The man they call Sirant
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Titanic Explore
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Sirant your account is truly an inspiration- and I concour with others who pointed out you are a terrific writer.....I really enjoy reading your postes..
Has your blood pressure changed since you lost the weight? Mine used to be perfect- but since I gained the weight, its now high...
Not to go off topic, but do you teach English in China? I just procured my TEFL certification, and hope to eventually teach English in Asia- possibly Japan..
Has your blood pressure changed since you lost the weight? Mine used to be perfect- but since I gained the weight, its now high...
Not to go off topic, but do you teach English in China? I just procured my TEFL certification, and hope to eventually teach English in Asia- possibly Japan..
sirant
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Ya know, my blood pressure was a little high in august, nothing to send up red flags about. As foreign employee in China I am required to get a gull physical every year. Based on the amount of work I have been doing and the weight loss, I cant see it not going down, if not normal by now. I was told I also have a fatty liver, something else I am hoping will be cleared up by next physical, which coincidentally is at the exact time as my weight loss goal. Go figure. Never planned it that way, just happened.
As for teaching, yep, thats what I do. I love it. Japan is a cool place, though I have never taught there myself. The biggest complaint I have heard about teaching in Japan is the incredibly high cost of living. And if you are not in posession of at very least a Ba in some field, you wont get work, period. They have really been cracking down and China is joining ranks in some areas. Teaching in China is great though. Its one of those situations where when you first come it is better to get a lower paying job where everything is provided for you, (apartment, bills, internet, etc) just to get your feet wet. Then once you have gotten more used to the culture and lifestyle, you can venutre forth and find a much better job. I am definitely the highest paid teachr I know and I have a sweet job. 9-5, monday to friday, sweet private office, secretary, the works. But I have also been doing this for years. I am sure that scenario is the same in any country however.
Good luck with the teaching and good work on the weight loss. I have been following your diary too as you seem to be in a very similar situation as myself. Anytime you want to ask a question or make a comment please feel free.
Thanks to you and everyone else too about the kind comments about my writing. I have always had a natural feel for it. I loved writing essays in high school and even tutored university level english that I had never studied. As I mentioned in a different post, I just kinda crack open the noggin and let the crazy seep out into my fingers. If nothing else I hope it provides a bit of motivation and a bunch of entertainment for people out there who could use something to take their minds of the aches and pains of the challenges we are all going through.
sirant
sirant
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Yeah, rest good...
Now if I could just convince my bosses. My weekend consists of sitting here in my office, surfing the net and preparing yet more lessons for classes to come. Can we say BOOOOOORRRRIIIINNNNGGGG!!! I have several hundred, perhaps thousands of lessons in my personal collection to fall back on, so I dont "really" need to make more. Ah well.
I am going to take an exercise break today. Took my secretary and wife for lunch (hot pot!) so no afternoon walk and tonight I will take the subway halfway home, do a little shopping and walk the rest of the way.
For the moment however I wish I had a little pillow. I would gladly crawl under my desk for a snooze...... Don't really see whats stoppping me to be honest.... Hmmmmmm.....
sirant
(zzzzzz,zzzzzzz,zzzzzzz)
Now if I could just convince my bosses. My weekend consists of sitting here in my office, surfing the net and preparing yet more lessons for classes to come. Can we say BOOOOOORRRRIIIINNNNGGGG!!! I have several hundred, perhaps thousands of lessons in my personal collection to fall back on, so I dont "really" need to make more. Ah well.
I am going to take an exercise break today. Took my secretary and wife for lunch (hot pot!) so no afternoon walk and tonight I will take the subway halfway home, do a little shopping and walk the rest of the way.
For the moment however I wish I had a little pillow. I would gladly crawl under my desk for a snooze...... Don't really see whats stoppping me to be honest.... Hmmmmmm.....
sirant
(zzzzzz,zzzzzzz,zzzzzzz)
TomO
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An unbelievably, incredibly, fantastic idea!!
sirant
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Another reason to like losing weight in China.....
My clothes look pretty bad thee days. Gotten far to big for little ole me.
But I still don't want to buy new clothes.... Whats a feller to do?
Well, someone mentioned a tailor, and being China, theres a tailor every 2 blocks. So I took 2 pairs of my giant work pants in to see what could be done. Low and behold this little woman in a couple hours had given me back all new pants which fit me perfectly and are FAR more flattering than they used to be.
Yay!!! Real clothes again. I am going to take some pictures of me and some of my old circus tents to show everyone. Best of all though, the tailoring cost me .75 cents per pair, I am not even kidding! At that price i will also soon take my suit jacket in and see if she can work some magic on that. That would be great since the suit is so new I would hate to see it go away.
So thats all good. What isn't good is i got a bug somewhere which turned into a little stomach infection or other. So today I went into the doc and got some treatment. Here they love IV's. Good way to pump the antibiotics into you in a hurry and get you feeling better fast. So i took the day off work, fixed up my new Linux install (which I am happily using now), got poked and prodded a bit and sucked back a few bottles of IV drippings. Last time I got this little bug I fixed it for over a year with the master cleanser. This time I will go medicine however. I do want to do the cleanser again, however I don't want to throw my body into metabolic chaos quite yet since the weight loss is going so well. Still on track and bearing down on the birthday goal.
Anyhow, off to go find something yummy but light for my poor empty belly...
sirant
My clothes look pretty bad thee days. Gotten far to big for little ole me.
But I still don't want to buy new clothes.... Whats a feller to do?
Well, someone mentioned a tailor, and being China, theres a tailor every 2 blocks. So I took 2 pairs of my giant work pants in to see what could be done. Low and behold this little woman in a couple hours had given me back all new pants which fit me perfectly and are FAR more flattering than they used to be.
Yay!!! Real clothes again. I am going to take some pictures of me and some of my old circus tents to show everyone. Best of all though, the tailoring cost me .75 cents per pair, I am not even kidding! At that price i will also soon take my suit jacket in and see if she can work some magic on that. That would be great since the suit is so new I would hate to see it go away.
So thats all good. What isn't good is i got a bug somewhere which turned into a little stomach infection or other. So today I went into the doc and got some treatment. Here they love IV's. Good way to pump the antibiotics into you in a hurry and get you feeling better fast. So i took the day off work, fixed up my new Linux install (which I am happily using now), got poked and prodded a bit and sucked back a few bottles of IV drippings. Last time I got this little bug I fixed it for over a year with the master cleanser. This time I will go medicine however. I do want to do the cleanser again, however I don't want to throw my body into metabolic chaos quite yet since the weight loss is going so well. Still on track and bearing down on the birthday goal.
Anyhow, off to go find something yummy but light for my poor empty belly...
sirant
TomO
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Sirant, that's so great you're getting new clothes now. Isn't it a different feeling you have with clothes now. I remember last year what I would look for in clothes was "coverability" -- in other words, would the shirt I was buying cover up my fat and make me look at least presentable?
Now we can look at clothes from the point of view of how they bring out our good features -- a whole different viewpoint. What a trip!
Hope that IV does some good!
I deallocated your share of incense to myself, just to make sure I met my monthly goal. Sorry, pal, but I figured if you lose any more weight, you're just going to get too cocky about it.
Get well soon!
Now we can look at clothes from the point of view of how they bring out our good features -- a whole different viewpoint. What a trip!
Hope that IV does some good!
I deallocated your share of incense to myself, just to make sure I met my monthly goal. Sorry, pal, but I figured if you lose any more weight, you're just going to get too cocky about it.
Get well soon!
sirant
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Damn it, I'm broken!
Boy, what a drag.
Still running, exercising, eating better and losing weight, but been getting sick more recently, specifically diarrhea. However, I can 100% predict when it is going to happen, and it is based on my free eating days. Now I know in the past these days have been going great, but slowly but surely I have started eating the "normal" food I was used to before, however still keeping it within my calorie range for the day. The problem I am sure is the frying. My wife, like most south Chinese people, fries most meals in a big old wok everyday. Veggies, main courses, everything. And whereas it tastes delicious, my stomach is now having big problems with it. During my regular eating days I have oatmeal with protein, fruit, salads with chicken and tuna and healthy home made dressing, and home made stew or protein rich soup for dinner every night, with nuts and veggies for snacks. Been working great for me. Then with one free day I was usually sticking primarily to the same kind of foods, just with other treats like beer and/or ice cream. That was also working well and helping me to achieve weight loss like I have never experienced before.
But then I started thinking, well, my wifes cooking is sooo good, maybe I will go back on that on my free day. So now being the holiday, I actually did 2 days of that yummy cooking, while still keeping the calories in check, and I am rotten inside.... I am sure it is all the peanut oil. Due to the fact so much of the cooking is done in thin iron woks over high heat, the oil needs to be peanut or similar based and used liberally in order to prevent burning. Tasty as heck, but after 2 months of pretty much putting fried and greasy foods 100% off my daily diet, it is killing me now. Time to nip that in the bud again....
Luckily this time the wife is so taken with my weight loss that she is not personally offended that "her" cooking is wrecking me. She knows I love to eat it, it just simply doesn't love me anymore. Today while I sat at home (awake since 5am) suffering, she ran out to pick up all the ingredients I need to make up another big old healthy pot of Crockpot stew. All veggie, potato and ultra lean meat. No oils or extra fat at all. Deeelicious and belly (and bum) friendly.
I am REALLY hoping the back end calms down a bit soon so I can go for another run. I must admit I am getting quite addicted. I finally bought new running shoes and my feet feel better than ever. That with the new hat, MP3 player and funky fitness gear and I cant wait to get out the door everyday.
I did something new and fun the other day. Of course being a westerner, I have always had a deep aversion to sweating, especially publicly. Disgusting! Nasty! Dirty! Well, here it really isn't a big thing. To see someone in the heat not sweating here is a sign of sickness, stay away!! Its simply that hot and humid. So sweating is no biggie, but it took me a while to get over the self conscious aspects of it. The other day on my way home from work, I popped into the busiest computer market downtown to pick up some blank dvd's. I figured since I ran right past there everyday anyways, why not? 29C, 85% humidity, 4km running so far....... Needless to say I was SWEATING!!!!! Soaked! I loved how people saw me coming and pretty much cleared an aisle in the ultra busy market. Part of it was an attempt to stay dry I suppose, but a good part of it was seeing a large, tattooed guy dressed like he was running a marathon cruising through a computer market..... Awesome! You just don't see that many people here actively pursuing fitness yet so these displays are rare and I am guessing quite entertaining. Definitely something many of them will be relating over drinks or dinner with friends afterwards.... And now that they don't consider me "fat" anymore, I get absolute stares of awe and admiration, not curiosity and comedy.
If I am lucky and my ass gives me a damn break already I will do it again today. I have to go to specialty places to get chicken breasts because Chinese people generally don't eat anything boneless, skinless or without heaps of visible fat, so its a trip. Now instead of a 25 bus ride, I can do it simply in a 20 minute jog, also stopping by the fitness store to pick up a real skipping rope thats is not designed for an 8 year old girl. I look forward now to people asking me why I am so hot and sweaty and telling them where I just ran from and where I now plan to run back to. They are always so proud and happy for me. Foreigners here do have a pretty bad rap as being generally pretty lazy, and really, for sooooo many of the ones here, it is 100% true. Too many come looking for the easy life, and most to some degree or other find it.
But not me. With all the gorgeous parks, mountains and beaches in the area a person would be crazy not to go exploring it everyday. As much as I liked cycling back home, I am now beginning to prefer running more. There are so many people on the sidewalks here (bicycles AND motorcycles are allowed on the sidewalks here) and I wouldn't trust the roads, cycling wouldn't be nearly as much fun as it was back home. Running gives me a chance to see more things more carefully and not have to pay as much attention to where I am going.
The only problem I see coming is the summer. How hard will it be to go running everyday when its 40C and 98% humidity?? Is it even possible? I still hope to walk (and sweat my arse off(literally)) everyday, but running in that heat...... Oy. Perhaps I will have to switch to morning runs....... Ah well.
sirant
Boy, what a drag.
Still running, exercising, eating better and losing weight, but been getting sick more recently, specifically diarrhea. However, I can 100% predict when it is going to happen, and it is based on my free eating days. Now I know in the past these days have been going great, but slowly but surely I have started eating the "normal" food I was used to before, however still keeping it within my calorie range for the day. The problem I am sure is the frying. My wife, like most south Chinese people, fries most meals in a big old wok everyday. Veggies, main courses, everything. And whereas it tastes delicious, my stomach is now having big problems with it. During my regular eating days I have oatmeal with protein, fruit, salads with chicken and tuna and healthy home made dressing, and home made stew or protein rich soup for dinner every night, with nuts and veggies for snacks. Been working great for me. Then with one free day I was usually sticking primarily to the same kind of foods, just with other treats like beer and/or ice cream. That was also working well and helping me to achieve weight loss like I have never experienced before.
But then I started thinking, well, my wifes cooking is sooo good, maybe I will go back on that on my free day. So now being the holiday, I actually did 2 days of that yummy cooking, while still keeping the calories in check, and I am rotten inside.... I am sure it is all the peanut oil. Due to the fact so much of the cooking is done in thin iron woks over high heat, the oil needs to be peanut or similar based and used liberally in order to prevent burning. Tasty as heck, but after 2 months of pretty much putting fried and greasy foods 100% off my daily diet, it is killing me now. Time to nip that in the bud again....
Luckily this time the wife is so taken with my weight loss that she is not personally offended that "her" cooking is wrecking me. She knows I love to eat it, it just simply doesn't love me anymore. Today while I sat at home (awake since 5am) suffering, she ran out to pick up all the ingredients I need to make up another big old healthy pot of Crockpot stew. All veggie, potato and ultra lean meat. No oils or extra fat at all. Deeelicious and belly (and bum) friendly.
I am REALLY hoping the back end calms down a bit soon so I can go for another run. I must admit I am getting quite addicted. I finally bought new running shoes and my feet feel better than ever. That with the new hat, MP3 player and funky fitness gear and I cant wait to get out the door everyday.
I did something new and fun the other day. Of course being a westerner, I have always had a deep aversion to sweating, especially publicly. Disgusting! Nasty! Dirty! Well, here it really isn't a big thing. To see someone in the heat not sweating here is a sign of sickness, stay away!! Its simply that hot and humid. So sweating is no biggie, but it took me a while to get over the self conscious aspects of it. The other day on my way home from work, I popped into the busiest computer market downtown to pick up some blank dvd's. I figured since I ran right past there everyday anyways, why not? 29C, 85% humidity, 4km running so far....... Needless to say I was SWEATING!!!!! Soaked! I loved how people saw me coming and pretty much cleared an aisle in the ultra busy market. Part of it was an attempt to stay dry I suppose, but a good part of it was seeing a large, tattooed guy dressed like he was running a marathon cruising through a computer market..... Awesome! You just don't see that many people here actively pursuing fitness yet so these displays are rare and I am guessing quite entertaining. Definitely something many of them will be relating over drinks or dinner with friends afterwards.... And now that they don't consider me "fat" anymore, I get absolute stares of awe and admiration, not curiosity and comedy.
If I am lucky and my ass gives me a damn break already I will do it again today. I have to go to specialty places to get chicken breasts because Chinese people generally don't eat anything boneless, skinless or without heaps of visible fat, so its a trip. Now instead of a 25 bus ride, I can do it simply in a 20 minute jog, also stopping by the fitness store to pick up a real skipping rope thats is not designed for an 8 year old girl. I look forward now to people asking me why I am so hot and sweaty and telling them where I just ran from and where I now plan to run back to. They are always so proud and happy for me. Foreigners here do have a pretty bad rap as being generally pretty lazy, and really, for sooooo many of the ones here, it is 100% true. Too many come looking for the easy life, and most to some degree or other find it.
But not me. With all the gorgeous parks, mountains and beaches in the area a person would be crazy not to go exploring it everyday. As much as I liked cycling back home, I am now beginning to prefer running more. There are so many people on the sidewalks here (bicycles AND motorcycles are allowed on the sidewalks here) and I wouldn't trust the roads, cycling wouldn't be nearly as much fun as it was back home. Running gives me a chance to see more things more carefully and not have to pay as much attention to where I am going.
The only problem I see coming is the summer. How hard will it be to go running everyday when its 40C and 98% humidity?? Is it even possible? I still hope to walk (and sweat my arse off(literally)) everyday, but running in that heat...... Oy. Perhaps I will have to switch to morning runs....... Ah well.
sirant
TomO
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Sirant, I have to admit I generally skim through long posts -- with the exception of yours. I'm just fascinated by your stories.
Sorry about the adverse reaction you have to your wife's cooking. But I understand about all the oil. I had a bunch of fried food a couple of months ago, and I felt sick for four days afterward.
Hope you're back to 100% soon!
Sorry about the adverse reaction you have to your wife's cooking. But I understand about all the oil. I had a bunch of fried food a couple of months ago, and I felt sick for four days afterward.
Hope you're back to 100% soon!
sirant
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Thank god, its over.....
The sickness that is. Finally found out what the real culprit was and how the medicine I was given was feeding the fire. Seems I had a nice old case of bacterial diarrhea, which unlike other forms of diarrhea we are accustomed to back home, cannot be fixed with immodium and other such products. Unfortunately for me the doc this time gave me expensive "probiotic" treatments which feed the good bacteria in order to kill the bad ones. Well, the bad ones this time were loving the probiotics so for 3 days I was a hurting unit. On my 7 day holiday 3 days were spent indoors and unable to eat much so seriously low energy. No idea how this has affected my metabolism, but it cant be good. I honestly felt ripped off that I couldn't go out and run or even exercise at home. Once again an ironic twist in my life. In the past this would have been a great opportunity to sit around, play video games, watch movies, etc. But instead I was agonizing because I cant even do pushups because I have zero energy to play with.
So I fixed it anyways, luckily with a herbal remedy well known to backpackers who frequent Mexico and Asia. Go figure. Berberine Hydrochloride is a naturally occurring herbal substance that gently destroys the bad bacteria without harming the good ones. It has been well documented and is very commonly used. In Canada and America these types of bacterial infections are rare, so this medicine is not well known. But it worked, I started taking them on the 3rd day instead of the probiotics, and here I am, back in the house after my longest run yet. Almost 8km today. A new record. I decided today my running goal is to pull off 1 X 10km run per week by the end of may.
Thank goodness I was able to start running today too, as my legs were starting to get that uncomfortable / restless feeling and I had a lot of difficulty sleeping last night. At 4:00am I actually had to get up out of bed and stretch my legs out before I was finally able to sleep. And the stretch was crazy painful and I was nowhere near as flexible as I normally am. I suppose even though sick I should have at very lest kept up my stretching, but oh well, another lesson learned. Today I did an extra long warm up before the run and a very good stretch and cool down after. Needless to say now I am feeling fantastic and refreshed.
My weight skyrocketed during my sickness, which was odd. For a guy that was putting solid food into his system, only to have it violently "removed" again as pure liquid I expected to lose weight, but that simply didn't happen. I went from last weeks 249 all the way up to 257 and now finally back down to 251. Not bad all considered, but I sure would have liked to have knocked off another 2 pounds this week while heading to that august 1st goal. Not a big deal really. I didn't adjust my ticker since i am confident now that my bowels are working properly again I will be back at 249 in a day or 2.
Now that I am back on my regular diet again and can do my daily running, I am sure I can knock off an extra .2 or .5 a few weeks somewhere between now and then to make up the difference. Now that 13Kg seems like such a small number compared to the 37kg its started off as, but I know it wont come off quickly now. All part of the process. In fact even if I don't hit that 100Kg milestone by my birthday, thats ok too. I have already given myself the best birthday present.
I feel better, look better and am fitter than any other time in my whole damn entire life. Pounds are just pounds, those come and go, but fitness is either something you have or dont. I can hold my head up high and say I have made it to "fit" already. I may be carrying 30-50 extra pounds at the moment, but that doesnt mean the guy underneath isn't an athelete just waiting to look the part. I can do more now as a fat guy than most of the skinny guys I know.
I read a post here recently where the poster was saying you are better to just lose weight through diet than exercise such as cardio, because once you start running, you have to continue running or you gain back all the weight. I believe that is actually 100% true. However, I think some of us, myself included, need to realistically look at the facts that this weight lose game is not something we should ever plan on "stopping". Are we genetically dispossessed to being over weight? Is it in our genes? I have no idea, but anyway you look at it, it really needs to be a permanent lifestyle change. For me that will mean running now almost everyday until I have hit my goal, and then maybe 2-4 times a week just for leisure and to maintain my weight. This does not seem too difficult to me and since I have already worked it into my regular daily routine, it is not an imposition whatsoever. I look back at all those crazy bastards I have known who were regular joggers and would simply do it for the fun of it, several time a week. They were ALL damn fit, good looking and happy type people. Go figure. Maybe they were so good looking because they were always smiling....
So why would I want to give up exercise now so I wouldn't have to continue the rest of my life? Exercise does so much more than just lose weight. It provides stress management, social interaction and recreation, etc etc. I hope to be able to run my entire life, not quit at the first sign of fitness. And thats simply how it is going to be for me. I would rather exercise regularly for the rest of my life than have to worry only about food for controlling my weight. That sounds more like a perpetual diet to me.
My friends here ask me why I am working so hard right now, I tell them I am in training. They ask me, training for what? I say, the rest of my life.
Keep training everyone!
sirant
The sickness that is. Finally found out what the real culprit was and how the medicine I was given was feeding the fire. Seems I had a nice old case of bacterial diarrhea, which unlike other forms of diarrhea we are accustomed to back home, cannot be fixed with immodium and other such products. Unfortunately for me the doc this time gave me expensive "probiotic" treatments which feed the good bacteria in order to kill the bad ones. Well, the bad ones this time were loving the probiotics so for 3 days I was a hurting unit. On my 7 day holiday 3 days were spent indoors and unable to eat much so seriously low energy. No idea how this has affected my metabolism, but it cant be good. I honestly felt ripped off that I couldn't go out and run or even exercise at home. Once again an ironic twist in my life. In the past this would have been a great opportunity to sit around, play video games, watch movies, etc. But instead I was agonizing because I cant even do pushups because I have zero energy to play with.
So I fixed it anyways, luckily with a herbal remedy well known to backpackers who frequent Mexico and Asia. Go figure. Berberine Hydrochloride is a naturally occurring herbal substance that gently destroys the bad bacteria without harming the good ones. It has been well documented and is very commonly used. In Canada and America these types of bacterial infections are rare, so this medicine is not well known. But it worked, I started taking them on the 3rd day instead of the probiotics, and here I am, back in the house after my longest run yet. Almost 8km today. A new record. I decided today my running goal is to pull off 1 X 10km run per week by the end of may.
Thank goodness I was able to start running today too, as my legs were starting to get that uncomfortable / restless feeling and I had a lot of difficulty sleeping last night. At 4:00am I actually had to get up out of bed and stretch my legs out before I was finally able to sleep. And the stretch was crazy painful and I was nowhere near as flexible as I normally am. I suppose even though sick I should have at very lest kept up my stretching, but oh well, another lesson learned. Today I did an extra long warm up before the run and a very good stretch and cool down after. Needless to say now I am feeling fantastic and refreshed.
My weight skyrocketed during my sickness, which was odd. For a guy that was putting solid food into his system, only to have it violently "removed" again as pure liquid I expected to lose weight, but that simply didn't happen. I went from last weeks 249 all the way up to 257 and now finally back down to 251. Not bad all considered, but I sure would have liked to have knocked off another 2 pounds this week while heading to that august 1st goal. Not a big deal really. I didn't adjust my ticker since i am confident now that my bowels are working properly again I will be back at 249 in a day or 2.
Now that I am back on my regular diet again and can do my daily running, I am sure I can knock off an extra .2 or .5 a few weeks somewhere between now and then to make up the difference. Now that 13Kg seems like such a small number compared to the 37kg its started off as, but I know it wont come off quickly now. All part of the process. In fact even if I don't hit that 100Kg milestone by my birthday, thats ok too. I have already given myself the best birthday present.
I feel better, look better and am fitter than any other time in my whole damn entire life. Pounds are just pounds, those come and go, but fitness is either something you have or dont. I can hold my head up high and say I have made it to "fit" already. I may be carrying 30-50 extra pounds at the moment, but that doesnt mean the guy underneath isn't an athelete just waiting to look the part. I can do more now as a fat guy than most of the skinny guys I know.
I read a post here recently where the poster was saying you are better to just lose weight through diet than exercise such as cardio, because once you start running, you have to continue running or you gain back all the weight. I believe that is actually 100% true. However, I think some of us, myself included, need to realistically look at the facts that this weight lose game is not something we should ever plan on "stopping". Are we genetically dispossessed to being over weight? Is it in our genes? I have no idea, but anyway you look at it, it really needs to be a permanent lifestyle change. For me that will mean running now almost everyday until I have hit my goal, and then maybe 2-4 times a week just for leisure and to maintain my weight. This does not seem too difficult to me and since I have already worked it into my regular daily routine, it is not an imposition whatsoever. I look back at all those crazy bastards I have known who were regular joggers and would simply do it for the fun of it, several time a week. They were ALL damn fit, good looking and happy type people. Go figure. Maybe they were so good looking because they were always smiling....
So why would I want to give up exercise now so I wouldn't have to continue the rest of my life? Exercise does so much more than just lose weight. It provides stress management, social interaction and recreation, etc etc. I hope to be able to run my entire life, not quit at the first sign of fitness. And thats simply how it is going to be for me. I would rather exercise regularly for the rest of my life than have to worry only about food for controlling my weight. That sounds more like a perpetual diet to me.
My friends here ask me why I am working so hard right now, I tell them I am in training. They ask me, training for what? I say, the rest of my life.
Keep training everyone!
sirant
TomO
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Sirant, so glad you're back to good health again! That sounded like quite an ordeal.
It's true what you say about missing your "training". I go nuts if I can't get to the gym. What a difference from last year.
This is a real gem!
Have a great weekend -- wait, your weekend is over, isn't it?
It's true what you say about missing your "training". I go nuts if I can't get to the gym. What a difference from last year.
This is a real gem!
Have a great weekend -- wait, your weekend is over, isn't it?
wishes
Coffee Addict
wow what a long read back that was. Bugger about being sick - aint it weird how you regained the weight though whilst puking.
I notice whenever i start exercising regularly my body seems to retain more water - possibly because it knows it needs it more. When i stop i exercising so much i loose it within a week or so.
But again its better to exercise and have a bit of extra weight and be more healthy than to be skinny with no muscle tone and a weak heart
I notice whenever i start exercising regularly my body seems to retain more water - possibly because it knows it needs it more. When i stop i exercising so much i loose it within a week or so.
But again its better to exercise and have a bit of extra weight and be more healthy than to be skinny with no muscle tone and a weak heart
sirant
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Now were talking!!!
Actually Tom, I do have 2 days (including today) left. I got 2 good days, then 3 sicker than a dog, now 2 more before a 4 day work week. Tonight I will be looking to pick up an electric BBQ for the patio since I am too tired of the Chinese charcoal. No fancy schmancy little brickettes, just random sized lumps of charcoal that are a bugger to use and light. I gots to have my chicken breasts though...
Yeah wishes, the "motazumas revenge" wasn't fun, but I am actually now better than back on track scale wise. I checked again today, after the run (and subsequentally knocking a bit more crud out of me, no need for details...) and I am back below 250 where I should be. Actually at 248 today, and this after eating twice today. so even on the sick week I lost a pound more than the previous weeks lowest in 20 years...... In yer face bacteria!!!!
Feels damn good.
I was reading about your race in your diary BTW, congrats on that. When I am going balls to the wall on my spinbike I rarely keep it above 22km/hr at best. I used to be a power cyclist back home and have a gorgeous Specialized bike sitting in my garage. Here there are just no suitable places for it, since riding in the parks inst allowed and the streets are crowded. Running is allowed everywhere at least, so thats why I am sticking with that. 90Km is a hell of a ride BTW, I hope you soaked up as much painful sympathy and attention from the family as possible.... I sure would have.
Next week is going to be an ass kicker my friends (pardon my language)! After 3 days of inactivity next week at work is going to be me going to the limit to knock off an extra pound to get me on track for my goals. 8 pounds to new clothes and 20 more after that to the big 100..... I can't wait!
sirant
Actually Tom, I do have 2 days (including today) left. I got 2 good days, then 3 sicker than a dog, now 2 more before a 4 day work week. Tonight I will be looking to pick up an electric BBQ for the patio since I am too tired of the Chinese charcoal. No fancy schmancy little brickettes, just random sized lumps of charcoal that are a bugger to use and light. I gots to have my chicken breasts though...
Yeah wishes, the "motazumas revenge" wasn't fun, but I am actually now better than back on track scale wise. I checked again today, after the run (and subsequentally knocking a bit more crud out of me, no need for details...) and I am back below 250 where I should be. Actually at 248 today, and this after eating twice today. so even on the sick week I lost a pound more than the previous weeks lowest in 20 years...... In yer face bacteria!!!!
Feels damn good.
I was reading about your race in your diary BTW, congrats on that. When I am going balls to the wall on my spinbike I rarely keep it above 22km/hr at best. I used to be a power cyclist back home and have a gorgeous Specialized bike sitting in my garage. Here there are just no suitable places for it, since riding in the parks inst allowed and the streets are crowded. Running is allowed everywhere at least, so thats why I am sticking with that. 90Km is a hell of a ride BTW, I hope you soaked up as much painful sympathy and attention from the family as possible.... I sure would have.
Next week is going to be an ass kicker my friends (pardon my language)! After 3 days of inactivity next week at work is going to be me going to the limit to knock off an extra pound to get me on track for my goals. 8 pounds to new clothes and 20 more after that to the big 100..... I can't wait!
sirant
sirant
New member
The scale gods are showing pity!!!
Sorry buddy, even with the sickness I didn't hit the plateau I was afraid I was due for...
I guess the scale gods feel bad that I was sick for half my damn holiday, and they are paying me back in continued lower numbers on the scale. Once again today I was rather pleasantly suprised to see a new number on the scale. 247....
247!!!!!
Thats officially 50 freaking pounds gone! 50!! Thats a club I dreamed of joining for years. I dont think I ever lost 50 pounds in one concerted effort before. Un-freakin-believable!!!!
According to the weight tracking on fitday I need to lose 2.2 pounds a week for the next 12 weeks and I am on the road to hitting my big goal, on time! I wish I could leave the office now and go running since I feel so good. But, it is getting hot now, so pretty much even the lunch time walks will have to change now. Not that I wont go walking every lunch time for 30 minutes, but now it will have to be in the airconditioned mall next door instead of outside. I don't mind being sweaty, but I dont want to be soaked in business clothes working in a pro office. Oh well. Other than strange looks from the shop keepers and security guards, who really MUST be wondering why that fat guy, wait a minute, not so fat guy, I mean, handsome guy keeps circling the mall everyday. I dont mind the looks though. Soon enough those looks will be looks of admiration instead of curiosity.
Not that I ever had a problem with looks of curiousity either.
And so much of this journey has been thanks to you all here! I felt kinda motivated over the holliday (since I was sick and counldnt do much anyways) and I have a first draft of my new song about getting in shape. I want to dedicate the finished product to everyone here at WLF, though I guess only those who read my diary will know about it. If interested have a peak at my website Episode #2 - No One Said Life Would Be Easy
A work in progress, but you get the idea. Thanks to everyone here at WLF for making this journey my best one ever!
sirant
Sorry buddy, even with the sickness I didn't hit the plateau I was afraid I was due for...
I guess the scale gods feel bad that I was sick for half my damn holiday, and they are paying me back in continued lower numbers on the scale. Once again today I was rather pleasantly suprised to see a new number on the scale. 247....
247!!!!!
Thats officially 50 freaking pounds gone! 50!! Thats a club I dreamed of joining for years. I dont think I ever lost 50 pounds in one concerted effort before. Un-freakin-believable!!!!
According to the weight tracking on fitday I need to lose 2.2 pounds a week for the next 12 weeks and I am on the road to hitting my big goal, on time! I wish I could leave the office now and go running since I feel so good. But, it is getting hot now, so pretty much even the lunch time walks will have to change now. Not that I wont go walking every lunch time for 30 minutes, but now it will have to be in the airconditioned mall next door instead of outside. I don't mind being sweaty, but I dont want to be soaked in business clothes working in a pro office. Oh well. Other than strange looks from the shop keepers and security guards, who really MUST be wondering why that fat guy, wait a minute, not so fat guy, I mean, handsome guy keeps circling the mall everyday. I dont mind the looks though. Soon enough those looks will be looks of admiration instead of curiosity.
Not that I ever had a problem with looks of curiousity either.
And so much of this journey has been thanks to you all here! I felt kinda motivated over the holliday (since I was sick and counldnt do much anyways) and I have a first draft of my new song about getting in shape. I want to dedicate the finished product to everyone here at WLF, though I guess only those who read my diary will know about it. If interested have a peak at my website Episode #2 - No One Said Life Would Be Easy
A work in progress, but you get the idea. Thanks to everyone here at WLF for making this journey my best one ever!
sirant
sirant
New member
You are too kind Tom
I am so happy with everything I have learned, the great new friends I have made and the truths I have learned about myself since joining WLF that I don't feel I could possibly give back as much as I have received. Maybe if I were Bill Gates and had endless amounts of liquid cash.... Not seeing that happening anytime soon however. Too bad, I would fly eveyone to one central location so we could all meet face to face and see up close and in person how well we have all been doing.
As for me, well, I am having a funny week. Definitely losing fat and getting smaller, no question, but the scale hasn't budged. I am pretty sure it is not a plateau, more likely a little extra salt in my diet playing havok. My wife is such a great woman and she really does go out of her way to help me in my journey. But sometimes she forgets that I don't need all the "flavour" of things such as salt and oil like I used to. For example, my favorite stew is one with onions, potatos, carrots, tomoatos, green pepper and some lean beef, thrown recklessly into the crock pot and allowed to cook for 3-4 hours. Deeeeeelicious!!! I sometimes add a little pepper or cayenne, but that is it. No salt, no oil, nothing like that. And it is heaven. Sometimes when I have less time my wife will make it for me just to be nice. But in her world you pre-fry the onions and add salt and other flavorings. A year ago that would have been fantastic, but since I have been actively controlling my sodium intake, I find I rarely if ever use it anymore, and actually enjoy the flavor of things without salt at all. Definitely a good thing. There is more than enough salt in other foods to make up for not shaking on extra at every opportunity. This week my wife made the stew and marinated my chicken breasts for me. Once again, VERY salty and in my eyes, completely not needed. Now I don't blame her of course, she is only trying to make the food more delicious in the wat she knows, but this time the salt was too much and I think I am seriously retaining water. Not a biggie. I will eat the stew and chicken breasts, but next time I will try to beat her to the punch and grill my breasts au natural and make a salt free stew.
Today is definitely going to be a sauna day. Not sure whats up with me, but after 3 days of sickness, I was sore as hell my first day back to running, fine for the next 2, then last night it was VERY difficult. Not painful, just energy drain and stiffness. But I suppose after 4 days and 20km I can take a break tonight and go soak myself and get ready for the weekend. I am going to try for 8km a day this weekend, 9 next weekend and then hopefully 10km by the end of may. I dont think it will be a problem if I keep training like I am doing now. I think the most important part is to continue with the long and extensive cool downs and stretches to make sure I dont hurt myself. So far so good. Though today my poor old leggies are counting the seconds to get into that sauna...... Only 27,000 seconds (450 minutes, 7.5 hours) to go....
sirant
I am so happy with everything I have learned, the great new friends I have made and the truths I have learned about myself since joining WLF that I don't feel I could possibly give back as much as I have received. Maybe if I were Bill Gates and had endless amounts of liquid cash.... Not seeing that happening anytime soon however. Too bad, I would fly eveyone to one central location so we could all meet face to face and see up close and in person how well we have all been doing.
As for me, well, I am having a funny week. Definitely losing fat and getting smaller, no question, but the scale hasn't budged. I am pretty sure it is not a plateau, more likely a little extra salt in my diet playing havok. My wife is such a great woman and she really does go out of her way to help me in my journey. But sometimes she forgets that I don't need all the "flavour" of things such as salt and oil like I used to. For example, my favorite stew is one with onions, potatos, carrots, tomoatos, green pepper and some lean beef, thrown recklessly into the crock pot and allowed to cook for 3-4 hours. Deeeeeelicious!!! I sometimes add a little pepper or cayenne, but that is it. No salt, no oil, nothing like that. And it is heaven. Sometimes when I have less time my wife will make it for me just to be nice. But in her world you pre-fry the onions and add salt and other flavorings. A year ago that would have been fantastic, but since I have been actively controlling my sodium intake, I find I rarely if ever use it anymore, and actually enjoy the flavor of things without salt at all. Definitely a good thing. There is more than enough salt in other foods to make up for not shaking on extra at every opportunity. This week my wife made the stew and marinated my chicken breasts for me. Once again, VERY salty and in my eyes, completely not needed. Now I don't blame her of course, she is only trying to make the food more delicious in the wat she knows, but this time the salt was too much and I think I am seriously retaining water. Not a biggie. I will eat the stew and chicken breasts, but next time I will try to beat her to the punch and grill my breasts au natural and make a salt free stew.
Today is definitely going to be a sauna day. Not sure whats up with me, but after 3 days of sickness, I was sore as hell my first day back to running, fine for the next 2, then last night it was VERY difficult. Not painful, just energy drain and stiffness. But I suppose after 4 days and 20km I can take a break tonight and go soak myself and get ready for the weekend. I am going to try for 8km a day this weekend, 9 next weekend and then hopefully 10km by the end of may. I dont think it will be a problem if I keep training like I am doing now. I think the most important part is to continue with the long and extensive cool downs and stretches to make sure I dont hurt myself. So far so good. Though today my poor old leggies are counting the seconds to get into that sauna...... Only 27,000 seconds (450 minutes, 7.5 hours) to go....
sirant
TomO
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Sirant, sorry you're sore. And the angelic part of me is mad that the scale isn't moving; the schadenfreude part of me enjoys the company. But the nice part of me won out, and I burned some extra incense for you tonight, even though my scale is going nowhere.
I'm actually glad I do most of the cooking in our household. That way I can control the nutrients, especially stuff like salt. My wife is very supportive too, but it's hard when you don't keep track of every calorie like I do.
One day it sure would be nice to meet in person. We would have a grand time, I'm sure.
I'm actually glad I do most of the cooking in our household. That way I can control the nutrients, especially stuff like salt. My wife is very supportive too, but it's hard when you don't keep track of every calorie like I do.
One day it sure would be nice to meet in person. We would have a grand time, I'm sure.
jlynne
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Sirant, congratulations on your 247! I liked your youtube video, and you are right: It's gonna be okay. I think you should copy a trick from your friend Tom. Based on what I saw in the video, you also need an updated avatar. The guy in the video looks much different than your current photo.
P.S. Maybe this will give you an excuse to go shopping....... because your blue tee-shirt is also too big!
P.S. Maybe this will give you an excuse to go shopping....... because your blue tee-shirt is also too big!