I got a computer up and running, but Mrs trshmnstr is using it and I’ll forget to write this article if I wait for her to finish, so I’m phoning it in yet again!!
If you’ve been diligently working toward your goals, week 3 is the week when things start to come together. If you’ve been half assing it like me, week 3 is part two of the week of suck.
Even if you find yourself impatiently waiting for results, you’ve already established the habits necessary to succeed.
As for my week, it was a bit of a blow to the self confidence that the diet portion didn’t go great. However, I did hit my physical activity goal for the first time, and it’s hard to be too down on yourself when you don’t have to wear pants to work. (NSFW)
Ah, yes, the salad thread. I wonder what monstrosities are being masqueraded as food this week.
Monday dinner- Meat from a chicken thigh, grilled with leftover spicy barbecue sauce, cut into thin strips. Return to pan, add cubed leftover ham, spaghetti sauce, canned mushrooms and chili powder. Serve over small serving of linguini.
Every time someone makes and eats a pizza with a cauliflower-based crust, STEVE SMITH rapes a granola chick.
This makes sense.
Save granola chicks- eat bread
http://www.angelfire.com/pa2/STONEMANGUITARS/images9/r23.jpg
Picture of STEVE SMITH with his last victim
Stand up straight, hippie!
I’m not sure that even STEVE SMITH would touch that.
THAT NO STEVE SMITH! BUT HIM THINK HIM SEE THOSE TWO IN WOODS BEFORE. BY SEE IN WOODS, MEAN RAPE.
There are no tits, why are her tits all gone?
Yea, fathead pizza crust is way better.
STEVE SMITH SEE MANY GRANOLA CHICK IN WOODS IN NORTHWEST. BY SEE, MEAN RAPE.
…
BUT WOULD NOT MIND SOMETHING …CLEANER.
Tell us Steve, when you minister, and by minister mean rape of course, to the granola chicks do you give special effort to teaching them the benefits of eating meat?
Grilled onions, shredded chicken, pepper-jack cheese, medium rare steak, spinach, mixed with balsamic vinaigrette.
This was dinner last night.. Bacon, zucchini, and bell pepper. I’m not exactly suffering over here.
Going well here. Down 10lbs. Cutting bank on the beers has been a big part of it. Wife and I are also doing trainer directed workouts at 530am each morning. Pretty interesting concept. We get a 30 minute workout each day put together by our trainer that we can do at home. The difference is that it’s in video format so we can watch and exercise along with her instead of just doing a written out regimen. We can also go to gym to do workout with her in group setting, but when it’s freezing out, it’s nice to be able to do at home.
I only see 0530 if I’m *still* up.
I hate it. I’m a night owl.
I used to do P90x with my brother before I got fed up with the really, really obnoxious meathead who runs it (or at least that particular set of videos). Especially when you’re doing the same routine for the umpteenth time with the same meathead banter piping out of his dumb meathead mouth. I HATE THAT GUY.
So, 5:30 am porno is the secret to losing weight
We had many delicious vegan meals this week. I just can’t remember what any of them were.
Except my homemade breads. Mmmmmm homemade sourdough. Oh, that’s right, and a really wonderful roasted carrot-ginger soup I threw together.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN BREAD BAKING ONE.
HOW ABOUT GREEN BREAD…FOR THE ETERNALS IN THE VORTEX?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Up 3.6 lb(!) this week. Uffda. 13% of GlibFit goal and 17% of overall goal.
Back on the whores!
If “F” is for fuck, here is a useful calculator.
https://www.mensfitness.com/women/sex-tips/how-many-calories-you-burn-during-20-different-sex-positions
I have just learned that 30mins of doggystyle-fucking* is roughly equivalent to a single round of golf.
*assuming you’re not the receiver. in that case, its about 5 mins of tennis.
All 18 or just the back nine?
Incorporating a back nine will undoubtedly burn more calories.
So putting in the rough?
Hopefully she’s trimming the fairway.
I certainly hope she’s 18
*for clarity, it seems to indicate that doggystyle sex is burning roughly the same calories as an equivalent amount of time playing golf.
which seems to suggest i’ve been doing it wrong. that sounds way too easy. Or that they give way too much credit to the vigor of the average golfer. I don’t see how 20 mins of dancing could possibly be the same as 27 mins of golf. Dancing is non-stop, fullbody activity (like swimming), golf is short bursts of concentrated activity, and then not even consistent (driving balls – hiiiiiyoooo – would seem to me more vigorous exercise than putting/chipping, etc)
I have also learned that an hour of masturbating will only burn as many calories as a single can of beer.
The math is not going to work in my favor.
Still, the Internet has finally invented a “masturbation/beer” calculator. Science marches forward!
I managed to hurt my left hand. It aches when I bend the thumb, or apply pressure with that digit.
This is going to put a damper on my ability to lift.
My weight has remained stable. It hasn’t improved, but neither has it shot up as I feared. (I’m transitioning to cooking my own dinners every night from the existing diet plan’s crappy, salt-deprived entrees)
Ache is the wrong term. It’s more like a sharp pain when aggravated.
Do you know what you did to injure it?
I have no clue. Last night I was “Why is my thumb hurting?” It didn’t keep me up, so I went to work with a little ache. The pain actually went away most of the day but came back with a vengence in the past hour, so I took some painkillers. It is not fun trying to open those bottles when one thumb hurts to use.
Yikes, that sucks.
Hopefully it will recover by the end of the weekend. luckily it’s my off-hand, so I can do most things only slightly impaired. I guess my activity will be going walkabout in the rain again instead of lifting.
Maybe he was trying to work off a can of beer?
I took a slapshot off my arm right where the bicep goes into the armpit area Tuesday night. Hit me square and hurts like a bitch. I have a perfect red puck mark and the rest of my upper arm is purple. At least our wayward defenceman put the shot on net.
Fuck the douchebags who take slapshots in old man league. I had a bruise on my shoulder that turned every color of the spectrum from one of our dispshits.
This is going to put a damper on my ability to
*doesn’t know whether to be horrified or fascinated by where this is going*
lift
Oh.
I’m usually crushin ass and stealing souls
STEVE SMITH LIKE FIRST PART. BUT NO STEAL SOULS.
Dropped 4 pounds this month, with a goal to lose 11 more. I’m due for one of those whooshes, so I could see dropping another 3 by next week. Not stretching as much as planned and I can feel it in stiffened shoulders, neck, and back after some long snow removal days. I must start making this a normal routine before spring work kicks in.
I have a question for some of you fitness experts. I lost over 80 pounds when I quit drinking 3 years ago. I’m in very good shape physically, but I still have some stubborn stomach and chest fat that sags and is loose after losing all that weight. Any suggestions on how to get rid of this problem would be appreciated.
Unfortunately that really stubborn stuff sometimes just won’t go away without starvation or surgery. You can try going keto, but it’s no guarantee; the body can be a real bitch.
Yeah, the stubborn stuff just takes time. … A fucking lot of time. You can’t really spot reduce in areas, so all you can do is keep active, keep a good eye on your protein, and maintain a smallish deficit–through keto, paleo, counting calories, or whatever your chosen method is for losing weight.
whatever your chosen method is for losing weight
Tapeworm. I call it the North Korea diet.
Damn it! I thought I could just take double the recommended dose of Yohimbine HCL and that would solve the problem.
My comfortable weight is around 205, but that hanging fat gets annoying. My problem is during the landscaping season I don’t like to eat during the day, so when I get under 200 I get jittery and feel shitty on a long day. I think I just have to change my habits and start eating a breakfast or small lunch during the day and not pigging out in the evening. I’ve started to change my habits by eating much better since the start of the year. I’m learning to cook for myself instead of eating out every day like I have for years.
I’m just under 6’1″, so I got the room to drop some more weight. Maybe if I get down to 185-190 that loose shit will go away or get better. Maybe I’ll try that for round 2 of glibfit and see what happens. Thanks for the advice Q and Riven.
I’m learning to cook for myself
Tenuta’s hardest hit. 🙂
“Cooking” Tenuta’s is the baby steps – boil some ravioli or gnocci, heat up some sauce and meatballs, mix together. I still have about 8-10 meals left before my next stop in one month. I haven’t done anything fancy yet, but definitely getting better at preparing simple meals and enjoying a little experimenting.
Oh, I also wanted to mention that I really dig the micro-lending site that you linked. I’ll be sure to join up after I pay my taxes. It sounds like a fun thing to do.
It really is. I love being able to have a positive impact on the lives of hard-working capitalists in far flung places. Truly amazing to me how little money it takes in many places to change someone’s life for the better when they are willing to work and create something. Changing lives $25 at a time FTW.
Everything we’ve had from Tenuta’s has been great! It’s a good thing we have chosen to only have one car at present. Being able to run up there a couple times a week would definitely NOT be good for my GlibFit 90% plant-based eating goal.
I think lifting weights will help with the chest sag (squats, press, bench press, deadlift). The stomach, alas, is trickier, especially if you’re over 35. That requires some more intense, repetitive exercises like lots of burpees and push ups.
Hey, Pud. Sent you an email just now.
Sober 4/5 nights this week. Wednesday was a fluke, and by fluke I mean I was bored and sulking. Class work helps loads: I’m all-in on an Autocad project, waaaaay overdoing it, but it hits me right in the OCD.
Weekends are always relapse time, and I’m meeting with an ex for drinks tomorrow. I hold no illusions about my resolve (vis-a-vis the drinking or the ex), but I figure if I cut out weekday drinking, that’s a solid first step. I’ll start hitting the gym again next week.
I started looking into why bad hangovers put me in such a good mood. The short answer seems to be: it’s complicated. The long answer: it’s really complicated. I just know that I was more relaxed and a lot more sociable yesterday than I’ve been since the start of the term. Not worth the headache, but hey, you find your silver lining somewhere.
Calculate how many calories you’ll burn by having drunken sex with your ex.
A lot more once you factor in the stress of wondering whether she’s trying to get pregnant on the sly.
Spray and pray!
Also, get a prescription for Bupropion if you really think you have a dopamine deficiency. It will probably help with the drinking too since Bupropion works on your reward center and makes drinking (and smoking) less appealing.
Great work on getting further along toward your goal! (And on the classwork.)
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/967074699187490816
“We have to do something. This is something, therefore we should do it”
People who believe gun control makes the world safer are retarded.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES.
REMEMBER, THE GUN IS GOOD!
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Libertarian Moment!
So, maybe we should restrict freedom of speech to 21 years and older too, so we don’t have to deal with more of this CNN-backed horseshit.
Yes. Only special people with extra special training like that cop that sat there and didn’t do a goddamn thing should be able to buy guns before they can drink.
I usually lift twice a week and my goal was to add 2 sessions of cardio per week. This week I lifted once, then my basement flooded (which is where all my equipment is located). We have a company working on the water problem, and I’ll go to a boot camp class tomorrow, but this week is pretty much a loss.
Ugh. Sorry.
I’ve been watching our sump with apprehension all week. We have a fully finished basement which includes my office that has been flooded twice in 10 years when the sump failed. We had all our snow melt along with a shitload of rain this week so it’s been running non-stop.
Last I heard my sump pump is working. I can hear it from the bathroom when it kicks in (the bathroom is directly above where the sump is located in the basement). I’m overdue to check the basement for signs of trouble. (No daily activity takes me down there, so I make it a point to inspect the area every so often)
I have a battery powered alarm set up for it, but it sits in the crock. If one of us doesn’t stand at stairs and listen for a few seconds we would never hear it.
Dammit, I’m going to create an alarm and app that will send the info right to my phone. Patent pending! Patent pending!
Wink has one
Crap.
Ours was as sump failure. Been in the house 9 years and never had a problem, so we never got a backup and I (stupidly) left stuff sitting on the floor unprotected. We only had 2″ of water, but it was enough. There is a lot of flooding in our area because we got at lot of rain but the ground hadn’t thawed yet.
I was probably due a maintenance/recovery week anyway, so I’ll look on the bright side.
I’m up to rowing 5K twice per week with 3 days of free weights. I got my calipers in (my wife won’t go near them) and if I’m doing it right, I’m at 18% body fat. Not great, but hella better than two years ago.
Where did you get the calipers from?
Amazon. $8
Correction $6.41
So This guy?
Yup
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/967042805053800448
Well, that’s enough internet for today.
https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/967089197562712066
This was also on the page.
What is “vagina diversity”? As in what is he referencing?
https://www.chicksonright.com/2018/02/20/raising-your-skirt-to-celebrate-vagina-diversity-is-a-thing-now/
Yup, that brought up a little of the Chicken Vindaloo I had for lunch into my mouth.
“Hunter began the project by researching the historical links between the vulva and power in hope to develop a deeper connection to their own body, and more specifically their vulva, which is where they came across the history of Raising the Skirt.”
I think we all know that each one is different. I don’t get the point of this other than flashing your privates. This is just weird
Prurient interest of the organizer.
It explains a lot of bizarre depravity out there.
That actually does explain a lot; deviancy masquerading as wokeness.
I would like to just say that I appreciate the uniqueness of all vulvas
Vulvae?
The creator of that website is certifiable.
https://www.raisingtheskirt.com/hunter.html
Definitely NSFW. NSF anyone. Don’t look at it.
Me too. I just wish they still made the 240, though.
Hunter began the project by researching the historical links between the vulva and power in hope to develop a deeper connection to their own body, and more specifically their vulva, which is where they came across the history of Raising the Skirt.
Note: Hunter is an individual, but apparently her vajayjay contains multitudes. Multitudes of what, exactly, I hope never to find out.
Ummm… everyone’s squishy bits look different, why is this so groundbreaking?
vagina diversity means you need to eat at least 7 shades of pussy in your life, from very light to very dark
I lift three times a week and eat whatever I want all the time.
Its really easy to maintain.
I’m sorry you don’t have any friends left.
stop running this thread it is depressing
I’m not up to running yet, just walking a few miles (round trip)
My diet has gone from one extreme to the other. I’ve been eating a lot of Mediterranean Food recently. Falafel is nice but it’s not beef. This morning I sobbed quietly to myself while gorging on a red velvet donut because my workout last night sucked. This lady brought her two kids with her, one of whom had issues keeping up, so being the magnanimous individual I am, began coaching the kid. He might’ve broken a toe if I didn’t show him what he was doing wrong.
That’s not what made my workout suck. It was the other two crowding me, plus the lady starting making “sexy” noises while doing plank. Its like, “can you shut up lady, that’s really distracting!”
If I had to work out around other human beings, I’d never get any exercise in. I become self conscious of every little shortcoming and feel judged, regardless of the actual apathy of the people around me. So I do it all at home.
I lost 10 pounds by having a stomach virus and then food poisoning in a two week span. Unfortunately most of it was water weight. I’m so dehydrated.
That’s really going to great lengths to achieve your goals.
I started my fitness kick and keto diet 2 years ago after having my appendix out, followed by C. diff. It was a great catalyst!
On the plus side, I think I’ve completely reset my gut fauna, so my girlfriend’s cooking doesn’t bother me as much. Which reminds me, I should get some of her recipes to submit, she makes a fantastic goat curry and aloo ki tikki.
These are like the best worst posts ever. You should start a newsletter.
Commodious, I’m comin’ back to ABQ today. Any new places I should check out? Last time I was there was about a year ago.
This also means a bad week for GlibFit since I’ll be gorging on the greatest food known to mankind.
So.Envious. I miss living in Northern NM so much. *sigh*
Oh, man. I am the worst to ask this sort of thing, homebody that I am. What brings you into town?
Visiting my parents.
Dammit, Q, if you’d given a bit more advanced notice then I’d join you two.
… Hobbit
Meh week.
Great leg day Monday ,awful chest day Wednesday, going to try to finish strong today with some deadlifts. Food was fine, but my appetite has been shit. I think I need more sunshine.
Yes. I’m so sick of the gloom.
I did my three mile run yesterday – due to do some resistance training today. And since Friday is usually my kick back evening getting myself to do this will be difficult. I suppose I should just get back to the bench instead of the bands, but I’m not ready to go into my unheated garage – yet.
I still went running on Tuesday – during some of the craziest squall rain I’ve seen for a long time. I started with dodging puddles and the little streams covering the road. But a quarter mile later I was soaked so it didn’t matter. And hey – the fastest time I’ve ever done for 3 miles!
My fastest 10K was on a hilly course in miserable weather. I think miserable weather helps you ignore everything else. Plus you just really want to be done.
People who run amaze me. My brother -the one Bacon and Swiss have met- is a runner, and his kid is a long distance runner.
It’s remarkable to me that people do this “for enjoyment.”
Mmmmm. Now I want a bacon and swiss burger.
I look at running and the first thing in my head is “how does that not destroy every joint from the hip down?”
Logically I know it’s something the human body is supposed to be able to do, and is built around.
Not everyone.
Running capacity is distinctly genetic.
Get a bicycle
Me + Bicycle = Me on pavement in pain.
I’m definitely not a great runner – I only like to do 3 miles, with a few blocks of walking mixed in. I only recently started jogging to help reduce anxiety.
It is just nice to get out of the house, free of any responsibilities, and the ability to choose whatever route my feet will take me. My neighborhood is also very good to run in – a lot of really nice houses, parks, and wide streets. Plus the sidewalks are plowed (but I still use Yak Trax). With all the speed limits set to 25mph, and also being a known running area, it is also pretty safe.
Worst part? There is a local college, which means I will see much younger joggers. And then my competitive nature kicks in and I try to keep up with people ~25 years younger than me. *kaff* and then I start coughing out those cigarettes I smoked 20 years ago.
UNPOSSIBLE!
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-23/you-can-t-have-denmark-without-danes
According to Will Wilkinson all we need are more Democrats.
Not mentioned is how Denmark is protected by the US military leaving them with more money for social programs.
Yeah, pretty much.
NATO is basically the US. But, saying that obvious truth is offensive or something
Interesting how high social trust in Europe is due to US foreign meddling…
I find the social trust issue interesting. how will trust lead to less government? Who are these libertarians that trust the government and police? Or how classical liberalism grew out of distrust of the government?
Or in Denmark’s case absolutism ended because of fear of revolution. Real high trust society. Or the Schleswig-Holstein Question. Or the Provisional Period.
I don’t think McCardle is arguing that trust leads to less government, rather that trust leads to a different kind of government. Her argument seems to be, that Denmark’s government is not small (relative to the size of the country), but its choices reflect the high level of trust people place in each other. So, taxes are sky high but so is productivity, meanwhile regulations are fairly low and so is noncompliance.
I don’t know how true these propositions are, but it certainly seems plausible. The problem is, as McCardle notes, there is no identified causal mechanism. Nobody knows why exactly Denmark is this (if it is) nor how to replicate it. Moreover, McCardle summarizes by saying essentially the U.S. has values that Denmark doesn’t and she wouldn’t take the trade. Neither would I.
Denmark has (had) a monoculture built around trust and small communities. With mass immigration, I don’t expect that to last.
Denmark is the one place that has no mass immigration. You are correct – if they cave and import shiploads of savages their little paradise will collapse in a heap of shit overnight.
She’s also saying that you can’t import Danish style governance to the US because there are fundamental cultural differences. I would also like to say that trust is earned, and our government and public institutions have given us no reason to trust them.
I would also like to say that trust is earned, and our government and public institutions have given us no reason to trust them.
This is a very good point. The Danish government may have done much to earn the trust of its people. Our government has done the exact opposite, by and large.
This may stem back to the fact that the U.S. has never been one culture, it has been a range of cultures with a nonempty intersection. Even looking past the massive cultural issue that slavery was (among all the other things it was), just looking at modern American society, there are more divergent cultural factors than unifying ones. People who spend much of their lives collecting welfare checks vs. people who spend much of their lives being net taxpayers. People who think the right to keep and bear arms is an essential element of citizenship vs. people who think few if any should have guns. People who think speaking English is a core element of what it means to be American vs. people who don’t. People who think race, skin color, or ethnicity is more important to their identity than being American vs. people who think the opposite. People who think the government is here to protect and serve vs. people who think the government is composed of self-interested individuals doing as much as they can to enrich themselves. People who think the government should reflect the society it governs vs. people who think the government should shape the society it governs. People who think every problem should be solved with government action vs. people who think government action should only be a last resort. So on…
I’m not sure where I meant for this go, but it wasn’t supposed to be a reply to myself here.
Well Gillespie and Bailey have complained that low-trust does not lead to libertarianism. Not acknowledged is how these high-trust societies actively eliminated the elements they mistrusted not passively accepting them.
Why are you quoting Gillespie and Bailey if you’re talking about libertarianism?
A burn worthy of your avatar. Well played, sir!
Thank you kindly, good sir
Well Gillespie and Bailey have complained that low-trust does not lead to libertarianism.
I think they look at the picture wrong. The people who have “low trust” in other Americans in general have high trust in other people like themselves. It’s just tribalism. You see it all the time when people make tone-deaf or offensive statements that their own in-group wholeheartedly agrees with (not that libertarians would know anything about that…).
In the American context, high trust levels as applied to government are a reflection of the belief that government is composed of people “like us” and that we can form a more homogenous society by the application of government policy. We’ll all eventually come to love gay marriage, or whatever other culture war bugaboo you can think of, if we can just get “our people” in government to do “the right thing”.
This is part of the reason for the complete and total meltdown over Trump getting elected. It destroys the (apparent) basis of that selective trust. Never mind that it’s almost completely irrational and hypocritical in the context of American history and government. It would be like if all of a sudden the Danish government were replaced with foreigners who hated the Danes. Suddenly that whole system comes crashing down. Of course, that’s a gross exaggeration if one takes a step back, but that’s what it feels like to a lot of people in the U.S.
What we need is an inversion of this paradigm. Higher trust in people, even when you dislike them, and lower trust in government, even when you like what it does.
Or how classical liberalism grew out of distrust of the government?
It is possible that Danes removed the factors leading to distrust while retaining some of the values that grew out it. For example, they got rid of an aristocratic ruling class and in its place established social mobility not just along economic lines but political ones as well. Whereas many Americans see their own government full of disinterested and unaccountable people who share nothing in common with them, Danes in general see their own government as full of people just like themselves who care about their fellow man. Hell, maybe it’s even true (in Denmark, and for the most part). But the difference is that in the U.S., people who see the government the way the Danes do tend to have a very tribal definition of their “fellow man” and tend to ignore, discount, or consider necessary all the evidence to the contrary (“you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet”, and all that).
Put another way, the difference between Denmark and people who want the U.S. to be “like Denmark” is that the former are living a reality while the latter are living a delusional fantasy.
US > Denmark and every country in Europe
Just a fact
Perhaps; I’m not trying to put Denmark on a pedestal here, only taking McCardle’s argument at face value and examining its implications.
Fuck it, I’ll miss her articles when she moves to WaPo. And I’ll miss the core commenters even more.
OT: I’ve read in several places that Chevy Chase is a total dick IRL.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2018/02/we-were-in-right-lane-and-as-we-came-up.html
That’s been the story for a long, long time. Supposedly that’s why he stopped getting decent roles by the late ’80s – no one wanted to work with him any more. Look at his filmography after Christmas Vacation – he headlined a couple of bombs (Nothing But Trouble and Memoirs of an Invisible Man) and then ended up in either headlining complete garbage or tiny roles in decent movies.
The way he left Community would confirm that -they filmed his last scenes (final episode of the season) before they filmed intermediate episodes IIRC.
Yeah, but “nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-naaaa…..” will live on forever.
I’m down 6lbs during the challenge and 23 lbs overall. The diet is starting to become habit, but the physical part isn’t there yet. I’m hoping that our pending move of office to a place with a gym will Kickstart that side of fitness.
Nice job!
My gym is five minutes from the office. Lifting in the middle of the day has been a good thing for me, both in creating habit and breaking up the day.
Awesome!
I dropped 13lbs without even joining this challenge. I got the flu instead, suckers!
Man, this week was a total wash. I go off the rails whenever there’s a vacation day in terms of the lifting schedule, so I missed two. Today would be my third, but I tweaked a nerve in my neck this morning so I’ve got to put it off until tomorrow. On the positive side, I’ve kept up with this whole intermittent fasting bit and not only is it getting easier, but I’m not gorging on the crappiest food I can find during my eating hours.
Forward motion of any kind is a win.
Shoot, I’ll take lateral movement in a pinch!
I have been terrible about getting enough sleep. Damn you Olympics (shakes fist at universe)! I also hurt my right foot, so no running. And, I am terrible about stretching. Overall, not a good week. I resolve to do better.
#metoo!
You can do it! We both can!
You’re the best cheerleader here. Most of us would have just responded with a link to something unrelated or said something like “you know who else was terrible at stretching”.
I want people to succeed. Sometimes it only takes one person (besides the goal-setter) to believe in them.
And I am chagrined at not having been able to be in on this thread the past two weeks.
You’re far too kind to be associated with us dregs of society
You know who else was terrible at stretching?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8pAM4VXvI
Winnie the Pooh?
We invested in a Tablo (antenna DVR) when we cut the cable. It makes watching the Olympics so much easier. We also get to fast forward through all the boring human interest segments and any time Johnny weir is talking.
*hangs head* I am full of fail. I’m back to where I was at the beginning of the year because *ba-dum-tiss* my business is going gangbusters.
Whoever suggested Chronometer–THANK YOU!!! I was keeping track of carbs (in my head) (which were accurate), but nothing else and boy-howdy. This is probably the easiest diet tracker I’ve ever run into.
So, back to the grindstone for me, but now armed with a little bit of information (that, truthfully, I was skeert to look at).
It might have been me. I adore Cronometer!
It’s the best I’ve found for tracking micronutrients with customized ranges. Makes my life so much easier, since I need specific amounts of some of them for a health problem.
And I love entering my recipes and having them easily pop up in the search when I am adding food.
Thank you!!!!
Haven’t done a recipe yet, though I can’t wait to try. My son bugs me for my marinara, and I make that as low-carb as I can.
I have some other nutritional software (for writing cookbooks) and the Cronometer values for recipes I input come out pretty darn close to those.
Speaking of recipes, you should submit your marinara recipe (and others) for the potential Glib Cookbook! See link at top.
I recommended it to someone, but I don’t think it was you. In any case, yeah, its great.
I do love it.
Derp of the week?
The dreaded AK-15! It must be nuclear, since a pussy cop with a mere conventional weapon couldn’t stand a chance.
I also rather enjoy the notion that a murderous idiot “methodically plotted” his attack as if he were Hannibal Smith or something.
“The three saddest words in the English language: Joyce Carol Oates”
– Gore Vidal
I remember being forced to read her drivel in school. Some BS short story about a pathetic deplorable shooting a deer and then a kindly old lady dying trying to comfort it or something. Obviously she’s gotten smarter with age.
You don’t approach a wounded animal unless you’re lining up a mercy shot to finish it off. then you don’t get closer than need be to get a clean kill.
It’s funny that you think Joyce Carol Oates has ever been hunting or has basic common sense to understand this
Oates is not the kind of person I would expect to understand actual, personal, violence. She resembles a mouse in human form.
“Methodically plotted” = “go into a gun-free zone, kill as many children as possible, then commit suicide when any armed resistance shows up”
It’s very clear that most shooters do exactly the opposite of methodical planning. Methodical planning would involve fire alarms, locked doors, IEDs at gathering points, and shotguns. It’s clear that these shooters are mentally defective and impulsive to the extreme.
You sure know a lot about Methodical planning……..
To defeat your enemy, you must know your enemy.-some old guy like 100 years ago
Good thing we’re already on all the lists, so it doesn’t matter!
Methodical plotting could be muttering “I’mma kill these motherfuckers” over and over again to yourself.
And yes, you idiot, I do expect the armed police officer stationed at the school to provide security for the school. What’s his fucking gun for, kids smoking in the bathroom?
God damn, now I want AK-15 to be a weapon in hypothetical Saints’ Row 5.
GTA series is more likely to get it (as well as parody people like lovely Ms Oates) but fuck GTA.
You forgot the important questions- Does it have the shoulder thing that goes up? Can I get automatic rounds for it? What about a bump magazine? A chainsaw bayonet?
In Saints’ Row? Yes, and an optional dildo attachment.
The James Bond “The World Is Not Enough” game on the N64 had fictional gun names, for whatever reason. The KA-57, the Meyer TMP, the Wolfram P2K…
I think goldeneye was the same way. KA-57 rings a bell.
I think you have to get permission from the trademark/brand owner to depict their weapons. The same is true of cars, which is why some games have fake car models.
Saints’ Row actually does that, too. It works with their over-the-top aesthetic, and the fact that maybe, just maybe, having real-world weapons next to the combat dildo and drone control console might be silly…
Notably, in Far Cry 3 and 4, they have M1As, but they’re called MS-16s. Obviously, done without ‘permission’ because all the hardware is rigged for a lefty.
Is Far Cry worth playing? I thought about getting Far Cry Primal but am on the fence.
Haven’t played Primal. Looks like you need some quite impressive hardware.
Far Cry 3 and 4 are pretty formulaic resource-gathering shoot-em-ups. 5 will be too. The difference between ‘easy’ and ‘hard’ isn’t that great, and the AI is ho-hum. On the upside, there’s plenty of destruction to perpetrate, it has its funny moments.
Since it’s UbiSoft, it has all the tower-climbing nonsense that Assassin’s Creed has, along with 3 or 4 cookie-cutter types of human opponent. Unlike Assassins’ Creed, it doesn’t cut to idiotic Illuminati-esque modern storylines.
Worth getting if there’s a discounted deal going on. FC3 and FC4 probably have about 40-80 hours of gameplay in them.
Sounds good, thanks. I’ll probably pick it up then.
I expect I’ll get FC5 when it comes out.
I expect it’ll come down pretty hard on those deplorables and bible-huggers.
I think I own FarCry 2, but I got bored with it and din’t return to the series.
FC1 and FC2 were far more like DOOM, IIRC. I remember playing one of them years ago and I seem to remember that it had a totally linear game progression.
Blood Dragon is.
Cool I’ll check it out
I’m getting primal once it’s on sale.
I got Wildlands for cheap, which fit that role of a far cry like game a while back and like it a lot.
Well the bullets from a rifle are three times as fast as from a handgun, so of course the cop or anyone with a mere handgun wouldn’t have a chance!
/derp
Why just the other day I was merrily cleaning my loaded handgun in front of a bus full of school children when it accidentally discharged. So, I hopped right next to it and turned it away, and five minutes later it harmlessly hit a tree on the side of the road. You can bet I was pretty embarrassed!
how could a single school guard, armed with a conventional weapon, expect to confront & “kill” an individual w/ AK-15
A simple three step process:
(1) Enter the building
(2) Run to the sound of gunfire
(3) Point weapon at shooter, pull trigger
Its not fucking rocket surgery, Joyce.
Well, Joyce Carol, I’m not a professional law enforcement tactical expert officer or anything, but I’d assume that’s why the cop is armed with more than strong language.
Wow. Did a bit of Internet research on ol’ Joyce Carol. What a shitty, shitty person. And dumb as a bag of hammers. No linky handy, but she actually saw a troll tweet of Steven Spielberg in front of a triceratops he “killed on safari”, and she tweeted her dismay at conservation efforts. She’s the very image of the stereotypical out-of-touch Manhattan elitist snob.
Finishing up Week 2 of grain-free. So far I’ve lost 5 lbs eating mostly meat, eggs, butter, and vegetables. My kids have voluntarily tripled their protein and fruit intake. It’s going good so far.
That’s terrific!
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/967116820464455684
Robby’s got his claws out. Meeeowww
No, seriously, this is a decent piece. So good that Robby probably missed a hair appointment so he could finish it.
Broken clock.
A broken clock can be never right – if it’s digital, or it broke because the hands fell off.
Reason comments section will make a man out of him yet.
Even if they have to resort to STEVE SMITH.
I’m continuing with the same regimen I’ve had since 2009, which is run as far as possible and lift as much as possible while still living a somewhat normal life. I know that burning all those calories running is holding back muscular gains, and packing on muscle is holding me back from running much farther, but I enjoy doing both of them.
I think my new goal is to get my arms and pecs bigger. Years of core exercises have given me huge legs and a thick torso, which is great, but my arms and chest look disproportionately small.
In the areas I’ve managed improvement, my shape hasn’t actually changed, I just find the ratio of fat to muscle has changed. The only exception is in my face, where my cheeks and jowls have actually shrunk. This, however, is only noticable by comparing my current features to my driver’s licence image.
My main goal – reduce the gut – still eludes me.
It’ll come. Everyone’s body burns fat from different areas in a different order. Just keep up the calorie deficit and the exercise and it will burn off.
The gut is the last place where fat hangs on for men. It’s frustrating. My midsection has gotten so bulky that the six-pack lines kinda-sorta show through anyway, so that’s one possibility.
Run as far as possible
Again with the crazy talk. 😉
Doing what you enjoy, especially with respect to physical activity, is a good thing (assuming NAP, of course!)
It’s also good you recognize the trade offs from running AND lifting. Sounds like you’re doing well.
I’ve been lifting three times per week, adding a little weight each time. I actually need to gain some weight to increase muscle mass, as I want to lift more.
I’m 48, 6′, and currently weigh 199. PRs last June were:
Deadlift 330 (1 set of 5 reps)
Squat 300 (3×5) But I wasn’t going low enough when I made that. I need to go below parallel for the program I’m following.
Bench 155 (3×5)
Press 135 (3×5)
These were all at my workplace gym. Body weight then was 197.
I had to reset last summer, mainly because my wife and I were so busy selling her house and buying one for us. I convinced her we needed to purchase a squat rack, so she and my stepson can lift as well. They’ve both enjoyed lifting.
I reset last December. I think if I can get up to about 205 or 210 lbs, I can gain the muscle mass to lift more. I’m hoping to get my deadlift up to 400, and my squat to 350. It’s not much compared to some (I’ve seen guys in their late 60s deadlift 500). But, it’s good enough for me. Perhaps I can continue beyond that when I reach those numbers.
The key thing for me is to maintain strength so I can stay healthy. I feel better now than when I was in my 20s. I don’t want to be old and weak, or get winded walking up a flight of stairs. Plus, this allows me to enjoy some things like good craft beer on the weekends without bad effects.
Doh! ‘m 47 now. Getting ahead of myself. I I was looking at a calendar when I typed this (I’ll be 48 in March).
Because he knows it’s impossible utopian bullshit.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/polis-sidesteps-question-about-costs-of-100-renewable-plan/
WTF? This doosh was gonna inherit almost a million dollars? He could’ve spent the next year doing coke and banging hookers; instead he’ll spend the rest of his life in prison. What a moron.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/02/22/nikolas-cruz-pub-defenders-inheritance/
Welp, he has some good evidence for insanity defence…
Or maybe the people that took him in were planning to loot his inheritance and that was the last straw. Who knows? Whatever is going on with his brother is hinky.
Quote I ran across today:
Hollywood and the media have been churning out blatant propaganda for years.
Or decades. They just used to be good at it.
Seriously, you can’t make something like this with Al-Qaeda? South Park effort notwithstanding.
On the topic of Hollywood and propaganda, I watched a documentary on Netflix recently called “Five Came Back” about the famous American directors doing propaganda films for WWII. George Stevens’s story is really interesting to me. He was apparently famous for being this brilliant comic director, then he goes and films D-Day and I think is the only American filmmaker who gets footage of Dachau, which is then used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials. He did one last comedy after he got back and then everything was The Diary of Anne Frank, or Shane, dramas, stuff like that. He had reels and reels of footage from the camps that he kept in a vault at his ranch, and the story is that, to get ready to do The Diary of Anne Frank he decided he’d watch them, which he hadn’t done at all prior. He put the first one on for one minute and then turned it off and put them all back in the vault, never to be seen by him again.
This week was worse. Im back to 3000 calories a day. 135.
Need to finish that cheesecake I made the other day.
What kind was it, and hell yes.
This is my third one. all in New York style, the first had a bit of lemon and grapefruit. The second I had an oreo crust and put a quarter cup of peanut butter into.
This one is plain, I added a bit of buttermilk, and went with oreo again.
If you have access to a sous vide, you really need to try making it with no crust in a mason jar in sous vide. Its kind of outstanding.
Really need to get over 150. Today for breakfast I had a cheeseburger with a fried egg on it. Lunch was Chinese food. I’m snaking on cheesecake and a cider now.
Homemade pizza tonight.
Don’t forget the chocolate casein milkshake with ice cream for dessert.
It arrived monday, I’ve been doing shakes in the morning before I leave for work.
Skipped a few days, but it’s been going ok.
The firm I sublease from is running a race together (10K), and asked me to join, so I have more motivation than before. Yay me. As a result I ran nearly 3 miles today.
You blow me away. Wow!
I just overhead part of a coworkers phone conversation as I was walking by – “…make sure the chimney is good and warm…” and immediately I thought “these euphemisms!”.
*sigh*
I made it to the gym more times this week than last week. I snacked too much, about as much as last week. I kept under my alcohol limit. Today was doughnut day, and I had no doughnuts as I already had my one for the month.
Start weight: 293 lbs
Week 1: 291 lbs
Week 2: 291 lbs
Week 3: 289 lbs
Goal is 283 lbs.
I “only” lost 2.5 lbs this week, putting me down 62.5 lbs since Dec 1.
Stayed on my calorie goal, which is whats important, even if I blew my carb targets. Satiated some building cravings this week while staying in the calorie goal, which is what’s really important. I’ve been craving pizza, spaghetti, and well its lent so fried fish. We made pasta sauce that was like 80% meat and 20% tomato, and I ate that without pasta. That took care of one. I had some pizza yesterday from Andreas because most pizza in the TC not from Andreas is shit and it was better than sex. And tonight we went to Holy Cross and had fish. But because I stayed pretty lean on calories Monday-Wednesday, my 7-day average calorie count is right on target.
Carbs are a little high, but I’ll cut that out starting tomorrow. For my particular situation and body, its the total calories that matter and keto helps me meet my calorie target. Except every once in a way I have to satiate my cravings.