It's Fucking Impossible to Stay Healthy
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It's Fucking Impossible to Stay Healthy
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#2Be kind to yourself. No one's perfect. I’ve had the best luck minimizing friction starting exercise. That means it needs to be set up for me to go from “feeling good enough” to working out instantly.
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#3It’s hardest to stay healthy when you’re trying to jam it into an unhealthy life.
Are you sure you need that job? You’re suggesting 11-12 hours at the office every day, plus whatever your commute is. And apparently this job insists on you being continuously deskbound during that time.
Your upper middle class peers may be doing the same thing, and you may feel obliged to that job because of some fantasies about where it might lead, but on the facts themselves it is grossly unhealthy to sit for 12+ hours in a row.
You’re making an explicit choice to be an ambitious young urban professional (for an exploitative employer) rather than a healthy person. Maybe double-check that choice and make sure it’s the one you want to be making.
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#4I think the problem is that you're just working too many hours. If you're getting into the office at 7:30 and leaving at 7 that's almost 12 hour days. Then you add an hour for commuting, another 30 minutes for getting ready in the morning, plus cooking, house work, sleep and you're basically out of time. If you were doing a 9-5 job instead I think you'd find it a lot easier, since you'd have another 2.5-3.5 hours to fit things into each day.
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#5I think the problem is that you're just working too many hours. If you're getting into the office at 7:30 and leaving at 7 that's almost 12 hour days. Then you add an hour for commuting, another 30 minutes for getting ready in the morning, plus cooking, house work, sleep and you're basically out of time. If you were doing a 9-5 job instead I think you'd find it a lot easier, since you'd have another 2.5-3.5 hours to…
Had the same feeling. Slow this pace or you burn out.
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#6It sometimes does feel like a challenge. Including dimensions other than the work/life balance causing stresses.
I'm 37 years old. Last weekend, I found out cooking with and drinking tap water set to hot mode is hella bad for you! Leeches heavy metals, brews bacteria, the works. I've been doing that every day for coffee, tea, pasta etc my whole adult life. Oops?
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#7Is this someone sub 25, who started in relatively good health, with no major underlying concerns, complaining how hard it is to stay healthy? Boo-fucking-hoo.
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#8It sometimes does feel like a challenge. Including dimensions other than the work/life balance causing stresses. I'm 37 years old. Last weekend, I found out cooking with and drinking tap water set to hot mode is hella bad for you! Leeches heavy metals, brews bacteria, the works. I've been doing that every day for coffee, tea, pasta etc my whole adult life. Oops?
Do you have a source for this?
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#9The only advice I have to offer is to work out in the morning, before work. It seems like an insane task when you first consider it, but you quickly find you can establish a routine where you wake up, have some water or coffee, and then get down to it.
After that morning workout is done, I feel incredibly energized for the day. More importantly, I find that it usually delays when I start to feel hungry by an additional 2-3 hours compared to days where I don't work out, which in turn helps with intermittent fasting. But most importantly, it prevents you from skipping workouts because you're too tired after work, or you have to work late due to an unexpected issue, or there's some other obligation you have to take care of. There's just fewer conflicts and distractions at 5 or 6 AM
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#10It sometimes does feel like a challenge. Including dimensions other than the work/life balance causing stresses. I'm 37 years old. Last weekend, I found out cooking with and drinking tap water set to hot mode is hella bad for you! Leeches heavy metals, brews bacteria, the works. I've been doing that every day for coffee, tea, pasta etc my whole adult life. Oops?
You've been drinking hot water from the tap your whole life?