Uneasy

Coke Zero. or Diet Coke. - seriously a life saver, I always bring this to work or when I’m out especially so I don’t get tempted to eat outside. The fizziness of the drink just fills you up, you get your boost of energy, the calories are almost nothing, and cancels out any sweet cravings I have.

Watch Secret Eaters - I recently got recommended to watch this show, and whenever I feel like the cravings are kicking in, I just watch an episode and distract myself completely. The show actually gives a lot of tips on how to control your portions, eating habits, etc.

Talk to my ana buddy - talking to someone openly about your ed, really helps, I feel absolutely no shame and it feels so good saying how you’re feeling out loud.

Go to the gym or exercise - figure out when your binges or cravings tend to kick in. I go from round 5pm - 7pm, and my cravings kick in 5pm-midnight. This seriously helps me so much, cos my appetite disappears for a couple hours after a workout.

Thinspo - just looking at them is so convincing and keeps me determined to reaching my goal.

Count the calories - before eating anything, think of all the food you want to eat and count the amount of calories you would plan to eat. Doing this shows how many calories I would’ve eaten and how much it would gone over my limit. Sometimes it make me feel quite sick thinking about consuming those kinds of calories.

Wait it out - it takes your body 20 minutes to get over the cravings, within those 20 mins do these things and you’ll almost forget about it. bahaha learnt this from the Secret Eaters show.

Keep your fluids up - drink lots of water, tea or whatever drink you choose to but keep away from sugary drinks

Know what’s healthy - from the moment you start fasting until between the 12th and 14th hour, your body is burning glycogen; the sugar storages. After the 14th hour you begin burning fat storages.

Listen to your body - If you begin to feel faint or nauseous when you’re fasting, it’s likely because your blood pressure or blood sugar has dropped which can cause you to get shakey and light headed. If you feel this way you need to break fast and eat otherwise you can become unhealthy.

Low blood sugar - If you get low blood sugar and need to break fast, the quickest way to get it up is to eat something sugary and then eat something else. Usually if this happens I will have a Milo and then eat Baked beans.

Dont be disheartened - Not everybody will lose and gain weight at the same speed, so don’t be disheartened if you are trying to lose weight and the pounds don’t just shed off.

Exercise whilst fasting - If you are going to exercise while fasting you need to be aware that your body will exert all its energy and in turn make you more hungry than before. Exercising while fasting can be beneficial and help with weight loss but if you plan to lift heavy weights you will need to eat something within 30 minutes of finishing your fast or your blood sugar can drop.

Breaking fast - Depending on how long you fast for, will change how much your body will crave certain foods. When you break fast you should always try for the healthier option but sometimes it will be necessary to eat something salty or sugary.

Be safe - Be aware of the risks and what it can do to your body, be safe my babies

These are some of my fasting tips, please use them wisely and stay safe.

To get started, the first thing you guys want to do is you want to get off the sugar, you gotta get the glucose out of your system. The negative or uncomfortable feeling that people experience such as light head, dizziness, the grouchiness, the irritability comes from glucose/sugar withdraws. It’s like cocaine in the brain. So you want to prepare before doing your first dry fast by doing protein only and smart fats such as coconut oil that contains high concentration mct oil. If you’re vegan you want to do almonds or almond milk or hemp hearts. Basically focus on protein only. 

Now the other thing I would recommend, is that you want to flush your kidneys out. You want to be highly alkaline. You create an alkaline drink that features 3 component: apple cider vinegar, lemon and baking soda. So you take a tea spoon of baking soda, 1 or 2 lemon and ounce or 2 of apple cider, play around with it. This will flush your kidney’s out. 

Also get some PH strips, the PH strips you will be able to dip into your urine and you want to get an 8 (blue). You want to get a solid blue before you start. 

The hunger that you’re going to experience is not true hunger it’s an emotional craving for something. You want to fill the void with something. But a lot of that is the sugar withdraws. So if you are already off the sugar before you start the dry fast, you are going to feel acceptional . You’re going to need ketone strips available at the pharmacy near the diabetic section. Now if you prepare properly, at the zero mark of the launch when you pull the water in the food, you should already be registering some keytones because you have been on proteins and smart fats for 24 hours. It takes about 24 hours to get off the glucose, you gotta get it out of your liver and system. One thing to do before as well is to do very heavy intensity weight training. So lift as heavy as you can. High weight low reps. 

If you  prepare properly and know what you are doing. If you go into this and you don’t know about flavic acid and you don’t know about alkalizing before hand and you don’t prepare by doing proteins and smart fast, you are going to suffer and it’s unnecessary. It can be a highly pleasurable experiences. 

Breakfast:

Half of a banana - 60 kcal

Half Green apple- 25 kcal

Green Tea- 0 kcal

Lunch

2 oz. Tuna - 70 kcal

Half an orange- 35 kcal

Cup of Broccoli- 20 kcal

Snack

11 pc Turkey Pepporoni- 40 kcal

6 cherry tomatoes- 12 kcal

Half cup unsweetened almond milk - 18 kcal

.5 cup of grapes- 50 kcal

Dinner

2 cups Iceberg lettuce - 10 kcal

1/3 cucumber - 5 kcal

¼ green pepper- 15 kcal

1 oz. lean turkey - 30 kcal

1 cup beef broth- 10 kcal

Total: 400 kcal

VEGAN LUNCHES I ATE: 

Sweet chili tofu poke burrito; brown rice veggie sushi, veggie dumplings, cauliflower mac n cheese; tofu scramble, ten veggies patty, chik’n nuggies; pad thai with veggie beef; pad thai with veggie shrimp; pad woon sen; green curry with veggie beef and rice

Cultural appropriation

don’t incorporate the practices of closed cultures into your craft - it’s not your place to do so; this includes “smudging,” the use of dream catchers when obtained from non-natives, engaging in practices that are exclusive to poc if you are not a poc, etc.

Stereotyping 

don’t buy into the idea that all witches are evil, female, worship the devil, are wiccan, etc.

on the same note, if you follow the wiccan ideology of the rule of three and “harm none” and all that jazz, don’t assume that everyone follows your path because, and this might be shocking to you, we don’t

Over-harvesting

refrain from using herbs that are endangered, threatened, or even sacred to some cultures, such as white sage or palo santo unless obtained from an ethical source, i.e. native sellers themselves or those who source from natives

there is always an alternative and an endless amount of herbs you can use in place of the popular ones you see floating around the internet

Purposely posting harmful information

before you freak out, hear me out: there is so much awful information out there, and part of me wants to believe that these people just don’t know any better but the other part of me knows that they legit believe in things like essential oils as a cure, and that vaccinations and healthcare providers are evil

don’t be that person

know that science and witchcraft can exist in the same world, and that you should not ignore medical advice in lieu of a magickal cure

Content theft 

even if you’re saving things for your own use at a later date, tumblr has this nifty feature in which you can “reblog” things rather than save them and reupload them yourself - don’t repost, reblog 

also please don’t screenshot popular posts and reupload them to places like instagram, pinterest, or facebook; rather, reblog our posts or find our instagram accounts to follow and support the original creators

it may seem utterly ridiculous, but believe it or not, content authors like myself put a ton of work into the stuff we post here - don’t think that because you reuploaded our work elsewhere that you’re “doing us a favor” and “helping to spread information” because you’re absolutely not

if you see content theft, please tell OP so they can report it and help put an end to the seemingly never ending content theft in this community

Gatekeeping

know that your path will likely differ from the next witch, and understand that there’s a difference between belittling someone for their beliefs and having a mature, educated discussion about it

the same goes for correcting actual misinformation or information that can be deemed harmful

it’s 100% okay to have different beliefs than what you see presented here on tumblr, just don’t be a dick about it

don’t like emoji spells? don’t use them. not a wiccan? who cares. perform curses? great!

in the grand scheme of things, we are all users on the same website - what we do with our practice in our own space is our business so, ultimately you should do what works for you but be open to criticism if you decide to post it publicly

Well, I am hardly an expert, but I can point you in the direction of others who are!

Introduction

Divination Intro

Tarot Cards

How to Get Started in Tarot

How to Read Tarot Cards When You Don’t Know Shit

Tips for Interpreting Tarot Cards

Reverse Tarot Cards

Yes/No Tarot Tips

Moon Phase Tarot Spread

How to Cleanse your Cards

Cartomancy

Cartomancy ABC Guide

Cartomancy: The Suits

How to Cleanse your Cards

Tasseography

Tasseography Guide

Lithomancy

Preparing a Lithomancy Set

Scrying

Scrying [Witchcraft 101]

Scrying Tips

Runeology

A Guide to Greek Alphabet Divination (Runes)

An Introduction to Norse Runeology

Elder Futhark Rune Correspondences

Blooding Runes

Candle Work

Reading a Candle

Reading a Candle (Yes/No Questions)

Misc.

Lesser known forms of Divination

Seashell Divination

If you need last-minute decorations for Imbolc, see if any stores still have any Christmas clearance! By this time, the discount is likely to be quite substantial, and a lot of Christmas/Yule imagery is also appropriate for Imbolc–red/white color schemes, snowflakes and icicles, CANDLES, and evergreen boughs are a few I can think of.

Forgot to upload this here, a full moon calendar for 2020 for the northern hemisphere, I’m making the one for the southern hemisphere too <3

Full moons are perfect for charging your crystals or utensyls, to make moon water and to focus on your special intentions.