Drugs.
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Drugs
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having at least 10hrs of sleep
Bruh… If I get less than 7.5 hours sleep, I’m tired all day. But if I get more than 8.5 hours sleep, I’m also tired all day. There’s the magic window of time in the middle where I wake up relatively refreshed.
you can get groggy, if you oversleep.
The aim which is hard to achieve
Riding my bike to work
I have a few things I’ve picked up recently.
- A couple of years ago I quit drinking coffee, so now I almost exclusively drink water. I find the water first thing in the morning is a brilliant way to wake up
- In the evenings I go for a bike ride, giving me some fresh air, sunlight and exercise. Some nights I go for a 20 mile intercity route, some nights I just do an easy 5 mile route in town
- After my bike ride I’ll eat some ice cream, shower, then relax with a book in bed (my phone stays on my dresser and out of reach from the bed) before going to sleep
The right morning routine and evening routine really makes my days feel so much more fulfilling even if I haven’t been particularly productive that day
Is the ice cream just a treat, or…?
Yup post ride ice cream to as a treat to cool down and replenish sugar after sweating a bunch. I otherwise avoid treats/excessive sugar, but something about ice cream after an intense workout just is amazing
A couple of years ago I quit drinking coffee, so now I almost exclusively drink water. I find the water first thing in the morning is a brilliant way to wake up. It is actually the best thing every to do in the morning. A glass of water. I read some articles about that it helps nicely, softly to wake up the body and also to prepare the stomach. And obviously to be hydrated. I do the same. Glass of water (quite big one) + Vitamins C, Zinc
I’ve been doing some stretching in the morning, and I have a small weight set that I do a little bit of lifting with. As you get older your body no matter its condition will start to break down. It’s good to have a better pan and diet as you get older.
I lift weights four days a week. It really has helped me with a lot of inflammation issues and I really have so much more energy. It’s not every day exactly, but four days a week I’m lifting for about an hour and a half each session. My life significantly improved after about the first six to eight weeks.
Four days in a week in a row or you take in between some rest days?
I take off Wednesday and then every weekend. I appreciate sleeping in on Wednesday like you wouldn’t believe.
Actually, having a Wednesday off is so great. You can go around the city, it is empty, you can enjoy the streets etc. I have always recommended my team to experience at least once a Wednesday off
Lift weights, lots of water and protein.
I am not needlessly cruel and violent to vulnerable individuals living in atrocity several times a day.
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for every 15 minutes I work, I take a 60 minute break.
Every email I send means a half hour break
I set aside 20 minutes in the morning to journal. It’s become sacred to me. It helps me clear my head and set my focus for the day.
I drink water
I greatly reduced how much news I consume per day and it’s done wonders for my mental health.
I chose 2 sources of news that I trust and then I block news everywhere else in my life. Every morning I read the news from the two sources I picked and that is all the news I will consume for the day.
If I notice that I am consuming news elsewhere I will block/ignore/hide that source.
As an example, if I notice a community here post too much news I will just block it. I use Discord, so if one of the servers I’m in has any political or news channels I will mute them, etc etc.
Doing this, I find that the news I read is more relevant to me because the sources I chose are local news networks. In addition, because I am not getting news from social media, the news I read is much less sensationalized.
It makes the news that I read boring and I think that is a good thing.
As I have to go back to the office I am reading a book now in the bus. I also try to avoid news but sometimes, it is a bit hard as I am not aware if something has changed. It happened to me. For example: the price of the bus ticket went up. I just discovered it when I got in… :( So, I filter.
What are the two sources?
I hug a tree. I dunno if it makes life noticeably better but it’s a vibe. I lost quite a few trees in a storm last year and feel like I’ve under appreciated them for way too long. No more!
My wife does the same, and after we tried shoots the first time, I do the same now. Lost our second biggest tree last year in a storm, fell due to to much water, so the roots came with it, but it happened where we don’t need to trim it, so now it’s just laying there. We’ll let nature take it’s course. And we have enough firewood.
Edit: shrooms dammit.
Shoots?
From context I’m guessing it’s “shrooms”.
sleep
One of my favourite activity
Serious upvote here. This is a game changer, it’s right in front of our noses, and it’s free.
Hardest part is figuring out how to make yourself actually sleep - just lying down in the bed isn’t enough.
I sleep and eat almost every day.
Some people are able to sleep at the same time everyday and eat three times a day. I’ve never understood how.
Routine. If you do it everyday for a while your body get used to it
Edit: that’s what they say
If that were true, I’d actually have gotten used to people telling me “you just need routine”, but yet it still annoys me, after all these decades. No offense.
I was in the army. Doesn’t get much more routine than that. Didn’t do jack shit for the problems. In fact, made them worse. Want to see the several hundred pages of different lab results and doctors statements?
Lol no, I understand completly. I’m medicated now so that’s why I able to adapt to routine. Just assumed you were not like me.
Also I was lucky because I changed jobs and i now have a job that somewhat matches my body sleep window.
I’ve also gone through like all the medications.
What I actually found to help for the first time in my life (been literally complaining about these problems my whole life, GI-issues and sleep mainly, but up to actual seizures a few years ago due to the exhaustion… or smth, no explanation to them either) was a GFCF diet, a gluten- and casein-free diet.
But I have so many other issues now that it wasn’t clear to me whether I could do a routine when sticking to that diet. Hopefully. I’m back off it because you have to be on gluten for celiac testing and whatnot.
The only job I could do for longer periods (I was in it for four years) was when we were allowed to freely change our shifts between workers. Because I don’t have really any sort of rhythm. So I would do a lot of work but suddenly sometimes I just couldn’t sleep and that would just build up.
Then they took away our scheduling, because of overtime hours weren’t being attributed correctly and whatnot (we just did the shifts of another person, but even if the hours matched the pay often didn’t, as you’d get more from a nightshift than a dayshift), so then I had to quit there as well.
I should’ve just stuck there to be honest, I’m sure I would’ve gotten disability by now because they wouldn’t have been able to fire me for being sick. But nooo, I had to try to not be a problem.
But yeah if I could tell my kid self my dietary requirements I think my life would look quite different.
