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Exercise and Proper eating. Common sense, right? Yet, so many of us find it hard. I've lost more than 8kgs in the last 3 months and I feel great. I was never o

Exercise and Proper eating. Common sense, right? Yet, so many of us find it hard. I've lost more than 8kgs in the last 3 months and I feel great. I was never overweight to begin with but still I feel so much happier overall. I don't think drugs can do what 1 hour of exercise daily does to your mood and energy. Plus losing weight has it's own benefits. Once you shed those extra pounds you feel like you've been carrying a laptop bag or something on your back all the time before.

xupybd 10y ago
> 1 hour of exercise daily How did you get going with that? Any pointers?
- superasn 10y ago
  Sure but what you need to understand is that you need to change your mindset from I must exercise to I want to exercise and for that you need to program your brain first. step 1: make your WHY big enough and the how will follow First go to amazon and get one of these books: Spark or Go wild by john ratey. I prefer the audible version but either works. Listen to them, it's much easier than exercising. This will condition your mind and make your Why big enough. Soon you'll want to do it rather than have to do it. Step 2: baby steps You can't decide that you will exercise 1 hour daily starting from 0. Thankfully again there is a book called Minihabits. Get the audio or print version and read f it. Basically it teaches you that forming a habit is more important than doing it right. So 1 push daily for 3 months is better than 2 hours of 1 day gym in 3 months. Step 3: track your habits Get loopt habit tracker from app store (android) and put the widget on your home screen. Mark it daily. Even if you do 1 pushup you maintain your habit streak remember that. Once you have a 45 day streak you'll do your pushup even if you are falling asleep. Typing this on a mobile but let me know if i can be of any more help.
  - xupybd 10y ago
    Thanks for your reply. You've definitely given me some direction thanks :)

xupybd 10y ago

> 1 hour of exercise daily How did you get going with that? Any pointers?

superasn 10y ago
Sure but what you need to understand is that you need to change your mindset from I must exercise to I want to exercise and for that you need to program your brain first. step 1: make your WHY big enough and the how will follow First go to amazon and get one of these books: Spark or Go wild by john ratey. I prefer the audible version but either works. Listen to them, it's much easier than exercising. This will condition your mind and make your Why big enough. Soon you'll want to do it rather than have to do it. Step 2: baby steps You can't decide that you will exercise 1 hour daily starting from 0. Thankfully again there is a book called Minihabits. Get the audio or print version and read f it. Basically it teaches you that forming a habit is more important than doing it right. So 1 push daily for 3 months is better than 2 hours of 1 day gym in 3 months. Step 3: track your habits Get loopt habit tracker from app store (android) and put the widget on your home screen. Mark it daily. Even if you do 1 pushup you maintain your habit streak remember that. Once you have a 45 day streak you'll do your pushup even if you are falling asleep. Typing this on a mobile but let me know if i can be of any more help.
- xupybd 10y ago
  Thanks for your reply. You've definitely given me some direction thanks :)