For breakfast, I had eggs, bacon, toast with peanut butter, and mass amounts of coffee. My FB friend had cheese, honey, rosemary, and violas with a cup of tea. Her meal was eaten from a beautiful wooden cutting board decorated with flowers. My meal was on a paper plate and probably had a dog hair or two in it.
She says that before noon she had also forest bathed, cold plunged in the St. Lawrence, grounded on the beach (whatever that means), prayed, journaled, and painted. By noon I had eaten (at least outside) and took care of the needs of 3 dogs while listening to an audio book. I also watered my flowers and smiled when I saw peonies (finally!).
We are not the same.
While I admire her lifestyle, I can’t imagine it for me. I’m a walk to the mailbox girl — and she’s a yoga on the beach one. Honey, cheese, berries, and some flowers to eat would leave me wondering when the real food would arrive. I wouldn’t take a daily cold plunge if it added 10 years to my life.
And while I’ve always said the Ouraring is amazing, I’m even mad at it right now. The “new more accurate step counting” is awful in my opinion. It was better before the upgrade. For example, it now recognizes I’m “working out” when push mowing, but I get no step credit for doing it because my arms aren’t swinging. There’s a reason Oura says not to compare the ring’s results with other wearables — it’s because their data is now wildly off in comparison.
Are you motivated to consistently make healthy choices?
I figure I’m about a 5 on the wellness lifestyle scale of 10. Where do you currently fall — and what could you do to improve it?
Now you know: In the early 2000s, schools in Perth, Australia gave teenage girls infant simulator dolls that cried and fussed like real babies. The goal was to show how hard motherhood is and reduce teen pregnancy. Surprisingly, girls who got the dolls had higher pregnancy rates than those who didn’t.