Bushie: The Final Frontier - Update Season V

[DemPGH]

As soon as the lawn dries out from the recent rains, I will be getting outside and walking and enjoying this beautiful early Spring weather.  We've got 2 1/2 walkable acres without having to get out on the road.

I don't post here, but I have to comment on this because I am likely your geometric opposite in maybe every respect. This is precisely the wrong attitude to have. Get out on the road tomorrow - tomorrow. Walk on the side of the road, people around here run on the road or sidewalk all the time. I personally have run in every form of weather there is to include snow and even, yes, ice. It's possible. The trick is, once you get started, you don't try to stop or change your stride. Rain? That's nothing. Walking around the yard and doing "yard work" will do nothing.

Commitment to physical fitness is not a choice - it becomes something you have to have. It's a new life, and it will give you untold confidence. You feel guilty if you don't get it in during your day - and liking your body when you look at it the mirror is not the only benefit - your heart, blood, and organs will give you more energy and longer life. You never look for a reason to avoid physical fitness opportunities. You would be wrong if you think it really cannot be done or is not really worth it.

As far as the food intake goes, it's your choice, but if what I'm reading is accurate, you need to cut your intake maybe in half and also make different choices. Get rid of the soda and substitute fruit juice - grape juice will go with anything. Live with your folks? Get them in on it! If you eat spaghetti, use whole grain noodles and cut the red meat totally. Cut snacks except for healthy stuff, like hummus (get garbanzo beans for less than $1, some garlic, and put it in a blender), whole grain crackers, etc. Walk every day and build stamina so you can run - every day. That's the beginning. That's what it will take. No one will talk you into it or give you reasons that will convince you - it is up to you, but it is possible to get in shape and to get healthy. If you really fear that it cannot be done, that's wrong. It can be. 99% of people can lose weight if they want to. I've worked with people and I've seen it happen.

[DemPGH]

Good job today, Bushie - that's a start, now it's on you to keep it up. Best of luck! Believe me, the less you eat and the more you exercise the better you'll feel. I find time to run every day, and I look forward to it and feel terrific after it's over.

As far as the diet goes, there are simple, tasty, cheap, very healthy dishes that you can get into, and yes, stop the fast food (even "good" fast food is all processed stuff you don't want or need) and later start weening yourself off of red meat, if you eat that much - just start by cutting back. In time you might want to get off dairy too, but don't do too much too fast or you'll get frustrated.

There is some talk about salads - they are a great option, but the store-bought dressing is largely no good and can ruin a salad. A cheap bottle of extra virgin olive oil and a vial of balsamic vinegar from Wal-Mart mixed to preferred taste (there is some pop to it) gives you an extremely healthy salad dressing: 0 sodium and 0 cholesterol. Spaghetti's fine, but go whole grain noodles! There's no food value in a regular spaghetti noodle. It's just sugar.

Just a few tips for you.

[DemPGH]

Good job today, Bushie - that's a start, now it's on you to keep it up.

Dude, he didn't do anything.......he tells us what we want to hear sometimes. 

Good thing I only wasted two posts - looks like a lot of people have wasted a lot more than that!

If Bushie really isn't interested in advice and feedback, he should lock this thread and stick to Facebook for the "updates." Otherwise it's just a masturbatory exercise for attention.

Well, if the whole thing is just him getting off on rejecting really common sense advice (and there are defeatist cases like that), and is not really a struggle against laziness and fatness, then it's time to forget about it and put it to bed. But maybe some folks enjoy seeing what excuses will be put forth next, in which case the relationship between Bushie and his audience is symbiotic. Otherwise, it's hard for me to believe that people would knowingly go through this charade.

[DemPGH]

Godsakes, I'm reading this thing now.

Yeah, I was wondering what today's eating consisted of unless it was posted - I don't see it. Taking ownership over the physical fitness is a huge part of this. It's part of the defeatism, IMO.

I don't know what's meant by vo-tech. Around here that's something you have as an option in high school. Maybe Bushie means a trade school, which might not be a bad idea. Actually, if anything would work for long-term employment, that might be it.

What about working in a library? That's really not hard.

[DemPGH]

Well, letting the house stand vacant is probably the worst decision that could be made. The obvious choice for the parents is to tell him he's got to move into it and keep it going, and they could help him make payments or whatever, but define some things he has to do. If that lifeline gets reined in, the survival impulse would surely kick in and he'd get motivated. But this thing's gone too far down the tracks, IMO - as I see it the angle is to move back with them for good. Too much reasonable advice has been ignored for me to think otherwise.