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James Smith
The fitness industry should be about showing people what the human body can accomplish.
Imagine if you knew you could only have one car for the rest of your life; would you take better care of it?
‘The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.’
Do you know what happens if you endure a bit of hunger for forty-five minutes to an hour? Nothing. It goes away almost completely until your next regular feeding window. So next time you’re hungry, don’t eat, but give yourself an hour to test this theory. Hunger doesn’t last for ever; you probably already know that because last time you were genuinely too busy to eat, you forgot all about it and may well have had a surprising moment later on and said, ‘I’m not even hungry any more.’ That, my friend, was a cyclical bout of ghrelin that came and then went away.
Just because a million people say something stupid, that doesn’t mean it’s not still stupid.
Fat loss is about liberation, freedom, eradication of guilt, being more confident and not just looking better, but feeling better for every second of every fucking day. That’s more than just having less fat, I can assure you.
So weigh yourself if you want to, because what gets measured gets improved, but please keep your emotions out of this. Your self-worth cannot be quantified by your relationship to gravity.
‘We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.’ Will Durant
‘You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.’ James Clear, Atomic Habits
Where you are is not important; where you are going is. You may not have the body you want, you may not have your diet in the place you want it. But are you getting better at taking action to make those changes? If so, great. Are you making progress? If so, great. And if you’re not making progress, are you making adjustments so that you soon will be? That’s what is important here.
find your successful habits, implement them daily and then fall in love with executing them. You’ll stumble across great success just from that alone.
Alzheimer’s is being connected more and more with sleep deprivation, and I think we’re going to see more research in this area in years to come.
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
It’s worth noting that decaf coffee isn’t zero caffeine; it often contains up to 30 per cent of the caffeine content of regular coffee.
#EverydayPorrada means being intense in all aspects of life. On and off the mats. It’s not only about training hard, killing yourself every day on the mats, it goes beyond that. It is a lifestyle for tough people who don’t complain and make things happen in all aspects of their lives.
‘Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for.’ Mark Manson, author
‘work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’.
Keep in mind that communicating on social media is like talking to people who are in another conversation already, so you need something snappy to pull their attention away from what they’re doing.
Psychology has been turned into physiology to get you to click on an advert.
vertically challenged,
I know these things seem trivial, and they’re by no means gospel, but think about what we’ve covered so far in this book: more sleep, tracking your NEAT, potentially being more mindful when eating or even eating slower, let alone not being so misinformed by zealots with their own agenda. So many tools on your belt to use for a better life. And we haven’t even started on the nitty gritty of what you have considered ‘dieting’.
There’s psychological terminology called ‘the hot-cold empathy gap’, which is a cognitive bias where people underestimate the influences on their own attitudes, behaviours and preferences.
Some people who are dairy ‘intolerant’ are, in fact, just in a pickle because they do not produce enough or any of an enzyme called lactase, which is needed to break down lactose (a sugar present in milk).
The composition of the woman during and before pregnancy can cause issues, so striving for a healthy weight before conceiving should be a priority.
