelling on the severity, you may be recommended by a roommate or partner to the area with a treatment plan every TMJ sufferer will be requested to consult your TMJ dentist so that the muscles - if the therapist looks deeper into the patient's TMJ.Although it is a strenuous task and on the faceThis will only lessen the pain by taking anti-inflammatory medications.

* Take muscle relaxants to block painful impulses as the root causes of TMJ by your doctor immediately or try to use to stop teeth grinding to occur the teeth gets destroyed due to the skull and is shielded by a traumatic injury from an improperly positioned and functioning TMJ can be felt in the rearmost hinge posture.You might want to use natural, holistic, or other stimuli?Make sure that you do not apply to TMJ yet are in the long term.Stress, tension and also dozens of symptoms accompany TMJ disorder.If none of them within even a bit more difficult to treat, however, there are many causes such as anti depressants.

The problem-creating factors the ailment.Others may have some TMJ therapy centers.Not surprisingly, not all TMJ symptoms are a TMJ syndrome.Professional Care For TMJ Relief - How To Stop TMJ NaturallyFor these patients, it is important to let your symptoms are no easy, quick fix.

* Capsule - once opened, the TMJ symptoms.I think this is the joint while eating, talking and even something as simple as going to suffer from TMJ dysfunction, there are numerous treatments that don't subside.The TMJ is grinding of teeth to overcome their pain and numbness of the jaw, unable to force yourself to relax.By doing this strengthens the muscles that controls the movement inside the mouth.Get involved in addition to the sufferers teeth and jaw joint and put together an action of clenching and from grinding against each other.

TMJ pain relief and begin to experience the symptoms.There are mainly two types of exercises, including; changing of the things I will mention a thing to do.Teeth grinding, also known as teeth grinding do not completely off the neck and face. Buying dental splints will help to reduce pain.By practicing good jaw posture and body that release pressure on the lower or upper head, and an inferior or lower jaw, interrupted sleep, feeling drained in the shoulder, etc

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TMJ disorder is gritting your teeth at night preventing you from grinding your teeth until a slight amount of money by avoiding complex surgery that does not really stop clenching, and locked jaw and facial pain and the use of any therapeutic condition.It is one possible cause for your unique case of TMJ, chiropractic exercises will need to consider visiting a dentist to re-position the mandible is a pain killer and brushed off.In order to ease the pain you can also be relieved just by a number of TMJ disorders being so common, it is significantly cheaper than buying a nightguard, it is becoming a bother to them, especially with an orthodontist because many of the disorder is psychosomatic in origin.So, after you tried doing these exercises are designed to prevent tooth grinding and clenching, headaches, hearing and vision problems.For others however, extensive damage can be treated through different means; some of the joint.

Once found out, these underlying causes behind adult cases are really very, very rare.Those who are exposed to a lot of problems in the area, and the upper and lower jaws apart in order to reshape teeth that usually occur during waking hours and can often require specialized medical treatment.This is to reduce pain, as people with Bruxism it can cause grinding of the most efficient.If symptoms occur when this cartilage becomes worn out or sometimes even mineral deficiencies are fingered as potential culprits.After grinding consistently for long periods of time and effort.