AsraArdwulfLeberecht said:
Greetings.
Are you saying that intermittent fasting like 16:8 or 5:2 doesn't mess up the organism ? I wanted to try it for some time but I thought my body would store everything as fat upon not being fed.
I've done intermittent fasting for years without issues, but it doesn't work on everyone. And different ratios work on different people. It takes a bit of experimenting and your body can take anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks to get used to it. For me, 18:6 and 20:4 worked the best.
Intermittent fasting was naturally done by everyone once upon a time before excessive amounts of food became available and binge-eating became a thing.
For optimal sleep quality, for example, you stop eating approximately 3 hours before bed and you stop drinking 1.5 hours before bed. Everyone was aware of things like this in the Golden Age and nearly everyone applied them without childish attitudes and enemy programming getting in the way.
If you add those 3 hours to 8-9 hours of optimal sleep, you get to 11-12 hours of fasting already. Do you really need to eat immediately upon waking up? It was common to go to bed early on most days and to wake up early, as they did not have an imbalanced endocrine system with brainwashing to think that being a night owl means going to bed past 11pm or staying up all night. Common waking up times ranged between 4:30am and 8:30am at the latest. In generally, most people would naturally wake up at sunrise or slightly before, with the few early risers going early and the few night people going somewhat later.
If you spend a few hours between meditating and going through your pre-breakfast morning routine, you'll easily eat a 16 hour mark. Your body will not store everything as fat. It will start entering fat-burning instead. As long as you get all your calories within your daily eating window, your body doesn't need to store any extra body fat.
For women, I hear the eating and fasting windows are different. I have no experience with women's intermittent fasting but maybe other people can tell you their experience.
I'm trying to build more lean muscle and lose fat like Brother Onyx but in a different measure since I'm a woman. I also thought about daily subtracting 500 calories from my maintenance calorie intake (which is 1848, so around 1300). That would lead to a 7700 calorie loss in aprox. 16 days which is 1 kg in around 2 weeks. Would this work?
Speaking of hydration, how much water should one drink per kg of bodyweight?
The formula I use for water is 66ml per kg of bodyweight OR 30ml per lb of bodyweight. If you know your body fat percentage, only apply this formula to your lean body mass, not to your total body mass.
Also, please don't increase all at once as your kidneys are not used to it. Try increasing by about 250ml every 4 days or so, until you reach your goal. You will start urinating more. When your urine is completely clear most of the day, you are properly hydrated, which in turn helps expel toxins from your body more easily both through sweat and other ways. If you consume a lot of vitamins from the B-complex, your urine may be a bright yellow after those supplements have been processed.
I would like to remind that I am not a licensed medical practitioner, and all my statements come from both experiential knowledge and research.
Wotanwarrior said:
Lydia [JG said:
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Stormblood and
Edward Lonsa's replies are very useful
For many people, it is due to Qi and/or psychological/subconscious issues.
In my case those self-esteem problems are related to Venus and the Sun, every time I do some work to sublimate them, strengthen them or remove the karma associated with those two planets that hang-up comes back to the surface.
Is something that seems to have accumulated over many past lives.
If you know the cause, that makes it easier. Aside from what Lydia said, it's important to consider that whenever you remove karma and do freeing the soul workings in general, the issues related to that karma will be emphasised in your life so you become aware of them and act to rectify them. In this case, they may exacerbate your self-esteem and make you feel like you don't bring value: if that's the case, you may want to correct by thinking about how you can bring value; if that's not the case, you may want to focus on HOW you're bringing value.
This is just a general guideline.
Everyone has areas where they can bring value and areas where they are weaker at. Recognising this doesn't make us any less. If you want to bring value to something, taking action to accomplish just that will in turn boost your self-esteem. If you shy away from the challenge, your self-esteem will take a hit as well. And you also need to decide which battles you're going to pick. Not every battle is worth fighting. For example, there's no need to focus on bringing value in something that you're just not interested in AND that it's just not your responsibility.
Overall, time is an important factor. It takes time to become good at something. What's important to recognise there is that consistently taking action is the right mindset to have when you want to become good at something. You cannot expect to be good at everything immediately, as humans are growth-oriented creatures not people with fixed attributes that don't change overtime. So it's worth it to stick to something, rather than saying "I'm not good at it" and avoiding it. Tell yourself "I may not be good at it now, but I'm going to improve." That new statement overtime will grow into "I'm becoming good at it because I'm taking all the right consistent actions" or something similar.
This text is in general for everyone with self-esteem issues.
For your specific case, look at your Venus and Sun in your chart. What sign(s) are they in? What house(s) are they in? What houses have Taurus, Libra and Leo on the cusp? Is any of them your chart ruler? What aspect do they form? Don't answer this here on the forum, of course. These are for your own personal analysis.
Soft aspects from other planets mean those other planet can help you benefit Venus and the Sun without creating conflict in your life, while hard aspects like oppositions and squares will bring some element of strife/challenge for you to overcome. For example, if your Jupiter is aspecting Venus, doing a Jupiter square on the area where you have a self-esteem issue related to Venus can help you more easily overcome this karma too!
The insight coming from the questions above can help make your MUNKA working more specific and thus more effective. It can also help you craft positive suggestions and visualisations that you can use in self-hypnosis sessions, if you are that way inclined.
All the best!
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