{"id":1855,"date":"2014-06-28T23:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2014-06-28T23:01:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T23:01:28","slug":"do-not-track-my-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2014\/06\/do-not-track-my-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Do-not-track-my-health"},"content":{"rendered":"


\u201cI guess we learn not to do it again\u201d is not what most people are guessing.<\/em><\/p>\n

It boggles my mind that people accept their health to be tracked and visualized with stupid numbers, when it\u2019s to me the most private thing ever that I don\u2019t want to share with mega corporations, at all.<\/p>\n

Also, the human body is so complex that we\u2019re still not sure about how everything works, how the fuck your stupid monitor on your arm can help you, I don\u2019t fucking know. Being healthy is not a race against others what is wrong with you people?<\/p>\n

Personally, the best way to take care of my meat envelope is to simply listen to it. Closing my eyes. Paying attention to what\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Through the years I lost that habit. But I\u2019m back on it, I know how to listen I just need to do it. Aerophagia<\/a>, 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\u2019t need pills or activity tracker, I just need to stop acting like eating doesn\u2019t require \u201cthinking\u201d, it does, especially after years of not doing so:<\/p>\n

Eat slowly.<\/p>\n

Chew fully. Pause.<\/p>\n

Drink water whenever you feel like it instead of postponing it to the end of the meal because you\u2019re eating like an animal.<\/p>\n

Breathe.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cbody notifications\u201d like that that help me feeling and looking good. <\/p>\n

Exercise. Even if it\u2019s just a 15 minutes walk that looks like nothing, it\u2019s good for your body, it helps. We think we\u2019re smarter than our systems with our pocket computers. We don\u2019t know shit. You still don\u2019t know shit with your Fitbit \u201cgoals\u201d and if you can\u2019t feel happy without an app telling you \u201cyay!\u201d<\/em> you need to reconsider some stuff in your life, for real. <\/p>\n

You can be happy without reward, I know, crazy talk here.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re only sure of one thing: our food in the West is way richer than what we need. I\u2019m 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: \u201cduuude, give me some pasta and beef\u201d<\/em>. If it\u2019s hot and that I don\u2019t do a lot except sitting down \u201cduuude, where\u2019s my big salad??\u201d<\/em> I guess I trained my meat envelope well and got lucky growing up. <\/p>\n

Train it too. Early in your life, as early as you can. Don\u2019t give your kids candy, ever. Make them sweat, it\u2019s good for the mind too. <\/p>\n

And do not track nothing except your meals in your head, learn to listen. Close your eyes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI guess we learn not to do it again\u201d 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\u2019s to me the most private thing ever that I don\u2019t want to share with mega corporations, at all. Also, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}