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the healthy life plan
Jan. 13th, 2004 10:25 amThis sounds much too much like a diet, and I'm really conflicted about my subtextual weightloss desires, but I've been doing this "healthy life plan" for awhile. A couple of months.
Basically, the focus is on balancing the amount of type of energy I take in to the energy I put out. The daily exercise part is really the highlight - I've gotten so I very much enjoy exercising, and I can't function in the morning without it.
The Overcoming Overeating people talk about carrying around a bag of food to help retrain yourself to recognize and eat in response to hunger. Aside from the wild impracticality of doing that for most of us (doesn't the food get all room temperatureish?), I think it is possible to manage meal times and amounts around your energy and need for food. Too much food makes me sluggish, too little makes me monstrous, so I had to find the right amount.
( this might bore you, but if you're interested in the details... )
When I first set out on this plan, I had the hardest time motivating myself to move around at all. Now I'm getting to a point where the exercise isn't as much of a struggle to get started with. I think the key was finding things that would be fun once I was doing them, then forcing myself to do them daily until it became habit.
Basically, the focus is on balancing the amount of type of energy I take in to the energy I put out. The daily exercise part is really the highlight - I've gotten so I very much enjoy exercising, and I can't function in the morning without it.
The Overcoming Overeating people talk about carrying around a bag of food to help retrain yourself to recognize and eat in response to hunger. Aside from the wild impracticality of doing that for most of us (doesn't the food get all room temperatureish?), I think it is possible to manage meal times and amounts around your energy and need for food. Too much food makes me sluggish, too little makes me monstrous, so I had to find the right amount.
( this might bore you, but if you're interested in the details... )
When I first set out on this plan, I had the hardest time motivating myself to move around at all. Now I'm getting to a point where the exercise isn't as much of a struggle to get started with. I think the key was finding things that would be fun once I was doing them, then forcing myself to do them daily until it became habit.