so I have a) being working long hours and b) gaining weight lately. Not a shock that those two things are correlated. I think this is caused by a number of things
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I have similar problems when I'm deskbound. Especially in the winter. Especially when I'm working from home and don't have that bike ride to and from work every day. I haven't checked but I'm sure I've gained a bit of weight since I started my new job, I'm also sure I'll lose it again as I'm getting more and more active over the summer.
I don't worry about my weight at all (I'm rarely cognizant of it) but I DEFINTIELY notice diet and sedentaryness related swings in general health, motivation, and mood and body comfort.
Things I try to do when I remember:
The candy habit is a huge one for me. I also use it for the sugar rush to get through a long mind numbing day. I also think just chewing helps keep me a bit more alert. Anyway what I try to do is get bags of bulk dried fruit. It's just as good as candy and a bit more healthy. I suppose you could still gain weight because of the fruit sugars but it can't be as bad as the candy!
Vitamins are important. I LOVE Emergen-C packets. You dissolve a pack in your water and it makes the
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Yeah, I think dried fruit is an option I will try. I'll try those emergen C things as well (I try to take B vitamins but I get all jittery when I do cause they have such high percentages).
The vegan thing is tough for me becuase I don't like beans / peas / lots of other sources of vegan protein. But eating like a vegan as much as possible sounds like a good idea!
I think that classifying the meat and dairy industries as evil gives an implied and undeserved free-pass to the rest of the agriculture industry.
I've always thought that monoculture type factory-farming in general is not the greatest way to go from so many perspectives (except, of course, the American favourite: "short-term economic"). There's better and worse ways to raise ALL types of foods. With few (and hopefully growing) exceptions, as a country we've chosen the worse end of the spectrum.
Unless this is an argument about "eating living things", in which case enjoy your rocks and carrion!
However above and beyond the environmental disaster of industrial agriculture, meat has additional significant and unique health and environmental issues.
Heck, 90% (made up non-researched percentage for demonstration purposes only) of the evil monoculture industrial ag exists to feed livestock! So right there's it's a double whammy.
Certainly the BEST thing for her to do would be to eat all Organic and vegan and seasonable and macrobiotic and regionally appropriate but THAT is very very hard and she asked for easy. :)
For me the best way to eat vegan is to find a great vegan restaurant. It's hard to cook your own good vegan food, but the vegans themselves are VERY good at it.
And, dude, you should see the gruel..Um... Oatmeal boannan eats for breakfast. It is the supreme dictator of insoluable fibre. You could patch walls with this stuff. (don't kill me boannan!!!!)
I don't worry about my weight at all (I'm rarely cognizant of it) but I DEFINTIELY notice diet and sedentaryness related swings in general health, motivation, and mood and body comfort.
Things I try to do when I remember:
The candy habit is a huge one for me. I also use it for the sugar rush to get through a long mind numbing day. I also think just chewing helps keep me a bit more alert. Anyway what I try to do is get bags of bulk dried fruit. It's just as good as candy and a bit more healthy. I suppose you could still gain weight because of the fruit sugars but it can't be as bad as the candy!
Vitamins are important. I LOVE Emergen-C packets. You dissolve a pack in your water and it makes the ( ... )
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The vegan thing is tough for me becuase I don't like beans / peas / lots of other sources of vegan protein. But eating like a vegan as much as possible sounds like a good idea!
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I've always thought that monoculture type factory-farming in general is not the greatest way to go from so many perspectives (except, of course, the American favourite: "short-term economic"). There's better and worse ways to raise ALL types of foods. With few (and hopefully growing) exceptions, as a country we've chosen the worse end of the spectrum.
Unless this is an argument about "eating living things", in which case enjoy your rocks and carrion!
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However above and beyond the environmental disaster of industrial agriculture, meat has additional significant and unique health and environmental issues.
Heck, 90% (made up non-researched percentage for demonstration purposes only) of the evil monoculture industrial ag exists to feed livestock! So right there's it's a double whammy.
Certainly the BEST thing for her to do would be to eat all Organic and vegan and seasonable and macrobiotic and regionally appropriate but THAT is very very hard and she asked for easy. :)
For me the best way to eat vegan is to find a great vegan restaurant. It's hard to cook your own good vegan food, but the vegans themselves are VERY good at it.
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