Buddha in overalls disembarks from the gravy boat

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018906642

Oh my.

Or as the Tobe would put it, "oh ram oh ram oh ram oh ram oh ram....."

Tobin S. (9,172 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 10:07 AM

Time to hop off the gravy train and get back on the weight loss wagon.
 
I finished off the last of the pumpkin pie and date cookies for breakfast this morning. I told myself before Thanksgiving that I was going to let myself go a little and enjoy all the food, but it was going to be a short lived thing, not one of those deals where you fall back into old routines on a more long term basis. 

CaliforniaPeggy (120,892 posts)      Sat Nov 26, 2016, 03:17 PM

1. Very smart, my dear Tobin!
 
I did similarly over Thanksgiving, and now it's back to the good routine.

I've started going to the gym a couple days a week, and this coming week I think I'll try doing it 3 days. I need to get in shape as quickly as possible since I'm getting my right knee replaced in mid-January. I've been working out for several weeks and there is some distinct improvement. I need it!

Margaret's not fat or anything; why would she need new knees?  They usually last a whole lifetime on people who don't get obese.

auntAgonist (17,144 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 04:01 PM

2. Good luck Tobin! I'm living on IV feeding these days. 1400 calories pumped into me over 12 hours
 
I try to eat solid foods throughout the day but they just don't go down right.

Change your eating style. Have you tried consulting with a dietician or nutritionist? Dieting doesn't work for most people.

I hope you can achieve your goal and get healthy. Your life depends on it as does your wife, family and friends 

good luck !! 

^^^a good pal of the fund-raising lyrical primitive.

Kali (43,069 posts)      Sat Nov 26, 2016, 04:18 PM

3. clean slate
 
every day. there is no failure, only choices. good enough is better than doing nothing.

Xipe Totec (37,329 posts)      Sat Nov 26, 2016, 05:40 PM

4. Or, as my spouse would say: Time to stop stuffing candies into the pinata
 
It is sad we can no longer post titles with non-English characters.

I understand the motivation, but it is sad anyway.

Yes, I do know how to spell piñata. 

<<<am wondering why Skins did that; maybe he's turning xenophobic or something?

cwydro (23,900 posts)      Sat Nov 26, 2016, 09:21 PM

6. Stay out of McDonalds!
 
Or just have coffee there.

Tobin S. (9,172 posts)      Sun Nov 27, 2016, 06:47 AM

7. An Egg Mcmuffin and a hashbrown patty has 450 calories.
 
I don't eat there often, but when I do that's what I get.

edited to add link; had copied-and-pasted date rather than link--sorry for the inconvenience

[98ZJUSMC]

Tobin S. (9,172 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 10:07 AM

Time to hop off the gravy train and get back on the weight loss wagon.
 
I finished off the last of the pumpkin pie and date cookies for breakfast this morning. I told myself before Thanksgiving that I was going to let myself go a little and enjoy all the food, but it was going to be a short lived thing, not one of those deals where you fall back into old routines on a more long term basis.

Those 46 Short bibs feeling snug, are they?

auntAgonist (17,144 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 04:01 PM

2. Good luck Tobin! I'm living on IV feeding these days. 1400 calories pumped into me over 12 hours
 
I try to eat solid foods throughout the day but they just don't go down right.

Change your eating style. Have you tried consulting with a dietician or nutritionist? Dieting doesn't work for most people.    

I hope you can achieve your goal and get healthy. Your life depends on it as does your wife, family and friends 

good luck !!

Only for people that cannot discipline themselves to keep from ramming crap down their yappers, all day and NIGHT and listen to their god's nutritional guidelines that are all wrong.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Maybe CalPiggy was a runner?  I've had friends in their 40's thru 70's who were not obese but athletic that needed multiple knee/hip replacements.

[Carl]

auntAgonist (17,144 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 04:01 PM

2. Good luck Tobin! I'm living on IV feeding these days. 1400 calories pumped into me over 12 hours
 
I try to eat solid foods throughout the day but they just don't go down right.

Change your eating style. Have you tried consulting with a dietician or nutritionist? Dieting doesn't work for most people.

I hope you can achieve your goal and get healthy. Your life depends on it as does your wife, family and friends

good luck !! 

What?

[Big Dog]

What?

Using a beer bong to do sausage gravy shooters. It's not really "IV feeding", but it sounds better that way.

[Adam Wood]

Maybe CalPiggy was a runner?  I've had friends in their 40's thru 70's who were not obese but athletic that needed multiple knee/hip replacements.

As a recipient of two titanium-alloy hips before the age of 45, I can assure everyone that there is no straight-line causation between either obesity or physical activity and joints failing.  Either of those may be the cause in some cases, but certainly not all.

I'm hardly Olympic athlete lithe, but I'm not exactly sucking-down-sodas-on-food-stamps obese, either.  I have a 40 waist, and have since I was about 33.  That came about from too much time sitting behind a desk and a few too many beers at the end of the work day.  But I've never broken 225, and I was 187 at the end of my senior year of high school, so it's not like I packed on 150 lbs. or something.  I was indeed quite athletic through high school and college, combined with a lot of just general hard work during and after both, but while I basically blew out my knees (through injury) playing football in middle school and early high school, it was actually my hips that went bad and wound up putting me in a wheelchair for a while.

My hips went bad because of a condition called avascular necrosis (AVN), a fancy term for saying that the blood stopped flowing to the tops of my femurs and they died off, along with the supporting cartilage, over the course of a couple of years, and eventually my femurs were grinding into my pelvis, bone-on-bone.  AVN has a whole host of causes, and some are never really known, but some are just bad genes, which is what it was in my case: I took a bad draw in the genetic poker game.  It wasn't running bases or sprinting down the sideline or running marathons or even just busting my ass out in the yard that caused my hips to go.  It was good, old fashioned bad luck.  And it happens to a surprisingly large number of orthopedic patients of all ages.



I can't say what this particular DUmmie's cause was for the need for joint replacement, but I can safely say that it's entirely likely that no one else can, either.

[98ZJUSMC]

Using a beer bong to do sausage gravy shooters. It's not really "IV feeding", but it sounds better that way.

[SVPete]

Judging by Tobers' ovoid figure, limiting his intake to a very generous 2000 calories and walking a mile or two a day would have pretty dramatic effect. Reducing his daily proportion from starches to proteins would also be helpful and healthful. He'd be buying new bib overalls in 2 or 3 months, and by next Thanksgiving he probably could do a 5K turkey trot (if you can do 2 miles more or less daily, going 3.11 miles on one day wouldn't be a stretch) in 2017; if he reeeally pushed himself through the year he might be able to do 10K.

[franksolich]

Judging by Tobers' ovoid figure, limiting his intake to a very generous 2000 calories and walking a mile or two a day would have pretty dramatic effect.....if he reeeally pushed himself through the year he might be able to do 10K.

I heartily recommend that which I suggested to the big guy in Bellevue a couple of years ago; the bloated hirsute beast ignored it, and as a result kept growing bigger and bigger.  Surely he's going to burst some day soon.

Since more calories are consumed in dining upon celery, than what's in the celery, I suggested a diet 100% of celery as the quickest way to drop the lardage.  Celery, and nothing but that other than water, for breakfast, lunch, and supper, and for about a year, and the Tobe should acquire a Nancy Reaganesque figure.

[fatboy]

As a recipient of two titanium-alloy hips before the age of 45, I can assure everyone that there is no straight-line causation between either obesity or physical activity and joints failing.  Either of those may be the cause in some cases, but certainly not all......

I'm beginning to see a hip replacement in my future. fatboy isn't exactly huge, I'm 146 pounds on a good day and in decent shape and an active interior firefighter. One of my sisters is skinnier than me and she had a hip replacement a few years ago.

Anyway, I think Jr. Samples is worried that his clothes maker Omar is going to be deported first of the year and he's a bit worried.

[67 Rover]

Tobin S. (9,172 posts)     Sat Nov 26, 2016, 10:07 AM

Time to hop off the gravy train and get back on the weight loss wagon.
 
I finished off the last of the pumpkin pie and date cookies for breakfast this morning. I told myself before Thanksgiving that I was going to let myself go a little and enjoy all the food, but it was going to be a short lived thing, not one of those deals where you fall back into old routines on a more long term basis.

Save yourself the time and effort of dieting for nothing and just go see Nadine's doctor. 

[I_B_Perky]

Tubbs is on the diabetes train barreling toward the station at 120 mph if don't lose that weight.  After he hits the diabetes station Tubbs and Stumpy can have a long conversation about lost limbs.

[FunkyZero]

Tobin S. (9,172 posts)      Sun Nov 27, 2016, 06:47 AM

7. An Egg Mcmuffin and a hashbrown patty has 450 calories.
I don't eat there often, but when I do that's what I get.

Calories do matter DUmba$$, but when it's 90% carbohydrates and the other 10 is fat, you aren't doing it right.
Potatoes = bad.
Bread/biscuits = bad
processed "sorta-sausage" = not so great

You could have had 1/4 pound of chicken and a couple boiled eggs for the same cost and wouldn't be hungry for 8 hours.

Prepare for the next size up in coveralls if this is your master plan.

[Adam Wood]

I'm beginning to see a hip replacement in my future. fatboy isn't exactly huge, I'm 146 pounds on a good day and in decent shape and an active interior firefighter. One of my sisters is skinnier than me and she had a hip replacement a few years ago.

Advice: get it done sooner rather than later.  My biggest regret, by far, was putting off the inevitable.  WAY too much pain and suffering on my part that was wholly unnecessary.

Anyway, I think Jr. Samples is worried that his clothes maker Omar is going to be deported first of the year and he's a bit worried.

A fair concern.  Where, oh where, will the DUmmies get their yurt libraries without Omar? (I'm not kidding.)