Healthy habits of the founder of Replika Eugenia Kuyda
IN THE RUBRIC "LIFESTYLE" we ask different people about healthy lifestyles with a human face: talking about the importance of taking care of yourself and pleasant ways to make life more comfortable. The heroine of the new release is Evgeniya Kuyda, co-founder of startups Luka and Replika. Zhenya told us what she eats, how much she sleeps and how she lives to feel good.
GOOD FEELING For me, it means to feel comfortable in your own body. It doesn’t mean to work out at the gym and worry about eating before weariness.
I TRY TO START EVERY DAY FROM SPORTS, whether running, surfing or training room. But more often morning begins with a working phone with a team.
MY BREAKFAST IS ALWAYS EQUAL: Opposite my house they sell bowls of curly kale and latte with soy milk. I have no special vegan beliefs - it's just very tasty, fast, and not too expensive.
THIS YEAR, I WERE SPORTS WHERE ARE LESS, than usual. There were too many flights, work and general stress. Any journey pulls out of the usual mode, but I force myself to return to the routine: I cannot feel normal without sport.
IN MOSCOW I WANT A BOX in the club "October", ran, went to the pool and played football. In San Francisco, now I run more, I go to the gym with a coach, surf, sometimes I go crossfit. In winter, I ride a snowboard, and in summer in Moscow - on a wakeboard and wakesurf. I like kite very much, but I rarely visit places where there is a good wind.
THE MOST UNPOSITIVE ACTIVITYthere was ballet in my life. My parents took me to the section when I was three or four years old, and I did it terribly.
IN THE KINDERGARTEN WE HAVE GIVEN MEAT WITH A TATTLE, I have never been able to chew it - since then I almost never eat meat. Over time, I realized that I feel worse when I use dairy products, and also ceased.
IN SAN FRANCISCO, I EAT THAT EASIER EVERYTHING TO GET: here is a healthy vegan food.
WHEN I HAVE A LITTLE TIME, I order food delivery to Thistle or Sakara: in the morning they bring home boxes of food and you can not think about it all day.
I CONSIDER THAT THE BIG PART OF THE DIET - an inefficient and short-term way to keep fit. In addition, diets make us focus too much on food, and this in itself is unpleasant.
WOULD LIKE TO ALL MY NATIVE regularly underwent medical examinations. True, I trust American medicine a little more - not by the doctors themselves, but rather the system.
RECENTLY I HAVE RECORDED IN THE CLINIC A new medical startup Forward. These are such futuristic clinics where all checkups are like computer games. I went once and now I'm waiting for them to finally open in January.
I TRIED DIFFERENT WELLNESS APPLICATIONS:TalkSpace for therapy in messenger, meditation with Headspace, Jawbone UP diary-tracker. But all abandoned - even the notorious Nike Running. Apparently, the point is weak sustainability of attention.
FOR MANY YEARS, I REGULARLY LOOK TO PSYCHOTHERAPY.It is interesting for me to be a patient, to see what is happening to me in the process, and at the same time to be in the position of an observer - to look at the work of the therapist from the side.
DIFFICULTIES IN MISCELLANEOUS TIME HAPPEN TO EVERYONE. To begin with, it is important to take stress and not to try to “pull yourself together” all the time.
WE ALL TIME CHANNEL YOURSELF IN ANY MODES AND RULES, and it almost always leads to even more stress. If you let go of all this, it is possible that eventually a sincere desire to go for a run or eat something useful will come from inside. Not because you deny yourself something, but because you really want this. Everything beautiful happens when we start doing something not out of fear, but out of love.
