Weight Loss

Before beginning an exercise routine seek the advise of a health professional, especially if you have medical or mental issues. Listen to the professional over what is written here; this is only what I have done and needs change from person to person.

Food Intake: Place a stern cap on the consumption of junk food such as fast food, candy, pop, etc. However, do not go to the extreme of vouching never to have anymore as by doing this you will only set yourself up to feel like you are failing if you to have some. Instead, try to reduce yourself down to only one treat a day and then finally to about one treat a week. It is also time to recognize that junk food is becoming part of the average persons daily routine. Junk food comes in the form of some of the kinds of food we each at lunch (i.e., fast-food, candy, pop and the like) as well as those quick snacks (i.e., fast-food, candy, pop, and the like) between meals. This means effort and preparation will be needed to avoid them. Bring some fruit to work for the snack break and leave the change, which is so easy to place in a machine, at home in a jar to save up... Pack your own lunch! Have proper full meals to avoid being hungry. As a rough guide 1/2 a plate of meat, 1/4 a plate of vegetables, and the other 1/4 of a plate being grains/bread. If you are a vegetarian or thinking of becoming one consult a health professional as they may suggest that you take vitamin and/or protein supplements.

Exercise: At least twice a week and no more the five times a week. Between these is the range of the amount of exercise and the amount of rest needed. Each work out should be no less than 45 minutes and no more than 90 minutes. Between these is the amount of exercise our body needs and the amount of exercise after which our bodies will get worn-out. Walking/jogging/running should be no less than 10 minutes and no more than 20 minutes of a work out. It will be worth the investment to pay for a couple or few sessions with an instructor to ensure that you are doing the exercises safely and getting the most effectiveness from the exercises. It may be a good idea to place at least 5 minutes of your walking/jogging/running at both the beginning or end of your workouts (totaling at least 10 minutes) as a warm-up and cool-down. For a less expensive alternative to a privately owned gym try the weight/exercise room at the local community center; as an extra bonus publicly funded weight rooms are usually less likely to shutdown for financial reasons. If you choose to just walk/jog/run then (1) take into consideration the time it will take to get to the place you are going and back to where you started from; (2) let people know where you are going, what route you are taking, and when you think you are going to be back; (3) bring water; and (4) wear reflective clothing (the drivers/motorist do not care that you are exercising only if they will hit you, if they cannot see you—only walk/jog/run where there are sidewalks).

Socio-psychosis

My posting today is about what I refer to as socio-psychosis. I am sure everyone has seen it. It is the desire to belong to a group so badly that those that catch it lose all sense of reason. They send themselves over to the group to the extent that they start losing themselves. However, the psychosis arises when there is a conflict between what the individual wants and what the group wants. I am not speaking here of just simply the working of a group of friends rather that of a group that tries to develop it own culture or mindset. In short, it is the conflict between individual identity and group identity.

Many individuals want to identify themselves by a belonging to a group, but they do not want to give up there individualism. Moreover, these people that come together to form a collective group want to identify themselves as belonging to a collective [startrek pun not intended], but they are unwilling or unable to spend the time and energy needed to develop the social bonds to create an adhesive group.

I have witness many groups that I have internal struggles instead of working together to mediate a solution to these problems based on the group principles (in affect either finding a solution, to the conflict between the members, to the collectives satisfaction or enforcing through punishment the principles of the group) they choose to pay no attention to the problem (often asking the victim to pretend to not have been victimized) and thereby alienating a member thereby eroding the group's collective conscious/cohesiveness. My point is this, before joining a group that wants an identity ask yourselves these following questions: does this group want me to give-up my own individual identity to the extent that the group can be considered a cult, am I and the group willing to put in the time and effort needed to create and maintain a group identity, is this group going to respect me as a member and as a human being, etc.?