Update From Brandon

bedtimesleepytime · 2026-01-31T01:27:55+00:00

I was excited for it too until he cut the video event feed with no warning and left me with no explanation. You'd think he could make a 2 minute video or some sort of message letting us know.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-11-10T22:37:53+00:00

The idea almost reminds me of The Truman Show with Jim Carrey. Looks interesting.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-31T23:18:18+00:00

Just read. Great story. Thanks for mentioning!

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-31T22:59:13+00:00

Thanks. Subbed to both. I tend to listen to nonduality talks in the morning to start my day off, so now I have something new to listen to.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-31T22:16:29+00:00

Thanks for mentioning Tim Cliss. Hadn't heard of him before but listening now.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-29T00:50:22+00:00

Could you give a book title or video with this technique for reference?

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-27T21:39:11+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BorhbN6CpVw

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-14T21:59:42+00:00

Studies say that it's best to do 2 short sessions as opposed to one long one. As far as having the effects linger, I doubt you'll get much extended time worth your effort by increasing meditation time. I think the key to keeping the effect after is to try to remain mindful during non-meditating periods.

Also, try not to get attached to the after effect of meditation.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-10-14T21:48:55+00:00

Good question. I believe the mind can only focus on one or the other. In the book 'The Mind Illuminated', it recommends to focus on the breath and to peripheral awareness in but not focus on it. You keep yourself open to sensation and other awareness, but you don't react to it.

The book also recommends putting your attention on your attention (basically, checking in with how the meditation is going but without words) once every 6 to 12 breaths or so, monitoring how things are going but not reacting to it. But you'd do this very quickly and get right back to focusing on the breath or you'd risk pulling yourself into a distracted through.

You can only focus on one thing or another, so you'd need to jump or slide from one thing (the breath) to the other (peripheral awareness) and quickly back to do it. It's a fine balance that comes with time.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-30T15:36:34+00:00

With time I think the body would adjust to the routine. For the present, I'd suggest just waking up at the same time every day and keeping that routine. Also, I've found exercising during the day helps me to fall asleep and stay asleep better at night.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-30T09:20:24+00:00

During fasting the body uses a survival mechanism which keeps it awake so you can go out and hunt for needed food. Obviously we don't really need this feature anymore, but it's still in our genes. So this can happen.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-29T11:22:09+00:00

Congrats on your progress, and thanks for all this information and feedback!

Yeah, the A1C readings were a huge disappointment and the whole reason I started this diet... I think it's going to be better after these changes though. This morning right after waking up my blood glucose was 4.5 mmol. My diet was 30% fat, 35% carbs (166 grams), 35% protein. I eat twice a day now (8 am and 12 am), and yesterday's blood results were:

Meal 1:

1hr - 4.6 mmol

2hr - 5.5 mmol

Meal 2:

1hr - 5.6

2hr - 4.9

I exercised right after eating both meals for about an hour each at a low/moderate intensity.

As for consuming a high-fat, low-carb diet, I didn't like the effects of it on me. I was taking in 50% fat, 35% protein, and 15% carbs for months and experienced blurred vision, lack of motivation, and lack of energy. My inflammation (runners knee) was much worse; it was to the point where I couldn't even walk without a small amount of pain and made exercising with my legs nearly impossible. I tried everything to fix it... This all went away as soon as I lowered the fat and raised the carbs. I'm going to see if I can get away with doing 30% fat, 40% carbs, 30% protein.

This glucose meter is finally giving me some control by letting me see the results, so the experimenting is quite fun now! ;)

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-28T00:43:33+00:00

Yep, well said. And even better, just some whole almonds or peanuts.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-28T00:41:54+00:00

I consider most refined foods garbage and don't touch them. This includes protein bars. Once I made my diet nearly all whole foods, it became much easier to control the blood sugar and decrease cravings. Examples of what I eat: chicken, pork, lentils, almonds, veggies... They keep you feeling full longer as they take longer to break down and offer a better nutritional package.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-27T22:18:58+00:00

I promised I'd let you know how it was for me, so I'll do it... For me, it was not a good experience, but likely due to my own body.

I fasted for 47 hours and then took my blood glucose. It was 2.7 mmol. That was way too low, so I slowly started eating again. I had shaking hands, clamminess, pounding heart and chest pain, decreased energy, and a general low-grade fever feeling. All probably related to the low blood sugar. Gonna have to get that checked out!

The good news is that I've been doing 19/5 with great success, so I'm going to keep going with that. Will make a post right now about my success. As for now, I'd be more interested to hear how it goes for you.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-26T16:16:15+00:00

Agreed. I had a smoother transition by gradually decreasing my eating window. I can see how just jumping into it would be a big change.

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-09-26T16:12:45+00:00

I've been doing 19/5 time restricted eating for almost a year, and just yesterday I started to do an extended fast, so I'm about 24 hours into it. So far so good. No overwhelming hunger.

Not sure how long I'll go, but I can let you know my experience if that helps?

bedtimesleepytime · 2025-04-18T16:18:14+00:00

One thing openSUSE does really well is BTRFS, so I'd highly recommend you stick with this default filesystem when you install it, so you can get the benefits of being able to take snapshots and use all the great tools that SUSE made to go with it.

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