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Still can't sleep...
Started watching "supersize me", which I got for my brother for christmas. The film is making me physically ill and at the same time it's reminding me of the changes I've felt since I fixed up my diet. I used to eat tons of junk food, survive primarily on red meat and my idea of a vegetable was fries.
Then I became interested in nutrition. No particular reason, I just go through phases like that where I madly research something I know nothing about for a few weeks until I feel the gap in my knowledge is filled and then never look up anything about it ever again. I started reading about ways you could improve your health.
Along the way I've had mainly two people helping me out with it all. Both named Michael, each approaching the issue from a different direction.
One Michael was at the time my boyfriend, a microbiologist. He approached his body with a scientific precision, measuring out the exact nutrients his body needed and taking them in the most direct form possible. He didn't really eat, he's the kind of person who if you could just get a pill with your daily nutrients in it he would. That kind of scared me.
The other Michael, (who was assigned the nickname Mikey many years ago to help distinguish the various Michaels in our social group apart), is a naturopath. While his studies were still mostly scientific he would rather take a herb than a pill, listen to his body than calculate nutrients and work his body through martial arts than a weights machine. At the same time he spends his life focused on the single goal of perfecting his body. While that's a good thing, it's pointless unless you actually then use that perfect body to do something. It also kind of scared me.
Between the two of them and my own research I've majorly changed my diet. I drink water now as well as my beloved coffee, (I used to survive just on coffee), I eat fruits if I want a desert, I love vegetables and my main source of protein is fish. I still probably eat too much, but at least it's too much of the right things.
You know what the result has been? I can't remember the last time I got sick. I used to be chronically ill, I'd recover from a cold just in time to catch the fluu. Now I feel strong and healthy, (at least compared to how I used to feel).
The question is, do I go the rest of the way? I could completely fix up my diet and start exercising properly. It'd be a little bit of extra effort and willpower, but I really don't think it would be that hard. What do you think internet? Should I become a fitness fanatic? I'm 90% of the way there, do I take that last 10% step?
Incidentally that wouldn't (for the moment) include quitting smoking. That drug has my willpower wrapped around its little finger. Though maybe if I practise willpower with the food and exercise, and get my body healthy enough that it starts rejecting the cigarettes down the track this could lead to me quitting
Started watching "supersize me", which I got for my brother for christmas. The film is making me physically ill and at the same time it's reminding me of the changes I've felt since I fixed up my diet. I used to eat tons of junk food, survive primarily on red meat and my idea of a vegetable was fries.
Then I became interested in nutrition. No particular reason, I just go through phases like that where I madly research something I know nothing about for a few weeks until I feel the gap in my knowledge is filled and then never look up anything about it ever again. I started reading about ways you could improve your health.
Along the way I've had mainly two people helping me out with it all. Both named Michael, each approaching the issue from a different direction.
One Michael was at the time my boyfriend, a microbiologist. He approached his body with a scientific precision, measuring out the exact nutrients his body needed and taking them in the most direct form possible. He didn't really eat, he's the kind of person who if you could just get a pill with your daily nutrients in it he would. That kind of scared me.
The other Michael, (who was assigned the nickname Mikey many years ago to help distinguish the various Michaels in our social group apart), is a naturopath. While his studies were still mostly scientific he would rather take a herb than a pill, listen to his body than calculate nutrients and work his body through martial arts than a weights machine. At the same time he spends his life focused on the single goal of perfecting his body. While that's a good thing, it's pointless unless you actually then use that perfect body to do something. It also kind of scared me.
Between the two of them and my own research I've majorly changed my diet. I drink water now as well as my beloved coffee, (I used to survive just on coffee), I eat fruits if I want a desert, I love vegetables and my main source of protein is fish. I still probably eat too much, but at least it's too much of the right things.
You know what the result has been? I can't remember the last time I got sick. I used to be chronically ill, I'd recover from a cold just in time to catch the fluu. Now I feel strong and healthy, (at least compared to how I used to feel).
The question is, do I go the rest of the way? I could completely fix up my diet and start exercising properly. It'd be a little bit of extra effort and willpower, but I really don't think it would be that hard. What do you think internet? Should I become a fitness fanatic? I'm 90% of the way there, do I take that last 10% step?
Incidentally that wouldn't (for the moment) include quitting smoking. That drug has my willpower wrapped around its little finger. Though maybe if I practise willpower with the food and exercise, and get my body healthy enough that it starts rejecting the cigarettes down the track this could lead to me quitting