and use it 20 minutes per day. it's used as a recreational tool for people after they injured arms and/or fingers, it increases the blood circulation in the fingers, regular use basically prevents all symptoms of RSI and carpal tunnel etc (it doesn't cure the existing injury though so if you have something serious u need to get that cured 1st). I don't even know why no programer is using these things... and it's fun too.

Benramin567

Sweden46 Posts

January 22 2013 07:37 GMT

#183

Good job Sheth!

SparePartsHere

Slovakia5 Posts

January 22 2013 07:42 GMT

#184

I am happy for you Sheth that you started paleo diet! After reading through the first paragraph, I thought to myself "paleodiet would really help him" and am happy to see that is what you chose

I was on this diet for 6 months, and I have never felt so good in my entire life. Helped me with my weight and joint pain problems, I am sure it can help you too!

Authopsy

Switzerland10 Posts

January 22 2013 08:02 GMT

#185

Great to hear! Good luck with that dude! It won't be easy at first but then you'll fell better and better as the time goes on!

xtfftc

United Kingdom2343 Posts

January 22 2013 08:23 GMT

#186

Nazgul's friend knows what he's doing, both for the diet and the exercises.

Many of the popular diets are incredibly unhealthy and cause even more weight problems in the long term. But that's not the case here. Also, walking + doing sprints is much better than jogging, both for losing weight/becoming and not destroying your joints.

It will turn hard at one point but if you falter for a while, just remember that the best thing you can is get back to the proper diet/exercise routine as soon as psosible.

Testuser

6469 Posts

January 22 2013 08:35 GMT

#187

Man Sheth ...

This sounds great!! Taking care of your body is sooo important - NOT only for others sake, but really for your own! Eating what you want CAN happen, you just need to do it with care. I'm really happy, that this is working out for you, and I so do hope that this'll continue to work out.

ToD

France222 Posts

January 22 2013 08:36 GMT

#188

keep up the good work shawn, need to do a diet myself, 100kg atm ( ate A LOT during my last stay in the US ) i find it extremely hard to find time to work out, i always watch SPL, GSL, and the rest of the time i'm practicing or watching streams or casting but i really feel like i need to if i want to lose weight, a diet wont be enough and i know so little about nutrition ~ very inspirational blog none the less i will try to work some myself !

Damnight

Germany222 Posts

January 22 2013 08:45 GMT

#189

Funny coincidence, I just found out about Paleo 2 weeks ago. I am around 10kg underweight, (170cm height, only 60kg weight) and that´s all musclemass I should have by now (19 years old!!!). So I basicly combined this Paleo Diet with a tough Crossfit-Training schedule (focused on strength, because my doctor said so, I´m apparently too elastic and that causes me shoulder and hand problems). At first it was very hard not to eat pasta anymore (I´m italian and I kinda ate it everyday lolz), but I also always loved meat. I hope to gain those ten kilos as fast as you lose your overweight, let´s meet in the middle when we´re both ripped! :D

P.S.: I´m sorry but I don´t know that american system, In Europe we use the metric-system....

Isoldor

Luxembourg6 Posts

January 22 2013 08:54 GMT

#190

I don't know much about diets, because i never needed one, but if you weight around 140kg, then running and sprinting is very bad for your articulations. What you should do is swimming and walking. Running will cause you pain and it will damage your articulations permenantly. Watch out for that please!

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

January 22 2013 09:02 GMT

#191

Good luck man and good choices. Its gonna be weird to see you afterwards.

Wishmaster

Malta73 Posts

January 22 2013 09:06 GMT

#192

I don´t like the whole "diet" thinking... This always makes me think people just do it for a short time to loose weight, then get back to old Habits. My Mother in law is a nutritional adviser. Having studied the thing for 3,5 years at a german university and doing her job for more than 10 years professionally.
She always says: there is no diet, there is just a relearned food consumption. Its also not about fast weight loss, but about archiving your goals over a longer period time, but then beeing able to hold your weight from thereon without changing anything.

So i like to share some general advice (without to criticize what you do now in specific):

- get professional help in the beginning to solve the headache and hand problems from a nutritional adviser (not one who has done a 1 year something, but some real professional university stuff...)

- you have to get an expert for yourself about food (don´t rely on anyone... make ureself an expert)

- dont get obsessed with those weight numbers, get obsessed with knowledge about food

- you need to now what is good food, what you should avoid

- what to eat to fight hunger feeling, what to do with the headache problem. (there are solutions to those problems, which are easy to follow, if the reason for your problems is known to you.

- doing sports always helps, got nothing to say about this

I wish you the stengh to follow through and not make it a short term project!
Regards

billy5000

United States865 Posts

January 22 2013 09:13 GMT

#193

Glad to hear!

Remember to keep the feeling/sensation/emotion/whatever you felt in vivid memory prior to this change, and recall them whenever the going gets hard. Sort of like conditioning yourself against something. I just wanted to share this tip because it worked for me. Keep it up!

Zaxon

Belgium209 Posts

January 22 2013 09:15 GMT

#194

Come Sheth keep this up, cause i really wanne see more of you bro !

papaz

Sweden4149 Posts

January 22 2013 09:38 GMT

#195

Exercise and a good diet is a no-brainer.

However here is a piece of advice that many don't think about: Walk everywhere you can and if you have a choice of standing up or sitting down (on a bus for example) stand up!

You will increase your daily calories burnt by just doing "natural" exercice, that is walk/stand.

I work as a software developer and sit alot every day. I try do stand up and do programming (I have a desk that can be raised). I try to walk everywhere possible. I stand up on busses and metros.

Those small things really will help more than you think. Sometimes we think too much "I need to exercise by doing some specific stuff" when lot of the problems today is that we don't have "natural movement" in everyday life. We sit, we take the car, sit on the bus etc.

Good luck!

samscraft

United Kingdom65 Posts

January 22 2013 10:14 GMT

#196

Best wishes to you Sheth, you got my support and ofc everyone else, was a very well written blog but were allways around if you need any random conversations.

Good luck sir

NuclearJudas

6546 Posts

January 22 2013 10:23 GMT

#197

Good luck Sheth!

Blackrobe

United States806 Posts

January 22 2013 10:41 GMT

#198

I started a healthier lifestyle just around when you first posted about starting yourself. I have lost 95 pounds since then!

What worked for me was simply: Eat to live, don't live to eat.

taliana

United Kingdom22 Posts

January 22 2013 10:41 GMT

#199

Super proud of you, Sheth. I know how hard it can be to diet and exercise, especially since being overweight makes both of those things SO much harder. I'm on a diet similiar to yours and it's been working out really well for me too!

You're a baller, keep on doing what you're doing <3