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Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by palish »

ColinWright wrote: post #59
palish wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really understand why fat people are so... well, upset at being fat. What I mean is, I would personally be OK with myself if I were 285lbs. Ok, this comment isn't really coming across very well. What I'm saying is, at worst, being fat would only shave ~20 years off my life expectancy. Since I don't want to live until I'm 70 anyway, I'd personally be happy with a ~50 year total life expectancy. I don't care wh…

I'm fifty, and there's so much more I want to do, so many things I want to see, and so many things I want to build. I love life - and I live pretty much every day. There are loads of things I have to do, but every day I take some time to do some stuff I want, and it's great. Do you really not care if you die at fifty? When you're 45, will you still say the same? What about when you're 49? Would you be content to be t…

Sorry Colin. I didn't at all mean to imply that 50 is any kind of... "end", or some such.

I deeply respect the judgement, wisdom, and mental strength that comes to a person only by experiencing four dozen years. The person who mentored me in my first professional programming capacity was almost 50, and I learned so very much from him.

That said, it is a unique personal decision: I have decided (when I was 21) that I personally only "plan" on living until 50. It seems the safest course. Maybe it's playing it safe. I have more thoughts, but I don't wish to accidentally offend anyone; they're merely my own.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by euroclydon »

dualogy wrote: post #57
fleitz wrote: post #19

Couldn't agree more on this, throw out your alarm clock, it's killing you. Remove stress from your life, take a shotgun to stress and refuse to accept stressful situations / people. I've lost 100 lbs in the last three years, here's how and how much weight I lost (I tend to have long plateaus). I started on Nov 25, 2008: 285 lbs Nov, 08: First Step, got Divorced: Lost 10 lbs - 275 lbs Jan, 09: Job tells me I have to b…

Well sleep time for your body is "detox time". Body fat is one huge deposit of "toxines". This only gets burned when you "fast" / don't graze for a while and energy is obtained from those deposits. This alone would mean, more sleep = more burning. That's also why people doing one variation or another of "intermittent fasting" are getting great results, as they extend that phase well into daytime as well. I know I kno…

I've drastically reduced my carb intake and ramped up fat intake and I've lost weight and never feel tired.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by dualogy »

euroclydon wrote: post #72
dualogy wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well sleep time for your body is "detox time". Body fat is one huge deposit of "toxines". This only gets burned when you "fast" / don't graze for a while and energy is obtained from those deposits. This alone would mean, more sleep = more burning. That's also why people doing one variation or another of "intermittent fasting" are getting great results, as they extend that phase well into daytime as well. I know I kno…

I've drastically reduced my carb intake and ramped up fat intake and I've lost weight and never feel tired.

Sure! Dietary fat is pretty good for you and absolutely doesn't translate into body fat per se, that is influenced by many factors including carb intake.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by euroclydon »

dualogy wrote: post #73
euroclydon wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've drastically reduced my carb intake and ramped up fat intake and I've lost weight and never feel tired.

Sure! Dietary fat is pretty good for you and absolutely doesn't translate into body fat per se, that is influenced by many factors including carb intake.

It seems to be metabolized (into glucose?) much more evenly than carbs.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by aj700 »

He's ignoring the main reason why Britain and America are so pro-work and anti-rest, and why Italy and Spain aren't.

(It's also the reason why the med is comfortable with nudity and the Anglosphere isn't)

Protestant ascetic work ethic: no pleasure is allowed. first toil then the grave.

The med is Catholic, and so far more comfortable with resting.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by nazgulnarsil »

frossie wrote: post #44
fleitz wrote: post #19

Couldn't agree more on this, throw out your alarm clock, it's killing you. Remove stress from your life, take a shotgun to stress and refuse to accept stressful situations / people. I've lost 100 lbs in the last three years, here's how and how much weight I lost (I tend to have long plateaus). I started on Nov 25, 2008: 285 lbs Nov, 08: First Step, got Divorced: Lost 10 lbs - 275 lbs Jan, 09: Job tells me I have to b…

Your experience is consistent with research, eg. http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/news/20110323/sleepy-pe... Not only does skimping on sleep raises your calorie consumption, but it seems that tired people show increased preference for fats.

fat doesn't make you fat.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by lemming »

kstenerud wrote: post #66

"By the time afternoon rolls around, you’re in caffeine withdrawal. This is often why people are sapped by mid-afternoon." Actually, no. You feel sapped in the afternoon because you need a 15-20 minute nap. That's normal. Take the nap and you'll feel energized for the rest of the day.

Actually, yes. I gave up coffee about a year ago, during a pretty stressful period during which I wasn't sleeping well. It is unbelievable how much better I sleep (and I seriously believed that it didn't affect me), and the second thing I notice is that I'm no longer tired in the afternoon.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by 0x12 »

tluyben2 wrote: post #63

I travel between 3 countries, one of which is Spain. It really makes life a lot better; in the south of Spain people are so incredibly more relaxed that you first get frustrated with that, but rapidly take over that life style as being frustrated doesn't make much sense. Example: you can be in the supermarket, in a queue behind the cash register and no-one sitting there. You look outside and he/she is standing talkin…

This is all very true. But there is one big but. If you live like that you yourself will have it easy, but the economy as a whole will suffer and the weak in society will suffer disproportionally.

The further South you go in Europe, the stronger this effect gets.

http://www.eyeonspain.com/blogs/SpanishBusinessNews/4527/qua...

Articles like that are not capable of conveying the differences between Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania and Greece and the more Northern parts of Europe but after traveling through most of those this summer I've seen the other side of that medal and the price of the 'laid back' Southern attitude is one that has become very visible to me.

Re: Tired of Being Tired

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Post by cheald »

One of the biggest changes in my life when I left my job to work on my startup was the freedom to not be pinned in a chair from 8 AM-5PM. If I get tired, I go take a nap. If I get stiff and sore, I go for a walk. If I can't think, I go do something else.

The net result is that I'm able to be productive 100% of the time that I actually am working, and I can work more than I could otherwise, if so needed.

If you have the luxury to set your schedule, listen to your body, do what it asks, and you'll find yourself operating much more smoothly than you're used to.

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