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The Fell off the wagon thread

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:05 pm
by Lemuel Gulliver_Archive
About 4 years ago, I started eating very healthily and worked out like a champ. My genes are bad enough where this is about as much slack as I can allow myself. About 2.5 years ago, I started running and was aiming for a marathon. 2 years ago, I broke my patella twice in as many months. There were surgeries and I just started a new graduate program. I was wiped out. It was all I could do to get up and maneuver myself into position to crap, let alone do some sort of bastardized pushups or whatever with my leg being all fucked. I rehabbed like a champ, but that's hardly running 5 miles a day.

Basically, I was so exhausted I settled for whatever fast food was on hand, and getting back to working out well has yet to come back.

I need to go for about a month of eating nothing but oatmeal, apples, beans, broccoli, and chicken breasts. Maybe get all the bullshit out of the system.

But it's hard as fuck to go to the gym. I used to be able to whip through a fairly difficult workout. Now, it's really discouraging that I wince with every revolution of the elliptical machine. Fuck.

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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 9:36 pm
by bri2u2002_Archive
Hi,

I'm an alcoholic so I don't drink anymore. Painkillers and weed cause less problems for me. I'm not a saint.

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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 10:22 pm
by busbus_Archive
bri2u2002 wrote:Hi,

I'm an alcoholic so I don't drink anymore. Painkillers and weed cause less problems for me. I'm not a saint.


Whoa now, pain killers? I wanna say, take care compadre, yet I break down when the opportunity pops up. I hate having them around and yet, I like them. Weed is a saviour. I need to move to CA as I am depressed. :)

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:28 am
by Pure L_Archive
Everything in moderation. Including moderation.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:58 am
by coach_Archive
Pure L wrote:Everything in moderation. Including moderation.


Unless you're talking about a guitar solo.

Fuckin' A. Moderation has no place within a guitar solo.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 5:43 am
by Josef K_Archive
Coach wrote: Moderation has no place within a guitar solo.



The inverse of this statement is actually true.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:05 am
by bigc_Archive
Marsupialized wrote:
Sock OR Muffin? wrote:About ten years ago I broke a long vegetarian streak with a patty melt at the Vortex in Atlanta. I had driven 15 straight hours overnight from NY and was exhausted and starving. At that point a salad was not going to happen.

Jesus Christ, that was a good burger.


Was it a one time thing? Have you crossed back over at any point? Did it send you off into a tailspin?
He's from Rochester. God made those people carnivorous.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:22 am
by Josef K_Archive
busbus wrote:
bri2u2002 wrote:Hi,

I'm an alcoholic so I don't drink anymore. Painkillers and weed cause less problems for me. I'm not a saint.


Whoa now, pain killers? I wanna say, take care compadre, yet I break down when the opportunity pops up. I hate having them around and yet, I like them. Weed is a saviour. I need to move to CA as I am depressed. :)


I was taking cocodamol(sp?) last week for a sore back. My tongue went numb.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:33 am
by Sock OR Muffin?_Archive
bigc wrote:
Marsupialized wrote:
Sock OR Muffin? wrote:About ten years ago I broke a long vegetarian streak with a patty melt at the Vortex in Atlanta. I had driven 15 straight hours overnight from NY and was exhausted and starving. At that point a salad was not going to happen.

Jesus Christ, that was a good burger.


Was it a one time thing? Have you crossed back over at any point? Did it send you off into a tailspin?
He's from Rochester. God made those people carnivorous.


Yeah the vegetarianism was a one time thing.

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Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:57 am
by Dave_Eksvplot_Archive
lemur68 wrote:See what you did, Soup? You made Nerbly delete a post where he admitted to smoking crack.

I remember when I was 13, I told myself I was going to stop masturbating when I turned 14.

I not only fell off that wagon, I died of dysentery.


Oregon Trail represent!

(I used to name my characters after diseases in the hope that they'd die of their namesakes. "Cholera has Typhoid", etc.)