Hi guys! For the past… ever, I’ve been putting my health and fitness aside. I tried a few times to get into the habit of exercising to no avail. I’m not overweight or anything but neither am I strong or flexible as I want to be. Mainly because I don’t want to have health troubles later in life. HOWEVER, to get started I needed to google of course and… best 10 xyz, do this, don’t do this, you breathe wrong, you stand wrong, you do everything wrong, this is the only solution. All of these can be found about anything related to fitness. How does one get started with all this nonsense, misinformation and clickable? What’s even real anymore? Thank you in advance :)

  • Moonguide@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Also, because you need to be consistent, it has to be sustainable. Has to be something you won’t hate to do. Biggest reason why people on diets fail.

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      8 months ago

      That and fighting millions of years of evolutionary instinct screaming at you to eat everything you can when you start reducing calories in case you won’t eat again for a few days.

      It’s only been MAYBE ~150 years that all classes of society had ready access to food.

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        8 months ago

        I guess that’s an exta benefit of having to raise protein intake on a calorie deficit. High quality protein is very satiating.

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          8 months ago

          Also helps that if you’re eating protein from a whole foods perspective, an 8oz chicken breast is a lot of food for only ~380 calories. Same goes for all lean proteins and even the fatty kind. You can fit a whole lot more in for equal calories going at whole foods than eating a 1200 calorie muffin.