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Casually Explained: Being Healthy
Everyday Health & Healthy Living
HEALTHY HABITS: 10 Daily Habits That Changed My Life (as an MD)
🎤 Watch my TEDx talk, now live on the official TEDx channel: In it, I share the deeper reason lasting adopting new habits feels so difficult — and how to make it easier! 10 healthy […]
Everyday Health & Healthy Living
How to *ACTUALLY* Start a Healthy Lifestyle in 2025
TIME STAMPS 00:41 – Get out of an all or nothing mindset 01:45 – calories from unprocessed foods 05:07 – exercise you enjoy 06:24 – convenience is king 08:36 – Don’t overcomplicate it SCRAP THE […]
so you’re saying i can just.. become a carnivorous animal?
this is cool
3:12 👦👨🧔♂️👴
04:25 pop a blueberry under their tongue 😂😂
As someone who loves to eat but also loves to have a 6 pack and an Adonis belt but also vegan for the animals my solution that worked in the end was:
1. About 1600kcal-1800kcal a day
2. About 20000 steps a day, on a walking pad under my standing desk, takes me a little under 4hrs
3. Lots of planks, ATM I do a plank progression where your elbows touch the floor not under your shoulders but decently in front of them, this adds a lot of difficulty to your abs, good posture is essential, it’s very easy to plank without hitting your abs and you’ll know because your abs won’t hurt. I do side planks over the side of the bed, upper body on the bed, oblique at the edge of the mattress, hold my legs horizontal over the empty space beyond the mattress. Build up duration and sets per day, I started with one regular 1 minute plank per day, but 6 months later I now plank for 2.5 minutes 12 times a day, yes, literally 30 minutes of (progressed) planking a day. And yes, you do need ab work for a 6 pack, I spent a stupid number of years thinking all I had to do was lose fat because of the “and are made in the kitchen” mantra. Turns out you need to do both…
4. Definitely overkill but I have about 180g protein a day, all from vegan fake chicken. Definitely don’t need this much, but helps me feel satiated, I’m also getting around 60g fibre because the vegan soy protein I use from Iceland (English store) is thankfully high fibre.
6. I have an apple and 500g frozen veg (microwaved) to get roughage and vitamins, and supplement a few things vegans don’t get, creatine is a big one, 5g a day right after breakfast, really helps me make smart decisions, better than any nootropics I’ve ever had, if you do intense exercise it’s helpful too I believe but my exercise is not intense at all so can’t give first hand experience
7. You’re a product of your lifestyle, keep track of your lifestyle. It’s true that 1 cookie here or there won’t ruin you, but how often are you actually “treating” yourself? If it’s actually 500kcal of junk a day on average that’ll seriously slow you down
8. Snacking slows you down exponentially, no one should eat like a machine, tasty food helps give life meaning, but I add sweet chilli sauce as “empty” calories, I could cut it from my meals and reduce my intake by about 300kcal a day, but those 300kcal add loads of satisfaction. Better than 300kcal of biscuits, etc. but if I added another 300kcal on top of that indulgence not only would I half my ~600kcal deficit, doubling my time taken to cut fat, but it’d be diminishing returns on enjoyment. Find your sweet spot, your balance, between speed and enjoyment. It’s a marathon not a sprint. But don’t let that mindset cause you to go TOO slowly by treating yourself too much.