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> Stop eating at restaurants, cook all your own food, bring in a lunch to work, count your calories. Also exercise, lots. And get 7+ hours a sleep a night. > T
by antisthenes 8y ago
> Stop eating at restaurants, cook all your own food, bring in a lunch to work, count your calories. Also exercise, lots. And get 7+ hours a sleep a night.
> That's it, that's all it takes.
That's a simple recipe, but let's not pretend it's an easy one. It's a significant investment of your time and resources.
- mevile 8y agoThat's a fair point. It's definitely not a thing to do all at once, I took baby steps to get here.
- rconti 8y agoJust the awareness is a great start. I'm reading the book Why We Sleep, which was recommended here recently. I've always loved sleep. I've always known you're SUPPOSED to get X hours of sleep and go to bed and wake up at roughly the same time. I've learned a lot of shocking things from the book already, but none of them scared me into sleeping more. Just the very fact that I'm a person reading a book about sleep has made me more aware of it. More likely to think "yes, i am a person who considers sleep valuable", which means I'm more likely to veto that extra TV episode before bed -- not because I necessarily learned more about the value of sleep, but just that the act of reading and thinking about it has made it more front-of-mind and hence more important.