New blog idea

I've still not decided what my steemit account is going to be about, and maybe I never will and it'll just be random. But here is a new idea I'm planning on starting. YouTube video reviews/commentary. I watch a lot of YouTube videos, and I tend to post very long comments on these videos. I must have spent thousands of hours now just commenting on YT videos. This is obviously not very productive as most of these comments are not even read, at least not if the video is a few weeks old. Not that I check back very often anymore, but from experience, it's only the first comments that are very short format that get exposure on YT. One of my most upvoted YT comments of all time was just a single word, it was the word "Liars" under a video where politicians where clearly lying to everyone. But since this is a blog format social media site I assume people here are a little fonder of reading and can handle blocks of text that doesn't have a paragraph cut every damn sentence. Paragraph cut.

So these post will contain the original YT video along with my commentary for better or for worse, I figure it will get the video and channel at least some extra exposure so it's not like I'll be taking anybody's work. If anyone disagrees on how this should be done then feel free to let me know. Below there is an example of how this will work with a video I just watched and the comment I posted. I will always try to make it as clear as possible that none of these videos are mine, and there will be a link to the original channel at the bottom of the page.

Some of the most sensible advice I've heard about food so far. I was thinking along these lines anyway, that we'd probably be adapted to our environment so eating the way they ate in the past would make a lot of sense. Wouldn't this be different from what region you're from though? For example here in Scandinavia almost nobody is lactose intolerant, in the US about 50% are, and in the Native American population it's 100%. And I had the impression that people of the past, at least around these parts, would eat constantly, usually nuts and berries, but pretty much anything edible they could find. This could be very different from the jungle tribes we find today as we have very harsh winters where very little food was available, so storing up fat in the body to survive the winter would probably be something they wanted.

For us modern people is more about looking good than anything, no matter how much we talk about health benefits, looking good and showing we're in control of ourselves is really what matters. In the past, you'd have a nice car or a nice watch or a good job or whatever, but the status symbol of today is a great body. Somebody else said that by the way, not me. I just thought it made sense since nobody really cares what car you drive anymore, or if you even have one, but if you're fat then you better have a freaking awesome personality to offset it, being fat is tantamount to a crime these days.

I weighed myself today for the first time in years, I've gained 10kg, which puts me at 90kg. Before I was at 80kg which is just within the BMI for my 180cm, so now at 90kg I'm officially 10kg overweight. I'm not happy about this at all, especially since I just started working out about three weeks ago. So I started looking at ways to eat healthier for the hundredth time in my life, and much like in the start of this video I once again got lost in the endless contradictions of countless diets and useless advice. That's when I started thinking I'd have to do this myself. Luckily this video popped up since Google is so good at spying on what I write, and I think I'm going to try this. If there really is no health downsides to just eating less, then that sounds like the perfect plan. And I had no idea about that glucose thing, makes a lot of sense, to me at least, so thanks for a great video. Now we'll just have to see how it works out. No more cake or latte or anything,,, wonder if I could live on just those things once a day...

This video was published on Jul 27, 2016 by What I've Learned

PS: Just in case it wasn't clear, the cakes and lattes only part was supposed to be a joke, kinda, although admittedly not a very good one.