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There has to be another way
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Just wait till you hear about the ‘eating healthy’ bullshit.
What’s next? 8 hours sleep?
6 or 10, inbetween is impossible.
I know! I love pasta too much to give it up
at least here in sweden they make all kinds of healthier pasta, especially the stuff simply called “fiber pasta” is basically identical but with a bunch of fibre in it, easiest improvement you could make to your diet.
Just stop grating an entire block of parm over it and you’ll be fine
My fiancée thinks it’s because I’ll eat the entire box in one sitting
Portion control can be more important than what you’re eating. As long as you get all your vitamins, minerals, carbs, and protein. Unfortunately the US is anathema to portion control.
It sucks being raised to both clean your plate and having honking big portions. I try to eat less and my body starts shrieking it’s starving and like, no you stupid meat husk! You are not!!
the trick is to find things you enjoy that are very filling but not caloric, basically any non-starchy (so not potatoes) vegetable/fruit will do it.
reminder that the weight watchers consider basically all fruits to be a straight up freebie, you can eat as much as you want.
see also: “i started eating fibre and now my gut Just Works”
I still need to figure out a way to do it that doesn’t sometimes leave me feeling horrible.
Walking a mile doesn’t even really register as exercise to me.
OOP did mention chronic pain, so to them it probably is.
when you spend most of your time in a relatively sedentary lifestyle, walking a mile can be a lot of exercise. for someone who wants a minimum of 12,000 steps a day, it seems like nothing, but for someone who averages maybe 1000 steps, it can take a lot of physical and/or mental effort. especially if that person is dealing with chronic pain or depression
Your fitness level really affects how much activity you find tiring. I remember back when I was a teenager working at a grocery store I freaked out because I saw a woman dripping with sweat and panting (I was worried it was a heart attack or other medical emergency) and she explained that she’s fine, she just decided to walk her shopping instead of getting a motorized cart today.
Or for a more personal anecdote, I got on my bike for the first time in a decade early last spring and barely made it one block on the bike before being at the nearly-vomitimg-from-over-excersion point then by biking every day I got up to biking 8 miles a ride by the end of fall
This doesn’t work for many conditions which can be worsened by graduated exercise. ME/CFS being one of them.
I want that song. Is it just called Castamere?
The Reyens of castamere, I think
Me when I noticed how bad my anxiety was getting so I cut out caffeine and alcohol for a week and it all went away: “… fuck”
Never had that particular issue, but I think that’s only because of the ADHD.
Now that i think of it, every ADHD person I’ve ever met have been the chillest people ever. Maybe we are resistant to anxiety? I’d love to see some research about that
Unfortunately it’s the opposite, people with ADHD seem to be more likely to have anxiety: https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-and-anxiety-symptoms-coping/
There also seems to be a link between ADHD and epilepsy: https://www.additudemag.com/new-research-shows-adhdepilepsy-link/amp/
I really want to get back to daily exercise. I felt so much better and stronger, and the habit is so fragile
There are evidence based tips from behavioural psychology you can use to help. Some examples…
Will-power is a finite resource in the day, so if exercise is left to the end of the day then it is easier to leave out.
If you keep your exercise clothes laid out then it removes that barrier and makes it easier to get up and go to exercise. When I get home from work I change straight into gym clothes even if I’m not going to work out for another couple of hours.
Keep a TV show/audio book that you are excited about, that you only ever watch in the gym. Then you can never progress the story without going to the gym.
