DISQUS

brady234 · 2 months ago

Randy- I feel the difficulty of trying to keep exercise as part of regular life. I managed to do a decent job this summer, but as soon as summer started to close, so did my drive to exercise. I've been doing this at-home workout routine called P-90X. They show you what to do and you do it. Easy enough, except it's supposed to last for 90 days, and while I worked out for about 4 months fairly reguarly this summer, I spread out those 90 days over about 120. Ha!

I wonder constantly how to get motivation to work out and wake up early (I struggle with both of them). If anyone here has any ideas on how to get my lazy booty up in the morning, I'd love them!

Randy · 2 months ago

Spread 90 days over 120... that's funny... and so relatable. :). I work out in the evenings so ... ain't gonna help you there.

I am playing around with Google Wave right now... maybe I can start an exercise wave :).

R0bb13 · 2 months ago

For starters, I've only ever had Krystal once and it was never a temptation again. Blech! I know a lot of people who crave it, but I'm not one of them.

I'm 6' and three years ago, at 32, I weighed about 175 and tried to stay in shape by running 15 to 25 miles per week. I rarely ate dinner. I was always a little hungry and always a little in pain. I realized that my "target weight" was an unhealthy goal as it was what I weighed when I was 20, destitute and living on a pack of nabs and a can of coke per day, with the majority of my nutrients coming from beer and cigarettes.

I started eating whenever I was hungry again and cut back on running. I almost immediately put on 15 pounds, then another 5, then another 5. God started showing me just how distorted my body image had been. I looked back at pictures of when I was in college and I looked like a skeleton, yet I distinctly remember feeling like a fat slob. Today, a lot of people would consider me a fat slob, but I feel pretty healthy and attractive.

As I crested 200 pounds, I regularly got comments from people who had known me for a while saying that I looked great, that I looked healthy. Now, at 35, I weigh 240 pounds, which is probably a little much for me. I have a belly, but I don't really mind because I feel fine. I can still run two or three miles, walk forever, or get on the elliptical for an hour and not feel like I'm going to die.

I'm trying to drop a few pounds simply because I'm pushing my pants to the limit and I don't want to have to buy all new pants. I joined a gym a few months ago and I do a little weight training and try to do a lot of cardio. I hate being in the gym, so sometimes I'll walk there (it's almost two miles), do a couple of weights machines and walk back. It's almost like not going to the gym at all!

It would be nice to drop about 30 pounds and I know if I really wanted to, I could do it. But for now, as long as I don't get winded climbing stairs and I can get all my pants buttoned up, it's just not that much of a priority.

Randy · 2 months ago

Great Robb. My issue is I can work out till I am blue in the face, lift a car, do cardio for days... but I just really really like to eat. It's my body type AND appetite. I know what I need to do... I just gotta' do it cause every year I get older it doesn't get any easier.

Jonathan · 2 months ago

I don't know who redistributed Florida's weather, but if you find out, let them know they should take a look at Arizona. As for exercise...does walking to and from the kitchen count? I used to walk from school everyday, then I moved somewhere where the bus worked out better, and now God is blessing me with a ride from fellow students. I still miss walking sometimes, but it's entirely too far to walk the entirety in any direction in this weather, and I haven't really come up with other good options. Sword-fighting made for good exercise while other people were in good enough health and had time to do so.

donbeeson · 2 months ago

Jonathan, you are in Arizona? I'm in Tucson. Yep. we have only just now started to get below 90 in the last week or so..it feels so good! But poor Randy has 94 with humidity. 94 is way too hot for there in October.

Randy · 2 months ago

Srsly Don... that is SO true! WAHHHA!

Jonathan · 2 months ago

I'm up in Phoenix, born & raised in Tucson until I moved up here for college. I'd noticed you were down in Tucson from some of your comments awhile back so I popped a friend request at you on FB. At least it's a dry heat here :)

Randy · 2 months ago

::: post-it note:... check on AZ, got it ::: Dude, I think there are probably more options on exercising but ... I will pray the Lord gives you ideas :). Is the weather hot there?

kate_p · 2 months ago

Randy,
I believe you are familiar with my relationship with the elliptical machine from the very depths of hell.

Randy · 2 months ago

HOW can I forget. You and Fay both. I still like it ;-). If I have to do cardio...that's what I go too :).

Trent Todd · 2 months ago

Great. Now I'm having a craving.
I helped manage a copule of Krystals years and years ago and actually still like 'em... when they are made right... which is seldom.

Randy · 2 months ago

Just cast out the demon of Krystals Trent... cause there is one ... right?

Trent Todd · 2 months ago

Oh yeah. There's a demon alright. Especially if the rehydrated onions have been fermenting a couple of hours...

Randy · 2 months ago

Oh you know that's right ... pewww! A stinky one too.

donbeeson · 2 months ago

Randog, do you drink sugared soft drinks? I did until May. I started drinking diet drinks, and I have lost more than 25lbs just from that. It's amazing. I was 195lbs and 6'1". I am now 170 lbs. I do take 2 mile walks in the desert every couple of days or so. But cutting out sugared drinks has made a big difference. Is Mr. Hollywood still there? :) I was wondering why we hadn't heard anything about your workouts.

Randy · 2 months ago

Nope. I am a diet-cokehead. I think it might be all the ice cream? ::: shrug shoulders :::

Thanks for sharing your exercise routine. I can't afford Mr. Hollywood right now. He's awesome but ... money is tight. Especially after Gigantor. A walk in the desert sounds nice ... once. :)

donbeeson · 2 months ago

Yep. A new A/C unit certainly takes a big chunk out of the budget even with the tax credit and credit from Florida Power and Light(I'm thinking that is who you have, could be wrong). My unit is almost 20 years old. I have had it since new. And it could go at any time. For exercising, I also use a manual hydraulic stepper when it is too hot to walk and have some 15 lb weights for my upper body. The stepper is really good aerobic exercise.

Randy · 2 months ago

Sounds like good exercise but I hate stepper/stair climbers about as badly as Kate hates the elliptical machine.

Cheryl · 2 months ago

What's Krystal's? I think I'm glad it isn't in Canada. There's plenty of Fall up here, Randy. You're welcome to have some. And, I'm glad you're getting back on the wagon. You were making some serious progress. I don't think it'll take you long to get back to where you left off. It hasn't been 'that' long.

Randy · 2 months ago

Thank you for the encouragement. I am remembering how much better I feel when I do work out. I hear that an arctic front will be here and make the highs this weekend in the upper 70's ;-)

yes, be glad you don't have Krystals. :)

Cheryl · 2 months ago

In Alberta they are moving towards trans fat free food in restaurants. You can eat almost anywhere and not take in trans fat. I think that is amazing. Sugar and calories...well, that's another thing.

B.T.Carolus · 2 months ago

Cheryl, that is exactly what I was thinking (except I'm glad it's not in LA). Is it snowing in Montreal? My friend who is in Edmonton now just sent me video of the first snowfall.

Cheryl · 2 months ago

It isn't snowing here yet. The leaves are turning red!!! I was in Alberta on the weekend. Brrrrr. The night I left they had a big snowfall. Glad I don't have to drive in it. Have you ever been to Edmonton?

B.T.Carolus · 2 months ago

No, I haven't been to Canada at all. I will possibly be applying to the University of British Columbia. But I'm told that it doesn't afford a true Canadian winter, at any rate. My guess is that Chicago is much more similar.

Cheryl · 2 months ago

Chicago is like Montreal. And, Miss Ellie, you must come up to Canada! When you come to Montreal you will have a place to stay and a personal tour guide. Although, I am still figuring out Montreal myself. Yes, U.BC doesn't get much of a winter. It snows so rarely there.

Would you ever consider a Masters at McGill?

B.T.Carolus · 2 months ago

The best place for medieval history in Canada is Toronto, actually. UBC just happens to have somebody in my field with whom I could work. I don't know of anybody I could work with at McGill. I'm not sure about Canadian schools and financial aide for foreign students, though. I think on that score it will be easier to maneuver US schools.

Cheryl · 2 months ago

Yes, the financial aid dollars are few and far between. There are a lot of Americans here at McGill and a good number of them are fully funded. I have no idea if the medieval history department is good. I have found it's best to go to the school that will give you the connections you need to find employment after. If you come to visit Toronto, let me know when. I might be able to sneak away and meet you for coffee.