A Black Hole of Happiness

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I have a feeling that the fact that you spent all your cash on designer goods so that you eventually had to restructure your student loans and had no cushion to deal with the "unexpected" expense of an old car breaking down is not going to convince him that you have sound financial judgment. But your kidney is FABULOUS and nobody can take that away from you. Unless you get caught in one of those awful scams where they drug your drink and you wake up in a hotel bathtub full of ice with a cell phone and note telling you to call a doctor because the bastards have harvested your kidney. Just awful. It actually happened to an acquaintance of a friend of someone who forwarded an e-mail to someone else who sent me an e-mail once.

Did they at least leave him with a tory burch emblem as consolation??

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I have a feeling that the fact that you spent all your cash on designer goods so that you eventually had to restructure your student loans and had no cushion to deal with the "unexpected" expense of an old car breaking down is not going to convince him that you have sound financial judgment. But your kidney is FABULOUS and nobody can take that away from you. Unless you get caught in one of those awful scams where they drug your drink and you wake up in a hotel bathtub full of ice with a cell phone and note telling you to call a doctor because the bastards have harvested your kidney. Just awful. It actually happened to an acquaintance of a friend of someone who forwarded an e-mail to someone else who sent me an e-mail once.

That's like ten thousand pancreas* when all you need is a kidney.

*apparently its plural is "pancreata".

[dtb]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Since other people focused on the exercise half of this, I'll just say that in my own, non-scientific opinion, the key to weighing what you want to weigh is what you eat. Exercising helps -- IMHO, again -- by making you feel healthy, which can reinforce the choice to take care of yourself in other ways, but most people don't burn enough calories exercising to afford themselves different eating habits. No one forces you to eat poorly, but if you feel that eating in a way that's healthy is depriving or punishing yourself, then you're not going to do it for very long. You have to find a balance that you're happy with, both in terms of what kind of shape you're in and in terms of what you eat, or it's not going to work in the long run. That may mean that you eat a ton and a weigh a ton, which is fine, if that's what you want. IMHO, exercise plays a small part in this.

YESYESYESYESYES.

When I broke my leg a couple of years ago, I lost ten pounds, because I knew I couldn't do ANY exercise, so I had to be ultra careful about what I ate. Exercise is good for lots of things (easing stress, cardio fitness, general feeling good), but you can't rely on it for weight loss unless you're working out for 4-5 hours a day.

To weigh less, eat less. Simple as that.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I am largely ignorant of this board's dynamics.

Polite lies are the great social lubricant (yes SD, and Scotch).

S_A_M

KY is better.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
KY is better.

Astroglide.

[Secret_Agent_Man]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
KY is better.

Often administered in combination with polite lies and scotch, no?

S_A_M

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
That's like ten thousand pancreas* when all you need is a kidney.

*apparently its plural is "pancreata".

Well, I'm not sure it's as ironic as you suggest. With the raw organic material from ten thousand pancreata, you could probably fashion yourself a crude but workable kidney -- something that could get you out of the ice bath and on the trail of the bastards who slipped a mickey in your drink in the first place.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Well, I'm not sure it's as ironic as you suggest. With the raw organic material from ten thousand pancreata, you could probably fashion yourself a crude but workable kidney -- something that could get you out of the ice bath and on the trail of the bastards who slipped a mickey in your drink in the first place.

You're going to get your entire diplomatic corps kicked out of Russia pretty soon if you go any further with this scenario.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I would like to focus on this...interesting response. I say I eat junk, but I really don't. I try to focus on high quality foods, natural foods [Whole Foods, the usual lunch places Cosi, [yes the bread is a million calories] Panera, sometimes a guilty Chipotle, i try to avoid pizza, chinese, mc d's] I think my issue is I like starch. Obviously the low carb thing works but is that sustainable long termish? when I tried it short term it worked. but I found it hard to sustain.

Yes. If you don't eat a fuckload carbs you'll stay on the Atkins. If you eat carbs, no... Atkins probably won't be sustainable.

Stop eating bread and pasta and sugar. Stop ordering lattes and all that shit at Sbux and order coffee, with skim milk for creamer.

And run. Don't go to the gym. Run. You can do it anytime, so you have no "I couldn't get to the gym" excuse.

Or stay fat. But make up your goddammed mind about it already.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Astroglide.

True.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Often administered in combination with polite lies and scotch, no?

S_A_M

I have the fluffer apply it.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I think perhaps the most annoying aspect of TM and the haters is their stubborn refusal to believe a person can change.

Well you give them no faith. All you post about is dieting, but how you can never actually lose any weight. How can anyone trust you?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Well, I'm not sure it's as ironic as you suggest. With the raw organic material from ten thousand pancreata, you could probably fashion yourself a crude but workable kidney -- something that could get you out of the ice bath and on the trail of the bastards who slipped a mickey in your drink in the first place.

Well, yeah, but you can also slowly cut through food with a spoon. Or melt the spoons into one giant knife. So I think it holds up.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by dtb
To weigh less, eat less. Simple as that.

Wow. That is simple. I am going to add that to my list of other useful maxims to live by:

To be more rich, earn more money. Simple as that.

To get more attractive, be less ugly. Simple as that.

To be more happy, adjust your expectations so that you focus on things that are more readily attainable in your day-to-day life without having to make unacceptable sacrifices, focus more on spiritual rather than material pleasures, learn to derive pleasure from actions that benefit not only yourself but others as well, and become more contemplative without becoming obsessive. Simple as that.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yes. If you don't eat a fuckload carbs you'll stay on the Atkins. If you eat carbs, no... Atkins probably won't be sustainable.

Stop eating bread and pasta and sugar. Stop ordering lattes and all that shit at Sbux and order coffee, with skim milk for creamer.

And run. Don't go to the gym. Run. You can do it anytime, so you have no "I couldn't get to the gym" excuse.

Or stay fat. But make up your goddammed mind about it already.

It's not carbs. It's calories. Carbs happen to have a lot of quick and easy calories, so you can't eat as many of them if you're trying to lose or maintain weight, but there's nothing wrong with eating pasta or sugar or bread so long as you don't go overboard with them.

And the formula of figuring out calories in and calories out really easy, but the execution can be damned difficult. It's not a walk in the park, and most people fail at it.