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Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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Post by bikeshack »

jrk_ wrote: post #47

The real hard part comes after the initial novelty and the quick progress fade away: Staying motivated to do regular workouts without getting faster or lifting more weights every week. This also applies to healthy eating habits. Once you've reached your target weight and the novelty wears off, it's much harder to eat clean. Personally, I like pizza once per week, usually on Friday, as celebration and reward that it's…

Seconded. There is a lot of noise on what diet is superior and which one works best. Intuitively a person knows when they've over indulged just as when we pull back when putting our hand in a flame. We just don't do it anymore, and design our lives around not ever having it happen again.

My only problem with this is the victim-hood that happens when this high carb crap clamours for our attention in ADs and the media. Invariably you will get victim-hood and people gorging and gulping their way to negate such imagery. I know I don't look at a McBigMac the same way when I've had one.

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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Post by xlm1717 »

bikeshack wrote: post #49

The problem with itemizing specific things to avoid or cut down, is they are too specific and end up becoming habits. Instead it is more suitable to form an over-arching doctrine. So instead of "Drink less beer", it should become "Avoid mood changing substances". The reason for a more general approach is because the moment things are calcified like this, they are very difficult to uproot and change. Think of this as…

I'm not convinced it is a bad thing. Why would it be a problem for "avoid mood changing substances" to become a habit, calcified and very difficult to uproot and change?

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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xlm1717 wrote: post #52
bikeshack wrote: post #49

The problem with itemizing specific things to avoid or cut down, is they are too specific and end up becoming habits. Instead it is more suitable to form an over-arching doctrine. So instead of "Drink less beer", it should become "Avoid mood changing substances". The reason for a more general approach is because the moment things are calcified like this, they are very difficult to uproot and change. Think of this as…

I'm not convinced it is a bad thing. Why would it be a problem for "avoid mood changing substances" to become a habit, calcified and very difficult to uproot and change?

So it's back to the concept of a recipe where the ingredients change, but the recipe sort of stays intact. Change too many ingredients and we have an entirely different dish. I like this analogy because it's less formal and more forgiving. Just make sure to stick to it in an informal manner and not abuse the leniency provided, and you shall be fine. Technically every substance is mood altering (sugar for example), but there are some that have a marked increase on judgement and mood that it is safe to treat them as suspect. When I refer to "recipe" I mean a loose guide to run with in times of crisis.

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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Post by nefitty »

rbinv wrote: post #45
nefitty wrote: post #22

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Right now my daily stack is a caffeine & creatine preworkout supplement (hot coffee took way too long to consume, giving me time to get lost in the internet abyss), theacrine (chemical structurally similar to caffeine), adrafinil (modafinil prodrug), noopept + choline, lion's mane mushroom extract, centrophenoxine and occasionally forskolin extract. I built this stack to sharpen focus and motivation, which are my big…

You consume all of those EVERY DAY? Jesus. That's a lot.

Really? I still feel like a mid-level supplementer, if not a straight out noob, compared to other nootropics users out there. You should see some of the more extreme stacks, they take into account neurotransmitter balance, metabolism, diet, antioxidative properties etc. Those can swell up to 15-20 different substances being ingested daily!

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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vijayr wrote: post #38
nefitty wrote: post #9

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My plan is very similar. Nootropics and caffeine are an integral part of my success, though! Haha Have you tried ytracking your success with each of these items? I have been doing so for the past few months and it is definitely helping me pinpoint where I need to redouble my efforts. I also set a theme for each month (either Health, Wealth or Social, cycling through those three). The thing is to focus on mastering on…

What is nootropics? If it is a drug, could you explain more about how it helps you?

Technically nootropics are drugs with no negative side effects that increase a person's capacity for memory retention, focus and analytic ability. Various noots have different properties, so a person can pick and choose what to take and combine depending on what abilities they want to reinforce.

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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Post by coldtea »

coldtea wrote: post #40
swozey wrote: post #19

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I've been drinking only water for years and I don't feel any different from when I drank sugared soda and coffee and everything else. Absolutely no different. I quit smoking and also don't feel different albeit my endurance and lung capacity is much better. Maybe I should go on a month long binge just to remind myself of this mystical awful feeling that people always mention when they've given up sugar.

> I've been drinking only water for years and I don't feel any different from when I drank sugared soda and coffee and everything else. Did you drank a LOT of them? Because if you were just drinking some in moderation (as opposed to 1 or even 2 bottles of Pepsi a day like I did), it probably didn't matter anyway. Also were you younger? Because if you did that "break" at, say 25, it's not like you'll see much differen…

This just in: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/cutting-sugar-impro...

Re: Things I did to reboot my life

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Post by swozey »

coldtea wrote: post #40
swozey wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been drinking only water for years and I don't feel any different from when I drank sugared soda and coffee and everything else. Absolutely no different. I quit smoking and also don't feel different albeit my endurance and lung capacity is much better. Maybe I should go on a month long binge just to remind myself of this mystical awful feeling that people always mention when they've given up sugar.

> I've been drinking only water for years and I don't feel any different from when I drank sugared soda and coffee and everything else. Did you drank a LOT of them? Because if you were just drinking some in moderation (as opposed to 1 or even 2 bottles of Pepsi a day like I did), it probably didn't matter anyway. Also were you younger? Because if you did that "break" at, say 25, it's not like you'll see much differen…

I'm an American who grew up in the 90s, so I drank more soda than water for sure. In fact I don't think I drank water my entire middle school-high school career. Jugs and jugs of mt dew. Thankfully I had an insane metabolism back then.

I stopped drinking soda around 21 or so, I'm 31 now.

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