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>>322725
The truth is that my health isn't that bad, apart from having arthritis, but at certain stages I wanted to start exercising again, like right now. Whether I actually do it or only last three days is another matter. But I thank you for helping the Wizards directly and indirectly and for caring about them.

>>322759
>The truth is that my health isn't that bad, apart from having arthritis

i'm ~80% sure arthritis is optional because the body builders get it and their entire painful decline is optional vanity, meaning you probably could get rid of it if you wanted to go to the higher levels of human health.

i should go running more often, i think i have not done it in 2 years but what i do at least 2-3 times a week is skating and i love it and it keeps me healthy.

i believe physical expression (dance, skate, ice skating) gives something to the human organism that is a requirement for a happy life. i can't explain it better yet but when i don't do it for a while and then do it again, it is like i remember that life isn't a chore but actually enjoyable.

>>322759
one more thing i do is i make sure to go grocery shopping on foot and carry it home without wheels. and then i carry it up into the 4th floor without using the elevator.

typical car user steps into the vehicle, drives to get food without walking, uses a cart inside the supermarket without carrying, drives the food home into the car without doing more then a few hundred steps at most.

one other similar habit i have discovered is that i often go places on foot and then just run where i am going. just as a mode of transporting myself. i'm like the only one who is doing it as far as i can tell. people go running but only for exercise, never for transportation. feels nice and adventurous.

i may have posted this once before, this i believe to be the best information on health i have ever stumbled upon.
6min25sec long track from an audiobook about an audiobook about the ancient dao or tao. if i remember this correct dao means 'the way'

i am currently being busy reading Carl Jung and one thing young Carl understood is that people sometimes get sick because that way they have an excuse not to participate in dumb torturous civilizational shit like school.

he called this a neurosis.

young Carl injured his head as a child and for a short while genuinely fainted. he realized this helped him get out of school he unconsciously got into the habit of fainting to get out of shit.

then later when this had already become a convenient habit when he heard his father talk about him being a bitch always fainting and being a retard never being able to earn a living he snapped out of it using his willpower. his body would start to faint but young Carl wasn't gonna have it and he just said nope and refused to faint. dude couldn't handle his father considering him a tard so woke up at 3am to study latin grammer until he got good at it.

amazing story because i encountered subconscious sabotage like that many times in life. imagine trying to be healthy when you have all these neurotic habits. imagine trying to eat healthy but then your body literally cringes you out of eating broccoli because you are addicted to grain-noodles.

reminds me of this meme of a fat middleaged succubi who tried brussel sprouts for the first time and she would dry-heave from smelling vegetables and started crying. i thought of this as psychosomatic behavior but i think neurosis is much clearer of a concept because it includes the knowledge of consciousness.

made a spectacular deal and bought a used e-ink ebook reader for 35€. it was made ~2011 and it is a joy to use! i've wanted one of those ever since the first kindle came out.

i use it to display .txt files, which works flawlessly. i can adjust the text size to my liking and i was even able to change the font to open-dyslexic, which i very much like. i have not even looked at the other fonts, there are probably other nice ones available.

there is this other file format that i don't hate called .epub and besides working similar to a .txt file it can also have pictures in it, which i was surprised to learn that the little device can display. when the epub file has a cover, the cover of what i am currently reading is displayed on the sleep screen; that was a pleasant surprise for me. it may be black and white but it is still plenty detailled!

the display is just pleasant to look at no matter the time of day. at night i can turn on the backlite with the press of one button next to the standby slider. i wish the minimum brightness was just the tiniest bitter lower but it is still ok.

what amazed me the most is using it in the sun. i had no idea how much i was craving a way to use technology in the sun. try using an old laptop in direct warm sunlight, or even just a phone with it's modern display. it sucks! not only will the sun help it to overheat, it requires also for the display to be turned bright all the way to see anything which makes it even hotter and uses more battery.

to sit in direct sunlight with an ebook reader, soaking up the rare few sunrays finding their way through the artificial aluminum-clouds is the answer i have been looking for … for over a decade. for the longest time i had no answer to the question of how i even like to read. it was always uncomfortable. how to read comfortable? with a cheap ebook reader using an e-ink display in the sun. solves 2 problems at once. the problem of how to get more sun and how to even read; i think that's cool.

in other news i've had my last unhealthy food a few days ago and now all i eat is good food no matter how strong the temptation; i've done this before but never with the intend of doing it permanently. after so many temporary experiments i thought it was time. now just a few days later i remembered that my poop no longer stinks and instead spreads the pleasant aroma of fresh vegetable soup. i laughed when i remembered.

i've been eating exceptionally well the last week. basically all i eat is banana, grape, orange, grapefruit, cucumber, bell pepper, raw nuts, fresh herbs and spices. the worst thing i am eating is peanut butter but it is organic and 100% peanut, besides that nothing else but tea and coffee.

when i experienced this clean of a diet for the first time, i was so awe-struck by the amont of energy i suddenly had that it basically just paralysed me into feeling stupid for now knowing how to use it. now i still feel somewhat dumb and unable to wield this much energy but i am getting better at it and i invented something like a timeplanner that helps me use it more but i still feel like a novice.

the hard part is people can tell something is up with me and they feel incredible attracted and want to meet me and act out all the theater and disgraceful non-mutual meeting rituals. i am constantly being entrapped by ugly people who just refuse to care that they don't make me feel like i make them feel. i am a wizzard hermit so i don't like attention and when people give it to me, drop everything they do to stare at me or take video of me like i was a zoo animal, it annoys me so i have to be extra mindful of not displaying any sign of health or strentgh around people and basically pretend i am just a weird looking frail old man even though i feel like a god. the stronger i get, the more of my energy i have to spend in pretending like am weird or i literally can not walk down the street without someone blocking my path hoping i can be their missing puzzle piece.

>>323238
What do you even eat the spices with from that list?

>>323278
>What do you even eat the spices with from that list?

i cut cucumber and bell pepper into little sticks and i dip those sticks into a sauce made from spices, herbs, onion/garlic/turmeric/ginger, fresh orange juice and nuts/nutbutters in the blender.

herb+spice+nut+citrus = delicious healthy sauce. that's a sauce that does not throw me out of detox. i also pour that same sauce over cabbage shreddings.

>>323281
Sounds interesting I'll try it if I ever get around to it.

the exceptionally healthy eating has finally been enhanced by spending time in the sunlight today and yesterday. spend an hour doing light exercise in the mild 2pm sun (depending on what time it is (and what month), the sun is stronger or weaker) i try to be in the sun more often. i like to read in the morning sun (while sitting inside behind a glass window where it is nice and warm) and exercise in the afternoon sun. when summer comes i do it the other way around and exercise in the morning and then read in the afternoon.

i do very mild daily exercise but what i have not been succeeding in is doing hard exercise for once where i sweat a lot and feel tired afterwards. i have not done that in many many months. probably the most critical thing i am not-doing. leaving that on the table is stupid. but i will keep trying, takes me a couple of days to change something like that some times.

every day i have a thick coating of white stuff on my tongue. today it was particularly thick. i brush it off every day. the first few days it hurt my tongue and it felt better every time i brushed it off with the toothbrush, now it does not hurt anymore. medical-minded people (allopaths) insist this is infection. naturopaths call this detoxification. the tongue is the upper most end of the digestive system and what you can see happening to your tongue is also happening inside. poisons are released from my body, to me this is a success. every time the body succeeds in throwing poison out (or loosening it so that it can be pooped, peed or sweat out the next time), that's less poison in the body.

I am always drunk to cope

>>323301
>I am always drunk to cope

ALWAYS? that sounds like a lot.

>>323302
ok, most of my spare time

>>323303
in fact I am drinking right now

>>323303
>ok, most of my spare time

i look at the people around me who drink a lot and i see how badly they age. the intention for why you drink (what you call cope) is most honorable: you try to make yourself feel better. but it is a unfortunate trade. to endure discomfort you trade short term weak dullness (what some spiritual-minded people describe as a level BELOW consciousness) for longterm bad health.

i am at the point where i see someone drink one beer after work and i worry they will slippery-slope into being an alcoholic.

hopefully you find more ways of making yourself feel good because they do exist.

reading in the sun habit is coming along nicely. i did go for a short run in the sun today, i even sweat a tiny bit. despite it being spring, i keep dressing like it is winter so i sweat more easily while running.

currently drinking juice that i made from:

2 big red beets
4 big celery stalks
1 pineapple
1 orange
1 grapefruit

plus i threw in the thicker stalks from 1 bunch of dill herb.

turned into 1500ml of an alarmingly red looking juice. tastes pretty neutral. if i had left out the dill herb, this would have almost tasted good to a normie. the harsher taste of the beets is balanced by the pineapple and the citrus. the somewhat harsh taste from the pineapple is balanced by the citrus.

one thing i forgot to throw into the slow juicer was burdock. i bothered to go to the asian store to get a long piece of this root, longer then the distance from my shoulder to my longest finger.

for a long time i enjoyed store-bought (pasteurized) dead juice but for the same price i can just buy the fresh fruits and vegetable and make my own living juice. next week i begin a juice fast, juice fasting is the healthiest thing a person can do i am convinced. i've been doing it for 8 years now. i don't think there is a person who wouldn't do it if they knew what the result felt like. while regular fasting is technically even healthier, it is also way harder. up until now i did it kind of a hybrid way of drinking a bit of juice but not enough to keep my body weight from going down significantly, making me look like a skeleton after a few weeks of juicefasting. this time i want to do it for a long time (~40 days is the goal) without losing significant amount of weight by drinking 4-8 liter of juice per day. according to naturopath legend, this will make my body maintain most of it's weight while i shit myself empty. i combine it with more exercise, meditation and sunbathing. i keep getting older but because i do more of the healthy stuff, i rarely feel my age.

picture attached is the juicer i am using. this is a modern beginner model that is very easy to clean compared to other juicers i have used. it works good. i wasn't going to pay 8 times as much for the top of the line juicer, juicer business is quite greedy.

>>323335
Based and Jack LaLanne-pilled

made a discovery that belongs itt.

compared to watching a video or listening to an audiobook even, reading is so gentle on the attention (meaning it grabs attention so little) that i notice i can maintain constantly 'feel my inner body' which is something like a meditation. i can remain in electrical connection with all my nerves throughout the body, which requires the spending of attention that i have because unlike a video, the book doesn't grab my attention.

also i am doing a juice fast. i'm on day 6* of eating nothing and only drinking the juice i made myself from throwing fruit into the slow juicer.

every time i am doing a fast i keep wondering why i only do this once a year when i should do it basically half the time. it feels so good, i have energy all day. yesterday i was active all day and went skating twice. today i was skating and running. plus i can concentrate way better and i am way faster at doing my stupid job typing emails and writing letters.

*except that this time i am not doing it as strict as i usually do it. i had a few scoops of a vegetable broth with onions and cilantro in it today. reminded me how strange and eerie it feels to feel food go through an already mostly empty food-tube. i was planning on going for 40 days without food.

>>323335
You inspire me. I only drink water not juice though so I can't join you in a juice fast. I've just started getting into sunbathing, and at some point plan to get into meditation. I go on runs and bike.

>>323387
>You inspire me. I only drink water not juice though so I can't join you in a juice fast.

hm in that case you could try to water fast and only do a fruit smoothie (banana, orange, pineapple for example) in the evening for a few days to give your digestive systen a chance to empty. what i like about juice is that it flushes out the digestive system while still supplying calories as to not feel drained and depleted. i work harder and get more done during fast then i do during regular eating (which at this point is just raw fruits, raw vegetables and mostly raw nuts for me).

>I've just started getting into sunbathing

until i got a little e-reader with an e-ink display i could rarely do sunbathing because it was so boring, now i look forward to it because reading on the little thing is so enjoyable to me. i'm shy and don't feel comfortable being shirtless when there are too many people around. what i have started to do though is that when i am wearing long pants that i fold them up so my calves are exposed to the sun and i draw up the long sleves so my arms are exposed, that way my body can produce some much needed vitamin d (and hopefully spread it around so all the cells get some, not only the cells in the arms and legs.)

>and at some point plan to get into meditation.
the audiobooks/books from eckhart tolle (title of the first one: power of now, title of the second one: a new earth) are what did it for me. i did the exercises he described and i was lucky to feel the inner body the way he describes. after feeling the effect all doubts that this stuff is real vanished, i had proven it to myself.


>I go on runs and bike.
that's already amazing. i like to put on extra layers when i run so i sweat harder.

>>323387

it's literally just deep breathing and then taking attention away from thought activity and 'spending' it on the body.

>>323342
i should have tried juicing first time i heard about it. Jack LaLanne may have been the first time i encountered juicing. i regret not instantly dropping everything i was doing and trying to find a way to juice 🤣