lessons learned about exercise & diet

[sandhawke]

While getting hungry sometimes makes me irritable and even miserable, at other times it's just a physical sensation, with no negative mental impact. Now I just need to figure out how to keep it in the second camp more

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[coraline]

While getting hungry sometimes makes me irritable and even miserable, at other times it's just a physical sensation, with no negative mental impact. Now I just need to figure out how to keep it in the second camp more.

if you get any clues on that, let me -- i have never been able to tell why it's sometimes in one category and sometimes in the other.

[surrealestate]

Carefully fitted running shoes from the place near Harvard square may be good for running (unclear yet), but they are bad for walking. They are too tilted, and hurt my ankles after a while.

Good running shoes should also work for walking. I strongly suggest taking the shoes back to the store and telling them about the problems. That should not be happening.

[fennel]

I'm curious-- is it that food which other people find interesting doesn't seem so to you? Or that you find some food interesting, but it's no tastier, on average, than simple food?

[keyne]

Exercise alone is not enough to make me lose much weight, at least not in reasonable quantities (~1hr/day) (This fits with that interesting study recently showing that fat kids are less active because they are fat, not fat because they are less active.)

It's also consistent with the research summarized in Gary Taubes's Good Calories, Bad Calories, a book that changed my life (and led me to a whole new style of eating and exercise).