Uh, sure. I’m a little confused as to why you even ask.
(a very sincere) Brava! How often do you work out now?
Being Southern I grew up on Sweet Tea (the “eight more grains and it would be syrup” kind). I down (embarassing but true) easily 4 or 5 gallons of it in a week. I was doing some calculations- just switching to Splenda/Nutra-sweet/some artificial sweetener would make far more of a difference in caloric intake than I’d thought for.
I have never in my life eaten breakfast on a regular basis (it’s a family thing- none of us do) and that is another change I need to make. My understanding is even if it’s just a bagel it’s much better than nothing for metabolism. Those are two changes I can live with (small breakfast & omitting sweet tea) that I can live with.
I’m going to be in D.C. for most of the next two weeks. The hotel has a gym. I think I’m going to stick strictly to cardio until I return, then hire a trainer to take me through a circuit of weight machines (I’ve had a program designed, but the machines are less self explanatory than you might think- I don’t know what the hell I did to my triceps but two days later they’re stiff as marble) and gradually ease in. I’d be embarassed to tell you how much I’ve spent on gyms I went to a handful of times over the past couple of years, but this last batch of bloodwork and numbers was a pretty serious wake up call.
And, of course, I want to look good nekkid.
Actually, the resting metabolic rate of muscle is a little six calories a pound (cite). I don’t mean to be discouraging, but we need realistic numbers here.
If you want some hard data on what behaviors lead to long-term exercising, look here.
Never knew you were a time traveler. Welcome, man from the nineteenth century. Enjoy our many wonders here in this modern time. That box in front of you, it is a marvel of technology; please, do not be afraid of it.
Oh, and when I started a workout routine lo those many years ago (nine, to be precise), I started with a mere fifteen minutes a day. Slowly added five minutes each week or so, and that kept me motivated to reach my current standard, six hours a week (four 1.5 hour sessions each week). It’s easy to start off with an enthusiastic bang that quickly wears off when you realize, oh my god, this takes for freakin’ ever, and I’m not seeing any results (because it hasn’t been long enough). By the time you reach a point that you would start seeing results, you’ve already given up (that’s a collective you, not you personally).
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Not quite that old. I grew up on a cattle-farm where we always kept a horse or two as most of the farm was too hilly or wooded to drive through. (The last horse was named Pokey and my sister kept him for many years; when he was over 20 I nostalgically decided to take him for one last ride, during which Pokey stepped on a live wire that had blown off of an electric fence during a storm and Pokey wasn’t so pokey anymore [and that’s why the vertebrae in my neck point the opposite directions from most people’s].) The same sister had an “Old Time” pharmacy and soda fountain and used Model T’s to deliver prescriptions and I used to help her out during the summers- if you’ve never driven one of those things it will make you praise the ground on which the inventor of the automatic transmission tread.)
Southern by heritage (growing up my Seattle friends had never heard of this concoction, and it plum amazed 'em). For a long time I made it with Nutradeath, but then the wife got with child (when we were living in Georgia as it turns out) and well, no more nutrasweet unless I wanted to hoard the pitcher for myself. Within a week I noticed the weight coming on. Despite the good Army lifestyle (running easily 20 miles a week) I fought it until ETS day. When I gave up the tea for financial reasons (yeah, I’ve been broke before) the weight came off as if little elves were mining it in the night.
Is there diabetes in The South? Just curious? 
Hmmm…fat-mining elves…
Keebler needs to forget the cookie thing. They could make a killing hiring themselves out for THAT service!
Sampiro, first, good luck. Find what you’re comfortable with as a routine and go from there.
Second, may I join your ever growing throng of admirers. If you wrote a book I’d buy it. If you gave lectures where you did nothing but read your op’s I’d by a ticket and attend. If I weren’t bespoke and could entice you back to Jawja for naughty purposes, I would. I love reading your posts. I’ll stop now, just short of giving you a reason to believe I might start stalking you.
Thank you! I’ve worked my way up to six times a week. I started at three with a 20 minute cardio and 20 minutes on weights. I’m up to thirty minutes of each, and I’ve added weight and changed which workout I use on the torture implement from Torquemada. I also take something called a “spin class,” which I have correctly translated as “Satan’s punishment for women who let their bums get too big.” I have jello legs for about an hour afterwards, but feel very good when I finally recover.
Yup, I have a dear friend from Atlanta (Jaade) who is southern, so I know all about it. Having lunch with friends? Tea. Reading on the patio? Tea. etc. I didn’t used to eat breakfast, either, but now I don’t feel right if I don’t have my oatmeal (blech) and whatever peice of fruit I happen to grab.
I know the feeling. It’s the same reason I won’t buy a torture machine to work out at home. Guaranteed, it’d end up with clothes draped all over it. I go very first thing in the morning, before I can talk myself out of it. So since I have this low motivation factor, I have to stoop to self extortion. I got a locker there, took all my shower stuff, all my makeup and my best brush, and left it there. So if I want to get ready in the morning, I have to go work out first.
Cool idea! I’ve left my sinus medication there so that if I don’t want to have Mother-of-Nasal-Allergies I’ll have to stop by, but I like the idea of cosmetics better.