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From: scott
Date: 12 Mar 2009 11:55:20
Message: <49b93068@news.povray.org>
> Mmm, interesting. I had no idea starch was so great. Well, at least I can 
> still max out on pasta and potatoe wedges then! There's no way I'm going 
> to willingly eat slimy fish though. :-P

There are lots of different types of fish, not all are slimy.  Potato wedges 
are often not very healthy if they have been fried in bad stuff, check the 
packaging.

> Well, at work I have cheese sandwiches. Given that there are no food 
> preparation facilities of any kind, I'm struggling to think what else I 
> could possibly eat. Crisps? That hardly seems like an improvement.

I have no food preparation facilities here either, but there are much 
healthier things to eat than cheese sandwiches (I guess you are having white 
bread still, right?).  First make sure you're eating brown bread and not 
white, then you can have soup with it (there are millions of different 
flavours and viscosities, don't tell me you hate all of them), salad with 
chicken or tuna, even just cutting out half the cheese and replacing it with 
some salad will be a good start.  If you prepare food in the evening then 
make a little more and take it to eat cold the next day if suitable (do you 
have a microwave at work?).

> I often have cheese on toast in the evening, but that's just because 
> there's usually no "real" food in the building.

What, you're incapable of stopping in a supermarket on the way home from 
work?

> When it's available, I tend to eat pizza (so... basically cheese then) or 
> cook some chicken. Or some other kind of meat. Or maybe just noodles. (Not 
> very filling though...)

Get some of those big packets of frozen chopped up mixed vegetables from the 
supermarket, whilst not as good as the fresh stuff it's much faster to 
prepare and is almost as good.  Then throw a bit of chicken in the oven, 
boil some noodles/rice/pasta, heat up some tomoato-based sauce (or make your 
own if you are getting in to it) and you've got a really healthy, tasty and 
quick meal.

> I spent 2 years of my life cycling over 2 hours per day. It made NO 
> DIFFERENCE at all.

Perhaps because you weren't having a weight problem back then?  I did a huge 
amount of exercise at university too and it didn't affect my weight at all. 
But then neither did junking out for 3 months with no exercise so it doesn't 
really prove anything.

> And let me tell you, each day I arrived at my destination *exhausted*. 
> Still it made no difference.

But I bet at the end of the 2 years you could make that journey way faster 
than at the beginning, if not you are not human!

> I agree. I'm a sprinter, I never could do long distances.

It's just practise.  Do 1 minute longer each day, that's definitely possible 
to sustain for a few weeks, also don't start out sprinting, start out 
thinking you're going to sustain this for 30 minutes - it makes a 
difference.

> Er, yeah, right. I know of people who have been doing that for decades and 
> still can't lose weight.

While eating healthily the whole time? Don't believe you unless they have 
some medical condition.

> Well, I recently had a blood test specifically looking for cholesterol, 
> and apparently they found nothing unusual.

Young people who are not obese rarely do, but you're on the slipperly slope 
now and the longer you go without acting the harder it will become...


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