FuzzBob wrote:Exercise doesn't have to be at the expense of a social life. The most effective way to make exercise count is to set your daily life up so you're physically active within it, without thinking too much about it or dreading it because it's yet another demand on you.So true. I'm not an exercise buff, in fact I sort of dread it. I was running for a bit, which helped me lose weight, but I injured myself and that really set me back. I try to bike wherever I'm going to get exercise. I don't travel downtown every day for work, so this has become more and more important of a thing to do.

iembalm wrote:Okay.After some consideration, here are some goals I've set for myself for the now.No soda. No microwave meals. No fast food. Don't carry ATM card during the day. Bring lunch to work. Exercise, at least twenty minutes of raising my heart rate, three times a week, whether that's taking a long walk or swimming riding my bike to the grocery on the other side of town or running soccer drills at the junior high school down the street. I'm going to schedule a physical for October 4th, which is my 44th birthday. I just weighed myself and I'm at 243. I'm not going to look at a scale until that appointment, but if I stick to the above I don't think two pounds lost a week is out of the question, which would put me at around 220 or thereabouts. I'm a bit over 6', and when I'm in shape my weight is around 205.Hardest is going to be the soda.Cutting out soda is a great idea. Drink lots and lots of water. No processed foods is a good choice. Try lots of fresh veggies. Not too much fruit, due to the sugars. Learn to cook if you don't have the skills, and learn to cook from fresh ingredients as to remove any chances of processing. Go organic if you can, especially on the milk. Pick one meal out of the day to be your big one, the other two should be small. Don't deprive yourself of good tasting food or you won't last long.

What's a good short design, Tim? I can never find shorts I like. This summer I started wearing shorts on a regular basis.

tmidgett wrote:Guess how many pockets my cargo shorts have. Ten. TEN! Now I want a pair.Thanks.

placeholder wrote:I am in.I probably weigh twice as much as the next heaviest person on this board. Not going to tell you my wieght, but I'm certain you would be shocked and disgusted by it. I'm embarrassed to go out in public.On the upside, my cholesterol and blood pressure are fine and I'm not diabetic or anything. I don't have any health problems yet, but I know it's coming.Anyway, I'm off of diet soda completely and am only drinking water now. This was a huge deal to me, as I've spent my whole life drinking one hell of a lot of diet soda. I'm eating next to no bread, flour, sugar, or carbohydrates of any kind. I need to get out and start doing cardio stuff again, but the excruciatingly hot summer temperatures and my current work schedule are huge deterrents, as is my chronic laziness. Have to get over that. Maybe join the Y or a gym so I can work out indoors.Anyway, I've dropped a little weight, but keep undermining myself by lapsing into eating garbage here and there. I want to get back into fighting shape, but I have a lot of work to do."The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart... one must imagine Sisyphus happy." Good luck and godspeed. We're in this together.

I've started eating kind of simply and really enjoying this meal:I make a pretty big pot of rice. While it's still super hot, throw some sort of smoked fish into the bowl. I also boil an egg and put that in with the rice. I steam broccoli or sautee some brussels sprouts, serve that on the side.Then liberally apply some of this stuff:The smoked fish is different each time, but I've had pretty good luck with smoked salmon or....

I've been thinking about this post in the C/NC.I wonder if any PRF folk would be interested in "organizing" an 18 mile run along the lakefront? Sort of our own pseudo-marathon? We'd have to find volunteers to hose us off afterward (I mean before heading to Hopleaf of course), but that might be just as much fun.I hate to even bring it up, but it's got me thinking.Kind of like the Iron Man.... but the Aluminum Man.The PRF Aluminum Man 18 Mile Speed-Waddle.just putting that in my pipe and smoking it right now.

Wood Goblin wrote:dontfeartheringo wrote:I've been thinking about this post in the C/NC.I wonder if any PRF folk would be interested in "organizing" an 18 mile run along the lakefront? Sort of our own pseudo-marathon? We'd have to find volunteers to hose us off afterward (I mean before heading to Hopleaf of course), but that might be just as much fun.I hate to even bring it up, but it's got me thinking.Kind of like the Iron Man.... but the Aluminum Man.The PRF Aluminum Man 18 Mile Speed-Waddle.just putting that in my pipe and smoking it right now.I was intrigued by this as well. I'm nowhere near ready to attempt an 18-miler this summer, but it might be a goal for next summer.This summer is too soon, as is fall, probably. Winter is right out, since we're talking Chicago here.Spring 2011? May 1st maybe?(also, if you gotta wear shorts, these can look pretty ok.)

Wood Goblin wrote:dontfeartheringo wrote:Wood Goblin wrote:dontfeartheringo wrote:I've been thinking about this post in the C/NC.I wonder if any PRF folk would be interested in "organizing" an 18 mile run along the lakefront? Sort of our own pseudo-marathon? We'd have to find volunteers to hose us off afterward (I mean before heading to Hopleaf of course), but that might be just as much fun.I hate to even bring it up, but it's got me thinking.Kind of like the Iron Man.... but the Aluminum Man.The PRF Aluminum Man 18 Mile Speed-Waddle.just putting that in my pipe and smoking it right now.I was intrigued by this as well. I'm nowhere near ready to attempt an 18-miler this summer, but it might be a goal for next summer.This summer is too soon, as is fall, probably. Winter is right out, since we're talking Chicago here.Spring 2011? May 1st maybe?Problem with May 1st is that we Chicagoans would have to do some hardcore training during the winter. If a PRFer or two plans to run the marathon in autumn, perhaps the 18-mile run could coincide with their training schedule.The 2011 Chicago Marathon is Columbus Day weekend, October 9th, 2011.http://www.marathontraining.com/marathon/m\_longr.htmlYou should have one last long run before a marathon, then take a week off. I think. Someone help me out here....

Have been on a diet for about a month - no bread, spuds, pasta, rice or sugar. Lost a bit, still hardly sylph-like though. Have one day off a week, when anything sweet tastes incredibly sweet. CHutneys and pickles taste like jam.Josef K wrote: we've been working through the Tunnocks' product catalogue. Oh, sweet Tunnocks. Herr K, with this post, you are dangling the forbidden caramelly sweetness before me. Salivating like an ageing Labrador.Should cut out the beer, too, but as I sit in a room by myself all day, pretty much every day, without popping out for beer with mates once a week, I would go crazy.Josef K wrote:Mother fucker.Word. Is tough, the not-having-the-deliciousness.