Facts about yourself!

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Facts about yourself!

I avoid grains because I started doing it, and I have never felt better in my life. I don't think I have celiac disease. But cutting out bread, pasta, rice, processed foods containing flour, starchy vegetables like corn, peas, potato, etc. and cutting out all processed sugar save for fructose in fresh fruit and limited amts of honey... god I have never felt better. I feel like I'm in my early 20's again. I lost weight, and I would advocate to ANYBODY to try going grain/processed-food-free. I also understand its a luxury many cannot afford which is such a sad thing. Exercise... I don't know anything about aerobic or anaerobic or whatever. I don't go work out muscle groups because gyms are intimidating and smelly. Most of my energy comes from walking around town and dancing / working out at home. My friend from Germany and I do challenges on Nerdfitness.com together, and we'll skype while we dance/work out together. Exercise I think is all about what works for you otherwise it's just not something you'll stick to.

Nothing wrong with starch, unless it's GMO. Sugar isn't a problem, it's just overused. Factory food and gluten are the biggest offenders, in addition to not having enough protein and fat (the right kinds), and prescription drugs get in the way of nearly everything. There are tons of simple things that could improve our diets, but cost is definitely a factor for many. Unfortunately, garbage food tends to be the cheapest, and all that some people can afford. As far as exercise goes, the only aerobic activity that fosters metabolism and growth/maintenance of lean body mass is interval training. Otherwise, it often prompts as much lean body metabolising as fat metabolising, which often negates one's intended purpose. I can't really say that any exercise is bad, but the benefits of some forms are much higher than others. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[Ghouly]

Nothing wrong with starch' date=' unless it's GMO. Sugar isn't a problem, it's just overused. [/quote'] Starches get converted into sugars quite rapidly, if not burned immediately. Working a desk job ensures that those types of carbohydrates are more harmful than beneficial / nutritional. This is how it was explained to me by my nutritionist, and all I can say is that I feel amazing with what I've been doing so I'm stickin' to it. Also, I love the idea of interval training, and I am impressed with the results it can deliver but for my own taste, counting reps and bouncing around from jumping to pushups to situps to lunges etc. isnt something that makes working out fun for me.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Facts about yourself!

Starches get converted into sugars quite rapidly, if not burned immediately. Working a desk job ensures that those types of carbohydrates are more harmful than beneficial / nutritional. This is how it was explained to me by my nutritionist, and all I can say is that I feel amazing with what I've been doing so I'm stickin' to it. Also, I love the idea of interval training, and I am impressed with the results it can deliver but for my own taste, counting reps and bouncing around from jumping to pushups to situps to lunges etc. isnt something that makes working out fun for me.

You need to eat for your activity level, which is why breakfast should always be your biggest meal. It is the meal that provides your mind and body the energy to wake from slumber and start the day, in addition to often being the highest activity level period in the day. I love interval training because it fosters lean body mass growth, which is desirable in most any situation. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[Ghouly]

You need to eat for your activity level, which is why breakfast should always be your biggest meal. It is the meal that provides your mind and body the energy to wake from slumber and start the day, in addition to often being the highest activity level period in the day. I love interval training because it fosters lean body mass growth, which is desirable in most any situation. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

I usually start my day with either a protien shake or something like eggwhites. My lunch is actually my biggest meal portion-wise. I consume about 800-1000 cals a day, and the majority of what I eat is low carb, low cal, and low fat. I eat a lot of lean meat and salad / kale / green veg. Given that I do work a sedentary job, this fits my lifestyle just fine. I'd love to find some kind of interval training workout that incorporated dance. Otherwise, mindless reps kill it for me.

[RelentlessOblivion]

The GI of food being eaten is important to consider as well.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Facts about yourself!

I usually start my day with either a protien shake or something like eggwhites. My lunch is actually my biggest meal portion-wise. I consume about 800-1000 cals a day, and the majority of what I eat is low carb, low cal, and low fat. I eat a lot of lean meat and salad / kale / green veg. Given that I do work a sedentary job, this fits my lifestyle just fine. I'd love to find some kind of interval training workout that incorporated dance. Otherwise, mindless reps kill it for me.

Wise choices when coupled with avoiding factory food. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[RelentlessOblivion]

Fact about me: I despise the changes made to iTunes

[Iceni]

Fact about me: I despise the changes made to iTunes

I also really hate this 'autoplay' function on YouTube, I need to figure out how to turn it off.

[RelentlessOblivion]

The new iTunes is just stupid, you can't use iTunes to delete songs from your iPod/iPhone any more and rather then click and drag you have to use a longwinded and annoying process to add songs or videos.

[FatherAlabaster]

Stop using iProducts. Take the shackles off. ITunes is so much bullshit, I've never wanted to have to deal with it as a player, and I don't care for the iPhone interface. Gimme that customizability.

[Iceni]

Stop using iProducts. Take the shackles off. ITunes is so much bullshit' date=' I've never wanted to have to deal with it as a player, and I don't care for the iPhone interface. Gimme that customizability.[/quote'] The problem is that iTunes' success is the main reason to use it. That and the fact that they offer 1:30 snippets instead of 30 second parts to preview songs. Otherwise I like Amazon Mp3.

[BlutAusNerd]

Re: Facts about yourself! Fuck crApple, I hate all of their shit. I don't do the updates on the iPod my wife bought me years ago anymore, everytime they make it worse, iTunes especially. It's junk. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2

[RelentlessOblivion]

I had two Galaxy S3 phones before I bought the iPhone and they both mysteriously went missing right around the time my younger brother mysteriously had some major disposable income. I bought the iPhone because crApple can track it if it goes missing. I'd have beeen fine if my step-dad never put IOS 7 on the damn phone I wouldn't have been forced to update iTunes (which I hadn't done once)

[RelentlessOblivion]

Fact about me: I have to train much, much, much harder if I expect to seriously compete with my fellow tandem cyclists in any meaningful way.

[Ghouly]

Fact about me: I have to train much' date=' much, much harder if I expect to seriously compete with my fellow tandem cyclists in any meaningful way.[/quote'] you can do it!

[RelentlessOblivion]

No doubting that but it will mean pain, a lot of pain

[FatherAlabaster]

No doubting that but it will mean pain' date=' a lot of pain[/quote'] So then HTFU.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Go hard or go home, no wait I train at home too

[YUNO FOLLOW THE TRAIN CJ]

I was born in El Centro, CA, moved to Norfolk, VA, move to New Orleans, LA, moved to Fort Worth, TX(due to Hurricane Katrina), moved back to New Orleans, LA, THEN moved back to Fort Worth, TX and now we moved to San Diego, CA.

[FatherAlabaster]

I've lived in ten different places in three states since I graduated almost ten years ago. I've been in this apartment for over five years. It's by far the longest I've ever lived anywhere. I haven't felt like I was home, anywhere I've been, since I was 20.

[YUNO FOLLOW THE TRAIN CJ]

Got replied to Paul Bearer multiple times on Twitter before he died this year. Pretty cool guy.

[Iceni]

I've lived in ten different places in three states since I graduated almost ten years ago. I've been in this apartment for over five years. It's by far the longest I've ever lived anywhere. I haven't felt like I was home' date=' anywhere I've been, since I was 20.[/quote'] New Mexico feels like home to me now but before that I definitely felt most at home in Cape Town.

[YUNO FOLLOW THE TRAIN CJ]

90% of Youtube comments make me want to move out to the middle of the Sahara desert and live off of the land.

[Iceni]

90% of Youtube comments make me want to move out to the middle of the Sahara desert and live off of the land.

A lot of Berber travel agents on there then?

[FatherAlabaster]

New Mexico feels like home to me now but before that I definitely felt most at home in Cape Town.

It's weird how it works. I moved around so much growing up that I think I'll always have trouble feeling "at home" anywhere. I mean, Brooklyn feels like "home" in the same way Raleigh does, they're both familiar and there are a lot of things I love about both places, people I care about, etc. But "home" in the sense of having an apartment that feels like it's mine, an actual place I belong? I don't really remember what that feels like.