(08-11-2014 03:39 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote: (08-11-2014 07:54 AM)gdunn Wrote: (08-08-2014 01:55 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote: (08-08-2014 07:53 AM)gdunn Wrote: I think I see the problem... It's not that swoosh is a d*bag.. It's that he's a kid and thinks he has the world figured out.
oh I've hardly figured it all out. Who has? I try to learn a little bit every day and hopefully grow my knowledge base. If you disagree with what I've said, that's fine, just don't insult me. But if you feel the need to do that, it's fine too.
I don't see where I've insulted you.. You were called a d*bag earlier in the thread.. However I think you've probably insulted a few people here with the holy than thou attitude about health. We get it, you're 20 years old, zero body fat, and can cut the weight as quick as you put it on.
first thing, drop it, it doens't matter. I hold no enmity towards you, so why are we still talking about the insult? Secondly, that isn't me at all, but I understand I'm the only one who isn't allowed to generalize. I'm almost 27, I definitely, definitely do not have zero body fat and lord knows I gain weight far easier than I drop it. One pint of ice cream and I'll gain a few pounds. So I just avoid it altogether; much easier that way. I'm currently 5'6" and around 150-155 (I never weigh myself so I'm not sure of the exact weight). Approximately 10 years ago I was 185 and a few years ago I was over 170.
You might read that description with a sneer on your face and proceed to call me a liar, but I have no reason to lie. The truth is plain and needs no embellishment. I imagine that taking nearly 7 years off my age (and in the process I assume, trying to paint me as someone who knows nothing of the world) is an attempt to speak about anything other than the point I'm trying to make.
Dude, I don't. I think the problem is you came in and made a blanket comment about how overweight people disgust you. It tends to ruffle feathers.
Do I care if I disgust you or not, nah. I got plenty of buddies and I'm happily married, my days of impressing folks is almost over.
When it comes to health, I can tell you what I've tried, I can tell you the things I've read, and I can tell you how I've done it and relapsed. But one thing always remains the same. If you don't get sleep, if you let stress run your life, if you eat crap food and don't move around, you won't be healthy. You can eat crap food and run 10 miles a day, and you'll look healthy but won't be healthy.
I think that's the point everyone tends to miss. I think as a whole, our entire society looks for a quick fix. Whether it's the Atkins diet, no carb diet, Paleo, Crossfit, Get Slim pills, fat burner in a bottle, etc. I'll elude back to the health halo I talked about. You can't go to Subway, eat 2 meatball subs, 2 cookies, and drink a diet coke and walk for 10 minutes and expect results.
Does not eating sugar work for everyone, it worked for you, but it may not work for me (who am I kidding, I cut probably cut some sugar out my diet). I'll reference the sweet spot and what your goals are as to health and fitness. I work with a tri-athlete. He eats fried greasy foods every day. But every morning he swims for an hour, in the evenings he runs a few miles, and he bikes other days. He's as thin as a rail. We see the outside, but we don't know the inside.
Then you take someone like me. I'm built big. I've got a large frame. I've got what they call an endomorph frame. I can carry 250 comfortably and like some say look like I'm wasting away. It's the way I'm built. I'd love to get back down to that right now, but I'm going a different route to get there, but like everything else, I gotta put in the work. I'm working on that. And honestly, if my diet is in check with hitting my protein, carbs, sodium, and watching my sugar (I'm a fruit freak and there's a ton in natural fruits), if I hit the gym and work my lifts right, and hit my cardio right, I can lose more inches than lbs. I'd much rather lose the inches right now than the pounds.
Do I go buy fat burners? No. Done that, I've had better success without them.
Do I go do a fad diet? No. Done that. I've found eat good 20 meals and 14 snacks, and one over indulgence won't hurt. (Not saying some of these diets out there don't work. It's all about moderation and watching what you put in your body. Remember crap in, crap out.)
When I'm eating clean (by that I mean no processed foods except for either a granola bar I've packed away and eating whole foods and good proteins) and my workout is in check, I can easily drop weight, inches, etc., in a few weeks. My biggest problem is I think I have it all under control, I relapse, and go on a bender. It's my way of thinking, that I've got to control. Or I'm doing well and we go on vacation for a week, and the week never ends til 5 months later.
I do commend the self control you say you have. I do. I've got to find my sweet spot again and learn to control.