u/Numerous-Hawk1471

I have been testing this dietary alteration that I heard about from an interview with professional surfer Laird Hamilton. It’s really simple. He described it as “only fruit and coffee before noon.” Hamilton’s theory was that when you wake up your body has been in the relatively stagnant state of sleep and is not ready to take in food that is difficult to digest. So you only eat fruit, if anything, in the morning.

I’ve been testing it out, only eating a fruit salad, which at this point is usually a honeydew and cantaloupe mix (and sometimes pineapple), bc there have been some issues with berries in the part of the U.S. I live in. I’ve also been drinking my daily coffee but then water outside of that in the morning hours before twelve. When I’m home I do it no matter how early I wake up and then usually at noon I’m really hungry so I have lunch then or at 12:30. My diet otherwise has been largely the same. I try to eat healthy, and I don’t drink or eat a lot of desserts or sweets, but I continue to enjoy cheeseburgers and pizza a bit more than I should. Still, the changes have been noticeable. I am not going to get into the specific details but everything involving my digestion has improved. I’ve lost weight in my abdominal region despite traveling for about 40% of the time I’ve done it and not working out as much bc I didn’t have access to my gym or yoga studio. I also figured out that most of my life I didn’t come close to the 1.5-2 cups of fruit a day that the FDA recommends, taking in zero servings instead, and while I don’t always agree with all their recommendations I do think fruit is generally really good for you. And it’s in incredibly simple. You buy a large container of fruit salad from the grocery store and then eat 1/4 to 1/2 of it depending on how hungry you are. I average 1/3 a container a day roughly, but buying that container is now my only breakfast food concern.

I am not a doctor or a nutritionist, and despite it only being fruit and water mostly I’d want anyone that was going to test this to be in good physical health generally. It probably won’t cost you anything when compared to other breakfast options, and might save you money, depending on how often you eat out for breakfast. I can’t do a proper test on it bc I travel a lot for work, sometimes in places where I don’t have access to fresh fruit, and I’m already about a month into it on and off so even if I started tracking it now I couldn’t get accurate numbers as to its effects. Is that something you’d be interested in? I know a lot of people in this sub are interested in nutrition and bio hacking so I thought someone might be into it.

TL;DR: started only eating fruit before noon, haven’t been able to track the numbers on it, wanted to see if someone on here would like to.

The company that owns my building emailed us that inspectors were coming by to look at our apts bc there was possible structural damage from a recent storm.

They told us we had to let them in, it was mandatory, and that we should cooperate with them. I tried to email back to ask when roughly today they’d be by and who’d be entering the apt bc it was possible I wouldn’t be home, but it was from an account that doesn’t accept replies.

The inspectors came by earlier, but it turns out that they weren’t inspecting the apts for storm damage specifically, but looking at the general condition of the apts bc they represent a company looking to buy the building. I cooperated fully and answered all their questions, which included telling them how the fire alarm system goes off randomly and did four times in the first two weeks I was here, how there are electrical issues that cause one of my lights and my microwave to randomly stop functioning, how the walls are so thin that I can hear the subway/the people at the bar a few buildings down/my neighbor.

They also asked me about my general experience here and I told them that I’m leaving the day my lease is up, and that I could never imagine someone living in this building longer than their one year lease, if that long. I included that when I raised the possibility of moving out in my first month the current owners offered to give me all my money back, including application fees, so that they were most likely used people moving in and abruptly moving out.

It was pretty satisfying to watch the lead guy’s wheels turning as he most likely lowered the bid for the building in his mind. I don’t think it was all me, bc talking to the tenants here must have involved a lot of negative comments, but I’m glad for the role I played in it bc the current owners are terrible.

I understand that yoga is not competitive but I still feel like I am very bad at its practice. I’m not very flexible and have a number of nagging injuries, accumulated from contact sports, bar fights and car crashes in my misspent youth and from working a dangerous job. I have ADHD and a severe problem sitting still for any length of time. I also grew up before the widespread popularity of yoga, raised by people who thought yoga was new agey and self-indulgent, a foolish thing hippies did, essentially.

I don’t generally enjoy going. It makes me feel awkward and I feel really physically uncomfortable many times during each class. But these classes are one of the only times in my life where I ever truly feel peaceful, where I focus on my breathing enough for the world to slow down a bit.

I think about the guys I grew up with, who I used to get drunk and work construction with while a number of them left for the military (and some of them for short stints in prison) and largely came back to the same patterns of thinking and being, and how yoga could change their lives. All they need to do is take a few intro classes, and a lot of them would keep going and benefit from it immensely.

Trump just said that he will declare the Strait of Hormuz to be US territory soon. The problem with that is that claim is disputed by a country who can effectively stop the transportation of oil through the strait at any time, and we are currently at war with them.

Moved here a few months ago and my neighborhood bookstore closed down recently. For the last couple of years I have read mostly nonfiction books about the history of politics and conflict and classic novels, if that helps. Many thanks in advance.

Watching Mile 22 because I thought it wasn’t good when it came out and I figured I’d give it another shot. I realized its main problem, in addition to the more minor issue of casting Ronda Rousey and Sean Avery for some reason, is it relies on the audience believing Mark Wahlberg as this brilliant mind, this dynamic and autistic genius who calculates tactics on the fly better than anyone.

And it’s clear the man himself doesn’t know the meaning of the larger words that have been written for him, or perhaps he learned them that day. The Gambler has the same problem. It has an interesting and exciting plot, John Goodman and Michael K. Williams, but Wahlberg as an English Literature professor is roughly as convincing as Stanley Tucci playing LeBron James. He was great in The Fighter and Basketball diaries partly bc he’s a meathead, and he should stick to his strengths.