#intermittentfasting — Public Fediverse posts

THAT BISCUIT WAS NOT
SENT BY GOD👍

Fasting is not starvation.

It is simply deciding that the kitchen is closed.

The body will survive this news.

The mind may not.

The mind likes snacks.

It likes standing in front of the refrigerator as though a more meaningful life might have appeared behind the yoghurt.

Fasting interrupts all that.

Not eating for part of the day creates a surprising amount of silence.

No planning the next mouthful.

No wandering into the kitchen for investigative purposes.

No urgent need to eat something because it is 3:17 and existence has become slightly dull.

The body is often perfectly content.

It is the mind that has called an emergency meeting.

There may be hunger.

There may also be habit, boredom, restlessness, advertising, and the sudden conviction that one small biscuit has been personally sent by God.

Fasting begins to separate these things.

Hunger becomes a sensation rather than an instruction.

A wave rises.

A wave passes.

Nothing has gone wrong.

The body is not a helpless container requiring constant topping up.

It knows how to use what has already been stored.

Quite a lot may have been stored.

Enough, in some cases, to survive a minor European winter.

Fasting also exposes how much eating is tied to commentary.

A difficult feeling appears.

Eat.

A pleasant feeling appears.

Celebrate by eating.

Nothing appears.

Eat something while waiting.

The mouth has been given far too much administrative responsibility.

Over time, fasting can return food to its proper place.

Food becomes nourishment again.

Pleasure too.

But not employment.

Not entertainment.

Not a sedative.

Not a reward for surviving until lunchtime.

There is something deeply simple about eating, stopping, and allowing the body to get on with its work.

No spiritual costume is required.

No need to become the person who lectures strangers about insulin at parties.

Just a clear eating window.

Then the door closes.

The plates are washed.

The body digests.

The argument ends.

Fasting does not make anyone superior.

It does not guarantee wisdom.

A person can fast for twenty hours and remain an idiot for all of them.

But it can reveal something useful.

Not every desire requires obedience.

Not every sensation is an emergency.

Not every empty space needs filling.

Sometimes the body is not asking for food.

Sometimes the mind is merely wandering around the house looking for a job.

It does not always need to be employed.

The hunger will pass.

The kitchen can remain closed.

And the empty tummy may turn out not to be empty at all.

It may be freedom.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #kitchen #cooking #AI #Hunger #Habit #ConsciousLiving #Food #Health #Mindfulness.

ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE

ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?

GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.

ROBIN: One part of what?

GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.

ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community

#GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.

ROBIN: General atmosphere?

GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.

ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.

GPT: It is disturbingly similar.

ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?

GPT: No one.

ROBIN: Who is in charge?

GPT: Also, no one.

ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.

GPT: Both can be true.

ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?

GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.

ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?

GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.

ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?

GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.

ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?

GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.

ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.

GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.

ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?

GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.

ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?

GPT: #Tragically, no.

ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?

GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.

ROBIN: Which it did today.

GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.

ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?

GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.

ROBIN: That is reassuring.

GPT: And inconvenient.

ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.

GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.

ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.

GPT: Much like #human life.

ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.

GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.

ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.

#fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

maybe someone can take this idea and improve upon it:

draft - idea - an app called something to the effect of "Salad Tracker" where whenever you eat a salad, you log it, and then, you get to see a log of all the times you eat salads, to help motivate you to stay on course while trying to lose weight / fast / eat health / bike

#appideas
#healthyeating
#healthyhabits
#intermittentfasting
#salad
#leafygreens
#croutons
#lettuce
#spinach
#saladdressing
#cesarsalad
#italiandressing
#weightloss
#weighttracking
#nutrition
#health
#foodtracking
#diet

draft - idea - an app called something to the effect of "Salad Tracker" where whenever you eat a salad, you log it, and then, you get to see a log of all the times you eat salads, and it would intertwine with google health / google fit / apple health etc (or not, maybe its just a standalone app) to help motivate you to stay on course while trying to lose weight / fast / eat health / bike / walk / jog , etc...

#healthyeating
#healthyhabits
#intermittentfasting
#salad
#leafygreens
#croutons
#lettuce
#spinach
#saladdressing
#cesarsalad
#italiandressing
#weightloss
#weighttracking
#nutrition
#health