New, much needed flair... "Mental/Physical Health"
🧘Mental/Physical Health 🏋🏼♂️
IDK about you guys, but there are times where i focus way too much on things I cannot control and start losing track of my mental and physical wellbeing. (mental and physical wellbeing is what the flair was supposed to be called but it was too many characters).
Either way, we all need to learn to balance our zen through all this madness going on today. A mentally and physically healthy soldier is a productive soldier. I myself am no master at this. I really hope we here start helping out each other to better each others non digital life. This [flair] is the least i can do.
I went on a complete dopamine detox, stopped drinking coffee (lasted about 2 weeks), and intermitent fasting. The coffee part, I saw no improvements or withdrawals. The detox was good. afterwards I saw myself on social media a lot less. The fasting, well, it was working well, but i just love to eat lol. All of it is in the gutter at the moment cause im on "vacation" (at the inlaws 🤢🤢)
I hear you. Doing intermittent fasting is quite possibly the best thing that I’ve done for my body in my entire life. But, after 1.5 years of successfully doing 14:10 to 18:6 daily, Ive noticed that some of the cravings for ‘bad food’ are still there. They don’t seem to go away. The way I battle this is by eating more veggies (to keep my mouth moving, and injesting good food). Some of my co-workers tease me because I’ll walk around eating a whole cucumber, or something else, that they see as unusual. When they try to call me out as weird, I would respond with something like “oh, so it’s ok to walk around eating some s*** food like a donut?” That usually shuts them up, but I don’t stop there. We, as a society, need to change how people think about taking care of our own bodies. It’s going to be a long fight…..but like Purkiss80 mentioned earlier, it’s a calling! So, in conclusion, I encourage you to stay with your calling and keep fighting to do what’s right (because it’s the right thing to do)!
I find it interesting that so many people nosh (snack). It seems like it's just another habit-- you are used to noshing so you continue to do so.... you just change up the food.
I've known a few folks who habituate to doing something else instead of the eating. Not in a disordered way, they just train their body/mind to focus on something else. I am a 2 or 3 meals a day kinda person but I know if shortages get crazy, it might be worth it to practice eating 1-2 xs a day just so I'm not shocked into it via a crisis.
anyway, just sharing thoughts .... :)
The snack thing is huge, I stopped buying chips and other garbage to snack on and instead go with trail mix, nuts, fruits (fucking love apples), yogurt, and veggies
It is crazy to me the levels of conditioning in our society - things like this arent thought about often, but the point is spot on; if you were to walk around eating something "normal" (garbage) then nobody would question it. As soon as you walk around eating veggies though, people get weirded out. Which is very weird, and suspect...