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This is me. I can easily eat nothing for a day or two, though my longest was 3 days. Working out has been helpful because now I have an intellectual need to en

This is me. I can easily eat nothing for a day or two, though my longest was 3 days. Working out has been helpful because now I have an intellectual need to ensure I get enough calories and my macros. I can also way overeat if I have things I like available because there’s never really a “stop” signal that’s not being physically full. The only times I experience a “yeah ok I’m good now” is with extremely rich cheesecake sickening me (having still overeaten it) or 70% dark chocolate boring me. The later along with green apples are the only snacks I dare to keep around, because I’m not all that interested in eating them lol. If I tried to go to bed when I’m tired, I’d end up doing so 2-4 hours later than the previous day, end up being awake at night and sleeping (poorly) during the day until it cycles back around and the insanity repeats all over again. Even if I’m extremely tired for some reason, it still takes at least an hour to actually fall asleep, followed by waking up multiple times during the night to toss and turn. The phenomenon of my head hitting the pillow and the next day showing up happened once when I was traveling, and was wonderful. I’ve historically been very poor at recognizing when I’m being emotionally affected by things or stressed, which I would describe as feeling more like an android that a human, though that’s improved these past few years. Listening to my body is still important, but I can’t intuitively just understand what it’s “telling me”, rather I need to track the consequences and intervene. Incidentally, I am both autistic and spent much of my childhood trying to manage that hazards of my parent’s unstable emotional states rather than my own.

vundercind 2y ago
Every so often—maybe once a quarter—I wake up just feeling like a million bucks, like I can do anything, and I go through the whole day like that. I get so much done, and feel awesome the entire time. I have wondered, at times, if other people feel like that more often (and some, maybe never!). I’m pretty sure I’d be emperor of the planet if I felt like that even one day a week.
- hackernewds 2y ago
  Motivation is fleeting. Discipline and habits can sustain. Unfortunately there is a feedback loop there which is consistency that is very hard to maintain to get over the proverbial hump first.
- rramadass 2y ago
  When growing up (in the 1970s-1980s) i went to a school with timings of 11:30AM to 4:30PM. You had 7 periods of 40 mins each with a break of 20/30mins after the first 4 periods. It was fantastic. We slept well, woke up around 7-8AM well refreshed and energetic, and would have something very light (eg. multigrain congee) to drink. Mom would finish cooking by 8AM and Dad would have a good brunch and leave for work with a light lunch in hand. We would have a good brunch by 10/10:30AM and leave for school with a light lunch in hand. Never felt drowsy/sleepy/tired in school. Return home from school around 5PM, have something light to eat and go out to play with friends until it got dark around 6/6:30PM. Get back home, wash up and do homework until 8/8:30PM (whatever couldn't be finished we did the next day morning). Have dinner, do some more homework (we didn't have TV at that time) and hit the bed around 9:30PM. IMO, this should be the ideal "work" schedule and i have often thought of adopting it again as my everyday time schedule.
sirsinsalot 2y ago
You're describing an eating disorder in the first part there.

vundercind 2y ago

Every so often—maybe once a quarter—I wake up just feeling like a million bucks, like I can do anything, and I go through the whole day like that. I get so much done, and feel awesome the entire time. I have wondered, at times, if other people feel like that more often (and some, maybe never!). I’m pretty sure I’d be emperor of the planet if I felt like that even one day a week.

hackernewds 2y ago
Motivation is fleeting. Discipline and habits can sustain. Unfortunately there is a feedback loop there which is consistency that is very hard to maintain to get over the proverbial hump first.
rramadass 2y ago
When growing up (in the 1970s-1980s) i went to a school with timings of 11:30AM to 4:30PM. You had 7 periods of 40 mins each with a break of 20/30mins after the first 4 periods. It was fantastic. We slept well, woke up around 7-8AM well refreshed and energetic, and would have something very light (eg. multigrain congee) to drink. Mom would finish cooking by 8AM and Dad would have a good brunch and leave for work with a light lunch in hand. We would have a good brunch by 10/10:30AM and leave for school with a light lunch in hand. Never felt drowsy/sleepy/tired in school. Return home from school around 5PM, have something light to eat and go out to play with friends until it got dark around 6/6:30PM. Get back home, wash up and do homework until 8/8:30PM (whatever couldn't be finished we did the next day morning). Have dinner, do some more homework (we didn't have TV at that time) and hit the bed around 9:30PM. IMO, this should be the ideal "work" schedule and i have often thought of adopting it again as my everyday time schedule.

sirsinsalot 2y ago

You're describing an eating disorder in the first part there.