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Old 05-17-2013, 08:08 AM  
CDSmith
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What a conundrum this whole overweight thing is. On the one hand I'm not comfortable with the shaming tactic a lot of people ascribe to, I think it's just demeaning and demoralizing. But on the other hand I also don't agree with this 'movement' that's been going on out there saying "You're fine just the way you are", "big is still beautiful" etc, almost telling people it's okay to be fat. It isn't. Not healthwise, not looks-wise, not anything-wise. And it's a drain on society, on health care, on the economy.

My personal experience over the past 12 years is that after being the tall well-built slim-waisted guy for most of my life I started to gain weight after injuring my back in the late 90's and then working from home with said bad back for many years. Worsening pain = less excercise. If not for my usual diet and eating habits I would have become a 500 lb whale.

Over this past year I have lost (so far) roughly 17 lbs, just from adjusting my eating habits slightly. I now eat 4 to 5 meals a day instead of 3. For the smaller in-between-meal meals and over lunch I eat things like grapefruit slices, raw baby carrots, a handful of nuts (that include almonds, or almonds-only), or a small cup-full of yogurt with all-bran sprinkled on top.

For breakfast and dinner I haven't changed much of anything. I still love a good steak, fried chicken from time to time, bbq'd ribs, even pork chops. I've found that it isn't so much what you eat, it's how you eat that trains your metabolism to speed up and start burning fat instead of storing it.

I just had a series of cortison injections to my lower spine, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to start working out again some and getting back out on my mountain bike, which should gain me back some of my lost muscle mass. Hopefully I'll be looking more like my old hulkish self again by the fall.

Fat-wise the last five years or so have been the worst. Beleive me I've been on the receiving end of the shame card. That was one of the biggest eye-openers for me, having people who you think care about you basically making you feel like less than shit. There has to be a better way to motivate someone. Me, I motivate myself. It's my bod, the only one I have, no one else is going to get it in shape.

Here's hoping these injections work. :D
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