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First Steps Each Developer Should Take in Order to Get Fit

Milos Protic on April 04, 2019

Hi people. It's time to get fit. It's time to start working out. In this article, I will try to provide a guide and list a couple of early steps ea...
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Joe Fiorini

Re: Step 2 – I always enjoyed the texture of soda/pop/coke with savory foods; when I gave up soda/pop/coke, I still wanted the carbonation, so I started drinking plain sparkling water. It's been a great replacement for the sugary foods since it contains no extra ingredients beyond carbonated water. Now if I could just kick the sugary foods...

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Milos Protic

It's an improvement for sure. Carbonated water can be useful sometimes. Try to replace them with foods with sugar replacement or eat dark chocolate. I still eat sugary foods, but not that often as before.

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Tammy Lee

My #1 advice for avoiding putting on those 'senior pounds' is to lower your stress levels. It only took one, 8-month insane project to ruin years of training. XD

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Milos Protic

Yes, I agree. I try to reduce the stress by working out though.

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Aarif

yeah, stress will make you eat up much more, sitting down long hours and eating junk will prove to be a disaster for the body.

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costica

You cannot do the workout and go eat a Big Mac and 2l of Coke afterward.

So eating a Big Mac and NOT even hitting the gym would be better? As i see it, if you advice people to both stop eating and workout in the same time, they will quit really fast and go back to old habits. With 4 workouts per week they can pretty much keep eating and drinking whatever they used and keep the same weight :)

So I think the two main options for long term health?ness are : either hit the gym or take care with the diet when you are not. Going full healthy and workouty after years of coke is almost imposible imo

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Milos Protic

So eating a Big Mac and NOT even hitting the gym would be better?

Of course not.

My effort here is to move a person from a dead spot. That is why the gym part is at the end of the list. Also, after years of coke and unhealthy habits, you shouldn't go hard on your self. Start slow, and accelerate afterward.

either hit the gym or take care with the diet when you are not

That depends on the results you are trying to achieve. Taking care of a diet and not hitting the gym is going to maintain the current state of your body. That is a good approach after you get your body into the desired shape. After that, you can loosen up with the diet if you continue with the workouts.

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David S.

I eiliminated all these problems by swtching from being a carbivore to a faithful keto dieter.

The steady energy levels that come with operating the body on fat and protein really helped me as a programmer. Gone is the urge to snack and eat carby crap. And also gone is about a hundred pounds from decades of poor eating habits that coincidentally all revolved around carbs.

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Milos Protic

I don't have experience with this diet.

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Eviano

You've given some really good tips. Although I think 10:00pm is still way too late. I feel guilty when I eat after 8:30pm.

I'm really glad there's no mention of coffee in your post though :-)

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Milos Protic

Ah, you want me to die? Coffee is good for us :) I've always had mine without milk or sugar.

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Aarif

you might have a very good sleep schedule then.

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Eviano

Sadly, sleep schedule is very poor. That's something I'd like to fix.