Random Rants #63: These Rants Don't Run

[GoodSarmatian]

Thanks , but my brother-in-law is before you in the queue.
I go 5 times per week to the gym and don't lose weight (yeah, I do enough running and stuff), my brother-in-law does weight training to get muscles, and doesn't get any weight at all.
So unfair *grrr*.

I never had the discipline to go hit the gym five times a week, but whenever I get somewhat serious about working out I tend to bild muscle under the fat. It used to bother me, but now I don't mind. It still makes me feel stronger and healthier.

 

[azzaman333]

Get elbowed in the head playing indoor soccer and I'm the one who gets a red card. Stupid game.

 

[Borachio]

Just watched Reservoir Dogs for the second time in a long time.

It's a good film generally speaking.

But why does Mr White defend Mr Orange in the end? Makes no sense to me.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Rant: Need to have my car checked for repairs within a week. on police order. Fear the results

I never had the discipline to go hit the gym five times a week

I literally got sick whenever I tried that. But my work-outs also tend to be intense.


@The_J
The key to fat loss is and always was your diet. Have you tried no carbs in the evening?

Get elbowed in the head playing indoor soccer and I'm the one who gets a red card. Stupid game.

I love indoor soccer.
I mean - I loath out-door soccer Just a whole lot of running back and forth. Running is fine. But it is not what I am looking for when I wanne play.

 

[The_J]

I never had the discipline to go hit the gym five times a week, but whenever I get somewhat serious about working out I tend to bild muscle under the fat. It used to bother me, but now I don't mind. It still makes me feel stronger and healthier.

I am definitely strong enough, but that's not the goal at the moment :/.
And I definitely have a sixpack, just not visible ^^.

@The_J
The key to fat loss is and always was your diet. Have you tried no carbs in the evening?

My diet is utter crap ^^, but amount of calories is low. I'm still losing weight, just not really fast. But well...no time to cook, can't help that.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

My diet is utter crap ^^, but amount of calories is low. I'm still losing weight, just not really fast. But well...no time to cook, can't help that.

Utter crap by what standards ? I have jumped on the low carb bandwagon a few months ago and I have lost weight for the first time in years, and my diet is terrible according to poplar junk science. A lot of meat, cheese and eggs, almost no no bread or potatoes. Low carb is easy, especially if yo're lazy.
Of course it's not guaranteed to work. That's the problem with nutrition and drugs. People are affected differently.

 

[Hygro]

My diet is utter crap ^^, but amount of calories is low. I'm still losing weight, just not really fast. But well...no time to cook, can't help that.

Wait you mean you picked the "wrong" exercise plan to lose weight, you're succeeding anyway, and you're...

J, there's no one whose rants seem as ridiculous as yours

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I have to say that a healthy diet does not require much cooking, either. Fruits and Vegetables and nuts usually require no cooking, after all.
With regards to fat loss I find making breakfast the main meal of the day also very useful.

The J, do you go with a bit of hunger to bed? IMO, if you don't want to wait a year to loose a kilo, hunger is just part of it, in some fashion. But I suppose your way has also benefits. No yoyo effect, for instance.

 

[Kennigit]

The solution to "no time to cook and bachelor" life is a slow cooker

Still have to buy right ingredients but you can make a few chicken dishes real easy and then you have food for 5 days.

I say chicken because thats a lean white meat.

Everyone loves fruit so that's easy. Vegetables yea, pretty much everyone needs to eat way more. Miscellaneous breakfasts/lunches are easy to cover otherwise

Repetitive? Yes. But easy? Also yes. Of course, I myself am still lazy on that front too

 

[Takhisis]

Really, Kennigit? Thou hast not learned ye artte of ye scramblede egge?

 

[Borachio]

The solution to "no time to cook and bachelor" life is a slow cooker

Still have to buy right ingredients but you can make a few chicken dishes real easy and then you have food for 5 days.

I say chicken because thats a lean white meat.

Everyone loves fruit so that's easy. Vegetables yea, pretty much everyone needs to eat way more. Miscellaneous breakfasts/lunches are easy to cover otherwise

Repetitive? Yes. But easy? Also yes. Of course, I myself am still lazy on that front too

It's really hard to go wrong with a slow cooker. And they're a lot more versatile than you'd think. I just use mine for casserole dishes and soups really, but I understand you can do desserts in them too (it's just that I never eat desserts myself).

Slow cookers really come into their own, though, for really cheap cuts of meat that benefit from 4, 6 or 8 hours cooking. Like neck of lamb, and brisket.

Also, finding someone to share meals with is a real life-changer, imo.

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm… I don't have a slow cooker.

 

[cardgame]

Brisket is considered a really cheap cut of meat? I always thought it was primo stuff. It tastes like primo stuff. Time to go shopping...

 

[Borachio]

Well, it's not that cheap. (What beef is?)

But it's certainly cheaper than fillet, rump, sirloin, topside, rib, silverside, shin, or skirt.

 

[The_J]

Utter crap by what standards ? I have jumped on the low carb bandwagon a few months ago and I have lost weight for the first time in years, and my diet is terrible according to poplar junk science. A lot of meat, cheese and eggs, almost no no bread or potatoes. Low carb is easy, especially if yo're lazy.
Of course it's not guaranteed to work. That's the problem with nutrition and drugs. People are affected differently.

Crap in the sense that I basically every day eat the same (sandwiches fit nicely into Dutch culture ^^), and don't cook at all (the repetetiveness, as Kennigit points out, would not be a problem, but I really can't be bothered to think about what to cook).
Should probably just increase the amount of fruit and reduce whatever else (as Terxpahseyton says).

J, there's no one whose rants seem as ridiculous as yours

Thanks .


More serious rant:
The university sports day from yesterday is killing me. Always the same, muscles from the lower back and the quadriceps nearly always hurt, no matter what change in exercise happened. Okay, the muscle pain is now nearly all gone (only 1 day, yay), but seems I hurt the hip a bit.
Ah, well, could be worse.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Crap in the sense that I basically every day eat the same (sandwiches fit nicely into Dutch culture ^^), and don't cook at all (the repetetiveness, as Kennigit points out, would not be a problem, but I really can't be bothered to think about what to cook).
Should probably just increase the amount of fruit and reduce whatever else (as Terxpahseyton says).

The sandwiches have to go. Bread should be the first thing you cut if you want to lose weight.
Eggs for breakfast should keep the hunger away until noon.
Cooking is definitely something you should do. The qickes and easiest way is to just make a large pot of stew on sunday and keep it in the fridge.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

I really would hate to eat eggs every breakfast. Now I know what you mean when you say that you go against all the common wisdom of a healthy diet.
Breakfast is the one meal in the day where carbs are definitely okay, in my experience and general opinion. And where you also do not need to worry about calories that much. Am a big proponent of not only thinking about what you eat but when you eat it. Of course all still within reason. To me breakfast is the time of treat. That helps when I go to bed and have those dangerous late evening food cravings.

 

[warpus]

I've got a stupid twitch and can't think and focus until it's gone. One problem, I have no idea how to make it go away. Last time I had it it only went away after a week.

 

[Borachio]

Have you tried: lying down in a darkened room, drinking several gallons of beer, whipping yourself with nettles, getting into a fist-fight and losing, yodelling, swimming 15 lengths of the pool while eating lasagna, auto-hypnosis, meditating, or screwing your face up and then yelling with all your might?

If none of those work (or combination thereof), I'm at a bit of a loss what to suggest.

Have you ever considered radical surgery?

Actually, now I've thought about the matter, a good long hike might do it.

 

[Snerk]

I've got a stupid twitch and can't think and focus until it's gone. One problem, I have no idea how to make it go away. Last time I had it it only went away after a week.

Is is affecting your gait? If so you could perhaps apply for a grant from the ministry of silly walks?