Natasha Tori Maru

I tend to eat 2/3 very small meals through the day. Main meal 3hrs before bed - larger. I let my body digest and process food by fasting until 11AM. I use the morning for my most focused, intense tasks. Because my main, larger meal at night, is quite large, it fuels the morning weights/run/ride by loading carbohydrates the evening prior. I have personally found exercising or doing any intense non-linear thinking work on a full stomach to detract from performance. For this reason, I load the night/evening before. I have tried one meal a day (OMAD) but it did not do so well for hormones. Such a pity women are not even looked at properly for a lot of modern nutrition studies My advice is - experiment. The timing and diet for you is the one that YOU can stick to, and gives the best performance. If you cannot stick to something, it's never going to work. I think all this food timing stuff can feed anxiety; paralysis by analysis!

I couldn't get past the first 4 sentences. Sorry, but I can't do AI slop. There's no pacing. Theres no rhythm. Just this relentless content with every sentence - with no natural breathing room to take in the information before I am assaulted with more words/concepts/descriptions. No room for my mind to digest while I read a users unique phrasing. Phrasing that often says little, but adds pace and pause. It is just punchline after punchline, sucking away my attention. ChatGPT generated text is the true vampire energy. How ironic.

Once you call a thing what it is, name it. I think it has power. You can no longer avoid relating to it. You step into agency. It takes conviction and courage to definitively assert something. It always gets my respect. Because you have to come to party to back the claim/naming. Force Ralston to get those balls on the chopping block, hehe 😈

@AION don't try to claim you are coming at this topic from some higher frame. You aren't above anyone here. Lack of humility. I note you resort to condescension across the board when you cannot win an argument. If that is what you are trying to do. And considering you have burned through 20pts @StarStruck and been booted, it might do well to remember you are pushing it. Treat your fellow users with some due respect.

Grateful! Appreciated ❤️❤️ I suppose it's not about being right or wrong for me - at this point I am genuinely curious ! Especially as he is getting on in years. I wonder if his reply will be the typical mutant Ralston tongue lashing 🥹

I am not sure why you try to reduce everything to women vs men. Why does it always turn into feminism and MGTOW in almost all of our discussions? Drop it all. I promise it will help you. Each sex has their issues for sure - different domains. Just because men have an issue with women, or women have an issue with men, does not justify poor conduct and lack of integrious behaviour on either side. You are never earnest in your conversations here. Never down to earth. Never willing to drop frame. It is this topic (men, women, dating, sex) that has your dick in a vice, under so much pressure you cannot think clearly. I've seen you be pretty lucid and wise. But then in this domain it is SHOCKING the ideas you have absorbed from the internet. A few users here have gratiously tried to raise the issues with your worldview, but you double down every time. That's a huge, huge stubborn ego there.

Nailed it. Slippery, underhanded behaviour.

I understand this of him as well. But the fact remains he IS still trying to teach/communicate something. Terms like Love, God etc will always be loaded. ALL words are - no word has inherent meaning. Context defines the word. Light (weight), light (rays), light (sleeper). All terms are loaded until we strip what context we do not want, and add that which we see fit to attempt to communicate. I am sure there is a saying about ' Why teach? No one well get it. ' So I think it appears quite arbitrary Ralston won't speak on Love in depth, or with nuance. A full understanding usually creates a compulsion to want to flesh the truth out into some sort of word spatter. Especially from someone like Ralston, who has expressed the meaning of his life is his work. Teaching. I have heard him state this matter of factly in interviews. I don't want to assume anything here, just pointing to the gap.

🎯 I don't like when individuals are empowered and don't take responsibility.

Shh don't mog the fella too hard 🥹🤣 But I love you (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤ Jokes, I'm a peice of shit. Just like the rest of the humans 🤣 Better self delete as you approach the 2k post singularity 🥹

I think thriving is hard for everyone in different domains. NT or ND. Everyone can develop consistency. Passion. Pick a domain. You are a creativity machine! It's not a mental thing, it's an action thing. Physically do the thing and the mental rewiring follows. Engage. No one wants to hear this.

I don't think I understand your version self love. It is not egoism in my definition. You must be using it in some foreign context here.

Yeah so where did I blame men? I made no collective judgement. I never meant to convey that at all.

You aren't telling me anything I do not know, only reinforcing my point above. You are also saying 'morals be damned, I will game the system and compromise my own integrity' if I understand your last line correctly. It just appears to be lowering yourself and conforming. You need to learn when no means no, though. It might be a hard lesson. Don't cry when you reap what you sow.

Thank you for your topic - and expressing your choice. Those sorts of breakups are up there for me. The emotional turmoil is gut wrenching. Respect. x