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Most of my life I have been fat, and didn't care about my diet - I ate what I felt like. I also smoked heavily more than half of my life, and I'm way too famili
by not_your_vase 2y ago
Most of my life I have been fat, and didn't care about my diet - I ate what I felt like. I also smoked heavily more than half of my life, and I'm way too familiar with bierbottles too from a previous life.
About 6 or 7 years ago I stopped smoking, and I couldn't find any more excuses, and got myself a gym membership. After being scared to actually go to the gym for about 3 more months, once I took a deep breath, and made my first visit.
After 15 minutes I almost died, I was so exhausted. I was very disappointed, and went to the burger king next door. I paid for my order, and when I got it, I got disgusted by myself. I threw it to the trash without touching it, and next day I went back to the gym.
I continued doing so for months, until I eventually got a 4-pack (I never got to a 6-pack, grrr).
And at this point an old colleague sent me an email, with a job offer, out of the blue.
The job was very good - the guy knew that I would love it, and I did, too much actually. I pulled 16 hours long workdays (which I enjoyed, mentally), started to eat crap again, and in a year I couldn't button my shirts.
At this point I quit - I felt that my physical health was deteriorating, my body was begging to stop. It took over a year to get back in form again. My job is worse than it was, but I couldn't control myself when I was having way too much fun.
- devinc_heyo 2y agoTons of respect for making the right call - that's hard to do, but you know you'll never regret it in the long run. Do you think those 16 hours would've really been more productive than if the environment/culture allowed for, say, 15 hours and you'd have 1 hour more for just "life". Or even as far as 12. Curious whether it really becomes net positive productivity. I feel like it really doesn't work to push past a certain point so I'm wondering more and more why the hell do we all do it so often haha?
- not_your_vase 2y agoOh, I wasn't forced to work 16 hours. It wasn't crunch-time, or anything. The company and the team was reasonably supportive about work-life balance. But the project I was working on was very interesting, my tasks were also pretty interesting, the team was mostly assembled of competent people, and I enjoyed every second I spent on the project - I actually tried to spend as much time on it as I could. Was almost like an addiction... I just kind of neglected many other things.
- devinc_heyo 2y agoWoah that's funny I feel like your putting to words something I've felt many times haha. The addiction/interest + neglect of other stuff has happened to me more times than I care to admit. Funny world.