Yesterday I mentioned I stopped eating meat for two categories of reasons: taste and intellectual reasons. Today I’ll cover taste. By taste I mean not just flavor, but what one likes or not, as in musical taste. I never liked eating meat. At least I don’t remember liking it, but it was a long time ago. I remember disliking eating meat. My mom would say “It’s all meat!” about the[…] Keep reading →
People often ask me why I stopped eating meat. I wrote a few days ago about how often people ask in order to argue and how I find the question boring after having been asked roughly daily or so for decades. Still, I’ve learned to appreciate and even celebrate things I can’t change so it doesn’t get me down. I used to argue with people about food too so I[…] Keep reading →
Yesterday covered more the physical side of the change in the trucker’s life with food. Today let’s look more at the emotional side. The movie showed that, however ingrained the punishment of “food” and its related confusion-based helplessness, just a few days of new experience can overcome it. The trucker’s physical health didn’t change overnight, but his emotional health did. And a major point of this blog is the fundamental[…] Keep reading →
Yesterday I wrote about healthy food, unhealthy “food,” and how we’ve created industries that confuse the two, leading to people eating things they don’t like and avoiding things they do. The day before I wrote about the movie Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (view for free here, view trailers here). Since food can be such a rewarding part of life when you find ways to actively enjoy it, many books,[…] Keep reading →
This morning I woke up planning to do my first 2,000 meter sprint on my rowing machine. I had a great experience I’ll describe after extolling the machine’s benefits. Anyone who knows me knows I rarely promote commercial products. Non-commercial products like GNU/Linux, fresh fruit, and public libraries, I promote all the time, but commercial stuff, rarely. This thing has been great. I got it after Thanksgiving last year and[…] Keep reading →
If you’re reading my blog you may be considering getting a coach, maybe even considering me. I’ve observed that the people who perform best at things tend to have coaches whereas the people who don’t do so well remark that they don’t need coaching or bristle at the prospect of getting help. Derek Jeter has multiple coaches. Forty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs have personal coaches. This week’s New Yorker[…] Keep reading →
Do you want eating well and exercising to be easy, fun, and rewarding? In this interview, I talk about how I do it. Briefly, I associate things I want more of in life with happy, fun, or rewarding emotions and things I want less of with painful or unrewarding emotions. The result is I never do anything I don’t want to, I always do what I want to, and I[…] Keep reading →