Getting more veggies in your diet is tough. I'm eating tons of them right now, but it's a challenge to choose them over tasty, tasty carbs.

Day 4: Choked down some lemon bar shit thing for breakfast. Had a protein shake, broccoli and squash for snack. Whatever the hell they gave me for lunch was a fucking abomination. It was some pasta thing that I think was supposed to thicken. No. It was noodle water. Thankfully, dinner was much better. They gave me pulled barbecue chicken that I ate on a slice of multigrain bread. Now that's real eating. It'll be two helpings of baby carrots and a protein bar before the end of the day.

P.S. I love this thread.

I can actually do veggies all day long. xD My problem tends to be the carbs from alcohol, which then makes me want to eat tasty tasty non-veggies.

Boozing made me gorge on bar food and Taco Bell. Somehow, I was never fat back then.

Probably because your metabolism was faster. It slows as you age.

Yeah, it is most likely that, and I was insanely active compared to now.

I've been doing HIIT work outs at the gym, instead of just plodding along longevity cardio. 


The last two times I did it I really pushed it and felt like I was going to quit halfway through the routine.  I've never really felt that kind of challenge just doing what I used to do previously which is basically 20 minutes on 3 different machines, sort of fast, steady paced cardio.    

I think there's probably some benefits to doing both types of cardio but at the moment this definitely feels way more testing doing the high intensity work out, my lungs are left gasping and my heart pounds like crazy.

The day after the high intensity work out we were doing plank competitions in work again and it felt easier than I remembered, I got to 5 minutes 1 second which beats everyone but one guy who I work with.

On a similar note I got challenged in work as to if I could pick up this huge heavy guy who works with us in a bear hug which I managed to do. Yeh there were girls watching which added to the reason why I had to do it.  Other than these silly competitions I try and not be competitive with lifting and all of that, I know too many people who have wrecked their bodies trying to be the biggest and best.  I think it's sometimes better to maintain, tone up a bit and add variety to work outs rather than wrecking your joints trying to keep lift heavier and heavier.

(April 14, 2018 at 5:45 pm)Shell B Wrote: Getting more veggies in your diet is tough. I'm eating tons of them right now, but it's a challenge to choose them over tasty, tasty carbs.

Tasty carbs? Yes, perhaps they are...
But I can see all my main meals be only meat (or fish) and some salad.
My problem is that I then top it off with some dessert, typically ice cream... And snack on nuts...

(April 14, 2018 at 7:05 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I've been doing HIIT work outs at the gym, instead of just plodding along longevity cardio. 


The last two times I did it I really pushed it and felt like I was going to quit halfway through the routine.  I've never really felt that kind of challenge just doing what I used to do previously which is basically 20 minutes on 3 different machines, sort of fast, steady paced cardio.    

I think there's probably some benefits to doing both types of cardio but at the moment this definitely feels way more testing doing the high intensity work out, my lungs are left gasping and my heart pounds like crazy.

The day after the high intensity work out we were doing plank competitions in work again and it felt easier than I remembered, I got to 5 minutes 1 second which beats everyone but one guy who I work with.

On a similar note I got challenged in work as to if I could pick up this huge heavy guy who works with us in a bear hug which I managed to do.  Yeh there were girls watching which added to the reason why I had to do it.  Other than these silly competitions I try and not be competitive with lifting and all of that, I know too many people who have wrecked their bodies trying to be the biggest and best.  I think it's sometimes better to maintain, tone up a bit and add variety to work outs rather than wrecking your joints trying to keep lift heavier and heavier.

High intensity is awesome. I used to love doing split runs with sprint intervals. Go hard until you're just about to puke, then slow it down. Now I'm old, and I don't even want to sweat.

I love to sweat. By the way, Shells, how old are you? You can't be older than me, and I'm nearing thirty-nine.

(April 14, 2018 at 9:58 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: I love to sweat.  By the way, Shells, how old are you?  You can't be older than me, and I'm nearing thirty-nine.

I'm 35, but I'm aging like a dog.