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I am going on a health kick
Topic Started: Wednesday 30-11-2011, 14:06 (75 Views)
Luca
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It is decreed that one shall pound the pillars.
So I woke up today for the hundredth time feeling pretty shitty. I don't sleep properly so I'm always tired. I'm achy, irritable, groggy, malnourished and my bowel movements are about as regular as Leos' sobriety. I have decided that all in all I need to do something about this bullshit.

I'm nearly at my mid-twenties now. In just 3 months I hit 24 and this scares the shit out of me because time seems to be moving at an alarming rate. Before I know it I'll be 30 and all of the negative effects of my hideous lifestyle will hit me full force. I stay up until the early hours, I eat nothing but processed, pre-packaged fatty foods (pizza and burgers etc.) My main beverages of choice are beer and coffee and my exercise now that I work from home has plummeted to precisely nil. I do not eat fruit, I do not eat vegetables. The very fact that I am still alive is probably baffling to the medical community.

The net result is that I look and feel like shit all the time. I look like somebody who does not rest and sits at his computer for 12-16 hours a day. Which is dead on accurate since when I'm home all day (and working from home etc) I only really move to go to the toilet, shower or pick up my frozen food from the oven.

So this is an experiment in lifestyle change to see how far I can sustain this shit and to report back on how small changes may have a major impact. Right now I am unwashed at 2 PM, sitting in my dressing gown, underfed with pains in my stomach and feeling like I need to sleep. The best time to start getting serious about shit.

I am going to start by introducing a solid dose of vitamin C into my diet. This is problematic because I'm extremely picky when it comes to food to the extent that texture bothers me. It's not so much about flavour as how it feels in my mouth. Some textures even truthfully make me gag. The only fruit with a texture I enjoy is banana which contains very trace amounts of Vitamin C. Thus I am going to blend up a fruit smoothie.

If anybody with a bit of know-how could help me on this it would be great but according to research the dangers of smoothies over pure fruit are that manufactured ones are laced with sugar. But as I will be making my own this is a non-issue. The other is that you don't burn off the calories you do when chewing a fruit. However I reason that following the consumption of a fruit smoothie with a brisk walk or jog would surely counteract this anyway.

Thus I reason that a home-made fruit smoothie can have all the benefits of an eaten fruit without my revulsion to fruit texture. Even if I can't abide the taste of the smoothie, I can drink it down fast and stomach it for the sake of healthy living. If anybody has any more information on this that would be great.
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Fermicelli
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The other is that you don't burn off the calories you do when chewing a fruit.


The amount of energy that goes into chewing food is pretty minimal compared to the energy gained from the fruit itself. Humans are pretty much built to maximize energy uptake from the food they conserve whilst minimizing the amount of energy needed for daily activities. Simply chewing your food isn't going to burn many calories, so don't feel guilty about making a smoothy!
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On a side note, when I have nothing to do for prolonged periods of time (any time span over a week) I tend to disturb my regular 12-7 sleeping pattern. Which in turn makes me touchy and generally less of a nice person. Maybe you should consider adapting a regular pattern too.
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It is decreed that one shall pound the pillars.
That will require several preliminary lifestyle changes as I lack the ability to just switch off at night and usually end up lying awake which I consider to be a major loss in productivity.
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Obviously every person sleeps in a different manner and I can't (or even should) claim that whatever works for me should work for you, but not that long ago I had the same problem. I really do think my irregular sleeping patterns were to blame for it, at least in part. The downside to sleeping whenever you feel tired is that eventually you become pretty rubbish at telling exactly when you become tired.

I solved this by making a schedule for myself: be in bed by 12, get out at 7, and during weekends I get to sleep in until 9. The early days were tough; sometimes I'd have only four hours of sleep per night. But I kept holding on, and always got out of bed in the morning. Eventually my body started to make the connection that night-time means bed-time, and I sleep quite well.

Like I said earlier, it's sometimes difficult to keep the pattern going during holidays or other periods in which I don't have much to do. That's where I guess you need real discipline (which I just plain don't have). It may or may not work for you, but it may be worth to consider trying it.

Alternatively, try meth!
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