TLDR: Passed with 70 points on first try. I'm happier about passing on the first try than about passing at all, because that means I won't have to endure this again.
Background:
I have about 6 years of experience as a Security Engineer in IR teams, but I have never done any penetration tests. Never heard of winpeas, linpeas, etc. Barely heard of mimikatz and bloodhound because they would come up once in a while when responding to alerts or when engaging against red teams. Also, half of those 6 years were in the military where I hardly ever got to do the job. Im sure some of you can relate.
Why OSCP:
TL;DR: vanity.
Every year or so, I feel an itch to get a new cert that's harder than the previous one. The progression went from CompTIA certs to SANS certs in forensics and malware reverse engineering which landed me in pretty demanding jobs. Recently, I took a step back to take a less demanding job, but with that, came a compulsive itch to tickle my brain with something demanding. I'd heard of OSCP, and the horrors. Purely out of vanity, I figured there's no better way to feel good about myself than to get this cert. I had no incentive to get a new job, or to get promoted or to make more money or anything like that because I am already in highly overpaid role.
How I did it:
TLDR: 4 months of prep. 1.5 month for PEN200, then 2.5 months of labs.
At the end of December, I signed up for LearnOne. The discount didn't matter to me because my employer paid for it, but it definitely helped. Starting in January, I skimmed over the PEN-100 modules to familiarize myself with Kali Linux, and then started PEN-200 full speed. With a wife, toddler and a newborn, it wasn't easy to make time to study at home, but I went through the modules as often as I could at work. I completed the course in about a month and a half. It was like drinking from a firehose. Never had I ever felt so overwhelmed by so much new and exciting knowledge at such a pace. Really enjoyed the learning process.
After PEN200, I dove right into the challenge labs. I was very quickly humbled by Medtech when I spent an entire week trying to figure out how to get an initial foothold. That's when I had to take a step back, go through Portswigger, and then try again. Overall, Medtech took me at least 2 weeks. Followed by another week for Relia. Did a couple PG practice boxes, and then dove straight into OSCP A B and C so could get the 10 bonus points. I think the practice tests were easier because they were smaller AD sets, but some of the standalones were absolutely brutal. Before I moved on to more PG boxes, I took a few weeks off from studying as I realized that I was spending way too little time with family, and way too much time at the desk.
My next prep work as PG boxes. I think I did about 25 PG boxes total, mostly windows. I didn't watch any Ippsec walkthroughs, but I did follow TJ Null's list for PG boxes.
I also read the HTB Academy's Active Directory course, which I think is absolutely excellent. I didn't complete it, but I studied and took notes on the portions that I found relevant. I basically entirely replaced my PEN200 AD notes with the HTB Academy's AD notes because HTB material was so much better.
Walkthroughs: I really really enjoyed S1REN!'s PG practice boxes walkthroughs. Highly recommend.
I have no opinions about Ippsec because I didn't watch his videos because I wanted to focus as much as possible on Offsec material, and I considered HTB boxes as more of a "distraction" of sorts from the Offsec way of doing things. Don't trust my opinion blindly though, since there are so many people out there who love IppSec for good reasons. If you're tight on time, I'd skip Ippsec. HOWEVER, I highly recommend you to bookmark his website ippsec.rocks where you can keyword-search for walkthrough. This is incredibly helpful and I am very grateful to Ippsec for doing this.
Tib3rius: Cough up the $30 or so and purchase the Windows/Linux privesc bundle by Tib3rius. It's not better than PEN200's material by a whole lot, but it's still better.
My exam experience:
I knew this would not be easy, but it was much harder than I imagined. This was because against by best judgement, [1] I started later in the day, and [2] I didn't take as many breaks as I should have and [3] I forgot it KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid. Up until the 12 hours, I had 0 points. I finally made progress only after I backed off from the complex approaches and tried something ridiculously simple. After initial foothold, it was super easy. Same with my next standalone. After initial foothold, it was super easy. Couldn't crack into the other 2 standalones because I was just too exhausted from beating my head against the keyboard for 12 hrs. Had I taken a step back and got some rest, perhaps I would've been in a better mental state to tackle all the boxes.
Tips for preparing:

• Get the 10 bonus points. I wouldn't have passed if I hadn't.
• For SQLi, do Portswigger modules first before doing the PEN200 modules. Portswigger has interactive exercises that solidify your SQLi knowledge before you can put it into practice. Don't bother with the Blind SQLi portions (except for what you need to do to get your 80% completion)
• Don't waste time by being stuck. Don't tRy hARdER when all you're doing is beating your head against the keyboard and burning yourself out. Look for solutions. The goal is to learn, and the time you spend pulling your hair out is better spent on adding more knowledge to your arsenal.
• Do the PG boxes, but again lean on walkthroughs as needed. Out of the 20+ boxes I did, I think I pwned only 2-3 boxes on my own.
• If you are not on a time crunch, give yourself the time to learn from HTB Academy, TCM, etc before jumping into PEN200. If I had known any better, that's what i would've done. If you are like me and are willing to take on a challenge at the cost of family life and Work life balance, go ahead and throw yourself into the fire. Otherwise, I'd recommend taking a softer and longer ramp up approach.
• Take notes but don't bother wasting time on learning how to write reports. As long as you take screenshots, you'll be able to slap together a report on exam day. Way too many people overcomplicate report writing. Use the OffSec template. It's ugly, but 70 points is 70 points.

Tips for exam:

• Keep it simple. If you find yourself pulling your hair out trying to figure out how to exploit a machine, you're likely going down the wrong path. The vectors of exploit are very simple, but only slightly out of reach. Perhaps you under-enumerated. Or maybe you went straight to trying complex solutions without trying the easy solutions that were right under your nose the whole time.
• Start early even if you're not a morning person. I started at midday, which was a mistake.
• If you get stuck for too long, go for a drive or just step away.
• Do everything twice. On the first go, just do the hacking and don't worry about the notes too much. After you've got enough points, revert the machines, then go back through your steps, taking VERY thorough notes and screenshots.

Good luck, all!

It was a year ago I began to play this game - and im now remembering why I started playing it and it's kind of a funny story
TL/DR - I heard a scary story that I thought was the end of Inscryption and was really confused when I actually played it
I can't go to sleep without sound and for whatever reason, horror stories put me right to sleep so I usually put on a "35 scary stories" video and pass out.
My YouTube is on an auto-play and late one night before going to bed, my friend told me about how cool this game was. After watching a few trailers, I decided to just put on a blind walkthrough with someone who didn't really know how to play (no commentary, so I got the whole atmosphere of someone who is completely lost)
I was so fascinated by the game - the creaky cabin sounds, the flickering card sounds, the small animations and at one point as the player died to the fish monger for the 5th or 6th time, I fell asleep
At some point in the night, I woke up to turn the volume down, I drowsily picked up that the hero had won the game, the police had come to save him and the cabin keeper had been arrested - finding 10 other dead bodies in the backyard from previous "players". They kept talking about the murderers dark yellow eyes
The narrator talked about going back home, and how nobody would ever understand what the purpose or motivations were of the Cabin Game Player. He was reflecting on his experience, wondering if he'd ever play games again and remembering some of the sounds from the cabin
The next morning I was SO fascinated to learn that the whole thing was a dangerous game a cabin keeper made and I immediately bought the game, even though I knew at some point the cops were going to come and save us.
I was so confused going into Act 2 and then thoroughly lost in Act 3, and then I was at the end and the video footage came on and I was like "this must be the cops!? But which guy was the bad guy? Who is getting arrested?"
And then it ended
I was so confused - I remembered those details clearly, the guy recovering from being kidnapped and how he was afraid of the dark for months after the event.
I wondered if there was some sort of secret mode or ending - and finally i checked my YouTube history and learned that after the walkthrough I watched, there was a 5 scary stories from the woods video that came on, one of which was a fictional account of a cabin keeper who kidnapped counselors from a local camp and made them play saw like games. This camp counselor had been eating trail max and when the cabin keeper knocked him out to take him to the cabin, he hadn't noticed that the nuts were leading him to the cabin give a clue for the police to come and rescue him
All in all - it was a good story, but nothing to do with card games or inscryption - though the image of a bunch of SWAT teams and police cars rolling up on Leshys cabin telling him to come out with his hands up did make me giggle for weeks after

Sneaky hard ESP today. Progressive builds for endurance, strength and power. 90 second to recover between blocks.
Tread Block 1 * 75 sec base * 1 min base to push * 45 sec push * 30 sec push to AO * 75 sec base * 1 min base to push * 45 sec push * 30 sec push to AO * 30 sec AO
Tread Block 2 * 1 min base to push * 1 min base to push @ 3% * 1 min base to push @ 5% * 1 min base to push * 1 min base to push @ 3% * 1 min base to push @ 5% * 30 sec AO
Tread Block 3 * 45 sec push * 45 sec push to AO * 45 sec AO * 1 min WR * 30 sec push * 30 sec push to AO * 30 sec AO * 1 min WR * 15 sec push * 15 sec push to AO * 15 sec AO
Floor Block - 15.5 minutes * Endurance: * Back to back superset: * 12 x neutral grip front squat (stick it) * ~20 sec squat hold, rest * 12 each x TRX lateral leg lift * Strength: * Back to back superset: * 8 x chest press (stick it) * 8 x walkout to pushup, rest * 8 x TRX tricep extension * Repeat until time is called
Row Block * 45 sec push row * 45 sec push to AO row * 45 sec AO row * 1 min recovery * 30 sec push row * 30 sec push to AO row * 30 sec AO row * 1 min recovery * 15 sec push row * 15 sec push to AO row * 15 sec AO row
DC commentary: >! Thought this was a bit of an evil ESP this morning. We have progressive builds on the treadmills with a few little inclines thrown in and then on the floor you have endurance and strength on the main floor block and then a power row block. \ \ On the treads you start with your endurance block. Two rounds of a progressive build starting with a longish base then you ratchet up the speed for shorter and shorter bursts. 30 second all out is tacked out at the end. Second block the coach said we were doing a base to push but it wouldn’t surprise me if this was a normal base. Anyway, start at flat road for a minute and each minute you bring the incline up to 3 and 5% respectively. Back down to a flat road for a minute and then you do it again with another 30 second all out at the end. \ \ Last block is power, but again it is a progressive build - 45 second push, push to all out and then all out. You get a minute to walk and then you do it all over again but this time it is a 30 second series of effort. Last round is only 15 seconds so you should be hitting your max speeds here. Reasonable distance today of 5.01km (3.113 miles) in the tread blocks. \ \ One longish floor block today that combines endurance and power. You have two rounds of supersets with a TRX exercise after each one. First superset will destroy your legs - 12 front squats with a pause at the bottom of your range. After this you do a unweighted squat hold for about 20 seconds - definitely had jelly legs at the end of all of this. The second superset will then kill your chest - 8 chest presses with that pause at the bottom and then a round of walkouts to pushups. Thought this block was pretty tough and we still had the row block to go! \ \ The row block is in time with the last tread block. Three rounds of progressive builds. Our coach was getting us to use stroke rate to get the effort up which wasn’t bad advice. Definitely feeling the leg work in the floor block throughout the row. \ \ Thought today was sneaky hard with all the builds. It didn’t look too bad on paper after writing it down but did get quite a few splats this morning. I give today a 2 (🪶 🪶) out of 5 for gentleness. !<

Quit drinking kind of by force (DUI, probation, UAs blah blah) on Jan 2., cold turkey after like probably 20 years of problematic drinking that got progressively worse over time. First month was DOG SHIT (alternated between insomnia and 10 hours of sleep for weeks, cranky as all get out, emotional, evaluating my marriage/life, etc.). Since then I've come into my "new normal" which isn't entirely new but is reminiscent of the me before I started drinking to deal with a shitty relationship and just stuck with it for a variety of reasons. I go to bed every night and sleep well, wake up before my alarm some mornings, no apologies owed for actual or imagined slights, clear in the head, eat actual meals on a fairly regular schedule, my gut has slowly picked up on recovering. I picked back up actual hobbies again like reading a book....I know that sounds minor but I used to be an avid reader and that was hard to do while buzzed/drunk and nothing I wanted to do the morning after. I start AND finish projects around the house and at work, have become a more reliable person in general, and have actually weeded my garden today for the first time since moving in 7 years ago. I just can't explain it but the longer into my newly minted sobriety I go, the more and more I feel like I actually love my life and the people in it and the more I love myself. Not just the hazy, drunk love I had for everyone in general :) I've had ample opportunities to drink, esp. with my good-time crew, and was tempted for sure, but decided I have made it this far so fuck a setback. I can't change the past, and still regularly think about the regrettable choices and actions in my past, and lean on that for fortitude. Nothing but love to all the people in this thread wherever you are in your journey!!! I lurked here for a long time before I quit, and was and still is a place I go both when I feel temptation or sadness at not being able to enjoy a drink (just one doesn't exist for me), but now also a place I want to go to celebrate and share the good things. Thanks to you all and IWNDWYT!

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• Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 1975 San VG++/VG+ $25
  
• Pink Floyd - The Final Cut 1983 Pit NM/EX $17
  
• Queen - A Day At The Races 1976 PRC NM/VG $19
  

*Rare Earth - Willie Remembers 1972 NM/VG+ $5

• Steely Dan - Katy Lied 1975 Pit VG+/VG $14
  
• Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill 1972 White Label Promo VG/G $27
  
• Bruce Springsteen - Chapter And Verse 2016 OG New M/NM $8
  
• Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 1975 San VG+/VG+ $8
  
• Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs 1974 San EX/SVG $5
  
• Robin Trower - Long Misty Days 1976 Ter NM/VG $5
  
• Robin Trower - In City Dreams 1977 Ter NM/VG $5
  
• Robin Trower - For Earth Below 1975 EX/VG $5
  
• Robin Trower - Robin Trower Live! 1976 EX/G $3
  
• Robin Trower - Caravan To Midnight 1978 SVG/SVG $4
  
• Van Halen - 1984 Club NM/EX $24
  
• The Edgar Winter Group - They Only Come Out At Night 80s RE VG+/VG+ $5
  
• Yes - Relayer 1974 MO EX/VG+ $7
  
• Yes - Going For The One 1977 PRC NM/SVG $6
  
• Yes - Fragile 1977 RE SP VG+/VG+ $7
  
• Yes - The Yes Album 70s RE MO EX/VG+ $6
  
• Neil Young - Harvest 1978 Jac EX/VG+ $10
  
• ZZ Top - Fandango! 1975 Pit VG+/VG $11
  
• ZZ Top - Tejas 1976 AL EX/VG $11
  
• 21 Savage - American Dream 2024 Sealed M/M $24
  
• Chet BakeChristopher Mason - Silent Nights 1986 OG VG+/VG $45
  
• Tony Bennett - The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album 1975 OG EX/VG+ $14
  
• The Gil Evans Orchestra - Into The Hot 1974 RE VG+/VG+ $13
  
• Gil Evans And His Orchestra - America's #1 Arranger 1961 RE NM/G+ $6
  
• The Gil Evans Orchestra - Little Wing (Live In Germany) 1982 RE VG+/SVG $5
  
• Buddy DeFranco Quintet - Cooking The Blues 1958 OG VG+/VG $16
  
• Grant Green - Easy 1978 OG VG/SVG $5
  
• Bobby Hutcherson - Now! 1970 OG Looks G+ Plays VG-/VG+ Cover $32
  
• Gary McFarland /Gabor Szabo - Simpático G+/VG+ $8
  
• Lil Green - Romance In The Dark 1971 OG VG/G+ $3
  
• Jimmy Reed - T'aint No Big Thing But He Is... 1963 OG G+/VG+ $4
  
• Della Reese - Della Reese Live 1966 Sealed M/NM $8
  
• Della Reese - Della On Strings Of Blue 1967 Sealed M/NM $8
  
  • Della Reese - Black Is Beautiful 1970 Sealed M/NM $8
• Johnny Guitar Watson - A Real Mother For Ya 1977 OG VG/VG+ $4
  
• Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Second Wind 1972 Germany VG/VG+ $9
  
• The Dean Davis Company - IInd Time Around 1969 OG SVG/SVG (Signed) $80
  
• Franciscan Sisters - Joy 1962 VG+/VG+ $15
  
• Middle Tennessee State University- Rimusic III NM/NM 1983 $60
  
• Evelyn "Champagne" King - Smooth Talk 1977 RE VG+/VG+ $5
  
• Gloria Jones - Windstorm 1978 OG NM/SVG Signed $24
  
• The New York Community Choir - Reachin' Out 1982 OG EX/NM $20
  

*Malo - Malo 1972 OG VG/VG+ $5
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• The Flirts - 10¢ A Dance 1982 NM/NM $6
  
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• The Floaters - Float Into The Future 1979 EX/NM $4
  
• Johnny Thunder - Loop De Loop 1963 OG G+/VG $3
  
• Oingo Boingo - Flesh And Blood 1989 WL Promo 12” Single SVG/GEN $16
  
• Johnny Harris - Odyssey 1980 12” Single VG+/VG+ $17
  
• Steven Paul Perry - Backseat Lover 1990 EX/VG+ $24
  
• Marcus Law - Make It Right 1997 UK 12” Single VG+/GEN $16
  
• Gel-O - Land Of The Buddha EP EX/VG+ $16
  
  • Le Pamplemousse - Le Spank 1977 OG (Signed) VG+/VG $18
• Ultimate Spinach - Ultimate Spinach 1968 Taiwan Red Vinyl VG/VG+ $14
  
• 100 Proof Aged In Soul - 100 Proof VG/VG $9
  
• Peter Brown - Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me? 1977 RE EX/EX $5
  
• Lamont Dozier - Black Bach 1974 OG SVG/NM $8
  

*Lonnie Liston Smith - A Song For The Children 1979 OG VG/VG+ $5

• Wes Montgomery - The Best Of Wes Montgomery 1967 OG VG/VG+ $5
  
• Charli Persip And Superband - In Case You Missed It 1985 Italy OG NM/NM $7
  
• Oscar Peterson - Oscar Peterson 1965 OG SVG/NM $4
  
• Oscar Peterson - Stéphane Grappelli Quartet Vol. 1 1973 France OG NM/EX $8
  -Don Shirley - Tonal Expressions 1955 OG SVG/VG+ $8
  

When considering coffee as a potential aid in weight loss, there's evidence suggesting its efficacy. Coffee, containing caffeine, a common ingredient in many fat-burning supplements, is recognized for its ability to boost metabolism. Additionally, coffee contains stimulants like Theobromine, found in cocoa, and Theophylline, along with chlorogenic acid, which may impede carb absorption.
However, it's important to note that while caffeine can stimulate the nervous system and prompt fat cell breakdown, this process alone doesn't lead to weight loss unless accompanied by calorie expenditure through diet or exercise.
Contrary to popular belief, the combination of lemon and coffee as a miraculous weight loss solution isn't supported. Healthline articles debunking this trend emphasize that neither lemon nor coffee possess magical fat-melting properties. Sustainable weight loss requires a balanced approach of consuming fewer calories and increasing physical activity.
While some studies suggest coffee may contribute to modest weight reduction, extravagant claims regarding its transformative abilities are unfounded and unattainable.

7-Second Coffee Loophole Recipe: What’s the Science Behind It?

The 7-second coffee loophole has gained significant attention as a method for weight loss, involving the combination of coffee with various ingredients. While the internet is flooded with different versions of this recipe, typically incorporating coffee, lemon, honey, cayenne pepper, and cinnamon, it has also been used to promote coffee-based supplements promising weight loss benefits.
The core concept revolves around consuming black coffee, often with additional ingredients, within a very precise timeframe, ideally within seven seconds of experiencing hunger pangs.
Proponents of this method, including advocates and influencers, make bold assertions about its effectiveness. They claim that rapid consumption of coffee tricks the body into feeling full, thus temporarily suppressing appetite. However, there's a lack of substantial scientific evidence to support these claims.
The theory behind the 7-second loophole stems from the interaction between caffeine and hunger hormones. According to supporters, drinking black coffee stimulates the release of hormones like adrenaline and dopamine, which may momentarily curb appetite. The strategy behind the 7-second loophole is to strategically time coffee intake to diminish hunger and the desire to snack.
Despite its widespread popularity, it's essential to approach weight loss trends with caution. Substitutes, tricks, and hacks should complement, not replace, a balanced diet and healthy eating habits.

Ingredients in the Coffee Loophole Recipe for Belly Fat

Exploring the foundational elements of the Coffee Loophole Recipe unveils the essence of its unique composition. Each component contributes significantly to the creation of not just a beverage, but a sensory journey. Here's a breakdown of the key ingredients that define this blend:

• Specialty Coffee Beans: These beans are celebrated for their distinctively rich flavor profile and elevated quality, setting the stage for a truly exceptional brew.
• Chicory Root: Infusing a delightful woody and nutty undertone, chicory root not only adds depth to the flavor but also possesses digestive benefits, ensuring a well-rounded experience.
• Lion’s Mane Mushroom: Recognized as a potent adaptogen, Lion’s Mane Mushroom brings cognitive support and heightened focus to the table, enhancing both the taste and the functional aspect of the beverage.
• MCT Oil: Serving as a rapid source of energy, MCT oil not only lends a creamy texture but also aids in boosting metabolism, amplifying the beverage's vitality.
• Cinnamon: Introducing a subtle warmth to the blend, cinnamon contributes not only to its flavor but also assists in regulating blood sugar levels, adding a nuanced dimension to the experience.
• A Pinch of Sea Salt: Elevating the overall flavor profile, sea salt imparts essential minerals while harmonizing the taste, ensuring a well-balanced and satisfying cup.

Together, these carefully curated ingredients converge to create a beverage that transcends mere refreshment, offering an immersive sensory experience that invigorates both the body and the mind.

How Does the Coffee Loophole Work?

Unravel the secrets behind the Coffee Loophole, a dynamic blend that taps into the potent bioactive compounds found in coffee, including caffeine, chlorogenic acid, and diterpenes. Here's how it works:
Turbocharge Your Metabolism:
Harnessing the synergy between caffeine and MCT oil ignites your metabolism, allowing your body to incinerate calories with increased efficiency.
Master Your Appetite:
Experience the satisfaction of satiety as MCT oil and protein team up to curb cravings, empowering you to take control of your appetite and avoid unnecessary snacking.
Balance Your Blood Sugar:
Welcome the stabilizing influence of cinnamon, supporting steady energy levels throughout the day by helping to regulate blood sugar.
Elevate Your Performance:
Fuel your endeavors with a sustained surge of energy, courtesy of caffeine and MCT oil, whether you're gearing up for a workout or tackling the day ahead.
Ignite Fat Loss:
Watch as stored fat meets its match with the dynamic duo of MCT oil and caffeine-induced thermogenesis, accelerating your journey towards weight loss.

Advantages of the Coffee Loophole Diet

Embracing the Coffee Tweak to Lose Weight can offer several noteworthy benefits:

• Weight Management: This diet can aid in weight loss by enhancing metabolism, curbing appetite, and reducing inflammation.
• Enhanced Blood Sugar Regulation: Regular coffee consumption has been linked to improved insulin sensitivity and lower blood sugar levels, benefiting those with type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.
• Lower Risk of Chronic Illnesses: The antioxidants in coffee contribute to protecting against chronic diseases like heart disease, stroke, and certain cancers.
• Increased Energy and Focus: As a natural stimulant, caffeine can elevate alertness, improve concentration, and boost overall energy levels.

Potential Drawbacks of the Coffee Loophole

Though the coffee loophole recipe has some promising benefits according to research, it is important to consider its potential downsides:

• Digestive Issues: High consumption of MCT oil may lead to digestive discomfort for some individuals.
• Cholesterol Concerns: Large amounts of saturated fats can increase cholesterol levels.
• Nutrient Deficiencies: Relying on the coffee loophole might result in missing out on valuable nutrients found in whole foods, such as antioxidants and phytochemicals.
• Caloric Excess: Lack of portion control can lead to consuming too many calories.
• Nutritional Imbalance: Using this method as a substitute for balanced meals might lead to inadequate nutrition.
• Medication Interactions: It could negatively interact with certain medications and health conditions.

As with any dietary change, it is advisable to consult your doctor before trying the coffee loophole, especially if you have existing health concerns. Always pay attention to how your body responds.

Step-by-Step Coffee Brewing Procedure

Now that all your ingredients are prepared, let’s delve into the brewing process! This stage is uncomplicated, direct, and bound to transform your morning ritual:

• Commence by preparing your coffee: The stronger, the more potent, as it forms the sturdy base of this blend.
• Introduce unsalted butter: Opt for grass-fed butter for its premium fats.
• Incorporate MCT or coconut oil: Utilize only a tablespoon to achieve the desired energy lift.
• Blend until smooth: Merge all the components in a blender until a creamy, frothy layer forms on top.

What Does the Coffee Loophole Taste Like?

The taste of the Coffee Loophole brew stays true to what you know. It maintains the richness of coffee flavor, its full-bodied nature, and the aromatic undertones. Sugar or cream aren't necessary additions, as they could counteract the metabolic advantages we aim for. Once you acquire a taste for black coffee, it seamlessly fits into your daily routine, becoming a satisfying ritual.

Maximizing Weight Loss Potential with Coffee

Unlock the full potential of coffee for weight loss with these expert tips:

• Moderate Your Intake: While coffee can boost weight loss efforts, excessive consumption may backfire. Keep your daily coffee intake in check, ideally limiting it to 3–4 cups to prevent any adverse effects.
• Embrace Dark Roasts: Opt for dark roast coffee varieties to harness higher levels of chlorogenic acid, a compound linked to enhanced weight loss benefits compared to lighter roasts.
• Ditch the Sugar: Resist the temptation to sweeten your coffee with added sugars, as they can counteract its weight loss properties. Instead, reach for natural alternatives like honey or stevia to satisfy your sweet tooth without derailing your progress.
• Holistic Approach: Remember, coffee alone isn't a miracle solution for shedding pounds. Pair your coffee routine with a wholesome lifestyle that includes balanced nutrition, regular physical activity, and sufficient rest. This holistic approach ensures sustainable, long-lasting weight loss results that go beyond just your morning brew.

The Coffee Loophole: Worth a Try?

Indulging in coffee blended with butter, oils, and spices has surged in popularity, with claims suggesting it aids in shedding pounds. However, the evidence supporting these assertions remains uncertain.
While it might slightly curb appetite, this concoction alone is unlikely to result in significant weight loss for the majority of individuals.
Nevertheless, incorporating it into a balanced lifestyle can be beneficial. Just manage your expectations and understand that no single solution can replace the importance of proper nutrition and regular exercise.
In summary, we acknowledge the potential benefits of the coffee loophole, but it's not a magical solution for weight loss. Enjoy it if you like it and if it complements your routine!

Disclaimers

Please note that relying solely on the coffee loophole is not a guaranteed method for losing weight. Individual outcomes may differ, and it's advisable to adopt a balanced lifestyle that includes healthy eating habits, consistent physical activity, and adequate rest. Prioritizing long-term sustainability is more important than seeking immediate solutions.

FAQs about Loophole Coffee

What sets Loophole Coffee apart from regular coffee?
Loophole Coffee is not your typical coffee—it's crafted with a unique recipe that reveals hidden flavors and aromas absent in standard coffee.
Where can I purchase Loophole Coffee?
Loophole Coffee is available at select coffee shops and through online retailers. Keep an eye out for this enchanting brew!
Can Loophole Coffee be made at home?
Although the precise recipe is a well-kept secret, you can experiment with various brewing methods to create your own version of Loophole Coffee at home.
Is Loophole Coffee more costly than regular coffee?
Due to its special ingredients and brewing process, Loophole Coffee might be a bit more expensive than ordinary coffee. However, it’s worth every penny!
Does Loophole Coffee include any artificial flavors or additives?
Absolutely not! Loophole Coffee is made from only the highest quality ingredients and contains no artificial flavors or additives. It’s pure magic in a cup!

Final Thoughts

The allure of miracle weight loss products persists, fueled by unsubstantiated claims from supplement manufacturers and their social media endorsers. However, scientific evidence remains elusive. While some ingredients show potential for aiding weight loss, there's no magic formula for shedding pounds rapidly without embracing a balanced diet and regular exercise.
Rather than pursuing rapid weight loss, the focus should be on achieving sustainable, long-lasting results through healthy lifestyle changes. To embark on this journey effectively, it's crucial to seek guidance from healthcare professionals such as your doctor and a registered dietitian. They can craft a personalized weight loss plan tailored to your unique needs and preferences, setting you on the path towards lasting success.

I have always been inspired by Batman as the potential for a man to be so capable that he's basically a superhuman just due to the fact that he has a goal and the the will to act. If I had any skill of his I hope it would be that willpower because I believe that any person can achieve anything with enough drive.
I will be posting my progress reports weekly in order to have external accountability and hopefully share some ideas around.
The purpose of this is to improve myself in basically every way, it is complete self improvement.

• Master my willpower so that I can always do the tasks that need to be done while resisting all temptation.
  
• Achieve financial freedom so that I have full control over what I do and where I do it.
  
• Get into the top 1% of people at every physical attribute (Strength, Speed, Endurance, etc)
  
• Master all the skills of the mind (Memory, EQ, problem solving, Comprehension, quick thinking, etc)
  
• Become a polymath (I will study till I die, every subject but going from most to least useful, Psychology, Programming, Math, Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Art, Law, etc)
  
• Become a polyglot (I will start traveling the world within 2 years in order to immerse myself in various cultures and environments as well as learn the most popular languages through immersion)
  
• Become dangerous (I need to always be able to protect myself and others. Proficiency in Hand to hand combat, close range weapons and long ranged weapons)
  

Previous progress : Changed from eating dessert and drinking soft drink every night to now consuming mainly for the purpose of performance due to having sessions with a sports dietician, 2 years of boxing training and 2 years of Muay Thai training, Learnt basic lockpicking, changed my bedtime from 3am on average to 10pm average, Did a few programming projects, Have read many books on meta learning, Increased my Push up count from a maximum of 5 to 20 over the last few weeks. Changed from procrastinating on just about everything while mindlessly scrolling for hours a day to now being able to resist all distractions and spend over 6 hours on various productive tasks while sleep deprived after an early morning shift I got on late notice, Fixed my social anxiety with the help of a therapist where I was not able to start a conversation with anyone I wasn't close friends with and now am I able to greet everyone that I go past on an afternoon jog and go on camping trips with strangers. I have only really recently started getting things done and it does feel like a superpower and I haven't even fully mastered it yet but I have not really tested the limits of my newfound willpower and have yet to fully implement the right methods to help with my productivity so I'm probably now at least on 80% of complete Batman level willpower after being under 10% a couple of years ago.
Things that need to be done this week,

• Trial the MMA gyms in my town to see which is best (Have visited and emailed them all already not sure on the lengths of their trials so not sure if I will be able to trial all 3 or just one)
  
• List out all the jobs I'm willing to work at
  
• Do as much of the training at my current job as possible in order to put more skills onto my resume
  
• Create resumes and cover letters for the ideal jobs
  
• Apply to every ideal job I could get (May push this back a couple weeks depending on how the training is going and the requirements for the jobs)
  
• Research in order to find all the jobs that can be done feasibly online.
  
• Grade each of those online jobs
  
• Create a plan in order to acquire the skill of the job with the highest grade or just apply
  
• Track my caloric intake every day
  
• Track my calories burned every day (Not so sure yet on how to do this properly other than guessing on similar exercises with MyFitnessPal
  
• Research in order to find meals that will last me a month, If there is any good ones then make them
  
• Gain 0.5kg
  
• Research all the online businesses I can find
  
• Create an action plan for whichever business is most feasible
  

Things that need to be done this month,

• Get a full time job
  
• Start training at an MMA gym
  
• Start lifting weights again
  
• Gain 2kg
  
• Start making progress towards getting any kind of remote job (Gaining the necessary skills or applying to the jobs if they don't require any)
  
• Make $1 from an online business
  

I set today as my date on the calendar to cut back on drinking. Given that it’s morning I’m feeling very optimistic about it but I know when 3 PM hits I’ll feel different about it. Any words of wisdom? I’ve got a bit of a plan to drive out to a beach with my daughter and dog and in the past leaving the house during my temptation hours has been a huge help…

Husband of 20 years is probably cheating on me. So here it goes, sll of my dirty secrets.
I, 45f been married to my husband 46, male for over 20 years to a man I met in my early 20’s. We have been very best friends since the day we met but it has been a rocky relationship. I am from an abusive alcoholic family and I was for a time blissfully an alcoholic along with the family. This of coarse was problematic when looking for a date. More than one boyfriend broke up with me because I drank too much, partied too hard and studied too little. Cue in my dream man, he’s responsible, well educated and a heavy drinker. We partied all night and he got up the next day, no matter how hungover and went to work. My mom said that this is normal, it’s how it’s supposed to be. If a man makes it to work everyday then he’s not an alcoholic. By her definition, only a man who misses work can be accused of drinking too much.
I married this replica of my father and for many blissful years we were married and we partied and drank. We’d drink a bottle or two of wine a few nights a week and on weekends we’d stay up all night, often having parties at our home. It was grand fun, until we had kids. All of the sudden I had to handle night feedings and morning diaper changes while tipsy, drunk or hungover. It didn’t take me long to quit, I had already quit for 9 months while pregnant and I had gotten the idea that life is better sober. But my partner didn’t agree. He was drunk most nights while I was pregnant. When I got annoyed and asked him to quit he hid the bottles. I had a second child with him in spite of the drinking (I wanted a matching set), not my best decision but I don’t regret it. When I was at the hospital he looked exhausted so I sent him home to rest. He went home and drank himself into a stupor. My mom had to drive me home from the hospital and when we got home, he was passed out on the living room floor. He slept for another 10 hours like that and he was drunk the entire first week of my daughter’s life. I had to ask my mom to help care for her since I’d had complications with the birth and had over 30 stitches.
His drinking went on for years with me going from kicking him out of the home to drinking with him. Often I would plead with him to quit and he’d refuse. On 4 occasions we separated, each time selling our home and dividing the property. But he’d get sober and he was always very sorry. At this point we had two kids and I needed the help.
Over time things got better and he went years and years without drinking. I had quit altogether after our first child. In fact things go so much better that he asked to start drinking again. He rationalized that he had been sober for 5 years and that he can handle one of two drinks a week. I agreed under the following terms, he can have up to two drinks with dinner once a week. I know this is a terrible decision, I think it’s fair to say that there is a pattern here of gawd awful decisions on my part. This 2 drink agreement lasted a few months but of course two drinks turned into 3, then it turned into a couple nights a week. I saw it was getting out of hand and I banned drinking again.
In the meantime my partner has gotten substantially better looking. It’s through a combination of favourable genetics, some recent work done and some excellent supplements. He aged well going from a 6.5 in his 20’s to a current day 8.5. More than that he’d recently opened a business and it was booming. For the first time in our married life he started to out earn me. For the first 20 years I was the primary wage earner, but now he’s making the more than me (this is temporary as my wage is about to pick up). The woman are noticing him and It’s not lost on me or him. We went to Mexico last year and women were practically following him around and throwing themselves at him. We go out to eat and woman hit on him. They hit on him at the grocery store and they hit on him at work. To his credit he does not respond to this in front of me or the kids. Nor have I ever heard of him hitting on somebody.
I’m a solid 7 - 7.5. I’ve aged okay, I look decent, I’m maybe a little heavier as size 10. But I’m not a hot young thing giggling at him. I am a wife and a mother, so not always sexy, but still quite a lot prettier than average. But realistically on the open market, I’m probably not attracting an 8.5 that earns his kind of money.
About 8 months ago he started coming home from work drunk. He was hiding it but I could smell the booze on his breath. He claimed it was heartburn but I knew better and I ignored it. I just wanted everything to be okay. There was a woman he was working with, he claimed to hate her, she seemed overly interested in him. There were a few incidents, that made me suspicious but he claimed he hated her. He was never home late from work. She moved away and he seemed fine and I was relieved. But a few months after this the drinking started, along with my denial. I guess I kinda figured that who cares if he cheated, she moved away. Now we can get on with our lives.
Recently he’s coming home from work late, but not too late. It’s an hour late here and there. Sometimes he’d claim that he’d have to stay an extra hour. A few times he went completely missing and claimed to have fallen asleep at the office. The problem is that I don’t really know his hours, it’s possible he’s done earlier. For context, he is self employed and rents a space. But other people rent spaces there too,
He’s been coming home drunker and drunker lately while still denying he’s been drinking. I’m ashamed to admit it but I ignored it to the point where I let him drive the kids a few times like that. I was just so far into denial, but I knew somewhere deep down that he was drunk.
He’s normally off work at 5pm and in the car by 5:10pm. But lately he’s not in the car until 5:45pm, ignoring my calls and sometimes coming into the house as late as 6pm. I mean it’s only 45 minutes right? A few times he’d go missing until 7:30 or 8pm and he’d say that he hate a late client appointment and had told me but I forgot. Strangely he’s never hungry when he gets home, in spite of being at work all day. In fact he’s not hungry 2 - 3 times a week. He told me that his stomach is bothering him.
Last night he went missing so I went to his office to look for him. I found him asleep in his office alone with an empty bottle of hard alcohol on his desk. I checked his office drawer and it was full of empty bottles. The office is a disaster, messy and all that. I’m not sure how he sees clients in a room like that and I’m worried that he’s taking appointments drunk. His business is doing really well and building it up was a joint effort. I’m worried that his drinking will destroy everything we built.
I woke him up and he was visibly drunk. He told me that he wants to stay at the office to sleep it off and that no he doesn’t want to talk about it and he didn’t come home. It’s been 6 hours. The thing is, that he hates sleeping in his work clothes and his office is desperately uncomfortable. I just don’t see him staying there overnight alone.
When the drinking flared up 6 months ago, it was just him drinking alone. But when he was sober he was still my best friend. But over time he’s stopped responding when I speak. He tells me that he drinks because he can’t stand to listen to my problems anymore. If I ask him about his day I get a one word answer. More and more he looks at me with contempt while drinking. But even stranger, he wants sex more often, I don’t know why this is. But he’s weird about it and hounding me. He’s going on and on about how to wants to try a sex position we’ve never done, talking about how much he likes it. He’s also looking over my shoulder and checking my phone, which is new. it’s intrusive as I don’t even know his passcode and feel no temptation to check his phone.
He gets paid in cash and has a drawer full of it at the office so I can’t check his cards.
Now I know what you are going to say. He’s definitely cheating, I mean he probably is. But we live in a no fault place so what does it matter if I get proof or not? Also I have two kids to think of and we aren’t in a financial position to leave. I will need time to pay down our joint debt and I need a new job. I’m thinking that the best course of action is to stay silent and improve my situation so that I can support my kids and myself. I think this works for him too as he doesn’t want to get stuck with all sorts of child support or alimony. Giving me time to get back on my feet and improve my financial position works for both of us.
The thing is that if I even bring up getting divorced or separated he says that I am the light of his life. He says that he loves me and that I’m his best friend. He says that he doesn’t want to leave. Then I feel so badly. If I even broach the topic of separating, he’ll shut it down so quickly. He’s overwhelming and persistent and he out talks me. I think there’s no use in talking it out and I don’t see us living together well under some sort of “arrangement”.
Do you have any advice on what to do next? Do you have any idea why he’s acting this way? If he wants to separate why not just do it? Also what’s with the increased sex drive?
One of the oddities is that I’ve been doing really great lately. I’ve lost some weight, my hair is looking good. My business sucks but I’ve been taking on new gigs and retraining. I’m becoming a person that I’m really proud of and every day seems to be getting better. But the better I do, the more contempt he seems to have for me. I can see the bitterness in his drunkenness. And he gets drunks on nights when I have to work and when I have something important going on. He blames the drinking on me. He says that I only talk about myself (maybe I do, I’m trying to improve). He says that I ask too much of him and that I make him contribute to the house too much but I do 100% of the grocery shopping, cooking, lunches, school stuff, homework and kids activities. He comes home and goes straight to bed while complaining that he’s doing too much. Meanwhile I’m breaking myself trying to make the home perfect enough.
Is there any chance that he’s just old and tired and not cheating? I mean he’s only missing for 45 minutes a day? I should mention that he’s stopped answering my calls during the workday and stopped reading my texts.
The weird thing is that I felt relieved to find him surrounded by booze bottles and I’m glad he’s done tonight. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life begging him to be sober. Tonight I could see the contempt in his eyes towards me. I just don’t know that I can move past it. I think I just want to be free from this now.
Do you have any advice? I’ve never been through anything like this and I could use some support and guidance.
I think that taking 4 - 6 months to resolve the situation might be best. This gives me time to find a new job and to pay down some debt and bolster savings.

Husband of 20 years is probably cheating on me. So here it goes, sll of my dirty secrets.
I, 45f been married to my husband 46, male for over 20 years to a man I met in my early 20’s. We have been very best friends since the day we met but it has been a rocky relationship. I am from an abusive alcoholic family and I was for a time blissfully an alcoholic along with the family. This of coarse was problematic when looking for a date. More than one boyfriend broke up with me because I drank too much, partied too hard and studied too little. Cue in my dream man, he’s responsible, well educated and a heavy drinker. We partied all night and he got up the next day, no matter how hungover and went to work. My mom said that this is normal, it’s how it’s supposed to be. If a man makes it to work everyday then he’s not an alcoholic. By her definition, only a man who misses work can be accused of drinking too much.
I married this replica of my father and for many blissful years we were married and we partied and drank. We’d drink a bottle or two of wine a few nights a week and on weekends we’d stay up all night, often having parties at our home. It was grand fun, until we had kids. All of the sudden I had to handle night feedings and morning diaper changes while tipsy, drunk or hungover. It didn’t take me long to quit, I had already quit for 9 months while pregnant and I had gotten the idea that life is better sober. But my partner didn’t agree. He was drunk most nights while I was pregnant. When I got annoyed and asked him to quit he hid the bottles. I had a second child with him in spite of the drinking (I wanted a matching set), not my best decision but I don’t regret it. When I was at the hospital he looked exhausted so I sent him home to rest. He went home and drank himself into a stupor. My mom had to drive me home from the hospital and when we got home, he was passed out on the living room floor. He slept for another 10 hours like that and he was drunk the entire first week of my daughter’s life. I had to ask my mom to help care for her since I’d had complications with the birth and had over 30 stitches.
His drinking went on for years with me going from kicking him out of the home to drinking with him. Often I would plead with him to quit and he’d refuse. On 4 occasions we separated, each time selling our home and dividing the property. But he’d get sober and he was always very sorry. At this point we had two kids and I needed the help.
Over time things got better and he went years and years without drinking. I had quit altogether after our first child. In fact things go so much better that he asked to start drinking again. He rationalized that he had been sober for 5 years and that he can handle one of two drinks a week. I agreed under the following terms, he can have up to two drinks with dinner once a week. I know this is a terrible decision, I think it’s fair to say that there is a pattern here of gawd awful decisions on my part. This 2 drink agreement lasted a few months but of course two drinks turned into 3, then it turned into a couple nights a week. I saw it was getting out of hand and I banned drinking again.
In the meantime my partner has gotten substantially better looking. It’s through a combination of favourable genetics, some recent work done and some excellent supplements. He aged well going from a 6.5 in his 20’s to a current day 8.5. More than that he’d recently opened a business and it was booming. For the first time in our married life he started to out earn me. For the first 20 years I was the primary wage earner, but now he’s making the more than me (this is temporary as my wage is about to pick up). The woman are noticing him and It’s not lost on me or him. We went to Mexico last year and women were practically following him around and throwing themselves at him. We go out to eat and woman hit on him. They hit on him at the grocery store and they hit on him at work. To his credit he does not respond to this in front of me or the kids. Nor have I ever heard of him hitting on somebody.
I’m a solid 7 - 7.5. I’ve aged okay, I look decent, I’m maybe a little heavier as size 10. But I’m not a hot young thing giggling at him. I am a wife and a mother, so not always sexy, but still quite a lot prettier than average. But realistically on the open market, I’m probably not attracting an 8.5 that earns his kind of money.
About 8 months ago he started coming home from work drunk. He was hiding it but I could smell the booze on his breath. He claimed it was heartburn but I knew better and I ignored it. I just wanted everything to be okay. There was a woman he was working with, he claimed to hate her, she seemed overly interested in him. There were a few incidents, that made me suspicious but he claimed he hated her. He was never home late from work. She moved away and he seemed fine and I was relieved. But a few months after this the drinking started, along with my denial. I guess I kinda figured that who cares if he cheated, she moved away. Now we can get on with our lives.
Recently he’s coming home from work late, but not too late. It’s an hour late here and there. Sometimes he’d claim that he’d have to stay an extra hour. A few times he went completely missing and claimed to have fallen asleep at the office. The problem is that I don’t really know his hours, it’s possible he’s done earlier. For context, he is self employed and rents a space. But other people rent spaces there too,
He’s been coming home drunker and drunker lately while still denying he’s been drinking. I’m ashamed to admit it but I ignored it to the point where I let him drive the kids a few times like that. I was just so far into denial, but I knew somewhere deep down that he was drunk.
He’s normally off work at 5pm and in the car by 5:10pm. But lately he’s not in the car until 5:45pm, ignoring my calls and sometimes coming into the house as late as 6pm. I mean it’s only 45 minutes right? A few times he’d go missing until 7:30 or 8pm and he’d say that he hate a late client appointment and had told me but I forgot. Strangely he’s never hungry when he gets home, in spite of being at work all day. In fact he’s not hungry 2 - 3 times a week. He told me that his stomach is bothering him.
Last night he went missing so I went to his office to look for him. I found him asleep in his office alone with an empty bottle of hard alcohol on his desk. I checked his office drawer and it was full of empty bottles. The office is a disaster, messy and all that. I’m not sure how he sees clients in a room like that and I’m worried that he’s taking appointments drunk. His business is doing really well and building it up was a joint effort. I’m worried that his drinking will destroy everything we built.
I woke him up and he was visibly drunk. He told me that he wants to stay at the office to sleep it off and that no he doesn’t want to talk about it and he didn’t come home. It’s been 6 hours. The thing is, that he hates sleeping in his work clothes and his office is desperately uncomfortable. I just don’t see him staying there overnight alone.
When the drinking flared up 6 months ago, it was just him drinking alone. But when he was sober he was still my best friend. But over time he’s stopped responding when I speak. He tells me that he drinks because he can’t stand to listen to my problems anymore. If I ask him about his day I get a one word answer. More and more he looks at me with contempt while drinking. But even stranger, he wants sex more often, I don’t know why this is. But he’s weird about it and hounding me. He’s going on and on about how to wants to try a sex position we’ve never done, talking about how much he likes it. He’s also looking over my shoulder and checking my phone, which is new. it’s intrusive as I don’t even know his passcode and feel no temptation to check his phone.
He gets paid in cash and has a drawer full of it at the office so I can’t check his cards.
Now I know what you are going to say. He’s definitely cheating, I mean he probably is. But we live in a no fault place so what does it matter if I get proof or not? Also I have two kids to think of and we aren’t in a financial position to leave. I will need time to pay down our joint debt and I need a new job. I’m thinking that the best course of action is to stay silent and improve my situation so that I can support my kids and myself. I think this works for him too as he doesn’t want to get stuck with all sorts of child support or alimony. Giving me time to get back on my feet and improve my financial position works for both of us.
The thing is that if I even bring up getting divorced or separated he says that I am the light of his life. He says that he loves me and that I’m his best friend. He says that he doesn’t want to leave. Then I feel so badly. If I even broach the topic of separating, he’ll shut it down so quickly. He’s overwhelming and persistent and he out talks me. I think there’s no use in talking it out and I don’t see us living together well under some sort of “arrangement”.
Do you have any advice on what to do next? Do you have any idea why he’s acting this way? If he wants to separate why not just do it? Also what’s with the increased sex drive?
One of the oddities is that I’ve been doing really great lately. I’ve lost some weight, my hair is looking good. My business sucks but I’ve been taking on new gigs and retraining. I’m becoming a person that I’m really proud of and every day seems to be getting better. But the better I do, the more contempt he seems to have for me. I can see the bitterness in his drunkenness. And he gets drunks on nights when I have to work and when I have something important going on. He blames the drinking on me. He says that I only talk about myself (maybe I do, I’m trying to improve). He says that I ask too much of him and that I make him contribute to the house too much but I do 100% of the grocery shopping, cooking, lunches, school stuff, homework and kids activities. He comes home and goes straight to bed while complaining that he’s doing too much. Meanwhile I’m breaking myself trying to make the home perfect enough.
Is there any chance that he’s just old and tired and not cheating? I mean he’s only missing for 45 minutes a day? I should mention that he’s stopped answering my calls during the workday and stopped reading my texts.
The weird thing is that I felt relieved to find him surrounded by booze bottles and I’m glad he’s done tonight. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life begging him to be sober. Tonight I could see the contempt in his eyes towards me. I just don’t know that I can move past it. I think I just want to be free from this now.
Do you have any advice? I’ve never been through anything like this and I could use some support and guidance.
I think that taking 4 - 6 months to resolve the situation might be best. This gives me time to find a new job and to pay down some debt and bolster savings.

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my spouse and i are on our 20s and will be vacationing on the big island. i picked the last week of september because i love shoulder season, the pacific is (marginally) warmest in late summeearly fall, and iron man isn't until late october this year. the big island has been on my list for awhile because i have been to maui, kauai, and oahu and i need to do a night scuba with the mantas. we like a go go go style itinerary with a heavy emphasis on unique nature things, are able-bodied but not the most fit, and like nice restaurants but don't eat raw fish. we also like to frontload trips with more busy days in the first half and more chill days in the second half. would love everyone's feedback! warning, long post incoming :)
tldr

• land in kona & immediately take northern route to hilo
  
• 1 night at the grand naniloa doubletree in hilo
  
• 2 nights at a guesthouse in volcano
  
• saddle road to west side w/mauna kea on the way
  
• 5 nights at the westin hapuna beach
  

day 0 (friday) - land at KOA and drive the northern route to hilo

• nonstop flight lands at 12:05pm in kona, pick up national rental car, get on the road immediately. we travel carryon only so i'm hoping if the flight is on time we'll be out of there by 1pm.
  
• 1.5hr drive to waipio valley lookout
  
• hamakua coast: stop in honokaa for lunch, lookout point at laupahoehoe beach, and akaka falls if it's still light out. i know this is pretty optimistic, the main goal here is the scenic drive.
  
• spend 1 night at the naniloa doubletree (booked for free with hilton points)
  

day 1 (saturday) - hilo

• hilo saturday farmer's market, eat enough to tide us over til dinner
  
• hawaii tropical botanical garden
  
• akaka falls if we missed it the previous day
  
• kaumana cave--allowing myself a few hours here because i know i'll love it
  
• rainbow falls if we have the time, if not i think i'm okay missing this one. already planning on skipping pe’ep’e falls & boiling pot.
  
• richardson state beach park in the late afternoon/sunset time bc we are hoping to see turtles. not planning on spending hours here, just a nice walk along the beach and putting our feet in the water.
  
• dinner at moon & turtle, or pineapples if i can't get a reservation
  
• drive up to volcano, spend night 1 of 2 at a guesthouse i found on booking.com
  

day 2 (sunday) - volcano national park

• 10min drive into national park, park in the nahuku parking lot arriving by 5am (first light around 4:45am & sunrise at 5:45)
  
• kilauea iki trail + 0.5mi ish detour to kupina'i pali (waldron ledge). very excited for this at sunrise.
  
• thurston lava tube after 8am when the lights come on
  
• chain of craters road: first is 3 crater lookout points, then skip the puuhuluhulu hike, then 4 more lookouts, then puuloa petroglyphs hike, then holei sea arch lookout. i'm expecting 4ish hours to go down to the end & back? and will bring snacks.
  
• quick stop at the visitor center, should be able to fit that in before it closes at 5
  
• dunch (we love late lunch/early dinner) at the volcano house restaurant
  
• head back to guesthouse & rest for a few hours
  
• go back to the park after 7pm to do thurston lava tube again but in the dark this time :) and some stargazing on the chain of craters road if we're lucky enough to have clear skies.
  
• night 2 of 2 at the guesthouse
  

day 3 (monday) - a little more volcano national park & travel to west side with mauna kea on the way - this day is ambitious but (imo) doable

• another early morning, arriving at the steam vents parking lot by 5am
  
• wahinekapu (steam bluffs) & ha'akulamanu (sulphur banks) hike, planning to go a little further west than that trail map. i saw a few comments on this sub about how cool the steam vents are with the sunrise so i'm excited for that.
  
• kilauea overlook
  
• head back to guesthouse to freshen up, eat breakfast, and check out
  
• drive 30min down to punalu'u black sand beach and spend a few hours there, i plan on snorkeling if the water is nice but mostly lounging & spotting turtles. each some snacks from the vendors, leave by 3 or so.
  
• long 2hr drive up to mauna kea visitor center, arriving between 530-6 (daylight until 6:15, fully night by 7:30). enjoy the sunset with picnic dinner & stargaze at the visitor center. decided against going up to the summit, see notes at the very bottom of this post if you’re interested.
  
• 1hr drive to the westin hapuna beach (booked mostly on marriott points), check in, and spend night 1 of 5 there. i'm very excited about this hotel, i see lots of raving reviews about hapuna beach & mauna kea beach next door, and it seems this resort is much more chill & has less kids than anywhere in waikoloa.
  

day 4 (tuesday) - last super busy day - boat diving & mantas!

• 45min drive down to kona harbor (honokohau harbor) for a 2-tank morning dive with kona diving company. chose them because of the reported small boat size & they apparently try to be the first to arrive and last to leave at garden eel cove for the mantas.
  
• long lunch at harbor house
  
• 2-tank manta night dive! still with kona diving company. i'm like so psyched for this guys.
  
• drive back up to hapuna, dinner probably at one of the hotel restaurants. spend night 2 of 5 at the westin hapuna. note my spouse doesn't dive so we'll be splitting up this day, me going down to dive and him having a relaxing day at the hotel.
  

day 5 (wednesday) - chill day at mauna kea beach & manta snorkel

• sleep tf in after 4 straight busy days
  
• spend the day at hapuna beach & mauna kea beach swimming/snorkeling/sunbathing
  
• sunset dinner at Manta restaurant at the mauna kea resort
  
• 8pm manta night snorkel from mauna kea beach with manta ray advocates!
  
• walk back to westin and spend night 3 of 5
  

day 6 (thursday) - shore diving & snorkeling

• 45min drive down to kona harbor again, 2-tank morning shore dive with kona shore divers. spouse will drive down with me and chill at a coffee shop or something, any recommendations?
  
• lunch--recommendations? ok with touristy areas, i need to get my fix of tacky gift shops.
  
• spend a couple hours snorkeling at kahalu'u or magic sands, or two-step if my morning dive trip didn't make it there
  
• drive back up to hotel, chill, then dinner at forc in waimea
  
• night 4 of 5 at westin hapuna
  

day 7 (friday) - kohala coast

• sleep in--won't leave hotel until like 11am at the earliest bc of elevation & diving
  
• quick stop at the mac nut factory to buy souvenirs
  
• drive 45min up the coast to the polulu valley lookout, keeping our options open to hike down but we probably won't feel like it
  
• drive to hawi, look around at all the little shops
  
• dunch at merriman's in waimea. very excited for this, we have been to merriman's on maui and to date it's my spouse's favorite meal of all time.
  
• hang at hapuna beach & watch the sunset, night 5 of 5 at the westin. honestly i'm prob ok skipping everything this day if we need to except merriman's, it's nice to have an extra day where we can go back and do things we missed if we want.
  

day 8 (saturday) - fly home

• last morning walk on the beach if we wake up early enough
  
• drive to KOA & return car by 11:30, noon at the latest (we have tsa precheck & don't check bags)
  
• nonstop flight home leaves at 1:35pm
  

big congratulations if you made it this far! i want to note here the things i'm intentionally skipping to see if i'm making a huge mistake:

• captain cook: i don't like snorkeling tours since we are comfortable snorkeling ourselves and i don't want to do the hike, so since we're doing lots of diving & snorkeling i think it's okay to skip
  
• south point: ok i know if i go there i will jump if the water looks okay. i love heights & love water & love cliff jumping but i am terrified as HELL of that ladder and really think i would have a very hard time getting up it, plus it doesn't fit nicely in my itinerary anywhere so maybe that's a sign i should just skip it and take away the temptation :)
  
• mauna kea summit: i don't want to take a 6-8 hour tour that includes dinner and hot cocoa and transportation from kona and all that jazz, i just want someone to take me to the top lol. i debated renting a 4x4 for the whole week to drive ourselves up but neither of us have ever driven one before and have no offroading experience. we also went to haleakala for sunrise last year & LOVED it, but the mauna kea summit looked similar so that plus all the other reasons i figured it's something we can skip?
  

thank you everyone for reading even if you didn't read the whole thing!!!!

tl;dr: I started my WGU MBA on May 1st and finished in 2 weeks to win a bet with my spouse but my degree was finally conferred this week.
I know I’m not the first person to make this kind of post, and honestly, I went back and forth on if I should. I get that some people think sharing these stories diminishes WGU but I always find them motivating and I think given the background of a lot of accelerators and the fact that WGU is competency-based, it becomes clear how certain people can finish quickly.
So, my background: I graduated high school a year early, at 16, by taking online courses in addition to in-person classes. In college, I took online courses every summer and winter term and graduated a semester early (at 20) despite a change of major. I went on to an “accelerated” hybrid M.Ed. at a B&M school to become a certified teacher and graduated at 22.
I heard about WGU through another teacher and was excited because I loved online coursework, especially when it allowed me to work at my own pace (versus professors gating things by week). I enrolled in my second M.Ed at WGU about 6 months after finishing my other grad program. As a teacher, you get additional pay per graduate credit and WGU was even more affordable then, so it was a great ROI.
I started over summer when I was working part-time and finished all courses except my capstone in 1 month. I had to wait for the fall semester to start to finish my classroom research for the capstone, so all in I finished that degree in 3 months right after turning 23.
In the time since I left teaching after burning out and transitioned into a career in marketing. I always expected an MBA to be part of my path, but the timing ended up being right career-wise. I recently started a new job and between the general workload expectations and being new, I have a lot more time on my hands than I’ve ever experienced in my adult life. I work hybrid with most meetings during office days so when I’m remote I have a lot of freedom. We’re DINKs and my husband is very understanding which has also contributed greatly to my ability to hyper-accelerate the MBA.
Due to all of this, I am definitely a hyperaccelerator at heart and having done a degree at WGU before I understood how the process works. Going in, I was very nervous about a few courses though (stats, accounting, econ) and wasn’t sure how much they might slow me down. I was originally a business major in undergrad and those were the hardest courses of my entire experience.
I'm a nerd and made a spreadsheet to track all my progress lol so, some stats, over my 14 days:
· 10 papers, 6 OAs, 2 PPTs/recordings, and 1 portfolio
· 49 essay pages total, not including title or reference pages
· More than 20k words written
· 173 pages of handwritten notes taken to study for OAs
I know a couple of other posters in the past have given course breakdowns, but some courses have changed, and I had some different takeaways. Also important to note is that I had a great mentor who understood my goals and made sure I always had multiple classes to work on, and he also gave me all courses in the standard order. Additionally, I did some minor “pre-work” before my start date to prep for certain courses, which I’ll mention for the individual classes below. Lastly, I definitely "no-lifed" the two weeks the program took. I took some exams at 4/5 am and finished my capstone right before midnight on my 13th day. I was absolutely exhausted by the end and was basically a zombie the entire second week.
C200 - Managing Organizations and Leading People: Very easy and only a couple of papers, but they require you to be very repetitive. I did the leadership assessment immediately and started writing. I used a somewhat fake example of a leader I knew for task 2 (basically combined 2 leaders I knew to meet all the rubric specifications). I woke up really early on my start date so I finished this around mid-morning.
C202 - Managing Human Capital: This course just has an exam and is one of the courses I did prep for. I found a quizlet people recommended and studied it for a couple of hours before my start date. I took the pre-assessment immediately and got exemplary (it matched the quizlet) so I scheduled the OA the same day. The test itself wasn’t exactly like the quizlet obviously, but similar concepts so I got an exemplary on it.
C204 - Management Communication: This course was extremely straightforward if you know how to communicate professionally. I had to look up a couple of things for the PPT task because they were extremely specific in the rubric but overall easy. My only roadblock was that I wasn’t given the right Panopto access immediately, so I didn’t get to submit my recorded presentation until the next day.
C212 - Marketing: I work in marketing so a lot of this one was easy, outside of the rubric being vague. The rubric just says to launch into a global market, but the advice is to pick Canada – I was confused because the rubric never specifies to pick a specific country/market. Anyway, I chose an existing company that sells products I often buy to make it easier to talk about how to launch something new in Canada. The paper is long though and took me most of a day to write.
C213 - Accounting for Decision Makers: This was the first class I was worried about. I watched some YouTube videos about accounting before my start date (maybe an hour total). Once in the class I took the pre-assessment immediately and surprisingly almost passed (but with a LOT of educated guessing). To prepare for the OA I watched every course video (famous Hawaiin shirt guy) and took notes. I loved the way that guy covered the content, literally the first time accounting and math have ever made sense in my life. This course fell during a weekend where the husband and I had some family obligations so this class ended up lasting three days. Once I finished the videos, I retook the pre-assessment and felt great so I scheduled the OA. I found the pre-assessment and OA extremely similar, and shockingly got exemplary.
C206 - Ethical Leadership: This class is, as others have said, very boring. The PAs seemed overwhelming before starting but flew by once I got started. They honestly just asked for a lot of definitions in essay format which is why it was so boring. I felt like it wasn’t a very well-designed PA and that they could’ve made it something a lot more reflective/introspective. I wrote the three papers back-to-back in a morning.
C214 - Financial Management: This is an infamous class for this program, and ultimately became infamous to me personally as well. I once again took the pre-assessment immediately and it felt like there was a lot of crossover from the previous accounting class, which was good. I barely missed a pass by a hair. I watched the Dr. H videos and the Calculator Primer found in the course tips. I know people also recommended the Ray calculation video but wow I hated it. The entire video already has all his math work written down very sloppily, and I just didn’t find it helpful to be walked through problems that had already been solved. I loved the Calculator Primer because it was an actual walkthrough of each problem from scratch. I felt really confident after a couple of days of studying though and scheduled the OA. The discrepancy between the pre-assessment and OA was NUTS. My stomach sank within three minutes of the OA because it was so much harder and more in-depth than the pre-assessment had been. Truly one of the hardest exams of my entire life. In hindsight, I should have also watched the Dr. V bootcamp video because it ended up being a bigger portion of the test. I managed to pass on the first try but truly I was almost in tears when I submitted that test because I felt like I didn’t know nearly enough.
C207 - Data-Driven Decision Making: This was another course I was worried about because of my experience in undergrad. I took the pre-assessment immediately and almost passed. I noticed it was a lot of definitions and theory rather than calculations which I was excited about. I took a study guide I found on the Facebook MBA group and used that to prepare for the OA by taking a bunch of notes. I scheduled and passed the OA within 24 hours of getting the course, and got an exemplary. The study guide was super helpful and like I said it was really more about concepts than calculations which I find easier to learn. I had some concerns about the PAs originally too but they ended up being explained well in course tip videos so super straightforward.
C215 - Operations Management: This is another one I prepped for. I watched all of the Dr. Haywood videos on YouTube while taking notes before my start date. I took the pre-assessment immediately without a refresher of my notes and almost passed but I definitely needed to go back and review. I rewatched all the videos at double speed and then used a study guide from Facebook (it’s based entirely on a key terms doc provided in course tips) to review before the OA. I found the pre-assessment somewhat aligned with the OA. Some of the questions were super basic and easy but there were a few questions about things I never studied at all. It all balanced out and I passed first try.
C211 - Global Economics for Managers: This was the final course I was worried about! I watched a couple of crash course econ videos before my start date for a refresher. I took the pre-assessment immediately and didn’t pass but I wasn’t expecting to and heard it doesn’t align to the OA so I didn’t use it for my preparation after the one attempt. I also heard a ton of mixed reviews of this class. It seemed like everyone on reddit said this course was all memorization and not terrible. But everyone in the Facebook group said it was a super hard exam and needed more than one attempt to pass. It honestly psyched me out so much that I overstudied for it. The Dr. Wade Roberts videos are not longer available so I watched all the other course instructor videos and took notes. I watched a few ACDC econ videos to fill gaps as well. Then I filled out a study guide (tbh not sure where I found this one) and wrote myself a “cheat sheet” of all “relationships” (if income goes up, demand for x goes up). In the hour before the OA, I reviewed all of my notes and study guide and practiced all the graphs on my whiteboard. When I finally took the OA it felt super easy and I got an exemplary. Not sure if I got lucky or just overstudied because I was worried about what everyone on Facebook said, but I’m glad it’s behind me.
C216 - Capstone: I wasn’t expecting to like this class but the simulation was an absolute blast. Before starting the simulation, I made a note doc of everything I’d need to speak to in the PAs so I could take screenshots or remember important decisions. I followed advice across reddit when making my decisions (see below) to get a good score (not that the passing threshold is that high). I got super into the simulation and was bummed I had to take a break while task 1 got graded. I got my task 3 compiled while waiting to get the next part unlocked. I got task 1 back in about 12 hours and then finished my simulation. For task 2 the calculation excel docs in course tips were immensely helpful and made the calculations a breeze. I ended up getting task 2 and 3 graded within 12 hours too. Ultimately, passed the capstone early morning on May 15th. My final cumulative score was about 29, which my mentor said was the highest he'd seen personally but I thought he was just trying to flatter me lol. To get a good simulation score (again, not that it matters):
· Compensate employees well
· Up your fixed capacity each Q
· Open a new location each Q (so 4 by the time you do task 1)
· Change your ads (and designs if necessary) based on competition
· Invest in R&D as much as you can
· Spend down almost all money each Q on ads, R&D, etc. (but keep about 300k in CD)
There you have it! Happy to answer questions. I've considered setting up a resource site that compiles all the quizlets, study guides, etc. that are most recommended/useful but not sure how into that people would be.

My 1980's

Although life seemed dreary and bleak it wasn’t, I just got a brand new pair of roller boots. It took me a while then I got the hang of them I was one of the first in my street to get a pair so there were all the neighbors' kids wanting a go on them. I let some of the people play with them I charged them 10 pence and got myself my own lunch in school for a week I felt like a had a job. My mum was in wonder all the time, I was pulling out money in all directions and she couldn’t put food on the table. So I done the right thing gave her last four pounds I managed to save and we had a hearty meal for about three days. If she was happy I was happy. My sisters were jealous of all the new friends I made because of my roller boots. They devised a plan that would leave me hurt and embarrassed. Dyane took a screwdriver from the kitchen drawer and went out to the landing. She had to be very quiet because the full close echoed and you didn’t want to wake up Maggie Murphy, she stayed on the top floor and mum said if we were bad in any way we would need to go to Maggie Murphy’s house and live. Truth be told we never actually seen Maggie we just heard how bad she was usually just after we got caught being mischievous. Dyane took the screwdriver and took out four screws from the wheel and soul of the boot. This was dangerous and silly but sibling rivalry in our home wasn’t rare. Me having no idea about the looseness of the skates would go out on them tomorrow to show off, because I was great at the stopping and starting. Dyane tiptoed back down the hallway putting the tool back in the drawer and sneaking to bed, I heard a noise but thought nothing of it and as quick as I reacted I was asleep. The morning time hit and it was Saturday, I loved Saturday me they always seemed to go on forever and some of the best times you had my age are on a Saturday, So my dad used to say anyway. Now four people at my bit had roller boots and we wanted to go do something like a skating trip to the loch six miles away, we would walk up and then skate around a few times, it was only six miles away near Coatbridge. My dad used to say we should move to Coatbridge he said that’s where all the catholic family’s stayed. My dad was one of them activist people you hear about fighting for the cause he called it. I don’t really understand what that meant but I grew up with him so what he did I copied naturally. We arrived at the loch a whole hour later, the reason we got there late is that my mate Richey saw an ice cream van driving about and we wanted some sweeties and chocolate for a picnic we thought since we’re going to the loch we might as well get hyper on all the chocolate. When we got to the ice cream van we heard music coming from it. “ A band called wham” the guy said it was impressive. I didn’t get know what a jitterbug was but I sure wanted one after hearing that song. We bought all this sugar filled sherbet and chocolate for the park of course most of it was gone by the time we got there. It was quite chilly at Drumpellier Loch that day. In fact it’s always cold I don’t ever remembering it being warm in the slightest. Maybe I should have learned and brought a coat. But I am young what can I do? That’s what mum used to use an excuse when I did bad stuff like smash Mrs Roberts’s window with a frog that time. I know it sounds weird a frog. How the hell? Basically I went to the burn one day in my wellies to get tadpoles, caught loads of the things I was well chuffed. I left them in a tub under my bed, forgetting about them they grew eventually to frogs. I smelt this horrible smell one day and went under the bed; a place mum dare not go. There were four small frogs they must have eaten the smaller frogs to survive. I was happy but scared in case mum found out no doubt she’d get Maggie down to shout as me or I’d have to see her my mum says her face has scars and she’s a real rough hooker, or looker. I cant remember what she said that well. I threw the frogs out the back window not knowing my mum was there I screamed and she turned her head I tried to lob the frog over the bin area walls onto the grass behind before she realised that I wasn’t just popping my head out to say hello. She continued hanging the washing unaware that I just threw a frog through Mrs Roberts’s window and she was now chasing a frog about her kitchen screaming. Shortly my mum noticed a distress and went over to see what was going on by this time she had got a lot of attention, she was still in pursue of the hopper her Zima frame couldn’t keep up with the feisty cannibal frog. My mum turned around and gave me THE STARE. This was meant for really bad times its as if just in that moment when she realises what you have done, death posses her looks straight at you, the saying goes” if looks could kill” My mums looks wouldn’t just kill they would torture, slap you with the big ring hand and chase you with a belt until you said sorry. Then kill you. We sat around the loch looking at the evil swan monster from the side cautiously “because they can kill you with one wing”. Richey said. The loch was nice and we seen all the baby ducks they were lovely better pet than frogs but the park ranger said we couldn’t lift them up because they weren’t ducks they were baby swans and that was the reason the big mum swan was hissing at us. We ran away. Two other guys we were with, whose names escape me left the two of us about an hour later Richey and me stayed and eventually put our boots on and started skating. “My feet feel weird man,” I said twice rolling down the biggest hill. Suddenly and without warning one of my Skates broke, the back wheel went flying and so did I. Right into the loch.. Richey stopped looked in shock and came chasing after me. I was in the water I couldn’t swim I was being pulled out into the middle, apparently underground suction pipes cleaned the water its been known before for people to get caught in these pipes and drown, so the stories say. I was scared and screaming. Miles from the rubber ring thing and Richey leaped in and swam toward me in a daze of water and faintness. The last words I remember speaking were “Please don’t let me die. My life flashed before my eyes. It showed me my family, my mum and uncle tam, my dad and sisters the two of them. I collapsed into the water. Blurry vision and a sore head I awoke in a hospital bed. My sister was crying.”Dyane why are you crying are you okay? Who died?” I said. “You nearly died. You and it was my fault I was jealous of the attention. I broke your skates please! Oh please don’t tell mum,” she replayed. I made a promise never to speak of it again because I loved my sisters and this is beyond Maggie Murphy bad this was like adoption bad. That was when these people who you don’t know come to your house and take your kids away. I saw it happen to Mr Higgins on my street. After his wife died of alcohol abuse or aids I forget what one. He was left with his two daughters and mum said “freaky going on in that house son I tell ye.” Later that week they took his daughters to a far away place, called Paisley. I never heard of it. My mum was still in shock and I was still in bed recovering now at home. Richey came to see me. He was always talking about the loch and what happened I didn’t like hearing about it because I was still a bit shaken up, even worse than that time I was dangled with my feet over the top flat veranda as a dare. When I got better mum made her lovely soup she did in the big pot, that’s when you know the family is coming. To see me apparently, because of what happened. I ate my soup so fast because I never had anything decent to munch in when I was bed resting except fruit, oh and did you know? Tomatoes are a fruit. I learned that when the doctor told me to eat healthy to regain stealth and fitness. For the next couple of weeks the house smelt like damp, it was cold and we thought the roof was going to fall in so we had to be moved out to number 65 at the top of the road before anything serious happened. A month later still nothing heard. A whole Three months went before it happened. “BOOOM” our old house roof blew right off. A gas explosion the papers said. I thought getting the damp was lucky meant where not dead. Mum seen this as a sign and my sisters where pretty hurt because they said they wanted to grow up in that house until they could leave. Mum seen this as a curse she said we didn’t go to Chappell enough and that’s what god does to protestant houses. Time past, three years in fact I left school and got myself a job working on the Glasgow building site near Easterhouse. I used to have to walk through a bad area known at Toi. Barlanark and Toi fought every weekend in a gang fight. I tried not to take part but sometimes you get caught in the middle and the anger builds up and you just burst into this infuriated madman and punch and kick and even throw glass bottles. Gang fighting at my bit was notorious, crazy and violent. I remember getting a taxi home one night and I said Barlanark please. The taxi driver looked at me like a just spat on his wain and said,” bit rough there is it no” “ if you know the right people life goes by without trouble.” I said to him. He locked the taxi doors and rolled up the windows thinking I wasn’t going to pay because the area I live in. I paid him the fair but no tip and headed down the badly lightened lane toward my door. I saw a couple of shadowy figures at My Close wondering what was going on but being sly and not letting them see me. One of the men came into light and I recognised him from Toi. This wasn’t a good sign. They had a petrol Bomb. My mum and dad are in that house; my sisters are away on a school trip thankfully. I didn’t want anything to happen to my folks because of something I did stupidly getting involved with a gang fight. Then it occurred to me they aren’t going to throw that in my house. They were after Richey. He got into some trouble with a drug dealer and couldn’t pay him for whatever reason and this was his revenge. I needed a distraction to help out my mate. “ OI the polis” I shouted. The thugs then lit the petrol Bomb and threw it toward his window “Catholic junkie scum” I heard them shout. The bomb missed the middle floor flat of the close and Landed at the bottom of the stairs. I shouted up to him to bring down water then looked down. I was on fire. “Stop drop and roll stop drop and roll,” I kept saying so I did I had to take of my jeans and stomp on them. They where ruined. In the midst of all the smoke and fire the whole street appeared to see what the commotion was. Richey ran down to see if I was okay. The police arrived. Sectarianism and gang fighting was major in Barlanark. Tensions were always high in the local pub. I’ve witnessed a chair going through the window more than once. Tension mounted because of the football game. The Winners cup, the final round. Celtic v Rangers. Celtic won. Rangers and Celtic fans everywhere caused mayhem. Our street once again divided between religions. What religion had to do with football I don’t know but the hatred between these people, once friends now enemies because of a football team. All I heard was I.R.A, U.D.A. it was nothing new that’s all you got in the news papers as well for four years there’s been non stop terror. Because of religion. Living in Glasgow in this time is like living in Ireland. There was so much temptation going on around me it was just a matter of time before I got sucked in to a fight or three. Dad died, man it was a hard time. Depression hit my mum hard, my sisters now lived in a flat in Castlemilk. Apparently it was the new up and coming council housing area, two times the size of Easterhouse. I was still in Barlanark with My mum after the funeral. She was getting to that age she needed me more than I needed her and if I went it would break her heart. So I lived with her and we where happy. I know this may seem rude but when dad died it was like mum became this new person. Like a weight had been lifted. The depression lasted a whole four weeks then she said “ what am I doing at this cooker I’m not a ball and chain anymore.” I laughed to lighten the mood. Mum was right she could fulfil her dreams now. They weren’t exciting but she could work now. Dad never let her work “ I’m the bread winner.” He used to shout when she brought it up in discussion. Now my uncle Tam can get her a job cleaning in the school, he was the janitor. They always needed an extra hand at the old primary. My mum aged forty and me aged nineteen lives was finally going in the right direction. The eighties have nearly passed. And the nights are filled with laughter in my house. I have grown up and I know what is wrong and what is right. I didn’t know before but now I do. It was 1989 and I decided to celebrate my 21st birthday in style at a club called McKinley in Shettleston.. I invited Richey I’ve not spoken to him since he got off drugs but his dad told me he was much better and life for him was promising. We left my house and went to the pub before the club to get a round in, as it was my birthday I didn’t pay it was ace. Mum was all chuffed and in her best gear for the night ahead. Everyone had their cameras out for a night to remember. “Richey mate how’s life?” I shouted at the bar when he walked in. “happy 21st man” he replied. It’s not long till Richey turns 21, a couple of months. He looked healthier after a bad turn in the winter the night before. Walking into the club there was balloons and banners all pre set. It was the best’ nothing could ruin this night. The drinks kept flowing and the laughter echoed through the night until about 2 o’clock in the morning. “Mate, mate I know its your day but I have news. You want to come outside for a fag and I’ll tell you,” said Richey. “ Ay mate no worries wait out side I’m just saying bye to my mum she’s heading home.” I replayed. The cold air hit you when you left the club and the streets where filled with siren noises and muffled conversation. We sat and he looked it me with a worried look on his face. I knew this look. I remembered this look. “I saved your life once and you saved my house from burning years ago. We are best mates and nothing ever going to change that. I’m sorry I’ve not been there for you man. I’ve been ill. It wasn’t drugs man I wasn’t on drugs the paleness the injections the staying in the house all the time, my dad said it was drugs but its not. My dad said it was a Poofs illness and I was never supposed to get it. I have aids.” He cried. I never said a word I looked at him. I hugged him. I never knew anyone to get aids before except Freddy Mercury. “So does that mean you’re a gay?” I asked not knowing much about the disease. “ No mate woman carry it to!” he said calmly. “ I wont make my 21st so I’ve been celebrating with you tonight., sorry I didn’t tell you, the chick you seen me with she’s not my girlfriend she’s a nurse. It’s a good distraction thought mate she’s sexy.” I laughed sobbingly and told Richey that his secret was safe with me and we continued to have a blast until 4am. Hangover kicks in and I ask myself if it was a dream, “did Richey actually tell me that stuff last night.” He did I know he did, damn. Months pass and time grows shorter for the lad down the road. Richey moved to a hospice near Airdrie. That’s where he would die. I never visited. I couldn’t. Even the thought of me going there and seeing him in some state killed me inside. A week later I was carrying the coffin of my once best pal. Who saved my life once? He did. I saved his life too. He was there for me; I’ll never forget him never never never……… New year 1990, “a toast to Richey in heaven” I yelled.” to Richey” they all said. My 1980's
December 04, 2011

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Hey,
My 17 month old was previously sleep trained, and that worked really well for a while, but we always had to recenter around transitions.
When we dropped from 2 to 1, everything fell apart. We were hit with teething, and a long illness around the same time, and since then, we've been dealing with some really awful sleep.
To complicate the matter further, she's now starting daycare, so that throws an additional wrench in the works.
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Typically, she wakes up at 6am - or at least that's what we've been aiming for. Previously it was 7am, but we needed to extend her mornings.
She'll have breakfast and be fine, up until lunch around 11, where about 50% of the time she'll start falling asleep in her chair while eating. At this point, if we put her down now, she sleeps for 40-50 minutes only. If we power on to 1215 or so, she's likely to sleep 1:40 if we're lucky, but not usually any longer. At any rate, we tend to wake her at an hour and 40 minutes anyway, in order to get her wake window.
So this takes us to about 2pm, and glides on through. We used to aim for 730-800 bedtimes, but we noticed that she would not be sleepy enough to go down, and then started crying heavily, so we started pushing her bedtime out further and further. These days she's most likely to go down around 840-900pm
We seem to get the most success out of 13 hours of wake time - but she'll still wake in the night. Reluctantly, we've resorted to going to hold her - since her night is now so damn short, if we don't hold her, she'll cry for hours (or sometimes she'll just lay there and stare off into space without crying) - and because she gets so little sleep in the night, she's tired as hell the next morning.
There's the temptation in the morning to just let her sleep in a bit, but then we know that with a shorter WW, she won't have a long nap, which kills the next WW, and pushes bedtime too early, causing a more split night... and the cycle continues to get worse.
Now with daycare, and their naps happening at 12:30, I fear that things will go nuclear.
Any advice would be amazing here, cause we've tried so many variations, and we've not been able to get her to sleep through the night for months.
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Hi, I’ll tell a little backstory and then get into what’s currently happening. Tell me if y’all think this is true tf or maybe just temptation or lust and what next to to grow spiritually.
I met TF over 2 years ago online, 1 week before i met my current boyfriend who i live with (2 years of dating+). TF and I texted a few times, strong physical attractions on both sides, i think the second thing i told him was ‘our kids would have curly hair and green eyes’.
I met my current boyfriend and was head over heels. We moved in after 3 months and have been mostly very happy. We are best friends but he lacks the attraction to me that I need and other things like kisses, flowers etc. But i am deeply in love with him and our families love each other too. They know we will be getting married in a few years. We have a down payment on a house saved. We have pets. It’s very serious.
I’d say around 4-5 months of bf and i dating, TF came into my life seriously. He messaged me and it’s been a rollercoaster ever since. We have the most intense sexual & physical connection with anyone I’ve ever met. We also understand eachother and I can tell him my darkest secrets and he accepts my flaws. The first time we called he fell asleep on the phone. We talk for hours on end. He knows I have a bf. We have very similar interests that I didn’t even realize. It’s not until I found out what TF truly was that I realized we have the same features. Both have: green eyes, curly dark brown hair, pale skin, freckles/marks. In contrast, my bf is ginger with brown eyes.
Off and on we would text/call and it would get intense. It would get to a point where I felt so bad and end up telling my boyfriend. He would understand because of my mental illness (I thought was causing these bad decisions). But It kept happening about 3-5 times and I’ve told my bf. I feel guilt and cry a lot when I confess. Then TF and I go no contact for a month and he contacts me or I have a dream about him and have a strong urge to message him. Many times it’s happened where I think of him and the next day he texts me after no contact for a month. This has been a vicious cycle.
I stopped messaging him for my own good in November. I think this was my surrender. I didn’t want him and didn’t need him. I was doing so good and was so happy with my boyfriend. I was relieved and life continued on. Major changes have happened since then. I got diagnosed with ADHD, put on more mood stabilizers (this is a good thing for me), suffered more panic attacks, intense nausea for months, quit my job but they ended up closing 2 months later, got a job that fits my needs, upgraded apartments, felt true happiness most every day, started seeing a therapist, more independent, more hobbies, made deeper connection with a girl I’ve wanted to connect with (bf’s brother’s gf / future sister inlaw). These are pretty big changes for me.
Things that make me think TF: similar features • acts like me/has similar flaws• same sexual desires • both can’t resist each other • always come back to each other • dream of him more than anyone • see his name everywhere • see men who resemble him • hear songs that remind me of him • life merging with mine • unexplainable nausea for over 1 yr, getting worse?! • i crave him bad • think of him and he reaches out after months • both in music making
After no contact for 4 months he let me know that he is moving to MY city for a new job. He lived 3 hours away, now 30 minutes. He moved in today. I mean what are the odds? His city has many opportunities for his job (medical). My bf will be leaving me alone for the first time in 6 months (evening through morning). And I don’t know if I’m strong enough to resist having him 30 minutes away with an empty house. I don’t think I can physically cheat, but why is this happening.
Is this the next chapter after surrender? Or am I still just starting my ascension?

I hate to create a new thread for this, especially based on previous threads (here, here, here, here), however, I believe I have made a more logical KOR watch order with evidence and context clues to support my assertions.
DATES OF BIRTH:
Madoka Ayukawa – DOB 05/25/1969 (manga/movie) 1972 (anime) (Shin KOR)
Kyosuke Kasuga – DOB 11/15/1969 (manga/movie) 1972 (anime) (Shin KOR)
Hikaru Hiyama – DOB 11/15/1971 (manga/movie) 1974 (anime) (Shin KOR)
GENERAL INFO:
School year in Japan starts in early April and ends in March the following year.
All TV series episodes are set at the same time they were originally aired.
WATCH ORDER BELOW IS BASED ON A 1972 BIRTH YEAR FOR MADOKA AND KYOSUKE:
Episode 1: “Transfer Student! Humble First Love!” or “A Transfer Student! ‘Tis Embarrassing to Say, but I’ll Fall in Love for the First Time” - April 6, 1987

• 9th grade for Kyosuke (14 y/o) & Madoka (15 y/o), 7th grade for Hikaru (13 y/o)

Episode 2: “A little Lemony Kiss for Her” or “Just a Little Lemon Kiss” - April 13, 1987
Episode 3: “Mood Swings - Rowing First Date” - April 20, 1987
Episode 4: “Hikaru-chan?! The Disturbing “C” Experience!” - April 27, 1987
Episode 5: “Two People’s Secret - The Part-Time Job” - May 4, 1987
Episode 6: “That Guy is a Rival! Love’s Midterm Exam!” - May 11, 1987
Episode 7: “Madoka’s Private Life - A Spark-Colored Kiss!” - May 18, 1987
Episode 8: “Your Smile! Shutter Chance at the Beach” - May 25, 1987
Episode 9: “Kurumi-chan, I’ll Teach You How To Date!” – Jun 1, 1987
Episode 10: “A Premonition! Hikaru-chan Will Die!” or “A Foreboding Dream?! Hikaru is Dying” - June 8, 1987
Episode 11: “Don’t Ring the Wedding Bells!” - June 15, 1987
Episode 12: “Study Abroad in America! Goodbye Madoka!” - June 22, 1987
Episode 13: “Everyone is Looking! Hikaru’s Super Transformation!” - June 29, 1987
Episode 14: “A Foreboding Dream! Madoka and Kyosuke are Breaking Up At Last!” - July 6, 1987

• Set during Tanabata Festival which occurs on July 7 of each year

Episode 15: “Madoka’s Ultimate Decision! Putting a Period to the Love Triangle” - July 13, 1987
Episode 16: “Well, Do You Believe or Not? Madoka Saw a UFO” - July 20, 1987
Episode 17: “The Summer Temptation - A Double Date Out of the Blue” - July 27, 1987
Episode 18: “Madoka’s Challenge! The Haunted Beach Big Wave Legend” - August 3, 1987
Episode 19: “The Couple’s Experience—Forbidden Island of Love!” - August 10, 1987
OVA 2: “Hawaiian Suspense” – Released on April 1, 1989

• Set in Summer 1987. Discotek OVA disc places this OVA between Ep. 15 & 25 (July 13, 1987 and September 21, 1987). Jason Alme of the Abcb Podcast placed OVA 2 after Ep. 21 (Aug 24, 1987). I think the OVA occurs after Ep 19, for multiple reasons. 1) In Japan, summer breaks are typically 6 weeks or 40 days. If the summer break started, mid July that would end the summer at end of August, thus invalidates the OVA disc's upper limit. 2) In Episode 23, school is back in session and they aren't absconding to Hawaii while school is in session. 3) After Ep 19, there are no more warm weather watebeach/ocean-based TV series episodes, and the trauma of the events in OVA 2 would probably put an end to any desire to travel to any water-based locations for a while. Admittedly, OVA 2's occurrence anywhere between Ep 15 and 22 is plausible.

Episode 20: “Hikaru Witnesses! The Camp is Full of Danger!” - August 17, 1987
Episode 21: “Kyosuke in a Pinch! Sweet Nothings at the Wuthering Heights!” - August 24, 1987
Episode 22: “An Adult Relationship? Madoka Secretly Returns Home in the Morning!” - August 31, 1987
Episode 23: “Kyosuke and Madoka in a Big Fight! The 3-Legged Race of Love!” - September 7, 1987
Episode 24: “Introducing Kazuya! Be Careful Around the “Panic Kid”!” - September 14, 1987
Episode 25: “Risky Self-Hypnosis! Kyosuke Changed!” - September 21, 1987
Episode 26: “Kyosuke Becomes a Kid! Getting Super-Close to Madoka!” - September 28, 1987
Episode 27: “Marked Woman Madoka! Kyosuke, Proving He’s a Man!” - October 5, 1987
Episode 28: “Dangerous Decision! Manami-chan’s Big Adventure!” - October 12, 1987
Episode 29: “Don’t Cry, Jingoro! The Heat of Young Love!” - October 19, 1987
Episode 30: “A Tender Little Story - Kurumi’s First Love, Chapter “Hell”!” - October 26, 1987
Episode 31: “Madoka and Yuusaku - The Marching Song of Runaway Youths” - November 2, 1987
Episode 32: “Will My Birthday Come Twice? Time-Runner Kyosuke” - November 9, 1987
Episode 33: “Strange Madoka! The Mushroom of 120% Truth!” - November 16, 1987
Episode 34: “Roots Panic! Madoka in the Mysterious Homeland” - November 23, 1987
Episode 35: “Perverted With a Camera! Robo-Kyosuke!” - November 30, 1987
Episode 36: “Adios, Kyosuke! Paranormal Powers Caught On Video!” - December 7, 1987
Episode 37: “Heroic Orange Legend - Madoka's Duel in the Blizzard” - December 14, 1987
Episode 38: “Kyosuke Time Trips! The Third Christmas” - December 21, 1987
Episode 39: “Hypnotizing Madoka - Kyosuke's Dangerous New Year” – January 4, 1988
Episode 40: “First Dream of the New Year - Giant Monster Jingoro's Counterattack” – January 11, 1988
Episode 41: “Immobilized Madoka - Kyosuke's Mysterious Watch” – January 18, 1988
Episode 42: “Madoka the Popular - Kyosuke Finally Confesses” – January 25, 1988
Episode 43: “Heartbroken Hikaru - Follow Her to the Winter Beach” – February 1, 1988
Episode 44: “The Taste of Love? Kyosuke's Valentine from HELL!!” – February 8, 1988
Episode 45: “Goodbye Hikaru - And Then There Were None” – February 15, 1988
OVA 1: “White Lovers” – Released on March 1, 1989

• Set at Kyosuke’s grandparents’ house. Discotek OVA disc sets the OVA between 35 and 45 (Nov 30, 1987 - Feb 15, 1988). I believe Diskotek's lower limit to be wrong as the most likely date is between Ep 45 and 46, or just after Ep. 46, given the setting.

Episode 46: “One Snow-White Night - Two Alone in a Gondola” – February 22, 1988

• Fun fact, much of this episode is a recreation of the pilot episode in 1985, but the setting is changed from a beach resort in summertime to the winter.

Episode 47: “A Presentiment of Farewells - Find Madoka's First Love” – February 29, 1988
Episode 48: “I Found Love! and Da Capo” – March 7, 1988s

• According to Mundane-Most-3104, Episodes 47 & 48 occur in a parallel universe, which claims Matsumoto admitted the anime, manga, and movies are all in parallel universes [HERE]. However, according to the Italian Wikipedia entry of Anohi, only the movie is in a parallel universe in respect to the TV series. The translation of the page includes this about Anohi, saying, "According to what was revealed in the pamphlet given in homage to the screening of the film, it is in all respects a parallel world to the TV series." It must be noted that the claim above is not cited. [EDIT: Please see Mundane-Most-3104's comments below clarifying the information here. There was no intention to provide information that was incomplete or incorrect]

OVA 8: “Message in Rouge” – Released on January 18, 1991

• Setting is likely autumn 1988, after episode 48 and Madoka has likely returned from the US with her father. As explained in episode 48, she goes to the US to take care of her ailing father for an undisclosed period of time.

OVA 3: “I Was a Cat, I was a Fish” – Released on December 27, 1989

• Discotek's OVA Disc places this between Episodes 15 & 30 (July 13, 1987 to Oct 26, 1987) but it does not fit given the evidence. OVA 3 is likely set during Tanabata on July 7, 1988 or a summer festival which Madoka and Hikaru are attending. ~@14:07 After Hikaru brings Kyosuke (in goldfish form) to her room on her wall there is a photo of Kyosuke in ski gear which almost assuredly originated from OVA 1 White Lovers episode (I posit OVA 1 occurred between February 15, and February 28, 1988) because ~@8:36 in OVA 1, Kyosuke is seen wearing the exact same outfit. Thus, this occurred during February of their 9th grade year. The only other skiing episode was Episode 46 (February 22, 1988). Therefore, the most plausible setting of OVA 3 is during the Summer of Kyosuke’s and Madoka’s 10th grade year which began in April 1988.

OVA 5: “Stage of Love = Heart on Fire! (Spring is for Idols)” – Released on May 1, 1990

• Discotek's OVA Disc places this between Episode 23 & 30 (Sept 7, 1987 to Oct 26, 1987), however, I believe this is incorrect. Given the evidence, OVA 5 occurs, at earliest, in Spring of 1989, during Kyosuke & Madoka’s HS 11th grade year. Early in the episode, Kyosuke is riding a scooter and Japanese law states one must be 16 y/o to drive a scooter. Kyosuke turned 16 y/o on 11/15/1988.

OVA 6: “Stage of Love = Heart on Fire! (A Birth of a Star)” – Released on July 1, 1990

• Shortly after OVA 5, in Spring of 1989.

OVA 4: “Hurricane! Akane the Shape-changing Girl” – Released on February 1, 1990

• Discotek's OVA Disc places this OVA between Episodes 20 and 25 (Aug 17, 1987 and Sept 21, 1987). However, based on the dialogue, OVA 4 is set in July 1989, Kyosuke (16), Akane (16), and Madoka (17) are in 11th grade; Hikaru (14) is in 9th grade. ~@2:13, the first line of the episode, Kyosuke says,“高二の夏休みが始まった朝” (Ko ni no natsuyasumi ga hajimatta asa) “It was the morning my 11th-grade summer vacation began.” The "K" in "Ko ni" is almost non-existent and it almost sounds like "Oni" but given the context this would make no sense. Also, ~@3:01, after Kyosuke finds>! Akane (disguised as !<Hikaru) naked in bed with him, he says, "ひかるちゃんまずいよ. 僕たちはまだ高校生” (Hikaru-chan mazui yo. Bokutachi wa mada kōkōsei), “Hikaru-chan, this is bad. We’re still in high school.”

OVA 7: “An Unexpected Situation” – Released on January 1, 1991

• Discotek's OVA Disc places OVA 7 simply after OVA 4. Therefore, this is set in July 1990, prior to movie which also starts in July 1990. The plot indicates Akane already knows Madoka, whom she met in OVA 4, in July 1989. ~@3:44 Akane’s friends confirm Akane is a Sr. in HS. She and Kyosuke are the same age (OVA 4, ~@3:33) and therefore, in the same grade. Therefore, OVA 7 is set just prior to events in the first movie. This is significant because Akane (disguised as Kyosuke) tells Hikaru in a rather cruel way that she is annoying and to leave him alone. This must have been resolved favorably because in Movie 1, Hikaru and Kyosuke are on good terms in July 1990.

Kyosuke (17) and Madoka (18) are in 12th grade, Hikaru (15) is in 10th grade.
Movie 1: “Kimagure Orange Road: I Want to Return to That Day” – Released on October 1, 1988

• If you choose to use Manga timeline, as expressed in the dialogue with 1969 as the years of birth for Madoka and Kyosuke, that sets the movie from July 1988 through Feb 1989.
• If you choose to use TV Series timeline with a 1972 birth year for Madoka and Kyosuke, then the movie is set from July 1990 through February 1991. The movie starts when Kyosuke is 17, Madoka is 18, and Hikaru is 15, by end of movie, Kyosuke and Madoka are 18, and Hikaru is 16.

Movie 2: New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer’s Beginning – Released in November 2, 1996
To confuse the timeline issue further, the Shin KOR movie indicates it follows the TV series timeline as its setting is 1991 & 1994, which would line up with the TV Series timeline. But Shin KOR seems to think Kyosuke and Madoka were born in 1971 if logically worked out. The movie setting is split between Summer 1991 (~@7:56), just a few months after Movie 1, when Kyosuke is 18 y/o. and summer 1994 (~@15:44 & ~@17:49) when he is 21 y/o.
But this makes matters even worse because Kyosuke, in a premonition/foreboding dream at ~@4:38 said he is 19 years old, and ~@4:55 he says it is, "The Summer I finally caught you, my angel." (first time to have sex with Madoka) therefore, this dream scene is set in Summer 1992, if true to 1971 timeline, but if summer 1991 then the Movie thinks Kyosuke and Madoka were born in 1971.
Compounding the issue, ~@27:45, in Summer 1994, Komatsu and Hatta were lamenting that Kyosuke was only 22 years old when he died, which would mean if born in 1972, he would have died after 11/15/1994.
------------------------------------------ADDENDUM AS OF 05/28/2024 5:56PM CST--------------------------------------
I must thank the moderator at Orangeroad.US [LINK] who kindly responded to me via email to my timeline question and reminded me of some key cultural points I failed to consider when creating the watch list above regarding dates of birth and how they can be nebulous, the moderator stated:
"Traditionally (Classically) when Japanese are born, as is common with other Asian cultures, the day you are born you are counted as 1 year old. You turn 2 on the *first* New Years Day. Your birth date stays the same but you are deemed 1 year older every New Years Day after that. New Years is a week long celebration in Japan. That system existed from ancient times and only stopped being used by most of Japan in the 1950's. So depending upon the age of the animators, directors, etc.. we really don't know how "exact" they were. It becomes real easy to state you are 15 or even 16 under that system. Under that system even when talking about the manga, Kasuga and Ayukawa could be different aged. That really, really easily leads to your opening tagline, in which Kasuga would be making the statement he is 15 years old.. because in that system.. he is."
Additionally, the Orangeroad.us moderator provided me with the AnimEigo Liner Notes regarding DOBs which you can find [HERE} which adds some clarity to the issue. And states, "While the KOR universe in its manga version involved the actual years of 1984 to 1988, the time in which Kyosuke spent his 9th through 12th grade [in manga, as well as in the KOR Movie, Kyosuke was supposedly born on November 15, 1969], the TV version treats it slightly differently. It takes place during the years 1987 to 1988, the same years in which the episodes were actually broadcast. So, to confuse things, the TV Kyosuke was most likely born in 1972. To become more confused, see our Episode Airdates section."