Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Caterkiller on January 21, 2013, 12:41:46 AM
Title: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on January 21, 2013, 12:41:46 AM
The health advice thread.
So for years I have suffered chronic injuries in my glutes and hamstrings. Since this past October I discovered trigger point therapy which has done more for me than 2 years of acupuncture and a crappy chiropractor combined.
So in these last few months I have been training again, almost full force, I lost a lot of right leg flexibility and splits but that can be gained back. Still though i'm not 100% and despite eating pretty well I had a feeling my healing was being held back by my diet.
When I actually sat down for all of 3 seconds and googled foods that cause inflammation man it blew my mind! I mean I know what food is generally good, but never thought about bad food that would counteract my good. White rice, artificial sugar, food additives(like everyone's favorite red dye #9), high protein diets with meats that are broiled or fried(something about the charred proteins that are damaged), overly processed cereal(which means all of them but the nastiest/healthiest), and too much alcohol.
So by now you've probably stopped reading, but if you're still here I think we should have this thread just to discuss things like this from time to time. Not that any of us are doctors or anything, but just having a place to stop and ask things that concern you is always nice. Even if we all say "go see a doctor" regardless.
Though at the same time I don't trust every doctor I go to anymore. Through my connections with the places that i've been, I found out some things and that made it clear why I wasn't recovering as fast as I thought I should have been. I don't want this to be a diet thread either. Maybe someone knows a killer exercise that helps tendinitis in the wrists? Or maybe someone wants to get more flexible for some reason? I don't know anything!
And i'm married to a Chinese lady, so we have all kinds of Ancient Chinese secrets! ;) Let's help each other stay healthy! If not that, then at least healthier!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Oblivion on January 21, 2013, 01:00:06 AM
I need to get more motivation for doing exercise. Any advice? I also just need to eat better. Any food advice?
Shame about your chronic injuries. :(
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on January 21, 2013, 02:53:34 AM
I need to get more motivation for doing exercise. Any advice? I also just need to eat better. Any food advice?
Shame about your chronic injuries. :(
Anything you ever see in video games or movies that you think "god I want to do that!" hm? If it's a physical activity chances are you can find a class on it. I generally don't like weights and running, but knowing it helps my wushu makes it easier. What do you like to do, or what do you wish you could do? Strut around the beach half naked?
As for food, what Super said. Just abandon it right now. I remember at my fatest, I was in 5th or 6th grade. We had so much soda in the house, I would wake up in the morning and first drink of the day was a can of soda. I remember a friend of mine hurting himself badly and I associated his frail body with eating junk food. Since then I quit soda completely. I'll try some on occasion, but after all these years I can't handle the intensity of the citric acid.
No juice or Soda after 6pm. Just water and lots of it!
Don't get me wrong I like food. I love ribs cooked over a charcoal grill with lots of bbq sauce. I try to eat it no more than 3 or 4 times a year but I just gotta have it. I love waffles to man. I don't know if it's just the shape of them or convenience of it, but they are certainly no good so I started to experiment.
No batter, no waffle mix. A cup of oat meal, a half brick of tofu, mash it up, mix in some milk(soy, cow, almond etc) and maybe an egg and good gravy you've got breakfast! Honey or pure maple syrup is better than most things you'll want to put on it. But dude, I feel so good after I eat em! Don't feel like crap. I even fed them to blackNMild. Though eventually they started to get dry and tasteless when I ran out of tofu, butter and soy milk and they were pretty much plain oatmeal in the shape of squares.
Staying away from processed food helps a lot too. It's hard I know, but at some point you find something super healthy and delicious and can't stop eating it.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caliban on January 21, 2013, 11:44:13 AM
White rice? Awww. Ok, seems like I will have to start buying dark rice. No biggie.
In terms of exercise I could never stand for the idea of going to the gym. It just has no appeal to me. I would rather practice a sport, or any other physical activity with a group of people almost as though we are a small community. Kind of like the Kendo club I go to. The people are great, and we socialize quite a bit.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: TJ Spyke on January 21, 2013, 11:47:46 AM
Actually, there is nothing unhealthy about eating white rice according to fitness experts and doctors.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Adrock on January 21, 2013, 12:12:30 PM
There's no downside to exercising unless, of course, you're already injured. I had issues with motivation, but really, that's a mental block. Instead of thinking about what you want to do, just go do it. I don't particularly enjoy going to the gym, but I like how I feel afterwards. I feel better than I ever have; exercising is just part of my day now. And I don't have cable so for 1 glorious hour a day, I get to watch anything I want.
Also, it's going to hurt, especially when you start from square one. Just expect it. Your body will hate you for at least a week or 2 depending on how diligent you are about exercising. And you only move forward if you remember that it's going to keep hurting. When it doesn't you're maintaining, not advancing which is okay if that's what you're going for. I see this dude occasionally on the treadmill who holds himself up. It's been months and he's still doing it. Sure, it's easier, but that's the reason he's not getting used to it. I'd recommend looking up whatever you plan to do so you don't injure yourself. There's a whole science behind just running.
And this isn't really advice, but if you start going to the gym regularly, please don't become a douchebag who thinks he's better than everyone because he performs repetitious actions for a set amount of time. That's silliness.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on January 21, 2013, 12:29:50 PM
Oh yeah just to be clear white rice isn't bad in general. It can apparently spike blood sugar witch is not good for healing soft tissue injuries. For me personally it makes sense cause in my home that's all we ate with everything for a very long time.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: lolmonade on January 21, 2013, 01:18:12 PM
I need to get more motivation for doing exercise. Any advice? I also just need to eat better. Any food advice?
Shame about your chronic injuries. :(
I would suggest starting small, and building up from there. My biggest failures come from when I try to go straight from eating unhealthy and doing nothing right to running 2 miles a day and eating nothing but celery.
Long-term success is going to happen when you make it routine. Then once it's routine, you'll feel off when you didn't go running after work, or when you eat a whole pizza by yourself. If you try to cut it all out at once, you're going to relapse, and it'll turn into an unsuccessful binge/purge routine.
Some suggestions I can make from personal experience:
If possible, have someone be your exercise and diet partner. They add a layer of accountability if motivation is your problem. Also, it gives time for my wife and I to have good conversation time, as we sometimes get absorbed in our own daily routines, phones, and video games
If the weather's decent where you're at, try exercising outdoors. My wife and I have found some paths where we live that have nice scenery, and make it less tedious to take walks.
if you have a smartphone, try a calorie tracking app like my fitness pal. you can also input the exercise you do and it'll approximate calories burned against the calories you've eaten. It also lets you put in a weight loss goal and a due date to complete the goal, and it'll approximate how many calories you can allow yourself on a daily basis to achieve that goal.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Oblivion on January 21, 2013, 02:10:41 PM
Wow, I didn't expect all this input. I actually don't drink soda at all, I've only had water for the last 6 months. I guess that's a good start, right? I'll have to use that fitrocity since I don't have a smartphone, and yeah, I always went too hard right away and ended up quitting. I just don't have the motivation to do it. He'll, I barely have the motivation for doing my college ****.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Adrock on January 21, 2013, 02:13:38 PM
I would recommend not counting calories, eaten and burned. If you eat the right things and you exercise regularly (you don't need to be a gym rat), that will take care of itself. People get too caught up in the numbers, but being healthy is about how you feel and that can't be quantified. Be mindful of your limits even if you want faster results. It's important just to keep going and do so gradually.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on January 21, 2013, 02:28:38 PM
We don't have any dancers here at NWR do we? Always interested in hearing about someone's stretching exercises.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: lolmonade on January 21, 2013, 03:01:37 PM
I would recommend not counting calories, eaten and burned. If you eat the right things and you exercise regularly (you don't need to be a gym rat), that will take care of itself. People get too caught up in the numbers, but being healthy is about how you feel and that can't be quantified. Be mindful of your limits even if you want faster results. It's important just to keep going and do so gradually.
Counting calories are like using performance metrics from work: They aren't a silver bullet, but it doesn't hurt to track them.
It's in my personal nature to like tracking things (calories, my personal finances, my work's performance metrics) to give me an idea of where my areas of improvement are. If all watching calories do is stress you out, then by all means don't use that as an indicator.
I agree that the primary goal is about feeling healthy. Hell, it amazes me how much energy I have after exercise, and how little energy I feel I have if I sit on my rear end all day.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Stogi on January 21, 2013, 05:01:01 PM
Sex, and lots of it.
Also beer. Lots and lots of beer.
Sushi or seared fish. Mmmm....delicious. Sauteed salad over rice. And hot peppers. Spicier the better. Oh and fruits. Lots and lots of fruits. **** yeah.
Walk everywhere unless it's cold or too far or need to get there quick.
Keep a big smile on your face and laugh often.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on January 21, 2013, 05:11:35 PM
Use a computer? f.lux will help you maintain proper sleeping patterns!
http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: EasyCure on January 21, 2013, 08:35:10 PM
I agree that having a work-out partner will be a big help. When I started going to the gym a year ago, it was a mutual agreement between myself and a cousin to keep each other motivated. In the last few months he's bailed on so many occasions that I don't bother going with him anymore, at this point my motivation comes strictly from how far I've come already. Admittedly, the holiday season was a little rough but I'm getting back on track (in fact I'm leaving for the gym as soon as I finish this post).
Speaking of partners, vigorous sex is the funnest work-out you'll ever have. If its an option for you, go for it. A few years ago my then gf and I were having some problems and there was a dry spell, once things worked out and we got back into bed, I was surprised how fucking sore I was the next day, some muscles were sore that I had never even felt before, it was great :D
Oblivion, how's your health? Overweight, obese? You don't have to answer to any of us, but you definitely want to ask yourself and really think about what the answer is and then what you wish the answer was. Working in a hospital the last few years really opened my eyes to how bad being overweight can affect your health. Like you always hear about things but think "oh that'll never happen to me," at least that's how I was - until I worked with patients close to my age with some pretty bad problems. One of them even died, it sucked. I became motivated to really watch my diet, be very portion conscious especially if I was eating something not too healthy, and eventually I got into routine work-outs. Yes it's hard at first but the results are worth it.
So yeah, ask yourself what your goals are. If you're frail but don't have the motivation to excessive to build yourself up, that's one thing. But if you're huge and don't have the motivation to exercise and get down to a healthy weight - think of all that could happen if you don't change your habits. I was 25 when I met a patient who was 27 when he had his first heart attack, and I didn't even think the guy was THAT much bigger than I was at the time. I'm only 26 now and making sure I never put my friends and family through that sort of scare. I don't think you'd want to put your loved ones through something like that either, so let that be your motivation.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caliban on January 21, 2013, 11:33:51 PM
If you guys are building up muscle make sure to replenish your body within half an hour after one of your intense workout/exercise sessions. Within an hour is acceptable, but not preferred.
Perseverance is key.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on January 22, 2013, 11:22:04 AM
If you guys are building up muscle make sure to replenish your body within half an hour after one of your intense workout/exercise sessions. Within an hour is acceptable, but not preferred.
Perseverance is key.
I swear it doesn't matter what I do my chest does not grow with the rest of my body. My legs are like tree trunks, arms back and shoulders are decent, but for the life of me my chest is as flat as ever. I don't need to get big just a little bigger.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caliban on January 22, 2013, 03:15:16 PM
Even if you're not building muscle it's good to replenish body so it doesn't go into autophagy (body eating itself).
As for chest building I can't really suggest anything. I can say that my chest muscles aren't BIG, but they are somewhat developed from the narrow and forward movements from swinging the 2-handed blade up and down. Also I have observed from the videos you've posted in the past of you doing Kata (demonstration of your style) that the majority of time your arms always move in wide motions. Perhaps push-ups with the arms closer to the body might work...
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: ShyGuy on January 22, 2013, 04:01:30 PM
As a renal patient, my registered-dietician prescribed diet is unfathomable to most nutrition savvy people.
Nuts? bad Whole Grains? bad Oranges? bad Sweet Potato? bad Yogurt? bad Lean Meat? In moderation Water? In moderation
Butter? good! Donuts? good!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on January 22, 2013, 04:29:42 PM
Almonds are excellent for Acid. If you have an acid problem eat a couple of almonds and it will help. Just make sure to thoroughly chew them. Not for the acid but for the after trip.
Caterkiller, I had a women joke for you but I respect you to much.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on January 22, 2013, 04:50:42 PM
Let me have it! I learned how to enjoy jokes at my expense and use that to climb the corporate ladder. It worked every time.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on January 22, 2013, 05:05:54 PM
... I swear it doesn't matter what I do my chest does not grow with the rest of my body. My legs are like tree trunks, arms back and shoulders are decent, but for the life of me my chest is as flat as ever. I don't need to get big just a little bigger.
Well, I hear that having a baby will help with that.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Lithium on January 22, 2013, 06:47:28 PM
a book i want to share (i'm actually a bit of a health nut):
-Mindlesss eating by Brian wansink (http://www.amazon.com/Mindless-Eating-More-Than-Think/dp/0345526880/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1358899087&sr=1-1&keywords=mindless+eating)<-- food psychology (and how to use it for your benefit)
I would recommend not counting calories, eaten and burned. If you eat the right things and you exercise regularly (you don't need to be a gym rat), that will take care of itself. People get too caught up in the numbers, but being healthy is about how you feel and that can't be quantified. Be mindful of your limits even if you want faster results. It's important just to keep going and do so gradually.
just eat fruits and vegetables and don't listen to any other health advice that isn't super obvious. As long as you're eating healthy and exercising everything else sorts itself out. However knowing a thing or two about food psychology is a definite help so you can use it to your advantage without even actually thinking about it ,which is why i mentioned that book.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: shingi_70 on February 07, 2013, 11:20:39 AM
Any advice on keeping a workout routine. I'm a reasonably slim/fit dude and I usually start for a couple of days but then fall off the wagon. Usually I blame it on lack of proper equipment but I'm tired of a scrap boating.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on February 07, 2013, 12:37:08 PM
Any advice on keeping a workout routine. I'm a reasonably slim/fit dude and I usually start for a couple of days but then fall off the wagon. Usually I blame it on lack of proper equipment but I'm tired of a scrap boating.
I'm not much help in this regard. What keeps me going is always telling myself I want to get good at something so it forces me to go out and work at it. Or look at YouTube videos of super unhealthy people, that'll scare you straight. Oh maybe look up videos of exercises without equipment, you may find something new that will keep you interested and feel like your progressing with out fancy weights and machines. If you have a friend to join you it makes it easier and more fun.
@ Caliban - I'm just going to go push-up extreme, lots of diamonds and just see what happens.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: BranDonk Kong on February 07, 2013, 06:01:35 PM
Hard work and dedication? NICE TRY MY FITNESS! WE WANT A PILL!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Stogi on February 07, 2013, 07:13:36 PM
So I learned how to parry and choke someone out with minimal effort yesterday.
Self-preservation is a form of staying healthy.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: EasyCure on February 07, 2013, 07:17:00 PM
Try this Cater, dip your nose in the diamond then curve your back as you push your face out. I hope that made sense.
Best way to wake up and stretch. Every animal does it, might as well do it well.
Understood loud and clear mr bossman!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: shingi_70 on February 13, 2013, 12:03:51 PM
Sent to my local gym and they have pretty reasonable membership prices. They have $15 for a week which I plan to try on a trail basis before starting full time in the spring.
Also picking up this weekend a Yoga Mat and one of those push up/pull gym bar things.
Also pretty sure O suffer from open induced errectile Dysfunction. So I'm wait doing you know what for the next two months.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on February 13, 2013, 01:34:54 PM
I have a family memebership to the Y know for $16 dollars a month. My company pays for 80% of the cost. I'm a little amazed about how expensive it normally be. I'm still on the fence if its worth $16
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: shingi_70 on February 13, 2013, 02:08:10 PM
I'd say try it out. (Assuming you already haven't) If you enjoy keep going and if you don't well $16 isn't that big of a loss.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: RABicle on February 15, 2013, 12:07:28 PM
I hate to me, you know, a ****, but
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more for me than 2 years of acupuncture and a crappy chiropractor combined.
Any GP worth talking to could've told you that alternative medicine based on pseudo science is a complete waste of time.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on February 16, 2013, 12:11:33 AM
Or use sandpaper to toughen the skin and reduce sensitivity.
...
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Sarail on February 16, 2013, 12:03:55 PM
Don't knock it up until you try it.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on February 16, 2013, 02:48:14 PM
Well this thread is doomed. I await some member responding pissed off after using every bit of advice including a diet of 20 donuts a day and sand paper stimulation. After being laughed at for a few months, said member will periodically emerge to sue me.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: bustin98 on February 17, 2013, 06:25:53 PM
Mmmm... that grain is fiiiiii-ine!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: EasyCure on February 17, 2013, 07:39:32 PM
Well this thread is doomed. I await some member responding pissed off after using every bit of advice including a diet of 20 donuts a day and sand paper stimulation. After being laughed at for a few months, said member will periodically emerge to sue me.
I TRIED HAVING TEH SEX LIKE STOGI SAID TO LOSE WEIGHT BUT I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS OBLIVION SO I TRIED BUSTIN'S ADVICE AND NOW MY PENIS HURTS AND MY GF LEFT ME BUT NOT BEFORE PUSHING ME DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS SO I'M PAYING ASS LOADS OF MONEY TO A CHIROPRACTOR &FOR ONLY A FEW MINUTES OF PAIN RELIEF. ACUPUNCTURE DOESN'T WORK EITHER. I WISH I WOULD OF HAD ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION LIKE SHINGI CUZ I WOULDN'T BE IN THIS MESS.
:(
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Stogi on February 17, 2013, 07:51:23 PM
I laughed.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Stogi on February 17, 2013, 08:13:00 PM
On a related note, been on a vegetarian kick lately, pretty much just making the same dish (stuffed tomatoes) trying to perfect it and do vegetarians realize that even plants eat animals? Those poor bastards.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: nickmitch on February 17, 2013, 08:29:19 PM
Veganism is something I'll personally never understand. Vegetarianism is also iffy. Nothing beats a thick, juicy steak. Or bacon in general.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: EasyCure on February 17, 2013, 08:32:23 PM
Well I believe Stogi is Muslim so bacon is off the table (and in my belly) but steak.. mmm steak. I'd kill for a porterhouse I just wouldn't kill the animal to procure it
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: bustin98 on February 18, 2013, 12:15:33 PM
I've cut way back on red meat and pork. I'm getting sick of chicken and turkey and fish was never much of a friend. But I think I feel better about not having meat sitting in my gut. And turkey burgers aren't all that bad.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on February 18, 2013, 01:52:27 PM
My Dad is a Frugaltarian. He doesn't eat much meat but not because of any moral reason or anything, just because it costs more then say beans.
I need to lose 9 pounds for my insurance in about a month...
So I need to get from 189 to 180... I've been working out every work day for 2 weeks now and I've only lost 1.75 pounds. They also think I need to make a larger circle of friends.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: ShyGuy on February 18, 2013, 02:10:51 PM
Your insurance thinks you need a larger circle of friends? What kind of whacky...
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on February 18, 2013, 03:04:41 PM
Your insurance thinks you need a larger circle of friends? What kind of whacky...
Thank you State of Tennessee.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Oblivion on May 21, 2013, 01:45:24 AM
So, I recently broke up with my girlfriend so I've decided to hit the gym, eat a bit better, and do some exercises to fix my "problem": premature ejaculation. I've put it off and put it off but I think it's time I finally conquer this beast.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Dasmos on May 21, 2013, 03:00:09 AM
Kegels, bro. Not sure you'll find a machine to help you with this at the gym, but hey they help trust me. Also I've found that mixing it up position wise helps.
Health is normally associated with impotence, but I could see the benefit of being a bit fitter and healthier; likely helping lessen the strain and tension during sex which would cause "prejaculation".
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Stogi on May 21, 2013, 11:18:57 AM
Dasmos is tossed a lob and he bunts it?!
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Caterkiller on May 21, 2013, 12:36:40 PM
Not what I had in mind for the thread but I suppose it fits.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Dasmos on May 22, 2013, 03:41:20 AM
Unless she's insecure. Imagine how much it destroys their self esteem that they weren't even sexy enough to make you come. Even though it's a mental block in the man's head, the woman feels just as bad.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: pokepal148 on June 03, 2013, 12:02:46 PM
Unless she's insecure. Imagine how much it destroys their self esteem that they weren't even sexy enough to make you come. Even though it's a mental block in the man's head, the woman feels just as bad.
So now were getting into womans studies... How do these things happen..?
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: BranDonk Kong on June 03, 2013, 01:30:55 PM
"I don't even believe in that, I don't! If I come, man, it was right on time!"
- Dave Chappelle
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Oblivion on June 03, 2013, 02:19:55 PM
Unless she's insecure. Imagine how much it destroys their self esteem that they weren't even sexy enough to make you come. Even though it's a mental block in the man's head, the woman feels just as bad.
So now were getting into womans studies... How do these things happen..?
We'll tell you when you're older.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: nickmitch on June 03, 2013, 09:16:24 PM
I've had the delayed problem. An easy fix was more fore play.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: RABicle on June 04, 2013, 05:43:48 AM
Yeah eventually I just fucked it a way.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Ceric on June 04, 2013, 01:32:28 PM
lol, With Women your darned if you do darned if you don't.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: pokepal148 on June 04, 2013, 06:38:29 PM
i think we should consider a (nsfw) tag... just saying...
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Oblivion on June 05, 2013, 12:57:26 AM
i think we should consider a (nsfw) tag... just saying...
We're all adults here. And if one of us isn't, I hope they can be mature enough to handle sex talk.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: RABicle on June 05, 2013, 03:38:58 AM
I hate the idea of (NSFW). What fucking workplace lets you **** away time on Facebook and Gaming news anyway? Imagine being that unproductive. No wonder America's economy is in the toilet.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 05, 2013, 11:27:23 AM
I hate the idea of (NSFW). What fucking workplace lets you **** away time on Facebook and Gaming news anyway? Imagine being that unproductive. No wonder America's economy is in the toilet.
Without getting into politics, the US economy is actually doing really good and is just about out of the recession caused in 2007 and 2008.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: pokepal148 on June 05, 2013, 12:03:49 PM
I hate the idea of (NSFW). What fucking workplace lets you **** away time on Facebook and Gaming news anyway? Imagine being that unproductive. No wonder America's economy is in the toilet.
Without getting into politics, the US economy is actually doing really good and is just about out of the recession caused in 2007 and 2008.
this will probably go well...
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: lolmonade on June 05, 2013, 02:09:14 PM
I hate the idea of (NSFW). What fucking workplace lets you **** away time on Facebook and Gaming news anyway? Imagine being that unproductive. No wonder America's economy is in the toilet.
It isn't the American Economy that's in the toilet so much as it's the unemployment rate. Most businesses found out they could be as, if not more successful with less workers.
Also, for what it's worth, many companies do offer a "reasonable" amount of personal web browsing or email checking on company property, including mine.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: TJ Spyke on June 05, 2013, 02:13:04 PM
Even the unemployment rate is not that bad, it's at 7.5% (the lowest in 4 1/2 years), though some states have higher rates.
And yeah, my last job would let me go online sometimes. And if you work at a computer, it's not a big deal if you have a lull in your duties at work.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: Adrock on July 23, 2013, 08:08:51 PM
I kind of fell of the wagon a few months ago. I got the flu then food poisoning then something that felt like the flu then food poisoning again over the course of like three months which made it hard to get back to my routine. Then, I got lazy and pushed getting back to the gym until after I moved then I moved and was still lazy.
I finally decided enough was enough when I ate an entire container of Ben and Jerry's ice cream (four servings) at work in a matter of hours. Yeah, that really happened and it's every bit as disgusting as it sounds.
I've been doing well since. I got back to the gym and I'm eating healthy again. I cut fatty foods and alcohol out of my diet (not that I was a big drinker anyway). I currently don't have a "cheat day" but I'll reconsider a little later on once I start drop a good bit of this weight I gained. I'm probably done with alcohol because I can't justify the calories. I don't count calories, but I know how much more work I have to do and it's not worth it to me.
Right now, I work on arms Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and legs Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I do cardio every day. Saturday is strictly a cardio day; it's my "rest day." I probably spend about an hour and a half at the gym Sunday through Friday which I don't think is excessive.
Today, I bought new running shoes which punched my wallet in the face so if the black 3DS XL rumor is true, I may have to hold off on it. I haven't looked at my bank account in a while. I've just been paying bills when I get them. Hopefully, this will help with some of the discomfort I've been feeling. Nothing terrible, but I was due for new running shoes. Apparently, you're supposed to replace them every six months to a year depending on use. I've had mine for almost two years now though probably only a little over a year in actual use.
Title: Re: Help Each Other Stay Healthy
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on July 23, 2013, 11:18:45 PM
So, I recently broke up with my girlfriend so I've decided to hit the gym, eat a bit better, and do some exercises to fix my "problem": premature ejaculation. I've put it off and put it off but I think it's time I finally conquer this beast.
