I've been vegetarian probably around 2 years. I won't go into the reasons, I've personally found talking about them makes non-vegetarians dig their heels in and thus is counter productive to the whole cause. But it's the usual moral reasons anyway.
Now, going vegetarian I was obviously prepared to go without chicken curry, spaghetti bolognese etc, all my old favourites. I then discovered some foods containing meat that might make you raise an eyebrow. Any sort of jelly. Random sponge deserts. Guinness!
What I can't fathom is the breaking news that of all things, WEETABIX somehow manages to incorporate elements of animal corpse. Like, how??, why ?? It's literally one of the most tasteless things in the world, but.... piled high with sugar remained one of the few things I was able to eat and enjoy (never been big on actual vegetables). Now it's been taken away from me, because presumably no-one at Nestle has the wit or ingenuity to create soap bar shaped chunks of wheat without lazily throwing in some bits of animal. #Sigh.
On this subject, I didn't realise it for a long time, but going vegetarian dramatically affected my poker performance and results. Around a year ago I started to refer to it as 'light headedness', but that's a little inexact. It was basically a sort of disconnect from everything that was going on. Didn't affect my real life too much, (although I was very short of energy), but poker-wise it was an absolute disaster.
Couldn't process information, couldn't concentrate, had no 'feel' for anything.
It got to the point that I could literally only play my A-C game for the first 50 or so minutes immediately after waking up. After that, I had to sleep again before I could play. Occasionally of course I would get frustrated at putting in so little hands, play when light headed (Z game always), and drop 10 BIs. In the past year or so I got better at not playing when in this state, but the occasional relapses have been very costly.
Anyway, to cut a long story short I changed my diet and also found what I can only call a wonder vitamin. B12 is basically only found in meat, and is super important for converting food into energy, alertness and concentration. The past week I've started overdosing on it. Light headedness has gone !
This is very exciting for me, it means I'll actually be able to put in 2-3 meaningful and high performance sessions per day. Today I played 4500 hands, all of which I'd basically grade as A game.
So, we'll see how it goes........ poker results are basically 'technical knowledge' X 'performance'. For good or bad I rate my technical knowledge really highly, and it's been super frustrating for me not to be making very consistent 5 figures every month because of the 2nd part of that equation.......
Some of you may have noticed I've been making more videos lately. I keep trying to think of new ideas to keep the videos fresh. As well as the HU series with Bobbo, I've a directed learning video on SSNL SB 3betting that's uploaded and up sometime soon. If anyone has any ideas for creative or interesting videos then please let me know. For some reason I always feel a little guilty these days putting out a standard pause 'n record or live video.
One idea I've had is to do a leakfinder style thing, but with the leakfindee also in on the video talking. This way, it'd basically be a video of a coaching session. Then if people like it, I might start coaching again. I think interactivity in videos is important. Monologues are all well and good, but it's good to have another person there posing hypotheticals or asking questions or challenging what the producer is saying.
So, if any member up to say 100nl is interested in being the guinea pig for the above idea, then please get in touch explaining your background etc and I'll pick on the basis of that. Ideally fairly talky chatty speaky types.
Wow it's 6.30am. Sleeps gone to pot again. #oops
dan
