Startup Blabber #008: Taking Care of Your Health

Dear Steemians,

What is the one thing that we all forget, especially during the early stages of a startup? Our health. It's super important for us, but something we all place on the side with the notion and assumption that we can recover our health in the future.

After graduating from college with the understanding that my body was absolutely indestructible, I came to Korea and began my life as an entrepreneur. For some odd reason, there was so much to do and only a few bodies to perform those endless tasks. One of the really cool things about Korea is that everything, and I mean everything, can be delivered to your doorstep. As a result, I would not leave the office to go eat and we would just order everything in. We would eat pizza, hamburgers, fried chicken, and anything else that was considered junk food and tasted delicious. A sedentary life in front of the computer, eating countless calories of useless junk food, getting no sleep, and not getting any exercise is a great death combination.

Anyways, after a good few years of this lifestyle, my body started to give. I'm surprised that my body even lasted those years! I initially felt my body being sluggish, it would be harder for me to wake up in the morning, I could just tell that I wasn't in a good place. I ended up going to the doctor. Lo, and behold, I received a diagnosis that I was in pretty bad shape: high cholesterol, high liver somatic index levels, large deposits of fatty liver, high blood pressure, it was just the works. Initially, I was just going to shrug it off. I was still young. I could reverse this in a blink of an eye.

I was beginning to enter my 30's and what I realized was that my body wouldn't rebound as fast as it used to, and I was just 30. Remember when you were young and you would always wonder why your parents would not recover as fast as you could? Or when you got to be past the age of 30 and could not drink like you did in college ? This was exactly the feeling I was beginning to experience. I tried to exercise, starting with cardio, 4 days a week, for a month. It was very demotivating to see that there was very little to show for such a big change in my life (at that point). It has taken me about a year to get back where I wanted to. While exercising is a must, the biggest change that I had to do was changing my diet.

What I wanted to say in this post is that when you start your venture, please remember to eat responsibly and exercise regularly. It's pretty straight-forward, but coming from someone that has been in the straits of unhealthiness, I want to iterate that this is one of the most important things to remember. I may not exercise as much as I used to, but I do still take walks outside for 30-40 minutes, just reflecting on the day. Sometimes I pretend that I'm on a treadmill and just end up "jogging", standing at my desk and just watch some Youtube or Netflix.

Thanks for listening in on another one of my ramblings! Have a good one everyone!
Chris

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