How do you comfort yourself without food? (In lockdown?)

(Butter Withaspoon) #21

In the same situation (in Australia) with 1 hour a day allowable to exercise, and many beautiful nature parks nearby. I did some delicious forest bathing today after the rain eased, also called going for a walk :smile:. The days I get out are 100% better than the days I don’t. I have to keep reminding myself.

Lockdown is a challenge for sure. I’ve just joined a song writing daily song challenge for the next week, and belong to another daily exercise group. They are only online groups but they inspire and connect me. Great to hear that you are making progress :hugs:

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(Jello_Baby) #23

You have cats? My sister has two cats. I bet yours wake you up in the middle of the night with their loud noises! :joy: Apparently cats can be very noisy at night.

#24

Forest bathing :smiley: Thank you, I learned a new word!

I think I didn’t say yet that now I am on a mission to make GOOD photos of the insect of the year here, the Hummingbird hawk-moth! I must say, it’s not easy. It’s worth it, though, it’s a pretty one even when it’s a blur… Or its wings are… I need l1/4000 second or less and it’s a quick fellow! But I have a wonderful summer lilac and I saw it from my kitchen window… An old but okay camera and a 300mm lense.

I will try to do something with the noise later, maybe.

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But a book about butterflies and moths can keep my attention for a while as well. How amazing patters and colors! :smiley: It makes me want to paint something! :smiley:

Now I go to meet with my SO, I cross a pretty forest with a river in a wildlife park as I chose my place of my home well. Quite far away from all villages and towns but even a big city is only 20km away so it’s not hard to reach it…
(No one ever would notice if I broke curfews or whatever but we only had a very modest one for a while and we never had lockdown. We had something vaguely similar for a little while in spring of 2020 but I always could go out for a walk for my health, there were no 1 hour limit on such things as far as I know. The wildlife park was closed for 2 weeks back then, that was the most problematic thing for me apart from lack of choir activity. And now that we barely have Covid cases - who knows how long? -, it’s pretty much total freedom now with no noticeable restrictions. There must be something for huge gatherings… But that’s it.)

(Mark Rhodes) #25

As the subject of this weeks mail I find this letter to be of interest.

For me I have 32 years in a 12 step program that encourages us to take it One Day at a Time. To manage our days in the smallest increments possible. It also strongly urges us to consider that the first drink is the one that gets us drunk. Not the tenth one. Not the 17th one. The first one because it leads to all the others.

This has been a boon to me in keto. and to others I know in both ways of life. We take each day as it comes. We do not “cheat” as we do not know if we can recover for carbohydrate addiction a second time. Like with alcohol I never know where the first drink will lead me…a DUI, a divorce, a lost job…neither do I know where a carbohydrate binge will lead me. Can I make it back to keto or will I once again fall prey to T2D, heart disease and osteoporosis. If someone says its a matter of willpower WELL try that willpower in holding back diarrhea.

This is not to say I am judgmental of anyone in either program who comes back. WELCOME!! I am absolutely thrilled you survived to give it another go. I am say only that my type of keto really doesn’t allow for days off because I have such a healthy respect of how much i fall prey to the influence of certain types of food.

One last thing. In 2018 I wrote this Carrying the Message on the forums and perhaps this is the great secret . @carl & @richard know I take this very seriously. My style is rather crass, my message is always deeply from the heart. I do not want to see anyone suffer metabolic disease. That this carrying of the message of health recovery to others is my primary purpose. I give away my time helping others in order to keep what I have gotten in the same way…a word of mouth transmission. I cannot cheat with this mission mandate.

I may be the only “keto” message that person ever sees. KCKO

(Bob M) #26

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(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #27

I love the outdoors. I could sit and look at it through the picture window for hours.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

(Marianne) #28

Agreed, and @Camellia, I appreciate this topic. I struggle most days with “nothing” to do (nothing I want to do, anyway), and most days I am really bored. I feel I need to apologize for saying so, but I don’t like to exercise or even walk, don’t like to read, don’t have any hobbies (except doing my nails once every 1-2 weeks), don’t feel like cleaning most of the time, have arthritis in my back so gardening is difficult (although I enjoy it), etc. My main pursuits are surfing my computer for stories of interest, keeping up with a couple of forums that I am active on, online shopping (unfortunately), watching tv, and not a heck of a lot more. When I am bored, I have to force myself not to eat (keto food - just to eat; I’m not hungry), or to drink alcohol. I see my friends on occasion but not enough to fill time.

Interested in reading what everyone enjoys.

#29

Never experienced a “lockdown” as people like to say, but I worked out in parks when the gym was closed for a few weeks, walked, screwed off on the interwebs. Ate!

#30

I want to make some sculptures now… My hands are too clumsy for real art and it’s fine but I could use a 3d mouse model for my future children’s book drawings… :smiley: I only made some very basic “heads” (just the very simplified shape of the cranium part? the flattened sphere thing) and skulls (almost tiny sugar skull level… painting would do the rest, still better than painting some elllipsoid! :D) this far.
I really need to start rock painting again and there is always things to do around the house…

It was odd to see people have no hobbies at all. What. I can’t even comprehend how anyone can get bored at home. Sadly, I can sooo neglect my hobbies and could listen to music or do things in the kitchen forever. I probably wouldn’t be bored drinking coffee for half a day… :frowning: It’s so way better when one does something creative though! :smiley: My mental energy went up, it’s so nice to start to get back my passion! I have problems when I have super low energy (very typical) and no mood for anything. I still don’t get bored as I can read forever etc. but it’s not really living, too passive.