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Switched to a ketogenic diet with intermittent fasting 5 months ago. My sleep quality, mental clarity, ability to focus for long periods of time and mood swings have all improved dramatically. I am also shredding fat at a pretty good pace and apparently also gaining muscle (I lift every single day if I can).
I was bored at first but then I started filling my time with more productive hobbies, which was the point. Infinite content providers are designed to steal all your time.
It's crazy how little I use the internet now. I never realized what it had become until I put some restrictions in place that ended up blocking out like 90% of the web.
Super helpful if you're an IT guy and need to remember a bunch of different IP addresses, usernames, and passwords. Also people love it when you remember their name. Highly recommend taining your memory, it's very useful.
Exercise is one of those things that once you start, you crave so it is easier.
But sleep wasn't solved for me till I got a personal tracker. Suddenly I started to care when I measured how little or how much REM I got.
So I think if you get a personal tracker and track your steps and sleep, a lot of the rest will fall in place.
Stop buying stuff. I was a compulsive spender. Never bought on credit mind but I’d blow my entire paycheque after bills on stuff like cameras, hifi, the latest Apple doodad, etc. I literally stopped buying anything not required for my day to day sustenance. No Netflix, started renting what I wanted to watch which forced me to be more picky with my expenditure and time. No more eating out except for special occasions.…
I moved across the US a year ago, and moving with a single suitcase (until the moving truck arrived, months later) re-taught me how little I need in order to live comfortably. Since then, I've been aggressively paring back my "material footprint", and every thing I shed makes me feel a little lighter.
It was so liberating. I was trying to make sure that if I want to move again that I could still do that. Unfortunately I now own a house worth of furniture (including 3 queen size beds).
I've always been an engineer and enjoyed being that for almost 25 years now. Learning new things was kind of my way to end my work days. One thing I admired and never really understood was people that went out every day posting new content, tech tutorials etc. almost daily, being active on Twitter, engaging with other people. Being a kid from the 1970s these things were really weird for me because they are digital an…
Your blog looks quite nice. Which blogging software or static site generator do you use if I may ask?
Content is stored in my own Gitea.io instance and automatically built and deployed using my own Drone.io instance.
[1]: http://gohugo.io/ [2]: https://git01.kogitoapp.com/danielsreichenbach/hugo-cactus-t...
I've always been an engineer and enjoyed being that for almost 25 years now. Learning new things was kind of my way to end my work days. One thing I admired and never really understood was people that went out every day posting new content, tech tutorials etc. almost daily, being active on Twitter, engaging with other people. Being a kid from the 1970s these things were really weird for me because they are digital an…
Your blog looks quite nice. Which blogging software or static site generator do you use if I may ask?
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