Welcome back, Glibertariat. GlibFit has been on hiatus after successful runs by SUPREME OVERLORD Trshmnster and A Leap At The Wheel. You’re all worthless and weak but we are back after a long layoff. Time to get back in shape.
Which brings us to today’s topic. Getting back to exercise after a long layoff. Layoffs can be any length of time and happen for all sorts of reasons. They result in us becoming all sorts of shapes and sizes.
I’ve had to get back to it more than once with varying degrees of success. When I moved to California to attend law school I was entranced by the weather. I can’t say all the women at the beaches were all out of a David Lee Roth video, but it was not uncommon to be hear this running through my head. I was motivated to join a nearby gym and run regularly. Despite putting in long hours during law school, I got into pretty good shape; probably the best shape I had ever been in during my first thirty years on planet earth.
I was far from perfect during law school, but I was consistent. Graduation came and I relocated to a new city for my first job as a lawyer. I found a local gym, but it was a significant step down and the hours were kind of limited. My workouts started slipping. Not too long after starting work I met Mrs. Chafed. Between work I took seriously and a budding romance I no longer had time for the gym.
I sporadically made some effort to find another gym. After we were married, a new gym opened that was terrific. It was also poorly managed. It, and my workouts, lasted about a year. The gym closed, the first baby Chafed came along, Mrs. Chafed stopped working, I was now the only breadwinner and playing Mr. Mom. First Baby Chafed was definitely daddy’s girl so it was almost always me that got up at night when she was crying. The gym, working out, and being trim was fading into memory.
Cut to about eleven years later, we left the garage door open one night and Mrs. Chafed’s car was burglarized. She freaked out. The cop who took the report told her to get a dog. I tell her in no uncertain terms I am at full capacity and cannot handle another responsibility. Also, we were both public defenders and knew first–hand how stupid most cops are. We’ll get a gun I said. Hello Mossberg 590. Despite my vehement, unceasing objections, Mrs. Chafed went to the pound and got us a dog.
We welcomed Moe to the family. My fur child was then (maybe) a one-year old chocolate lab. Mrs. Chafed was surprised by how much energy he had. I groaned, rolled my eyes, ceaselessly reminded her this would happen, and took up running. We ran every weekday morning. Weekends were for the dog park.
Holy shit I was out of shape. Our first run I went about three quarters of a mile and thought I was going to die. Moe still had boundless energy and looked at me like the weak, winded, disappointment I was. I had no choice but to keep running. It was my only hope of getting to sleep through the night.
Run with Moe I did. Bit by bit I got my wind back, kept going a little further, and finally achieved my goal of running far enough that the dog was satisfied. Several daddy-doggy 5Ks also ensued. I was more or less in shape. Necessity called and I answered. My long layoff was over. That lasted about seven years until age and arthritis made Moe consider a somewhat slower lifestyle.
Well, I continued to run. Sort of. It broke my heart to leave without him. Those sad eyes and whimpering also made it hard. Getting another half hour or so of sleep was very appealing. Running fell by the wayside.
A couple of years go by when my wife joined a gym. She kept bugging me to join because “it will be a chance for us to spend time together.” Sure honey. *cough* bullshit *cough* After sufficient nagging I joined. Once again, holy shit I was out of shape. I truly felt worthless and felt genuinely weak. A month later, Mrs. Chafed moved on to private training. I was on my own.
It was decision time. I found a program I like (more about that in a future article) and decided to stay. That was two years ago. I’ve had shorter layoffs since getting back to the gym due to illness, but I’ve consistently made my way back. For me, wanting to go instead of having to go, is the best motivation.
What kept you from exercising? What brought you back? What kept you going once you got back?
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The trades won’t let me go, so it’s ladders and rooftops again….
It’s getting harder every year, staying in shape,
Yusef, I am trying to get my daughter to decide on a trade. Electricity is out; doesn’t have the math skillz. I doubt she wants to slither around in shit. I am thinking of pointing her toward HVAC. What would you advise, generally speaking?
Three thoughts:
“HVAC” and “electricity” are huge areas. We can’t really point her to one or the other because chillers, freezers, and bag houses are very different things (but all HVAC); electrical might mean power, communication, or controls . . . a huge range of trades.
I’d also say that similar math grasp is required in much of both. I doubt a tradesman ever actually runs the enthalpy charts or figures a thevenin equivalent except maybe for some overkill exam.
And at ground level, 80% of what is done is either rules of thumb or code (so it’s totally irrelevant if you can figure the cross section required for a copper conductor because IEEE is going to round you up to size X wire anyway).
Here’s where she will be going. Look under PROGRAMS https://www.plattecountyschooldistrict.com/northland
How about her getting a background in light construction and hvac with an eye on becoming a BPI home energy auditor? Lots of programs through out the country funded with Fed and utility money.
The math is Huge when your new to the Trade, but as Don said, I rarely do enthelpy calcs, Superheat, etc.
Most of it is known Standards, and the ability to hack like a Bad Boy to get a job done.
Chicks don’t do HVAC in general, it can get quite nasty
And The 2 trades are comingled, I do Line voltage, Control Voltage, Communication, EMS DC, Bla Bla bla,
I’m still just a tin knocker at the end of the day,
yeah: communications and controls; most of the work is learning proprietary interfaces
Example: a 500HP motor pulls around 600A@480VAC max. I can figure out all the two pi radians and cube roots that go into that from scratch if you need me to, and you could look it up online if there was a gun to your head. But I know the ballpark and check a few things with a contract and order all the contactors and boxes and get it done. But that’s the easy part.
50% of my time is going to be learning the latest Siemens or GE or Schneider interface for their VFD: debug, test, tune. I hate it. People who have the patience for that stuff I adore. I can size and select equipment all day, but the controls are turning into a specialty game. Same with PLC. You have these sorts of interfaces in both “industries.”
Expose her to several, it is about options. No one should decide on anything careerwise in their teens.
I started CAD drafting after four terms in an associate’s program, and probably could have started earlier if I’d had the gumption. The pay isn’t bad and there’s a lot of room for growth, and as long as she can do eighths she’d be set.
Plus: male-dominated industry (at least in structural, where I am), so I’d imagine she’d be snapped up by any firm she applied to. Not saying she needs it, but it can’t hurt.
Oh, speaking of that! In the 90s, I was advised to go to train driving school. Being a woman, I’d get hired immediately. Unfortunately, I did not have the boldness to do that. I think I would’ve liked it.
https://www.jccc.edu/academics/credit/railroad-science/index.html
You guys are really helping me brainstorm here. Thanks!
It’s just crazy that anyone goes to school for
fourfive to six years only to come out the end of it spitting fire, hating men/white people/capitalism, and hoping to land their killer job in… journalism.That might be great actually. Thank you!
She’s an artist who has gotten disillusioned with art because she believes she will never be as good as she wants to be.
I’ve done CAD drawing, so I know a little bitty tidge about it.
AutoCAD is still widely used, but not like Revit these days. You can trial it as a student (you might need a .edu email, I can’t recall) and follow guides on Youtube. But there’s also mechanical engineering drafting, circuit board drafting, no doubt a ton of niche fields I don’t know about. Or she can mess around modeling with Sketchup, which I’ve been doing for years. It has industrial applications, but isn’t widely used. But it’s definitely given me a leg up.
Hell, there’s a field of drafting just for steel connections which I’m told is BIG MONEY for non-engineers. I’m looking into that after I get settled in my current position.
Wonder which education gives you the best chance to be a proprietor. Ideally you don’t spend your life pulling wire: you learn a range of skills that allow you to contract and make a substantial income . . . that includes hiring guys who wire, not wiring things yourself. Thing is, we can’t guess what industry will be doing (which technologies will dominate) and who they will need 20 years from now.
HVAC isn’t going away, ever
Green New Deal says you’re wrong
I’m just implying that the technology might change so substantially that learning today’s toys might take you down the wrong road. I’m not suggesting that my own career is on the verge of evaporating.
For example, there’s no reason to think that direct expansion and small (5 ton or less) units will be common much less cutting edge or the cheapest solution for cooling by the time Mojeaux’s daughter’s career is half over.
Mason.
I thought about that, but a good friend’s husband was an old man by the time he was 40, beaten up, worn out, body failing.
Welding. There aren’t nearly enough welders and she could get a job pretty much anywhere she wanted.
Bonus! She can tan while she works!
Do underwater welding. Thats like the shitlord equivalent of underwater basket weaving.
I was going to suggest firefighting, but then I remembered that Mojeaux’s daughter had a three digit IQ.
*Grabs popcorn, and sits back…
*ducks and runs*
Jealousy is such an ugly emotion. You also forgot you have to be able to lift more than a bottle of wine.
It’s a tough job no doubt but the up side is if someone fucks with her it wont go well for them, do not pick a fight with a mason! On a serious note there’s always ceramics, if as you say she has some artistic leaning there is plenty of that involved and it’s a trade that can demand pretty good scratch to boot.
That Production Technologies program looks good. The career I’d suggest is Machinist. There’s a shortage of good (or even bad) machinists and CNC machine operators.
Related desk job; CAD/CAM. If she wanted to dabble a bit for no cost, she could get Fusion. And this site has some good tutorials.
If any of this sounds good and you’d like more info, let me know.
I stopped working out for about 20 years (I’m lucky I have a decent set point).
I gave up drinking shortly before my 40th birthday (about 7 weeks ago).
After not drinking for about a week, I started waking up at 4:30 am well rested. Gym opens at 5, so I started going. I started out slow to give my joints and ligaments time to adjust. I’ve been to the gym every day since, and I walk home watching the sun rise. It’s my routine now.
In 6 weeks, I’ve put on about 3 lbs, but 15 of it is muscle. If I lay off the donuts, I might have a 6-pack after a few weeks. On the other hand, I really like Randy’s Donuts.
Been almost 3 years but I peaked (weightwise) at 241. I did not like that scale reading. Managed to lose, and gain some back, lose again, and gain a bit back and then resolved to do a program (this past spring) that helped changed my eating habits. I’m now right about 190 (I had set my target for 190-195). My toughest challenge is making it through a day of work without coming home and having a couple of drinks (wine on a normal day, scotch on a bad one). Moderating alcohol is pretty important to weight management – at least for me.
We all are creatures of habit. You either let the bad habits have their way with you, or you learn and live with better habits.
Oh, the exercise bit – real light during my weight loss phase, rather moderate now – mostly walking (or with bad weather, the elliptical). Winter is usually harder as I’m not very motivated to get up in the cold/dark to exercise and morning is my only real option, summer on the other hand is great. To the extent that exercise is part of watching my weight, the next few months are going to be interesting (that is when I have traditionally had my gain-backs).
My vice was beer. You can easily go over 1000 calories on a beer night.
Yep. The first place to cut.
Nice job, btw!
Every night is beer night.
A couple summers ago I got a bike and started biking. Winter made me stop. I borrowed a trainer, but never got around to setting it up. The next summer came and it was either raining or I was “busy”. This summer came and went without riding, also. Hopefully I will get the trainer (it’s still in the closet) set up and “ride” this winter. Hopefully.
Dont be a p-word. Get some rollers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_rollers
I hate the trainer, it’s just so monotonous. However, with working from home more frequently, I managed to get in a couple of metric centuries this year and a couple of 35+ mile rides. I’m contemplating trying out a spin class to see if I can tolerate it more then the trainer.
I’ll assume there should be some eye candy in a spin class. I don’t know if that will motivate you but it couldn’t hurt.
I was discussing it with one of my friends who I was helping to get her metric century. it could be entertaining to watch some of the fit young girls realize that the middle-aged overweight guy is pushing more power through the pedals.
Is it a Peloton?
Nah. Kinetic.
Sorry about Moe.
What kept you from exercising? What brought you back? What kept you going once you got back?
I let grad school and work get to me, then as I started going back, I had to have my tonsils out. After a year of eating everything in sight and not exercising, I decided to do something about it. So I did. Back at the gym and got in good shape, though looking back on it, not very strong as I was lifting like an idiot.
After spending my 30s not going to the gym and getting exercise elsewhere, I realized I missed aspects of the gym/lifting and I was paying for something I wasn’t using. So I went back.
Now, in my 40s, somehow I caused a herniated disc with nerve impingement. Once that is taken care of, back to the gym and lifting.
Oof. Sorry to hear about the disc. I hope it heals quickly.
If I gave the impression Moe is dead then that’s my fault. He’s still with me. He’s 10. Age and arthritis have slowed him down.
I wasn’t sure if Moe had died, but age and arthritis is sad.
Thanks for the well-wishes about my disc. I’m putting off surgery. Cortisone shot next week with continued physical therapy. We’ll see what happens.
Good luck, man. I hope you will be able to stave off surgery.
Thanks.
One way or the other, this will get fixed.
I guess this was a bad day to have Poutine and stout for lunch.
Every day is a bad day to have poutine and stout. For any meal. Or separately.
Food coma setting in…
My breakfast cereal this morning.
Do those come in multiples of 7?
12. But I limited myself to 2.
I do that sometimes. I know it contributes to my carrying around extra weight, so that’s why it is only sometimes.
When I get poutine for brunch, it includes pulled pork and over-easy eggs.
Everything in moderation, including moderation. I ate half the serving of poutine. The tempura prawns I had yesterday came with a side salad. Most nights I cook pretty lean and healthy. I’ve lost 22lbs, I really don’t want them back.
Stouts are fine. We’ll have to duscuss Monteczuma’s Revenge over fries some other time.
I’ve really tried to cut back on my fry consumption. A good fry is kryptonite to me. Today was a guilty pleasure.
I was never much of a workout warrior, but having to help take care of a parent with dementia made things worse. The best I could do was get out for a walk after dinner while Dad could be alone with Mom, but that was only when it was light enough after dinner and not hunting season.
How about now? I think you’ve mentioned your mom passed some years ago.
I work 6-2:30 so probably ought to have time to go to a gym after work, at least to swim laps or something. And go for more walks. 🙁
My sister got Mom’s pair of snowshoes. Dad wasn’t really into it, so I’ve got them to put in the trunk of the car in case of emergency. But the poles don’t fit, so I have to look into getting some sort of retractable poles and maybe I can get in a little snowshoeing in the winter after work instead.
Early this year, my office held a “Biggest Loser” contest, and my occasionally competitive nature and the accountability of having to report my weight weekly spurred me to lose about 22 lbs., hitting my goal & winning the chick division. Since then, I’ve gained back 10-12 lbs. I think I need to be in cahoots with others to motivate myself to stick to the better eating & exercise habits.
My go-to exercise is on the treadmill I picked up used at Play It Again Sports (used athletic equipment chain.) Cutting carbs worked great, diet-wise. Carb-sharing co-workers pose a challenge.
I’m hoping to be able to fit into some of my old shirts for Viva Las Vegas. I’ve dropped about 20 pounds so far since August, and have ~25 pounds to go before April.
Well done Neph. You’ve already proven you can lose weight if you try. What’s the plan to reach your goal?
Planning on sticking to the plan, counting calories, keeping up the exercise.
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I am a master at losing weight. I am completely inept at keeping in shape and keeping the weight off. My range over the past 6 and a half years is 170-320. I am in the upper half of the range now and am struggling to find motivation to get started again. The advice “don’t diet, just change your habits” is a wonderful descriptor, but it is no help at all at convincing yourself you actually enjoy exercise and eating salad, when what you really enjoy is binging on carbs while sitting on your ass.
This is typical. Just find something that works for you and stick with it.
Your new avatar beats out hayeksplosives’ avatar.
‘Course I’m biased since I had a thing for Jessica Rabbit back when I was younger.
Nice work GT.
Seconded.
Thirded.
That’s awesome!
I can’t stay on low carb to save my life, but it’s the only thing that works for me other than a shit-ton of exercise.
Short answer – I look and feel.like shit when I’m fat.
Beggining of this year I was lifting heavy but doing almost no cardio and decided it wasn’t working. Stopped eating the carbs, and got serious about spending at least 20 minutes (sometimes as much as 40) on the elliptical machine every other day. I lost 30 lbs and feel much better.
As a 52 year old lifetime athlete, it’s Father Time that fucks with me the most. Nagging injuries are just a reality of life.
I no longer run, but I did for roughly 20 years, so even when I wasn’t working out enough, I was at least staying even.
I started lifting more seriously 6-7 years ago, along with a much better diet. It makes a huge difference.
Until recently, hockey has been a constant.
Last year I was diagnosed with a foot problem that has really messed up my hockey and some of my workouts. I’m meeting next week with a surgeon to discuss options.
I decided, however, that I was carrying too much weight, both for my joints and the kind of athlete I want to be. My initial weight loss goal was 28 lbs, which I should hit this week.
I’m 4 weeks into an extremely strict keto diet and it’s been terrific and I’ve dropped about 17 lbs over those weeks. My sleep has improved, I have no mid-afternoon lag and overall I’m extremely happy with the process (although no beer is sad!) . My initial target was six weeks, but I’m leaning towards staying with it longer. I’m also thinking about dropping more weight than my initial goal.
My goals for this GlibFit are to improve my strength and mobility. I haven’t been killing it in the gym as I’ve been on a caloric deficit in addition to adjusting to different metabolic function.
Thanks for doing this, Chafed! I get motivated by You People!
Running is just terrible for us old guys (53). Far better ways to get that cardio without pounding my ankles, knees, and hips.
I love walking and hiking instead . I walk four miles each morning and try to do 6 or more once a week.
Yeah, I love walking and hiking too.
I could hike or not hike all day long.
I walk prolly half the day at work and I have to do a bunch of physical stuff. I tend more towards relaxing when I’m off work.
This is on the list for April:
https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/skyline-trail-cactus-to-clouds
Looks like a good one. Gonna start super early?
Yes, unless I decide to do it in reverse with my 11 year old (there’s a tram to the top of the trail).
Me too. There are lots of good trails around here and the crazy little dog my wife is happy to jike all day.
The trails here are wonderful. It’s about the best thing around here. I mean unless you love trees, then you’re good. I typically do, when I’m WFH, about 5-6 miles on them around 11am.
Drake agreed about distance running. Have you tried sprinting instead.
That’s what I do.
100s on the track, 50s in the pool.
Yes. Sprinting or doing incline intervals (even while walking on a treadmill, you old olds) is good. Also, a slower cardio session – one I’m sure a person could get from hiking (I do mine on a treadmill) is very beneficial for both physical and mental health.
“Running is just terrible for us old guys (53).”
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you, I love it. I like walking better, but running gets your heart rate up into the fat burn zone, and I always feel fantastic after running a few miles. Try not to run on concrete, I had some problems when I first started doing it, but some really good running shoes and trying to avoid concrete helps a lot.
I get that burn on the eliptical at the gym. My legs couldn’t take distance running.
I don’t really try for distance. I walk and then run short bursts of it. It really works. I’m not planning on running 35 miles or anything crazy like that, but I can get my heart rate up to 130 bpm or so running one half to one mile or more.
(((We))) are special Tundra.
Last year I was diagnosed with a foot problem that has really messed up my hockey and some of my workouts. I’m meeting next week with a surgeon to discuss options.
Best wishes.
Yeah, good luck with that, bud.
Nagging injuries
ugh . . . foot won’t do that, thumb won’t do this anymore
I might be able to replace golf if my back decides I can’t play anymore, but if I lose the ability to play guitar I won’t really be the same person. There is a day and a wall that is coming that will break me; I hope I take it with grace when whatever it is knocks me down.
PS: I can only skate CCW because part of my right foot is missing; you can go left on me any time and all I’ll be able to try is a poke check as you go by.
You pack for a game?!? Where the fuck do you play?
…part of my right foot is missing…
Sound like a good story!
That was Texas when mijo was a kid.
The skates are in storage, might come out at Christmas. The smell of sweaty leather is awesome; I’ll poke my nose in my bag for a whiff from great times. Sorry / not sorry: Dallas Stars bag. I can die now that both Guy Carboneau and Zubov are in the HoF.
I started on the treadmill a couple weeks ago, now doing 4 miles in an hour. Every day I do the treadmill and every other day some weights. I’m sure that y’all would laugh at my “weight” training regimen but I only need to be strong enough to walk upstairs to get a cuppa joe.
Summertime I’m in the garden but that isn’t really strength exercise, winter when it gets too cold to waste time heating the garage I slack off. So Spring and fall mostly.
No booze, no smokes, try to mostly eat properly and get enough sleep. Need to be able to keep my driveway cleaned, drag in firewood and two finger type, that’s it. Oh yeah, climb into my deer stand next month.
A pot belly is really tough to eliminate and is just extra weight to drag around. That’s my dead lift exercise.
I’m sure that y’all would laugh at my “weight” training regimen…
Uh, no. I’ve seen your place – your entire existence is a workout!
I’ve never had the weight issue. I’m 5’9″ and 140 lbs. But, I struggle with smoking. This week, we have a huge fire on the north hill of our valley. There smoke all over and I’m not breathing very well. Imma go back to vaping (just in time for it to be outlawed) and see if I can stick with that instead. I’m healthy like a teenager except for that and arthritis.
My dad had a metabolism like that – just never put on weight no matter what he ate/drank. Sadly I got mine from the other side of the family.
I used to work with a guy, at the time, we were both in our mid 30s. The dude would drink Pepsi all fucking day long and beer all night from the time he got off work. Guy did not have a single ounce of fat on his body. Seriously, I would have gained 80 lbs. like that.
Meth is a hell of a drug
Over the last two weeks of entertaining guests and indulging in fall food, I have undone three months of weight loss. Oh well, It’ll be a bit like sandbagging the Glibfit.
All that plus going to a Chinese buffet once in a while and getting my money’s worth. Mostly the entertaining is over for the fall so that part isn’t a problem.
What kept you from exercising?
Nothing. The problem is that I like to eat.
What brought you back?
Vanity.
What kept you going once you got back?
…Vanity.
A love letter to me, from me.
Don’t know if you saw it in the last thread, but could you help me out with the Cal score from yesterday? Internet not working.
My internet, TV, and cell service are all down this weekend.
Probably just as well. Most of Wisconsin is wishing their’s was as well.
It’s windy. Electricity can’t be supplied when the winds blow, right?
I do like how i look when working out.
I’m keeping it real. Tell me all about the wonderful health benefits if.you must….
…you’re doing it for vanity.
MS I applaud your honesty. You know your own motivation. Use what works for you.
Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
At church, so more later. But I will say that this is the first time in my obese life, I do not care about my extra weight. I’m 51, I look around and I’m invisible, and I have bigger problems. My (temporary) acceptance and lack of worry about it has been a blessing. The moment I can start worrying about it again is the moment my life will be more or less back on track.
Sing it, Sister! Agreed on all points.
Right?! Postmenopausal too! I once had a fantasy I could turn myself into a Beautiful Woman(TM), but I’m too old to try to regain a youth I never had.
I like having exercised, but I hate exercising.
I love how frequently menopause comes-up among a group with no women.
Exactly. No such thing as a libertarian woman.
Exactly.
Not even true, at all. You can be a libertarian woman right now. The only question is, will you still be libertarian tomorrow, or even 5 minutes from now. You know I speak the truth.
Schrödinger’s libertarian woman.
Yes. That.
You can be a libertarian woman right now.
I’m not going to identify as a woman, or whatever it is kids these day, just so we can have libertarian women.
Zionists and other Illuminati keep me from exercising.
They’re controlling your muscles from their base in the hollow moon, amirite?
Full body tin foil!
(((I))) was at both meetings and you never came up. So what’s the real reason?
“I’ve never had the weight issue”
Lucky you. I didn’t either until I started sitting at desk all day, in an apartment.
59 year old shitlord. Lost 60 lbs, 5’8″ 175 lbs. Gained 5 lbs back, but it’s all muscle. Walk/run 5-10 miles every day. Haven’t felt this good since I was in my 30s. I won’t talk about diet because people get all political and lose their fucking minds when talking about diet. Eat whatever the fuck you want, I’ll do the same, thank you.
:Begins to loose mind:
You might want to lay off those mushrooms a bit.
Well, if he wants to eat mushrooms…
Then I’m all for it.
By the way, that wasn’t advice, it was saying ‘you have the right to eat what you want, and I’m not going to tell you any different.
I know, i was just teasing with the possible understandings.
I have a real problem with this. My wife’s kids are always onto the latest fad diet, which they stay on for 4-6 weeks, lose some weight, and
then balloon back up to more than their previous weight. I’ve done all this shit, I’ve been there. Then my wife will tell me ‘It’s not your diet, it’s that you are running and walking so much! No, it isn’t, your kids are idiots, lol, but all kids are.
60 lbs is very impressive Hyp. What was your impetus to start and how long did it take you?
Out of control blood pressure, which resulted in me being in the hospital for a week. If that won’t do it, not sure what will. It took about 3 months for me to go from 230 lbs to 170. I’m near religious level zealot about keeping it off. I feel great, no way I am giving that up.
Most people cant tell the difference between the objective and the subjective.
BTW, eat what you want…as long as it isn’t avocados, cilantro or turnips and I will approve and that is what is important. Oh, and pineapple is ok, just not on pizza.
Quinoa makes decent bird seed and that is about it.
“as long as it isn’t avocados, cilantro”
I have a disappoint in Suthen, why would anyone not eat those things as often as possible?
because people get all political and lose their fucking minds
Ehem.
Turnips too.
And Hawaiian is the best of the basic pizzas.
Turnips suck. Parsnips are where it’s at.
? ? ?
GL just violated the NAP.
Because they aren’t bugs or rabbits?
That’s excellent work.
Because it’s hard work and suffering, and I’ve been in a non-suffering mood for the last year. Work had demanded my full-quota of suffering.
Being in shape feels so good vs. feeling shitty from being out of shape and carrying too much weight.
Habit. Have to make it a routine again.
This is going to full of lawyer school and big time lawyering talk, isn’t it?
My God.
lol cuck much?
Cuckfirmed
My wife’s a lawyer. I try not to argue with her much. Emphasis on TRY.
My wife is a lawyer also. Doesn’t stop the arguing, and I’m always right, BTW.
My wife tried to lawyer me just this morning. She lost.
“We either get a dog or remodel the house. Your choice.”
“I do not agree to the rules of this game.”
Crusty are you an angry drunk or an asshole with no impulse control?
Neither. Maybe I’m an asshole.
I hope you didn’t take my cuck comments seriously.
Why cant it be both?
Why can’t it be both?
A two-pack-a-day habit combined with laziness, no self-esteem, and being the life of the party to mask the self-hatred.
The weight gain after quitting smoking. The desire to once again achieve an erection with a woman, preferably one who doesn’t look like a hairy tree stump. Living with a very heavy, lazy friend made me see how just sad and depressing being a big fat fatty from fattytown can be, and I didn’t want to be like that.
Making it a routine. Never forgetting how it makes me feel. I do my best when I challenge myself, always making sure it is a challenge just for me, too. I don’t do poo for others – daddy makes a challenge, daddy can’t look like a puss in front of daddy.
Being creative with exercise is also a good way to keep it going. Four hour drive, stuck in a hotel room, exhausted? Knock out 50 burpees. Knock out 500 pushups. Do air squats. Whatever. Without getting set on having to fit an exact routine makes it easier to do something productive in a tight or awkward window.
“A two-pack-a-day habit combined with laziness, no self-esteem, and being the life of the party to mask the self-hatred.”
What’s a 2 pack?
2 packs of cigarettes
That’s gross. I mean, I’m not in favor of banning them or anything, but if you smoke 2 packs of those, I’m in favor of you staying downwind of me.
I don’t smoke.
I don’t think that I said you do.
You replied to me.
I don’t really know what to do with you. You really are the worst. By you, I didn’t literally mean YOU.
Oh all right FINE!
I’m the worst.
(Not really.)
Yes, really.
@Mojeaux
Are you Glibbing at church!?!?!
*whacks knuckles with a ruler*
“Are you Glibbing at church!?!?!”
She’s trying to start a sex cult at her church and ruin their family friendly rep, she’s the worst, trust me.
Dude? I do it all the time. Generally I save all my dick jokes for posting while at church, but I jave none today.
+ LDS NXIVM
“That’s gross.”
Perhaps. I also looked so cool. SO COOL.
Kool?
The smell of cigarette smoke nowadays has a comforting quality.
When I got pregnant with XX, my sense of smell just fried itself. It was worse after she was born. Chocolate, apple juice, and some other things tasted absolutely rancid. There were many things that didn’t smell right. I couldn’t wear my favorite perfume because all of a sudden it was rancid too.
That lasted about 5 years. She’s 16 now.
For the last several years, I have a problem with phantom smells (phantosmia), mostly only cigarette smoke. It’s constant and it drives me absolutely mad.
When my bestie lived with us for a while and I would get a whiff of her cigarette smoke (she smoked outside), it made my imaginary cigarette smoke go away and stay away for a long time. It was real. It was there. It wasn’t imaginary. So as long as I get a whiff of cigarette smoke every once in a while, I don’t have phantom smells.
Yeah, that’s a fucking lot. I smoked a whole pack at my peak. I’m at a half pack now, and it affects my breathing, at least some. Add a brush fire and I notice it.
But you look SO COOL.
I was a 2 pack a day guy too, until one day the body told me one of us is gonna have to make a change. I stayed in a sleeping bag in my office for 3 days, except to go home. I knew that I had to quit, hadn’t had a smoke in 3 days. In a few weeks I started running and ran for the next 10 years, ’til I was about 50. I wasn’t cool.
My kids quit complaining about the cigarette smoke in the car/house.
I know of no one my age that smokes, YMMV, but absolutely your circle of old friends will be smaller as the years roll by.
My dad was a pack and a half, which is about how much I smoked at the most. Nowadays, I’ll have a couple cigarettes if I’m having a beer or something out or at a friend’s house, but if I smoke a pack in a month that’s heavy. I’d say it was a conscious health-related decisions, but honestly it was not smoking in the house and having kids. If I didn’t have kids in the picture and could stand outside at night without being exsanguinated by swarms of mosquitoes, I’d probably smoke half a pack a day like I used to when I was a kid.
Holy shit Crusty.
Dude. You need a hug.
Why? I’m in pretty good shape right now. Maybe a little too much stomach jiggle, and high triglycerides, which I will remedy by eating smarter and drinking less liquor.
I’ll hug your face, bro.
I’ll hug your face, bro.
You think you can scare me?
I have 38 aunts. I saw half of them yesterday.
Brutal, being sliced in half like that.
I think he is past the hug zone and into the Lithium zone.
Jarflax
…
I think you need a hug.
?️?
It’s been 6 years since I have done regular cardio workouts. Now I do push-ups and pull-ups a few times a week. It takes much less time to do a few push-ups than it does to run a few miles. I occasionally miss running and biking, but I’m not ready to pick up those hobbies again.
I do pushups also, along with my walking/running. One day I’m going to get more ambitious.
I don’t even like weed, but I could smoke some weed about right now. Too bad it’s illegal in this state and might get me in Baltimore City prison, which, I mean really, between that and Hell, I’m not sure that is an easy choice.
I got out of the habit in my mid-20s following an injury and as I moved into my 30s the metabolism started slowing down. I never got completely out of shape, but I developed a wicked dad bod. As I got closer to 40 I guess I just decided I wasn’t content to kind of just waddle through life as a reasonably-healthy, husky dad that jogs from time to time. I don’t remember how I found out about kettebells, but that’s what got me back into regular exercise. That was probably three years ago, and I’ve stuck with it since.
Now I keep going because I want to keep getting stronger, basically. Pretty much that simple. I want to do stuff like one-handed, one-legged push ups. I want to dead lift as much as I possibly can before I die, preferably of old age. As people around me start looking like old, sloppy bums I want their bitter wives to jostle each other out of the way to get a good look at me getting something down from a shelf. I like needing to have jackets let out in the shoulders. When my daughter moves into her first apartment I want to be able to carry the heavy boxes for her. I especially want my wife and my kids to think, “Holy shit, dad’s 60! How the hell is he deadlifting 500 lbs. for reps?” I never want to feel like there is a physical challenge I can’t work towards overcoming.
I’ve been a sloppy chubster and it sucks. I want more.
I was a physical specimen in my 30s. I’m a small guy at 175 lbs, but I was benching 125 lbs 30 times. My only advice, NEVER be sedentary, it’s a death sentence. Just stay active and live long and well. Size doesn’t matter at all, it’s all about staying in motion.
I totally get that NB.
We recently quit our gym membership it was mainly for my wife to use and everyone to enjoy the pool in the summer. With three 12 hour night shifts a week and a family I just do not make room for the gym.
My wife got a spin cycle and an exercise app this summer. Starting in December I’ll be weekend option. As y’all will see when my post drops tonight I have a good reason to start using the spin cycle since my schedule with me much easier to manage
Maybe you just needed the right workout partner at the gym: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ350-uShSE
Please remember to wipe your sweat off that machine. I got a terrible rash yesterday.
I would definitely need someone to tell me to pick up the pace
I thought it’d be something more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1xVEp1sfw&t=30 (NSFWife)
*joins 12 gyms*
This guy trains by negging. It’s very effective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhb3z4pTFQ
Some music to set the mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2j59zzX3Q
1. I’ve always exercised regularly, but there were times when it was not enough to offset my diet.
2. When I need to lose weight, I exercise like crazy and eat very carefully. It’s a hard routine to maintain.
3. My goal these days is to maintain a suitable weight.
I ate my way in, I can walk my way out.
I don’t think I’ve heard that since middle school gym class.
You want a vision of hell? Imagine walking 15 miles on a treadmill with that song stuck in your head.
My condolences.
Please. I left my iPod at home during my first deployment. I got 6 months of nonstop Coldplay on Freedom Radio.
War is Hell
“6 months of nonstop Coldplay on Freedom Radio.”
If that’s what they play for our military what did they play to the people they were torturing at black sites?
Yngwie Malmsteen.
what did they play to the people they were torturing at black sites?
Enya
Springsteen.
Having a kid. I don’t have time, or rather, I need what little time I might use going to the gym to relax and shitpost here.
I did start up for about a month, then I got busy again studying… hoping that ends this coming Friday. Enough procrastination… back to the grindstone.
Fuck off, loser
Another try.
Again
Three times a charm?
WTF?
Romney then climbed back onto the barn and resumed duty as a weather vane.
Well, aren’t you quite recursive today.
At least I’m not the worst.
My goal has been to not look like the skinny guy. I’m 6’1 and have recently hit 180 lbs. I’d like to put on another 5-10 lbs in a year or so.
5′ 10, 125 lb. I feel ya….
Damn. I haven’t been that skinny since high school.
You can never be too thin, too rich or too Republican.
Multiple choice, right?
All of the above.
Hysterical Hypocrite Hijinks – Grumpy Gus Gun Grabbers
***
Rowan gained public notoriety on June 14, 1988, when he shot an unarmed teenage trespasser, Ben Smith. “The interloper was a near-naked teenager who had been skinny-dipping with friends in Rowan’s pool, and the columnist’s weapon was an unregistered, and thus illegal, .22 caliber pistol.”[8]
From People magazine: “When Rowan heard the police arrive, he stepped outside to let them in. It was then, he says, that he was confronted by “a tall man who was smoking something that I absolutely was sure was marijuana.” Rowan says he repeatedly warned the intruder that he was armed and would shoot. “My first words were: ‘Freeze! Stay where you are!’ ” says Rowan. “Then I said, ‘I have a gun.’ ” Rowan says the man kept coming and that he finally felt forced to shoot in self-defense. He says he aimed at the intruder’s feet but hit him in the wrist when the man lunged forward.
The intruder, Chevy Chase, Maryland, teenager Benjamin Smith, 18, tells a different story. “I was in my underwear,” he told a radio interviewer. “I just climbed out of the pool. It was pretty innocent. I never spoke with him. He just shot me and closed the door and went back hiding in his house. I mean, I guess I was trespassing. But that’s no reason to shoot a person, is it? For swimming in their pool?”[9]
Rowan was charged for firing a gun that he did not legally own. Rowan was arrested and tried. During the trial, he argued that he had the right to use whatever means necessary to protect himself and his family. He also said the pistol he used was exempt from the District’s handgun prohibition law because it belonged to his older son, a former FBI agent. He was called out for hypocrisy, since Rowan was a strict gun control advocate. In a 1981 column, he advocated “a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail—period.” In 1985, he called for “A complete and universal federal ban on the sale, manufacture, importation and possession of handguns (except for authorized police and military personnel).[10]
Rowan was tried but the jury was deadlocked; the judge declared a mistrial and he was never retried. In his autobiography, Rowan said he still favors gun control, but admits being vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy.[11]
***
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rowan
Christ, what an asshole.
bonus follow-up quote
“I am for gun control, but I am not for unilateral gun control, in which I leave my family naked to the druggies and the crooks out there.”
-Carl Rowan, hypocrite
He came out of Mpls on his way to the big time. He was blue before MN was blue.
I remember that sniveling shit. I hope he dies after a long slow struggle with ass cancer.
He’s been dead for 19 years. I suppose he could get ass cancer and die all over again.
This right here is why we need more people working in the resurrection sciences.
Oh, just like Feinstein and the rest.
Anyone posted the latest Remy?
Not breaking too much new ground, but it hardly needs it. Cancel culture is ducking fumb.
Didn’t notice the ticker first time—“ABC NEWS AIRS EXCLUSIVE SYRIAN WAR FOOTAGE THAT SOMEHOW INCLUDES A LEXINGTON WAL-MART”
‘Team America’ at 15: hilarious satire or nihilistic nonsense?
Why didn’t we realize, gang?
Matt and Trey said they enjoyed watching people cheer and laugh during the first half of the movie and then storm off in a huff when the movie started mocking Hollywood actors.
“with Stone once declaring: “I hate Conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals.”
A man after my own way.
whoever wrote that has No sense of Humor, and therefore is an Idiot…
Insufficient penetration by our head of our anal sphincter, that is why we didn’t realize
OT: Dear Glibby,
I figured out why my pool kept draining. The push/pull backwash valve took a shit and is staying f in the open position. I tried to close it up, but 20 years of baking in the sun left the damn thing open. Do I say fuck it, let it drain into the alley and hope my kids get into skating?
…or do I make some carne asada. Add some cilantro, avocado, pepinos y nano and let turn into a biodiesel plant?
Signed,
Fuck this fucking pool
Yes
You will be happy to know, I changed my filter yesterday.
What do you have the thermostat set on?
probably 78, but it only 80 degrees outside, so maybe off
My thermostat is set
…for FUNK!
https://youtu.be/pTJaBlGYmvg
Good, it get Dusty around here
Fuck that guy, set it for 50 and leave it…….
/DO NOT DO THIS
Carne Asada for sure. And get that damn pool fixed, you lazy s.o.b.
Yum.
Maybe it means that we shouldn’t look to people like Parker or Stone for expert opinions on foreign policy.
But then what do I know?
Quit moving threads around!
I think I found your problem. 😉
Damn millennials. 😛
What’s my problem!!??
You said you tried to open a valve that was already open.
There’s your problem, Vern.
You want to *close* the valve.
Yes close the valve. I can’t close the damn thing.
Stuff a rag in it? or a towel?
Yusef!
I can’t do it to you. Its a $20 part. Just remove and replace. I just figured it out on a day I don’t have a spare 20 mins to do it.
Stuff a rag in it? or a towel?
It’s a valve, not his wife.
*ducks, hides*
Yeah, I know. It was a joke.
It’s possible that the water pressure plus corrosion is such that you need more leverage. Can you get some locking pliers onto the valve handle? That might give you enough oomph.
Ahh, Sunday, I don’t do pool plumbing, enjoy the Asada!
Good job on the filters though
I suggest lime and salt for the carne asada.
Lime, garlic and ground cayenne pepper. And, grill it over fire.
Dang it
https://youtu.be/ILSU8NEDjbQ
Interesting take on Hillary going after Tulsi. TW: Blumenthal.
https://youtu.be/IRp7iEVZD6c
LOL, I thought you meant Sid Blumenthal!
Hunter Biden – the rest of the story
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In May 2013, Biden was selected as a direct commission officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve, receiving an age-related waiver and a second waiver due to a past drug-related incident.[18] Joe Biden administered the commissioning oath to Hunter Biden in a White House ceremony.[4]
The following month, Biden tested positive for cocaine during a urinalysis test and was subsequently discharged.[19] According to Biden, he had unwittingly consumed the cocaine after being given cigarettes he believed were surreptitiously laced with the drug.[4] He chose not to appeal the matter as it was unlikely that the panel would believe his explanation given his history with drugs, and also due to the likelihood of news leaking to the press, though it was ultimately revealed to The Wall Street Journal by a Navy official who provided information to the newspaper on condition of anonymity.
***
So he did drugs before he was in the Navy too.
“Those cigarettes musta been laced with cocaine. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Perhaps if everyone who worked for the fedgov had to piss in a cup twice a year while someone else watched, the war on drugs would end.
So Hunter Biden lasted about month in the Naval Reserve. Homer Simpson had a longer career as a sailor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn7lnBTNOZ8
+ CPO Sharkey
***
C.P.O. Sharkey is an American sitcom, created by Aaron Ruben, that aired on NBC from December 1, 1976, to April 28, 1978. The series starred Don Rickles in the title role, with Peter Isacksen, Elizabeth Allen, Harrison Page, and Richard X. Slattery featured in the cast.
Rickles, who actually served in the Navy during World War II…
***
No fucking way! No wonder he was so good at insults.
No fucking way!
What do these guys have in common?
Glen Ford
Ernest Borgnine
Jimmy Stewart
Clark Gable
Lee Marvin
Charles Bronson
Captain Kangaroo
hint: Donald Trump, John Wayne, and Dick Cheney aren’t on the list, but Jim Wright and Daniel Inouye could be.
Ooh! Ooh! I know, I know!
… Hitler?
(All legit veterans, a big chunk of them in the sea services.)
Wait, what about Mr. Green Jeans?
Ed McMahon was a Marine pilot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon#Military_service
“Daybreak, Jakarta. The proud men and women of the navy are fighting for freedom but you’re in Lubbock, Texas, hosing stains off a monument. You’re in the naval reserve, America’s seventeenth line of defense, between the Mississippi National Guard and the League of Women Voters.”
It’s one of those golden age episodes where half the lines are quotable.
“Bring me back a torpedo!”
“No!”
“Flanders got *his* kids torpedoes!”
“Oh he did, did he? I’ll show him! I’ll bring you back a weapon of unimaginable destructive power!”
“Homer!”
“But only if you’re good….[whispers] even if you’re not.”
Marge: Are you sure you’ll be OK?
Homer: We have orders not to fire on anyone except Greenpeace.
I was in good shape until my knees fell apart. 5’9″ and a lean 195lb. Fast forward ten years and I’m back down to 205 but have the cardio of a potted plant. But I do work out with a trainer twice a week(so I’ll actually show up), and this time of year I’ll spend a couple hours a week walking fields for pheasant. Gardening, and hiking in the spring/summer. Taking care of the wife has me sitting and sleeping WAY too much though.
Keep up the good work, Spud, you are a busy guy.
/Still thinking about those prawns
I think trying to fit in a regular exercise program in addition to what your life already demands might be more disheartening and stressful than anything. If you didn’t need the sleep, you wouldn’t as much..
Exercise is a good stress reliever. I took a long walk around the neighborhood last week admiring the fall colors and breathing cool, crisp air. That was delightful.
I meant trying to construct and follow a program.
A walk in the afternoon autumn woods sounds like heaven, not exercise.
I have this in my office: https://images.app.goo.gl/nfF6oNKrYV3AiTYCA
Lol!
I hate working out. It bores me to tears. That’s why I liked martial arts so much. It was mentally stimulating as well as physically.
That’s a good reminder.
It’s cool how your story parallels mine. My break in incident was my car, and I similarly got a mossberg 590 after my naivete was shattered.
Law school, for me, was the decline. I went in at 225 lbs (which was a 10 to 20 lbs out of shape for me, but still half marathon fit) and after my first (of 3.5) years, I was around 280. I topped out at 307. I’ve worked that number back down into the 280s through GlibFit 1-3, but this meandering seesaw of weight loss is not enough.
The sad thing is that I have a treadmill, a bike, TRX straps, and a few dumbbells in the basement. Whether through laziness or an earnest need for downtime, I find myself vegging out here or in front of the TV rather than on the exercise equipment. Most resolutions to improve my diet and exercise last from Monday until Wednesday before falling apart.
Get yourself a big ass kite, it’s a fun workout for the whole body
I’m not really an exhibitionist, so if this ass kite thing requires me to take my pants off, I’m out.
keep the pants on, but they pull pretty good, arms, Back ,stomach and legs all get worked out, I’m almost light enough to Launch,
I fly something like this, soon I’m going bigger,
https://youtu.be/w5vB6F9b3IQ
I can’t hold to a diet to save my life. I’m too much of a hedonist. I try to compensate by doing intermittent fasting and being very strict about my exercise schedule, but although I’m losing body fat I’ve gained ten pounds over the past two years. I keep telling my knees that the extra weight is muscle but they don’t seem to care.
Oddly, the knee I didn’t dislocate twenty years ago is great. I do pistol squats on that leg with no pain. The “good” knee, on the other hand, doesn’t handle the squat phase of that very well. Or stairs.
Tundra: as you look at foot and ankle surgeons, let me offer a ringing endorsement for Dr David Neese in Coon Rapids at Family Foot and Ankle.
He’s a wizard.
Thank you! I’ll do some research on him.
What procedure did you have done?
A few. He repaired a botched ER fix that random on-duty surgeon had done, then did a procedure called micro fracture where they poke tiny holes in the bottom of the bone.
It makes bone marrow leak out that magically does the stem cell thing and becomes cartilage.
He explains everything in detail and shows the MRIs and what they mean.
Injury and travel are my challenges, but I’m losing slowly.
When my back is fully healed and I am lighter, I intend to take up routine walking.
You’ve lost like 50 pounds already, right?
Lol, close but not 50!
How are you feeling these days? Sleeping ok?
Diet and walking is a really underrated strategy.
glad I work in the field, plenty of cardio and conditioning, I would be miserable behind a desk, inside all the time.
Pulling 30 lb jugs of Refrigerant up to a roof with a rope is a workout,
^^This^^
I’ve never worked a desk job, or a Monday through Friday schedule for that matter. Don’t know how y’all do it.
It stinks from a physical fitness perspective. Sitting for too long does all kinds of bad things to your back, your hips, it’s terrible. And no amount of reminding yourself to get up and move around from time to time or taking the stairs or whatever can make up for it. And because you’re spending at least eight hours a day sedentary and need to sleep another eight, you’ve got eight hours to do everything else AND exercise enough. It sucks, man. I was in decent shape without even trying when I was working desperation jobs, from the obvious stuff like valeting cars to the less-obviously-physical line cook gigs. As soon as I started in desk work, I put on thirty pounds and had all kinds of posture-related problems. It takes a serious effort to mitigate the damage, much less make any headway.
I am enjoying my standing desk.
So, I had a bad experience with a standing desk because I’m an idiot, but the designer and my boss both have one of the ones that you sit on top a normal desk and adjust as you want and love it.
Yeah, that’s helping me a lot too.
And I get to the lab and out in the field a bit too, but I’m often using a cane or crutch so I don’t do the heavy lifting.
I don’t mind my standing desk. It’s nice, but I dont use it as much as I should. I find I have a hard time concentrating if I’m drafting a document while standing. I’m not sure if that something that goes away over time or not, but I haven’t had the luxury to try to power through.
We have those at the workplace of my main client. Have had them for about a year. No one uses them anymore. I get up from my desk about 11am every day and walk 3-4 miles and get lunch. When I’m done for the day, I drive to a lake near where I live and walk another 3-4 miles before going home. When I’m working in the house, I go running at 11am for an hour or so.
hard time concentrating
#MeToo
I like the high top for most of the light stuff: research. I can sketch at one. But I can’t create any substantial document while standing.
Naptown Bill – I have the kind like your boss.
It took me a while to be able to write while standing, but I have it down now.
They are slowly switching everyone here to lift-desks; you can have it up or down. I like it. Although I go through stretches where I forget to stand up and sit on my ass for a week or more. When it’s fresh on my mind I try to change from sit to stand at least 2 times a day.
I used to stand for my shifts at work, better for the diaphragm; but now that we don’t get to pick the music anymore it’s just too boring to care.
This in its entirety. I’m from farm stock. My metabolism is designed to get me through a day of manual labor, not a day of sitting on my ass staring at flickering dots.
I come from a long line of starving Irish peasants. Every cell in my body acts like the Potato Famine is still going and that every calorie is precious Lucky Charm.
“Eat you fool! There’s food here!”
-Derpy’s limbic system, upon being notified that a buffet is present
https://images.app.goo.gl/A1bqRKgKrxHUfUQQ8
“I’ve never worked a desk job, or a Monday through Friday schedule for that matter. Don’t know how y’all do it.”
I drink.
Damn, so I’d double drink if I had a desk job? I don’t think that’s humanly possible. (on beer number 19 after starting a shift at 4am this morning, and still not really drunk)
I need to lose weight just to be a cheaper drunk.
I think it works the other way round, you build up tolerance, so you drink more which leads to the weight gain, then your back goes out, then your knee, then the other knee; then both your ankles…
Injury and travel are my challenges, but I’m losing slowly.
It’s progress. It’s good.
Yeah, travel was what killed me. In my mid-thru-late 30s I was 175 with a resting heart rate of 50. I ran daily. Then I changed jobs and hit the road. Took me completely out of my routine and I ate all the bad shit you eat when you aren’t home.
6-2 225# 44long
I’ve been throwed too many times to be a badass roper any more and limp more than a little, but I do a few things. I don’t have goals other than to be vibrant; I think of terms of maybe losing a pound a year for the rest of my life, certainly nothing that requires dipping below 2600 calories a day or cutting back on beer or whiskey. We often (twice a month?) make a four mile loop that runs up and down the bluff several times (600′ of climbs overall, 1000 calorie burn); I played golf four times last week and carried my clubs for two of those: I can march the 7,000 yards with a full set of clubs, water, extra balls, shoot 84ish, and be done in three hours. It’s been a few years since I completed the Hotter-N-Hell 100: maybe I should try that again summer 2020.
I don’t believe in big changes. I’m Scots Irish: a keeper of grudges, an endurer: grind slow and steady, a tiny bit better every day. Help others but lift with your legs; stay out of trouble and ditches.
I like the cut off you Jib Sir!
also, drink enough water that you have to pee
Always seek shade
Seconded!
Enough talk about ‘health’ and ‘not dying’ You guys are buzzkills. I just came up with a great gag for the next cartoon; but this is the first time this season I didn’t have to work for the Packer game, so I’m good and drunk, hopefully I’ll remember this gag when it comes time to write the episode.
Seems like they’re having a good season.
Off to a better start with Matt Laflour than any other coach in their first year, including Lombardi (who yall know) and Ray Rhodes (who took over the team when Holmgren left just 2 years out from a Super Bowl appearance, Rhodes got fired for only having a .500 season, makes me think RACISM as when Mike Sherman was one game above .500 the next year he kept the job for another 5 years. RACISM I SAY!, There is no comeback for that charge!)
Rhodes only got the job because he was black. If Sherm Lewis had been passed over in favor of a white HC, the same suspects would have been having a screaming fit.
The racism thing was a joke, clearly, but Rhodes was defensive coach coming to a team with an established offense, the reason (DRINK! don’t mind if I do) I heard it didn’t work was Rhodes was too lax, trying to be a ‘players coach’; but I’m still critical of all the leeway Sherman was given, he was a total cluster fuck. 3rd and long? Draw! Let’s give him the GM position!
3rd and long?
You forgot 4th and 26.
The real problem with Sherman was that Wolf retired and made Sherman GM. I’ll always respect Sherman the coach for standing up to scumbag Warren Sapp after Sapp’s dirty hit on Chad Clifton.
4th and 26 was a defensive call, Sherman called the offense.
Exactly, especially since that’s why Holmgren left, Seattle offered him Coach and GM, and
wethey wouldn’t, but yetwethey gave it to 3rd and draw Sherman.I’m not convinced Holmgren would have stayed anyhow. I think he wanted to go back to the west coast.
It took 3 interceptions in 3 consecutive drives but my Bengals are still perfect!
I don’t think so, I think he wanted to cement his place as a ‘football genius’; Why he wanted Hasselback that he’d coached, and why he took the Job in Cleveland later. Rumors swirled that was also why the Packers stopped running the ball in the 98 Superbowl, he didn’t want to win by running, he wanted to show how great his passing game was, he wanted Brett to win MVP so he could brag. Looking back on that game, that is very plausible.
Cocktail is on my left. And the only buzzkill is that one guy…
Tom Cruise?
No; Mike Love.
No; John Stamos
“12 years until the apocalypse suddenly seems like a really long time”
SMOD take us now.
XD
LOL
Bring back Qualuudes
Just bring back the 70s, period. I remember when the goal was to HAVE fun, not freak out over it.
You had a Pet Rock and a Lava Lamp, didn’t you?
Shag carpet, a black light and posters, muscle car and drugs.
Teenage boys put black lights in their rooms to make their socks glow in the dark.
hmmm, looks at Lava Lamp owned by Daughter,
Nope no pets rocks……
I ate a lot of those back then. They were trouble to me. Maximum crazy and invincible.
Yeah, I ate them like Pez. Wasn’t good.
I’m convinced.
10 hours of studying is enough for one day… bring on the food and drink!
Tomorrow is Canadian elections right?
What’s the word on the street?
Bird?
Eh
The fire in your eyes is out?
Damn Ted, I like that song, don’t tell anyone
Gonna throw it back to you……
Gonna pretend I never read that.
I started back on low carb diet 3 weeks ago and have lost 10 pounds so far. Another 15 to go, and I’ll be in a good place. I wasn’t able to eat for six weeks straight in the Spring and lost enough weight and muscle to get down to the 130s. I looked like a cancer patient, not good. I swung the other direction once I could eat again combined with the added stress of starting a new job and full time PhD program. This past summer has been difficult with everything, but I think I’m back on top of it.
Walking every evening after work helped me get some exercise and manage the stress. I’m looking forward to start hiking in my woods soon (need the last ticks to die out) I replaced carbs with high protein foods and fats. It’s been going well. I’ve been buying chicken, steaks, and brisket from Costco, prepping on the weekend, and then have quick meals to eat during the week. My favorite has been shaving prime sirloin, adding balsamic vinegar, and then freezing. I can throw a bag in the cast iron and have protein for a salad in 2 minutes.
Amazing, isn’t it? Limiting carbs and sugars makes the pounds disappear. Yet, 90% of the grocery store is carbs & sugars…
Definitely. My mind feels a little sharper too but can’t quantify that.
That’s a pretty common anecdote among low carbers.
FWIW, keto diets are often prescribed to help prevent seizures in people with intractable epilepsy.
I can. I started doing the crosswords here and elsewhere and fly through them.
It’s weird.
I looked like a cancer patient, not good.
Rule 34 suggests somebody finds that hot.
I’m going back to low carb this week. I do it because when I go low carb I don’t obsess over food. When I do calorie counting, I constantly obsess about food and am generally miserable.
I’m always torn on that one. If you go with a calorie count you can meet specific cravings while staying on the diet. If you cut carbs out you can eat your fill. I think at the end of the day it is an area where you have to do what works best for you.
I found that when I consciously reduced carbs I sort of incidentally ate fewer calories. There are only so many entire chickens I can eat in a day. On the other hand, it’s easy to set a calorie limit and then pass it by a little bit here and there because of the bread for a sandwich, or the breading on a chicken nugget, or having a few more pieces of sushi.
This is where I differ from most other fat people, I seem to think about food a lot less than everyone who is thinner than I am. I usually don’t think about food until I get hungry, which is usually twice a day. Except for rare occasions, even thinking about sweet foods makes me gag. It’s all them carbs from beer and bad genetics what does me in.
I am too full of pulled pork and beer to even talk about exercise. I walk between 4 and 6 miles a day at work and I am still a fat bastard. Ya, ya, ya, I know it is the beer.
When food is cheap, it takes a lot of self control to be fit.
Big Macs aren’t cheap. $6.
I read somewhere that the McDonald’s cheeseburger is a miracle food in terms of nutrition and price.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10210327/McDouble-is-cheapest-and-most-nutritious-food-in-human-history.html
A big mac meal is $6, but just the burger is 3, and you can get a double cheeseburger for 2.
$6 is less than an hour at minimum wage. Historically speaking being able to eat a full meal for less than an hours work for the lowest paid jobs is simply unheard of.
Yeah. In ancient Egypt, stone carvers earned a pint of beer for each hour of work.
Not a bad deal, if you ask me. Cuts out the middleman at least.
Just the sandwich alone was $5.82. I don’t get the fries because a Big Mac is more than I can eat in one sitting. I also don’t drink pop very much at all.
I can believe I got charged for a meal instead of just a sandwich.
What?! I can’t imagine a price like that even if bought it at Grand Central Station in NYC.
I probably should’ve paid attention. I only know I got a bit of sticker shock when she told me the price but I wanted a Big Mac, so… I dunno.
I’d believe that. The amount of calories per dollar is a fantastic deal, and all things considered it’s relatively good in terms of macronutrients. The Big Mac comes up a lot in “eat this, not that” type articles because it’s lower calorie than a lot of their other stuff but is very filling because of the three pieces of bun.
The Mcdouble is my go to dollar menu item when in a hurry and hitting the McD’s drive through. A big mac meal aka the number one hits real close to ten bucks here. 8 something after tax.
I think a cartel might be running your local McDonalds.
Because one foot and one ankle have been giving me problems, I’ve started using my hula hoop again. I can get in a cardio work out without irritating the injuries.
That’s great for your hip flexors, too, which usually get wrecked from sitting for extended periods.
Also good for the abs – all of them, front and back
Some relevant slogans:
You can’t out-run your fork.
You get stronger at the gym, but you lose weight at the table.
I’m not QUITE sure that’s true in my case, but I have never run an experiment to validate what I THINK is true for me. For me, there is a positive correlation between unfettered low-carb eating and daily exercise. No idea about calorie count, but when I’m low carbing, I eat A LOT. Throw in a couple of miles of strolling every day and I would drop weight like a rock.
Switching topics a bit…
Body composition is a common issue in the army today. It was not during the Civil War. Why? Well, if you’re marching 15 miles a day with a 40 lb load and only hardtack to eat, it’s very unlikely you will be fat. Civil War soldiers were not waking up early to run or do push-ups.
If MREs had been around during the Civil War, there would have been a lot of bigger waistlines.
My $0.02 on the Army’s problem with fitness – most soldiers only train to pass the APFT with minimum score. Other than the combat arms units few are motivated to really excel in physical activity. Up until I retired at 60 my goal was to always pass every event for every age group. I might not have been in a combat arms unit on the tail end of my career but had the Norks made a move and we got called up to fill in the gaps I could have ended up in a combat arms role – and the senior citizen discount given on the APFT would not have helped me then.
If you are training for a professional sport you can burn enough calories to eat pretty much anything. Of course, that means your fulltime job is high intensity exercise, you are young enough to sustain 600-1000 (1000 an hour is racing level intensity in speed sports or the equivalent) calorie an hour level exercise for hours on end, and you are lucky enough to have the genes that allow that. Walking? You might burn 300 an hour, maybe, and at an ordinary pace less.
Late to the party as usual for my time zone.
I have been a runner for most of my life with highs and lows along the way. I lifted medium-weight iron through my 30’s and 40’s but shifted to body weight work (push-ups, pull-ups, etc) after that. Being in the Army Reserves was a pull to keep me going for the past 15 years – but that career is done now.
When my oldest was born about 10 years ago I found that I had not been to the gym in a couple months. I did some on-line research for something I could do from home and came up with the “300 workout” (https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19536290/muscle-building-10/). I had or was able to buy/build all the equipment needed at home. It took me about 8 weeks before I could even do a full 300 reps in one go so it was just the challenge I needed.
Earlier this year I found that the job I was in had been eating all of my time and realized that I hadn’t even gone for a run in 6 months. That wasn’t the only reason I quit that job but it was a factor. So in March I started reevaluating my physical situation – including my diet. There is a lot more information on how carbs, fats, protein and other nutrients affect us and I did a big change in what I eat.
As I had just turned 60 last year I realized that some things would have to change about both my diet and exercise routine. First thing, I dropped the breakfast cereal that I had been eating every day since I was a child. Next, I stopped eating sugar as far as I could control that. I had not been drinking sodas for a few decades so that wasn’t as difficult as it might have been. But I had started snacking on the cookies and sweets we have around the house for our kids. All that came to a hard stop for me.
I have been doing kettlebell exercises since I started the 300 workout routine so I added a few more of those. I ended up breaking that into two different kettlebell routine days – with push-ups and pull-ups/chin-ups mixed in. I also started doing all push-ups, pull-ups/chin-ups to full range of motion. I do push-ups on blocks (both hands and feet), touching my chest to the block on the down-stroke. This is harder than it sounds. I also do chin-ups chest-to-bar on the up-stroke. I’m still working to get to that with my pull-ups. I like kettlebells because they provide good strength training in more natural movements as well as a rather intense cardio workout in short spurts.
I also have added a isolation weight training day – going to a local Army base where I can use the gym for free – and lifting moderate-heavy weights for isolation on the larger muscle groups.
I have to keep focused on my body to ensure I am not overdoing anything and injuring myself. Shit takes too long to heal at this age. But I want to see how far I can push this.
And of course I am back doing my regular runs – generally a 40 minute run 3 to 5 times a week.
Blah blah blah achilles tendon injury a year ago. Stopped running, gained weight. Started running in February but reinjured achilles. Stopped running.
My achilles/calf feels healed, finally. In fact, better than it has for the last 3 years.
There is a nice gym in my new apartment building, and I was planning to begin running again tomorrow morning. Just in time for Glibfit.
Meantime, I’m sipping Evan Williams with warm Earl Grey tea. Wife is going to roast a chicken, served with collard greens and corn bread.
Cheers!
Achilles last stand.
Have a great run tomorrow! Plenty of hills there – you should be wicked fit by 2020!
OK, way down here at the bottom of this long-dead thread, I’m going to record my starting point for this round of GlibFit: I’m 5’4″ish with a small frame. (I can touch my thumb with my middle finger when I wrap ’em around my wrist.) I just weighed in at 133.6. This is after our usual Sunday noon brunch of waffles & sausage patties, but only a corn muffin since then. (Brunch usually fills me up for the day.)
My goal is to get back to my office “Biggest Loser” winning weight of 125 lbs., which I hit last spring. Tonight I walked for 30 minutes on my treadmill at 3.3 MPH, which is a comfortable speed for walking and scrolling through Glib comments. I haven’t measured my waist, but I hope to lose a couple of inches there, too.
There! If anybody happens to see this, I’ve held myself “accountable.”
It has been viewed.
DAMN!
My goals have little to do with my weight. I’m looking more at performance.
Bench Press – 200 lbs, 3 sets of 12 reps full range of motion
Pull-ups – 25 from a dead hang, chest to bar
Push-ups – 50 chest to floor (or surface of a similar plane)
Run – 40 minutes, 7.5 to 8 kilometers. Not sure how close to 8 km I can get it.
What kept you from exercising? What brought you back? What kept you going once you got back?
My fucking shoulder keeps me from going. I want to go back and i hope to solve the shoulder otherwise i will try throught the pain. I dont need motivation i need a new shoulder
I convinced Mrs. LJ we should join the Y towards the end of summer. I figured having classes available would help motivate her, however she seems content to just walk the treadmill. I was a little slower getting into a regular groove. I typically wake up 4:30 or 5, would work out a few days a week, them come home and help get my little amigos our the door for school. One especially early morning when I couldn’t get back to sleep, I decided to punish myself by taking a class at 5:30. It was a boot camp class and it kicked my ass. I’m still struggling, but haven’t missed one yet.