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> since the pandemic and WFH, I've started doing a lot of my 1:1s while walking, voice only. I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has started doi

> since the pandemic and WFH, I've started doing a lot of my 1:1s while walking, voice only. I'd be really interested to know if anyone else has started doing this? Yes, +1 for this. The pandemic made me unfit and put on weight. When I teach I pace about, gesticulate, use the whiteboard lots and generally burn a ton of calories. I really missed that. Desk-based admin or videoconf meetings are down my can-do list now. Trying to reserve chair time for coding. I see other comments on "how do you take notes or send messages?" Mobile speech-to-text and text-to-speech are on my radar, but far from perfect results. I enjoyed the thread last week on throat mics and bone conduction headphones, possibly very useful tech to use for walking and working.

kubik369 4y ago
Maybe this will help you (and maybe I will just sound like a jerk shrugs), but the pandemic didn't make you unfit and put on weight, you and your diet did. I have been struggling with this for the last few years and while pacing about (or any movement really) certainly helps, you can veeery easily outeat whatever you burned; our bodies are freakishly efficient. I would recommend trying to take a look at whether your diet changed while working from home and if not, trying to change it up so that it corresponds to your current activity levels. ... or if you don't care, then don't, it would have just helped me if someone pointed this out to me earlier in my life, so I try to do it for other people.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago
  Your absolutely right mate, and thanks for taking a punt on "seeming a jerk" and saying the honest truth. My diet definitely changed for the worse during that time. Bulking up is a comfort/stress behaviour for sure. And boredom. How those hours indoors seemed to linger if I'm not lost in code or creativity. But now it's under control again I need to find tricks to keep both the munching and the burn working together. Part of the walking benefit isn't just calorie output, it's the positive mental state that comes with the deal, that makes me not think about food for 8 hours at a time. respects.

kubik369 4y ago

Maybe this will help you (and maybe I will just sound like a jerk shrugs), but the pandemic didn't make you unfit and put on weight, you and your diet did. I have been struggling with this for the last few years and while pacing about (or any movement really) certainly helps, you can veeery easily outeat whatever you burned; our bodies are freakishly efficient. I would recommend trying to take a look at whether your diet changed while working from home and if not, trying to change it up so that it corresponds to your current activity levels. ... or if you don't care, then don't, it would have just helped me if someone pointed this out to me earlier in my life, so I try to do it for other people.

nonrandomstring 4y ago
Your absolutely right mate, and thanks for taking a punt on "seeming a jerk" and saying the honest truth. My diet definitely changed for the worse during that time. Bulking up is a comfort/stress behaviour for sure. And boredom. How those hours indoors seemed to linger if I'm not lost in code or creativity. But now it's under control again I need to find tricks to keep both the munching and the burn working together. Part of the walking benefit isn't just calorie output, it's the positive mental state that comes with the deal, that makes me not think about food for 8 hours at a time. respects.