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Originally Posted by Eric
Not to belittle your desk, or derail this thread by any means, but what does your diet look like? I know many people that swear by the standing desks, and have thought about one myself for over a year now. I don't have any issues with productivity, nor do I have any energy issues. I do attribute the majority of this to a few factors:
1) I don't have, nor will I ever have any children sucking the life out of me.
2) We eat super clean (Paleo) 70% of the time, pretty clean (no dairy, soy, gluten) 20%, whatever the fuck we want the last 10% of the time. I actually find that when I havev a cheat meal, I regret it.
3) I exercise an hour a day 6 days a week. Incorporating everything from interval training, light weight circuit training, stretching, and core work.
Couple years ago I was having some major back pain start to creep up on me too. I adjusted my desk and that helped a ton, but gettting a Teeter Hangup was an amazing investment as well. 5 minutes a day 3-4 days a week on that thing has done wonders.
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I've been eating clean, (paleo) since January 1st, 100% that's been the biggest change of my life, I sleep two less hours a day, I have more energy and I am more motivated in almost everything. I didn't cheat for the first 75 days, now I pretty much cheat once a week and I also generally regret it, but I had hit a wall and was told by a few people that I needed to cheat once and a while. I don't eat anything that comes in a bag or a box, just meat, vegetables, nuts and cheese and spices. I am sure some carbs creep in there, I don't try that hard, but I don't touch bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, corn or anything with more than one ingredient unless I make it myself. When I cheat, it is usually with fruit, when you have little kids, there is generally a lot of fruit around.
I didn't weigh myself for the first 75 days either and even then it was just because I happened to be at someones house who had a scale sitting on the bathroom floor. When I did, I was floored, I had lost 30 lb's in 2 and a half months. That immediately motivated me to get out the old treadmill and start jogging. I do push ups a few times a day and I do squats a few times a day (just body weight). I will not join a gym, I feel like that has been a key to my failure in the past, way too easy to make excuses not to go. But I can do push ups and squats and I can jog all while the ball game is on at home.
for clarification, I was not trying to say I am loosing weight because I have a stand up desk, I am saying it is one of the changes I have made, part of a change in lifestyle and I think it was an important one.