🆕 blog! “Review: EgoFit Walker Pro - an under-desk treadmill”
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My doctor told me that sitting at a desk all day was slowly killing me. So I purchased a standing desk adapter. Then my doctor said I ought to take better care of my feet. So I purchased a massaging foot mat to go with my standing desk. Now my doctor says that I need […]
Inspired by @kcarruthers , I did a Zumba routine online. I lasted 15 minutes the first day. It was so confusing because of all the steps. I did the routine again yesterday and got to 20 mins. I’m going to keep going until I can do the full 30 mins 😊 It’s fun!#exercise
@thepoliticalcat 💯🎉 Awesome! Love to hear what other people are doing! I’m also on beat sabre on Oculus vr but had to give that a rest because I need to build up my arms so they can take the abuse. #JediTraining@kcarruthers
@thepoliticalcat@Fury@kcarruthers I walked into the garden and sniffed the air today. I enjoyed it. A light walk is good for the slightly arthritic elbow and the mental wellbeing.
Working my way towards a walk at sunrise.. watching the temperature drop and the windchill and considering a treadmill instead. .We'll see.
Just need a stretch or warmup before I can go.
#Exercise - We wouldn't have to do this, if we had better discipline.. pass that cookie to me! 😂
@Offroadrj Good morning. or afternoon for you?. It's not quite sunrise yet, I was planning to walk outside, but I'm rethinking I might treadmill inside instead. I need the walk, not the cold. I've got some Audiobooks loaded on my phone, I'll find one to listen to and walk
It's not a fitness workout, it's so I can stand & move.
Besides a few grunts & groans, I do this stretch every morning. I balance on 1-foot, pull my other knee to my chest, hold it, balanced on 1-foot, for 2 mins
I do have slightly different strength in one knee, than the other, & if I am distracted, I'll fall over 😆
@Caiotekit I'm surprised. I don't really think I have good balance. And my ankles were always too weak for ice skating or rollerblading. It's a lot of weight to balance on one ankle. Center of gravity is important. I can pull up to my neck and hold the leg longer but not the ballance. If I hold it closer to waist height then center of gravity is lower, I can stand a minute longer
My current #weightlossjourney from 213 lbs to now under 195 lbs (88.45kg) and almost 7 inches (17.78 cm) on my waist lost in almost 53 days and haven’t worked out as much because of work and the puppy but swinging back into it. #exercise#weightloss#fitness#health
@chiefgyk3d Nice! I use one of those tailor's/seamstress's tape measures and a spreadsheet I started back in the late-1990s. I do wish I had been consistent with it, like taking at least quarterly measurements. But I'm still pretty pleased to have some biometric data going back that far.
@hankg@hankg yeah my ADHD won’t work with that but this on an app is a godsend. But you can probably use the Slimpal app manually too it’s free but works with the smart tape measure best.
Day 13 of my “do a brief workout every day for 14 days” challenge:
Bed exercises again tonight (no cats this time, they’re too busy sleeping on the heating vents). I did 6 leg/ab exercises (5 sets of 10), and also tried out two “chair” exercises (2 sets of 10) that were recommended by my instructor.
It took about 15 minutes, during which I watched another YouTube disaster video (a guilty pleasure). Feeling surprisingly good. Almost to my goal!
@holgerschurig We will all join in unthinking unfeeling unconscious oblivion when our brains cease, but until then we will all live in hell, hell on Earth, and it's their choice.
Compassion is a question of doctrine. Some doctrines, those of the existence of an everlasting soul and an afterlife and heaven and martyrdom, reject it entirely. Reject it entirely by using the only life they are absolutely sure they have and a fortune in international aid given over the last 15 years to build an underground city of military bases beneath an heavily populated city, its headquarters beneath an hospital, strapping bombs on children, raping and burning women, chopping heads with shovels, and their populations celebrating these atrocities. That's not showing compassion for their own people or their neighbours. They could have lived in heaven in this life, but they chose the delusion of an afterlife.
I know the commonly accepted wisdom is that you shouldn’t exercise in the morning on an empty stomach, but I’m trying to lose weight and previously I’ve never had a problem exercising on an empty stomach in the morning.
@WTL@GrittyLipids but... if you can't comfortably exercise when eating, then you gotta do what functionally works.
I'm a professional eater, I can eat at all the times, hungry, full, sleeping, awake, give me food, I'm eating it.
I do need a little time to settle, and am selective about foods, but coffee / oatmeal / bagel / banana pre run, I'm g2g. I do try to move post coffee, but it's not a requirement. YMMV, everyone's patterns are different.
Reflective moment.
POV
Im going to try to explain something I never have said entirely.
I am a self learner, autodidact.
I try extremely hard not to assume things about people.
Why they do the things they do?
I personally know I’m not all that special.
Unique maybe.
I do have a desire for accuracy.
My version of extreme sports is learning the basics of difficult sciences that explains how the world works.
I’m not good at standard formulas.
I Frankensteined my own that get me by to survive.
Probabilistic math.
I don’t have a love for proving people wrong.
However I do enjoy getting constructive criticism that’s meaninful and helpful.
I’m an observer and a listener at a whole different level.
I don’t enjoy being right or about things.
It’s actually painful!
Why?
Well because in most situations I drill into my head not to assume things not to infer things.
So when I am right, it means I could have maybe helped someone when I didn’t but I wasn’t confident about my ability.
It also maybe means I wasted precious moments of my life figuring something out only to doubt myself. Humility
Alas I was born like this.
I have a very vivid lucid memory. Apparently it’s immersive eidetic. Which is even more of a burden. Nearly completely lucid recall even if I don’t want it.
I hear this often:
“Wow I wish I could remember verbatim like you do”
For me it’s like never being able to forget things, never to be free of pain, never be simply oblivious, sure I can act that way.
Guess what my brain still remembers!!!😭
I have had to struggle, to know the whys of everything, to every thought I’ve ever had. I’ve had alot of thoughts.
I fight with myself, to find and break l my walls and keep my mind open , all my sensory, all my icks, all my ews I’ve had to learn how to deal with them
I’ve conditioned myself over a lifetime
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How to accept it and normalize it.
Laughing can be a coping mechanism I think in most humans.
Pretty sad when you have to learn microbiology to learn how we are basically mostly living in clean dirt and dirty dirt.
Life within life.
Symbiosis.
Every fear I’ve had to face alone, like we all do, all fears in mind
I can sit it a cemetery on Halloween and have no fear of ghosts or demons, I can fall 😴
I have my own ghosts that are far scarier. 👻
My memories of my own life.
The longer I live the longer I battle it doesn’t get any easier for me. Although
I am still Alive! 🫣
I’ve delved(not A bot or written by ai) into every facet of science to learn how to normalize everything.
I did this even before I realized I was autistic, I knew I was different.
Quite honestly for awhile my imposter syndrome I semi I questioned my own sanity. Was I delusional?
I guess in some ways that protected me as well.
It causes me to triple rethink every thought I think.
I stayed grounded. Conserve energy know when to use it. Timing
Action or lack of action will change the outcome.
Oh and that memory that everyone wants that recall, makes you feel like you’re crazy btw.
When everyone else remembers through thier world view.
I remember through every lens I can see it at the time and every lens I acquire as I expand my world view constantly adding to my updated schema.
Often time people use me as translator to what people mean.
More then once I’ve been asked to read people for people.
I don’t like it.
I reply I’m confident with x amount of accuracy but I could be wrong.
Do most people think in Confidence Intervals?
I am likely biased. I know
I tell people this even though i can pretty accurate about other people in my life I see.
I remain situationally aware.
I’m choose mostly to say silent and mind my own business.
I’ve grown to know myself fairly well, a work in progress I guess.
I dislike being me.
I do love life though with every ounce of my being despite the pain.
I try with what time I have left to advocate for education and acceptance of those who are marginalized and suffer because of ignorance and stigma.
I wish I could wish away my ability, I dislike the highly functional part. I dislike being viewed as better off when I’m truly not. I feel fucking cursed.
The stress and pressure and anxiety is killing me.
When people fight, grow learn and change you notice. You wonder why they didn’t get the version update.
“I didn’t change they will say”.
Debating whether they did or not is usually not worth the effort.
That isn’t the only curse, this savantish type of ability makes me feel alone in a world of billions of people.
I know I am not.
You can talk and explain until your dead yet others may fully get you.
I thought when I was younger. I wonder if I could train my brain like a computer!
I would challenge myself on accuracy of rough off the cuff calculations.
I thought if I remained situationally adaptive and objective and humble and just learned a little more, listened a little more, worked a lot more I could actually manage my own mind.
That was wishful magical thinking 🤔
Turns out I think I did become more accurate.
Again this is impossible right?
To what scale exactly?
I don’t know
To have a basic mechanistic understanding of everything I learn and how it maybe connected to every other cog through different frames.
A liquid pretending to be a solid
Then there’s the devils advocate.
There’s people who have it worse. Some people don’t have these gifts yet have the same deficits or worse than me.
Unless you live in my head you don’t know how much I suffer 😭Do you?
I know that as well and that is even more painful as I know many have it worse.
Does it make my pain less?
No, it doesn’t bring me comfort or feel better, for they seems is too many.
It brings to me compassion and humility.
I swear some people find people find comfort in knowing some have it worse.
News is classed as entertainment blown out of context for engagement.
Social media polarization? Engagement.
Did you get the update we became the product for AI training?
We are the product in a capitalistic merit based economy.
Did you get that update?
Framing is important. Don’t understand change your lens.
How does it make you feel better that there are people out there starving or being violent or mean to one another?
Does it distract you from your own life?
Not me, it compounds mine, ediditic memory.
Everytime I hear someone say , eww this isn’t good enough or too this or too that, it saddens me. I picture people dying of starvation.
Water is yucky?
I have images in my video memory of people in countries not so lucky without clean water and getting diseases and lead or shit in their drinks.
Do you still want my memory or awareness. I’m biased and flawed.
It’s far from perfect, I am human like everyone else. I don’t know much. With every fiber of my being I try to remain objective.
I realize autism adhd ptsd rsd pda hits everyone differently.
I know we have all our preferences and routines and they bring us comfort.
Nature= You and me.
a part of everything even if minuscule.
I see you out in the wild, not intentionally. I swear most of the time I don’t want to know but my brain seems to save it. Unless it’s occupied with something.
However I try to enjoy the simple things like acorns birds,cats,plants, clouds, stars art, and most importantly MUSIC.
I’ve never felt more connected to everything yet so alone. It’s so incredibly lonely.
I just want anyone to know who read this. I am not what I appear. I’m just like you.
Perhaps it will bring some soul comfort and understanding.
It’s pretty much my only hope in writing this.
Perhaps it makes it more real for me.
The funny part is I can’t force myself to memorize.
Even with this recall, I cannot seem to remember my own shit, I guess my mind is trained on the world most of the time while also trying to be present in the moment.
I will admit a knat has more of l attention span than me.
I have far too many faults to judge others.
I’ve made far far far too many mistakes.
When I was younger I thought I was invincible and had shit figured out.
I understood survival, people were a mystery.
I’m a childhood trauma survivor
I am sorry if I seemed a like an asshole.
I didn’t healthily express my displeasure at times when I was overwhelmed.
I didn’t know how and I didn’t know if anyone actually could understand. I still don’t.
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I’m sorry for seeming like I don’t care about your problems. I do!
I’m sorry.
I truly am.
As bad as my luck may seem to me. For some reason I’m alive at the moment.
I also have tachycardia most likely from hypervigelence and my anxiety which is tough.
I’m not being critical, judgemental of anyone else I’m genuinely asking, is this easy/difficult to read?
I’m explaining how my mind works.
Often people use me to remember accurately and fight their battles for them.
Why?
I can see through most masks.
I can see something even if I don’t know what it is then my mind uses some inference to give me possibilities.
Too many far too many!
Sort function sure.
Then with all this, can I even be truly loved if I can never be understood?
In the right frame.
I could be wrong. There’s too much to know. That I know for sure.
Are other people like me?
Do they not understand how it affects them?
Do they feel like they didn’t have a voice which diminished their emotional capacity or was a voice for others? Or is it Alexithima? Likely
I spent a lifetime trying to interpret human behavior. My own included.
Most of my life I was so confused litterally. I somehow emerged from the other end of the tunnel since childhood wondering why
I was audhd dx 2022.
Mostly I found out why.
Perhaps they can’t remember. . They are battling for thier life the best they can.😔 I wrote this to maybe see if anyone else knows what this is like.Maybe someone else will find this helpful. You aren’t alone!
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@everyday_human@actuallyautistic
I tend to differentiate between feeling alone and being lonely
The way I see the world and think about things always made me aware of being alone. But I have never felt lonely.
Mostly because I have also always been aware of existing within something far greater. My reason has allowed me to build an understanding of how the inter-related connectivity of the universe could work.
However that same reason knows that my understanding is based on premises that are challangeable. Therefore it is essentially my belief and not certainty.
Plus past traumas of being doubted, misunderstood and disbelieved, have tended not to help this
Finding like minded people is really helping me, not only with this, but also with realising I was never as alone as I thought.
Since I have to #exercise some more #patience until I can make music again, I decided to take the #fieldrecorder with me daily and #record interesting #sounds on a regular basis. This way I will have a nice little library of fresh #samples at hand when I will finally be able to start with #musicproduction again. 😇️
@graves501 It is relatively easy to fast on coconut water because it is high in electrolytes, vitamins and minerals. I did a 60 day filtered juice fast before and found it more difficult to continue with my normal day to day activities on juices than it is now on coconut water.
Been keeping up the #walking - modest levels of about 5000 steps a day - but my back is killing me so I’ll give it a rest while I’m still mobile. (Last time I didn’t listen to my body when it complained like this, I found myself bed bound for days. Still unconvinced that #exercise is a panacea.)
@LMac1970 I have a friend who had back issues and he took a better look at what he was sitting on most of the day. It turned out he worked from home and sat on his couch, and his couch didn't have the lumbar support. He bought a special pillow to use for support, and the back pain was cut significantly. Back issues are so painful.
@dancinyogi Yes, I’ve done similar. Even when I work from home, I make sure I’m on a proper office chair. I’m not sure I could function on the sofa! I’d end up asleep! 😄
Today’s weigh in on my #weightlossjourney, I’m now touching 6 inches (15.24 cm) lost and almost 20 lbs (9.07kg) lost. I seem to be doing a “yo-yo” on the weight which means my goals of body recomposition are working as it’s definitely muscle building and muscle is denser than fat and I’m still losing my waist. #weightloss#exercise#fitness#health
@specked I’m using Apple Health as well as the measurements are from my smart tape measure by Slim Pal.
All my smart health devices go to Apple Health so I can share my results easily with my doctor and his team.
The four vendors I use for gathering health metrics are:
iHealth (thermometer, scale, blood pressure, and blood oxygen)
Slimpal (smart tape measure)
SmartOne (peak flow meter)
Apple Watch Series 9
I’ve also been able to hit my sleep goals since moving the electronics away from my bed. I bought a charging station and put it on my night stand. So I only wear an Apple Watch to bed, I got disrupted last night because I was on call and a false positive tripped (Proofpoint maintenance).
You can see on the 22nd is when I set up the new charging station. I even managed to figure out how to time charging to use my series 9 at night for better sleep metrics.