^ Fuck, I was going to post exactly the same thing! 
If you could change one thing about your body...
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I'm mostly okay with my body, although if I could pick just one thing, I do wish I could reverse the sun damage to my skin I accumulated in my childhood and teens. Even then, the fear of skin cancer overrides any aesthetic concerns.
Just one thing? How am I supposed to decide?
Back before they tore down the gym I belonged to, and when I actually had time to go to the gym two or three times a week, I used to do three sets of 60 crunches as part of every workout, and I still couldn't get rid of the gut.
Or maybe I'd want to get my face shaped differently (I have no chin to speak of, and I wish my cheekbones had more definition).
My hearing sucks, too. I have to set five alarms to get up in the morning, and even then, I sometimes manage to remain asleep for 30 minutes to two hours (!) while the alarms are loudly beeping at me around the room.
Sometimes I wish I actually had some chest hair, but only having to shave about once a week is an acceptable tradeoff for that. (Not that I shave once a week. I finally got around to it the other day for the first time in three weeks. When I'm getting four hours of sleep per night, the last thing I want is a blade near my face, so I actually did it when I got home from work that day.)
Basically, I'm falling apart here. I think my body's trying to fool me into thinking that I'm not really middle-aged.
Back before they tore down the gym I belonged to, and when I actually had time to go to the gym two or three times a week, I used to do three sets of 60 crunches as part of every workout, and I still couldn't get rid of the gut.
Or maybe I'd want to get my face shaped differently (I have no chin to speak of, and I wish my cheekbones had more definition).
My hearing sucks, too. I have to set five alarms to get up in the morning, and even then, I sometimes manage to remain asleep for 30 minutes to two hours (!) while the alarms are loudly beeping at me around the room.
Sometimes I wish I actually had some chest hair, but only having to shave about once a week is an acceptable tradeoff for that. (Not that I shave once a week. I finally got around to it the other day for the first time in three weeks. When I'm getting four hours of sleep per night, the last thing I want is a blade near my face, so I actually did it when I got home from work that day.)
Basically, I'm falling apart here. I think my body's trying to fool me into thinking that I'm not really middle-aged.
Well, that's because crunches only strengthen your abdominal muscles. They do nothing to burn the fat from around those muscles.
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I'd like to get rid of the Diabetes. I never ate much in the way of sweets anyway, but a real chocolate bar would just about put me in tears.
Four words, doll: Chocolove Extra Dark chocolate. I know type 2 is a different beast from type 1, but I find that the 6 grams of sugar in a Chocolove 77% dark bar require only 1 unit of insulin or a half hour jog to counter. And it is the smoothest, creamiest dark chocolate you could ever imagine. Plus, all the wrappers have love poems printed on the inside. It's not just a chocolate bar, it's a fucking experience.I'd like to get rid of the Diabetes. I never ate much in the way of sweets anyway, but a real chocolate bar would just about put me in tears.
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Four words, doll: Chocolove Extra Dark chocolate. I know type 2 is a different beast from type 1, but I find that the 6 grams of sugar in a Chocolove 77% dark bar require only 1 unit of insulin or a half hour jog to counter. And it is the smoothest, creamiest dark chocolate you could ever imagine. Plus, all the wrappers have love poems printed on the inside. It's not just a chocolate bar, it's a fucking experience.I'd like to get rid of the Diabetes. I never ate much in the way of sweets anyway, but a real chocolate bar would just about put me in tears.
Bless you!
According to the Chocolove website, our local Target carries them! Looks like I'm going to the store later this morning!
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I am picky about my chocolate, and they're some of the best around. Enjoy!Four words, doll: Chocolove Extra Dark chocolate. I know type 2 is a different beast from type 1, but I find that the 6 grams of sugar in a Chocolove 77% dark bar require only 1 unit of insulin or a half hour jog to counter. And it is the smoothest, creamiest dark chocolate you could ever imagine. Plus, all the wrappers have love poems printed on the inside. It's not just a chocolate bar, it's a fucking experience.I'd like to get rid of the Diabetes. I never ate much in the way of sweets anyway, but a real chocolate bar would just about put me in tears.
Bless you!
According to the Chocolove website, our local Target carries them! Looks like I'm going to the store later this morning!
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You can also get sugar free chocolates, of course -- pretty much in all the big flavors: Peppermint patties, Reece's PB cups, etc. However, I'm wary of all the chemicals they use, not to mention the lovely diarrhea side-effect! I'm just waiting for candy sweetened with stevia to come out!
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Yeah, I understand that! My sense of taste is fairly sensitive as well, and I can taste all of the artificiality in sugar free chocolates. It's a very dense, thick, toxic taste, at least to me, and I can't tolerate it very well. I can't wait for stevia either. I've been watching it's progress over the years and I'll be happy for the day when it's fully approved for manufacture.
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Well, I've never had the stamina for running. I do walk a fair bit, and I don't eat a huge amount. I don't snack very often, either.
My metabolism has always been a bit on the slow side. I've read that you can kick it up a notch by ensuring that you eat more regular meals (because eating less can trick your body into thinking that it's starving, so it hoards the fat), but I generally only have time for two meals per day. Once in a blue moon Chrinfinity and I have gone up the street to Tim Horton's on our morning break and I've gotten a bagel with my coffee, and ironically, I find that I'm hungrier at lunchtime when we do that. But it's not something that we do every day.
I don't want to give the impression that I think I'm overweight - I'm probably about the right weight for my height. (I'm 5'11", and about 165-170 pounds.) It's just distributed differently from how I'd prefer.
Indeed.
Massage the bothersome area quite vigorously for a few minutes daily, and you should see some results. It can take months, but keep at it. I had a little issue with love-handles although I had dropped the weight everywhere else - worked like a charm. Something to do with providing good circulation to the area I think... of course, you have to avoid the carbs,fats, and salts while you're at it, or you'll get nowhere.
It's also about food intake (what and how much). They say whole grains* (wheat bread, cereals, etc.) is more effective at maintaining healthy abs than stomach crunches.
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You don't look overweight in any of the photos you've posted... I'd bet real money you're well within the target range for your height. And aren't colds and flus supposed to make peeps loose weight...
Well I'm not going to post my fatty pics! I can stand to lose some weight, especially for how short I am. The real issue is I'm just terrible about what I eat. That's why I don't lose weight when I get sick. I mean I will temporarily, but once I'm somewhat recovered, I'm just mopey about not being able to do anything, so I eat more, and I have no physical activity. And then I feel even worse about myself and it just feeds into this horrible cycle.
I actually enjoy exercise for the most part. Give me my iPod and the elliptical and I'll do a couple miles every day. So it's generally easier for me to increase how many calories I burn rather than what I take in. I like food. I really, really, like food.
Hmm, I don't want to burst the bubble, but exercise is really, really bad for burning calories. It's great for general health and for toning, but in terms of calorie burn (and so weight loss), it's pretty poor unless you do it at a pretty serious quantity/level. For instance, I doubt you're burning more than about 200 or so calories with those 2 miles on an elliptical, even assuming you're using the elliptical in the most efficient way to work at your peak intensity throughout those 2 miles. 200 calories is almost nothing in terms of food (a generous serving of yoghurt, for example).
If you really want to lose weight, eating less is usually much easier than increasing the exercise you do enough to compensate for too much food intake.
Eat less to lose weight; exercise to be healthier and look better.
Trust me, I log calories.
Fair enough.
You know, I never really got the hang of calorie-counting, even when I had to lose weight. That's partly why I used Atkins for the initial stages, but when I switched to a balanced diet/calorie-counting approach later on in order to stabilise, I still didn't like the idea of actually adding them up (largely out of laziness in terms of accurately totting everything up).
I preferred "pessimistic guesstimation" - I rounded everything up to what I figured would be the "nearest hundred". Even if it was a bite of something, just for a quick taste, I still mentally rounded that up to a hundred. Worked pretty well, because it built in a huge buffer zone for inaccuracy of estimation and occasional indulgent treats.
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