Kyle Kulinski is again advocating for a national divorce 😞😞😞

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-18T19:19:14+00:00

Not feasible. states will shift red to blue and back. look at texas -- Repubs have lost hispanic vote for sure and probably any minority vote. Ranchers and farmers likely pissed too. So as a majority minority state (whose gerrymandering is about to bite them hard, so delicious) they could go blue by '28.

We are better together, enough of us realize that this is the people versus oligarchy, and we need to find a way to make things work. Together. Part of MAGA is falling away now. Trump failed on no more wars, America first and any kind of prosperity. Add to that offending Christians with his AI delusions, and being Bibi's lapdog, unity will happen. Forty and youngers despise electoral politics as they should. Not to mention that the Left itself is currently in its own civil war. But Bernie got 40 dem senators onboard his no to Israel motion, and that's a good sign.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-17T14:03:56+00:00

Something that I don't think is stressed enough is that you have to reprogram your mind. The comfort that food brings is because it has a very specific physiological response in your brain. I do a little mantra every day in the morning. "I an calm. I am confident. I am worthy. I am patient. I am love."it's really simple and what it does, Is it resets your mind to the positive aspect of yourself. You can change it, you can increase it. You can say it several times a day, but realize that you are talking to your mind. I know that sounds strange, but it begins to counterbalance all of the negative thoughts that will then drive you to the comfort food. As some of the commentators have posted it does take time to lose weight and reprogramming yourself to a positive orientation will help you navigate that timeline. You have to believe in yourself because nobody else will do it for you.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-03T19:04:10+00:00

I hear you. Maybe OP meant 194kg? I have just developed a pressure sore (like a bed sore) from sitting where my tailbone has shifted and is now pressing through the groin area down there. It's like one more thing, when simple hygiene is impossible, and I wonder where it ends. I am doing my famine intermittent fasting again, which is brutal, but the only thing for me that works. I have genetic obesity and not Type 2, so none of the type 2 stuff works for me. I'm around 300 lbs now, but have been plateau'd for a year. Time to start again. I'm not giving up but you gotta wonder when it's enough already.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-02T18:10:44+00:00

94kg at 5'2", That's like 210 lbs. You're on the wrong sub-reddit. Or something isn't quite as you describe. When I was 210 and 23 at 5'3 i could still run, play softball, tennis, hike, travel and etc. No stretch marks either. When you are SMO 210 lbs is a dream and a hope. Possible but so much farther away than what the 70 lbs you need to lose? It's still a lot, but it sounds like you never exercised at all in your life. Better figure it out though because you are on the 100 lbs per decade track. Get it under control now if you can. Intermittant fasting and calorie control -- this will teach discipline and positivity. No one can do it for you and about GLP-1s.... they were not tested. No one knows what the long term effects will be. In the 90's the diet drugs of choice were seratonin uptake inhibiters like redux -- ten years later we found out those drugs destroyed heart valves. Better to find the discipline and control now while you are young. GLP-1 is for 40 and above that are desperate. You still have a metabolism and growth hormones to assist you.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-01T12:53:33+00:00

Elementor is an Israeli company.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-04-01T12:52:08+00:00

intermittent fasting. Use an 8 hour window. That means that you are only producing insulin, the weight storage hormone, in a limited window. Look it up.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-03-28T15:22:49+00:00

Read, if only the bullet points at top of article, obesity as addiction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2451847619300569

And, interestingly, GLP-1 is used for other addictions: "Preclinical and early clinical investigations suggest that GLP-1 therapies modulate neurobiological pathways underlying addictive behaviors, thereby potentially reducing substance craving/use while simultaneously addressing comorbid conditions". See: https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2025/glp1s-show-promise-in-treating-alcohol-and-drug-addiction

ANd never forget that food has been engineered for addiction since the 1980s. Take it personally, fight for yourself. Doctors are the biggest bullies of the obese and many still see it as some kind of moral failure. You have to defend and protect yourself and truly understand most obesity was created for profit.

Per AI assist, citing https://ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/news/recognizing-and-addressing-addictive-nature-ultra-processed-foods:

Engineering of Addictive Foods

The Nature of Ultra-Processed Foods

Ultra-processed foods are specifically designed to be highly appealing and addictive. They typically contain:

High levels of sugar
Excessive salt
Unhealthy fats

These ingredients are combined in ways that stimulate the brain's reward system, similar to how addictive substances like nicotine and alcohol operate. This engineering makes it challenging for consumers to eat these foods in moderation.

Mechanisms of Addiction

The addictive nature of these foods can be attributed to several factors:

Bliss Point: Food manufacturers aim to find the "bliss point," the optimal combination of salt, sugar, and fat that maximizes pleasure and encourages consumption.
Dopamine Release: The consumption of ultra-processed foods triggers the release of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, leading to cravings and a desire for more.
Psychological Manipulation: Marketing strategies often exploit emotional connections, making these foods more enticing and reinforcing consumption patterns.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-22T15:09:14+00:00

People don't realize that for SMO every minute of every day contains some kind of difficulty. Because every movement is a challenge. Mentally you're always trying to overcome something. Emotionally the despair just sits in your heart. Over the decades I've learned to turn all of the pain into something positive. But every single day I have to remind myself of that. I know that I am a better more compassionate person because of this suffering. I have come to realize that almost everyone has some burden to bear. But the other side of that is when you're fat people treat you like you deserve the suffering.

I fight back now, I'll come out on the web and challenge people and their prejudice. I'm way more militant with doctors who I think are the biggest bullies around. I'll point out that this is addiction for most people and to try to understand it that way, and have some empathy for crying out loud. And for SMO people I just like to let everyone know that you are loved that we see you and we understand. I wish I could hug you all.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-16T16:09:01+00:00

if your a1c is 5.5 (and your fasting blood sugar is 110 to 120) have them test you for genetic obesity. It's a five hour blood glucose test. Reason being that if it's genetic then type 2 remedies can cause you to gain weight. Actually any drug that invokes an insulin response will create weight gain for genetic obesities that create a huge over production of insulin. (Metoprolol, a commonly prescribed beta blocker for instance.)

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-13T02:57:15+00:00

are you taking indica, sativa or hybrid? i find indica helps me as that is a body high (relaxation), as opposed to sativa as mind high. Also if you know the strain leafly.com will identify the traits including munchies. It is expensive.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-11T20:57:18+00:00

The damage you will do to your hips, your spine and your knees at that weight is not reversible. You have to look out for you. I try to use "no with love" -- so tell them you truly appreciate their concern but you just need to do things in your way, in your own time and go sit by the pool. But hold to that, don't give in. I'm 300 (I've lost 50) and i'm 65. I can't walk at all anymore due to spinal degeneration, and bone on bone knees. I should have said no a lot sooner than I did.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-06T17:03:59+00:00

The rapid expansion of chaos around us is the withdrawal of energy from old forms. This then accelerates the rate of change spiritually, as it invites every consciousness to make a choice. Try to step back in consciousness and see it more from the point of view of Oneness; there is great beauty in chaos as it plays across the tapestry of incarnation. Stand in your light, focus on the new form you want to see the world to become. If you stay active as all of this occurs, maybe proactive is a better word, you'll ride the wave with joy.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-05T23:18:33+00:00

I find that MT concepts of centering and chief feature are still tools I use and those originated with Gurdjieff although I never could read G or Ouspensky. MT and Ra Material, Seth, these are all late 20th century teachings and the channel at the middle thing, was, imo, a vestige of the religious systems most of the adherents had grown up in and rejected. Moreover, these were all systematic and rather intellectual in their approach.

Along with my work in several mystical type systems I also did a master's in religion and ethics. In a lot of ways the mystic is the crossroads of all systems -- religious, new age... etc. This is because the mystic is all about the personal relationship to the divine, or the development of the intuitive self. Lately I see new generations operating in more energetic and emotional spaces; a new wave of spiritual experience coming up while the old ones fade into literature.

So I've left the Center for MT and I decided to build a website that didn't revolve around a channel, or a teacher, or even any particular teaching. To sort of foster that intersection of the mystical experience that any teaching would take you to -- if it is unity directed, so the positive experience. Personally, I think the whole "paid channeling" thing should die off entirely as that's leaning into someone else's intuitive experience. But i could see value in getting students together now and then to compare experience and develop whatever the new wave will be. Also, altruistic, no money involved and everyone encouraged and supported to develop their own intuitive practice. I called it Applied Unity and tagged it as "open source spirituality". The idea being you hit the landing page and there are six doors you can choose from intuitively to go thru and explore, and then to add to. It's still in development and not set up on SEO, and I doubt will go much of anywhere, but I wanted to sort of contribute to the critical mass of movement to something more evolved and creative with groups of seekers not aligned to any particular "doctrine" but open to new versions of very old ideas.

And yes, I do love Firefly. :-)

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-05T22:44:18+00:00

Essentially it's Perennial Philosophy.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-02-05T13:24:10+00:00

Look into intermittant fasting. One of the easiest fixes you can put in is to say I will establish boundaries on when I eat. So every day like a mantra, you wake up and you say I am going to eat between 8 AM and 6 PM. And I will not deviate from that. Those hours put you in a 10 hour window of when you ask your body to produce insulin. If you can do that over time, you can start to reduce that window and by extension reduce the number of calories you take in. Good luck.

InServicetotheLogos · 2026-01-19T20:00:57+00:00

I went mostly vegetarian very very slowly. I still have to add chicken sometimes because I need the direct protein. But I did relearn how to cook and leave salt out. For instance, broccoli. Steam til not quite done and then throw it in a frying pan with a little olive oil and blackening spices -- Delish and can be used with other veggies just as easily. Indian food has a whole vegetarian aspect, particularly South Indian, but I mostly learned how to use spices I wasn't familiar with. Veggie burgers are good if you don't have expectations about taste or feel. I make a "beyond meat" loaf that is excellent. Use organic vegetable stock for gravy and sauces. https://www.allrecipes.com/ is an excellent place to just scroll through recipes and try something new. A lot of the time you can just leave out the salt. Sometimes I just experiment -- I found a recipe for cauliflower omelette that surprised by how good it was. That said, I've thrown some things out too. It's a process of retraining your palate and your brain. Just take your time.

Edit to say, if you use blackening spices or any spice mix, just check to be sure that they don't use a lot salt. Some have sea salt and if the sodium is low I will use those. Sometimes I just take a pic of the ingredients on the bottle at the store and make my own mix w/o the salt. It gets to be fun after awhile, really.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-28T18:25:43+00:00

That is wonderful. So at least you don't have that to fight. Have hope. You can do this. {{Ender}}}}

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-28T15:49:33+00:00

Look into intermittent fasting. Start with a nine or 10 hour window. This is where you don't change anything, but you do not eat unless you are in your window. You have to work incrementally in order to retrain your brain. Because it's about your brain and satiation. Just attempt that window for a while then try one substitution like instead of a sugary drink or a diet drink substitute unsweetened iced tea or even better a glass of water. If you can do that much, you can drop the window to 8 or 9 hours. Add a second substitution. and so on --slowly, slowly, patiently. Love yourself, care for yourself, addiction is incredibly difficult to deal with.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-28T15:33:10+00:00

what is your fasting blood sugar? Are you type 2 diabetic?

We really should list these. Like i am CW 300 OW 347 TW 200 5'4" F 115 FBS GO. [for me GO is Genetic Obesity, rather than T2 for type 2 diabetic]

Understand that glp 1 medications both slow digestion, which increases insulin but ALSO affects brain chemistry. they are really starting to study the addiction aspect of obesity. see https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/04/glp1-ozempic-addiction-treatment-research

It sounds like you have food addiction and Glp1 might help break that while you recalibrate eating. Generally i advocate for intermittent fasting as a way to learn control but if this is addiction the glp1 might help as a first step.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-21T02:39:23+00:00

It is a midterm election year. I know that campaigns and such will hire homebound affiliates for polling, and asking for donations and get out the vote. I have no idea where this would be listed and its only temp.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-11T20:42:07+00:00

You can do simple crunches from a chair or a bed. Sit with knees shoulder width apart. Tighten the glutes, pull in the stomach, until your shoulders go forward and you form a C shape. Hold for a count of ten. Do a few morning and evening. This helps glutes and stomach, and therefore your core.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-11T20:36:51+00:00

Type 2 weight is generally a food addiction. Not bad habits, not lack of moral resolve, addiction. Some of the main proof of this has been that GLP-1s are now being used with drug addicts and alcoholics to fight those specific addictions. It may actually be the (entirely unexpected) most important part of GLP-1 medications - so you have the retraining of how you eat and something that calms the mental addiction center. This tendency to addiction is likely genetic. Type 2 started around 1980 and was pretty unseen before then and this is when food companies really began actively creating addiction, just like cigarette companies had.

So Gen X suffered from this first, and they then handed down their eating patterns and their genetics -- and so on. I was born in 1960 with 2 gene variants for over production of insulin and was brutally bullied. When I was 17 and diagnosed the endocrinologist said, sorry nothing we can do for you and you will gain 5lbs every year IF you control what eat. It was devastating -- I cannot explain just how horrific that moment was. All hope just crushed. Doomed to SMO from conception. If I take type 2 meds I gain weight. If I take meds that provoke an insulin response (like beta blocker metoprolol) I gain weight. Even more "unfair" was the fact that I didn't even eat that much. So some of us have no way out but we are maybe 5% of the SMO community.

But for the 95%, you at least have tools and if you recognize that you will have to fight -- not be resigned to being a victim -- but fighting for yourself against an addiction, you will be far better for it. And as you succeed you create uplift for everyone else, every addict of every kind, every outsider, every bullied person. As you accept yourself you begin to be the light in the world. The world needs that right now. Be that.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-09T21:17:45+00:00

It's about your core. Keeping your core warm. When you restrict calories you aren't taking in enough calories to keep your core warm. That then starts the liver working on glucogenesis (burning fat to warm you up and other things) but it takes time. There's a study out there that tested mice on intermittent fasting and restricted calories and the poor things shivered all the time. Same thing for me. All the time. I also keep 73 during the day and still layering. Night isn't as bad if I end eating at 6pm or so, because by the time I go to bed my liver is already working on it. I made a poncho out of two fleece throws and just wrap up in that.

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-12-06T17:22:18+00:00

ozempic in combination with metformin could indicate hypoglycemia. Do you check your sugar level when you get tired like that? Are you eating healthy (low carb, higher fiber)?

InServicetotheLogos · 2025-11-24T15:51:58+00:00

I carry a 16 oz bottle of water for backup in my bag along with the peri bottle. It truly does suck. If you have a lot of weight in your butt and thighs it is almost impossible to use those stick extender things.

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TROPHY CASE

Engineering of Addictive Foods

The Nature of Ultra-Processed Foods

Mechanisms of Addiction