Most writers have dangerous issues they pay little or no attention to until its too latetheir health! And yet, health can be more of a problem than Writers Block, complications of concentration, writing anxiety, daily output frustration and editor angst. What Im talking about is sitting related diseases.
It took me five years to write my novel, The Mayors Wife Wore Sapphires, and all during that time, I had to work at keeping healthy. First of all, I was gaining weight. Then came cold feet with tingling sensation, mental fog, stiff shoulders, headaches, loneliness and depression. I knew I needed a routine of loving me to ever finish this novel. If you dont believe me see by bio: www.urbanclassicbooks.com. I share how I had to love me enough to be energetic and in good health when my novel was finished.
Sitting from three to five hour stretches at a computer naturally causes obesity, unless it is counterbalanced with an hour of walking, running, stretching, or aerobics. Obesity alone brings along body break downpoor circulation that causes heart disease, hypertension and mental fog, diabetes, heart failure, and thus kidney failure, stroke and dont forget sagging...