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  • Something I had copied off of a reddit comment a while back. It’s a quick routine you can do at home. IIRC the reddit comment claimed to have gotten this from some sort of medical fitness professional, but I can’t find the link to the actual reddit comment anywhere. Upper body stuff is mainly meant to make breasts look bigger and lower body to make hips and butt look bigger. :

    Free Weight Fly’s: 5-10lb Weight. (Dumb bells) Start by lying on your back with your arms horizontally out to the side. Next, bring your arms up and forward towards the ceiling. Next, lower your arms back down to the original position. Your elbows should be partially bent the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 repititions.

    Note regarding elastic band exercises: Basically you’ll want to put a knot in the middle of the band and then put it in a door so the knot keeps it from sliding out when you pull on it.

    Elastic Band Rows: Holding elastic band with both hands (arms stretched straight in front of you), draw back the band as you bend your elbows. Keep your elbows about 45 degrees away from your body the entire time. Repeat 2 sets of 10 repetitions.

    Elastic Band - Horizontal Adduction: Start by holding elastic band with your arm out-stretched to the side. Next, pull the elastic band horizontally and across your body. Your elbow should be straight or slightly bent the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 repetitions.

    Dynamic Hug: Start with one foot in front of the other. Hinge at the hips and have a slight bend in the elbows. Begin the motion by bringing your hands together as if you are hugging a tree. Complete 2 sets of 10 repetitions.

    Elastic Band Shoulder External Rotation: While holding an elastic band at your side with your elbow bent, start with your hand near your stomach and then pull the band away. Keep you elbow at your side the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 repititions.

    Elastic Band Shoulder Internal Rotation: While holding an elastic band at your side with your elbow bent, start with your hand away from your stomach,m then pull the band towards your stomach., Keep your elbow near your side the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 repetitions.

    Lower Body: Focus a little on abs and quite a bit of stuff focused on emphasizing muscles in hips and butt.

    Bridging: While lying on your back with knees bent, tighten your lower abdominals, squeeze your buttocks, and then raise your buttocks off the floor/bed as creating a Bridge with your body. Hold and then lower yourself and repeat. Repeat 10 times.

    Hip Abduction: While lying on your side, slowly raise up your top leg towards the sky. Keep your knee straight and maintain your toes pointed forward the entire time. Keep your leg in-line with your body. Complete 2 sets of 10 for each leg.

    Looped Elastic Band Hip Extension: While standing with an elastic band looped around your ankles, move the target leg straight back keeping the knee straight the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 with each leg.

    Looped Elastic Band Hip Abduction: While standing with an elastic band looped around your ankles, move the target leg out to the side, keeping the knee straight the entire time. Complete 2 sets of 10 with each leg.

    Single Leg Lowering: Lying on your back, keep your back in a neutral position. Bring your knees up to 90 degrees. Keeping your belly button pulled in (abs taut), slowly reach your foot forward and tap the ground. Complete 2 sets of 10 for each leg.

    All exercises should be completed at least 3x per week.















  • I spent my last year of college mostly eating cheap, unhealthy, and fast to make foods and most of it was vegetarian.

    • cereal
    • pbj sandwiches
    • ramen
    • breakfast bars
    • Mac and cheese
    • boiled eggs
    • oats
    • put some rice in a rice cooker and then mix it with one of these:
      • stir fry some peanuts and add some spices + lemon
      • stir fry some peanuts and add a tamarind + spice mix
      • pickle. Comes straight from the store in a jar for a variety of fruits and vegetables. Just mix it with rice and eat, no cooking involved except turning on a rice cooker. Lasts forever.
      • make egg fried rice on the rare occasion when you have more time/ are less lazy


  • For lower budgets, stainless steel aroma rice cookers last a really long time. My parents have had the same aroma rice cooker for the past decade and use it everyday (more than once a day on avg). I would find it difficult to tell the difference between it and one that’s only a month old.

    For higher budgets and higher efficiency (because they trap the steam and use the pressure), you can go for a premium japanesee brand like zojurishi or tiger.-

    Yum Asia (Chinese brand) rice cookers are somewhere in between the premium Japanese ones and the low budget aromas.

    While the rice cooker itself is fairly bifl for all these options, the inner pot is not.

    Aroma has stainless steel inner pots which are truly bifl. The east asian brands mostly have Teflon nonstick inner pots which aren’t bifl as the nonstick will start peeling after a few years and you will need to get a replacement inner pot. Tiger and Yum Asia also offer a ceramic inner pot which will last longer than the Teflon, but not as long as the stainless steel.

    With aromas, you need to physically remove the pot once the rice cooker is done or the bottom of your rice will get a bit burnt if you leave it in keep warm mode for too long. The mid and premium end brands won’t burn your rice even if its on keep warm mode for hours.

    Keep warm mode is what rice cookers go into once they finish cooking the rice and give you the rice cooking finished signal.