O.O.P.S. 03/25/2007 (belated)--part 1

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O.O.P.S. 03/25/2007 (belated)--part 1

Submitted by oolyps on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 1:02am.

I've never had much of a weight problem before but my killer metabolism has abandoned me in my old age. When I was a teenager I could eat a bowl of Crisco and a bucket of sugar three times a day, still be hungry, and maintain an average weight of 128 pounds. Sometimes I'd get up into the 140s during the Winter months.

I'm not as active as I used to be. I had taken PE all of my five years of High School, even after I had earned the required credits, and after I turned 21 I spent every Saturday and Sunday Night at Thekla dancing until Last Call. A decade later I sit in front of a computer all day to earn a paycheck. The decrease of my hair has corelated with the increase of my gut.

During a previous Domestic Life I stopped going out to dance on the weekend and wasn't as physically active as I had been. My weight average rose between 150 and 160. At 5 foot 11 that was fine. After a brief time on a certain medication I ballooned to 195. When I got off the meds I went back down.

Currently I don't own a bathroom scale and can't even guestimate what my weight is. However, in recent weeks buttons have popped off my pants, the metal clasps on some of my nicer pairs have pulled themselves out, and my zipper doesn't want to stay zipped. I already don't have 7 pairs for the 7 days of the week, and now I'm finding myself using my buckled belt to keep the fly flap closed while wearing my work-issued jacket all day long to keep it covered. I have very little budget allowance for clothes shopping.

I don't look fat. At least not all around. I have my same old sunken chest, only now it's contrasted with a big belly.

I already stopped the daily McDonalds lunches, though I'm still working on the breakfastes. I haven't been drinking every Friday like I had before (however, I had already cut back on the drinking months ago, and the pants are only recently getting impossible.) I'm not adverse to eating vegetables and cutting back on mm-mmm yummy greasy meat but I refuse to be a calorie counter or content myself with plain rice cakes.

I'd like to kick myself in the butt and be active again. I have two hobbies outside of work, unfortunately they're almost as sedentary (blogging and doing a radio show) I can't afford to join a gym.

Pretty much I already know what I need to do. I need to limit the McDonalds to once a week or less. I need to eat more fruits and veggies while watching the dairy and meats. I need to stop taking the elevator at TESC, I need to buy a cheap-ass pair of tennis shoes and run around Capitol Lake a few times a week, I need to spend more time on the weekend hiking around town or in the woods outside TESC (especially since I've always loved the idea of hiking and have wanted to tackle some trails in the National Parks and
Forests.) I need to take up Swing Dancing again, especially if I'm not going to get myself drunk enough to dance at Jakes most weekends.

Basically what I'm asking is for someone else to just tell me to do what I've already suggested and maybe add their two cents too.

I don't want the Olybloggers to know that it's me asking this, so you can call me "Not Merwyn", that should be a good enough disguise.

Thanks

Not Merwyn,

Small steps will take you miles:

    * If you love McDonalds, make it a treat, not a practice. Try cutting back to once a week at most. The more you eat it, the more you crave it.

    * Bring your lunch to work and go for a walk on your break. No candy bar and coke lunch.

    * We are not fans of running, it's tough on the body. Besides, that seems like a big first step; maybe this can be a goal.

    * Hiking in the National Forests also seems like a bit of a stretch. Major lifestyles changes are difficult to affect. Our suggestion, urban hiking. It can be done anywhere--no driving required. Take to the streets, then go to the hills.

    * Swing dancing is offered at the Eagle's Hall through the Art Deco Society NW Tuesday nights.

"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."
                 -Ellen Degeneres

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Bike

Submitted by bubba z (not verified) on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 9:16am.

I ride my bike to the dollar menu & to work & well, everywhere else.

It keeps some of the blubber at bay, but hasn't helped with the scalp.

Also,

Zinc supplements keep the horny going..

Terrain suggestion

Submitted by Norm on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 10:34am.

A very good walk is around capitol lake, and it costs nothing. I used that while training to walk a marathon and it really is a very good trek. For shorter distances, the trek around the bottom part of the lake and using the railroad bridge is almost exactly 1.5miles.

Yes, a good swift walk

Submitted by stevenl on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 8:35pm.

Yes, a good swift walk around the Fetid Lake of Doom, increasing to a dead run when a caiman emerges from the water, is an exercise I find particularly energizing and calorie-burning.

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