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Tl/dr: been doing keto 2 weeks. I guess i just carry on and performance will improve?

Long version:

Hi. I have looked in the wiki but maybe just not read it thoroughly enough.

I have just started keto and have been on just under 20g carbs per day for 2 weeks now. Total kcal just under 1700, protein 130g, fat 115g (averaged over last week). I know from experience my maintenance calories are about 2200.

I am 48F, 74kg, 1.67m. My body fat is prob about 30% i would guess. Want to be comfortably under 69kg again for comps.

I have been strength training for 6 years, mainly a mix of oly weightlifting and powerlifting last 2 or 3 years. I have also been getting back into running and so done some short runs recently.

I have been feeling really good these past two weeks apart from my sleep, but that seems to be improving. Gym has been fine up until now but last night my squats felt weak. My squats were 5 x 3 reps of 80% of my max. I only did 2 reps for 2nd and 3rd sets as didnt think i would make it on the third. Then didn't complete my sets and wasn't hitting enough depth anyway as not as confident as usual. I normally wouldnt feel sketchy about squats until up nearer 90%. Bench was ok but felt heavy. Jerks were powerful but they were light anyway. Also short run night before - didnt have much energy.

I have been taking rice cakes to the gym just in case but not eating them as didnt want to mess up keto process. Also dont want to use caffeine in the evenings. My electolytes, im not sure. My food log says 6.5g salt per day (average for past week, more like 8g last few days) but this doesnt include seasalt im adding to food. It does include 2 electrolyte tabs per day as realised the ones I already had have carbs so was logging them. Also take magnesium glycinate. (And creatine if I remember). Drinking 2 or 3 litres water per day.

Any thoughts? Maybe it is just unfortunate that the heavier end of my training cycle is coinciding with my start of keto.

Hey. I was just wondering if there might be an older, like about late 40s, single estp guy here that wants to talk? I am istp F.

I like the gym, outdoors, travel, cinema, setting up my sports massage/gardening(?) side business.

It might just be a boring conversation, but it might not?

Have you seen this film? I have, obviously. I think it might be a really good example of the instincts. But I dont know. If you can tell the character stackings please can you explain to me.

I think Angela is so/sp, Joe is sp/so.

Pina is sx/so , hawk is sp/sx?sp/so?

I have no idea of the e numbers.

Last night I went to see the new film of the stranger. I read the book recently as well. I just wondered if anyone found him relatable as he is meant to be istp 9w8? I can totally see that. Not saying i am like him but I can totally see where he is coming from.

Is it common for e2 and e9 to get along well at first, but then for it to go wrong?

I almost never fall out with anyone but a couple of years ago it happened with someone I believe is a 2, and now it is happening again with someone else i believe to be a 2.

We are all female, and I am istp, and they are definitely not, if that helps sets the scene.

Hi. I haven't done a typing course but i have watched the Personality Hacker profiling case studies videos in which i managed to type only one (of four) correctly and even then i wasn't certain (not putting any spoilers in here).

In real life, I think i can usually spot Si-Ne or Se-Ni the easiest, just from the sheer amount of detail when they are talking (and the amount of talking in general). But i can't tell if Si or Ne is higher. I think this is also harder because most people i know are middle-aged and so will be all quite well developed.

This isn't a type-them post but i will use a few different people i know as examples. I know this isn't enough info to type a person and the same behaviour can be caused by different functions but i'm interested in general things to look out for.

1. If someone is really bad at deciding what (physical) activity to do tomorrow because they are worried about not picking the best one and missing out on something, is that more likely inferior Ni or dom/aux Ne?

2. If someone says they are really good at pattern recognition (in maths/physics), is that more likely them showing off their tertiary/inferior Ni or is it having higher Ne?

3. If someone is a totally fearless adrenaline junkie, is that inferior Ni? I have heard somewhere that inferior Si can have a similar effect but is more unaware of the risk, rather than assessing it and accounting for that.

4. If someone catastrophises a lot and insists on pointing out everything that could go wrong, is that inferior Ne or high Ne?

5. If someone has no self awareness about boring someone when they are talking for (literally) hours, and they have adhd, does that overpower high Se ability to read the room or are they an Ne user? (I know that is a little out of scope).

6. If someone is a very paranoid kind of conspiracy theorist type, and also very religious, and seem like they use Ti a lot, or too much in fact, and actually seem like a Ti dom, but this seems to have happened in their late 40s, (the Ti blooming, not the conspiracy or religion) are they likely to have tertiary/inferior Ti?

7. If someone finds someone having an epic fail and hurting themselves utterly hilarious, are they more likely to be a Ti user?

8. Are there obvious ways to know if someone is a Ti or Te user apart from seeing if they are using Fi or Fe?

I know i have kind of answered my own questions here but i would appreciate some better insight if anyone can be bothered, thanks.

This is more of a venting post, and is prob too long for some of you, but if you do have anything useful to say about how you deal with this stuff or some constructive criticism about my situation then that would be welcome.

Background: i am quite old. I have worked here forever, longer than anyone, I am the dept manager now but on equal level with two other people who I dont manage and they dont manage anyone. We three are all managed by one crazy person.

One of the other people is new. She is amazing and arrived to great fanfare from our boss and now everyone has forgotten about me. To be fair, I think most people outside our dept didn't know I existed anyway, but anyway, that is fine by me. I dont know the new person's type but I think she is infj. She is perfectly perfect in every way, really nice but not too nice, extremely intelligent, enthusiastic, loads of experience, very good at planning and very organised. And makes me look totally shit in comparison.

Because she is new and I'm not, she is being careful to not step on my toes and to ask my opinion on things before implementating them. And that is fine (and maybe i would be annoyed if she didn't?) but really idgaf because it is just a job to me and see the whole thing as one giant box ticking exercise. So lately I have been looking in her calendar to see which site she's going to be working at that day and then I go and work somewhere else because I dont like having to pretend i enjoy having conversations about work.

The other one is also very clever and knowledgeable and older than me and far too conscientious and very anxious. I think he is isfj or intp. I do get on really well with him but he is annoying because he is always pointing out things that could go wrong and is incapable of making a decision without running it past everyone in the universe and talking about it for ages. So often when he calls i don't answer.

The other day I had written this policy which is just totally pointless and noone's going to ever look at it and i asked in a meeting if everyone was happy with it and they all said yes apart from he said he wanted more time to look at it properly. Later he spoke to me and said he wanted to change it and I said no and he said we should run it past our manager and I said no it's got nothing to do with her and he said we needed to talk to her about it. So I've just issued it anyway without telling them.

And my manager used to talk to me all the time for ages and ages about all her personal life and it was quite annoying but ok and I quite like her. She is one of those 'zany' people who dresses all wacky but like dragged through a bush and all sweaty and is in your face wanting to be all caring but is also very feisty. And she's always saying how utterly amazing I am and how amazing everyone else is as well. And i am a bit suspicious of telling her anything because i think she likes to get information out of people that she can use in future.

Now that the new person star child has started she has weekly meetings with her and none with me. And she doesn't give me anything to do or have any idea what im doing. So now i just kind of think fuck you and it's made me more determined to never tell her anything. And also with her i have been working somewhere else on the days she's arranged to be in my office. But I have my annual appraisal soon so will have to talk to her then.

I know i am just being grumpy and stubborn and if I just spoke to these people more i would feel better about them but, yeah, idk. Do you get this?

I know there isn't that much stuff about growth on here (unfortunately) but I just wanted to share something. I feel like I have unblocked a barrier. It is early days so I dont want to speak too soon, but I am going to anyway because it actually feels kind of amazing.

For ages I have wanted to learn to do massage, just because I have always been really interested in the human body and fitness and wellbeing and I would like to help people and also I just thought i would be good at it (despite no evidence for this).

So i finally paid to do a sports massage course. I was doing the theory and anatomy coursework at home and that was good. And I went on the first practical weekend and it really sparked that excitement for learning in me that I haven't felt at work for so long.

But then they said we would need to do 30 practice massages in our own time. So this was getting real now because I never ask anyone for anything and I would now have to actually tell people I was doing this and ask them to volunteer. And this made me feel a bit anxious, like I might actually not be able to ask for volunteers.

So at first I texted a few friends and they all said yes. And then I just did it and branched out into a sports group I am in. And then more people said yes.

And then I felt a bit overwhelmed because I only have a few weeks to do all these massages and I really, really like to have time to myself. And looking in my calender and seeing that i'd be having no free evenings or weekends for ages because of all the massages night after night (plus I need to fit in working full time and doing stuff with my kid and going to the gym etc)... that was very daunting and quite a horrible feeling.

I am less than two weeks in but it has been quite transformative. I know in future I will have clients that are strangers and might fall asleep or dont want to chat but it has been so good talking to people that I have hardly spoken to before, or who I know quite well but finding out interesting things about them. Everyone has been so open. And I also just really love massaging them. I know that might sound weird but it feels really good and I think it might be slightly addictive.

I am aware that this might just all be because people want a free massage but it feels like genuinely more meaningful than that. (Also I'm kind of aware that it could be a negative thing for me somehow? Like i am still just a bucket for people to talk into or it could be quite energy draining? But it doesnt feel like that; it feels good so far).

So anyway, what is coming out of this is that I think that this year I might actually tell my friends when my birthday is and invite them round. I know that might not sound like a big deal but last year the only people who wished me happy birthday were my immediate family, since I've never told anyone else when it is. (Prior to this, i had my husband and his friends to celebrate with but i left them all behind).

I have been learning more about how Ti is the istp flow state and Se is the growth function. I feel like I have developed Se loads because I do so many Se things but that I dont really know how to enjoy Ti so much any more.

Like when I think how to get into Ti flow state, I can only really think of going into a research wormhole. And I suppose when I was a kid that was ok because I had to go to the library but nowadays it involves being on the Internet far too much which basically makes me feel like shit so I try not to do it but I cant help it (I know books still exist... maybe that is the answer). (Still hoping they turn the Internet off...). I do sometimes get to use it at work but that is mainly boring Te stuff that i hate.

I have done some activities that I think use Ti-Se. E.g. garden landscaping, learning weightlifting, learning to windsurf (very badly).

At the moment I am just starting a sports massage course which might do it? And thinking i might learn how to put some extra gears on my bike. But I might not do that. I am not interested in bike mechanicing at all but I have a vague notion that I'm going to cycle around the world one day so that would be useful.

Also have the idea that all these seemingly unrelated activities are one day going to all link into a grand master vision and that i can cycle round the world and be a mobile massage therapist and gardener or something.

Anyway. I was mainly just wanting to know what you do to get into Ti (or Ti-Se) flow that doesn't involve looking at a computer.