As a 3 legged dog owner, can confirm. All will be well.
This was a bad idea. Way too much time and space. Lost the battle, but the war is still underway.
I made it 25 hours though, and I will do it again, however many time it takes.
14 hours. trying to get anything I can done for work so I don't have to concentrate on it anymore.
Wife thought it would be a good idea (for her) to set up a camping trip this weekend. headed out in 5-6 hours, back sometime Sunday. Not sure if this is a good idea or a bad idea, but doing it anyway. Might be miserable. might have been miserable anyway, just in a more familiar place.
these are the times I just need to ride the energy fields for a bit and not worry about anything.
12 hours. this is where it starts to get really rough. really hard to concentrate/focus now.
I'm not bougie enough to own a KitchenAid stand mixer. so, not an option. Also planning on running 15-25 lbs per batch.
We switched from chicken flavored kibble to beef flavored kibble (same brand). dog always had "allergies", but since around the time of that food change, he started having a lot worse skin issues on his belly and groin; some of it almost looks like psoriasis. I'm pretty sure it is the food, something in beef formulation that isn't in the chicken. Since we're changing food anyway, I'm figuring it's a good time to try to convince the wife (who babys him, but takes no responsibility for his actual day-to-day well being) to let me take him raw carnivore. (although I'm not going to sell it as that, exactly).
I'm pretty sure I will resolve most if not all of his "allergies." via eliminating processed crap. And if he does better with beef than chicken, I'll deal with that, but it will be very easy to tell.
*food
Looking into buying a grinder and feeding my dog home-prepared foot. Any good resources out there?
There should come a time in each person's life when there is a shift of focus from making your parent(s) proud to making your children proud.
You may never feel like you've met their expectations, but you have, just as they have met yours.
You might think the shift would come when you have children; for some this is so, for others it may happen later, or not at all.
But it can always come today, if you wish it to do so.
GN.
Math works as long as you assume the numbers are just conceptual. Once numbers are mapped onto physical things, a lot of math just fails to model perceived reality. You can't actually have negative something. Most things can't be divided, and even if they can, don't divide evenly. Multiplication applies to fungible objects and little else. Imaginary numbers are, well, imaginary.
This isn't to say that complex math models are useless, just that the models may not work as expected when applied to the stuff that matters.
I may try this with squats - been thinking about building my legs back up, as they seem a lot smaller after losing the first 70 lbs.
Tomorrow is going to be a very special day.
My son turns 15. Also, I will be quitting cigarettes and donuts.
I've been on bupropion since July 1. That should be long enough for it to give me as much help as it can. I've used it before to help, so I *know* it can.
Today I went and bought a couple bags of pork rinds (I actually don't eat these very often, probably been months since my last, but I want something around in case a craving comes along that they can get me past.)
I also bought a dozen donuts. Not just any donuts, but the chocolatey-est filled-est ones I could get. No, they aren't good for me. I'm basically poisoning myself, gorging on chemical trash. But after tomorrow, no more donuts. Not even once in a while. Done. Those were the last thing that would really cause me to break my ketogenic routine - and while I wouldn't have them all the time, maybe once every week or two, that is still more poison than I wish to allow.
I have one more pack of smokes left. Should finish that sometime tomorrow. 4 donuts left, not sure if those will make it to tomorrow.
After all that poison is gone, I will start counting hours. I will count hours until I can count days. I will count days until I can count weeks. If my past is any indication, I don't expect this to all work the first time. I may need to reset my counting a few times to get it right, but I know I can lose a few battles and still win the war.
So here, now. My why. So I can look back at this when I need to. I do not want to have high blood pressure. I do not want to have pattern B cholesterol. This is what I believe I need to do to fix these problems. Doing this will get me through the weight loss (another 60 lbs) that I need to feel I even have a shot at reversing these two issues. I will not be taking blood pressure or cholesterol medication. I can do this by modifying my lifestyle.
That is my positive affirmation of the conviction I have in my ability to change. Stay with me friends, and I will continue to be right here with all of you.
#carnivore
Every truth has boundaries. For example, some truths are only true in a vacuum. Others are only true within 3-dimensional space. Still others depend on time, or on the assumption that stimulus precedes action.
This is not to say they are not true, only that they are true given certain conditions. It then becomes a question of how applicable they are, i.e. whether the conditions they depend on exist in their application.
For instance, I may be able to say that 2+2=5, but I wouldn't want build a skyscraper or even a shed based on that math. The boundaries of math exist just fine in what we observe as the material world, and apply well to operating in that world.
But that isn't the same as saying 2+2=5 couldn't also work, given that the definitions and boundaries of that truth also exist in and apply well to the material world.
In any quest for universal or specific truth, it is imperative to determine the boundaries (or limits) of that truth, regardless of how "implied" one assumes them to be.
Gn again!
#knowledge #knowstr #philosophy
Terrence Howard can probably only be understood if one does NOT believe that reality is how science describes it, and is instead based entirely on energy, waves, and fields. Then it makes a ton of sense.
The outrage and debunking reaction videos out there (that I have seen) all come from people solidly in the fiat science camp. It is well past time to move beyond that and find new ways to test new hypotheses that at first may sound completely wrong. That is science freed from fiat.
I'm thinking (do not believe this with any real conviction yet) that our brains do not contain our emotion or our knowledge. Instead they operate as an interface with knowledge and emotion, among other things. This explains why brains "light up" when triggered in certain ways, and I am not saying that we can "live" without them.
The knowledge and emotion they connect with are not definitively ours, but they are "personalized" for us, so we may consider them our own, even if we do not possess them.
This abstraction doesn't actually change much. Just a diversion, I suppose.
GN, maybe.