You’re tired. You’re stressed. You’ve got anxiety. You aren’t seeing progress. You are fat. You are weak. You don’t sleep. You’re skin sucks.
It doesn’t have to be this way. ⬇️
HOW TO STOP EATING LIKE A CHILD
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You’re tired. You’re stressed. You’ve got anxiety. You aren’t seeing progress. You are fat. You are weak. You don’t sleep. You’re skin sucks.
It doesn’t have to be this way. ⬇️
Everything you consume revolves around pleasure.
Just like a child, you enjoy the high of that sugary snack.
And just like a child, you crash and become irritated and tired soon after. ⬇️
Big Food, Big Sugar, and hoards of companies shove advertisements for these addicting foods down your throat.
Children see an average of 3-5 fast food TV ads per day.
Add in billboards etc, and this is an abundance problem. ⬇️
We aren’t.
So you stuff your face with these things at every opportunity.
This fattens, softens, and depresses You.
So you eat even more to comfort yourself. ⬇️
Step 1:
Get a notebook and pen.
Don’t do anything different.
Eat as you normally would.
**Write down every last thing you put in your mouth for 2 WEEKS**
Don’t lie to yourself. ⬇️
If your list looks like this:
Fruit loops, Cookies, ice cream, Chips, French fries, burgers, pizza, Mountain Dew, Busch Lite, Gatorade, TV dinners etc
We’ve got work to do. ⬇️
You are going to drink a total of 1 gallon of water a day.
That’s 128 ounces.
If you insist that is too much, shut the fuck up and do it anyway.
It’s nothing. Have some discipline. ⬇️
If all you’ve been drinking is sugary coffee, soda, Gatorade, you are probably chronically dehydrated.
Don’t believe me?
Get a glass. Put some ice in it. Fill it with water.
Drink that whole glass
Soak it in
You’ll feel alive
Like a new person. ⬇️
Stop that bullshit immediately. Those calories are killing you.
Switch to diet. Or zero cal.
Then wean yourself off that
Make it an occasional treat. ⬇️
Step 3: we are going to add in some protein to your diet.
Protein is the most critical element.
Protein = meat.
Every meal, add extra protein.
Few more bites of steak. ⬇️
You are now logging your food, drinking a gallon of water, and eating extra protein.
You are now doing better than 95% of people!
Give yourself a pat on the back. ⬇️
We’ve been setting the foundation.
Step 3:
Time to worry about your calories
So far, you’ve just written what you eat
Now we are going to start paying attention to the amount of calories you are consuming ⬇️
Record everything in there that you eat.
It will give you the amount of calories you eat.
Do this for 2 weeks while continuing everything else.
If this is too hard for you, revert back to the gallon of water and build some fucking discipline. ⬇️
Here’s the formula:
Maintenance Calories = goal body weight in lbs x (10)+total weekly training hours.
Find this number.
Trying to lose weight? Eat 500 cals less for two weeks get on the scale. ⬇️
Hit that mark everyday and don’t go over.
LOG EVERTHING THAT GOES IN YOUR MOUTH.
Your weight will start to go down. ⬇️
Your food tracker will tell you how many grams you are eating per day.
If you aren’t already day, eat your body weight in grams of protein per day.
Non-negotiable. Do it. If you can’t, you don’t want it bad enough. ⬇️
Now is the time.
Go to your fridge and pantry.
Throw all your vegetable oils. All your processed food. All of your sugary treats.
Throw it all away. Start fresh. ⬇️
Eggs
Bacon
Red meats
Pork
Chicken
Rice
Potatoes
Fruits you like
Veggies you like
Real butter
Olive oil
Coconut oil
Whatever
Fill your fridge.
You are adult.
It is now your responsibility to have these on hand 24/7. ⬇️
Pre-make these meals.
Eat them.
No excuses.
No eating out. No extra office cookies. No treats.
Eat the food you intended on eating.
Everything else is noise. ⬇️
Kids eat treats because they succumb to the temptation and love the sweetness.
You have built the self control to enjoy them occasionally. ⬇️
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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
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Always. No, your company is not an exception.
A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
And by the way, you should never be worried that an offer would be withdrawn if you politely negotiate.
I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
You wish there was no negotiating so it would all be more fair? I feel you, but it’s not happening.
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A tactic I don’t appreciate at all because of how unfairly it penalizes low-leverage, junior employees, and those loyal enough not to question it, but that’s negotiation for you after all. Weaponized information asymmetry.
Listen to Aditya
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— Aditya Mukerjee, the Otterrific \U0001f3f3\ufe0f\u200d\U0001f308 (@chimeracoder) December 4, 2018
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I have seen this happen *extremely* rarely, mostly to women, and anyway is a giant red flag. It suggests you probably didn’t want to work there.
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