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That will be regained very quickly. Last year I lost 33 pounds through caloric deficit and exercise, but then in 5-6 months I gained it all back and more. I realized I had to completely change my eating habits long term to lose and, more importantly, maintain a healthy range of weight. Eating fruit or fasting for 2-3 weeks are fine, but he can't do that long term and probably he'll regain all that weight back, and potentially more because he will be deprived of all the food he liked and possibly overeat. Better strategy is don't change your food categories much, just decrease portion size. If you want to go step further, remove processed and junk food and maintain caloric deficit. If you want to go step further, add 60-80m cardio a week. Next, if you want to go even further start weight lifting and track your protein intake. Also track your carb intake because you'll need energy for exercising. And realize that once you see your desired number on a scale, it doesn't end there. Actually your journey of health maintenance starts there. You've to somehow build and maintain long-term eating and exercise plan, or else sooner or later you'll end up being the same weight or more as you are now. More likely as you age.

It's simple, you eat in a caloric deficit. If you are too lazy to count calories, just eat less than you are used to. If you want to boost the process even more, eat less carbs than you're used to. Just exercising won't make you lose fat anyways, you do that through less eating. But exercise will build muscle, improve cardiovascular health, and benefit you in so many other ways. But if you want to strictly loss weight and see number go down on a scale, you can do that without exercising.

Have you tried Notion? Some people like Obsidian https://obsidian.md/

Yes you need to be, the whole point is putting attention on spine during breathing up and down.

https://www.youtube.com/@manojtheyogi/playlists But I think you should use book as well, to read detailed instructions. You don't need to read the whole thing, just instructions for a practice.

Yea, as you said before, doing couple years of pickup and learning attraction skills will benefit most guys, but if you do it for 25 years and build a career out of it, jesus, imagine the mental habits you'd build along the way, especially if it earns you good money, good luck unstucking from that hole. That would be painful. Imagine Owen stopping what he's doing, how painful would that be for him.

Do these RSD guys have a course on how to find the most ridiculous shit to wear?

[6/30] ✅ Rough day, but I still meditated, worked-out (run for 30m), and read for 30 minutes. Currently reading Ralston's Pursuing Consciousness. It's a dense one, just like his other books. I want to finish this one and the Genious of Being before I tackle the newest book that I ordered. Weight loss goes very well. It's locked in basically, I'll get my desired result in 6-7 months. Gotta focus on other things with more intention. I realized I need preperatory practices for Kriya Pranayamas, when I did those a year ago, pranayama was more effective. So I need to include those as well. Just a reminder for me, these 30 days are about: getting used to caloric deficit and consistent exercise getting used to spiritual practices avoiding relapses as much as possible That's mostly it.

For the past few years, I’ve been struggling to stay consistent with myself — with the promises I make to myself, with integrity, and with discipline. I’ve examined this many times and identified some fundamental issues that I’m working to fix. This journal will serve as public accountability while I build the foundation for the next phase of my life. I’ve just turned 30, and I now realize how little time I have and how easy it is to waste most of it. I need to take much more action than I did in my 20s. Currently, I’m struggling with addiction, I’m overweight, I do the bare minimum at my job as a software developer, I don’t exercise much, and I deal with some anxiety. I know how to fix all of it — and more. I know what to do to make my life unrecognizably better (at least to try my best), and inaction only makes me resent myself more. I know what to do. I just have to do it. This thread will help me stay accountable. I’ll be posting every Saturday with a report on the previous week. This is how it will go. Phase 1: 3 Months I’ve been overconsuming pornography and engaging in compulsive masturbation. Since I’m single and somewhat isolated, I need to control this habit. I will abstain from both to reset my dopamine reward cycle. I’ve been slacking off at work, so I need to refocus and concentrate more. I currently work in 45-minute blocks, then rest for a few minutes, repeating this 2–3 times a day. I want to increase this to at least 6 blocks. Work inconsistency has caused me to sleep very late or work late into the night. As I fix my work habits, my sleep habits should improve as well. My goal is to sleep at least 7 hours, from 12:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. I’ve gained a lot of weight. I’m currently around 105 kg and eat a lot of junk food. The plan is to build muscle and lose fat simultaneously until I reach 72–75 kg. Eat 1,800–2,000 calories with at least 160 g of protein Weight train at least 3 times per week Jog for 30 minutes at least 3 times per week Cut out junk food at least 90% of the time I work as a software developer, and the industry is changing rapidly. I need to keep up. I will invest at least 1–2 hours per day in studying, building side projects, or diving deeper into AI. Read books for at least 1 hour per day. Summary of Phase 1 No porn or masturbation No social media Limited YouTube/Reddit for recreation 6–8 daily 45-minute work blocks 1–2 hours of study 1 hour of reading Fixing sleep routine Weight loss: 1,800–2,000 calories 3x weightlifting, 3x cardio weekly Cut out junk food Phase 2: 3 Months On top of the foundation built in Phase 1: Add spiritual practices: Mindfulness meditation (breath-focused) and Kriya Yoga pranayama Add therapeutic practices such as shamanic breathwork, TRE (Trauma Release Exercises), and self-therapy journaling to work through unresolved trauma and issues from the past few years Continue weight loss and exercise — likely reaching target weight by the end of Phase 2 Continue reading and studying Allow masturbation at most once per week after the first 90 days, since more than that negatively affects my life Phases 3 and 4 I can’t say much about these yet. I imagine strengthening spiritual practices, making them more focused and prioritized, socializing more, and possibly starting to date — though dating may be too distracting at the moment, and I don't want it honestly since I've recently got out of a LTR. Phases 4+ Getting involved with psychedelics More socializing More dating experience Starting to work on additional income streams aside from my job Working on creative projects Traveling Meeting new people Exciting things — but first, the foundation. That’s the plan. I won’t plan further than this because planning is a trap for me. Planning gives me a false sense of accomplishment, but it isn’t real progress. Real accomplishment comes from daily execution — day in and day out. It’s that simple. I’ll update every Saturday. 52 updates total. Let’s see how far I go. See you next week.

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You should still do it. How else would you know what works and what doesn't? It's just the core of the practice is Pranayamas, so everything else seems like a practice to help with the core in some way. But I guess you could just do the core and see where it takes you. You could always add 1-2 prep practices and see how it affects the core.

@Leo Gura What about prep practices for pranayama? Like alternate nostril breathing or maha mudra? I've heared they are conditioning and preparing you to do pranayama more effectively. As if the pranayama is the main engine, and all other stuff are supporting preparation tools. I'm experimenting with doing pranayamas but only after 10-20 mins of prep work. I'll update you guys on progress in 6-12 months, it's interesting where it will go.

I think people in general aren't good at filtering good insights out of a speech of someone like Owen, and all those guys will develop same biases that he has, especially since he doesn't talk much about taking more responsibility and observing self-bias, but maybe it's not part of his job to do so. It's sad when all your mental resources and energy goes into building a luxurious lifestyle that you could afford 250k$ jewelry and rotation of 10 girlfriends. But I think that's better than sitting in your moms basement eating cheetos and watching porn all day. So there's value in these videos if it gets people motivated to change their lifestyle. But it would be cool to see Owen talking about not getting stuck at it, but well, he seems stuck too.

He would kill it on the dance floor though.

LLM assisted coding has a big potential and I'm heaviliy invested in it, both on a practical and theoritical sides. But there are many downsides that I don't want us to miss, especially for people who depend on it daily now, like software developers. Vibe-coding doesn't come without a cost. You pay with certain stuff, and if you're not careful, it might bite you further down the road.

I'm using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, etc to automate and improve my job daily. I'm learning all the intricacies of Claude Code to use it effectively. I'm also digging into LLM architecture, learning to build a smaller scale of it from scratch to understand it deeper. I've also build couple small to medium sized web-apps with 90% AI generated code. It's awesome. I was just pointing out that it's unrealistic to expect that AI dependense will get you very far when you're gonna try to scale up systems, without technical knowledge. First, you need to understand what you are doing at those levels, and then AI would help a lot. I'm not saying AI is a fad, obviously. I just haven't seen a huge distributed systems built with AI by people with no technical expertise. That's just silly. As I said before, Claude Code is very powerful in hands of an expert, who can actually take charge when things go south. And it does many times. Btw, I'm not arguing that you can't build some relatively easy web app from scratch with Claude Code for example and earn some money. I think you can. But based on my experience, when working with already existing systems, you still need massive technical knowledge and experience.

Sorry, I just don't buy into that idea. Maybe on a very small scale, that could work. But when you are talking about huge systems with lots of moving parts, you might end up issues like this one:

Good post, wanted to share it.

3 years ago: Now: Lol In 3 years we'll have a full feature Balenciaga movie on this channel probably.

Lately, after Seedance 2.0 came out, I've been seeing pretty cool AI short-movies on YT, wanted to share some of them here: Most of internet is filled with AI slop videos, but some of them are pretty cool. And just a reminder, this is the worst it will ever be, so 😂 Personally, I don't see much value in AI video, I think it will cause more harm then good. But the genie is out of the bottle, so we might as well embrace it.

@Leo Gura Have you considered stopping teaching in the last 10 years because of this? If so, what was the reason that you didn't do it?

@LordFall Just saw it. I need to go get my pet and cigar for photos Jokes aside, yeah it's just irresponsible to not care about all those points shared in the video if you want some success in online dating. Weight loss, grooming, clean and sharp dressing, showing an adventurous lifestyle (cigars, pets, travel, etc), proper posing are all great and would help in any form of dating attempts. But my point was that there are features that are simply unattractive for most people, things you just can't change with a proper pose or holding a cigar, and that's a reality you have to live with and work with whatever you've got.

Why is there such a need in the first place? I guess it's a part of building deeper intimacy with another person.

What would you change if you still had some time? I'm just asking because that was also the issue for me and just want to know your perspective on it. What I'd do is, as you said, share more of my struggles and inner processes more honestly, not hide anything out of shame, and in general be more open with her on my intentions and inner turmoils. That's isn't easy to do for someone who doesn't feel a need to share all that. But that's exactly why it comes off as avoidence. Because it probably it. Avoidance of vulnerability. Maybe it was different for you, I don't know.

That's a curse to being a man You look for straight-forward solutions that can be applied on problems. But of course reality isn't that straight-forward and most of the times there are not step-by-step instructions that can be applied to problems. It's much more fluid. That's the best way, building a proper environmnent and set of circumstances that then allow emotional expression to naturally arise. Since it can't be forced, all you can do is try to minimize the blocks and see where that takes you. Again, it's a whole process that needs emotional investing and thought. Especially if both partners aren't that good at expressing emotions, it all quickly turns into a mess if none of them things about these things explicitly. But it's an interesting process, as you said, it's like a separate domain of consciousness work. Of course it comes together in a big picture with all the other stuff you're doing, but it also can be tackled separately. Yup