I agree with him to an extent. But people can’t make right choices if they don’t know what are the right choices. As with most American ills, it’s an education problem, which is systemic and not individual. So I’d lower his number to 50% now that we all have access to the internet and can research what a good diet looks like.
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Well video games are products, essentially toys. That doesn’t mean that a video game cannot be art, but not all vide games are, aspire or should be art. Just like not all movies,books or even plays are or aspire to be art. Some of them are just pure entertainment, drivel as you put it though I don’t know about the masturbatory part of it. Some videogames are just toys and that’s fine.
Looking forward to Lords of The Fallen 2(3), the previous one was one of my favorite soulslikes in a while. It was everything Dark Souls 2 should have been.
I would try a full body workout, with something like 3x bench press, 3x squats, 3x deadlifts and 3x barbell rows. It works most of your body, though to be honest you need to keep your expectations right. You’re not gonna make very significant gains with this little time at the gym. It’s not that you won’t make any gains but what gains you make will come slowly so you can’t get frustrated over lack of progress. Keep at it though.
Losing weight is more of a diet thing than an exercise thing so you could try fasting, cutting out snacks and changing sodas with sugar free sodas to start. Then you could slowly transition into a Whole Foods diet or a temporary keto diet (Keto should never be a permanent thing imo, humans are built to eat a little bit of everything not just fat and meat and there are real health concerns associated with that) while counting calories and fasting too if you want, but I would start with the easy stuff like snacks, sodas and juices (yes juices are bad, they often have more sugar than soda, eat the fruit instead)
Congrats on starting this journey. There are a few things you mention here that I want to address so that you actually stick with it.
The first thing is there’s no such thing as falling off the wagon, but prioritize going to the gym above all things in your lifestyle change at least for a month. If you don’t feel like going, just drive to the gym and walk in through the door. If you still don’t feel like doing anything you can just walk back to your car and go back home, but I guarantee you wont do that, you’re already there. On that same token, feel free to half ass it if you don’t feel like going but you do go. The idea here is to create the habit of going to the gym regardless of your will to do so, in a word “discipline”.
The second thing, I would recommend reading a book like Starting Strength or other beginner programs and watching a few videos of someone demonstrating the movements if you don’t have a trainer. A lot of times the biggest hurdle for people who start working out is that they do not know what to do and whether they are doing it right and it kills their motivation to go. If you know what to do and how you’ll be more primed for success.
Now the third thing is a bit of a red flag. I do not know how overweight you are, but 80lbs in 60 days is very difficult, and I might say even unhealthy and maybe even impossible even for someone with extreme obesity, I’m talking someone with a bmi of 50 or more. The other thing is that I think you might be making too many changes too fast, like going from counting calories to keto in 3 days. If it’s working out for you great, keep going. But I would stress that if you fail at staying under your calories or eating keto or losing even half of that weight that you have as a goal, that you do not get into the mindset that that means that the entire lifestyle change has failed and just stop doing everything. If you fail try again. One thing to note about keto, it’s really good for losing weight but not because it burns more calories or anything: calories are calories no matter what. What it does is that it helps you feel satiated for longer and thus helps you eat less. But you can achieve the same weight loss using other techniques like eating a whole food diet and counting calories, or using time restricted eating (“fasting”) or any combinations of these and I would encourage to try and experiment with all of them to see which one is actually easier for you to stick to. I for example prefer fasting when I’m cutting weight along with a calorie reduction without actually excluding any foods from my diet. But this is is me, and you are you and what makes you tick might be different.
At the end of the day getting fit is a lifestyle change and it works best when you do it a little bit at a time rather than making a drastic change all at once. But you ere going in the right direction which is great. Keep at it, you got this, and remember that as long as you keep trying you have not failed.
There’s actually not that much disagreement. There’s disagreement about whether certain foods cause or increase the likelihood of diseases, like red meat and cancer. But it is almost universally accepted that a varied diet made up of Whole Foods like vegetables, grains, meat and fish and as little ultra processed foods as possible, is the best diet. Only social media influencers trying to get engagement are the ones saying that vegan,vegetarian or carnivore diet (or other more farfetched diets) are the “optimal diet”. That being said there’s some nuance to the ultraprocessed food label, because some of them could be good or at least better than most others of their kind, but as a rule of thumb if it doesn’t look like something that can grow out of the earth or came from an animal you can bet that it is ultra processed and is best avoided and eaten only on occasion.
It doesn’t take that much time either imo, just last Sunday I meal prepped for the entire week and it took me 3 hours. I know maybe not everyone can have the time for it but I’m confident in stating that most people can find 3 hours to meal prep, but they choose not to because they don’t know how to and the alternative is easier than trying to figure it out.
Education is the solution, school should be teaching people nutrition and food preparation because parents that don’t have these skills can’t teach them. It’s unbelievable that we will teach people calculus at school which they are unlikely to ever need in their lives unless they go into a technical field, but we won’t teach them the basic skills that keep us alive and healthy as a society.