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The article stresses that discipline over diet is easier to achieve than discipline over exercise. It may be true that it’s easier to skip an extra soda in fav
by thatcantberight 4y ago
The article stresses that discipline over diet is easier to achieve than discipline over exercise.
It may be true that it’s easier to skip an extra soda in favor of walking for 30 minutes, but what the article doesn’t touch on is healthy lifestyle changes. Burning 500 calories is as effortless as saying no to a soft drink with the right lifestyle change.
The problem isn’t that exercise is too hard, it’s that our relationship with it has changed. You’re not fat because exercise doesn’t burn calories, you’re fat because you’re sedentary.
Cycle to work. Play with your kids. Start a hobby that doesn’t involve programming something in rust. Moving your body should not and cannot be viewed as something that happens only in a gym or in 30 minute increments.
- zumu 4y ago> Cycle to work. Cycle to work. Play with your kids. Start a hobby that doesn’t involve programming something in rust. Moving your body should not and cannot be viewed as something that happens only in a gym or in 30 minute increments. Honestly just walking more is huge. An extra 2-3 miles a day of walking is pretty easy to work in—it takes like an hour. You can kill a podcast and get some errands done at the same time if you do it right.
- PartiallyTyped 4y agoI am walking back from work, and will soon start walking both ways. One of the issue with walking is that I pass lots of diners and fast food shops which make disciplining oneself harder when hungry. I have managed to beat the urges so far and found that it helps build mental fortitude.
- watwut 4y ago> The article stresses that discipline over diet is easier to achieve than discipline over exercise. I just don't find this to be true. It is way easier to exercise then not eat when I am hungry and cant focus on work due to it. And it is way more effort to get the diet right, so that it contains everything needed and leaves me feeling good then going for walk or doing mild exercise.