OT: Diets

[Walker11]

I'll risk saying I'm vegan. Please don't "at" me w/meat comments. Thanks.
I've dropped 36 pounds - have not been sick in over a year - am off all prescription meds - and am exercising better than I have my entire life.
No - I'm not deprived. I'm happy.

You should read the thread before imagining yourself as a victim.

 

[Dove]

I would rather live a rockin life until 65 then one of a pansy until 80.

I mean I get people " feeling better" by employing healthy habits. More power to you. If you don't feel miserable and deprived to accomplish that goal, you are ahead of the game. If it does make you miserable maybe rethinking your approach to life is in order.

What gets me is people who make themselves miserable over it for some future goal of longevity. What fun are you going to have at 77? Its fine if you are alive, no problems there, but I think being unhealthy in your 20s and 30s is more fun than being healthy in your 70's.

Why are people's lives geared toward the future always? A future that may never come no matter how many good decisions you may have made. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. No need to make it Torture.

Suck the marrow out of life everyday ( and for the purposes of this thread I mean literally go to Firebox and order some marrow and suck it down) . Bang some chicks, get hammered and blast a rail in a Buffalo Wild Wings bathroom stall. Eat some Arby's porkbelly.

Man, you once posted that you had to eat better so you could live to see your daughter grow up. Three days later you were dunking short ribs in cheese sauce.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Man, you once posted that you had to eat better so you could live to see your daughter grow up. Three days later you were dunking short ribs in cheese sauce.

Stop being so black and white! Who thinks about the future anyway, you stiff!

 

[superjohn]

This. Putting aside the merits of either side's position, it is just flat out insufferable to listen to some 20-something kid who can't make a post without pointing out that he's had sex lecturing adults about how the world works.

Not just sex but sex with women from Boston.

 

[storrsroars]

Hey now! You're the one who shamed me about the Krups blade grinder I had been using for more than 20 years and made me buy the burr grinder.

Well that's a given. I have a Capresso Infinity. But I don't bother filtering water and have nothing as sophisticated as your brewer. So you got me there.

 

[methodology]

Haven't read thread and it's great hearing people have success doing what works for them. I just hope the ones having success are also exercising/working out in addition to their new diets.

The diets are a quick fix that the results will evaporate if you stop those diets. You need to also be exercising/working out so you have a compete lifestyle overhaul and your body adjusts to the new lifestyle.

I just hate seeing people have success on a diet just to revert back once they stop the diet

 

[8893]

Man, you once posted that you had to eat better so you could live to see your daughter grow up. Three days later you were dunking short ribs in cheese sauce.

You don't get it: That was eating better. For him.

 

[temery]

you once posted that you had to eat better so you could live to see your daughter grow up.

See his daughter grow up? At this rate he'll be lucky to see his toes.

 

[8893]

Well that's a given. I have a Capresso Infinity. But I don't bother filtering water and have nothing as sophisticated as your brewer. So you got me there.

We have well water and it would ruin my coffee maker, or require me to clean and descale it a few times a week. I have a whole house water filter as well as one in the fridge, but we still get lime and calcium slipping through and those are killers for appliances with small parts through which water has to pass.

I used a Bodum Electric Santos coffee maker for several years and probably went through a four or five them, even buying used ones when they stopped making them. That was my favorite maker but they just couldn't manufacture it with reliable electronics at a consumer price point, so they discontinued it.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Care to refute anything? Or are you only interested in trying to invalidate my aruments with my irrelevant age and a single irrelevant subordinate clause?

Please flex your intellect and bury my arguments.

You notice the part where I said "putting aside the merits of their positions"? I don't even necessarily disagree with you. It's the way you're constantly hectoring people who have far more life experience than you do about the way the world works. You get it now? Flex that.

 

[8893]

hectoring

Great word. Underused. I need to make a point of using it more often.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Not just sex but sex with women from Boston.

I'm old, and I have that too. Well, maybe not in the plural....woman. It's the exercise component of my diet plan.

 

[bobbygt]

Semi-related, anyone have good takes on coffee? I love, love, love coffee but gave it up a few months ago, which was much more difficult than any regular dietary change. I loved the process of making it, the smell, the taste, the buzz. Everything. Always drank it black. But man did it have a negative impact on me. Trouble sleeping, brain fog, etc. Granted I was making turbo jet fuel in my french press every morning, I think I'm a case of OD'ing on caffeine but I have no self control with the stuff. 16-32 oz a day of french press coffee is not good for my brain lol. I feel so much better after giving it up. Still have a cup of decaf a few times a month, which I'm pretty sure just makes matters worse.

I agree with 8893 about limiting the coffee to 1-2 cups a day and then drinking tea and water.

If you need to 86 it altogether, I'd go with green tea-genmaicha or sencha. I find they give me the biggest boost.

A friend of mine published a book on coffee and she found that it has the biggest effect a little later in the morning- not when you first get up- and after you have a little food.

It's pretty accurate- if I have it first thing in the morning, my high is really high, but I crash very soon (thus wanting to drink more). Plus, it destroys my stomach and gives me the worst halitosis throughout the day (I sleep on the floor and my wife can smell my breath from the bed across the room ).

 

[Rocktheworld]

See his daughter grow up? At this rate he'll be lucky to see his toes.

Wonder if he can see his little Auggie grow

It's the way you're constantly hectoring people who have far more life experience than you do about the way the world works. You get it now? Flex that.

Whine more. Are you saying pure chronological time spent on Earth determines to what degree I can criticize someone's behavior? If that's the best logic you can muster, forgetting that what you posted is irrelevant to the discussion I'm trying to have, then yeah you're right, this is indeed pointless.

 

[August_West]

Man, you once posted that you had to eat better so you could live to see your daughter grow up. Three days later you were dunking short ribs in cheese sauce.

She's about to be a junior. I've almost made it

 

[boba]

I know we've talked about it before in a couple different threads, but Blue Apron has been really good for us in terms of providing good, whole meals with interesting flavor. We do the plan that delivers ingredients for two meals for four people each week. As mentioned before, the prep times are grossly underestimated and the salt is grossly overestimated (we cut it by like 75% and never miss it), but the meals are usually pretty well balanced and really good, and the portions are legit and don't leave you wanting.

This was last night's meal and it was excellent:

Recipe: Spicy Pork & Korean Rice Cakes with Baby Bok Choy - Blue Apron

No longer get Blue Apron (living a a van down by the river while the bathroom is remodeled) but I remember that recipe, and oh was it good. Could be spicier though.

 

[August_West]

Oh, buddy! There are several salient points I'm trying to discuss. Points that you brought up yourself: the implied un-manliness of refraining from meat; how/why the average Westerner is so addicted to animal products to the point of becoming "miserable" without; the staving off of long-term interests for immediate and short-term gratification... and we can talk about a few of these concepts outside the realm of diet.

You shy away from serious discussion because you know you've never had anything more than "muh bacon" "muh ancestors" and "who wants to be old anyway!"

And you know that those fallacious "arguments" hold no ground against mine. I did tell @intlzncster not to make me shame you...

Care to refute anything? Or are you only interested in trying to invalidate my aruments with my irrelevant age and a single irrelevant subordinate clause?

Please flex your intellect and bury my arguments.

 

[superjohn]

Wonder if he can see his little Auggie grow

Whine more. Are you saying pure chronological time spent on Earth determines to what degree I can criticize someone's behavior? If that's the best logic you can muster, forgetting that what you posted is irrelevant to the discussion I'm trying to have, then yeah you're right, this is indeed pointless.

No, he's saying you're a tool for announcing you used to bang all sorts of chicks from Boston in a thread dedicated to ones diet.

 

[superjohn]

I already named the Scott Templeton of the board, can RocktheWorld also be Templeton?

 

[Rocktheworld]

No, he's saying you're a tool for announcing you used to bang all sorts of chicks from Boston in a thread dedicated to ones diet.

Again, it was a single subordinate clause out of a multi-paragraph narrative. The intent was to illustrate that I do look back on my semi-meat-eating days very fondly. Did my "announcement" that I was at a decent strength level (front squat 1.5x my body weight) make me a tool too?

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Did my "announcement" that I was at a decent strength level (front squat 1.5x my body weight) make me a tool too?

The way you re-stated it again certainly does.

Congrats on the sex. But this has gotta be the tenth different thread in which you've made reference to how much p___ you crush.

 

[Deepster]

I would rather live a rockin life until 65 then one of a pansy until 80.

I mean I get people " feeling better" by employing healthy habits. More power to you. If you don't feel miserable and deprived to accomplish that goal, you are ahead of the game. If it does make you miserable maybe rethinking your approach to life is in order.

What gets me is people who make themselves miserable over it for some future goal of longevity. What fun are you going to have at 77? Its fine if you are alive, no problems there, but I think being unhealthy in your 20s and 30s is more fun than being healthy in your 70's.

Why are people's lives geared toward the future always? A future that may never come no matter how many good decisions you may have made. Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. No need to make it Torture.

Suck the marrow out of life everyday ( and for the purposes of this thread I mean literally go to Firebox and order some marrow and suck it down) . Bang some chicks, get hammered and blast a rail in a Buffalo Wild Wings bathroom stall. Eat some Arby's porkbelly.

This sort of imposes your definition of pansy and sucking the marrow out of life on others. If having an Arby's pork belly sandwich checks the box there for you, that's fine. Maybe for someone else it's the thought of spending quality time with their family and seeing momentus life events take place. Not sure the hope of that makes anyone a pansy.

 

[August_West]

This sort of imposes your definition of pansy and sucking the marrow out of life on others. If having an Arby's pork belly sandwich checks the box there for you, that's fine. Maybe for someone else it's the thought of spending quality time with their family and seeing momentus life events take place. Not sure the hope of that makes anyone a pansy.

Nope you didn't read the whole post. I just judged people who are miserable waiting and planning for the future not ones that are happy and satisfied doing it their way, whatever way it is.

But yeah pork belly rules. Sorry

 

[August_West]

Again, it was a single subordinate clause out of a multi-paragraph narrative. The intent was to illustrate that I do look back on my semi-meat-eating days very fondly. Did my "announcement" that I was at a decent strength level (front squat 1.5x my body weight) make me a tool too?

Ok the place I'm playing tonight gives me free dinner. You shamed me into the vegetarian offering.

Actually I lied . I ordered the pork chop.

 

[Rocktheworld]

The way you re-stated it again certainly does.

Congrats on the sex. But this has gotta be the tenth different thread in which you've made reference to how much p___ you crush.

Good, I like annoying people like you