>>76260450
Are you me? It's fucking brutal. I was completely, and I mean COMPLETELY useless for the first month which was first terror, then existential crushing boredom, then total apathy punctuated by random mindfuck sugar craving/binges.

Here is what worked and is still working for me. First I got a dunbwatch with a stepcounter like picrel. I started wearing it everywhere to get a rough baseline of my activity levels because I could not trust my own judgements of it. Buy one and start wearing it all the time.

Second, I stopped eating anything that wasn't meat, eggs, greek yogurt, vegetables, or fruit. Still am. Get cheap tupperware. Shred up rotisserie chickens. Dice up watermelons, cantalopes, strawberries, grapes, oranges, mangos, whatever looks good. Cut up broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, cabbage, onions, peppers, whatever you can choke down. Hard boil a dozen eggs at a time. Get low sugar high protein yogurts like Siggis, etc. Start drinking black coffee. Get good olive oil. Eat whatever the fuck you want but only this. Get autistic.

What happens will suck at first because like withdrawing from the sauce, you have to withdraw from "normal" food and all the horseshit in it. But you'll cut over in a week or two, and you'll feel it.

When you do feel it, time to literally fucking walk everywhere like a homeless nomad. This is your new "drinking" habit. You are a force of nature, part of nature, sent by God to collect random information about anything and everything. Walk through a park. Walk to the store. Walk through the store. Walk behind the store. Walk by nice houses, walk by shitty houses, walk to a school, walk near a creek, walk by a busy street, walk down a country lane.

Think about what you see and periodically summarize it to yourself. This way when you get into a conversation, you have an easy topic for autism
>yeah been walking a lot, step 8742 so far
>creek's looking pretty high
etc. Also 20mg melatonin @10pm + NA IPAs = almost real beer