u/what_bumblebee

I want to be clear this isn't a magic pill post. I've read enough of those and they drove me crazy too.

What I actually want to talk about is how reducing food noise changed the mental game for me. For years I thought discipline was the problem. Turns out a significant part of what i was fighting was biological. The constant background hum of wanting to eat wasn't laziness, it was chemistry.

Been using compounded tirz through gimme care for about 4 months. Lost around 22 lbs but more importantly the mental overhead is just... quieter. I have actual bandwidth now for the other habits I was always failing to build. Sleep, exercise, consistency. It's easier when you're not white knuckling every meal.

Not saying this is for everyone. But if you've been disciplined in every other area and still struggling with food, it might be worth looking into rather than just assuming willpower is the variable.

Relieved enough to write this up. Eight months ago my options sleeve was running my life. Ten positions across six underlyings, checking the chain four times an hour, missed my kid's soccer practice once because I was watching a position I should have closed three days earlier. Decided either I was going to fix the operational side or I was going to drop the strategy.

The strategy itself was fine. Credit spreads on SPX and a few liquid single names, plus the wheel on three tickers I'd be happy to own. About 40 to 50% annualized on the options sleeve historically, real money I didn't want to give up. The problem wasn't the strategy. The problem was me being the execution layer.

I tried the obvious fixes first. Writing rules and trying to follow them lasted maybe three weeks each time. I would override under pressure. Bracket orders worked on simple closes, broke on multi-leg in volatile markets, didn't help with entries. Cutting position count from 10 to 4 brought income down without fixing the underlying problem.

What ended up working was rule automation. Decided what my rules were when I was calm, wrote them into a system, the system runs them. The structural piece is that overriding the system is now a deliberate action (going into the platform, changing the rule) instead of just hitting close on a position when I felt panicky. The friction is enough to mostly stop me.

The specifics that mattered most:

Profit target closes at 50% of max, mechanical. Single biggest change. I close at 50% now because the system does. I never managed to do this consistently myself.

Time-of-day entry filters. No new positions in the first or last 15 minutes. I broke this rule constantly manually.

Earnings windows excluded from entries.

Position cap so I can't add a tenth position to a portfolio that's already saturated.

Multi-leg fills in fast markets are still not great. The system queues like I would, not faster. If you came in expecting magic on volatile-day fills you'll be disappointed.

Bottom line: the strategy was always fine. I was the variance. Moving the execution out of my hands recovered most of what my emotions were costing me. NFA, this is what worked for one person.

On compound sema for 6 weeks. Did 4 weeks at .25, my provider says move to .5 for another 4 weeks. Fine. But I was reading other threads here and people are doing 2 weeks per step, 3 weeks, some are hitting 1mg by week 8.

Why is everyone's titration so different. Is it the additive in the formula, the doctor preference, or just random. My cat keeps stealing my Q-tips for some reason which is unrelated.