Posted on 12/09/2021 6:25:49 AM PST by Mariner
Kind of a pity when this is not just common sense, ya know? But here’s the rub: People have to make time for TV in this day. I never watch TV and I start getting fidgety if I have to sit for a long time; I want to get up and do something. (The exceptions to this are various, however, and include meditating, embroidery - which I will do until I suddenly realize I have to use the bathroom REALLY BAD - playing a game, and painting, which I have to do standing up leaning against something or my back will get tired. However, these things are not the motionless-except-for-snacking activity of watching TV.)
If you want start losing weight and becoming more fit immediately, stop watching TV and cut out all the snacks in your diet you would normally consume while watching TV. (If you try to include all those snacks and you’re NOT watching TV, it starts to turn into a job.)
If you spend more than an hour or so on the internet a day you might want to curtail that as well.
No one ever wants to blame TV - but think about this: TV makes you feel bad about being overweight and slack, but it’s really one of the biggest reasons you got that way.
I agree. Whenever I’m confronted with a choice - hey should I walk to xyz, or should I take the stairs or the elevator... I always opt for the walk/stairs. My motto is “use it or lose it.” If I want to keep the ability to have walking/stairs as an option, I had better keep doing it. I also hike and have a hobby that involves significant full-body / core strength - though I don’t get to do that nearly enough.
People invest 40 years in those extra 30-50 lbs and poor health.
Then whimper because they cannot turn it all around in a month.
500 calories a day deficit (exercise and diet) is all it takes to turn it around in a single year.
People don’t realize walking a course is around 7-8 miles.
Give up bread?
Never.
Don’t let the old man in........Clint
“Yep if people take the time and do it a military gait walk will
give you good exercise for both muscles and breathing. jmo.”
Yes, my ‘fast’ walk is about 3.4 miles an hour when I concentrate. Wife has become a gym rat, she is in size 6 pants, down from size 10.
My doctor said she thinks I should get the shot (she sounded like she ‘had’ to say that, but admitted that the only marker I have for getting is my age number. I told her I would consider it, heh.
Wife has been forbidden by doctor to get COVID, Shingles or Pneumonia shots due to sensitivity to mercury, how about that. That’s another reason for me not to get the shots as I will shed on her which could be very bad.
Too bad, Fauci, doctor’s orders.
Judging by that map, living near the Mississippi River causes obesity.
At 83 every other day are pushups setups curls reverse pushup and squats treadmill once a week. Weight bench sometimes. And I wash that down with a Tito’s.
Ancient man hunted well into their old age... They were the slow ones that the younger humans could pass up when chased by predators...
Being a working stiff still, this means I'm up at 0415 on weekdays to get this all done before my workday starts. You get used to it.
I also bicycle to and from work when I feel like it. At the end, I'm exhausted and in pain, but it's satisfying.
People don't realize that if you built a house on the average pga tour green you'd have a 6,000 square foot house.
Sure exercise, eat good nutritious foods, keep the mind active etc… All good things but eventually we all exit the flesh suit. If one is eternally saved by the blood of Jesus well entering into eternity earlier might be a preference over extending life here on this troubled earth.
Non-Hispanic Black adults (49.6%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults (44.8%), non-Hispanic White adults (42.2%) and non-Hispanic Asian adults (17.4%). The obesity prevalence was 40.0% among adults aged 20 to 39 years, 44.8% among adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 42.8% among adults aged 60 and older. - https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
Figure 3. Age-adjusted prevalence of severe obesity among adults aged 20 and over, by sex, age, and race and Hispanic origin: United States, 2017–2018
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db360.htm
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/visual-gallery/obesity.htm?Sort=Title%3A%3Aasc
But as for heavy drinking:
- https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/visual-gallery/beverage-consumption.htm?Sort=Title%3A%3Aasc
Put down the phone, turn off the tv, exercise at least 150 min a week, cut out the sugar, give up the bread and stop snacking between meals and no food after 8pm. There are lots of other things you can do but if you install these few things I go your life style in a short time, you’ll start to feel better and lose a little weight. It’s working for me.
At what point in ones life do you just say “stuff it” I am going to enjoy what ever time I have left?
As someone who spent the last 18 years of my working life at physically demanding jobs, I find your words are wise.
All those nicks and dings take a cumulative toll.
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