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I was in bad health, i.e. raised adiposity (which is a beautiful euphemism, I might add), for a while and it's because I spent so much time working to pay my bi
by alexfromapex 4y ago
I was in bad health, i.e. raised adiposity (which is a beautiful euphemism, I might add), for a while and it's because I spent so much time working to pay my bills. I had almost no time to exercise. That is especially true when I spent my free time with friends or working on hobbies. The additional stress of work and lack of time drove me to drinking which messed up my liver (was diagnosed fatty liver) and added to my bad fat metabolism. Recently, I've been taking a break from working and have had time every day to go running and go to the gym twice a week and I've dropped 7 pounds in 2 months and feel way healthier.
- civilized 4y agoFor me it was kids. Love them, but they're sleep deprivation and stress 24/7. Better now that they're older but the weight has been hard to lose. If only there was a magical food that gave you energy, satiated hunger, tasted like pepperoni pizza, and had no calories. Life's a bitch.
- alexpetralia 4y agoI imagine this affects many parents. I would love to know how many parents successfully manage this (or, perhaps, success is simply defined as raising your kids well)?
- civilized 4y agoPeople seem to have all sorts of problems from having kids. Some have no problem with weight gain but their marriage falls apart. I guess I'm glad I got what I got instead of that.
- pfisherman 4y agoYou absolutely need to prioritize getting 30-60 mins of exercise at least 5 times per week. Block out time on your work calendar if you have to. The cognitive / health / mood benefits will make up for the lost time. A home gym setup will save you the 30-40 mins to and from the gym. Barring space for any equipment / weights some exercise bands and a yoga mat will do. App based fitness classes such as AppleFitness+ also make it much much easier to program your workouts.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoTurn your chores into exercise. I get miles per week sweeping and mopping.
- luxurytent 4y agoThe "successful" parents become very good at time management and focus. IMO, it's our super power.
- 10u152 4y agoYou're working against millions of years of evolution. If a cave man is given the options of 4 foods, the cave man who eats the most calorifically dense food is more likely to live and have energy through the next lean time than the cave man who eats the leaves. It sucks but that's just how we're evolved and it's shockingly hard to "trick" those sense with fake sugar etc.
- jason-phillips 4y agoI'm sure you know this, but today one must learn to make smart choices in the face of modern foods which are readily available. I refrain from sugar in my diet and to me citric acid (Vitamin C powder) and sometimes vinegar hot sauce taste sweet. Fruit, a rare treat, tastes like candy. It depends on what you've become accustomed to eating.
- giantg2 4y agoMany hot peppers actually have a good bit of sugar in them. I was making some Tabasco sauce I'm the fall and the bees were very interested in it. I also grew some cayenne peppers that didn't have any heat and they were quite sweet.
- jandrewrogers 4y agoVitamin C is ascorbic acid, not citric acid, though both are ubiquitous in citrus fruit.
- musha68k 4y agoSome people do seem to make it work though, going for a run with the baby (Thule strollers etc) or later on together with the kids. It's awesome to see and it still gives me hope but I have the feeling that some kids are just much easier to handle from the moment they are born. Nothing to be mad about. Just something to accept while celebrating the absolute wonder of them being with you including your survival of yet another day (without eating yet another cookie).
- civilized 4y agoEvery bit of parenting advice ever formulated sounds utterly deranged to 20% of parents. Have you never met a child? They think.
- urthor 4y agoRunning/walking with baby is advice I've never seen fail. We're hunter/gatherers. Babies are designed to shut up and be happy when we're walking around with them and jiggling them. That's a survival feature.
- civilized 4y agoHahahaha. I would have had so many idyllic hikes if this was true of my kid. Strollers sometimes worked, but they never lasted more than 5 minutes in a papoose/backpack type deal.
- darkerside 4y agoA salad will do it except the tasting like a pizza part. Pretty damn good compromise.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoOnly problem is, to make a salad taste good most people add in chicken, bacon bits, cheese, egg, mayonnaise, heavy dressings and hey presto, you've got 1000 calories in there.
- Syonyk 4y agoOnly 1000? Must be a breakfast salad! The "Real Men of Genius" advertising series from the late 90s touched on this very well with their "Mr. Giant Taco Salad Inventor" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWq2AVlrsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXWq2AVlrsY
- civilized 4y agoReal Men of Genius still stands as the greatest ad series of all time. Surely created by a real man of genius.
- doliveira 4y agoThe taste is a pretty important part.
- darkerside 4y agoIt's a funny thing. The more important you think it is, the more important it becomes. If you allow yourself to think, maybe everything doesn't need to taste decadent and delicious, and that maybe a neutral green salad can taste fresh and palatable and that's good enough, you'll find it to become true.
- doliveira 4y agoIn theory you're not wrong, of course, but in practice "just eat salad instead of a pizza" is so simplified it's not even useful. And I can't even comprehend what's the "damn good compromise" you referred to. You can eliminate the daily cravings with this change of habits, but you can't change the caveman psychological reaction to eating a pizza. It will always taste much better and yield way more dopamine than a green salad ever will. Much like an ex-smoker and cigarettes.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoIntermittent fasting works for me, one coffee in the morning, lots of water, tons of dinner. Always on my feet, standing desk, cleaning constantly:)
- bpodgursky 4y agoMy struggle w/ an 18 month old is that the house is always full of 1/3 eaten plates of food, and I don't want to throw out 2/3 of a bowl of oatmeal or 2/3 of a little burrito... I've been doing intermittent fasting and only garbage collect in the evenings, but the temptations are high when you WFH.
- ronyeh 4y agoOnce the kiddo gets older and starts going to preschool or kindergarten, you're gonna have to be okay with throwing out some half eaten kids food. That's the fastest way for me to get sick (garbage collecting my kids' dinner trays).
- hunter-gatherer 4y agoLike the parent comment I also have been doing garbage collection from the plate and slimming my own servings in anticipation. It seems to have worked, but now that my toddler is almost 4 I've noticed that my rate of stomach bugs has increased to levels I've never experienced. I wonder if this is the reason... I hate throwing away food so, so much.
- smeagull 4y agoGet used to throwing out food that you shouldn't eat.
- thomasahle 4y ago> gave you energy [...] and had no calories. What does this even mean :-D
- karatepizza 4y agoDude. Buy caulipower brand pizza (either the pepperoni pizza or the cheese and add your own slice two of pepperoni. Let thaw for 20 min. Bake at 425 for 9 min. Checks all the above.
- Mouthfeel 4y agoIf you don't mind me asking, how much did you have to drink to get fatty liver? What symptom did you have that made you get yourself checked?