injenuity

I posted on Twitter asking if anyone had suggestions for a blog topic today. @shareski was the first to respond with: @injenuity Here’s one: “How to eat chips, watch sports on TV and stay thin”. That should take up all your creative juices. While he may have been attempting to stump me with something I know nothing about, I actually have the secret: moderation. Of course, moderation doesn’t help if you’re not starting out thin in the first place. That takes a bit of extra effort!

So, to correlate this with my latest experiments in social media moderation, I think I can help with @shareski’s issue, as well as my own. I didn’t start the process thin, so moderation is not the only solution. I started with a healthy Twitter habit, coupled with the need to follow every link on every article as well as RSS addiction, and email exhaustion. Fatness indeed! Rather than moderate, I took some drastic cuts. I haven’t checked my RSS reader in at least a week. I’ve dramatically decreased my Twitter output and have taken control of my email, processing up to 50 messages a day. I made myself invisible on g-talk and have had an incredibly productive week. I will probably continue along this vein next week and then bring in the moderation.

I don’t know @shareski personally, so I can’t speak to his physique. If he’s already thin, he can moderate by burning as many calories as he consumes. This may mean doing crunches and squats during the commercial breaks, or replacing high-calorie snacks with healthy alternatives to balance the TV time. If he’s got a few extra pounds, as I did with my social media consumption, he’s got to consume fewer calories and increase activity. In this case, I recommend cutting back on the chips, while not completely denying them. I also suggest adding in some house work on the commercial breaks. This will burn immediate calories as well as stockpile some positive spousal response for later calorie consumption.