Weight gain and age

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=barnaby33]

Or take meth.
Josh[/quote]

Your gums and teeth will rot away.

One of my friends had to rush back east. His son (mid 20s) got involved in drugs and was in a coma. They removed life support.

[spdrun]

What about vaping? Or nick patches.

[Hobie]

[quote=moneymaker]OT: Can see a day when people between 50-65 marry just to get health insurance. Similar to marrying to get citizenship, except no interviews or hassles.[/quote]

or stay married 😉

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=Hobie][quote=moneymaker]OT: Can see a day when people between 50-65 marry just to get health insurance. Similar to marrying to get citizenship, except no interviews or hassles.[/quote]

or stay married ;)[/quote]

Depends on income and premiums. Might be cheaper on Medicaid.

Why not get married and stay married for money or estate planning? Lots of people do that.

[spdrun]

Why not get married to a non-American for their citizenship and leave the US for good for a land with a smaller military and better healthcare? Mail-order marriage in reverse 🙂

[FlyerInHi]

My cousin married a French/German. His wife said healthcare in America is better and more friendly only because he has good health insurance from a big university. She’s getting her US citizenship in August and they are leaving for Berlin in December, at which time free national health care will be a blessing.

spd, when she had her green card application pending, she continued to travel on EU visa waiver and that is illegal (she didn’t know that visa waiver is for tourism only, not immigration) . One time she was stopped at airport, held incommunicado for 1/2 day. Immigration canceled her green card application and gave her 7 days to leave the country. Within the 7 days she filed a new green card application which reset the clock That costs them $1000 extra.

Needless to say, American citizenship to her is not much more than ease of travel to her new family in USA.

Marry a Norwegian. They are richest. Big sovereign wealth fund. No national debt.

[spdrun]

My type tends to be the diametrical opposite of your stereotypical Norwegian… generally from parts of the universe that give the Donald a massive case of agida.

[FlyerInHi]

NY Times video on the latest weight loss study.

Duh, I’ve observed it in my dog years ago. When you feed them less they go into lethargic conservation mode. Hard to do that to humans who need to work and deal with that world

http://youtu.be/Qz-MD7UoXC

[flu]

Bump…

Moneymaker. Thought I’d share this with you

Over last weekend, my kid used her own allowance money she’s been saving the year and bought me a fitbit charge HR for my birthday.

I never would have bought one myself because I didn’t think I needed any gimmicks to track my fitness. But after a week having one, I can see how addicting it could be to have one. This thing basically tracks my BPM, # steps,duration of cardio, and a bunch of other things, and give me an instaneous status of how I am doing today versus other days. I thought jogging 3 miles a day would be enough, but clearly there are other things that I could do better as well.

I consider this thing as a tool health shame me each day to keep to a plan.

Of course folks that have discipline probably don’t need something like this, but for me that is wonderful the borderline that occasionally lets myself slip into laziness, I thought it was a neat tool to try to keep me on track.

There are probably a lot of cheaper alternativez. My kid bought one when Verizon was having a half off sale with no sales tax…

[spdrun]

What a piece of spyware.

It should sync directly to your computer or phone, not mandate that you put your personal medical data (heart rate vs exertion, etc) on Someone Else’s Computer.

Fitbit should be slapped in the nuts with a HIPAA lawsuit to force compliance or allow local usage.

[flu]

[quote=spdrun]What a piece of spyware.

It should sync directly to your computer or phone, not mandate that you put your personal medical data (heart rate vs exertion, etc) on Someone Else’s Computer.

Fitbit should be slapped in the nuts with a HIPAA lawsuit to force compliance or allow local usage.[/quote]

If you say so.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=skerzz][quote=FlyerInHi]Free will. A lot of people are driven to make money, as I’m sure moneymaker is. Eating well and exercising is so much easier as that only involves oneself.

Today, for exercise, I’m chiseling off the bathroom tiles of a condo I bought. Exercise and money making all together.[/quote]

I think you may be confusing activity for exercise. Exercise is performed to achieve a specific fitness/health goals. It’s best to do both — be physically active and exercise.[/quote]

Sure, best to do both.

But for long term health and longevity, achieving specific goals in the past is irrelevant.

You have to take a holistic approach.

I have friends who went to some race this past weekend. It involves camping, etc… it’s expensive and for mainly social and bragging rights. Those guys can’t manage their activity to food intake ratio so they puff up then lose weight, mostly the weight increases overtime… so they try to work out more to be “bigger”. They consume very little healthful food like fruit and veggies.

You have to adopt a good lifestyle to live long and healthy like Jimmy Carter or Paul Newman. Bill Clinton is now vegan and healthy. He may live to 90. (BTW, I’m not vegan, but I eat little meat compared to most Americans).

[moneymaker]

Vegan definitely sounds healthy and I’m always amazed when I see vegan bodybuilders. I have a new theory that in the morning when getting up all the sugars are gone and the liver is starting to burn lipids but what most people do is eat breakfast which then shuts down the lipid (fat) burning, so I might go against traditional knowledge and start skipping breakfast and not eating until I really feel the hunger pangs, I rarely feel hungry when I awake unless I have a small dinner early the night before.

[The-Shoveler]

I have started skipping Dinner (eat only two meals , breakfast and lunch), that seems to be working for me.

Lost 10 pounds in two weeks.

Have protein shake followed with some cereal about 20 minutes later for breakfast.

Then a good lunch with a apple in the late afternoon.
(run about half mile in the morning as well).

Anyway feel much better seems to work for me.

[Coronita]

[quote=moneymaker]Vegan definitely sounds healthy and I’m always amazed when I see vegan bodybuilders. I have a new theory that in the morning when getting up all the sugars are gone and the liver is starting to burn lipids but what most people do is eat breakfast which then shuts down the lipid (fat) burning, so I might go against traditional knowledge and start skipping breakfast and not eating until I really feel the hunger pangs, I rarely feel hungry when I awake unless I have a small dinner early the night before.[/quote]

If you’re going to skip meals, I think it would probably be best to skip the dinner versus breakfast.

Breakfast and lunch fuel you for the entire day. Dinner, you don’t do much after you eat (usually). I think for me, ever since I started to eat less for dinner, I’ve been sleeping better too.

My fitbit is also saying that I should take at least 10,000 steps per day. I’m currently around 8500, lol

Vegan imho I think is overkill. If you stay with white meat or fish, and go light on the carbs, it’s probably more helpful. I use to eat a lot of bread and rice, and ever since I eat less of on the carbs, it’s been helpful too. Even lean red meat occasionally isn’t that bad i think. Going to in-out burger every other day, probably isn’t a good idea.

I also eat way too many bananas. I think I down about 4 a day….

I’ve been able to keep my weight around 162ish, and that includes presumably slightly more muscle and less body fat now, since I’m doing more weigh training in addition to running.

The first 15-20 lbs was easy. Burning off fat where I’m at has increasingly been more difficult. It’s like trying to undo decades of neglect. I just wish I had cared much earlier.

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