Intermittent fasting & exercise. Moon ritual (audio: noxsoma.substack.com)

Sabado Grande, mi gente. Welcome to one more month above ground.

It’s a well-deserved day off from relentless exercising. Friday was stronger than expected. We were out on the monkey bars for over two hours, doing mostly calisthenics. Various body-weight exercises, push-ups, pull ups, squats and variations of each. We did this in a fasting state. The reason I point this out is to let you know that it can be done. Maybe it cannot be done by, you… yet. But only because you haven’t tried it. Or mastered it.

Intermittent fasting has been a practice for several years now. Maybe it was 2023, or 24 when we started. Either way, it’s documented somewhere within the Full Metal Ox series. Day by day. I was skeptical when I started intermittent fasting. Very skeptical when I started weight lifting in a fasting state. But it worked out. I didn’t think about food, and I didn’t get hungry during the couple of hours of weight training. And, I didn’t get hungry during the 30 minute walk home. I ended up extending the fast for at least an hour or two after the workout. I drank plenty of H2O however, and would have a cuppa tea when I got home. That certainly made a difference. Plus, the weight came off, and even more impressively, the belly fat was diminished as well. We’re not talking six-pack abs, but an impressive contour emerged.

This year we started a “ritual” of abstinence, once a month, (28 days actually), when the moon is in Pisces. This was mentioned yesterday. Today is Day 2 of 3.

Here’s the report: After the playground workout, the caffeine headache showed up. This is the first time this year that the headache showed up on the first day. Probably because I’d increased the tea consumption from one to two cups per day. I expected this to happen, so maybe it’s partially manipulation of the simulation that brought on the headache. I expected it, thus Universe provided the expected experience.

Anyway - active recovery day today. Maybe a clean-up, more editing for the show and more work on the Emindcipation series.

Have an awesome month.

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PEACE.