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When will UK house prices start to come down again? i.e When's the best time to sell?

Steve B

Mike,

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It feels good to finally be "normal". BTW, here's a before and after picture (about 190 on the left and 160 on the right, although I've been as heavy as 214 in my life)

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Good on ya. Right now my group at work is writing a report on the burden of obesity in Kentucky for the state's health department, so for the past few months I've been immersed in the facts and figures on fatness.

To say that excess weight is a HUGE problem is not just an exercise in bad punnery. You probably saw the headlines a few weeks ago, but overweight and obesity are poised to overtake smoking as the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. I don't have numbers for other industrialized countries, but I suspect the situation is much the same there -- each year, the percentage of people who are overweight and obese goes up just a bit more.

But I digress. How did you lose the weight? Was it clean livin' and exercise, or one of those crazy diets that's all the rage?

Joe, who sadly can no longer be a remorseless eating machine and keep his girlish figure

Why did the frequency of questions in this thread switch so rapidly from high to nearly zero?

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Originally posted by Joe Petrik:
How did you lose the weight? Was it clean livin' and exercise, or one of those crazy diets that's all the rage?

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I'm happy to say that it was the right way, and not some silly thing from Atkins, et al. I don't have much willpower, so I had to design diet and exercise that was virtually inevitable.

• I eat reasonable amounts of food. As a guide, I try to keep the size of a meal between 1 and 2 of my fists. For example, a bowl of cereal with fruit is roughly 1-fist. A large meal of pasta/meat with vegetables might be 2-fists. This prevents gorging.
  
• When I make a big pot of food like chili, I pack up the leftovers before eating the meal, so that having seconds is difficult.
  
• I graze throughout the day, so that I never feel starved, which means I won't overeat at the next meal.
  
• I concentrate on having 4-5 servings each of fruit and vegetables each day.
  
• I eat much less red meat than I did before (approximately once per week).
  
• I try to eat two servings of fish each week, especially the oily stuff like salmon, tuna and sardines.
  
• When I buy processed food, I look at the label to ensure that there isn't an extreme amount of calories or fat. If a serving of something has more than 200 calories or 10 grams of fat, I shy away. Generally, I feel better if a serving is around 125/5.
  
• I don't buy things like cookies and potato chips, so that they aren't in the house to tempt me.
  
• Snacking involves either a bit of trail mix, or half a bag of "Light Buttery" popcorn. If I really feel the need for something like a chocolate bar, I eat a 1-2 dozen chocolate chips.
  
• I almost never order in pizza, and I each KFC once per year.
  
• I have about 3-4 alcoholic drinks each week, usually Scotch or Vodka. I also have the occasional glass or two of red wine with dinner, but I don't really count these.
  
• I drink lots of water. (This is made simple by drinking a big glass when I first get up, and then drinking more each time I go to the bathroom.)
  
• I allow myself to overindulge once or twice a week, which keeps me sane.
  
• I do ten minutes of lights weights each morning.
  
• I walk 30-60 minutes each day (which is one of the reasons I got my dog two years ago).
  
• I weigh myself daily. When I was losing, I tracked the results in an Excel spreadsheet, enabling me to recognize and respond to the effects of my previous day's/week's behavior.
  

When I was losing "quickly", it was 1 and 2 pounds per week. I would occasionally hit plateaus for a week or two at a time, and then drop a few pounds to another plateau. I lost about 45 pounds in 18 months.

I'm currently "finished" at 160 pounds. However, I'm still losing a bit a fat and gaining a bit of muscle, such that I'm starting to get the body of a Greek God!

This approach is of my own design, using snippets of advice garnered from here and there. I also apply a good amount of common sense. Due to the fact that it's my own solution, I'm likely to continue it for the rest of my life.

One final point: Many people claim that they can't lose weight, or that they've tried and it doesn't work. Those people have to accept a very simple concept: reducing your food intake, drinking lots of water, and exercising will cause you to lose weight and to get into better shape. If you aren't getting results, then you need to tweak one or more of those things. Eat less, drink more water, and/or exercise more. It's no more comlicated than that.

-=> Mike Hanson <=-

[This message was edited by Mike Hanson on Thu 08 April 2004 at 11:56.]

Mike,

Thanks for the exercise and eating tips. Makes perfect sense -- well, except for tracking the results in an Excel worksheet. That's just nerdy. ;-)

And now a question for forum guru Robinson to put this thread back on track. Is the missing mass in the universe -- the mass needed to prevent the universe from expanding forever -- not, in fact, missing, and instead just unaccounted for in the growing number and size of lardy arses?

Joe

Joe,

I don't think any serious scientist bothers to dispute the idea that dark matter = lardy arses.

Indeed Mike's diet advice all sounds very sensible but in all likelihood his weight loss is due to a mega advanced alien civilisation in the Andromeda galaxy who have been doing some crazy shit with black holes which has sucked some dark matter out of Mike and into another dimension.

Matthew

How [can] one separate the variabiltiy caused by cable burn in from other variables like one's mood, mains supply variations, other factors relating to the equipment required switch off/switch on, music being played, etc.[?]

2) How [can one] reach confident conclusions about differences between the system now and the system 90+ hours ago when the differences are relatively subtle and highly subjective[?].

Joe

I've sent you a PM re your paper.

So you eat less = more left over, against Eat more (get lardy) = less left over.
Same universal mass.
Sorry guys, does not equate to any difference.
Now evaluate out of body experiences - is the energy drawn from this dimension or the next?
Discuss.

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Now evaluate out of body experiences - is the energy drawn from this dimension or the next?
Discuss.

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Usually, it's drawn from large amounts of alcohol.

Will the All Blacks ever win the Rugby World Cup again? In my lifetime?

Minky

your bayonet problem is related to your spouse.

Rico - SM/Mullet Audio

Maybe because he is trying to win enough money by playing poker to buy his friend a car ?