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The Animal Is Tired

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Post by mritchie712 »

polishdude20 wrote: post #179
blfr wrote: post #166

Better food, more exercise, more relaxation... but I also wonder if it would have made any difference. Yes. I'm only half OP's age but working out and eating well (well for me means much more) has made all the little aches I started to have in my 20s go away and made me much calmer, I can also sleep pretty much anywhere and at any time. More interestingly though, Me, and the animal I live inside. there is no animal y…

Yes! Weightlifting is probably the number one best thing you can do for your body.

Sprinting is a good alternative to weightlifting. Worth giving a shot if you're hesitant to lift weights or don't have the equipment / gym nearby.

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/dear-mark-how-many-sprints-p...

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Post by maxqin1 »

mattmanser wrote: post #205
maxqin1 wrote: post #47

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#1 change: actually paying attention to what your putting inside you. Kidney stones were a long time ago now, I've been continuously evolving since, and I've been super lucky to have a lot of help with both the cooking and research along the way. One thing I learned specifically from that incident was that: Raw spinach != Cooked spinach. Specifically, the former has a specific chemical that will cause kidney stones.…

Ugh, so you didn't learn anything apart from having yet another 'revelation'. And that revelation is 'avoid raw spinach, but it's too late for me'. You had Kidney stones. That does not make you a health Messiah, quite the opposite really.

> That does not make you a health Messiah, quite the opposite really

Nice to see how you interpreted things, but that's all it is.

My point was alluding to the continuous practice.

And the proof is what I see in my and my partner's fitness compared to that of our peers. But don't take it from some random on the internet.

Lastly, yes it's a lot of hard work, and yes that's why you're avoiding it. Good luck!

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Post by maxqin1 »

inimino wrote: post #152
wolverine876 wrote: post #131

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How do you empirically measure results for your n=1 experiment, where you are experimenter, subject, and outcome? If I see comments providing diet advice with words like "undeniably", I lean toward downvoting them.

How do you not ? You're living this life anyway, might as well try to learn from and compare your various diets. Unless you eat the same meal every day for your whole life, I don't see how you could not learn something from it.

It's like some HNers never learning the simple art of deduction.

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Post by rvba »

wraptile wrote: post #200
marcell wrote: post #170

I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. I do exercise and eat reasonably well, but I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. I have a desk job (programming). Am I unusually lucky? or just part of a silent majority that has nothing to complain about? Is doom just around the corner?

I generally think it's just vocal minority. I might be subjected to survivors bias (I travel around SEA) but most programmers I meet, while older than me, tend to be quite healthy and happy! I'm getting closer to the magic 30s and I'm honestly quite optimistic. Had some lower back issues (because of sitting too much) that I took care off with a bit of exercise and I find experimenting with diets fun and effective. Su…

Programmers are one of the best paid groups + they can switvh jobs very easy.

This probably means good job (and life?) satisfaction.

There are alsp those who crunch for months doing computer games, but supposedly they do what they love.

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Post by joexner »

Yenrabbit wrote: post #185
Swizec wrote: post #90

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I suspect the confounding variable is that late 20’s/early 30’s is when most people have kids. Happiness levels improve in late 50’s when kids are out of the house. Kids may be “a complete joy and the best thing you’ve ever done”, but they’re also a huge financial burden, source of stress, and limiter on doing what you wanna do.

Looked into this, since a lot of people would say this is crazy. But it turns out kids do seem to have a negative correlation with parental well-being. I found http://www.nber.org/papers/w25597 which takes a closer look at some of the possible reasons.

The article says kids make people (Europeans, anyway) happy except for the financial stress.

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Post by piva00 »

germinalphrase wrote: post #243
piva00 wrote: post #238

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I definitely have this built-in feeling quite broken. I left the door open to perhaps consider forming a family at some point since my first girlfriend, over the years it's only got more clear that I don't enjoy kids, at all. I don't take enjoyment from being around kids, playing with kids or any kind of interaction with them, it makes me feel broken but I simply can't. Not even with my niece, my sisters get a lot of…

I’ll just throw out there that I didn’t care about kids, babies until after We had one. My brain definitely changed.

How was that feeling? Did you simply not care or did it take your energy away to be around them?

I've actively tried to change and engage more with kids for a few years, this dread never went away, it's not only I don't take enjoyment but it saps something out of me, it's quite strange as I don't feel that strongly against anything else considered normal in life...

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Post by another_bear »

DocTomoe wrote: post #172
marcell wrote: post #170

I'm 35 and I don't feel any of the ravages of age that some people describe. I do exercise and eat reasonably well, but I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. I have a desk job (programming). Am I unusually lucky? or just part of a silent majority that has nothing to complain about? Is doom just around the corner?

You are still comparatively young. Give it a few more years.

Well I am 40 this year and in the best shape of my life. I lost some flexibility in my lower regions but that's because I don't do taekwondo anymore, but instead switched to competitive running, cycling, and triathlon. 30 year old me would have wrecked 20 year old me, when I was in the Army, and 40 year old me can out-run, out-sprint, and out-lift 30 year old me handily.

What's my secret? Staying positive, staying disciplined, and HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY!

Men and women need to get on this train. You don't have to age ungracefully. Steroids are for everyone to enjoy - not just body builders.

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Post by silexia »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #190
climb_stealth wrote: post #61

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Aw man, I just started a comment saying how this sounds really promising and was going to ask about it. Turns out I have actually read them. I might have to read them all again. I would recommend them as well. I'm a big fan of the Malazan series as well. I still think of the hair jacket when I come across someone with a smelly jacket and it never fails to crack me up. My recommendation for epic fantasy that is a bit…

In The Dark Tower, only first two books are good. Third is decent, the rest I've read only because I'm a very stubborn person.

Very true! King disliked this series and only finished it because of fan insistence... And the ending is a middle finger to those fans!

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Post by harveynick »

bhntr3 wrote: post #222
climb_stealth wrote: post #217

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I haven't heard of these, thanks for the recommendation! According to Wikipedia he hasn't finished writing them yet. Is it worth reading them already or does it feel unfinished? It's not clear from a quick glance, Mistborn and The Way of Kings take place in the same universe?

>Is it worth reading them already or does it feel unfinished? Mistborn is a complete trilogy although he continues to publish other novels set in the same world. Way of Kings is ongoing. It's on book four now. Each book is over a thousand pages so there's a lot there. I don't think it's a problem to start. Books 1-3 are great and stand alone pretty well. It's started to drag with book 4 in my opinion. Like so many ot…

There's another Sanderson Cosmere book called Warbreaker which crosses over with Stormlight pretty heavily from book 2 onwards (it's also very possibly there are references in book 1 which totally passed me by). You'll definitely have a better handle on why a particular object which shows up in the Stormlight books is so scary if you read Warbreaker first.

Book 4 of Stormlight does have some pretty big references to the original Mistborn trilogy, too.

On the whole I try to read books in the order I bought them (ish), but Sanderson is one of the authors I'll just drop everything for when a new book comes out. Disclaimer: he does have some bad habits (mainly inserting "wise ass" characters who don't fit the tone or setting, and who I strongly suspect carry the author's voice a little _too_ directly). But he does epic world building incredibly well, and very different to just about any other author I've read. He also writes action exceptionally well.

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