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by germanherman » Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:39 pm
Ah yes, Off-the-Track. I know that place, been there so often, I considered buying real estate there.
But to be serious: It’s ok, to fall off the wagon, even to stay off it for some time. It takes time to form a habit. When you are ready to continue you journey, you can always climb back on.
I don’t know, if I’m the right guy to inspire you to do so. From other diets I know you should visualize how good you will look with the body and how good you will feel when you are healthy, but I always thought that these are very superficial images and don’t really help. I for one could not really imagine how to feel fit, healthy and “skinny” until I reached that state.
But what I could imagine was a feeling of peace with food, with my eating, with life itself. Because it is remarkable how much time and energy you waste on thinking about food, exercise and diets, when you don’t got this mindset. Just look at yourself right know for a minute:
I should be exercising! I should be eating! Why don’t I eat after this plan? Why am I hungry? Where is my motivation to eat right? Why is this hard? OMG how many calories had this last lunch? Why do I feel bloated?
And now try to imagine how little space of your mind eating, food and exercising could occupy if you automated it with simple, moderate systems. How much energy and creativity you could invest instead in the things in life that really count.
Health and fitness should be like the infrastructure of your life, not like your whole world. I don’t think all day about the streets in my town, I just drive on them. And neither do I think all day about how I eat, should eat or if I should exercise.
I just wake up, shovelglove for 14 minute, eat a plate of something I like and then ranger off in my day.
Don’t let these things be your burden, let them become an subconscious habit.
I’m a longtime NoSler, combined with shovelglove (more like 14 minutes of moving) and urban rangering. It took me a lot attempts to get there, but the systems became my baseline, my default actions, much like brushing my teeth or trimming my beard.
The only regret I have in this regard is, how long it took me to understand them and how much precious time of my life I wasted with thinking and learning about diets, exercise and food.
I got 35 this year, and a couple of days before that I noticed, that I didn’t care for a new diet craze that was hyped in another forum I frequent. I really made my peace with food.
Might be a worthwhile goal for you too?
P.S. Sorry, English is still my second language.
Spend over 450 Dollar on some Systems, Gadgets and courses = Zero Results
Spend 15 Bucks for a Shovelglove + NoS-Diet=
German by nature