Who is brave enough to join me?!?!
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After a month of depression, staying in bed and eating; I decided that it's time for a diet! I'm starting tomorrow with a day of cleaning and will repeat the cleaning every sunday, while during the week I will live of vegetable and fruit. Tomaz
I've got both Blues Brothers films on DVD, getting a few more DVDs to bounce around to and make a fool of myself in private :-D Not that I have an aversion to making a fool of myself in publice (as many people will confirm), just not found a good place to go around here :(( Stuff to get: Aerosmith Eurythmics David Bowie Queen Greatest Hits I & II etc.... The tigress is here :-D
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After a month of depression, staying in bed and eating; I decided that it's time for a diet! I'm starting tomorrow with a day of cleaning and will repeat the cleaning every sunday, while during the week I will live of vegetable and fruit. Tomaz
As I assume most people around here are engineers or similar. I can reccomend the "Hacker's Diet" or as the subtitle says "How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition". http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/[^] From the headline: "It treats dieting and weight control from an engineering and management standpoint". There is a pdf to download so no need to buy a copy either. James.
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After a month of depression, staying in bed and eating; I decided that it's time for a diet! I'm starting tomorrow with a day of cleaning and will repeat the cleaning every sunday, while during the week I will live of vegetable and fruit. Tomaz
I'll join you, though my diet will consist of pizza, ice cream, beer, and chocolate. My doctor says I should gain some weight and get more cholesterol. I'd love to subsist on fruits and vegetables, but I was taught to follow the doctor's orders. Besides, I haven't found a bit of edible fruit here in the past ten years - nectarines aren't supposed to have the taste and texture of balsa wood, and grapes should not be hard and sour. I'd recommend adding an exercise routine to your plan, though. It needn't be strenuous, but it should involve moving around. Take a walk (I walk two miles a day, to the bar and back), ride a bike, climb a hill just to see what the view is like from the top. It will actually increase your energy, hard as that may be to believe, to get out and work at something physical! Since I started exercising regularly I've had triple the energy I used to have, despite the fact that my weight has gone up by 7% - the distribution of mass has changed quite a bit, too! :-D "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Just my Opinion: Dieting = BAD RegularExercise = GOOD Hey don't worry, I can handle it. I took something. I can see things no one else can see. Why are you dressed like that? - Jack Burton
I'll second that, and it's not as hard as most people seem to think. You don't need to go to the gym three times a week, rather just walk instead of driving to your local corner shop for that pint of milk and a paper, or even walk to the McDonalds during your lunch break rather than gettig a lift with your coworkers. The little things all add up (and take what you don't want away). Exercise does not necessarily mean fitness building! That said, if your daily diet does not consit of fresh fruit and/or green vegetables (canned or frozen doesn't count) then you probably should go on a specialist diet, even if that simply means what you currently eat plus two apples and a corgette each day. (Apples are very important - the gas they produce cleans out your innards.) If you think eating green vegatables means taking a eating a bowl of lettuce, then try making yourself a spicey fresh vegetable stir fry with nice juicy chicken breast fillets. Yummy! You'll also find you sweat less kitchen grease each day. ;)
David Wulff
"i said no to noddy like 20 times but in the end i just couldnt say no to him anymore" - Wishful Thinking
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I'll second that, and it's not as hard as most people seem to think. You don't need to go to the gym three times a week, rather just walk instead of driving to your local corner shop for that pint of milk and a paper, or even walk to the McDonalds during your lunch break rather than gettig a lift with your coworkers. The little things all add up (and take what you don't want away). Exercise does not necessarily mean fitness building! That said, if your daily diet does not consit of fresh fruit and/or green vegetables (canned or frozen doesn't count) then you probably should go on a specialist diet, even if that simply means what you currently eat plus two apples and a corgette each day. (Apples are very important - the gas they produce cleans out your innards.) If you think eating green vegatables means taking a eating a bowl of lettuce, then try making yourself a spicey fresh vegetable stir fry with nice juicy chicken breast fillets. Yummy! You'll also find you sweat less kitchen grease each day. ;)
David Wulff
"i said no to noddy like 20 times but in the end i just couldnt say no to him anymore" - Wishful Thinking
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So... David... What's your take on the Atkins Diet[^]? ---
Not one of them, IMO, should be called beer. Maybe malt flavored mineral water. - Jörgen Sigvardsson on Bud, Coors and Miller
The Atkins Diet has had a lot of good press over here recently, with the aid of an unfortnately BBC reality style "Diet Trial" series (though I suppose if it helps people it's okay). I, personally, speaking as the previously dangerously underweight individual that I am, would never go in for a diet that required me to cut out a specific group, as I want to eat what I like to eat (which is pretty much anything but pizza and chips, or 'fries' as you call them), and what I do eat is not especially harmful in the quantities I do so with. Since I started my new job and so started eating a much larger midday lunch than previously, I have put on over a stone in weight! That brings me up roughly to my recomended body mass for a person of my statistics, but even so that much of an increase in basically a month has scared me a little as I do eat and have always eaten a well balanced diet. If it increases much more that it has then I will have to take actions to counter it lest I step even by one ounce above a "moderately normal" weight. I'm not fat by any means, in fact I am still quite thin, but I am still hoping it will balance itself out with my lifestyle because, to cut to the chase, I quite like to be able to see my own dick without the aid of a pocket mirror. :~ ;P
David Wulff
"i said no to noddy like 20 times but in the end i just couldnt say no to him anymore" - Wishful Thinking
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After a month of depression, staying in bed and eating; I decided that it's time for a diet! I'm starting tomorrow with a day of cleaning and will repeat the cleaning every sunday, while during the week I will live of vegetable and fruit. Tomaz
I'll help balance the cosmos by having extra red meat and hoisting a few more than I usually do. :) Seriously thought, I suggest you take up a sport in addition to dieting. Swimming, running, weight lifting, or martial arts are all great ways to boost your mood and get rid of stress.
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I'll join you, though my diet will consist of pizza, ice cream, beer, and chocolate. My doctor says I should gain some weight and get more cholesterol. I'd love to subsist on fruits and vegetables, but I was taught to follow the doctor's orders. Besides, I haven't found a bit of edible fruit here in the past ten years - nectarines aren't supposed to have the taste and texture of balsa wood, and grapes should not be hard and sour. I'd recommend adding an exercise routine to your plan, though. It needn't be strenuous, but it should involve moving around. Take a walk (I walk two miles a day, to the bar and back), ride a bike, climb a hill just to see what the view is like from the top. It will actually increase your energy, hard as that may be to believe, to get out and work at something physical! Since I started exercising regularly I've had triple the energy I used to have, despite the fact that my weight has gone up by 7% - the distribution of mass has changed quite a bit, too! :-D "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
Roger Wright wrote: My doctor says I should gain some weight and get more cholesterol. Ooooohhhh.... your doctor must be very popular around the block! Does he have some free appointment slots for me??? :rolleyes:
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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Roger Wright wrote: My doctor says I should gain some weight and get more cholesterol. Ooooohhhh.... your doctor must be very popular around the block! Does he have some free appointment slots for me??? :rolleyes:
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenpeterchen wrote: Does he have some free appointment slots for me??? Probably, but you might not like him. He's rather brutally honest, though it's entertaining to listen to him. He's Egyptian, and the accent is quite musical.:) "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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After a month of depression, staying in bed and eating; I decided that it's time for a diet! I'm starting tomorrow with a day of cleaning and will repeat the cleaning every sunday, while during the week I will live of vegetable and fruit. Tomaz
tstih wrote: will live of vegetable and fruit Me too, started couple of days ago. my diet is given below Morning 6AM 1. 500ml water in empty stomach 2. 100 ml coffee with milk 3. 45 mins brisk walking (about 5kms) 8AM 1. Slices of two cucumbers, one carrot, one tomato as salad 11 AM Team with milk and 2 biscuits (remember not cream biscuits) 1230 one glass buttermilk 1330 4 chapattis with dhal or plain palak 1600 one-cup tea 1800 one-cup tea and plain roasted peanuts 1810 cycling in Jim and about 1/2 an hour gymnasium Compulsory shower in the night 2100 slices of two cucumbers, one carrot, one tomato And two fruits one Banana and one orange or One Banana and scoop of grapes You can see little south Indian flavor in this diet, But trust me.. I am already started to loose weight Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude"
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tstih wrote: will live of vegetable and fruit Me too, started couple of days ago. my diet is given below Morning 6AM 1. 500ml water in empty stomach 2. 100 ml coffee with milk 3. 45 mins brisk walking (about 5kms) 8AM 1. Slices of two cucumbers, one carrot, one tomato as salad 11 AM Team with milk and 2 biscuits (remember not cream biscuits) 1230 one glass buttermilk 1330 4 chapattis with dhal or plain palak 1600 one-cup tea 1800 one-cup tea and plain roasted peanuts 1810 cycling in Jim and about 1/2 an hour gymnasium Compulsory shower in the night 2100 slices of two cucumbers, one carrot, one tomato And two fruits one Banana and one orange or One Banana and scoop of grapes You can see little south Indian flavor in this diet, But trust me.. I am already started to loose weight Cheers, Venkatraman Kalyanam Chennai - India "Being Excellent is not a skill, it is an attitude"
Good luck, man! I'm going to do reporting here every weekend to keep me motivated and to keep extremely positive about the situation [we are not fat and Americans are nowhere near Baghdad press!]. :-D El Tomaz
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I'll join you, though my diet will consist of pizza, ice cream, beer, and chocolate. My doctor says I should gain some weight and get more cholesterol. I'd love to subsist on fruits and vegetables, but I was taught to follow the doctor's orders. Besides, I haven't found a bit of edible fruit here in the past ten years - nectarines aren't supposed to have the taste and texture of balsa wood, and grapes should not be hard and sour. I'd recommend adding an exercise routine to your plan, though. It needn't be strenuous, but it should involve moving around. Take a walk (I walk two miles a day, to the bar and back), ride a bike, climb a hill just to see what the view is like from the top. It will actually increase your energy, hard as that may be to believe, to get out and work at something physical! Since I started exercising regularly I've had triple the energy I used to have, despite the fact that my weight has gone up by 7% - the distribution of mass has changed quite a bit, too! :-D "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
Now why do I like your diet more then mine? Brings me back to my carnivore days, when I refused all fruit and vegetables for moral and ethical reasons... Tomaz