The Flame-Free Confession Thread II

Confession: it’s 2am and I have an alarm at 6am, in four hours. I am laying in my bed and I have been trying to sleep for an hour. Ten minutes ago I thought that I might as well read some stuff here if I’m going to lie there eyes wide open. At least distracting myself prevents anxiety to set in.

I have a feeling I’ll feel pretty bad tomorrow morning when I wake up.

I really hope that what @T3hPwnisher (on his blog?) said about the relative importance of sleep vs more importantly, nutrition, for gains is the case and I can just make up for nights like this with a nap here and there, otherwise I’m fucked

Well, that’s an anomaly. You can’t give an accurate assessment of your dietary preferences in that state.

From my understanding of sleep and studies and stuff, somehow you can bank sleep but you can’t make it up.

So you can sleep extra in anticipation of a sleep shortage and be okay. You can’t make it up by sleeping extra after a bad night of sleep.

But that’s the point though: I get to now experience what people who have to force feed with no appetite feel. Specifically the eating through nausea. Eating without an appetite sucks.

Mini cut before Thanksgiving.

It seems to happen every time around this year, so it could be worse I suppose.

I guess I’m doomed then

Anyway, what does “can’t make up mean”? That even if I’m going to sleep extra after that one night, the gains “lost” won’t be “recovered”?

I’ve recently started making thai curry at home.

I love it. The spice and the coconut makes it so that I can throw just about any vegetables I want in and mask the taste. I’ve been throwing in a bunch of leafy greens that I normally strongly dislike eating.

I’ve also been adding about 1.4-1.5lb of chicken thigh in. In theory you can add as much chicken you want in.

Curry is also incredibly easy if you buy the curry paste from the market.

Cook the chicken. Add whatever vegetables you want to add in that tastes some time to cook. Add the curry paste; how much is up you. Add in your coconut milk/cream; again, up to you. Let it simmer for a minimum of 15 minutes.

By far the easiest protein heavy meal you can make ever-
Saute ground beef and season it with spices of your choice. Add in whatever vegetables you want.

This is my lunch everyday if I’m not busy and don’t have time to go back home to cook. Takes about 10-15 minutes to fully cook. Takes a while to eat though.

It’s not about gains. Sleep clearly has a huge impact on our health, but (as far as I am aware) no one knows for sure why.

People have tentatively established that lack of sleep is detrimental to your body’s ability to function.

People have also tentatively established that people have different sleep requirements. Ergo, that T3hPwnisher can continue on with little sleep does not mean that you can.

It’s like being put into a room full of naked, horny models who want to jump your bones.

Yes, having to bang one every hour or two, every day is going to eventually suck but it’s just a process you need to plough through

But having to sit in the corner and just wait for two weeks to roll around for months on end is a whole other animal lol

Note: in truth I think this is very individual. Some people are going to find one much harder than the other and some will be okay with both

Haha I guess that works as an analogy for what I meant as well as anything else would.

Trapped gas escaping or other such nonsense as an explanation for why joints crack - I believe that to be utter bullshit.

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It’s probably all bullshit, but imo, the only thing that matters is that I can crack away without worrying about arthritis

Had “final contact” with some long term friends who no longer meet the friendship criteria yesterday. Thought I would be bummed out since I stood up in there wedding 6 years ago, but it’s been a long time coming and I am more ambivalent about the entire situation than anything.

Long story short, they are just not the same people they were 6 years ago. Also, since moving to Florida, I was only seeing them maybe 3 times a year at best, so the friendship was fading anyway.

Don’t sweat it: we all are.

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Not gains, but sleep.

It was a short term study and I think it assumes that sleep is normal most of the time.

One thing I like to repeat myself when I’m lying in my bed awake and getting anxious because I can’t sleep is, “don’t sweat it, one day you’ll be dead and it won’t fucking matter if you got enough sleep tonight”

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There you go now that’s being positive!

Look up some wind-down breathing Techniques like 4 sec in, hold, and 4 sec out And meditations they can really help relax you. But, when you have slept like shit and still must be productive, they say you can trick your brain into feeling better if you keep telling yourself and believing how GREAT you actually slept. Me I just use heavy doses of caffeine.

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People - scientists - have absolutely established that a lack of sleep is detrimental. Delayed reflexes, slowed thinking - and it doesn’t take long for psychosis to set in.

HOWEVER, people vastly overestimate how important one or two nights of shitty sleep are, and this overestimation and the anxiety it causes tend to be at the root of ongoing insomnia (i.e. worry about not sleeping causes difficulty relaxing, causing further sleeplessness).

You don’t even have to pretend that they slept well, @jwlake06. Just don’t worry about it. “I slept like shit, but there’s no reason to follow a bad night with a bad day.” And then just get on with it and assume tonight’s sleep will be better because you’re tired.

Since coming to realize the limited correlation between bad night and shitty days, I rarely have trouble with feeling sleep-deprived (since I’m not a race car driver and don’t need superior reflexes). Conversely a perfectly good night of sleep doesn’t guarantee I won’t be dying of sleepiness at noon.

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My ex slept for 3-4 hours a night. He just assumed everybody else only needed 3-4 hours as well. You can live many years without 8+ hours of sleep a night.

This is the key! You just “get over it” and carry on!

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