:( I don't get a choice, there's only one grocery store within 400 square kms. They NEVER have good tomatoes.
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:( I don't get a choice, there's only one grocery store within 400 square kms. They NEVER have good tomatoes.
Yup, vegans certainly can be unhealthy. A quick google of "Vegan junk food" always reaffirms that. I don't think that brand of coconut milk is available in the States but this one is: http://sodeliciousdairyfree.com/prod...ages/chocolateQuote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Back to fitness - I managed to get my swim time down to 56:54. Its only 6 seconds off my best time this year but it all counts!
I agree that Whole Foods is expensive. There are actually only a handful in the area I live in, so it's always a trip. I shop there only rarely as a result.
I did see an article where a woman compared shopping there with "regular" grocery store and was pleasantly surprised to see that Whole Foods was not as exorbiant as she feared.
I'm interested in Trader Joe's. I've heard of it and may be able to shop there soon as they are just now opening a few stores in the city I live in.
Congrats, Buckthorne. I took the day off. Boy, I really needed to rest. It's just that I've been busy. My workout is hardly arduous.
Qimi, I think we’re leading some sort of weird, parallel life. The same day you went with the vegan chocolate chippers from Whole Foods, so did I – almost. I was standing in front of the bakery case at the Whole Foods, in a trance, maybe a stupor, and for a long time, so long in fact that the security guy came over and asked if he could help me. That snapped me out of it and I said, “I reckon not.” And then I dejectedly walked over to the salad bar…but then I grabbed a big ole handful of bon-bons at the check-out stand. Woo-hoo! I ate ‘em all before I even got out of the parking lot.
By the way, I always thought they pronounced it Vee-gan instead of Vay-gan so it wouldn’t rhyme with bacon.
:banghead::lol: Thank you for a good laugh, Sancho, something that's as good for ya as a salad and sweeter than the sweetest bon-bon or cookie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Umph, I'm STILL laughing. I wasted not a bit of time over my decision. I was walking by, there they were, and right into my cart they went. I ate three on the way home (one does work up an appetite while shopping, doesn't one?).
Busy here, but everything is going great. Eating is back on track. Working on natural tan (anyone know anything about tanning?). Emotional health seems ok-- two glaring failures in terms of intimacy in the last week or so (refer to 'Intimacy' thread in Serious Discussion sections). Threw out old clothes, bought clothes that showed off leanness. Mostly preparing for/apprehensive about trying to gain healthy body mass now. End report.
J
PS Does anybody else just feel fantastic after 30mins of swimming? What is with that?
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Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
I'm a tanning expert haha. Well no, but I used to tan a lot, and I have reduced it now due to the health hazards... still, in the summer I do tan quite a bit. Just ALWAYS wear sunblock (UVA and UVB protection) and really you do not need SPF beyond 30 (small difference between 30 and 50, or even 80... only 1% or so better coverage with the really high SPFs).
I always rotate along with the sun (as the sun moves or er, the earth is the one moving... so does my towel) and that seems to give me the most even tan... :)
Not sure what else you wanted to know about tanning.
I stopped with my nutritional plan (diet) because I was ultra sick last week, and had food poisoning before that, and it was generally really making me weak and taking up too much time and mental and physical energy. But am resolved to eat healthier.. salads for lunch and all that. Back to the gym as well now...
Tanned, sunburnt, 170lbs and 15 percent body fat. Little further to go.
J
Well done, Jack!
So, I took my nephew (aged 13) mountain biking yesterday. And then I took him over the emergency room to get his leg sewed up. On a rapid decent, his front wheel got wedged in a rut and he went Superman over the handlebars. The nurse told him that chicks dig scars. I added that while chain-ring tattoos are cool, chain-ring scars are badass. I think he bought it.
At any rate, when the nurse left the room, he said, “Tio Sancho, that nurse has some big ole knockers, doesn’t she.”
I said, “Yes she does, Chico. Yes she does.”
Haha brilliant! The first step is acceptance. Yes, dear lad, there are big ole knockers in the world. Now go forth and make bad decisions!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
This new generation may just have a chance.
J
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Originally Posted by Sancho
I love it :D
I remember having an accident of this sort when I was a kid. The challenge was to race down the road that leads to the beach in under 10 seconds. My brakes failed, and I ended up tumbling across the sand and into the sea. The knockers of the nurse who took care of my gashed eyebrow were really nothing to write home about.
I've been going to the gym again in the last couple of weeks. I say "again" which might give you the impression I only briefly neglected my fitness, but in fact it had been 4 long years. I wouldn't have bothered, either, but I read somewhere on the internet that regular aerobic exercise can alleviate the symptoms of my most annoying ear more than cortisone and beta-histine.
I go there after work, which means I don't get home till 8 pm. I don't have much energy afterwards, and my evenings now consist of watching the news drinking juice, very little smoking (if any), and little or no poetry writing.
As for my ear, the tinnitus does go away after my gym sessions; but it's usually back as soon as I wake up the next morning.
Jack, keep going, man. The fitter you are now, the more capable you will be of partying after you're 40 :)
Best,
DH
They truly were world-class. I feel a smile creeping up on me just thinking about ‘em. No worries about the younger generation, Jack - El Chico is going to be a Tom Cat.
Yeah, Doc - go man go. I’m glad you can hit it after work. I’ve always been a morning-exercise man. A good endorphin rush can carry me through the whole day.
I also enjoy a more-or-less permanent tinnitus – not the result of Ménière's disease, but rather the result of a misspent youth, hanging out in road houses, listening to loud music, tuning up turbo charged engines, all the while considering hearing protectors to be gear for sissies. My solution now: just crank up the volume some more.
I do martial arts for fitness. I also bike and walk but I consider those activities to be transportation, not exercise. Right now I am very absorbed in the art of Thai Boxing. I had a lesson at a local gym a month ago and since then I've been doing thai boxing for at least an hour a day. Its a very efficient martial art. Not to knock other martial arts, but if you youtube thai boxing you will see thai boxers utterly annihilate practitioners of other martial arts. Its not as fun as karate or tae-kwando, that I will admit....but as far as self-defense, sheer power goes....its a tough martial art to beat.
I'm lifting weights and stay lean
I dabbled in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, but it made my face hurt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
Their waxing style is quite painful too, I hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Well, we all learned something there.
J
I have a somewhat hard goal to achieve (hard for me). I have 7 percent body fat right now and my goal is to get a little more bulky by going to the gym and working out a lot. The problem lies in the fact that first of all that due to me not having to lose any weight I don't have any discipline and second of all that I have no idea what I am supposed to eat to gain muscles quickly.
So the goal's there but it's not coming along really well atm.
I wouldn’t know. But I have been on a website where they all had…Mmm…Oh never mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
RicMisc, I’m guessing you’re a young guy. If so, what you’ve probably got going on there is a metabolism that eats, on average, about twice as much as what you eat. Here’s the rub: as you age, your metabolism slows down, but your appetite does not. So, if it were me, I’d avoid any rapid weight-gain program, and just let your body find its own center of gravity.Quote:
Originally Posted by RicMisc
As for resistance training – probably not a bad idea, but ease into it, and try for a resistance program that works the muscles on both sides, e.g. bi’s then tri’s, abs then back. I had a friend in college who thought it’d be cool to have big biceps, so he did a bunch of curls, and he did wind up with big biceps, but his triceps were disproportionally small by comparison, so much so that he couldn’t straighten out arms. He’d walk around campus with arms bent at the elbow at around 30 degrees all the time. It was a crack up.
Thanks for the tips. I'll definitely make sure to train all of my muscles instead of just training one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
If anyone is interested in resistance training, this reader is starting to work with Starting Strength by Rippletoe- an emphasis on compound lifts, esp squats.
J
I'm a novice at fitness training. I've suddenly put on a lot of weight because I've been driving to school a lot more recently instead of walking and my diet consists of Pepperoni pizza with extra cheese and soda. It's the quintessential college life but it is posing a deleterious impact on my health.
My goal is to walk to school more often and take up a vegan diet, sprinkled with venison on occasion. I like salmon too and there are plenty of healthy salmon dishes out there so I should try those as well. But.. walking, keeping active, listening to music, writing poetry, writing short stories, reading genetics, histology, calculus, and biochemistry text books... this is the way to go!
Several weeks ago, at a local fundraising run, I ran a 5K in 21:42 -- first place in my age group. Not too shabby. . .
Congrats, Comedian!
I'm having a really hard time giving up sugar.I was doing ok for a while there, but now I've regressed badly. Help! Any ideas, anyone?
"Sugar" stuff is a big category of food. But, if sugared beverages are a challenge, well... Unless you HATE tea, you might try becoming a tea aficianado. Of course, if you can't imagine tea without sugar this won't work. But: if you think tea is OK, and could maybe have it without sugar, I think it's a way to get away from sweetened beverages. I didn't have a problem with sugar drinks, personally, but I did enjoy exploring the world of tea. The variety, and "having a favorite" could maybe distract one from the sugar angle (i.e. taking on the opinion that sugar interferes with the tea appreciation...). It's kind of like getting into wine, maybe--there's a chance to look for subtler pleasures, besides a massive sugar hit, and then crave/appreciate those instead. I think coffee could work like this too, but it has so much more caffeine--tea is much less likely to lead to a problem in that regard, and a person could even get into herbal teas with no caffeine. Collect maybe a half-dozen different types, and try to match moods, find a "regular" maybe, have some "change of pace" types, get a special one for Christmas, work a green tea or two into the daily mix... There's a type from So. America that's good for exercise (Yerba Mate), some Koreans used to gift me with excellent Ginseng Tea (an acquired taste... this is what I'm talking about!).Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Sometimes I have to step back and wonder at how worked up I can get about tea. I think this is honestly more about me wanting to talk about tea than it is about providing useful advice, sorry.
And, actually, straight up getting into wine would work just as well, and be more obviously enjoyable--but tea works throughout the day, and is better for reading, imo. Anyhow, I can't get excited for sugar in a drink at all anymore. Oh, god, I'm about to get started on unsweetened iced tea now... They have a type that's dehydrated (crystals of 100% tea), and you can dump a scoop of it into a big cup of orange Juice with a lot of ice, just great on a hot day....
Don't beat yourself up, Qimi. This happens to me too. Forget the regression and just start again. Just try to scale down slowly and allow yourself a cheat day every now and then.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Eat a pickle.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Really, just eat a dill pickle.
I’ve got a sweet tooth a mile long, so when that Snickers Bar is calling my name, I’ll eat a pickle and *POOF* I’m good to go. The other night at around 2am I was lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, and picturing in my head the Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup in the pantry – just sitting there on the shelf in its crinkly orange wrapper, saying “Sancho, you know you want me, Oh Sancho...” I could see myself peeling the pleated brown paper away from the cup and then licking that little patch of chocolate/peanut butter that always sticks to the bottom. Anyway, I knew I wasn’t going to get back to sleep with that kind of tension hanging over my head. So I staggered into the kitchen, but went to the fridge instead of the pantry and ate a pickle. Ha ha, take that, Reece, you shameless hussy!
And so I slept happily and soundly until sunrise.
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And then I returned to the kitchen and constructed an architecturally unsound stack of flapjacks, which I smeared with huge pads of creamy butter and drowned in maple syrup. Mmm-Mmm good.
Ah well, Rome wasn’t built in a day. I’ll burn it off on the bike.
Sancho, you fiend! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
I'm hooked on Deadlifts. Normally I train 3 times a Week with additional Excercises, but in moment it's much toooooooooooooooooooo hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack of Hearts
You're on the right track, Jack of Hearts, Deadlift - Squats - Benchpress and Bicep-Curls. That's the way to go. Have fun and don't forget the Protein.
My arms are too skinny to donate blood. My veins are too small. :-/ The nurse lady told me to lift stuff more often, so today I did actual "exercise" and lifted some things.
Hahaha, that just might be the greatest two sentences of advice I've ever read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Finished my Wednesday night run, 3.8 miles by the light of a half moon. Cooling down with a Boddington's pub ale.
The cycling I do is good, but I need to do more. The gardening and walking I do also help, but I need to do more on the upper body. My daughter runs many a morning, but I have a dicky ankle - it would put me out of action if I turned it again. It's a pity as it's more interesting than the gym.
I told my wife about the 191 pounds that I reported earlier in this thread and she said I needed to go on a diet. It also turns out I wasn't weighing myself right. I guess you have to do this early in the morning the same time every day. It turns out I lost 2 pounds without having to do anything. I'm now 189 pounds.
Unfortunately, now my assigned goal is 180 pounds.
Thoughts of a 40-year-old man on the treadmill
In an attempt
To postpone keeling over
For a few decades
I jog and jog and jog
And risk keeling over
Every afternoon.
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Originally Posted by DocHeart
keeling over..?? why are you postponing that .. what would be next.. ?? :smash::smash:
Whoa whoa whoa. Doc doesn't get to keel over. This reader needs a travel guide when he attempts to navigate Greece next year (gotta stay out of the regions that still practice pederasty, you understand).
J
Short term goal: continue recovering from a speed running day three days ago (overdid it) such as today's 1 3/4 very easy bike ride.
Long term goal: beat my Half Marathon time of 4 years ago.
What it will take: long easy runs of 15+ miles (3 hrs.), 1+ weekly speed days, lose 10 lbs. in 3 1/2 months.
Because I'm off work I did 3k in the pool this morning instead of the usual 2.5. It should have been 120 lengths but I might have done 124 - after 30 I think I miscounted as the timing was out by 2 1/2 minutes meaning I had either swam VERY slowly or missed counting 4 lengths - everything was normal after that so I think it was my counting that was out but did an extra 4 lengths just to make sure.
I did the 120 in 70 minutes and the 124 in 72 minutes 37 seconds. I'm not impressed, I used to be much faster. Will try harder on Friday
Held a 9mm for 15 miles this morning. Right Achilles tendon hurts just a tad more than it should. Big toe callus tore off.
Shucks.
Was it a Walther?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
I can only assume you were tracking down feral hogs, but a hand gun isn't going to do much against that hide, except anger them.
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