CancelTheHam

I've been a fat guy my entire life. The fattest I ever got was 170kg, which cost me job opportunities, relationships and my health. A few years ago I went for bariatric surgery and lost about 40kg. Sounds good? Well I was one of the few who backslided and put the weight back on. The guilt I feel about "wasting" this opportunity is immense, but that's in the past.

During lockdown last year, I gained a hell of a lot of weight and I somehow reached 160kg going into 2021. I was aghast at myself. How could I have wasted all the progress I made from the surgery? I felt like a guy who won the lottery and after spending like a madman, waking up broke.

About a month ago I asked out a girl I like an

Apologies if I'm missing something super obvious, but how does Gordon Ramsay check the temperature and done-ness of fish dishes like salmon and halibut without messing up the piece?

If I'm ordering fish in a restaurant it usually comes as one whole piece, not cut up. So if Gordon cuts into the piece, isn't he messing up the presentation of the dish?

Is anyone else a bit perplexed that one of the biggest issues in Thatcher's premiership was only mentioned in the first episode and then never again? Her other reasons for unpopularity were fleshed out a bit (South Africa, dismantling the welfare state) but the constant battles with the IRA, the conflict between the army and the civilians there and some more bombings should have gotten more coverage.

...I just want to say how much I appreciate the Dresden Files.

I'm a huge fan of George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, and I mainly hang out on r/asoiaf. But I also have a full collection of Dresden Files books in my bookcase, because the books are exactly what I liked to read. Urban fantasy with references to every mythology imaginable.

And even though the five-year wait between Skin Game and Peace Talks seemed pretty long, trust me, it's nothing compared to the wait that ASOIAF fans are still enduring for The Winds of Winter.

I guess what I really want to say is that it's nice to have one book series in my life where I'm confident the author knows where's he's going, has it mapped ou