What Are You Doing?

Thank you, Xoic. Nice to meet you, Malisky.

 

Not to a Detroit Lions fan. Last championship in 1957.

 

I'm dying after a workout... I hate how I've suddenly gained 25kg over 4 years after being skinny little git for so long. And why is it so hard to remove weight that you gained now?!?

 

This happened to me immediately after leaving the military. Granted, I was a bit too thin then, but the added 45 pounds since then is a but the other way. At least it somewhat flat lined for me though. I just need to eat better and work out more.

 

The hardest part is that I sorta know why I ballooned. Combination of working 3 jobs to going down to 1/2 a job, terrible diet of takeaway (the rise of my weight can be tracked by the increasing popularity of uber eats) plus quitting smoking (this added like 4kg by itself every time I've done it).

But it's like I'm sliding down a hill whenever I fuck up, but if I want to be healthy again, it's sooo hard. Right now I'm probably overweight but physically the most active and healthy eating I've ever been in my life. But I still seem to gain weight (I've quit smoking as well right now for 3 months), it's nuts.

 

The smoking stop got me too. I'm going on six years now. There was a significant bump at that time because my body simply was confused on how to handle itself without smoking. That clears up though. Also, you gain a lot of weight with new found physical activity. You pack on pounds because your body thinks it needs to. If you stay up with the physical activity and eat healthy, it will reverse.

 

Thank you for the encouragement. I knew a lot of what you said is the reality. But I am not ashamed to say that sometimes it just helps when someone else just reinforces it.

I hope you also get to the point you feel like you've got back into shape and let me know if you need that reinforcement ever.

 

That happens to everyone when they get out, even guys who didn't dynamite their legs. I'm carrying about 40 extra pounds but flirting with being within weight regs for someone my height (thirty years ago, dunno what the standards are now). My target is 10-20 pounds more than I weighed when I got my earring.

 

It probably also has a lot to do with age. You can eat as much as you want, of ANYTHING, when you're young, but somewhere in your 20's or early 30's it suddenly changes, and you have to really watch your diet. Then if you want to stay in shape you need to develop a plan and a lot of discipline or you'll be yo-yoing all over the place. The thing that sucks is that discipline is an all-the-time thing. All it takes is a few slips where you decide to eat half a dozen donuts one day, and 2 huge plates of spaghetti another, and then you have to work hard for a couple of weeks to undo it. It's basically the endless fight against entropy, which never sleeps.

 

Wow. Thanks man for the... weirdest intro anyone has ever created for me. I honestly feel honored and volatiled all the same. How'd you do that? Lol. Kidding aside, it's been only some months I've been inactive due to... I simply didn't feel like it. Was elsewhere... first mentally (not in a bad sense) and then physically (in a good sense). Needed to get out there and got carried away by the tide. Just to be clear and untangle your confusion which is rather questionable, I'm not Malum. I'm pretty sure the cats in the tech team could testify to that.

This post made me happy. Was/am fine. Didn't mean to worry anyone. Come 'ere you too!

Hello there!

 

My job here is done.

Well, not quite. @Catriona Grace asked for somebody to 'make introductions', in the plural.

So yeah, you see, Catriona Grace is this cool rockin' chick who lives in the strange and semi-mythical land known as Texas (at least she used to). She's become an icon around here for her unexpergated opinion and, well, just being her badass self.

Do you feel violated yet Catriona? Or need I go on?

This cool rockin' dude out.

 

Unexpurgated disclosure: I've lived in the completely mythical (please don't bother moving here; we don't exist) land of Wyoming for 45 years. I still say y'all and refuse to put sugar in cornbread, though.

 

I'm sitting on the sofa, watching the news. Things are not good.

 

I think I would have really liked a job as a movie/tv prop maker. When I’m bored I like to print off photos and make them look old. I mean, they are old, but I mean the photo itself, in a physical sense. For this I used strong coffee, some acrylic paint here and there, and a few folds.

 

I'm lurking around after more than a year 'out'.
Getting a bit sentimental for a moment, then feeling grateful we made it - Still alive, still healthy. The rest we think we so desperately need to be happy and fulfilled... We can work on it, can't we?
Or try, at least f....... try...,man...


Ok, I'm out to exercise. Glad you are ok, glad this forum is still as great as it was.

 

I just got home from work. I plan on watching the Ravens game. I have NFL Game Pass.

 

In a waiting room, uum, waiting for an eye-screening. I’ve copped for one of those joyless types who completely blanks any attempts at conversation beyond the matter in hand. So, I’m about to show her o can be just as ignorant.

 

I just woke up. I'm about to use the bathroom. I really have to go.

 

I just got home from work. I'm sitting on the sofa, waiting for my angry wife to give me food.

 

At work, a little sad 'n' cryin' 'cause nobodeh gave me any feedback on my poem. I know it needs editing, I know it's probably not good enough, but I hoped someone would reply. Oh well. Also, I just ate a cookie!

Side note, it's only the first draft of my poem. Normally I edit multiple times, but it seems there's a time limit on editing on this forum. I may post the edited version in my poem thread, because truthfully it isn't good enough.

Welp, good day to you all! :O)

 

Ohhhhhhh, okay! Thank you for explaining! That makes perfect sense. Perhaps that built-in measure will also help temporarily quell my compulsive editing.

I see what you mean! I do try to give thorough, well-thought-out critiques when I can. Methinks I will be doing so often on this forum, since I enjoy critiquing a great deal—well, whensoever I can, or may.

 

It helps a lot to get to know some people on the board. Respond to people on some of the Lounge threads, just hang out and talk to some folks. Like when you find yourself in a new place (1st day of school, new job, whatever), you get to know a few people and joke around with them, and then later those are the people most likely to respond to your threads. Especially if you respond on theirs.

 

Getting a little worried about this forgetfulness. I grabbed my phone to text my wife a question about dinner but saw that there was a new email, read that, and forgot about sending the text.

It happens.

But then a few minutes later I realized that I'd probably not written or sent the text, so I walked back into the other room, got my phone again, confirmed that I hadn't even opened the texting app... and set the phone down and walked away.

I've just now sent it, half an hour after having the impulse.