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Something I've been thinking about lately is that a lot of people are overweight, but they're only prepared to do so much to lose weight. They're sometimes willing to let go of their munchies and stay off the chips and crisps, but don't touch their beers! Or, an example that is much closer to my personal experience: they're willing to change their eating habits, but not to go out and exercise.
Until I found something I wanted to accomplish, and really really wanted to accomplish, I couldn't make myself go out and exercise either.
Doing a diet isn't going to work - you have to change your eating habits, because chances are that they are fundementally wrong. You don't get fat because you don't move; you get fat because you consume too much. Your body doesn't need all the energy you shove into your mouth, so it stores it as fat. When you have a desk job there's really no reason you need to eat like you're a construction worker. Rather, do the Hacker's diet (although I already read arguments why that is not such a good diet, but anything's better than getting fat, right?).
I'm trying hard to not judge people, although it's hard. I know a lot of people who could be so fit and (aha! Here it comes!) healthy but instead they just get fatter. You do realize you're denying yourself a healthy old age, and you're more likely to die young, don't you?
Anyway, maybe I'm just looking for people who can keep me exercising, but now that I've been through the first week of agony and I'm just doing the whole 'areeeughghhghghghg' of not having any breath left, I'm not going to quit.
Get Buff While Geeking Out
Posted by kdawson on Monday October 09, @11:05PM
from the just-keep-moving dept.
Two different devices intended to slow the nerd obesity epidemic just came to our attention. PoconoPCDoctor writes about the Geek-A-Cycle, which is a workstation with built-on exercise bike that you have to pedal to run the computer. And several readers pointed out the FP Gamerunner (mirror), reviewed here: think treadmill meets Quake 4. Again, you have to keep moving to stay in the game.
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Something I've been thinking about lately is that a lot of people are overweight, but they're only prepared to do so much to lose weight. They're sometimes willing to let go of their munchies and stay off the chips and crisps, but don't touch their beers! Or, an example that is much closer to my personal experience: they're willing to change their eating habits, but not to go out and exercise.
Until I found something I wanted to accomplish, and really really wanted to accomplish, I couldn't make myself go out and exercise either.
Doing a diet isn't going to work - you have to change your eating habits, because chances are that they are fundementally wrong. You don't get fat because you don't move; you get fat because you consume too much. Your body doesn't need all the energy you shove into your mouth, so it stores it as fat. When you have a desk job there's really no reason you need to eat like you're a construction worker. Rather, do the Hacker's diet (although I already read arguments why that is not such a good diet, but anything's better than getting fat, right?).
I'm trying hard to not judge people, although it's hard. I know a lot of people who could be so fit and (aha! Here it comes!) healthy but instead they just get fatter. You do realize you're denying yourself a healthy old age, and you're more likely to die young, don't you?
Anyway, maybe I'm just looking for people who can keep me exercising, but now that I've been through the first week of agony and I'm just doing the whole 'areeeughghhghghghg' of not having any breath left, I'm not going to quit.
