My boss, at the former company I worked in, is an engineer who applied all the meticulous planning and tactics when he decided to quit smoking. It was a genius plan, really!
He observed wisely that everyone who ever attempted quitting smoking usually has an unpleasant side effect: getting weight. The anxiousness for smoking a cigarette was replaced by eating candies and this causes the increasing of the weight.
Well, here goes his brilliant plan.
First: he found a pleasant sport to perform frequently. After few proper researches he chose biking as he could do it with his 10 years old son at the week-ends. This would be perfect to attack the getting weight side effect.
Then, he started to eat salads and grilled chicken, reducing drastically the carbohydrates from his meals.
Third step: he starts biking on the weekends with his son and increasing the performance gradually according to his physical condition.
Well, by the time he was biking only during the weekends, everything was just fine. However, when he started biking longer distances, he felt weaker and he asked the company’s physical trainer what could be the reason of this weakness. The physical trainer told him the problem was the carbohydrate reduction as it is crucial for keeping the energy level during any training performance. Then, he decided to get more carbohydrate in his meals. It worked marvelously.
In the course of just six months he has quitted completely the smoking and was performing incredible 23,4 Km by his bike, three days a week, round trip (which means he was biking 46,8 km a day)!
When I left the job position at this company, he was able to go to the company almost every day by his bike!
He observed wisely that everyone who ever attempted quitting smoking usually has an unpleasant side effect: getting weight. The anxiousness for smoking a cigarette was replaced by eating candies and this causes the increasing of the weight.
Well, here goes his brilliant plan.
First: he found a pleasant sport to perform frequently. After few proper researches he chose biking as he could do it with his 10 years old son at the week-ends. This would be perfect to attack the getting weight side effect.
Then, he started to eat salads and grilled chicken, reducing drastically the carbohydrates from his meals.
Third step: he starts biking on the weekends with his son and increasing the performance gradually according to his physical condition.
Well, by the time he was biking only during the weekends, everything was just fine. However, when he started biking longer distances, he felt weaker and he asked the company’s physical trainer what could be the reason of this weakness. The physical trainer told him the problem was the carbohydrate reduction as it is crucial for keeping the energy level during any training performance. Then, he decided to get more carbohydrate in his meals. It worked marvelously.
In the course of just six months he has quitted completely the smoking and was performing incredible 23,4 Km by his bike, three days a week, round trip (which means he was biking 46,8 km a day)!
When I left the job position at this company, he was able to go to the company almost every day by his bike!
Well done, Mr. Setti! It is quite an admirable accomplishment!!
I have just learned that he kept biking since then, participating in even more longer challenges (600 km)! Also, he was able to influence his children to do some sport in cycling area. They became so good they won several championships in different styles, State and Country. And the best thing: his children never smoked and are doing quite well in their study and work career! - Yes! This is one more example of how a small seed generates big (and successful) results! Congratulations to you all!!
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