It is me -- Tuma -- leader of men, dropping in to write something pithy to satisfy my fans.
Despite barely touching the felt these past two weeks I'm still having one of the better profit months in a very long time. January started off great, until a combination of burnout, winter blues, dabs, and perhaps long covid left me sleeping 14 hours per day for a while. I took a very short break from THC, had some insomnia, and am now feeling better than I have in quite some time. I would seriously not recommend using sleep deprivation as a tool for anything in your lives, but it does tickle my fancy that a negative (depressed) times another negative (insomnia) yields me feeling better.
I plan on grinding tomorrow at The Aria for a change, should be fun.
I'm on a new diet centered on eating cans of chili, not eating out, and portion control. If I stay the course I will morph into an olympians body without fail. If I don't, I will binge on carry-out, repeating a tale as old as time, posts as old as rhyme, Tuma and The Beast.
Besides for that, I am an intensely boring person, who sloths around from room to room, leeching on my surroundings, totally befuddled that anyone has interest in this blog or what I write about. A friend of mine took one of my blog posts and uploaded it into an A.I. detector which rated me as "94%", meaning it was likely written by a stack of GPUs and not a human. I guess I take that as a compliment, maybe my writing is out-of-this-world good, or even great, and I can't see it for more than what it is to me....although probably it is not close to special in the slightest.
there's one great solution and it's the only one i've ever found
1 get up early
think of an early start time and then get up an hour earlier than that
2 no hitting snooze buttons
snooze buttons are disgusting enablers - just sit up and stand up and get out of bed immediately - do not pause
3 once you're up immediately brush your teeth and then eat some food
this will kick start your body - activating ancient innate knowledge that you're now fueled for action and will get going
4 then immediately step outside and walk to the nearest gym
preferably the gym is a 15min to 30 min walk away
5 go to gym and workout
then go home and proceed with your day like you normally would
6. until your sleep recalibrates, you can take small naps in the early afternoon
but if after 4 pm just power through and go to bed at a normal hour
you'll free great, find you have so much more energy, find that you have all this free time that you previously squandered half asleep on a couch in zombie mode - time spent awake is now active and engaged
you can still do your thc etc, just do them right before you step out the door for the gym, it'll make the gym time way more fun/engaging
this will change your life for the positive - you'll also look better naked, which is generally a plus
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Only in the darkest dredges, alone, usually latenight at a casino, do I find my greatest inspiration.
Yes, perhaps I do. I wanted to start a blog post at the tables, but chose not to. It's 8:30AM, I am barely awake and on my way towards slumber, but felt it was my duty to support the troops of 2p2 with a sliver of inspiration I felt prior.
I have a good post in mind, for those trying to lose weight, for the future. It aims to map out the complexities of trying to diet, reducing it to a simple affirmation of "weaponize hunger".
That's the key to the promise land of looking and feeling great. Everything else comes down to useful tips that you most likely have to learn on your own. If it was as simple as a recipe + exercise, there wouldn't be so many people falling flat (and flab) in their trials.
(I suppose I have enough willpower to crank out this post...continuing into uncertain waters...)
For the lucky few, "diet + exercise" is enough to win. We know this is fundamentally lacking because of the near infinite number of solutions provided. Moreso than the failure rate; why are there so many diets to chose from?
I think there are two reasons for this. One is to conceal the truth from people. It's a hard truth, that when taken extremely literally can be deadly.
The other is selling points to provide hope for people. Did you fail in your previous diet? NO BIG DEAL! We have others to chose from.
Back to the simple truth, which is the only thing I want my friends to take away from this message.
Learn to embrace, dominate, and weaponize hunger.
That's it. That's the obvious learned abililty that can kill people. Maybe that's why it isn't sold in "pill form" to the masses. It is a most ubiquitous aspect of dieting, I'm honestly surprised it isn't talked about more.
"I'm dieting and I'm hungry"
"That's no problem! Here's a new age trend where you can eat whatever you want!"
Hunger is the antithesis of gluttony, when taken to church it is the path to salvation.
And when approached intelligently, it is likely even better for the mind than it is for the body.
They want you to learn how to crave working out, how to look forward to a delicious salad, or even cheat meal.
They do not preach enough about hunger. To crave the struggle, to embrace a temporary pain in your body, one that is largely your own mind tricking you.
As a metaphor, hunger conquers mountains, builds businesses, and accomplishes dreams.
As a biological tool, it is a surefire way to become a world champion of wellness.
The key to losing weight is to accept being hungry a lot of the time. A mind and body struggle in tandem might be one of the harder things for some people to learn.
But it has to be done if you want to win.
Good luck to those out there trying to lose weight. If it's nearly impossible for you, I'm sorry to know that. There's no shame to how your biology responds to stress. Some people cannot for the lives of them function on little sleep - even some of the most talented people I know.
Explore hunger within reason. I beg of you, your body begs of you; it can be done.
I oft remember what a gastroenterologist told me about losing weight, "The body resists change". "Gradual small progress is the best way", he then said.
It's okay if you missed its genesis! It will be concurrent with the rise of the machines.
Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar, you're gonna go far
You're gonna fly, you're never gonna die
You're gonna make it if you try, they're gonna love you.
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