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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> 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."
--
...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.
--
Regards
Stephen
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andrel wrote:
> YKYHBRTTL when you try to loose exactly pi kilo's per month.
Most people just try to loose the pie kilos. ;-)
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Chambers wrote:
> Ever see the movie Daywatch?
Daywatch and nightwatch were fabulous movies. So totally non-Hollywood in
their execution. I never got around to looking up what the russian words
written in chalk were saying - I'll have to watch that again.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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scott wrote:
> Hehe, everytime I go to Japan
Nice, I wish I could say the same, lucky you :-)
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Interesting, I'll keep this handy, thx for the info Warp :-)
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Invisible wrote:
> 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.
Not impossible according to Murphy's Law. Both directions are uphill and
against the wind.
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On 3/13/2009 9:23 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Ever see the movie Daywatch?
>
> Daywatch and nightwatch were fabulous movies. So totally non-Hollywood
> in their execution. I never got around to looking up what the russian
> words written in chalk were saying - I'll have to watch that again.
I just have to mention a few more things...
First, they included the best use of subtitles I have ever seen,
*anywhere*. The stylization made reading the subtitles *enjoyable*, for
crying out loud!
Second, the movies were made for about $4M US each! In other words,
each one cost less than half the original Star Wars, 30 years later!
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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On 3/12/2009 9:10 AM, Invisible wrote:
> I won't bore you with the political details. Suffice it to say that if I
> was living by myself, it would be a total non-issue. I'd buy the food I
> want to eat, and I'd eat it. The problem is my mother... Let's not even
> go into that one.
http://www.citybaseapartments.com/
http://www.metroroommates.com/city_rentals/city_intl_rentals.asp
For the second one, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see the UK
split up by city.
I don't mean to be rude by suggesting you move out, but you've brought
up your mother before, and it seems that you'd be happier living on your
own.
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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On 3/13/2009 2:09 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> dude people can WALK 4.6 miles in 1.2 hours!
>
> Er, yeah, right.
I'm a bit(ha!) chunky, and almost every day I walk 0.8 miles in under 15
minutes. That's on pace for 1.4 hours.
When I was in shape, I could have gone faster...
--
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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One other thing to know is that different types of carbs digest at different
speeds. There's a "glycemic index", where 100 is glucose (aka cane sugar),
<100 digests slower, >100 digests faster. Obviously you want low numbers.
Some surprising thought-to-be-healthy foods actually will screw with your
digestion as much or more than drinking a soda. Rice (at least white rice),
carrots, and a few others are worse than a spoon of sugar. Fructose actually
has a very low glycemic index, altho I don't know if the kind they use in
manufacturing is better than regular sugar. But if you want something
natural to scoop into your tea, fructose is much better for you that regular
sugar and tastes the same, for example.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
My fortune cookie said, "You will soon be
unable to read this, even at arm's length."
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>> Hehe, everytime I go to Japan
> Nice, I wish I could say the same, lucky you :-)
Unfortunately I've never been able to spend more than 1 or 2 days actually
doing enjoyable things there, like travelling around for fun or
sight-seeing, the last couple of times I've been there have been various
reasons why I couldn't stay longer or go earlier to try and enjoy the
country. One day though :-)
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