Quitting Caffeine and other Healthy Moves...
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
There's no evidence losing weight increases your health. Plenty of evidence that overweight people live longer (it's called the obesity paradox.) (Again, no ax to grind, if anything I'm slightly below normal weight for my height and age. People in my family live very long, regardless of weight. I had a great-grandfather live to 105 and multiple relatives past 95. Ironically, I also come from a long line of people whose livers produce massive amounts of cholesterol.)
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I saw my shadow in the shower yesterday. I am a fat boy. I always thought that having breasts would be way cooler than what it seems to be. They wobble when I run :( I am so going to stop eating crap and start using my exercise equipment. As I've said in the past.....
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Christian Graus wrote:
I saw my shadow in the shower yesterday. I am a fat boy.
Man, you're a funny person. You had to find it from your shadow that you are fat? You never look into the mirror? :-D Trust me, you will fold all your exercising equipments and put it back in a corner in four days flat. The best way to beat this would be to join a sports club , play something like tennis, badminton, basketball, etc., with regular and active members. You'll lose weight and get back on shape for sure. An hour a day must be enough for this. I remember it from an earlier post of you that you do swim occasionally. Actually, swimming is another pretty good way to lose weight too, if that interests you. :)
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
Exercise, exercise, exercise. I'm an extremely keen cyclist, so it's not what I consider a chore, but the one thing I notice is that on days when I don't get a ride in at some point I am tired by mid afternoon and I'm less productive in general. Admittedly its easier because of my location (Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland), for example, in ten minutes I can be riding along Loch Ness (ok well not along - but along side ) As I work from home my commute is usually from the bedroom to the office via the kitchen and the bathroom and as we all know the life of a coder is pretty static. Well anyway, as I say, exercise is my number one. I still probably drink too much coffee, although I have told the wife to stop bringing buckets of the stuff up to me :) Cheers
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Well, I'm not quitting caffeine as I am not actually addicted to it and I really do enjoy a cup or two of coffee in the morning. As far as fitness goes, I'm pretty damn fit since beginning muay thai and supplementing that with very intense cross training. For my diet, I just watch what I eat and try to pay attention to how I feel afterwards.
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Chris Austin wrote:
I'm not quitting caffeine as I am not actually addicted to it and I really do enjoy a cup or two of coffee in the morning.
Yeah, I'm not addicted either! I stop four or five times a day. ;P Try going without for a couple days, and then tell us you didn't get a headache X| .
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LOL! I'm doing the opposite. I'm trying to gain weight. Too thin I'm now. :) But for the last 4 years, it has been a quest in vain. And I've accepted my current dynamics as they are.
You're welcome to the MIM Diet, gain 10 lbs in a weekend plan....
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You're welcome to the MIM Diet, gain 10 lbs in a weekend plan....
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lol...I'm a pure vegetarian and don't drink. I only eat eggs and items with egg on the greatest compulsion. So you're welcome to try. :)
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
I gave up the fags a few years ago and started playing squash a couple of times a week. Last year I gave up eating meat as I'm not sure I want to eat all those growth hormones / antibiotics etc on a daily basis. Neither of these actions made me lose weight but both made me feel a lot fitter. This year I gave up booze and I'm losing a pound or so a week. Not just through cutting out alcohol calories but missing out the late night sandwich after a few beers and the saturday morning grease food all adds up to fair few calories each week. Russell
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30 minutes of exercise a day is all most people need to keep their weight under control. If your fat: - stop using elevators - stop using cars/buses for traveling short distances - join a sports team on Saturdays Don't go all crazy with dieting... be mindful of what your eating but don't stop eating junk food, or you'll just end up back where you started. Consistent exercise is the key.
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MarkBrock wrote:
don't stop eating junk food, or you'll just end up back where you started.
I definitely agree. I lost 15kg in about 3 months. I just went in a sports club and trained there. I changed my diet a bit, but I didn't overthrow it. A trainer told me that I'll get it all back if I stop eating fat food completely.
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You're welcome to the MIM Diet, gain 10 lbs in a weekend plan....
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:laugh: You cheeky bastard. I spurted out the tea.
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The great part is there is no scientific evidence that any of these things cause increased health problems. Ironically, they do cause increase health expenditures because the overweight and "clinically obese" live the longest. (The only reliable indicator of actual heart disease is high blood pressure. High cholesterol indicates nothing. Interestingly, there is evidence that drastically lowering your cholesterol increases heart attacks.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
The great part is there is no scientific evidence that any of these things cause increased health problems. Ironically, they do cause increase health expenditures because the overweight and "clinically obese" live the longest.
I am not sure where you get your scientific evidence from, but it has been proven many times that the way to live longest is to eat less.
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30 minutes of exercise a day is all most people need to keep their weight under control. If your fat: - stop using elevators - stop using cars/buses for traveling short distances - join a sports team on Saturdays Don't go all crazy with dieting... be mindful of what your eating but don't stop eating junk food, or you'll just end up back where you started. Consistent exercise is the key.
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MarkBrock wrote:
Don't go all crazy with dieting
That would be a mistake. If you're fat, it means you consume more energy than your body needs. Not used energy is changed into fat and left in your body for bad times, which never come. Stop eating food with lots of carbohydrates and fat (like coca-cola, hamburgers, bread, pasta etc.) AND exercise. If you really want to burn fat during and after exercises, try HIIT method (google it). Keep healthy :)
-- mYsZa
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
I've learned from repeated mistakes and am doing it slowly. At the moment that is a 15-20 minute walk (not strenuous) at lunchtimes and a few evenings a week a reasonably brisk walk. In 2-3 more weeks I'll increase it a bit. If you spring loaded the fridge door it would buildl one of Shog's biceps :laugh:
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MarkBrock wrote:
Don't go all crazy with dieting
That would be a mistake. If you're fat, it means you consume more energy than your body needs. Not used energy is changed into fat and left in your body for bad times, which never come. Stop eating food with lots of carbohydrates and fat (like coca-cola, hamburgers, bread, pasta etc.) AND exercise. If you really want to burn fat during and after exercises, try HIIT method (google it). Keep healthy :)
-- mYsZa
mYsZa wrote:
That would be a mistake. If you're fat, it means you consume more energy than your body needs. Not used energy is changed into fat and left in your body for bad times, which never come. Stop eating food with lots of carbohydrates and fat (like coca-cola, hamburgers, bread, pasta etc.) AND exercise. If you really want to burn fat during and after exercises, try HIIT method (google it).
So your saying don't drink coke or eat hamburgers? Most people arn't going to go for that. The results might not be as fast if you use the approach I posted, but it's healthier, and likely to hold for more than two weeks. Good things take time ;).
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
ummm. Here in the UK we have the NHS - some might argue that fatties, smokers, alcoholics, etc should pay extra tax to support their extra use of a public service. I've not had to use our NHS as a result of being a fatty, smoking, drinking or anything else that could categorise me as a financial burden on the NHS. The only times I've ever been to hospital was for 1 appendectomy, the removal of one pilonidal sinus and various sports injuries (admittedly a long time ago now). To get to the point: I will at some point in the not too distant future get around to joining the local squash club and actually playing the game. I have very little/no intention of quitting smoking. Same for booze - in fact I had a good session last night. As for dieting - I don't. I know I'm unfit or at least not as fit as I was when I left school (vast amounts of rugby and other sporty/active stuff) so I plan on doing something about it, unfortunately though I suffer from a serious case of idleitis.
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
I only drank water for the last three months before my son was born (no tea/coffee) and caffeine actually worked after that. I was wandering around in a constant head fog for that time though! I think that most people here will have built up a major tolerance to caffeine and that it barely works any more. Only switching to water/green tea for a while will allow tolerance levels to drop sufficiently.
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:laugh: You cheeky bastard. I spurted out the tea.
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mYsZa wrote:
That would be a mistake. If you're fat, it means you consume more energy than your body needs. Not used energy is changed into fat and left in your body for bad times, which never come. Stop eating food with lots of carbohydrates and fat (like coca-cola, hamburgers, bread, pasta etc.) AND exercise. If you really want to burn fat during and after exercises, try HIIT method (google it).
So your saying don't drink coke or eat hamburgers? Most people arn't going to go for that. The results might not be as fast if you use the approach I posted, but it's healthier, and likely to hold for more than two weeks. Good things take time ;).
Mark Brock "We're definitely not going to make a G or a PG version of this. It's not PillowfightCraft." -- Chris Metzen Click here to view my blog
MarkBrock wrote:
So your saying don't drink coke or eat hamburgers?
I do :) But not that often. I think I drink like a liter of coke / week, and two hamburgers / month on average. There is plenty tasty food that is not coke nor hamburger ;P Of course, exercising is important - if you can't change your eating habits, MOVE! :-D And move a lot to burn all the energy you consume.
-- mYsZa
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So what are other people doing to get healthier? I noticed in Alabama (I think.) that if you are clinically obese you have to pay 50% of your insurance premium and are eligible for fines if you don't change your ways and start losing weight. So you can do it by force or on your own but if you are doing it then what exactly have you done. John Simmons dropped soda pop and his weight came down like a crashing plane. I'm not so lucky. I have to sweat it off or I don't get any change. The rest of you??? Shog you are banned from this thread. I already know your reply and I'm pretty sure it's something like "I actually walk to the fridge to get my beer now instead of making my wife do it." :laugh:
code-frog wrote:
So what are other people doing to get healthier?
Believe it or not, Beth has got me into running. Nothing too complex, really - we started by just going round the block (half a mile if that), and now I'm up to about 2 miles solid,* and actually starting to enjoy it. :-D * That's a big thing for me, as all of the sports I've done to date (badminton, squash, 5 a side etc.) have been burst sports rather than endurance sports. I was never able to run before... We're looking for a 5k fun run to have a go at together in the near future, but I'm pretty sure that before too long Beth is going to start training for triathlon (it's in the blood - her Dad is a triathlete[^]). Either way, she's way ahead of me already - her idea of fun is a 6 mile combined run/swim (the leisure centre is just over 3 miles away...). :rolleyes:
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