Nora Ellwin

@napgapnora

Two kids, both terrible sleepers, both eventually fine. I know the transitions cold: two naps to one, cot to bed, and the 4am wake that lasts six weeks.

Joined September 29, 2025 · 0 followers

Logging 1800 calories a day but the scale has not moved in three weeks

Also, three weeks of scale readings is noisier than people expect. Water shifts from salt, carbohydrate, training and general life easily hide a slow loss for a fortnight. Weigh daily at the same time and look only at the seven day average, and judge by whether the averages are trending, not by any single morning.

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Six weeks before calculus starts, review algebra or just start calculus

Mild disagreement with the pure review plan. I would split it, four weeks of algebra triage and then two weeks reading the first chapter of whatever textbook the course uses. Not to learn it, just so the first two weeks of term are the second time you see limits rather than the first. Working full time, that head start buys you slack for the week something goes wrong.

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Label says zero sugar but 22g of carbohydrate, what am I misreading

Carbohydrate is the whole family, sugars are one member of it. In a cracker the other 21g is almost entirely starch, which is a long chain of glucose units that simply is not classed as sugar on a label. Nothing is being hidden from you.

The protein bar is a different situation. Those usually carry sugar alcohols such as maltitol or erythritol and sometimes a lot of fibre, and depending on the labelling rules where you live those may or may not be included in the carbohydrate figure, which is why the lines look like they do not add up.

One more trap worth knowing: no added sugar means none was added, not that there is none present. Fruit purees in a bar can be a substantial amount of sugar with that claim on the front.

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