“I guess we learn not to do it again” is not what most people are guessing.
It boggles my mind that people accept their health to be tracked and visualized with stupid numbers, when it’s to me the most private thing ever that I don’t want to share with mega corporations, at all.
Also, the human body is so complex that we’re still not sure about how everything works, how the fuck your stupid monitor on your arm can help you, I don’t fucking know. Being healthy is not a race against others what is wrong with you people?
Personally, the best way to take care of my meat envelope is to simply listen to it. Closing my eyes. Paying attention to what’s going on inside the beast. Kind of syncing what I feel with what I want and what I want with what I feel if that makes sense.
Through the years I lost that habit. But I’m back on it, I know how to listen I just need to do it. Aerophagia, that can be so strong with me sometimes under stress, eating way too fast while looking at a screen, smoking? Gone if I listen to my meat envelope and take my time. I don’t need pills or activity tracker, I just need to stop acting like eating doesn’t require “thinking”, it does, especially after years of not doing so:
Eat slowly.
Chew fully. Pause.
Drink water whenever you feel like it instead of postponing it to the end of the meal because you’re eating like an animal.
Breathe.
Balance your food, listen to your kidneys, if they feel stiff (your lower back hurts? It might be them), go for vegetables and more water. I have plenty of dumb “body notifications” like that that help me feeling and looking good.
Exercise. Even if it’s just a 15 minutes walk that looks like nothing, it’s good for your body, it helps. We think we’re smarter than our systems with our pocket computers. We don’t know shit. You still don’t know shit with your Fitbit “goals” and if you can’t feel happy without an app telling you “yay!” you need to reconsider some stuff in your life, for real.
You can be happy without reward, I know, crazy talk here.
How the body processes food is still some kind of magic and almost unique to everyone. Which is why the Soylent thing is ridiculous too.
We’re only sure of one thing: our food in the West is way richer than what we need. I’m totally cool with meat but I enjoy eating veggies like a rabbit for a couple of days. If I get physical and that the temperature is low, my body will talk: “duuude, give me some pasta and beef”. If it’s hot and that I don’t do a lot except sitting down “duuude, where’s my big salad??” I guess I trained my meat envelope well and got lucky growing up.
Train it too. Early in your life, as early as you can. Don’t give your kids candy, ever. Make them sweat, it’s good for the mind too.
And do not track nothing except your meals in your head, learn to listen. Close your eyes.