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Or get a gym membership, actually use it and eat less crap. This may only give you a few years, but chances that it'll actually work are much higher.
by hannob 7y ago
Or get a gym membership, actually use it and eat less crap. This may only give you a few years, but chances that it'll actually work are much higher.
- RickJWagner 7y agoThat's my plan. I've got the gym membership and use it often. I struggle mightily with eating less crap, though. (Especially chocolate.) Food is one of the great pleasures in life, and I haven't found really healthy food to be a good replacement for tasty junk. Maybe advances in food production will bring hope?
- nradov 7y agoTry eating dark chocolate with minimal added sugar. It contains fewer calories and if you buy the good stuff it's quite tasty.
- phonypc 7y agoDarker chocolate should trend towards being higher in calories, containing proportionally more fat.
- newnewpdro 7y agoYou're confusing Dark and White chocolate. 100% Dark chocolate isn't 100% cocoa butter, it's the non-fat solids. If you eat some it's quite obviously not fatty, it's bitter and dry like a burnt coffee bean. Edit: I'm mistaken here, dark chocolate is half fat, TIL.
- phonypc 7y ago100% chocolate is roughly half fat by weight, easily verified by looking at the nutrition information on the packaging. Not to be confused with cocoa powder, which is indeed just the non-fat solids. As you add sugar to chocolate, the proportion of total weight that is fat goes down, and fat being more calorie dense than sugar, calories per unit weight go down.
- newnewpdro 7y agoYou're right, I'm mistaken - I didn't realize even 100% dark chocolate is half fat by weight.
- chrishynes 7y agoSure, but a nibble of dark chocolate is very satisfying and satiating. I can easily eat a bar or two of milk chocolate but naturally stop with a square or two of the good dark stuff.
- phonypc 7y agoOh for sure, sweeter chocolate is way easier to eat too much of. Just pointing out that dark isn't actually lower in calories.
- vostok 7y agoI've found that I can improve things simply by eating healthier for my boring meals. Then for my fun meals I eat whatever I want. You can also reduce how much you eat for your fun meals, but changing the boring meals makes a difference even if you don't.
- mcv 7y agoInteresting distinction, but what if you're already making your boring meals more fun?
- kaybe 7y agoI have found I actually really like fruit even more than sugared sweets. The problem is that it's too bothersome to eat them. It helps a lot to separate preparation from the moment I want to eat something, like cutting and packing an apple in the morning or washing a bunch of berries and carrying them in a jar.
- jriot 7y agoThis is just purely my observations. I'm of the firm belief that it doesn't really matter what you eat if you exercise enough. Military (actual combat, outside the wire) live off MREs yet are in phenomenal shape. I train strongman/powerlifting, it doesn't matter what I eat - double cheeseburger, fry, and chocolate shake, thats fine because my body needs the calories from the morning workout. It doesn't lead to six-pack abs, but I'll trade that for my level of strength.
- bad_user 7y agoYou don’t need a gym membership. For cardio you can go to any park for running or biking. It’s way more fun. For strength training you can do bodyweight strength training at home with no equipment required (calisthenics). Most people fall into the trap of paying for a gym membership, but then they never use it, because let’s face it, going to the gym wastes time and is uncomfortable. If you train at home by using the weight of your own body for building muscle, all it takes is 10-20 minutes per day and there’s no cost and no excuse for not doing it.
- malvosenior 7y agoCan you suggest some good pointers on how to get started with that type of routine? Edit: thanks for the responses, awesome.
- valgor 7y agoWhen I got interested in this type of workout, I just youtubed videos, picked out exercises that I wanted to do, and created my own routine.
- schrodinger 7y agoI’ve heard that https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/ is a great resource!
- ljcn 7y agoThe "recommended routine" at r/bodyweightfitness https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommend... I've been doing it for about a year and it's excellent. The only "equipment" I bought are some wooden gymnastics rings.
- infinite_luck 7y agoLike the others have said, the bodyweightfitness subreddit is a great resource. I just want to stress if/when you get to using gymnastics rings, don't just jump right into them, be very careful with your form. Also be sure to that you have not progressed too quickly and are actually doing the exercises you should be doing for your strength level. I've injured myself on them multiple times (the first time I was just doing something dumb) and I'm currently on the tail end of the recovery of another injury. I would imagine this just has to do with the fact that each ring is independent of the other, with many free degrees of movement, which makes it easier to slip into form that is bad on your body. That being said, I love body weight training and starting it was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
- kristofferR 7y agoAubrey De Grey isn't focused on giving esoteric anti-aging advice (unlike say Ray Kurzweil), he spends his time talking about the science and progress of anti-aging research. Knowing that; living healthy is obviously important, but to suggest that you should also drop your intellectual curiosity for anti-aging science, like your comment essentially did, is just absurd. It's close to saying that people interested in physics should stop reading physics books and start playing ball sports instead.
- chacha2 7y agohttps://youtu.be/LeCpHugyI80?t=740 https://youtu.be/LeCpHugyI80?t=740 It won't make substantial change.