I'm wearing cargo shorts right now and I hate myself for it.

Arson Smith wrote:Time to bring that shit DOWN.+1Arson Smith wrote:(Thank you for starting this thread.)+1,000,000Motivation, perhaps you will visit me tomorrow.

sleepkid wrote:I've been depressed for about a week now, and have lost 4 lbs. Overall, I don't recommend depression as a dieting measure, but it does curb your appetite (this may vary from person to person, and in some cases may be the exact opposite.)I don't need to lose weight. Of course you could do this, which leads to this:...and of course, you remember how that turned out. South Bronx Paradise baby!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WzKDdj0CxY&feature=related

busbus wrote:I'm never wearing cargo shorts again. Tim's spot on. Down with excessive pocket infrastructure.Right on.What's a good short design, Tim? I can never find shorts I like. This summer I started wearing shorts on a regular basis.Anything that looks like reasonable pants, only shorter, is OK by me. I like jean cutoffs if they're shitty and frayed enough.Andy Cohen says he likes the feeling of being nude in cargo shorts. When you walk and no cloth is touching your legs. I admit this practice feels seductive, but it is also decadent.Ptommydski wrote:I eat a lot of rice. Is brown rice okay?Yeah. Polished white rice is the bad stuff. Basically, I think anything your guts can convert to energy immediately is bad for you. That includes refined grains of all kinds. Soft pasta, bad. Al dente pasta, less bad.White bread and white cake are terrible. Dark chocolate, not bad at all--high fat content, not so much sugar.jayryan wrote:i already do most of the healthy stuff - i don't drink, rarely eat meat, have soda very rarely, exercise (though not enough), drink lots of water. my downfall is sugar, and meal portions.Personally, unless a guy has moral objections to eating meat, I would say go to town on the meat.Over the course of the last few years, I have come to believe that the food pyramid is fucked, and there's nothing wrong with eating meat. We've been eating it for thousands of years.It's easier for me to focus on what is good for me than what is bad, and I think meat is good for me. I eat a lot of it.I think the main thing is: eat plenty, eat enough, enjoy food, but eat stuff that sustains your body in a predictable, long-term way. Protein and fat do this. Shitty carbs do not.My friend (our friend) Andy Cohen got down to like 9% body fat by going hard at the meat/green veg diet for a few months, plus kettle bell workouts. 9%. Absurd.Ike, I drink disgusting amounts of La Croix.

kazoozak wrote:But that's not so much a motivator to want to work some of this crap off as is this picture, taken during PRFBBQtime:Those thighs. That ass. Fucking hell, that's mine.I am not dissuading you from doing whatever regarding your diet and so forth.But half the problem there is cargo shorts.I hate cargo shorts. I wore cargo shorts most of this weekend, and I hated myself for it. They're the white (or Asian) guy's sweat pants.No one ever looks good in cargo shorts, ever. They can be the most perfectly fit cargo shorts in the universe, and they will always look terrible.Guess how many pockets my cargo shorts have. Ten. TEN! Anyway, I recommend, as stated elsewhere:Meat and fishGreen vegetablesTomatoesNutsBerriesNo calorie-counting if you can stick to that stuff. Maybe don't eat a million tomatoes or berries, since they do have sugar in them. But they have plenty of other good stuff in them as well.Refined carbs are your enemy. White flour, sugar, polished white rice, all that stuff. The sugars in it jack up your insulin level and tell your body to store fat.Anything that has sweetener when it doesn't need it (applesauce, peanut butter) is extra-bad. I try to reserve sugar for ice cream and shit like that, which I will never eliminate from my diet completely.If you drink much pop, incl diet, you might as well buy a Rascal now. No potatoes, if you want to be strict about it.When I stick to that prescription, I shrink to 185 and stay there.When I eat pie and shit like that, like last week, I end up at 194 like I am now. It's entirely predictable. I will keep going up if I keep eating like that (which I will not).var wrote:I found a fitness blog written by a guy who seems to know what he's talking about, this is a particularly interesting article.What I Have Learned in Health and FitnessI agree with pretty much everything this guy says.

MrFood wrote:Luzwei wrote:MrFood wrote:See, this is the major problem with most of us if we're honest. To actually take the necessary steps to get truly fit is gonna have an impact on our social lives. Which is pretty sad if we're honest, but that's another debate...Social life or fitness?It's barely a question...Why is that?Because going out and getting fucked up with your friends is really fun. Being able to say that it only takes you 15 seconds to make a bowel movement isn't such fun.That really depends on your social life...

Rimbaud III wrote:Also, it should be made clear that a 15-second shit is not a shit at all. It's an extended fart.Speaking of which, how did quitting your job go?

I'm sitting at 205 lbs and should be around 190. I have my first physical in ages tomorrow with my hot doctor. I'm worried.

I'm never wearing cargo shorts again. Tim's spot on. Down with excessive pocket infrastructure.

Tim's post about cargo shorts hits close to home for me today. I actually felt sort of self conscious getting on the bus this morning wearing big/bulky cargo shorts. I felt like my mom had dressed me. I can't wait to get home from work and change out of these god awful "making me look fat" shorts.