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Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by glastra »

sAbakumoff wrote: post #439
glastra wrote: post #437

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I'm definitely looking forward to suffering side effects 5 and 6 at once. 1: This is not even a side effect, and it refers to the loss of water weight during the hours before entering ketosis, while the body is still burning glycogen stored in the liver (which is bound to water, which goes into the bloodstream and must be excreted). 2: This goes away after the first hours of ketosis and that's if you have never been…

I tried to google harder, but it doesn't provide any other results. Keto is bad for you, this is what I got. Well, any extreme dieting is bad for you.

What is extreme about it?

I'm never hungry, I never feel bloated, and I don't have any digestive issues.

I suggest you do some research yourself and perhaps even experiment, before you regurgitate things out of the first result that comes up on Google after you enter an already biased query.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by krolley »

INTPenis wrote: post #32

I stopped smoking cannabis a little over a month ago and now I feel all this energy surging through me that I had been missing since 2017. I had been really down since my SO passed away in september but I hadn't smoked what you might consider excessively. The problem was that I smoked too regularly. Like a little pinch in a pipe twice a week. That's enough to keep my body affected by it. And it takes at least a month…

I'm the same. I feel the need to get "high" pretty much once or twice a week. I much prefer to smoke weed, and only drink if I can't smoke. Luckily for me I like to use a vaporizer so I never have more than can fit into one bowl -- which is not a great amount -- and I don't get a massive _high_ from it. Also, the weed stops me from getting fat as I don't really get the munchies, and avoid all the calories from alcohol.

Would be nice to stop this behaviour but I can't really seem to, and it doesn't seem to have huge negative effects on my life, but it definitely does have some.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by sAbakumoff »

glastra wrote: post #451
sAbakumoff wrote: post #439

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried to google harder, but it doesn't provide any other results. Keto is bad for you, this is what I got. Well, any extreme dieting is bad for you.

What is extreme about it? I'm never hungry, I never feel bloated, and I don't have any digestive issues. I suggest you do some research yourself and perhaps even experiment, before you regurgitate things out of the first result that comes up on Google after you enter an already biased query.

I trust google and I have much more exciting things to do than following questionable dieting restrictions. Life is too short, you know :)

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by glastra »

sAbakumoff wrote: post #453
glastra wrote: post #451

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is extreme about it? I'm never hungry, I never feel bloated, and I don't have any digestive issues. I suggest you do some research yourself and perhaps even experiment, before you regurgitate things out of the first result that comes up on Google after you enter an already biased query.

I trust google and I have much more exciting things to do than following questionable dieting restrictions. Life is too short, you know :)

Given all of your replies in this thread, I assume quasi-trolling on HN is an exciting thing for you to do.

Life is indeed short. My diet, which I wouldn't consider at all restrictive as I can eat as much as I want, allows me to live it to its full potential.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by chrisweekly »

slig wrote: post #152
chrisweekly wrote: post #103

Seated zazen meditation. 10 minutes every morning. Massive improvement to my mood, energy, empathy and productivity.

Are you using some app? I've started with Headspace couple of years ago, but after the initial lessons I found it too hard to continue and gave up.

No app per se, but I do usually listen to a particular track from brainfm...

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by ireadfaces »

pdxgene wrote: post #95
leonroy wrote: post #33

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.

In one religious ideology here in India, they actually focus on one thing which is being non-materialistic

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by sAbakumoff »

glastra wrote: post #454
sAbakumoff wrote: post #453

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I trust google and I have much more exciting things to do than following questionable dieting restrictions. Life is too short, you know :)

Given all of your replies in this thread, I assume quasi-trolling on HN is an exciting thing for you to do. Life is indeed short. My diet, which I wouldn't consider at all restrictive as I can eat as much as I want, allows me to live it to its full potential.

How do you know what's the full potential is?

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by glastra »

sAbakumoff wrote: post #457
glastra wrote: post #454

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given all of your replies in this thread, I assume quasi-trolling on HN is an exciting thing for you to do. Life is indeed short. My diet, which I wouldn't consider at all restrictive as I can eat as much as I want, allows me to live it to its full potential.

How do you know what's the full potential is?

You're right. I don't know if there's anything further than what I currently perceive, but this is definitely orders of magnitude better than before I started.

And that's pretty much the only thing that has changed (other habits haven't changed, such as meditation and weight-lifting).

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Post by sukanta »

pradn wrote: post #297
dormento wrote: post #182

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What kind of monster puts milk on their tea? :) You're right though.

Ask the billion+ Indians who drink chai! :)

:D Chai is bliss. First tea, then milk and sugar.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a new habit you cultivated recently that is really paying off?

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Post by samuell »

Keeping a markdown based combined project journal + todo list, in the repo / folder of each project.

Wrote about it here recently: http://bionics.it/posts/computational-lab-note-taking-todo-l...

Just amazing how much better I keep track of the state of projects now (I even mark the tasks I'm currently working on, with [>], in addition to the open checkbox [ ] and checked ones [x]), and also have a clear place to put all the ideas I get for what to do etc, without switching context to another app etc.

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