Connie Brown
09-18-2005, 03:54 PM
In the RMAX Nutrition guidelines it mentions getting our biochemistry stable with nutrition.
There's a thread on RadiantRecovery today that describes how this works with exercise
http://www.radiantrecovery.com/cgi-bin/bbs-new/webbbs_config.pl?read=205519
The first writer is not in balance yet (be crash is a beta-endorphin low after an exercise high). The other two talk about having changed into balanced state. Notice how much it looks like the RMAX definitions of fitness.
Is there an average length of time it takes to recover from a BE crash? I often can't tell if I crash from sugar the previous evening, or if it's from my workout the following day. They both seem to kind of feed into the other, like a vicious cycle. I know I should ease up on the exercise, it's just so difficult to do that when it makes me feel like a slug and I think (head-talk vs. body-talk) I should be able to handle this!
pamela
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Pamela,
I thought the same thing about exercise... no pain, no gain, push it, etc. That came from my athletic background. I played baseball through college, captained my high school football team. After my competitive days ended and I found this food program two decades later, a revelation hit me between the eyes. Am I working out to get in shape for a sport I no longer play or am I keeping my body in great shape so I can get the most out of it for the life I have today? I chose the latter.
That took place once I got to step 7. Take your time, get the steps down and you won't feel like a slug, I promise. You my find out what I did... I work out fewer days per week, with less intensity and weigh 17 lbs fewer than I did prior to doing the food. And I feel so much better... no internal anxiety,no clouded thinking,no tying to get that artificial high, you know the roller coaster of highs and lows that control your life.
Keep moving forward and progress through the steps at your pace. Your internal drive to work out will be diverted to the success of doing the food. As you move to step 7 you will handle working out differently because your biochemistry will be changed. Stay focused on your current step, the rest will take care of itself.
Jeff7
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Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this.
I am in recovery from compulsive exercise (an issue I could never have tackled without the wonderful foundation of the food) and am learning what exercise is for and what it is not for (does it bring me into connection with myself and my loved ones? or take me further away? is it to achieve something that is important to me - being able to play, walk up stairs, go hiking in nature? or is it to chase after the butterfly of looking like a TV commercial?).
After doing the food and getting really steady, I can finally discern the right amount of effort to put toward physical fitness. The food allowed me to turn down the volume on the destructive, addictive advice and turn up the volume of the radiant, life-affirming advice. And I am amazed at how much stronger my food got after I started working on the exercise issue. Although it was ouch-y for a while there to not get the BE hit of overexercise, and I posted many ouch-y posts, my food is now much steadier than it has ever been and I am crusing along on cruise control. What a gift! Thanks again, SB
There's a thread on RadiantRecovery today that describes how this works with exercise
http://www.radiantrecovery.com/cgi-bin/bbs-new/webbbs_config.pl?read=205519
The first writer is not in balance yet (be crash is a beta-endorphin low after an exercise high). The other two talk about having changed into balanced state. Notice how much it looks like the RMAX definitions of fitness.
Is there an average length of time it takes to recover from a BE crash? I often can't tell if I crash from sugar the previous evening, or if it's from my workout the following day. They both seem to kind of feed into the other, like a vicious cycle. I know I should ease up on the exercise, it's just so difficult to do that when it makes me feel like a slug and I think (head-talk vs. body-talk) I should be able to handle this!
pamela
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Pamela,
I thought the same thing about exercise... no pain, no gain, push it, etc. That came from my athletic background. I played baseball through college, captained my high school football team. After my competitive days ended and I found this food program two decades later, a revelation hit me between the eyes. Am I working out to get in shape for a sport I no longer play or am I keeping my body in great shape so I can get the most out of it for the life I have today? I chose the latter.
That took place once I got to step 7. Take your time, get the steps down and you won't feel like a slug, I promise. You my find out what I did... I work out fewer days per week, with less intensity and weigh 17 lbs fewer than I did prior to doing the food. And I feel so much better... no internal anxiety,no clouded thinking,no tying to get that artificial high, you know the roller coaster of highs and lows that control your life.
Keep moving forward and progress through the steps at your pace. Your internal drive to work out will be diverted to the success of doing the food. As you move to step 7 you will handle working out differently because your biochemistry will be changed. Stay focused on your current step, the rest will take care of itself.
Jeff7
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Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on this.
I am in recovery from compulsive exercise (an issue I could never have tackled without the wonderful foundation of the food) and am learning what exercise is for and what it is not for (does it bring me into connection with myself and my loved ones? or take me further away? is it to achieve something that is important to me - being able to play, walk up stairs, go hiking in nature? or is it to chase after the butterfly of looking like a TV commercial?).
After doing the food and getting really steady, I can finally discern the right amount of effort to put toward physical fitness. The food allowed me to turn down the volume on the destructive, addictive advice and turn up the volume of the radiant, life-affirming advice. And I am amazed at how much stronger my food got after I started working on the exercise issue. Although it was ouch-y for a while there to not get the BE hit of overexercise, and I posted many ouch-y posts, my food is now much steadier than it has ever been and I am crusing along on cruise control. What a gift! Thanks again, SB