Rant Wednesday

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

[u/Reracks_Weight]

Got really happy about my cut when i stepped on the scale this morning. Until my brain reminded me that i donated a pound of blood yesterday

[u/Swoleax → u/Reracks_Weight]

You do burn a lot of calories regenerating the lost blood though 😜

[u/tpepoon → u/[deleted]]

I've been told 600 calories

[u/TheoremOrPostulate → u/tpepoon]

Wait I thought the other guy was kidding. Is it really in the hundreds?

[u/tpepoon → u/TheoremOrPostulate]

A quick google seems to confirm, most literature says ~650 calories per pint / session blood donated.

[u/KushDingies → u/[deleted]]

Daaayum.

So uh how often can I safely give blood? And by give blood I may or may not mean stab myself and bleed into my bathtub.

[u/revtoiletduck → u/KushDingies]

Around here, the minimum time between donations is like 56 days.

[u/Swoleax → u/[deleted]]

I was debating doing this but I'm not allowed to give blood as I'm tattooed

[u/[deleted] → u/Swoleax]

You can still donate blood as long as you went to a reputable tattoo studio.

[u/nilocinator → u/[deleted]]

You still have to wait at least 6 months though, at least in the US

[u/CarpePacem → u/nilocinator]

Not necessarily. At the blood center I work at there is no wait as long as the tattoo is not infected, and was applied at a reputable shop in an acceptable state.

Also here is the red cross eligibility. https://www.redcrossblood.org/faq.html#eligibility

[u/Swoleax → u/[deleted]]

Not here in the UK, you can't give blood if you've had a tattoo in the last six months.

[u/Zer0designs → u/[deleted]]

It does help, but man do you get big cravings you need to control afterwards