“Everyone indulges sometimes; don’t be too hard on yourself.”
In a study, a note with this message was given to a group of dieting women who had just eaten a chocolate doughnut “in the name of science.” Another group of dieting women ate the doughnut, but did not receive this message. Then, each group was given an opportunity to taste test candy, and were given permission to eat as much as they wanted. 2
Which group do you think ate less candy?Read More
Organization: it’s more important to be decisive than to find the perfect system.
This is what an organized mind feels like.
Organization means having a system to organize your life through, but a backlog can prevent us from having a system, because we’re overwhelmed with what needed to be done yesterday. It really doesn’t take much to overwhelm a person: studies have found our minds can only hold a few things at a time. Given life’s 800 trillion variables, well, the math doesn’t work out favorably for us.
If we were to grab a random human and examine their mind and life, we’d be aliens find a lot of needless repetitive thoughts and ideas. To an outsider, the person would seem crazy to think, “I should find one go-to place to write my ideas down” and then do nothing, only to have the same exact thought a week later. In that moment, though, the person is more than happy to “bounce” that idea back up into the air to float.
Floating decisions are what create backlogs, so the first step in getting organized is to nail down those floating decisions.
Floated decision: “Let me think about that for a while.” *proceeds to not think about it*
The problem with unaddressed ideas and unmade decisions is that they don’t exactly “float” up there. Read More
Weight loss industry experts are experts in the wrong field.
I’m not even talking about the scam artists who sell diet pills and the like. I’m talking about the people who genuinely want to help people lose weight.
These people know the physical mechanisms by which weight loss works, but they tell you to follow an impossible plan to get there.
Most experts essentially advise you to annihilate your willpower, burn out, and fail.
How many people try the exercise and diet plan all at once?Read More
– Jack LaLanne
Jack Lalanne pulled 70 boats in the water for 1.5 miles in Long Beach, California. Oh, and his hands and feet were tied. And one more thing—he was 70 years old! That’s ridiculous. But when he was a sugarholic teenager, he had pimples and boils all over his face and was 30 pounds underweight.Read More
Sitting down all day is lethal. If you sit all day and you know it, don’t gloss over this fact: you are slowly killing yourself!
Studies on prolonged sitting:
Another study was published in 2012 with 222,497 people answering a questionnaire. It too found that “prolonged sitting is a risk factor for all-cause mortality, independent of physical activity.”
Studies unanimously show that prolonged sitting deteriorates your health and shortens your lifespan.
But why is prolonged sitting bad for us? What is the physical mechanism that makes it problematic?Read More