Listen to “S02E31: Slimming down by running” on Spreaker.
Needless to hide: one of the reasons people start running is to lose weight. One day you look in the mirror and don’t recognize yourself or don’t feel comfortable. The next day you keep doing it and you stand in profile and think that it may be your age or the life you lead but in short, the image you see reflected no longer represents you.
The first thought you have is to go on a diet, but you’ve already tried, and beyond the physical and psychological effort it requires, the results-if there were any-vanished as soon as the old habits returned.
Diets that work without changing your habits can be counted on the fingers of one hand. In fact: they practically do not exist, because any major existential change must be framed in a much broader context than just, very important, nutrition. We always remind you of the triad “Movement, Nutrition, Recovery,” and we do it again this time. A balanced life must have firm footholds, and sports, food and rest are the pillars on which you must build the edifice of your existence. Which then, if you think about it, are what your life is based on if you take away everything superfluous: you have a body that you have to move and keep in shape, you have to give it the right fuel, you have to give it time to regenerate through rest.
Beloved ones!
In this installment of Outliers, we talk to you about running as a way to stay fit and lose weight but always following a common thread: that of mindfulness. There is no such thing as movement without awareness of your body and what is good for it and what is bad for it, just as there is no such thing as proper nutrition without awareness of what foods you need, how to take them in and distribute them throughout the day. In short, you can’t be comfortable if you don’t know yourself and you don’t really know what and how you want to be.
Indeed, awareness is “a condition in which the cognition of something becomes inward, deep, perfectly harmonized with the rest of the person, in a coherent one.”
Isn’t that a beautiful definition? “Perfectly harmonized” is the key to it all: it is like a mechanism that works as it should, whose parts and purpose are known and whose maintenance is committed to.
Try changing your perspective, perhaps even moving away from the negative thoughts that generally accompany diets and controlled regimens: you don’t run to lose weight, you don’t even want to lose weight to conform to a model that is often imposed only by society. You want to lose weight to be as much as possible the person you know you are, deep down. You run to lose weight because you love yourself. It sounds better already, doesn’t it?
Have you sent your Lovers Mail yet?
In recent weeks we launched the second season of Lovers Mail. Participate and tell your story in our Outlaw podcast-just write it down and send it to info@runlovers.it.
It is so easy and once a month we will collect the best ones and read and comment on them during a special episode. We are not interested in the chronicles of the races but in the flow of thoughts and reflections that accompany us when, one step after another, we run.
What are you waiting for to send it to us?
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