Boisterous [he/him]

Fibre (non digestible plant material) will help you feel fuller and is very healthy, it helps keep your gut microbiome healthy and your digestive tract clean and regular.

Simply eating less meat, no there’s no downsides. However if you start transitioning towards vegetarianism there are a few things you need to be aware of:

1. You will have to supplement vitamin B12. Eggs are an ok source but you won’t be able to fulfill your body’s need with eggs alone (you’d have to eat around 8 DAILY). You can take it as a supplement but I personally buy B12 fortified nutritional yeast (read the packaging carefully, not all nutritional yeast is B12 fortified). I add it to my eggs on days when I eat eggs, otherwise I add it to my protein during meal prep (lentils, tofu, etc).
2. You’ll need to watch your protein intake a bit more. The only complete vegetarian/vegan proteins are soy and quinoa. Anything else and just make sure you eat it alongside a whole grain (wheat, rice, etc). That will round out you protein intake.
3. You need to mix chia seeds in occasionally. I forget why but I add them to my sweet oatmeal. There’s some sort of minor nutritional need that they fulfill and there is an alternative that I can’t remember off the top of my head.

You’re still eating meat so I assume veganism isn’t something you’re considering. If you do there’s a lot more planning involved in your meals and I’m not familiar with all of it since I’m only vegetarian.

My last piece of advice is if you’re keeping meat in your diet, buy organs if you can stomach them (and it is easier in stews). They’re cheaper and more nutrient dense.

This article is from 2016 btw. Is this a 10 year anniversary of the article?

I enjoy aspects of my job:

• I’m a public servant and I do think I give value to the people I serve.
• my job is complicated. I’ve only been here for just over a year but I’m involved in training people (we’ve been hiring a lot recently)
• somedays I like to get away from my family for a few hours, somedays I don’t.
• I’m not micromanaged. We have specific targets to hit but no one yells at me for taking a longer break or harasses me for being a couple minutes late to work. This also motivates me to stay a few minutes late somedays to make it up (shocker who would have guessed that it improves morale).
• I’m unionized, with sick time, vacation, and benefits. Plus another guaranteed raise next year.
• I get 1 paid EDO every 2 weeks and recently was approved to work from home 4 days every 2 weeks.

These are all great! However there’s aspects I don’t like :

• I don’t like the rigidity of schedule. Having to wake up every day at the same time to work for 8 hours.
• I have to drive in and I resent that. That also means dealing with parking.
• there’s plenty of small things I don’t like. Also our workloads are insane right now and we’re doing a lot of coverage of coworkers.
• previously I was in health care and direct patient care and I miss that.

I try to enjoy the good things and quiet down the bad with any job. Don’t ever mute the bad completely though, it’ll let you know when it’s time to leave.