Is being fidgety a sign of not enough exercise?

(David) #1

I’m curious, do you think being fidgety is a sign of having excess energy, and therefore maybe a sign to start exercising (more) ? (I’m a developer, and VERY sedentary. Some days my step meter will be as low as 2000 steps, or lower).

I’m asking because I’m in a REALLY good mood this morning. A little frustrated that I’m plateauing and my weight is up and down more than a Bride’s nightie. BUT ! I’d just made it to 4 hours after getting up before having my first KC (Keto Coffee) of the day. I wasn’t drinking it because I just wasn’t hungry at all. My body was calm and chilled out and like “meh ! food? nah, I’m good!”, in fact I only drank it because it was going cold. I’m now actually a little bit hungry having had it, in thinking digging into a boiled egg or two, or a cheese ‘sandwich’, and half my mind is on how my stomach feels.

I’ve got headphones in and I’ve listened to the same introduction to the same song about 8 times (‘Marvellous’ by the Lightning Seeds - it goes on for about 2 minutes then gets really upbeat, and I’m sat here at work with headphones in (generally not accepted, and I’ve been told not to wear them before by HR (via my ‘manager’)) and I’m bopping my head and my feet, mouthing the words silently, and playing air guitar.

I’m also playing with pens and pieces of paper while not typing.

I’m wondering if this is the famed mood boost, and ‘want’ to exercise that the experienced ketoers talk about.

As a side-note: I think I’ll bring the MCT / Coconut Oil, and butter in my mug tomorrow, and instead of having it at ‘brew-time’ I’ll just add a bean coffee out of the machine when I actually get hungry, and see how far through the day I can go before getting hungry. I looked back on my notes, and the last significant weight shift I had had, was the day after I had done the fasting blood test, and I saw from the times that I had added to what I had eaten showed that I managed to make it until about 13:00/13:00 before getting hungry. Which meant that with the fast for the blood test I had gone about 19 hours).

#2

Sounds to me like your body wants to boogie! Time to dust off your white suit and sing falsetto, perhaps?!

#3

Yep!

I’m also a developer and although I will exercise from time-to-time, we’re going though a house remodel and my schedule is disrupted so I just find ways to increase my activity in general and use my activity tracker to get 10,000+ steps per day. Often this is going for walks and listening to podcasts or audio books, but I also have a treadmill and did a lot of Internet/YouTube research concerning LCHF/keto while on the treadmill.

(eat more) #4

what kind of sweat shop are you working at?!
that’s against the developer’s code! (yes i’m a nerd)

(David) #5

Ironically, the only time I have been pulled up for wearing them was because my desk was near the photocopier, and I put them in when two women from HR were stood near the photocopier gassing to each other while I was trying to concentrate.

#6

Seriously? Human resources wants you to stop wearing ear phones while sitting at computer doing programming work? :anguished:

(David) #7

Fortunately that HR team leader left, and not comments have been made since then. However, if they do, and my manager asks me to stop wearing them in the future, then I will show him the science that says that using headphones is beneficial for me. Unfortunately they are more into appearances, and how things look here, over performance and making staff happy.