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Guitar made me fat (finding balance in your life)
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Leñador
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Obviously, I made me fat, not guitar, but it's a good scape goat.
There was a time from about 19-26/7 that I did not play guitar much, fiddled around with metal songs that I had learned when I was 14 but it was maybe a once every few weeks kind of thing. Instead my time was usually filled with Ju-Jitsu and Kickboxing/Muay Thai. I trained 3 times a week for about two hours each, drank beer and ate anything I wanted and easily walked around at a super lean 180lbs. At a certain point I dislocated my shoulder, this became an ongoing issue, dislocations happened about every month in class. I had a surgery, went back to MMA and days before a ju-jitsu competition I had another bad dislocation. After this it began dislocating on the regular again! After a few more month of this I finally realized my body just couldn't handle combat sports.
This is when I went back to guitar. I replaced all the time spent training and exercising with playing guitar, after a few month of this I found flamenco and really amped up my practicing. I basically worked, went home, drank a 6 pack and practiced until bed time. This lasted a few years and I ballooned up to 245lbs. At some point I got a lady friend, cut out the daily beer drinking and got down to about 230/235. This went on for another couple of years but my weight didn't budge. My practicing cut back a lot due to work and life(lady) obligations but I still managed to squeeze in a good 45 minutes a day at least.
At a certain point I looked at my self in the mirror, drunk, fat, hairy, and pale and said "I gotta do something." My blood pressure was getting high, I snored like a monster and just didn't feel good about myself. I've since hired a personal trainer, changed my diet drastically and hit the gym about 5 times a week. 3 month later I'm down to 205 but it's been REALLY HARD WORK! I vastly underestimated how much my metabolism slowed down after 30. I basically work, go to the gym, eat, prepare my food for the next day, do dishes and by that time it's time for bed. It's getting exhausting and i'm beginning to feel like my life is really missing something, I try and squeeze in guitar when I can but it's just not enough to feel balanced.
Here's what I pose to you.
How do you maintain balance in your life? Between work, family and health how do you squeeze in enough time for your mind and me time? I run a business and try to shut the phone/email off at 6 now, that's helped a bit but I still feel like I'm squeezing every ounce out of the day and I'm still missing something. Anyone got any secrets or perhaps anyone else just wanna vent about being over ran?? I'd love to hear what other music lovers do to bring balance to their life.
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Date Dec. 9 2015 3:38:29
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Ruphus
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RE: Guitar made me fat (finding bala... (in reply to Leñador)
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Don´t know wheter this could be helpful, as you might be aware of the following already:
There are advisory courses for overburdened people, and the pros there seem to usually be finding out about organising inefficiencies in daily routines. -You know, in the sense of detours, double ways, imperfect working routines etc.
Through rearranging there often times are being squeezed out an average two hours spare time extra per day.
Regarding diet and metabolism, you will be knowing that there is a load of sugar being hidden in many sorts of foods. Much of it can be spared by omitting premade food or ingredients, and needless to say, beverages.
Also don´t believe in the isolated nutrient dealing of most modern diets (like low carbs). Reducing sweet / carbs and fat evenly makes more of sense.
Finally, on a personal note.
Eventhough food combining could not be proven to function digestion wise as proposed, it has actually helped friends of mine to lose weight radically and extremely fast.
Seeking a way to get rid of tiredness after lunchhour in my fulltime physical practice times, it was amazing to see how helpful it was to engage food combining like fish with salad. Apparently so easy on the digestive tract that I would retrun to training hours without any fatigue.
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Date Dec. 9 2015 6:56:02
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edguerin
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From: Siegburg, Alemania
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RE: Guitar made me fat (finding bala... (in reply to Leñador)
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Problem, is, things you work "against" won't work in the long run 
Having to have a "cheat meal" sounds like you're sort of dieting all the time.
The best bet ist to learn to feel when you've eaten your fill, i.e. had enough.
Slow eating, good quality food and fibers help.
Although organizing your day can be helpful for some, I don't believe in that, because it's attractive to those who constantly "organize" their life, never having enough time to really perceive what they need/want/like. It is my conviction that less is more in this case.
That said, here's something I do:
Once a year, I leave away alcoholic beverages, sweets and chocolates, and fat in cooking for a month (although I'm an atheist I do this during Lent as the area I live in is very catholic, and nobody asks questions when I say I'm fasting). We have a collection of recipes "reserved" for that period with a bunch of really good dishes (I actually look forward to them during the year  )
The original idea behind this was to break our routine, and be more aware.
A nifty side-effect is, that I loose about 22 pounds! I can then splurge for another year
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Date Dec. 9 2015 15:51:54
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BarkellWH
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From: Washington, DC
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RE: Guitar made me fat (finding bala... (in reply to Leñador)
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I'm going to need to just find active hobbies I enjoy that don't ruin my arm. Just straight exercising for the sake of exercising(weights and treadmill) I'm hating.
Exercise is key, Lenny. The best diet in the world will have only minimal effect unless you combine it with exercise. I, too, find weights, treadmill, nautilus equipment, and all the other stuff boring. I don't do it. My suggestion is find a sport (individual, not team) that you enjoy and play regularly with a regular opponent.
In school I was never very good at team sports like baseball and football. In the Air Force I discovered handball, in which two opponents play in a four-wall court. Then in the Foreign Service I learned to play squash, a racquet sport played in a four-wall court. I continue to play squash, although it is now "old-man squash" at my age. I have never played racquet ball, but I know it is somewhat similar.
Here are the advantages of playing one of those sports:
A. They are fun when you play regularly with an opponent your own caliber.
B. They are intense, giving you maximum exercise in minimum time. I try to play for one hour, three times per week.
C. They build up both your muscle tone and your stamina.
D. I find that playing squash regularly increases my alertness and ability to concentrate when playing guitar.
In short, individual sports like squash, racquet ball, and handball give you all the advantages of intense exercise, take only about three hours per week, and increase your ability to concentrate. Highly recommended.
Cheers,
Bill
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With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."
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