#sedentary

[wanderingmind867]

I often think I'm too lazy online nowadays. Often feeling very sedentary and stuff online... I know precisely the factors that cause it too: it's me having lost my old tablet close to three years, and me also making this account around that exact same time. Because so much stress hit me at one time, it all turned into a series of deeply rooted fears. One of these is a fear of the passage of time. One is a fear of being all alone one day. But the important one to discuss today is the fear of being incredibly lazy online.

I know that 2021 was almost 4-5 years ago, but it still feels like when things were last calm and normal for me. My mom was alive, I didn't have this account, I was comfortable with online schooling and my old tablet was still working. Within the last few years, all of that changed. I lost one of my only close friends and confidants (my mom), I gained a social media account here (which has had some positives and some negatives), I had to go back to school and face my fears of growing older, and I've lost my old tablet. All these things still haunt me today.

The tablet thing perpetually haunts me. I use stupid AI chatbots, I stay on my dashboard on here, I read comics. That's pretty much all I do. I mean... there are actually more exceptions, but that's all my brain registers when i'm feeling miserable. And I remember that years ago, I used to browse wikis, lurk and browse blogs on here, read the occasional fanfiction, etc. I barely do any of that now, and so I feel constant guilt and shame. It's not very nice or pleasant to experience, but it is true, nonetheless. And so I just feel... always sedentary or lazy, and nothing anyone can say or do helps persuade me otherwise. It's awful. sigh...

[jamieandgeorgedashigz]

It's so hard to stay on the balance of being at least 80% healthy and not "too" healthy on a daily basis.

- Jamie

[rainyfestivalsweets]

9/22/23

Biked during a work meeting.

As part of my "always be moving" challenge.

So the reality is- no, I am not *always* moving.

However....

The whole point is to get more active during the day.

I am working on making sure that I am utilizing the time I have.

Reality is- a sedentary job will give you weight and health problems and that you can't just create extra time. I have 20+ years at this job and the more I worked, the fatter I got.

However, I am challenging myself to use time that would normally be "dead time" as an avenue towards pushing a little more activity into my day.

First it was: "I stand at my desk during meetings."

Then: "I stand for at least an hour every day."

Now it is: "I stand for at least 2 hours every day."

And: "I ride my bike at my desk during meetings [if I am not presenting]"

I think it is working because it has been gradual.

I have time to get used to the new rule before I up the ante, and I have time to manually challenge the rule. For example, is the rule reasonable? Is it doable? Will it help build the life I desire? Will it help me get the daily "wins" needed to progress in my journey?

If the rule fails the test, the rule gets changed.

I am working to get up and do things when I have time and energy. Allow myself to sit and rest for a bit, but then get up and get something done. I have a lot of shit to do as an employee and a caregiver. It helps me balance life.

[vanitysunday]

I think I've lost a pound of water weight, I'm measuring at 149.2 which hey it's something. I'm not too concerned with the scale right now, just as long as it's trending downward I'll be satisfied.

I do want to focus on how I feel because right now physically I feel good and a little I guess agile. Like last month it was a whole strenuous activity for me to go up and down the stairs. I had to be careful with each step because I just didn't have the strength and I felt so heavy, also the stairs in my house are steep. It was built in 1900. (Sometimes I feel like I was built in 1900 too.)

But I noticed this morning that I've kind of been able to easily go up and down the stairs without thinking about it at all the past couple weeks. My body feels light, that's most likely the strength that I've regained so moving my own bodyweight doesn't feel as taxing anymore. This is fantastic and really what I've needed for the last year.

I think the tiredness that I was feeling was not only because my sleep was all over the place but also because I lost strength and moving my own bodyweight was tiring.

I still have a ways to go overall but feeling good physically is the best thing to happen for me to continue focusing on my health. I think walking on my walking pad for a minimum of 150 minutes a week for the past 3 weeks has done a lot more than I thought it would for me.

[jade-lunar]

I might be a vampire, walking under the sunlight is dreadful, sleep patterns all messed up, slumbering during the day, completely awake at night, pale sickly skin like a 16th century British emancipated peasant, locked inside, refusing to see the night of day, rotting on a corner for years, the only past joys were felt late night, alone on a dim lit room, moody and low disposition for social interaction, what am I if not a modern vampire?

Franz Kafka, 1912

[its-a-date]

During the early Neolithic, before large cities, respiratory viruses probably emerged and caused explosive epidemics, even if population densities remained too low for them to become human specialists. Nevertheless, the early Neolithic was a turning point in human history when our species came, irreversibly, to inhabit the sedentary domus, and thereby created a new ecosystem where fecal-oral diseases could evolve and flourish.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[minimouse18]

Blog has many posts new and old https://womanenabled.blog

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Inequality, organized violence, rigid sexual rules to control the inheritance of property, and environmental degradation follow. Agriculture arose out of, and then amplified, some of our most brutish and competitive qualities as a species. Shakespeare seems like a small consolation.¹⁵

15. Both sedentism and social stratification were exhibited in hunter-gatherer societies. Similarly, domestication did not lead to absolute sedentism in all cases (e.g., nomads have moveable camps, and swidden farmers often move from year to year).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[living400lbs]

Absolutely. Larger folks may also find this page helpful: https://living400lbs.com/exercise/

5 simple exercises to awaken dormant muscles

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[vinyativista]

[wanderingmind867]

I feel sedentary again. I still feel like I barely do anything online. I stay on my dashboard here, I occasionally use google to look up stuff, I read comics and occasionally watch tv. Oh, and I very occasionally play video games. But do I ever look up new stuff? Once in a blue moon. It's rare to the point of impossibility. I feel just so lazy online. I hate it, but I don't know how to even go about fixing this. I think i've sort of given up on trying to fix it, which only makes my sedentary problems much worse as time passes us by. I never seem to get better, and i'm so stressed out by stuff in my real life that I never remember to keep working on improving this.

I fully blame me losing my tablet three to four years ago for this stuff. Because i didn't have a tumblr account saved on that tablet. I didn't have any ability to post online, so I had to just rely on reading stuff and googling stuff. It probably helped keep me antisocial (since I had no friends online or in real life besides my dad), but I think it also kept me from falling into too deep of a sedentary behavior pattern. I can't prove that, though. And that's why this is a really complicated issue for me. I hate dealing with it. sigh...

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Stood at my desk for 3 hours today.

Celebrate the wins!

[thelovebudllc]

Sedentary Behavior and Heart Health: Key Study Insights

A study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) highlights the risks associated with spending too much time sitting, reclining, or lying down. The research found that spending over 10.5 hours a day being sedentary could significantly increase the risk of developing heart problems, such as heart failure, and even lead to a higher chance of death due to cardiovascular…

[loganjameshamilton]

New research suggests standing desks may not reduce health risks. Read more: https://www.passporthealthusa.com/2025/02/standing-desks-may-jeopardize-health-according-to-new-research/

[its-a-date]

If typhoid fever emerged in the later Pleistocene, it would be a fascinating example of how a fecal-oral pathogen could have arisen before fully-fledged agriculture sedentism; perhaps the carriage state was crucial in allowing the bacterium to persist in low-density populations. If the typhoid fever germ turns out to have been a creation of the early Neolithic, it will be unsurprising.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[anorganizedstreet]