(NOT AI ;-) ) Life Update: The Surprising Benefits Of Healthy Living.

Feeling like I'm letting my 5 readers down by having posted AI texts for the last 3 posts. So here is an authentic human post.

I'm surprised by the benefits of my healthy lifestyle.

When my father died in October 2021 I started researching healthy lifestyles. I was shocked by how big an impact lifestyle has on health and learned things I should have known but didn't. My father died at 69 years of age of a heart attack and the pack of potato chips I brought him every day, at his request, most likely sent him into the ground sooner.

I am rather compulsive with social media and when I started finding out health facts, I posted them on my socials thinking I was saving lives. If only my dad had known these factoids. Some people responded with their ego. Some behind my back. Some thought it was useful. I was posting health advice before I managed to succeed in my goals. Criticism and gossip doesn't feel good. Some people are not supportive of your goal to improve yourself.

It was about 3 years of struggle to change my habits. I still struggle with junkfood and coffee. But I'm sober from alcohol since 5 july 2024 (517 days ago from writing). I stopped smoking weed and nicotine. I am eating mostly vegan. Lost about 35kg (77lbs) of fat. I deleted Reddit and Facebook and Instagram And even though I didn't have to, I started working again. And a physically demanding job at that: I do 30 000 steps per day while carrying packages up to 28kg (63lbs). I love telling people that I have a job. I love being a hard worker.

The benefits of healthy eating, sobriety, mindfulness and exercise are awesome. I got rid of ailments such as knee, hip, foot and back pain. My chronic diarrhea disappeared. My bloodwork dropped in the safe range. 

I feel much deeper. I feel shame again and other negative emotions. And that's okay. Feeling bad is an opportunity to grow. I also feel love and joy again. I have feelings I haven't felt since the 80ties. I have control over my mind and my mouth and my memory works like a computer program. I am a totally different person.

And it does give me some pleasure to have disproven the few people that weren't supportive and to have made the majority of my peers proud of me. You find out who wants the best for you. Most of them luckily.


Peace!

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