In all seriousness, I have changed my life in the last year. I never want to be 30 pounds overweight again. It's not just about appearance--it's about self-esteem and about my energy level.

Let me put it this way. I am determined to grow old gracefully, and that means never becoming like all the whale-bellied men my age I see all around me.

I think I gave you a whole list above... exercise, art/music/literature, meditation.

You're killing yourself.

i considered not eating meat at all for awhile. i just can't bring myself to do it, even though it would possibly benefit me if i did. i think i just don't really feel shitty enough in general to make any major changes like i did...two months ago maybe? i thought i was going to die two months ago and i completely flipped everything around and i feel completely healthy and normal now.

no, i'm making fun of no-carb bullshit.

Oh, okay. Sometimes your humor eludes me. I'm a man--i.e, a blunt instrument.

I still eat meat, just not much red meat. Mostly just chicken, turkey, and seafood anymore.

So where do I report here the bizarre vacation week I just experienced? A week in which my wife and I endured the redneck antics of my embarassingly immature friend from Florida, a guy who had the audicity in the middle of racially mixed downtown Atlanta to wear his oh-so-humorous "Celebrate Diversity" picture tee-shirt that sported images portraying a "diversity" of handguns? An asshole who's so paranoid about the world that he packed his piece on his trip from Florida and stored his pistol in our hotel room dresser? God, I want to vent. But I won't. That's probably enough. Suffice to say, we've decided we ain't vacationing with this dude much anymore. Problem is, his wife is my wife's best friend.

seriously, i do not understand how anyone, especially doctors, could think it was healthy to cut out an entire food group! the whole reason why there are food groups is because you need something from all of them every day, which takes a lot of work and i'm not into it.


i just thought - i do exercise though, i roller skate. and i dance. a lot.

Problem is that some food groups are less healthy than others--meaning you should consume less of them, not necessarily that you cut them out altogether. But it's common knowledge anymore that a vegetable/fruit-based diet is so much healthier than a meat-based one.

yeah, but you should never completely eliminate any food group.

Any activity is good, of course, but it's really good to figure out a regime that exercises all muscles. Swimming is good for that, by the way.

I only eat lean chicken for meat. I'm trying to get rid of this weight I gained.

Well, maybe. I'm not a physician, so I can't say, but I personally think vegetarians who manage to get their protein from other sources are probably healthier, generally speaking, than those of us who are unwilling to give up meat.

That's good. You need to combine the dieting with good regular exercise, though, to truly see weight loss.

What most people forget is that if you take care of yourself, you can die old and stay reasonably pretty.

The running and the biking do that.

Cool.

My worst fat vice right now is beer. But I plan on cutting back on beer once I find a regular supplier for pot. Figure that might help save my liver too.

Uh, pot makes you gain weight too.
At least that's what I've heard from my stoner friends.

i have no incentive to drink less or smoke less pot.

schedule:

get up when i feel like, could be 8 AM or could be 4 in the afternoon
drink an assload of coffee with whiskey and milk and sugar (bad)
smoke weed
eat whatever horribly unhealthy shit is in my fridge or cabinets
go do something to entertian myself
go out drinking
stop at ________ for [random greasy food]
go home
go to bed

repeat


more like "what schedule?"

My incentive to drink less is that I don't like the way it makes me feel anymore. On the other hand, two or three hits of pot every few days and I'm at perfect peace with the world for a long time.

It's not the substance that makes pot fattening--it's the effects of smoking too much. Stoners gain weight because they smoke too much. Smoke too much and you have the munchies too much--and thereby the weight gain.

actually i do have an incentive to smoke less weed

- don't have to spend as much money
- takes less to get stoned
- more fun if you're not high all the time

but i enjoy sleeping or laying around all the time. if i were an animal i would be a sloth.