SubJeff on 12/7/2012 at 05:12
For my diet this week I am mostly eating Jamon and Pintos.
D'Arcy on 12/7/2012 at 08:23
In May 2010 I was terribly unfit, and decided that I needed to do something about it. My weight at the time was 103 Kg, which was abysmal considering that my height is 1,76m. So I changed my diet, and started going to the gym regularly.
Today my weight is 76 Kg. My resting heart rate has dropped from a staggering 90-96 bpm to around 52 bpm. I keep a healthy diet and go to the gym every other day. So I'd say I'm doing a lot not to get a heart attack :)
Sombras on 12/7/2012 at 13:53
Quote Posted by D'Arcy
In May 2010 I was terribly unfit, and decided that I needed to do something about it. My weight at the time was 103 Kg, which was abysmal considering that my height is 1,76m. So I changed my diet, and started going to the gym regularly.
Today my weight is 76 Kg. My resting heart rate has dropped from a staggering 90-96 bpm to around 52 bpm. I keep a healthy diet and go to the gym every other day. So I'd say I'm doing a lot not to get a heart attack :)
Massive thumbs up here. Nice work!
nickie on 12/7/2012 at 17:08
I'm with Dusty. The women in our family all live to their late 90s/early 100s. I'm aiming to buck the trend. :)
Actually, I do do a bit of walking and I graze, which I first learned trying to get off the underweight list. But every time I see my 'mother-in-law' who's only 65 and has been crippled with arthritis in her knees since she was 55 because of playing hockey till she was 40ish, I'm really glad I only did ballet till I was 15. Look after your joints guys.
theBlackman on 13/7/2012 at 05:58
Quote Posted by nickie
I'm with Dusty. The women in our family all live to their late 90s/early 100s. I'm aiming to buck the trend. :)
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Do you mean you intend to die in your 20's or 30's?
nickie on 13/7/2012 at 06:48
:laff: Only if they invent time travel in the not too distant future.
LarryG on 13/7/2012 at 07:49
I don't think that's anything a time machine could help with. You could go back to the 1860s (for example) to die, but you would still be the same chronological age, just back in time, if you see what I mean. And going back and killing your younger self isn't on. Besides being too icky to contemplate, paradoxes abound. Even if you had a metabolic reversal machine that could anti-age you back to the equivalent of 20 or 30, that wouldn't do it; you would still have the same chronological age. What you REALLY need is an entropic time reversal device that would reverse time EVERYWHERE back to when you were 20 or 30. But then you would have to re-live everything up to now, and I'm sure you don't want that! Besides, you wouldn't remember it so you couldn't even fix past "mistakes" because you still wouldn't know they were mistakes until they were made all over again. So you, I, and everyone else are stuck like common house flies on the moving fly paper of time, never to unstick and fly free. Better to just eat sensibly and exercise.
nickie on 13/7/2012 at 08:53
You've made my brain hurt! I did (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18781786) this test just now. My results are:
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You have less body fat than 91% of females aged 45-59 in your country.
You have less body fat than 75% of females aged 45-59 in the world.
If everyone in the world had the same body fat as you, it would remove 30,956,624 tonnes from the total weight of the world's population.
You're most like someone from Papua New Guinea.
Vasquez on 13/7/2012 at 09:46
^ Again, just being skinny doesn't mean your lifestyle is healthy. One of the new health risks is type 2 diabetes of people who are normal weight - imho that's a result from the oversimplified "chubby = bad, skinny = good" focus on health, since it leads people to think that you don't need exercise or healthy diet if your body is the skinny type. (And I'm not saying this just because I'm fat ;) obviously too much fat is bad, too.)
Although you seem to have exceptionally good genes, so you're probably safe :)
I don't enjoy the gym or group exercise/sports very much, but I like "everyday exercise" (sorry, I don't know what's "hyötyliikunta" in english..) - I walk or bike everywhere that's within reasonable distance, and when I don't have to be somewhere specific, I go walking/ biking/skiing just for fun. Most of the time I enjoy outdoors almost daily for at least an hour, in summer easily 3-4 hours. Springtime is exception, it makes me too tired to even look out the window...
At summerhouse it's very easy to get lots of exercise: I swim, row, walk, haul buckets of water and piles of firewood when I want to sauna etc, basically all chores take here more effort than in the city. I just walked 2 kms to the local garden to buy tomatoes :)
Now that I've cut back alcohol my biggest sin is sugar, mostly chocolate, otherwise I eat quite healthy, lots of veggies and fruits etc. I don't even want to quit chocolate for good, but I'm trying to not eat so much :p During summer it's much easier when there are plenty of healthier yummies like fresh strawberries, and in hot weather I tend to lose my appetite, but in wintertime when it's dark and cold, chocolate is just too tempting.
DDL on 13/7/2012 at 10:16
Also, BMI can be quite a poor measure of body
fat: it only compares weight and height, so giant musclebound lunks will come out as "obese", even with like..2% body fat, because muscle is some heavy shit.
I did like the skinny person (BMI 18 -bottom end of normal weight, so basically: a skinny person-) who said
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I'm really surprised. I was eating normally and healthily and doing the right exercise.
I don't feel the BMI says anything. As long as I feel healthy. I have done the BMI test previously. I feel healthy. I don't look at my health by looking at my BMI.
I'm ...not entirely sure they explained to her quite what the numbers mean.
