by noduerme | 2025-10-03 05:37:51+00:00
I love this DIY method! Sometimes you just know what's best for yourself.

I've done something very similar for about 8 years now. Push-ups and crunches (and sometimes burpees). I spent most of my life thin, just because of my lucky metabolism. In high school, people thought I was anorexic even though I ate junk food all the time. I'm someone who hates to break a sweat unless absolutely necessary, who would never go to a gym, and who also works a very sedentary programming job... and everything was just fine until alcohol and age caught up with me in my late 30s.

So, I remembered the stupid stuff they had us do in high school gym class. There were actual educational lessons there, right? Push-ups and crunches.

I use a Moka Pot to make my coffee in the morning, it takes exactly 9 minutes to boil on my stove. I started off with 30 push-ups and 30 crunches a day, before the pot boiled, before I got out of my underwear. I kept adding a few a day until I was at 100 + 100 (Initially I would take breaks in the push-ups at 25, 50, and 75 - but eventually I could just do 100 without stopping). The results of it were surprisingly good, for something that takes less than 9 minutes of your day.

Just a side note about McDonald's -- I've only ever gotten one rancid McDonald's meal in my life, and it was REALLY bad. I almost never eat fast food anymore either, except in a very particular case.

The author says:

>>When was the last time you heard somebody (including yourself) say they feel better after eating fast food?

Me. I have some level of IBS - not debilitating, but enough that I don't want to leave the house sometimes. I also have lived in a lot of countries with questionable food sanitation, although now I'm just in America and eat a lot of Indian and Thai food. Anyway, for whatever reason, if I need to catch a flight in the morning, the sure shot 100% bulletproof way to know that I will not need a bathroom is to eat a Big Mac, nuggets and fries the night before. That meal can somehow completely stop a multi-day IBS episode in its tracks. I don't do it unless I need to, but somehow it completely calms my gut and binds up whatever's in there. I literally do it almost every time before I fly. My home cooking is much more likely to leave me stuck in a bathroom somewhere.

Make of it what you will.

One other thing - walking. This is what really caused me to lose a lot of weight and get back to within my optimal zone. I am (as reads the bio) an alcoholic. When I get done working at home, I go to a bar. I track my calories, and about 50% of them are alcohol. To motivate myself to walk, I started picking bars that were further away. And then much further away. So if I'm going out for 3 beers, I'll often walk 1.5 miles to the first bar, then have another beer each half-mile on the way back. This makes an astounding difference. You're actually hungry when you get home, still have a light buzz, listened to some interesting podcasts, and you sleep a lot better.

All of this is advice from a 45-year-old whose habits are very, very bad - I am not some paragon of health. I smoke like a chimney. I'll probably die young. A little bit of extra struggle goes a long way, though.