Are you eating better? Sleeping better? Getting in shape?
I eat better (when I had money). No fast food, I only drink alcohol every couple of months, and avoid harmful drugs. Going to bed early I see it as a luxury. I walk instead of driving. My go to beverages are ice water, cold brew black coffee, and occasionally soy milk.
I’m fucking miserable.
Sounds nice, except for the being miserable part.
I’m fucking miserable.
That’s the soy milk. Replace it out with uh… Diet coke 😁
Hope you feel better, though.
Why are you miserable?
I don’t have either the time or the money anymore to eat properly.
I hit rock bottom, gave up drinking, went to therapy, found a new job that I don’t hate, gave up weed, found a partner, got asked if I wanted to go on a hiking holiday with her, said yes, panicked because I was totally out of shape, bought a bike, got in shape and enjoyed it, got married, have a kid on the way. Life’s good.
I use weed to cope with existential crisis and sociopolitical turmoil. Oh you mean physically? Heh… Heh…
Real answer: I walk a lot, I’m grateful to live in a walkable city
I use weed to cope with existential crisis and sociopolitically turmoil
Same dude. Same.
I also walk a lot as a form of exercise. I love eating an edible and then going to wander around. The edible hits mid walk and it’s awesome.
100%, I do the same while listening to music. On the best days, I’ll lose all sense of time until I find myself on the other side of town.
I discover the best places that way, and I always pin them for next time I’m around. If I pass by an interesting looking place but don’t go in, I’ll mark it with a question mark in a list called “Sidequests”
I love wandering aimlessly around town. So many cool places to see.
Sometimes I’ll play a mobile game called Orna while I walk. It helps me get further out as I chase down monsters and loot.
Go team stoned walkers!
This is my go to as well. Add in some music or audiobook and stroll all over town. Come back home and sleep like a baby. It’s a great combo and makes you feel good about getting that exercise in.
Yep! It’s great and feels great. Go team stoned walkers!
Loooove a stoned walk, about to head out now and look at some gardens. Only thing better is a gentle-dose-of-shrooms-walk.
Hell yeah! 💚
In the words of RTJ: Life’s a shitnado, the smoke’s my umbrella.
Strange, I have weed stashed with me and two joints I rolled two months ago but haven’t been touched yet. Just never get in the mood.
Haha, good one
Mid 30s.
Work, sleep, work, sleep, energy drink, work, sleep, energy drink, work, sleep, energy drink, work half a shift, 2nd energy drink, with 2nd half of shift, fucking crash into a vegetative state for a weekend.
Typical week.
Not doing great. >_>
Quit reddit and twitter.
Quiting Facebook was a huge improvement in my life
Just bought a new mattress so hopefully sleeping better soon
Yas!!! I was having back problems, told myself “Well old chap, your back is ageing now innit?” Turns out I had a mattress problem. Make sure you get a good frame too.
Took the leap and actually started paying a nutritional biologist (translating an Italian term) and lost 10 kgs without noticing.
All while keeping training at least 3 days a week and maintaining strength gains and sometimes even getting better.
I also started a book club focused on sci-fi and non-fiction about technology and digital rights, to force myself to start reading again, since I noticed a sharp degradation of my ability to express myself and to analyze discourse.
Finally, I am learning French as my fifth language.
I would love to say I am doing great for being 40+, but mental health and zero social life affect me more than I would like to admit.
Lol.
Lmao, even.
Laughing is very healthy. You’re doing great!
Almost 31. I don’t drink sugar anymore. I still eat fast food constantly and vape THC on the daily. I have a therapist now, though, and sometimes exercise.
I struggled to gain weight for most of my life, but I finally managed to put on some muscle via figuring out that I need to eat a ton of food alongside activity. Doing woodworking, drumming, and general housework has been enough exercise to keep me from getting fat and actually have an okay physique.
Mental health is in the shitter, but I’m working on it.
So I think I’m doing about as well as everyone else my age.
I still eat fast food constantly
Which fastfood?
Like McDonalds?
I feel like fastfood quality of taste went downhill… maybe its just my area… 🤷♂️ (that’s on top of the related health issues)
Just about all of it. I drive around all day for work, so it’s the only convenient and cheap way to get a hot lunch. I bring my lunch sometimes, but not as often as I should.
I’m also pretty tired after work and all out of executive function, so i don’t make dinner as often as I should, since other things get prioritized. Will hopefully be moving to a place with a dish washer soon, which will hopefully help me stop avoiding cooking so often.
Quality has gone down for some items and locations, up for others, imo. Prices all suck, but so do grocery prices at this point. You can still get a meal pretty cheap if you are willing to just eat whatever is on promo.
Which do you like?
I kinda like the Bacon Cheeseburger at Five Guys
Idk about “cheap” tho…
Five guys is good, but it’s insanely expensive for what it is. I feel like you get an equally good burger for a more reasonable price at Whataburger.
Braums does a good job with chicken strips and cherry limeade.
Taco Bell’s boxes are the only thing approaching a decent value at this point, and they change them decently often.
I try to eat local if possible, though.
Learned a lot about health and fitness in my early 30s, made it my hobby essentially. But things change so also learned that it’s not about what I did today or even this month, it’s about what I mostly do and getting back to it. Kids come along, house moves, job moves, disruption after disruption… Gotta lose the self blame and get back up every time. That is for sure an equally important thing to learn.
Over 70. Exercise every day. Eat a variety of foods. Limit screen time.
When I want ice cream… I eat ice cream.
I’m not 30 yet but I’m pretty dang close and most of my friends are either right there with me or pushing 40 at this point. I hear pretty often about how lucky I am that I can eat however I want and don’t have to work out and I’m still in great shape. I have a pretty obvious secret though. I mostly only eat healthy stuff that I cook at home, so when I go out I can eat the greasiest cheesesteak you can find it and not feel bad about it, and I do all my own home repairs and renovations. I don’t go to the gym, but this morning I hauled 20 6x6x12 beams and about 40 bags of 80 cement to the back field by myself in the blistering sun to build a play structure for my kid. If I don’t have anything to build I have a pallet of cinder blocks that don’t current have a purpose that I just move around a big field back and forth to keep my hands calloused.
I’m pretty salty about it because I just started with a new doctor, and when asked if I work out I told him such, and he said that doesn’t count and I should start going to the gym a few times a week to help my heart health. I think he was sponsored by planet fitness because he kept talking about it.
What’s the frequency of physical exertion towards the level you described? The primary benefit of going to the gym is regular exertion above a certain level.
Usually 4-5 days a week for a couple hours on weekdays, 6+ hours on weekends. A little less in the winter months when we focus on indoor stuff, there’s only so much. My kids out there with me almost everyday and loves it. I don’t think he’d let me skip to many days even if I wanted to.
We’ll spend the rest of the afternoon getting all the posts up, letting them dry all day tomorrow, then work on framing it out next week, probably wrapping it up next Sunday. After that we’re building a greenhouse/photos studio for my wife. I like using hand tools which slows things down a lot.
After i turned 30, i was rapidly confronted with consequences for my unhealthy lifestyle from my teens and twenties, you learn quickly that things need to change after glancing at death a couple times and at hospital stays.
Thankfully i have the motivation to keep living, and that began to drive my actions after that
Eat healthy less processed foods made in your kitchen and bought from farmers and markets
Gym and active hobbies like hiking and dancing at least three times a week
Hygene routines solidified, brushing teeth twice daily, non negotiable, thorough flossing and even tounge scrapping daily, fresh clean towel after the daily shower - its worth the extra laundry imo
Skincare, especially daily sunscreen, non negotiable - face, neck, and exposed arms - brimmed hat when on a daily walk, upf 50+ clothing if outside for more than an hour doing chores of on hobbies - in the morning vit c on the face, and in the night a retinol (vit a derivitive)
Hearing protection when at any music shows, wear them so you can keep hearing shows for the long term and not be that guy that says “WHAT?!” at every sentence. Genuinely, i prefer to go with good earplugs now than without
Keeping hold of and scheduling meets with friends, family, and neighbors - as you get older it gets so easy to drift a part, we are all busy, and that 3 minutes spent texting to say “hey lets hang out, does thursday evening work?” makes good friends into best friends - lonely people die faster - be that family, friends, neighbors, and yourself
As i get older and take care of myself, its easier to love myself, and thus, its easier to love other people and receive their love too. Get philosophical about it, it also takes care of you.
As i get older and take care of myself, its easier to love myself, and thus, its easier to love other people and receive their love too.
Really well said.
I too started to face the consequences of my lifestyle in my late 20’s. I was fat, sedentary, ate junk, smoked, drank and my back started to hurt. I can’t really tell what motivated me to turn my life around. Could be I wanted to live a long and healthy life out of spite. Anyway, I’m way healthier now than I was 10 or 15 years ago. The effort is worth it.













