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Then you can definitely build muscle on a diet. Especially when you also increase your protein. I would encourage you to still workout though. Loose fat while building muscle. You probably don’t have a huge amount of muscle after training for 5 months unless you are very genetically gifted when it comes to packing on muscle. And you will become slimmer so if you want curves you need more muscles for that plus you burn more calories just from more muscle alone. But it’s your choice. If you want to just keep the muscle you can just not increase the amount of protein that you eat and maybe train a bit less.

Yes! Yes! The more advanced you are (the more muscle and less fat) the more likely it is that you loose muscle. Yeah but you can’t compensate optimally obviously. At some point you definetly need a diet break where you eat enough calories to just maintain your bodyweight and recover your body (lower cravings, reboot metabolism, lower stress, ..). If you feel extremely tired on your diet you are pushing it to hard. Up the calories a bit or do a break. You cant gain a lot of muscle on a diet or definetly less then compared to when you would eat at maintenance or in a calorie surplus. For how long have you been training ?

I can’t quote that so I will answer this way. 3) It depends on how seriously you want to be. I would just integrate high protein food in my diet. Maybe count it at the beginning to get a feel for it. If you want to maximize muscle growth you should eat protein every 4 hours but I wouldn’t worry about that if you develope unhealthy eating patterns as a consequence of following this rule. You can still make good process if you just have protein rich food in your diet and don’t look at specific timing. 4) You will always look more fat and less muscular at the beginning of the diet because your glycogen stores in your muscles will deplete (making them smaller) because of the lack of calories. It could also be because of salt intake. You could make the experiment of eating a bit above maintenance for 2 days where most calories come from carbs. Your muscles will be more full and will seem less fat. Then you could make a comparison to before. But it’s of course possible that you lost muscle. The more calories you eat the more likely it is to build muscle and the less calories you eat the more likely it is that you loose muscle. If you train then you probably won’t loose muscle if the caloric deficit isn’t to big. How big the deficit can be if you want to recomp (build muscle and loose fat) really depends on how muscular and fat you are. If you never trained in your life and are like 50% bodyfat you could make insane muscle gains in a 1500 calorie deficit. If you trained for 10 years and want to go 20% bodyfat to 15% bodyfat (female) then there is basically no way you won’t loose some muscle even on a 300 calorie deficit and professional training. Protein helps to build/keep muscle. If there are two people dieting. Both with same calorie deficit but Person A with a 0.5g of protein per pound of bodyweight intake and Person B with a 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight intake, Person B will keep SIGNIFICANTLY more muscle. I can’t quote a study right now but it is A LOT more muscle that person B kept. AND protein is the best macro for satiety by far. Many people diet on lean protein and veggies only. Of course you said you don’t want to restrict but maybe there are some recipes that you might like. Protein and fiber is quite a combo for dieting! 5) girls are always so scared about looking big. I think most guys don’t mind if a girl has some muscle. Actually if a girl is a bit chubby but has some curves because of her muscle and especially some well developed glutes that can compensate a lot But that’s just my view on things. If you want a less bulkier look then go for it. When you are in a calorie deficit you won’t have as energy and your training will suffer a bit, that’s normal. But you can compensate with a few things: -be well rested before the training -have a pre workout (or coffee) -have some fast digesting carbs like a bit of dried fruit before the workout for energy -train more often but shorter -do your really hard moves at the beginning. (for example start with squats first and then go for chest, back, shoulder exercises…)

Honestly it gives me a warm feeling in my heart. It’s very sweet. And I think although Connor Murphy caused a lot of damage for people who only have a shallow understanding of spirituality he also did a lot of good for people who were open enough. I loved his insane videos where he just broke all the rules of society. He definetly increased my consciousness through that. It’s just that he was to far gone and misunderstood a lot about spirituality. If Leo becomes a bit more “crazy“ but in a somewhat socially calibrated way then I would welcome that.

@Michael569 agree. Although @Someone here said he is above 20% bodyfat. So recomp (Building muscle while losing fat) is definetly possible. If you are also a beginner when it comes to weight training you can ABSOLUTELY build a good amount of muscle while slowly loosing fat.

Today I was dreaming that I had a dream of a god realization. I was in a big circular room. The ceiling was incredible high. Aesthetic wood on the floor. On top of me was something that was something similar to a giant chandelier but instead of the lights there were just some kind of square wood hanging down. The "chandelier“ was circling and I was circling with it in kind of a hypnotic way. And then I looked at one side of the room. Suddenly there was an enormous statue out of stone of probably some spiritual or religious figure. I couldn’t get a clover look at it because just it’s emission of sublimity triggered in me the realization that god exists. It wasn’t like that I saw god and that he proved to me that he exists or that I even had a grasp of god it was just out of nowhere this unquestionable certainty that god exists. And I just woke up (into another dream) with a shock. Similar to how you wake up from a bad dream with a shock. Heart racing and just a feeling of being completely overwhelmed. Just felt like sharing this. I had something similar many years ago when I wanted my third eye to open really bad and dreamed about opening it with the cosmic energy and everything in great detail. Does anybody have similar experiences ?

Yes The calorie surplus and protein comes from food. When you fast you don’t eat. Protein powder is food. You will just rebound. Your body will make you super hungry, you relationship with food will be unhealthy because you treat yourself so extreme. If you don’t know exactly what you are doing you can wreck your health with this. Water fasting is dangerous especially when done so long. You can seriously damage your digestive system. And while the fast itself is only mildly dangerous, the break of the fast can be even more dangerous if you don’t slowly ease into little easily digestible food. I am not saying it doesn’t have its uses but you have to be clever about it. I had a friend who thought that water fasting was the solution for everything. He could make an 1 hour Ted talk about how great water fasting it, how it repairs his cells and how his hormones grow super anabolic in that time allowing him to build insane muscle. Just mindlessly repeating shit he heard from the internet. Well he blacked out in school once at the "peak“ of his health He never got jacked, he never got a healthy relationship with food and he actually stayed skinny fat over the years. He told me some time ago that he wanted to get back into fitness and that he wanted to start with a water fast for a week and I just cringed. He wants a magic pill because he isn’t motivated enough to do the work. So. Do you eat healthy? Do you eat a good amount of fruits and veggies? Are your proteins mostly from lean sources? Just ease into a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle and become aware of how much better your body and mind feels because of it. You need around 3 weeks I think until things become a habit. So when you can follow through for that long with a healthier lifestyle then it becomes easier. The longer you do it the easier it becomes.

I limited my time on YouTube but I got it on audible.

No.. I probably would have forgotten about it. There is a quote from Alan Watts that I really love and that kinda fit here „You own it to other people to be as selfish as you are.“ So don’t say stuff just to make other people happy that isn’t true because they will rely on you. I am just scared to not please other people I guess.

Water fast is not the magic pill that will help you to your dream physique. You will only get there with time and consistency. (weight training, healthy diet with enough protein and calorie reduction).

Would it be a problem if we link sites that just talk about sourcing ?

Dude why so emotional ? I put 1000 calories of each into Cronometer. Yes the food you suggested is incredible nutritious but what’s the point in going above 100%? For some nutrients especially when it’s an animal source that’s actually unhealthy. You see it when it’s marked red. This whole grain wheat bread looks pretty nutritious to me if the goal is to reach 100% in every nutrient. Plant sources never give you the "full package“ but mix it with food from other food categories and you are good to go.

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This ist just so entertaining. ?

Kinda. I have a dad but he is less confident then my mom most of the time who isn’t that confident. He got crippled in his childhood when people didn’t let him express himself. That’s true. Everytime I felt I had abundance I didn’t care so much anymore because people could be replaced. Of course you want to have deeper friendships but party people come and go. I give the book a shot, thanks! Also good points.

In the age of social media, Netflix, video games, etc. many people developed an incredible short concentration span. Most people recognize how bad it affects them and although I feel like most are addicted and wouldn’t be able to stop their consumption that easily I think there begins to be a nieche for consumption material which doesn’t have these negatives traits. Maybe I could create children movies or something like that that can be recommended by pedagogues for being better for children developement then regular movies. So I thought about what it is that kills our concentration so much. Irl there is also a lot of input, maybe even more but why doesn’t this affect our concentration? Maybe there is a psychologists in this forum who has a deeper understanding of this? This is a very minimalistic episode but it is still entertaining. Idk if it is also available in Englisch though: Or in general late night shows for example I think are also lighter on your concentration because there are actually real people with normal movements. I heard that it also makes a huge difference if the camera moves and zooms in for example. If the camera is just steady all the time it’s a lot less taxing. This would also mean that films that switch scenes all the time are a lot more taxing then films that don’t. Do you have any good or bad examples of content that is really taxing or very untaxing when it comes to concentration? What do you think are the determining factors for why something is taxing or not taxing on the concentration?

YES In my childhood I always loved to do little creative handicrafts like making a little functional backpack out of paper for my playmobil male or different badges for rewarding learned skills in my scooter crouw. But 3D printer are out and AI will probably manage those jobs in the future. And it’s not like I can’t remember stuff. When I am really passionate about something I can soak up an incredible amount of information in a really short time (like when I started playing Pokémon online and remembered every pokemons name, stats, attacks, typing and so forth in no time). But with all my effort I couldnt even learn the names of the 16 states in my country because I cared so little about it. So passion is everything for me. Everybody remembers things better when they are interested in it but for me it’s more black and white. So if I were truly passionate about medicine for example which is incredible learn heavy I am pretty confident I could do it. But I am not so there is no chance in hell I could do it. Math is okay and philosophy isn’t that much and also pretty interesting so it’s okay. But I will definetly take the LP course this semester break and see what comes up.

So I have many flaws when it comes to my intelligence which immediately stick out. I have ADHD and sometimes fail to understand super easy stuff. And it also doesn’t help that I am not interested in many things people talk about like politics, stars, history, important events and so I just don’t have a lot of general knowledge you can triumph with in social settings. And because of that there are a good chunk of people that I met in my life that think that I am as dumb as bread. I know I am not dumb (maybe average) and I heard the opposite also quite a few times and I graduated high school with pretty good grades without that much effort, did something like an intelligent test where I was a bit above average and stuff like that but I am still doubting myself quite often and there is still a lot of fear in me to look like a fool. And I think it influences me unconsciously quite a bit when it comes to career choices for example. I study math and philosophy to become a teacher and maybe I only chose math because I know that most of society has a lot of respect for mathematicians so this way I would always have an "intellectual backup“ that guarantees my ego to identify as intelligent when worst comes to worst and I make a fool of myself. I know that this fear to look stupid is way to big in me to simply let it go. So I thought about if there are games or techniques that train your intelligence. I thought about chess or something like that. Just a little fun hobby. Just something to have that I am not that dependent and therefore bias in my career path. But there are many different forms of intelligence so I am curious to know if something like chess even trains a broard spectrum of intelligence or just hammers on a certain kind of intelligence.

There are quite a bit of topics that I find interesting about society and life but only when it goes in depth and you analyse the deeper psychological or philosophical issues behind these things. I am just not interested in “facts“ if that makes sense. And many people only exchange “facts“ which drives me insane. It definetly makes you more focused and more energy efficient. When you can only focus on one thought at a time instead of constantly being distracted and loosing track of that thought then of course you will think more effectively. But it’s not like your have a faster car, its just that you finally took the hand of the handbrake so your car can finally drive at max speed. But I guess it’s the same as having a faster car with handbrake on so it doesn’t matter.

That’s the one I have: https://www.amazon.de/AmazonBasics-Mehrzweck-Dampfdrucktopf-elektrisch-gebürsteter-Netzstecker/dp/B079LNTDQV/ref=sr_1_18?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=20B8SCV250OUN&keywords=Instant+Topf&qid=1658155145&sprefix=instant+t%2Caps%2C1413&sr=8-18 1) I can’t cook veggies in mine. Even with the lowest time and least pressure all the vegetables turn into soup. So my strategy is to just throw frozen veggies into the mix of cooked grains/lentils and let them unfreeze and it works but this is not ideal. Does anybody have a pressure cooker that doesn’t cook that strong? 2) I don’t know how to flavour my grains/lentils. I always put a block of veggie broth into it which isn’t even that healthy but I don’t know what else to do with it. Any suggestions?

THAT: I randomly came across that video like 6 years ago when I was still in school. I didn’t understand a word intellectually but I felt like something way deeper something with incomprehensible beauty was being said there. THIS was my little acorn seed that began my spiritual journey. I haven’t studied many spiritual teacher besides Alan Watts and Leo so idk how good Alan Watts is compared to other ones. I really like his way of “teaching“ although he didn’t call himself a teacher. He just throws incredible ideas out there and focuses mostly just on the quientessence and he has the flow and charisma to communicate a feeling next to his ideas so you naturally inquire about these things. Leo is definetly a lot better in making sense of it all but lacks the charisma of somebody like Alan Watts. To be fair all the other spiritual teacher that I saw pale in comparison. He is definetly great to throw within the mix if your spiritual journey to keep things light.

Yes but it’s not clear that Leo only excluded these. Bread, pasta and rice can be wholegrain and potatoes are literally the best diet food. All different kind of studies independently found out that potatoes have an absurd high satiety index (satiety for the amount of calories). So that’s what kinda triggered me. Oh and also it’s about the the kind of fat source as well. Raw almonds for example will keep you full for way long the let’s say peanut butter > oil > refined fats.

You can way easier overeat on fats then on complex carbs. Sure fruits, veggies, lean proteins are king for saturation relative to their amount of calories but complex carbs like legumes, potatoes, rice, whole grains, etc. are also great and filling. What is that carb hate about ?