{"id":477,"date":"2009-09-01T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:57:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T12:57:32","slug":"giving-up-hard-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/01\/giving-up-hard-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Up Hard Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve gained more weight than I’m happy with.\u00a0 I’ve not been as active as I should be, and I’ve been doing a lot of snacking on bread in spite of the bentos.<\/p>\n

So, back to No-S<\/a>, and getting in at least a small workout every weekday.\u00a0 That’s sustainable and non-invasive and doesn’t have the Forbidden Food Fallacy.\u00a0 I recognize allergies and medical conditions are one thing.\u00a0 I don’t have that problem.\u00a0 My problem is a simple problem of mindless snacking, especially in the evenings. No-S solves that problem quite well.\u00a0 If it hurts when you do that<\/em>, stop doing that.<\/em> Simple. (Y’all know simple and easy aren’t necessarily the same?\u00a0 Yeah, figured you did!)<\/p>\n

For exercise, I can:\u00a0 Go for a walk, put in a swim, do a shovelglove session, do a weights workout at the gym or do bodyweight exercises.\u00a0 Any of those counts, and I’m allowed to follow whim as long as I am doing something<\/em>. I can go hard or not as I like.\u00a0 It’s the consistency I’m worried about rather than any progress issue.<\/p>\n

My goal here is habits rather than progress.\u00a0 That’ll take care of itself, but going hammer and tongs at fitness and lifestyle goals doesn’t work. I know it.\u00a0 And still I keep trying to do it.\u00a0 Why I keep doing it when it doesn’t work, I don’t know.\u00a0 Well, yeah, I do.\u00a0 I’m an intensity junkie.\u00a0 That’s dandy for some things, but it’s not serving me here.<\/p>\n

So the goal itself is consistent habits.\u00a0 I may eschew even weighing myself.\u00a0 Eat three full meals a day (if you don’t snack, the meals need to be comfortably substantial to get the right amount of food), and have a treat on weekends or holidays if I want them.\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t track what I eat or the calorie content, but simply eat three single-plate (or bento box) meals a day.\u00a0 Honestly?\u00a0 My meals are pretty decently healthy, so it’s not really a concern.\u00a0 It’s all that nibbling that’s the real problem.<\/p>\n

I won’t track my fitness progress other than whether or not a workout happened out every weekday.\u00a0 Right now my real problem is that I get all excited about a goal and get all into it and then burn out.\u00a0 That’s not serving me.<\/p>\n

The point here is that I’m spending far too much mental energy on problems that could be solved simply with consistent moderate habits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Goodness knows it worked with housekeeping.\u00a0 My house is adequately neat and I do not<\/em> spend my life cleaning house.\u00a0\u00a0 So I expect it’ll do nearly as well with my body as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve gained more weight than I’m happy with.\u00a0 I’ve not been as active as I should be, and I’ve been doing a lot of snacking on bread in spite of the bentos. So, back to No-S, and getting in at least a small workout every weekday.\u00a0 That’s sustainable and non-invasive and doesn’t have the Forbidden … <\/p>\n

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