Time To Change

nice bellymeepon, meepHEAD.

"On the 7th day of each week I can have no more than 6 beers"

You agreed to this with a straight face?

Yeah, I usually put down a 12 pack over the weekend. Doc wanted no beer at all but I disagreed until he changed his mind. No meeping way I'm givin' up beers. That six pack is just additional motivation.

If you weren't a family man I would suggest methamphetamine, but since you are I'll just say good luck.

Beer fat saved me from serious damage when I was bitten by a black widow at the beltline, but still made me lose 50 lbs.

Last year I was diagnosed with high blood pressure (190/95) and high cholesterol, I was also way over weight (100+ lbs.). After a year of walking, eating fish and chicken, and all around being a good boy I have lost 50+ lbs., I lowered my cholesterol to normal and my blood pressure is consistently in the 120/70 range. Hopefully after my next cholesterol check I will be able to drop the meds. I have had 1, count it ONE beer in the last year. I miss my Guinness badly, but I feel a meep of a lot better now. You just need to find a balance that you can live with... When I was 25 I lost 175lbs in about 4 months. My lifestyle to lose it wasn't one I could live with so i went back to my old habits and put 80lbs back on... Now I am focusing on doing things that will be easy to stay with. forever. good luck man, it's a meep.

Yeah, I think I'll do ok with this. I hope you keep your meep together as well.

I don't really think I'm overweight but I'm not comfortable with the tire. I just always feel uncomfortable and self conscious about it. I don't expect to return to my 25 year old shape but the spare tire has to go.

Getting my lungs and heart back into shape has also been bugging the meep out of me so I had to make some changes. meep, I'll be almost 60 when my youngest son moves out. If I don't make some changes I'll be a prime candidate for a heart attack before then. That wouldn't be fair to my boys. I owe it to them and myself to straighten the meep up.

I will miss gripping those love handles.Grow your hair so I have something to hold onto whilst I ride you,meepxxy.

lol, I have been growing it. Well, I've been growing what I haven't already lost to pattern baldness. No work, no shave. meep it.

I'm also workin' up a wicked neckbeard in honor of the Mundh.

Still no cure for ugly as meep, though.

I've always wanted a neckbeard but I can never get past the OH-MY-GOD-IT-ITCHES!! stage.

i reaaaalllly need to lose weight, since being unemployed it just seems to have piled on, i'm the heaviest i've ever been, i need to lose about 35-40 lbs to get back to being at my previous norm of 185.

i wrote in the comments of the fast food link about the diet someone i know is on where they're losing between 3-6 lbs a week, i'd do it myself but i'm not at the tipping point that i'm that desperate to do such a drastic foodplan. hopefully this summer will involve plenty of swimming and surfing, and the garden work i've been doing this week is a good start. the food i'm eating at the moment needs to change the most though, apart from being high in saturated meep and artificial stuff, i fart constantly like a grazing cow and meep once, maybe twice a day, which compared to when i was healthy is more than often enough.

i had a neckbeard recently, but it got shorn off due to my meeped up mongrel genes, depending on body area the hair grows either light brown, dark brown, black, blonde or ginger. and facial hair from the neck to the hairline happens to grow ginger, not a good look, though i can pull off a neat little blonde soul patch under my bottom lip.

if you keep this updated 'tak i'll be following with mild, dispassionate interest.

You need to get back to your General Chang Look

Quick update: Week 3 of 10

Doc is happy with everything but my smoking cessation progress. I've ordered an e-cig kit from BluCigs to get me off the smoke and let me ramp down the nicotine habit without continuing to kill my lungs. It's on back-order right now but I should have it soon. Hopefully this week. I tried the patch once and didn't dig it. Bad dreams, crack-head like behavior, it wasn't pretty.

I have only lost 1 lb but Doc says this is a good thing. It means I'm getting enough protein and my diet hasn't needed to be adjusted yet.

On the up-side, I feel like I have a lot more energy. I also sleep better at night and wake up easier for my morning run.

I have strayed from my diet twice or thrice but not too badly. A couple beers here and a couple beers there but nothing I didn't expect.

My legs are no longer sore from the running and my back feels pretty good.

My appetite has seriously shrunk. Even on my free day (Saturdays) I don't find myself eating as much as I'd thought I would.

On the down-side, I meep three times a day and it's always little, petite, baby turds. I miss that 2 lb morning meep. Doc says this is a normal response to the new diet and is an indication that my metabolism is in fact speeding up. He said it would return to normal before the program ends and that there would be dietary adjustments at about the half-way point.

woaaaaah, i take a big morning meep too. i don't think i want to give that up.

So I guess I can update this thing.

I quit this diet and started one of my own that was easier to follow. Basically I gave up all soda and most fruit juice, I still drink OJ but have started squeezing my own. I drink a lot of coffee, maybe 6 cups a day. It seems to keep me from wanting to snack. I stopped eating anything that is processed. This was hard because it includes pastas and such. Making pasta sucks when you have to make the noodles. I still buy properly produced cheeses though (we buy wheels). I use raw sugars like honey and brown sugar. I use sea salt.

I eat very little bread, one sandwich a week, sometimes two. I eat a lot of vegetables. We buy them in season and freeze them. It took a while to get used to steak without taters... If vegetables are out of season and I'm out, I get frozen from the local supermarket, never canned. I stopped eating all processed meat, even bacon. Almost all of the meat I eat is locally grown and steroid free. I eat a lot of chicken, beef and pork and I never trim the fat or remove chicken skin. In fact, I enjoy the fattier cuts - especially with pork.

No potatoes except for special occasions and this was the hardest thing for me. I eat eggs just about every morning, 2 or 3, scrambled with no meeper. I still drink whole milk from the supermarket, usually one glass a day. I never eat cereal but I do still enjoy beer although I've really cut down on it. Maybe 2 six packs a week, sometimes 3 - never light beer.

I do not lift weights but I do a lot of yard work. I stopped running because it was starting to bother my back (I've had back surgery).

I am currently holding steady at 158 and I feel excellent. Here are some pics (including the farmer tan) and no, I'm not just sucking it in. The Buddha belly has gone.

I also stopped smoking over a year ago to go along with the healthier diet.

Congratulations! You are now a slimmer, healthier, gross piece of meep.

ARRGGG!! MY EYES!!

On another note, great photochop material

Hey, I just bought blucigs. Rock on. Still using it/them?

No. It was ok to start with but it didn't create enough vapor for me once I got used to using it instead of real smokes. The batteries also didn't last long enough between charges.

I use this now- and it is way more awesomer.

I also buy my own nicotine at the highest strength/level available from them and mix it with flavorings and glycerin for a custom vapor that I can make stronger or weaker depending on my tastes... also, the refillable carts are way cheaper.

I spend about $40 every month and a half on nicotine and ingredients for vapor and new refillable carts (they have a lifespan) - also, atomizers wear out after about 2 to 3 months.

Total operating cost after purchase for a moderate user is about $50 a month after your initial purchase. At $6 a pack, two packs a day, my old habit was much more expensive, stunk like meep, meeped up my taste buds, made me cough and spit up lung-muck while it was killing me. This is cheaper and without all the nasty side effects.

YOU'RE 5'9"?!

bwahahaha.

jk/lol

^ wants wotak.

So you raise free range poultry and grow organic vegetables because they're better for you and use a nicotine inhaler. So, rather than eating the pesticides, you suck them straight into you lungs to get the full effect?

YES AND I AM GROSS!

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