What sort of health idiosyncracies do folks practice?
I'm not talking about usual stuff like jogging, yoga, eating fiber, etc., but more obscure stuff.
A couple of mine:
I usually eat fruit first thing in the morning. I don't eat much in the morning; the first thing I eat will be a banana or somesuch, and it'll be an hour or two before I eat anything else. It seems like a mellow way to get my stomach going in the morning...
Other thing = a breathing technique I read about in an Andrew Weil book. When I'm walking along I'll do a few sets of breathing exercises: inhale deeply for 4 counts, hold for 7 counts, exhale for 8 counts. It's an exercise from Hindu tradition, if I remember right.
OK, anybody else? Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
My mornings begin with grapefruit juice (white), herbal tea (two mugs full) and then a humongous traveling coffee mug filled to the top with steaming hot coffee for on the way to work.
Vary it a little, and my day is trashed. I might as well go back to bed.
Except Sundays. I have a mug of tea and nothing else until after service when everyone has a cup of coffee and chats before heading off to go to adult ed or teach Sunday School or whatever - I don't know why.
Posted by Toretha (Member # 2233) on :
dude, plaid, that breathing exercise is one we learned in yoga.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
This isn't idiosyncratic at all: it's just something everyone should do.
I HAVE to eat at least one green vegetable with every meal, and two vegetables total. Corn is not a green vegetable. Something on the plate must be green - preferably very green like spinach mmmm-mmmm.
I also like to follow the rule that for every gram of sugar you eat, you also have to eat one gram of dietary fiber. It's pretty hard if you eat a lot of prepared foods. But good for you. Fiber is my magic health food.
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
Well, when I'm bored I eat, when I'm tired I eat, when I'm upset I eat, when I'm hungry I eat, when I'm stressed I eat, when I'm awake I eat.
My wife tells me this is really more of a problem then an idiosyncracy.
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Well, I keep trying to cut out or at least cut back the caffeine I drink. So hopefully I will eventually be able to call that an idiosyncrasy.
Posted by plaid (Member # 2393) on :
Toretha -- it's a yoga exercise? Well, I bet I'm one of the few people who practice it while walking through a shopping mall...
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I eat lemon peels. Kind of an odd habit I picked up in Germany.
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
Danzig, I've gone cold turkey on caffiene for 2 weeks. Not by choice but because of my tonsilectomy. I'm trying to figure out if I should start again. There is nothing like a coke sometimes.
AJ
Posted by Danzig (Member # 4704) on :
Do not start again if you can help it. Caffeine is horrible; I always feel much better if I am not taking it. Even lowered amounts (Barq's root beer instead of Coke) are good. My problem is not getting off; it is staying off. Especially since the habits are all still there. And rum and Cokes... There is nothing like a coke, that is true.
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