Quitting Facebook. The decision was somewhat pushed for me after Mark banned me for "inciting hatred", I kept sharing a gif of a nazi getting knocked out.
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I got a longer USB cable.
Yes! I got a 10 foot cable for when I'm on the couch.
Eat less and healthier, do lots of sports -> lose weight.
At some point in university I started to eat too much and excercise way too little. There were no "real" reasons. It started somehow and I lost control. So for ~the first half of my 20s I was very overweight. To the point that I was ashamed of my body so I avoided situations in which my weight was obvious even more.
Gladly I was able to turn that around at some point and only then there where comments concerning my weight. (Some congratulatory and some concerned that I was becomming too thin now).
I'm almost 40 now and miiight do to much sports, but I think I found a healthy balance, don't have backpain anymore and am rarely sick.
If I had found the strenght / inspiration sooner, I wouldn't have "lost" quite as much time as I did.
Eating healthier and lightly working out.
Blood pressure medication.
Was high for years. doctor said we should do this or you should get healthy.
I kept 'getting healthy' for years
walking up the steps was pain, knees where pain, i'm like jesus i'm just getting old.
new doctor: you need to stop fucking around and get the meds.
me: ok
i took the meds, 3 days in.... I run up the steps like I was 20 years younger.
HOLY FUCK, why the ever-loving hell didn't I do this before?
estradiol enanthate 4mg/wk
LASIK.
I was scared of the procedure. What if it messed up and now I had permanent eye damage???
In reality, it took like 15 minutes and now I can see in the morning, ditch the whole contact lens daily ritual, and (most importantly to me) wear fun sunglasses right off the rack.
If you’re thinking about it, just do it. I wish I had done it WAY sooner.
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Eating breakfast every day.
My eating habits were so dysfunctional that I can only describe them as a disorder. It affected all areas of my life, from sleep to energy to mood. I didn't know the core problem was my eating habits, all of my problems just meshed together.
One evening I decided that my only goal for the next day was to eat breakfast. Not lunch, not dinner, not go to the gym, not get any work done or change the world. Just eat something when I wake up. I made a beautiful baguette stuffed with everything delicious and placed it by the bed before going to sleep, so I didn't even have to get out of bed to achieve my goal.
Once I got my breakfast, I automatically got lunch and dinner too. Lots of other habits naturally fell into place when I wasn't starving.
That as 15 years ago. I've not missed breakfast since. I've still got tons of issues. But this one, tiny thing, made a massive positive difference.
I manage to get a nice breakfast for like one or two weeks before i start to get lazy, then its downhill for a few months.
Red light therapy, specifically Near Infrared Light on my lungs as it works so well that I was able to stop my 45+ years of daily asthma meds. Incredible.
You s𝖾nt m𝖾 down a r𝖾s𝖾arch rabbit hol𝖾 about R𝖾d Light Th𝖾rapy. I hop𝖾 my 𝖾xp𝖾rienc𝖾 will b𝖾 good as w𝖾ll.
How do you do RLT for your lungs?
Do all your breathing in a red-light district.
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Being gay³
Having boundaries
Thinking of myself as attractive
Accepting that a lot of advice is bad advice and that a lot of people are confidently incorrect AND heavily damaged
Accepting myself
Deciding to continue to actively try to be a better person
Learn about psychology
Going back to school
Stopping painting
Smiling more
Actually learning how to stretch
Getting a mini split heat pump system
I must know what being gay cubed is.
Why was painting bad for you?
Probably lead paints
Asking that my doctor take the symptoms in my sinuses more seriously.
Doctors can be so frustrating...
Could you elaborate on that ?
Knives that don't suck. Also getting chickens. I love them so much, great pets and they lay eggs :)
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I've been using a height adjustable standing desk for 2-3 years now. The option to switch between sitting and standing was a major improvement. It's obviously not a replacement to active movement and I'm looking forward to get a walking pad soon. But I'm glad I even went this direction.
Good Chair, good mattress, the right pillow, no sugar consumption, vegetarian diet,
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Cut contact with family and friends who were bad for my mental health.
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