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I naturally like to conserve energy and eat sugar but I can motivate myself to move and eat healthy to the point it becomes more natural. I think people are na

I naturally like to conserve energy and eat sugar but I can motivate myself to move and eat healthy to the point it becomes more natural. I think people are naturally predisposed to certain behaviors but it's not a sealed fate. Diet, exercise and environment might even be more dominant factors.

slededit 8y ago
Having setup my life so I can simply sleep and rise naturally I'm living a perfectly normal and happy life - more productive than ever. There is nothing wrong with me and its not a terrible "fate". What is terrible is that we don't accept that some people have different sleep schedules.
- everdev 8y ago
  Yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with being who you are. But I think there's nothing wrong with people who change their diet, exercise, environment, etc. to develop a new habit.
  - slededit 8y ago
    Its not a "habit", its hard-coded and there is strong evidence that forcing your sleep schedule to change has negative health consequences. Underlying all this is an insinuation that if you just eat better and exercised you'd wake up at a normal time. Night owls do get exercise and eat healthily. This advice never seems to be applied to early risers, it comes from a cultural perception of night owls as defective.
    - everdev 8y ago
      Maybe. I was a night owl for 30+ years, but then had the same experience as OC when my other habits changed my sleep cycle changed too without any of the grogginess and frustration I had before when I only tried to change my sleep pattern. Bodies are different though so no doubt our experiences may be very different.
      - slededit 8y ago
        I'm happy it worked for you, but I consider us victims of a society that arbitrarily enforces waking hours. There's no reason a programmer can't work noon to 8 if that works better with their sleep schedule. Ditto for most other office jobs. Core hours are reasonable compromises. On the one hand our lives will be easier if we just got with the program. But things will never get better if we acquiesce.

slededit 8y ago

Having setup my life so I can simply sleep and rise naturally I'm living a perfectly normal and happy life - more productive than ever. There is nothing wrong with me and its not a terrible "fate". What is terrible is that we don't accept that some people have different sleep schedules.

everdev 8y ago
Yeah, absolutely nothing wrong with being who you are. But I think there's nothing wrong with people who change their diet, exercise, environment, etc. to develop a new habit.
- slededit 8y ago
  Its not a "habit", its hard-coded and there is strong evidence that forcing your sleep schedule to change has negative health consequences. Underlying all this is an insinuation that if you just eat better and exercised you'd wake up at a normal time. Night owls do get exercise and eat healthily. This advice never seems to be applied to early risers, it comes from a cultural perception of night owls as defective.
  - everdev 8y ago
    Maybe. I was a night owl for 30+ years, but then had the same experience as OC when my other habits changed my sleep cycle changed too without any of the grogginess and frustration I had before when I only tried to change my sleep pattern. Bodies are different though so no doubt our experiences may be very different.
    - slededit 8y ago
      I'm happy it worked for you, but I consider us victims of a society that arbitrarily enforces waking hours. There's no reason a programmer can't work noon to 8 if that works better with their sleep schedule. Ditto for most other office jobs. Core hours are reasonable compromises. On the one hand our lives will be easier if we just got with the program. But things will never get better if we acquiesce.