Me - I'm addicted to several pints on a Friday night, pizza and chocolate. Although that's work - when I quit I'll be on the 'straight and narrow again'.
A sociologist called Anthony Giddens has suggested that 'addiction' is simply our response to living in a rootless life in a chaotic world - addictions are the means whereby we root ourselves, give ourselves some stability and express our identities - there are many ways we do this, the important thing is to realize that we are all the same!
On the 'being 6 kilos heavier'... look at it like this....
- 6KG = approximately 13 lbs.
- 1 lb = 3500 calories
- 14 lbs *3500 = 49 000 calories
- 1000 calories is a 'relatively hard' aerobics session in the gym for about 1 hr 15 minutes.
- once you get back to eating your '2000 daily calorie limit' yr basically only 50 good gym sessions away from being slim
- or 2 months to allow yourself a few recovery days in there.
Not so bad: I've got a similar amount of flab I want to lose - it's entirely doable in a relatively short period of time.
As you say, it's just a matter of turning on the gym addiction.
Edit - for some reason I added in an extra 1lb there, maybe go treat yourself to some extra junk food before you 'get on it'!
I read about it also, the roots part. Have you heard of reality anchors? I don´t know if that´s the term in english but in spanish it means *stuff we do in a cyclical way to feel like we belong, like not evrything is changing. Listening to out favorite music, rewatching a movie, visiting those places we felt happy in, those are our reality anchors and they let us not go insane... kind like what addictions are.
Oh hell yeah, I´m planning on eating healthy again at some point, not just yet cause I deserve my fat intake since I´m doing a hard effort here haha, you gotta give yourself treats to feel good about yourself huh?
Hey man, be on the lookout because there is going to be a philosophy sndbox Quest in the near future and I think you´ll enjoy joining.
Thanks fot dropping by my friend!
Reality anchors sounds like something Giddens would recognise.
I'll check out the sndbox thing when philosophy comes round for sure!