When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.

Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.

What are your own examples of this?

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.

    No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.

    I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don’t even miss anything. If you’re struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yes, eliminating an excess of calories is a good way to lose weight. Don’t think this is sarcasm, this is AWESOME and I’m glad that’s all it took for you - or at least that was a good contributing factor.

      The only thing I would say: Don’t drink calories. i.e. I assume you meant regular soda and juice you were drinking. Milk is in that category as well.

      Coffee, tea, diet soda, crystal light or any packet you put in a bottle of water - look for the things with basically zero calories, and that should be what you drink most of the time.

      For those that are worried about things like caffeine being diuretics and dehydrating you: Coffee and tea and diet soda are NEARLY as hydrating as plain water. It’s not a large difference.

      If you can drink plain water, great! If you need a bit of flavour to help? That’s also fine - the important bit is not drinking calories.

    • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
      8·
      5 days ago

      To those consuming this, 100% try it. The first 3 or 4 days suck because your body expects calories with it’s drink and the buzz of sugar and caffeine. You can escape this by having a small chocolate with your water when you feel the craving.

      Second point, mineral content, processing, temperature, and plumbing play a big role in your enjoyment. Personally I can’t drink cold water, it has to be room temperature and tap water here is too mineral heavy. Instead I refill 5 gallon water jugs and use a water crock.

        • Waldelfe@feddit.org
          2·
          3 days ago

          Tea (black and green) is only bitter if you don’t know how to make it. Get good quality tea leaves (not the ones in the bags, they are usually the worst quality) and look up what temperature the water needs to be for your kind of tea. Usually around 70-80°C for green tea and 80-90°C for black. Especially green tea is only bitter if you prepare it with boiling water.

        • [object Object]@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          Btw, if tea is too bitter for you, rooibos might fit better. Plus there are all kinds of herbal ‘teas’, or rather mixtures, that don’t contain tea proper — at least where I live. Although tea itself has barely any bitterness if you use a smaller dose of green tea, or something like white tea.

          Of herbal or aromatic teas, you might want to choose those with berries or flowers, since they impart some sweet flavor, but still far from the sweetness of fizzy drinks. A bonus benefit is that there are a lot of different flavors. One should take from life all that it has, after all.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
            21·
            4 days ago

            Don’t put sugar in your tea - don’t drink calories.

            If sweetening with artificial sweeteners tastes “bitter”, try a trick: Use packets of multiple types - one “equal”, one sucralose, one stevia, for example. You get the sweetness from each and not enough of the background bitterness (which is different).

            That’s the main reason Coke Zero is pretty good as compared to Diet Coke - different formula, but they use two artificial sweeteners and get that affect - sweetness from two sources with half the bitterness (since each is different).