Mental and Physical health hacks, resources and advice
Dubman I bet. I found the first of everything tough. First Christmas, birthday etc etc. I promise it gets better, but I don’t think there’s really anything you can do to accelerate grief.
I also don’t really buy into the idea that there’s 5 distinct stages to grief. I found I was feeling all sorts of shit all the time…
I realise that’s not a great pep talk. 
I can’t believe I’m about to say this but a lol for Hugo.
IndustryStandard If you’ve never tried a low carb or keto (<30 grams of carbs/day), it’ll take 90 days to get fat adapted (the point where your body has really adjusted to burning fat over carbs) and 6 months to really start to optimize fat burning.
The key is to start slow, it’ll feel like you’re dying for a couple of weeks if you cut carbs cold turkey (which I did), and ease into exercise. Keep everything in zone ½ (top of zone 2 is equal to your fat max state), which means you can hold a conversation while running/biking. It should feel easy. The benefits start at 30-40 minutes of continuous exercise and personally, I found it goes into overdrive at 90 minutes.
Initially it can be a difficult transition, but I’ve never felt better physically (reduced inflammation) and mentally (clarity of thought, better memory, improved motivation) than when I was strict keto.
Millsy Yeah a year ago eating what I would call moderate amounts of carbs (probably between 50-100 grams/day, not sure as I wasn’t measuring), I got down to a weight I have’s seen since I was 17. As my training volume increased last year, I had to quit intermittent fasting, started fueling all of my runs, and upped my carbs a lot. At 100 km or more a week, I was drinking chocolate milk just to get calories in.
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vinnyt77 I also don’t really buy into the idea that there’s 5 distinct stages to grief. I found I was feeling all sorts of shit all the time…
More accurately the 5 appear in no order whatsoever and some fuck off / some linger.
It does eventually get lighter over 3-6 months and onwards, unless you are suffering from “Complicated Grief” (i.e. during the first few months of grief the symptoms can be the same as normal grief, but it Complicated Grief is prolonged and more personally intrusive - seems to intensify / look like depression/anxiety or even PTSD sometimes - it can stop you functioning properly and never go away)
See full list of symptoms here - if you think you have this (or did years ago and were never the same) defo see a Grief Counsellor it has worked wonders for someone close to me and brought them back to life.
I had no idea this was a thing until I saw how it affects someone first hand - its very unkind and even more unforgiving than it needs to be.
When you guys are fasting how often do you do it? 16 hours for 3 days a week? Every day?
2-3 times a week for me has me sorted.
At the beginning I did 3 × 16 hour fasts (easy) before learning how to do a 36 hours - did that a few times and tossed a couple of 72 hour fasts on the end and I went from 96kg to 86kg in about 6 or 7 weeks.
A close relative aged over 70 with health and mobility issues was told she was tipping into pre-diabetic (but cant exercise) - she did it purely on 16h fasts for a few months and went from 22 stone down to 18.6 (and still dropping) and she has her doctor asking how she came out of pre-diabetic state.
In short. It works
mono-stereo I used to do 16-18 hours 7 days a week. It just became part of my life, never really thought about it much after a while.