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This feels really good. I want to try to incorporate this while I’m walking to anything.
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Fitness Challenge 1: Initial Thoughts
Byjack
Today I had a couple observations after feeling very depleted and inflamed with allergies:
- Breathing fully and deeply while feeling the sensations helped move the chi
- Clockwise massage on my stomach really helped the chi flow a lot
- Same direction with palms facing back on the lower spine to tailbone also very helpful
- Clockwise rubbing of the solar plexus also really helpful
- Hanging was a nice resting position
- Eating slow wasn’t the best method
- Prefer to eat moderate speed for a small amount at a time, chewing in a bigger motion and smelling and tasting the food with small breaks in between bites and some stomach massage
I want to continue to push myself and work on finding good resting positions and strategies to recover.
I also need to work on setting a baseline and measurements to track progress.
- Get a scale to weigh myself
- Get a heart rate monitor, smartwatch or fitness band to monitor vitals
- Need to come up with a standard lighting to take a photo
UNIT ONE, Week 1: Regen from tiring out (no matter how tired, wired or drained) lasts 7 days
Today is day 1, end of Week 1 is May 18th.
Knee Strength 3: Recovery and Mobility Exercises
Byjack
Today is all about recovery.
Strength seems to be half pressure/work and half recovery and growth. And today is a recovery day.
I’m quite pleased that I have a recovery day because I really need to comfort and soothe my knee a lot and I like exploring ways to do that.
It’s also interesting that my exercises are completely different from the knees over toes guy. Maybe at some point, they will converge when my knees get stronger.
Recovery Exercises:
- Gentle knee spacer
- One leg is straight and extended
- The other leg is lifted up gently to the side and slowly relaxed so there is space created in the joint
- Foot scrape
- One leg straight, the other leg lifted up
- Relax and let the lifted leg gently fall and scrape on the ground
- Repeat with both legs in all directions
- Bonus lying down comfort
- Crossing legs
- Bending legs
Knee Mobility Challenge 2: Redirection
Byjack
Today in looking into how to increase strength and mobility into the tendons and ligaments, I made an exciting discovery and change in direction.
I’ve heard of the Knees Over Toes Guy ever since I went to Thai Massage and the massage therapist told me that he helped a lot with his knee injuries from doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I know this challenge was to make my knee stronger just for going to Zion National Park, but this changes things completely.
The Knees Over Toes Guy has a program that costs about $50 per month. I decided to try it out as part of this challenge…but also as part of a bigger effort to regain my life. For the longest time, I have been searching for something that would let me be active again in life. Specifically, I want to get back into martial arts and work on Jiu Jitsu, wrestling and striking. I know that is completely impossible right now since I can’t even sleep on my side without pain in my knee.
This guy has renewed hope in me because apparently he was struggling with knee pain for 10 years and has had 6 surgeries and now is able to play basketball with zero pain even though he is pushing his body farther than ever (now dunks the ball).
This of course, changes my approach to the challenge and I need to rewrite my syllabus. I didn’t want to get rid of the syllabus because that is what has created such happiness and progress in all my challenges, but this is an excellent opportunity to improve the process. I have always felt that rigidly following something even when it isn’t the best path anymore is inefficient and wastes time. Being able to adapt the syllabus when you feel a major shift (not just all the time for no reason) makes a lot of sense.
There is a major shift that needs to happen because I realized that the current syllabus is not perfect due to the fact that even day 1 I realized that all exercises involve muscles, fascia and ligaments and tendons, yet they are all spread out over days in the syllabus and that makes no sense.
So here is my revised syllabus:
Days until Zion: 8
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Surface Tissues
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Day 5 – ATG workouts (Zero Program)
UNIT 3: Recovery
Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
Day 3 – Fortifying and Nutrition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Vision Challenge 3: Big Improvements
Byjack
I just came back from standup paddleboarding and I feel really really good. Everything is clear and easy to see. I need to find a way to go and play on the water more.
I also was thinking about how if the eye is constantly in a state of contraction, we might need to do some sort of massage in order to help loosen and relax the ligaments and the muscles. I don’t know yet what kind of massage will work. All the current massages only target the areas around the eyes.
I wasn’t able to test my vision on my phone because it is out of battery but I tested on very small text on a book an the results are mindblowing.
12.5 cm to see clearly.
100/12.5 = -8 diopters
Fitness Challenge 2: Increasing Appetite
Byjack
So I’m most of the way through my second part of my challenge – Week 2: Big appetite (increase hunger throughout day) and I’m having a huge amount of issues.
I try to eat a lot but I don’t seem to be able to find a way to digest the food.
Several things seem to be standing in my way:
- Extreme chronic stress
- Lack of exercises and energy
- Poor sleep
I’m going to do what I always did in these situations of great stress. I’m going to simplify and try to find something very small to focus on. And that thing will be breathing.
Whether or not I feel full, hungry stressed, tired or anxious, I am going to strive to do only one thing. To breathe. I find that breathing has tremendous effects for all the of things I listed above as obstacles standing in my way.
Fitness Challenge 1: Initial Thoughts
Byjack
Today I had a couple observations after feeling very depleted and inflamed with allergies:
- Breathing fully and deeply while feeling the sensations helped move the chi
- Clockwise massage on my stomach really helped the chi flow a lot
- Same direction with palms facing back on the lower spine to tailbone also very helpful
- Clockwise rubbing of the solar plexus also really helpful
- Hanging was a nice resting position
- Eating slow wasn’t the best method
- Prefer to eat moderate speed for a small amount at a time, chewing in a bigger motion and smelling and tasting the food with small breaks in between bites and some stomach massage
I want to continue to push myself and work on finding good resting positions and strategies to recover.
I also need to work on setting a baseline and measurements to track progress.
- Get a scale to weigh myself
- Get a heart rate monitor, smartwatch or fitness band to monitor vitals
- Need to come up with a standard lighting to take a photo
UNIT ONE, Week 1: Regen from tiring out (no matter how tired, wired or drained) lasts 7 days
Today is day 1, end of Week 1 is May 18th.
Knee Strength 3: Recovery and Mobility Exercises
Byjack
Today is all about recovery.
Strength seems to be half pressure/work and half recovery and growth. And today is a recovery day.
I’m quite pleased that I have a recovery day because I really need to comfort and soothe my knee a lot and I like exploring ways to do that.
It’s also interesting that my exercises are completely different from the knees over toes guy. Maybe at some point, they will converge when my knees get stronger.
Recovery Exercises:
- Gentle knee spacer
- One leg is straight and extended
- The other leg is lifted up gently to the side and slowly relaxed so there is space created in the joint
- Foot scrape
- One leg straight, the other leg lifted up
- Relax and let the lifted leg gently fall and scrape on the ground
- Repeat with both legs in all directions
- Bonus lying down comfort
- Crossing legs
- Bending legs
Knee Mobility Challenge 2: Redirection
Byjack
Today in looking into how to increase strength and mobility into the tendons and ligaments, I made an exciting discovery and change in direction.
I’ve heard of the Knees Over Toes Guy ever since I went to Thai Massage and the massage therapist told me that he helped a lot with his knee injuries from doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I know this challenge was to make my knee stronger just for going to Zion National Park, but this changes things completely.
The Knees Over Toes Guy has a program that costs about $50 per month. I decided to try it out as part of this challenge…but also as part of a bigger effort to regain my life. For the longest time, I have been searching for something that would let me be active again in life. Specifically, I want to get back into martial arts and work on Jiu Jitsu, wrestling and striking. I know that is completely impossible right now since I can’t even sleep on my side without pain in my knee.
This guy has renewed hope in me because apparently he was struggling with knee pain for 10 years and has had 6 surgeries and now is able to play basketball with zero pain even though he is pushing his body farther than ever (now dunks the ball).
This of course, changes my approach to the challenge and I need to rewrite my syllabus. I didn’t want to get rid of the syllabus because that is what has created such happiness and progress in all my challenges, but this is an excellent opportunity to improve the process. I have always felt that rigidly following something even when it isn’t the best path anymore is inefficient and wastes time. Being able to adapt the syllabus when you feel a major shift (not just all the time for no reason) makes a lot of sense.
There is a major shift that needs to happen because I realized that the current syllabus is not perfect due to the fact that even day 1 I realized that all exercises involve muscles, fascia and ligaments and tendons, yet they are all spread out over days in the syllabus and that makes no sense.
So here is my revised syllabus:
Days until Zion: 8
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Surface Tissues
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Day 5 – ATG workouts (Zero Program)
UNIT 3: Recovery
Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
Day 3 – Fortifying and Nutrition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Vision Challenge 3: Big Improvements
Byjack
I just came back from standup paddleboarding and I feel really really good. Everything is clear and easy to see. I need to find a way to go and play on the water more.
I also was thinking about how if the eye is constantly in a state of contraction, we might need to do some sort of massage in order to help loosen and relax the ligaments and the muscles. I don’t know yet what kind of massage will work. All the current massages only target the areas around the eyes.
I wasn’t able to test my vision on my phone because it is out of battery but I tested on very small text on a book an the results are mindblowing.
12.5 cm to see clearly.
100/12.5 = -8 diopters
Fitness Challenge 2: Increasing Appetite
Byjack
So I’m most of the way through my second part of my challenge – Week 2: Big appetite (increase hunger throughout day) and I’m having a huge amount of issues.
I try to eat a lot but I don’t seem to be able to find a way to digest the food.
Several things seem to be standing in my way:
- Extreme chronic stress
- Lack of exercises and energy
- Poor sleep
I’m going to do what I always did in these situations of great stress. I’m going to simplify and try to find something very small to focus on. And that thing will be breathing.
Whether or not I feel full, hungry stressed, tired or anxious, I am going to strive to do only one thing. To breathe. I find that breathing has tremendous effects for all the of things I listed above as obstacles standing in my way.
Fitness Challenge 1: Initial Thoughts
Byjack
Today I had a couple observations after feeling very depleted and inflamed with allergies:
- Breathing fully and deeply while feeling the sensations helped move the chi
- Clockwise massage on my stomach really helped the chi flow a lot
- Same direction with palms facing back on the lower spine to tailbone also very helpful
- Clockwise rubbing of the solar plexus also really helpful
- Hanging was a nice resting position
- Eating slow wasn’t the best method
- Prefer to eat moderate speed for a small amount at a time, chewing in a bigger motion and smelling and tasting the food with small breaks in between bites and some stomach massage
I want to continue to push myself and work on finding good resting positions and strategies to recover.
I also need to work on setting a baseline and measurements to track progress.
- Get a scale to weigh myself
- Get a heart rate monitor, smartwatch or fitness band to monitor vitals
- Need to come up with a standard lighting to take a photo
UNIT ONE, Week 1: Regen from tiring out (no matter how tired, wired or drained) lasts 7 days
Today is day 1, end of Week 1 is May 18th.
Knee Strength 3: Recovery and Mobility Exercises
Byjack
Today is all about recovery.
Strength seems to be half pressure/work and half recovery and growth. And today is a recovery day.
I’m quite pleased that I have a recovery day because I really need to comfort and soothe my knee a lot and I like exploring ways to do that.
It’s also interesting that my exercises are completely different from the knees over toes guy. Maybe at some point, they will converge when my knees get stronger.
Recovery Exercises:
- Gentle knee spacer
- One leg is straight and extended
- The other leg is lifted up gently to the side and slowly relaxed so there is space created in the joint
- Foot scrape
- One leg straight, the other leg lifted up
- Relax and let the lifted leg gently fall and scrape on the ground
- Repeat with both legs in all directions
- Bonus lying down comfort
- Crossing legs
- Bending legs
Knee Mobility Challenge 2: Redirection
Byjack
Today in looking into how to increase strength and mobility into the tendons and ligaments, I made an exciting discovery and change in direction.
I’ve heard of the Knees Over Toes Guy ever since I went to Thai Massage and the massage therapist told me that he helped a lot with his knee injuries from doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
I know this challenge was to make my knee stronger just for going to Zion National Park, but this changes things completely.
The Knees Over Toes Guy has a program that costs about $50 per month. I decided to try it out as part of this challenge…but also as part of a bigger effort to regain my life. For the longest time, I have been searching for something that would let me be active again in life. Specifically, I want to get back into martial arts and work on Jiu Jitsu, wrestling and striking. I know that is completely impossible right now since I can’t even sleep on my side without pain in my knee.
This guy has renewed hope in me because apparently he was struggling with knee pain for 10 years and has had 6 surgeries and now is able to play basketball with zero pain even though he is pushing his body farther than ever (now dunks the ball).
This of course, changes my approach to the challenge and I need to rewrite my syllabus. I didn’t want to get rid of the syllabus because that is what has created such happiness and progress in all my challenges, but this is an excellent opportunity to improve the process. I have always felt that rigidly following something even when it isn’t the best path anymore is inefficient and wastes time. Being able to adapt the syllabus when you feel a major shift (not just all the time for no reason) makes a lot of sense.
There is a major shift that needs to happen because I realized that the current syllabus is not perfect due to the fact that even day 1 I realized that all exercises involve muscles, fascia and ligaments and tendons, yet they are all spread out over days in the syllabus and that makes no sense.
So here is my revised syllabus:
Days until Zion: 8
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Surface Tissues
UNIT 2: Testing Knees Over Toes
Day 1 – Day 5 – ATG workouts (Zero Program)
UNIT 3: Recovery
Day 1 – Cooling and antioxidation
Day 2 – Cleansing and Fasting
Day 3 – Fortifying and Nutrition
Health Checkup 10/25/2021
Byjack
I feel worried about posting about this topic since it can be kind of gross.
However, I feel that physical health is one of the most important things to understand in life as it controls your energy levels, affects your mental strength, and dramatically affects your physical attractiveness or beauty.
Tracking and problem solving my health issues will not only help me but may provide inspiration for others.
Digestion
Symptoms: bloating, gas, diarrhea, distended belly, sensitivity to cold, stress, and exhaustion
Brainstorm:
- Raw ginger – seems to add an overall boost to blood flow (yang qi) and stomach circulation
- Farmhouse Culture Gut Shots – tastes absolutely disgusting, feels like it may actually help
- Unlocking/moving/stretching hips – ever since my knee injury, my hips are tight and contribute to the blockage in my stomach
- Stomach massage – helps smooth out the knots and blockage points
- Increase overall circulation – qi gong, running and cardio all help increase overall circulation and remove blockages overall
- Activate digestion while eating – eat slower and smell food more
- Eat less – to 70% fullness
Current Focus:
I need to improve my baseline before going after a specific treatment plan. The baseline will focus on two basic areas: overall circulation, reducing strain. The goals need to be very small so they are easy to maintain.
- Circulation – eat ginger every morning, run around the block once every morning (minimum 5 min)
- Reducing strain – focus on eating as little as possible, meditate once in the morning and night (minimum 5 min)
Hair
Symptoms: thin hair (but seems to be thickening), itchy scalp, hair falling out, dandruff
Very strange that my hair is thickening but falling out at the same time. Pretty sure my massage is working but the new hair growing in is so thin it falls out easily.
Brainstorm:
- Vigorous scalp massage – increase blood flow and already thicken hair a great deal
- Wash hair – more often, with cold water and apple cider vinegar if possible to reduce inflammation and increase circulation
- Oil/fatty acids – use huge amounts of conditioner and castor oil to thicken hair and prevent breaking and falling out
Current Focus:
I need to cleanse and increase circulation
- Wash hair every day with cold water and apple cider vinegar, need to use lots of conditioner to counter the stripping effect of washing your hair too much
Knee (injury)
Symptoms: afraid to put pressure or impact, no feeling at surgery area, pain
Brainstorm:
- More movement – motion is lotion to the joints
- Increased muscle mass around the joint – muscle is needed to support the joint
- Gua sha – need to tear up the scar tissue around the area and increase blood flow
- Warmup/loosen hips – hips are too tight reducing range of motion
Current focus:
I need more circulation
- Gua sha (or graston) for at least 5 min per day
Posture and Alignment
Symptoms: jutting forward head, misaligned hips, shoulders rounded forward
Brainstorm:
- Cobra yoga pose – let the hips relax into better balance
- Wall posture exercises – strengthen back muscles
- Foam roller stretch – stretch chest muscles
- Practice standing/walking – try to establish perfect alignment
- Move joints more – joints are where everything attaches, moving the joints mean more relaxed and fluid movement
Current focus:
I need to see a chiropractor and also just slightly improve posture while doing things bad for posture (computer, phone):
- Find a chiropractor within my health insurance
- Focus on finding a comfortable way to look at the phone with head back (put your phone on your knees)
Vision
Symptoms: dry eyes, headaches (happens not very often), worsening vision
Brainstorm:
- Relax into looking farther – stretches eye muscles
- Move vision more – gets the eye muscles to work a little more
- Do more active sports – forces your eyes to focus on things moving and far away
- Blink more – resets the eyes
Current Focus:
I want to just relax my eyes more when looking at far away things, rather than trying to move closer.
Vision Challenge 3: Big Improvements
Byjack
I just came back from standup paddleboarding and I feel really really good. Everything is clear and easy to see. I need to find a way to go and play on the water more.
I also was thinking about how if the eye is constantly in a state of contraction, we might need to do some sort of massage in order to help loosen and relax the ligaments and the muscles. I don’t know yet what kind of massage will work. All the current massages only target the areas around the eyes.
I wasn’t able to test my vision on my phone because it is out of battery but I tested on very small text on a book an the results are mindblowing.
12.5 cm to see clearly.
100/12.5 = -8 diopters
Fitness Challenge 2: Increasing Appetite
Byjack
So I’m most of the way through my second part of my challenge – Week 2: Big appetite (increase hunger throughout day) and I’m having a huge amount of issues.
I try to eat a lot but I don’t seem to be able to find a way to digest the food.
Several things seem to be standing in my way:
- Extreme chronic stress
- Lack of exercises and energy
- Poor sleep
I’m going to do what I always did in these situations of great stress. I’m going to simplify and try to find something very small to focus on. And that thing will be breathing.
Whether or not I feel full, hungry stressed, tired or anxious, I am going to strive to do only one thing. To breathe. I find that breathing has tremendous effects for all the of things I listed above as obstacles standing in my way.