Re:Ask HN: How did you start exercising after being complete...
by dbg31415 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @09:21AM
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1) Realize that it's your diet that made you fat, not your exercise level. If you put random amounts of random stuff into your body every day... you'll get fat. Get an eating routine that focuses on consistency -- that's the first step towards getting control.
2) Move. Doesn't matter what you do really . Get a Fitbit, or use your phone, and just try and move more steps today than you did yesterday. You can start out walking, and over time to beat your record you'll have to jog, and then run. Competing against yourself, I found, is motivational. Keep a fitness log.
You'll see improvement inside of a week with how you feel.
I like to get up and do a quick routine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxYJcnvyMw), then walk my dogs for 30-45 minutes (and to get all this done, I need to go to bed at a reasonable hour the night before). Cook a few eggs for breakfast -- eat more things with ingredients you can pronounce. Pack my lunch (or eat a salad if I go out to lunch with co-workers), and then do whatever for dinner. Carbs -- especially sugars -- are the enemy.
2) Move. Doesn't matter what you do really . Get a Fitbit, or use your phone, and just try and move more steps today than you did yesterday. You can start out walking, and over time to beat your record you'll have to jog, and then run. Competing against yourself, I found, is motivational. Keep a fitness log.
You'll see improvement inside of a week with how you feel.
I like to get up and do a quick routine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxYJcnvyMw), then walk my dogs for 30-45 minutes (and to get all this done, I need to go to bed at a reasonable hour the night before). Cook a few eggs for breakfast -- eat more things with ingredients you can pronounce. Pack my lunch (or eat a salad if I go out to lunch with co-workers), and then do whatever for dinner. Carbs -- especially sugars -- are the enemy.