> I saw an interesting documentary once about the diet of Eskimos. (As in, 
> native americans inhabiting places where it's always snowy.) Their only 
> source of food is fish, seals, and so on - basically fatty meat. One of 
> the investigators lived on such a diet for a couple of years and found 
> very little unhealthy effects.

Hehe, everytime I go to Japan I always lose weight, a diet of fish and rice 
seems to do the job for me!

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>> Cold meat. Yay. :-/
> 
> What, you have never enjoyed a good ploughmans?

I hate cold meat. It's just not very nice cold.

>> (Let us not even go into the fact that 1.2 hours to travel 4.6 miles 
>> is an average speed of something like 5 MPH,
> 
> Hehe sounds like you weren't really pushing yourself then

Every morning I arrived so exhausted I could barely stand up. How is 
that "not pushing myself"?

> dude people can WALK 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours!

Er, yeah, right.

As I recall, last time we want on a school trip that was a 5 mile walk, 
it took an entire day to walk it. (But then, that *was* 5 Mr Martin 
miles...)

> In a bike, even if you're totally 
> unfit you should be able to do 4.6 miles in under 30 minutes, after a 
> year of training under 20 or even 15 minutes no problem.

Yeah, well... my sister could probably do that. But not me.

>> Well, my mum seems to eat nothing _but_ dead plants. And she's still 
>> huge...
> 
> How much exercise does she do per week?

Does whinging count as "exercise"?

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> > dude people can WALK 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours!
>
> Er, yeah, right.

Well I used to walk to work at my last job, that was almost 2 miles and I could
do it in under 25 mins if I pushed it.

> As I recall, last time we want on a school trip that was a 5 mile walk,
> it took an entire day to walk it. (But then, that *was* 5 Mr Martin
> miles...)

I once walked almost 20 miles in a day. Over hills. 10 miles is a good distance
for a day walk.

> Does whinging count as "exercise"?

Depends on the volume ;-)

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On 3/12/2009 2:58 AM, Warp wrote:
>    I lost 22 kg in 7 months by eating healthy and exercising. A medical
> examination afterwards confirmed that all my physical stats (eg. blood
> counts) were improved.
>
>    I wrote about this in detail here:

Good job!  How are you doing at keeping it off?

Personally, I haven't yet motivated myself to lose weight, despite 
"knowing" that I need to.  I currently weigh 253, but I just have to 
many other things to worry about at the moment.  It's a lazy excuse, I 
know, but it's how I feel.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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On 3/12/2009 6:33 AM, Invisible wrote:
> The classes are one hour, not two. One hour, once a week.

One hour, 3 times a week is better.  Or 30 minutes, 5 times a week, but 
recent research suggests the first is healthier.

> (Actually, on reflection, if I had a time machine I wouldn't use it to
> find out if I'd still get fat... More like, go back in time, bitch-slap
> myself, and radically alter a few life choices!)

Ever see the movie Daywatch?  There's a line in there I love... a 
villain is offered the opportunity to correct any of his past mistakes, 
which he declines.  His associate asks him, "You don't make mistakes?" 
to which he replied, "I don't regret them."

Fact is, if you had made different choices, you wouldn't understand the 
necessity of those choices.  It's the act of making mistakes that 
teaches you not to; to quote conventional wisdom, "it's the burnt hand 
that teaches best."

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...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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>> (Actually, on reflection, if I had a time machine I wouldn't use it to
>> find out if I'd still get fat... More like, go back in time, bitch-slap
>> myself, and radically alter a few life choices!)
> 
> Ever see the movie Daywatch?  There's a line in there I love... a 
> villain is offered the opportunity to correct any of his past mistakes, 
> which he declines.  His associate asks him, "You don't make mistakes?" 
> to which he replied, "I don't regret them."
> 
> Fact is, if you had made different choices, you wouldn't understand the 
> necessity of those choices.

No, I wouldn't. But I'd be *happy* instead of being miserable. I think I 
could live with being happy but not knowing why. :-P

> It's the act of making mistakes that 
> teaches you not to; to quote conventional wisdom, "it's the burnt hand 
> that teaches best."

Being killed is a *really* ineffective way to learn about the dangers of 
landmines. :-P

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>> dude people can WALK 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours!
>
> Er, yeah, right.

4.6 miles in 1.2 hours is 3.8 MPH, that is brisk walking pace, I guarantee 
you that most people would be able to manage that WALKING with no prior 
training.  That is unbelievably slow for a bike, are you sure you got those 
figures correct?

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>>> dude people can WALK 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours!
>>
>> Er, yeah, right.
> 
> 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours is 3.8 MPH, that is brisk walking pace, I 
> guarantee you that most people would be able to manage that WALKING with 
> no prior training.  That is unbelievably slow for a bike, are you sure 
> you got those figures correct?

It might be 4.2 miles or 4.8 miles or something, but it was definitely 
just under 5 miles. And the time might not be exactly 1.2 hours, but it 
was a little over 1 hour.

I specifically remember computing my average speed and being 
dissapointed by it. (Especially since during the downhill parts, my 
speedometer registered 20 MPH or more.)

Indeed, every morning I'd get out of bed, have my breadfast, and be out 
of the door while my little sister lay sound asleep in bed. Half an hour 
later I'd cycle past her school and she'd be there on her bike chatting 
to her friends. I never could figure out how the hell she got there so 
fast, or how she got in front of my without passing me.

I think the problem is that the route is uphill in both directions. 
(Despite this obviously being physically impossible.) Perhaps it *would* 
in fact be faster to walk it. Cycling uphill is absurdly hard.

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On 12-3-2009 10:58, Warp wrote:
>   I lost 22 kg in 7 months by eating healthy and exercising. A medical
> examination afterwards confirmed that all my physical stats (eg. blood
> counts) were improved.

YKYHBRTTL when you try to loose exactly pi kilo's per month.

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:15:02 +0100, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>On 12-3-2009 10:58, Warp wrote:
>>   I lost 22 kg in 7 months by eating healthy and exercising. A medical
>> examination afterwards confirmed that all my physical stats (eg. blood
>> counts) were improved.
>
>YKYHBRTTL when you try to loose exactly pi kilo's per month.

LOL Nicely spotted. 
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Regards
     Stephen

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