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Yeah, watch out for Brain Aneurysm if you have high blood pressure. Internal pluming related death is probably the leading cause of early death at that age. Don

Yeah, watch out for Brain Aneurysm if you have high blood pressure. Internal pluming related death is probably the leading cause of early death at that age. Don't clog your pipes people! Don't sit at the computer for too long either. You can get blood clots in your legs. Take care of your heart. Go for a walk everyday

uncledave 6y ago
Good advice. Also don’t start doing this tomorrow. Do it today. I know at least three people now who have pushed off everything to next week for years and ended up with irreversible bad health outcomes.
- Teknoman117 6y ago
  Man I have to lose weight and get healthy. I'm young enough (28) where I probably have enough time for things to recover but I'm out of time and excuses to start doing something. Need to halve my mass by the time I hit 30. Never had a healthy relationship with food. Parents were always stuck on yoyo diets :(. They're still here, thankfully. I just, you know, don't want to die before them. My siblings would kill me. I'd also love to fit on rollercoasters again.
  - uncledave 6y ago
    Genuinely do it. It was the best improvement I made in my life. All I did was eat less crap and walk a lot. Turned out i liked walking so I now walk up mountains and stuff. I started over 10 years after you so you’re good still :) If you’ve got a smart phone get a calorie tracker app like Nutracheck and use it. Job done.
  - mindvirus 6y ago
    If you can afford it, I recommend hiring people to help. Seeing a personal trainer just once a week has been life changing for me. I just have to show up. Just being accountable to someone else has been huge.
  - petecooper 6y ago
    I will echo the replies to your comment. I made a decision to fix myself last August. I switched my diet to lower carb and more protein, drank more water, started getting up earlier, intermittent fasting, plus some other things. I've lost ~23kg (~50lb) since then, and my quality of life has improved. Don't set out to half your mass, just set out to lose a little, then a bit more, and keep going. Don't fail before you start. Drink lots of water, your brain and skin will thank you for it.
    - pfarrell 6y ago
      100% agree about water and about setting smaller goals that you can celebrate. This thought clicked for me. If you can lose 10 lbs (4.5 kg), that’s like setting down a bowling ball you are carrying all the time. You will definitely experience a quality of life improvement when you do that. Good luck. Then, do it again.
  - acomjean 6y ago
    Getting a healthy lifestyle I think is important and at any age is a great time to improve. I think of it more of a journey than an endpoint. It will have ups and downs but try to keep it heading generally in the right direction. I’m much older but try to stay active (bike commuting, regular exercise, yoga, better diet) although not at my ideal weight it’s helped. I have a coworker who lists exercise as a required “hobby”. I never thought about it like that, but it what helps her keep it up.
  - saalweachter 6y ago
    Bit of generic advice: At the end of the day, it's all "calories in / calories out", but the real trick is figuring out how to change your calorie balance in a way that works for you, long term. Some people do really well on some sort of rigid "I will eat an exact, precise amount of food each day", be it something like Nutrisystem or Soylent or just very carefully counting calories each day; other people can't stick with it. Some people do better just adding a solid, regular block of exercise each day, be it the gym or just walking; other people have trouble carving out the regular time. Intermittent fasting, eating windows, changing the composition of your diet, eliminating snacks or liquid calories, taking up a sport, becoming a gym rat ... there are a lot of reasonable ways to change how many calories you're consuming or how many you're burning. The hard part -- besides actually doing it, because that's rarely easy -- is finding one that you can commit to forever, so you aren't, as you say, just trying out yo-yo diets.
    - throwawayboise 6y ago
      Exercise is great, but you can't out-exercise a bad/high calorie diet. Running a mile on a treadmill (if I believe the computer) burns about 135 calories. A typical Big Mac meal is about 1,100 calories.
      - saalweachter 6y ago
        Eh, depends on what your calorie surplus is. If I don't pay attention to what I eat, and am fairly inactive, I tend to eat about 50-100 calories more per day than I burn, amounting to a 5-10 lb/year gain. That is enough of a gain that it really adds up over time, and once it has added up it is quite daunting to deal with, but as far as maintaining goes, it's very reasonable to just add a small amount of light exercise on a daily basis.
intricatedetail 6y ago
If you feel unwell everyday (mainly fatigue and chronic pain) and exercise makes you feel worse how can you force yourself to exercise?
- graeme 6y ago
  This really depends on the issue. If, for example, you have a mobility issue, and walking directly hurt the mobility issue, then the solution is physio or massage to resolve the mobility issue. But for your more garden variety “I am tired and my joints hurt” then exercise tends to be a virtuous circle. You push yourself to do a little, and it is rough, but it improves the body’s capacity. Then you feel a bit better later and can do more. Being unhealthy is an equilibrium, and you can push yourself into a better equilibrium with exercise, food and sleep. For 90% of people reading this what I wrote will be true. But you may be in the 10% where you have an underlying issue to fix first, so check with a physio and a doctor.
- nucatus 6y ago
  Then you must take some rest. Get a good recharge of your batteries and get back on the field only when you got stronger. Enjoy life, eat well and move around a lot.
- Angostura 6y ago
  Set small achievable goals? "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?"
  - dctoedt 6y ago
    > "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?" Brings to mind how (the late) Captain Sir Tom Moore started his famous walk(s). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52324058 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5232405...
  - esimov 6y ago
    It might sound as a spoiler, but the slogan of a well know brand it should be motivating: "Keep walking!".
TaupeRanger 6y ago
Just lift weights 3-5 times a week and walk often (preferably on hilly terrain). You'll be fine. Don't worry too much...that could be worse than lack of exercise.
- agumonkey 6y ago
  - efforts - walking - eating well - sleeping regularly - fun and non toxic people The top 5 futuristic health tricks from the 4000BC era
  - fortran77 6y ago
    Or do none of these things and get special front-of-the-line treatment for Government programs, including first access to the COVID vaccine, and preferred parking spaces.
mrbonner 6y ago
Can confirm. My dad died last year this time due to a huge stroke happened during an endoscopy. Turned out he had a big chunk of cholesterol at the aorta. The endoscopic procedure probably broke it and sent more fragments to the brain. He had an earlier stroke 4 weeks ago and blood thinner didn’t seem to work. He was very active, though. So mind you, eating well is also a key to go along with exercise!

uncledave 6y ago

Good advice. Also don’t start doing this tomorrow. Do it today. I know at least three people now who have pushed off everything to next week for years and ended up with irreversible bad health outcomes.

Teknoman117 6y ago
Man I have to lose weight and get healthy. I'm young enough (28) where I probably have enough time for things to recover but I'm out of time and excuses to start doing something. Need to halve my mass by the time I hit 30. Never had a healthy relationship with food. Parents were always stuck on yoyo diets :(. They're still here, thankfully. I just, you know, don't want to die before them. My siblings would kill me. I'd also love to fit on rollercoasters again.
- uncledave 6y ago
  Genuinely do it. It was the best improvement I made in my life. All I did was eat less crap and walk a lot. Turned out i liked walking so I now walk up mountains and stuff. I started over 10 years after you so you’re good still :) If you’ve got a smart phone get a calorie tracker app like Nutracheck and use it. Job done.
- mindvirus 6y ago
  If you can afford it, I recommend hiring people to help. Seeing a personal trainer just once a week has been life changing for me. I just have to show up. Just being accountable to someone else has been huge.
- petecooper 6y ago
  I will echo the replies to your comment. I made a decision to fix myself last August. I switched my diet to lower carb and more protein, drank more water, started getting up earlier, intermittent fasting, plus some other things. I've lost ~23kg (~50lb) since then, and my quality of life has improved. Don't set out to half your mass, just set out to lose a little, then a bit more, and keep going. Don't fail before you start. Drink lots of water, your brain and skin will thank you for it.
  - pfarrell 6y ago
    100% agree about water and about setting smaller goals that you can celebrate. This thought clicked for me. If you can lose 10 lbs (4.5 kg), that’s like setting down a bowling ball you are carrying all the time. You will definitely experience a quality of life improvement when you do that. Good luck. Then, do it again.
- acomjean 6y ago
  Getting a healthy lifestyle I think is important and at any age is a great time to improve. I think of it more of a journey than an endpoint. It will have ups and downs but try to keep it heading generally in the right direction. I’m much older but try to stay active (bike commuting, regular exercise, yoga, better diet) although not at my ideal weight it’s helped. I have a coworker who lists exercise as a required “hobby”. I never thought about it like that, but it what helps her keep it up.
- saalweachter 6y ago
  Bit of generic advice: At the end of the day, it's all "calories in / calories out", but the real trick is figuring out how to change your calorie balance in a way that works for you, long term. Some people do really well on some sort of rigid "I will eat an exact, precise amount of food each day", be it something like Nutrisystem or Soylent or just very carefully counting calories each day; other people can't stick with it. Some people do better just adding a solid, regular block of exercise each day, be it the gym or just walking; other people have trouble carving out the regular time. Intermittent fasting, eating windows, changing the composition of your diet, eliminating snacks or liquid calories, taking up a sport, becoming a gym rat ... there are a lot of reasonable ways to change how many calories you're consuming or how many you're burning. The hard part -- besides actually doing it, because that's rarely easy -- is finding one that you can commit to forever, so you aren't, as you say, just trying out yo-yo diets.
  - throwawayboise 6y ago
    Exercise is great, but you can't out-exercise a bad/high calorie diet. Running a mile on a treadmill (if I believe the computer) burns about 135 calories. A typical Big Mac meal is about 1,100 calories.
    - saalweachter 6y ago
      Eh, depends on what your calorie surplus is. If I don't pay attention to what I eat, and am fairly inactive, I tend to eat about 50-100 calories more per day than I burn, amounting to a 5-10 lb/year gain. That is enough of a gain that it really adds up over time, and once it has added up it is quite daunting to deal with, but as far as maintaining goes, it's very reasonable to just add a small amount of light exercise on a daily basis.

intricatedetail 6y ago

If you feel unwell everyday (mainly fatigue and chronic pain) and exercise makes you feel worse how can you force yourself to exercise?

graeme 6y ago
This really depends on the issue. If, for example, you have a mobility issue, and walking directly hurt the mobility issue, then the solution is physio or massage to resolve the mobility issue. But for your more garden variety “I am tired and my joints hurt” then exercise tends to be a virtuous circle. You push yourself to do a little, and it is rough, but it improves the body’s capacity. Then you feel a bit better later and can do more. Being unhealthy is an equilibrium, and you can push yourself into a better equilibrium with exercise, food and sleep. For 90% of people reading this what I wrote will be true. But you may be in the 10% where you have an underlying issue to fix first, so check with a physio and a doctor.
nucatus 6y ago
Then you must take some rest. Get a good recharge of your batteries and get back on the field only when you got stronger. Enjoy life, eat well and move around a lot.
Angostura 6y ago
Set small achievable goals? "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?"
- dctoedt 6y ago
  > "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?" Brings to mind how (the late) Captain Sir Tom Moore started his famous walk(s). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52324058 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5232405...
- esimov 6y ago
  It might sound as a spoiler, but the slogan of a well know brand it should be motivating: "Keep walking!".

TaupeRanger 6y ago

Just lift weights 3-5 times a week and walk often (preferably on hilly terrain). You'll be fine. Don't worry too much...that could be worse than lack of exercise.

agumonkey 6y ago
- efforts - walking - eating well - sleeping regularly - fun and non toxic people The top 5 futuristic health tricks from the 4000BC era
- fortran77 6y ago
  Or do none of these things and get special front-of-the-line treatment for Government programs, including first access to the COVID vaccine, and preferred parking spaces.

mrbonner 6y ago

Can confirm. My dad died last year this time due to a huge stroke happened during an endoscopy. Turned out he had a big chunk of cholesterol at the aorta. The endoscopic procedure probably broke it and sent more fragments to the brain. He had an earlier stroke 4 weeks ago and blood thinner didn’t seem to work. He was very active, though. So mind you, eating well is also a key to go along with exercise!