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because you're forcing your body to consume itself for energy
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Posted by IlliniSax05
on January 18, 2024, 11:24:28, in reply to "
Why wouldn't be?*
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sure, it's starting off with burning fat but at some point you're crossing a threshold of burning muscle and doing harm to other parts of your body.
there is a reason eating disorders are bad.
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Fasting update
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 10:47:54
No idea but I’ve found I can’t maintain my 50-50-50. It was a good challenge for January…
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haighter
February 8, 2024, 9:54:35
Down 49 this morning. Taking the pedal off the metal a bit.
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longsnapper
February 8, 2024, 8:16:15
I didn’t realize you had 50 pounds to lose, so congrats on that
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snipes824
February 8, 2024, 9:34:11
I have clothes ranging from L - 2XL, jeans from 34-40. So I'm covered.
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longsnapper
February 8, 2024, 9:42:17
get some overalls and never worry about weight fluctuations again. plus minimal storage needed
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Nobster
February 8, 2024, 9:48:49
snapper rockin those JNCO jeans again
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IlliniSax05
February 8, 2024, 9:47:39
longsnapper is gonna be the Billie Eilish of the deuce
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IlliniSax05
February 8, 2024, 9:37:29
Your fasting is slowing.*
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Philo
February 8, 2024, 8:58:54
you, sir, are a delight*
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Nobster
February 8, 2024, 9:49:36
You may be getting to that point in your weight loss journey where 2-3 lbs is all you can do.
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illinilosch
February 8, 2024, 8:55:31
Have you been tracking how much of the weight you lost is fat versus, like internal organs? *
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doubledown
February 8, 2024, 8:50:02
I'd say 85% fat loss, 15% muscle & essential organs*
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longsnapper
February 8, 2024, 9:26:30
Is this your way of telling us you didn't get the role in the reboot of "The Machinist"?*
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Sammich
February 8, 2024, 8:23:59
I gained 4.5 lbs this week.
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 20:00:59
I have tried twice and get pretty brain foggy*
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gvibes
February 2, 2024, 23:42:10
did you load? I started last week and did the loading phase. when can I lift a dump truck?*
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lcubed
February 2, 2024, 21:08:08
Started Monday.
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 21:40:09
Reason 189,472 why I am dumb: recently discovered the etymology of “breakfast”*
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bbonb
February 2, 2024, 9:19:44
This one belongs in The Bonbon Hall of Famb.*
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complainant
February 2, 2024, 20:22:14
I’m being serious - I’d like to see this on a graph. You have the data. Can you post a graph? *
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jjlocke923
February 2, 2024, 7:09:49
The red is my goal, the blue is progress...
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:23:04
Update: down 40.2 lbs. as of this morning*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 6:36:08
are you exercising in tandem to the multi-day fasts?*
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ArtVandelay
February 2, 2024, 7:37:32
I lift 2-3 times a week (lightly) and then bike(lightly) or walk another 2-3 times.
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:40:41
Down 12 in a month here, but I ate food.*
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 2, 2024, 7:24:45
Nice dude, that’s great*
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Carl Spackler
February 2, 2024, 7:58:46
Speaking at a work conference in May, so that's my motivation
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 2, 2024, 8:36:21
Hopefully the other attendees are also getting in shape so that you’re not disgusted when
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 9:27:04
That's extremely unlikely for several reasons
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 2, 2024, 9:36:09
May just be easier to picture each person as a wheel of cheese. *
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 9:42:31
It is at least a healthcare IT conference, with attendees from across the country, not to mention
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DocWalk20
February 2, 2024, 22:06:39
I went to a beer release that had free drinks & food last night. It was surprisingly easy
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:28:05
10 beers? damn, I don't think I could physically drink 10 beers
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IlliniSax05
February 2, 2024, 9:22:13
Back in the day I could. Now? Very hard. Maybe if I’m tailgating. *
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illiniranger
February 2, 2024, 10:11:29
3 beers an hour? That's nothing to me*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 9:27:08
i haven't been able to drink like that since college. I start feeling full after maybe 4
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IlliniSax05
February 2, 2024, 9:41:39
No chance I could do that*
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illini21
February 2, 2024, 7:29:30
I've come to realize that my biggest hang up about not drinking socially - that people would think
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:35:18
I could legit not care what people think...it's the "being drunk is fun" thing that gets me*
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Desert
February 2, 2024, 9:15:50
The opposite. I love drinking, but I hate being drunk*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 9:26:26
Co-that*
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Jackie
February 2, 2024, 9:49:47
We had a happy hour last night. The place we go also has great selection of hop waters and NA beer
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opey8
February 2, 2024, 8:39:48
I've enjoyed the new Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada NA offerings this Dryuary.*
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Tortillini
February 2, 2024, 9:38:22
Which hop waters?*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 8:41:54
Oh, people still think you’re weird. Not because you’re not drinking though. j/k*
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jjlocke923
February 2, 2024, 7:44:14
I WAS wearing a Korn shirt last night, so you're absolutely correct.*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:54:24
The weight is falling away from you, falling away.*
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DT
February 2, 2024, 9:41:38
LMFCO*
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Jackie
February 2, 2024, 8:05:37
See that's where you fucked up. *
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 7:26:52
I'll take 12 a month and not fasting.
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
February 2, 2024, 7:28:12
That is so unhealthy. Seek help. Or a therapist*
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HamptonSki
February 2, 2024, 7:23:05
Dayum*
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illini21
February 2, 2024, 7:20:08
Where did you start? 40 lbs in a month is tremendous. *
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doubledown
February 2, 2024, 7:13:29
2.... Damn much.*
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longsnapper
February 2, 2024, 7:19:53
I'm trying to just eat only 12-8p, and it's very difficult. Idk how you're doing this
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Taz
January 26, 2024, 11:11:23
Please note that IF can be sketch for females, TIA*
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Jackie
January 26, 2024, 12:16:43
Yeah, but it might at least be good for reducing calories*
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Taz
January 26, 2024, 12:57:58
I'm my uninformed opinion, it's because your body still expects food so it won't use stored energy.
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 11:21:32
as the late, great Jimmy Buffet said, “it’s 12 o’clock somewhere”*
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bbonb
January 26, 2024, 11:20:59
What electrolyte packets do you use?
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EffinIllini
January 26, 2024, 10:45:02
LMNT salty watermelon. They're other flavors are good too.
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:49:08
Update: down 35 lbs.*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:22:48
You need a tv show. This pace is unreal*
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cpsteine
January 26, 2024, 12:18:50
Also curious...if you're down 35...what were you starting subtracting that from? *
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haighter
January 26, 2024, 12:27:47
96*
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biclops
January 26, 2024, 13:01:25
it was my understanding that there would be no math
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IlliniSax05
January 26, 2024, 13:04:08
This does not sound sustainable. *
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doubledown
January 26, 2024, 10:42:44
Obviously. At this rate, longsnapper will evaporate by summer*
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GMAW
January 26, 2024, 10:45:47
gonesnapper*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:51:57
It worked out fine for Karen Carpenter*
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bbonb
January 26, 2024, 10:51:56
It isn't, at least the rate of loss. But the overall plan seems more sustainable for me
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:44:53
You're ON a calorie restricting diet. *
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doubledown
January 26, 2024, 10:48:10
That's why I said daily calorie restricting*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:50:03
so...are you planning to keep this up until you reach a particular weight?
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IlliniSax05
January 26, 2024, 12:14:44
I will probably keep some aspect of it indefinitely, but probably won't be as strict about it...
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 12:18:56
are you at all concerned that it’s just water loss?*
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bbonb
January 26, 2024, 10:41:13
No. I also think I was drinking too much water initially (2gallons per day)
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:43:52
4900 calorie a day deficit. Impressive*
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gvibes
January 26, 2024, 10:32:31
Half of it is water weight, though, right?*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:38:03
That sounds high but I haven't looked into it*
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gvibes
January 26, 2024, 10:40:00
Same*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:40:43
Not sure what the % is
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ISeeDeadHawkeyes
January 26, 2024, 11:18:03
All the cool kids are doing anorexia*
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HamptonSki
January 26, 2024, 10:36:51
As someone who dated a handful of them in college.
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digs
January 26, 2024, 11:43:11
A-anorexia is a mental disorder B-that's not anorexia C-neither is this*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 12:12:21
That's exactly what an anorexiac would say*
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HamptonSki
January 26, 2024, 12:43:02
Man. I don’t know your steez. You do whatever you want
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digs
January 26, 2024, 12:24:47
I'm not sure how much I'm down, but I have some pants that fit better than they used to...
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haighter
January 26, 2024, 10:32:18
Heh. Trying a modified plan of your push-up / sit-up / elliptical routine.
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EffinIllini
January 26, 2024, 10:51:58
I just set my alarm for 4 30 and get up and out. I pack my gymbag the night before...
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haighter
January 26, 2024, 12:34:10
In 26 days? *
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jjlocke923
January 26, 2024, 10:25:12
Technically 25.*
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longsnapper
January 26, 2024, 10:28:26
I don’t know how people do the fasting thing
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DT
January 19, 2024, 9:12:46
Try fasting. Seriously*
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longsnapper
January 19, 2024, 10:08:07
That's...not normal, friend.*
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Tuscy
January 19, 2024, 9:39:50
That sounds a lot like hypoglycemia. Have you been checked for diabetes? *
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doubledown
January 19, 2024, 9:24:24
Have the normal blood tests done with my annual physical.
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DT
January 19, 2024, 10:09:42
And this doesn’t happen to me all the time. But every once in a while I’ll have mornings like this
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DT
January 19, 2024, 10:13:35
yeah, maybe talk to a doctor and get some glucose tablets
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IlliniSax05
January 19, 2024, 10:02:09
The fingerstick meters are super cheap*
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gvibes
January 19, 2024, 9:39:20
I am doing 8/16 IF right now. My second time doing it. It is hard for the first two or three days.
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ATL
January 19, 2024, 9:15:52
Down 25.8 this morning. Had blackened white fish for dinner last night
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longsnapper
January 19, 2024, 6:54:00
I’m confused. I thought you had moved on to a full on fast. You’re still doing what is in the OP?
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ATL
January 19, 2024, 7:00:27
Fasting every Monday thru Wednesday. Occasionally thru Thursday.
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longsnapper
January 19, 2024, 7:02:06
And he looks inside the Ark of the Covenant every morning*
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IlliniOllie
January 19, 2024, 7:33:48
Oh, I forgot about what I think has been the biggest factor so far. I started a fitness journal.
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 12:19:56
Health/body/fitness sidejack - I need to improve my flexibility
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John Coctostan
January 18, 2024, 10:37:23
Something simple to start: do 2 or 3 sun salutations every morning and/or before workouts.
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Desert
January 18, 2024, 11:27:43
I have a sun salutation most mornings*
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Phytynlini
January 26, 2024, 11:50:53
I enjoyed this book on the subject...
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 11:13:37
I could use something like this
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Tortillini
January 19, 2024, 9:19:58
Most yoga classes, as far as I understand, are all levels
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snipes824
January 18, 2024, 11:06:34
Just basic stretching every day is probably the place to start.
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 10:41:38
Gym sidejack...there's a new locally owned place in my neighborhood that is 3x the chain place...
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 10:19:58
$10/mo at Planet Fitness is near impossible to beat
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bjl63
January 18, 2024, 12:12:21
I’m lucky that our community rec centers have everything I need. I just have to avoid
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 10:43:52
same
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VIV
January 18, 2024, 10:24:01
Part district just put in a new gym right by us. NO SQUAT RACK*
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gvibes
January 18, 2024, 10:34:32
Not that I would ever work out anywhere other than my basement, which is an elite gym*
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gvibes
January 18, 2024, 10:34:56
I built out a great garage gym when I was in California. Now I have the same set but...
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 11:02:04
The garage is for the golf simulator, silly*
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gvibes
January 18, 2024, 12:09:17
My goal is to have a separate outbuilding with simulator, gym, bar and screened-in porch.
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 12:27:03
Only discernable benefit of this place is they give you a key fob and you can go 24 hours...
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 10:29:48
Working out at the small office gym at 6:30 is great. Me and one other dude*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 10:49:49
are you in opossum jenkins' building?
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VIV
January 18, 2024, 11:07:24
ha!*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 11:11:43
i even went this morning at a usually busy time and my gym was fine
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VIV
January 18, 2024, 10:32:08
Last week my wife had the covid and I had to gym over lunch...
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 10:35:34
if i go late afternoon, it's overrun with broccoli-headed bruhs named kaydyn
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VIV
January 18, 2024, 10:42:15
*urge to kill rising*
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 11:02:54
All those kids here have ice cream hair. *
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 10:58:59
Yo Sounder...I was thinking about you and tried my friends version of Burpees after my morning 50...
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 9:59:08
What's your friend's version? *
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 10:00:22
I'm not a burpee afficianado but posted below. I don't know if it has a name. *
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 10:03:14
It sounds pretty terrible. Also terrible, dumbbell weighted burpees. *
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 10:05:14
Hate them so so much.
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 10:00:00
My friends do the "jog jog jog > down > one leg push up > other leg push up > back up > knee raise"
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haighter
January 18, 2024, 10:01:56
Fuck the fuck out of that nonsense.*
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 10:12:37
There's a pretty large stack of studies that found these types of fasts both safe and effective.
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 9:58:17
I'm sure the caveat is "under the supervision of a medical professional."*
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 9:59:00
You can be my doctor*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 10:08:17
Consider yourself supervised. Carry on!*
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Tuscy
January 18, 2024, 10:12:15
I've officially dropped 6" in waist size
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RSMBob
January 18, 2024, 9:54:01
Try fasting. It's great for joint pain. And good job so far*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 10:03:11
I'm supposed to go to dinner tonight, but if I'm not hungry, I'm stretching this fucker to 120 hrs*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 9:27:59
You should think about competing on Alone*
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CoronaTheirAss
January 18, 2024, 9:47:09
Love that show.
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DiamondDazzle
January 18, 2024, 10:34:11
not eating for 5+ days can't be healthy. i refuse to believe otherwise
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IlliniSax05
January 18, 2024, 9:44:36
Why wouldn't be?*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 9:56:30
because you're forcing your body to consume itself for energy
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IlliniSax05
January 18, 2024, 11:24:28
Sure, but where do you think that threshold is? 3 hours? 3 days? 3 weeks? 3 months?
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 11:28:41
I'm not a nutritionist, nor have I ever played one on TV, so I have no idea
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IlliniSax05
January 18, 2024, 11:47:45
I'm sure this is medically supervised*
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gvibes
January 18, 2024, 9:47:20
By Dr. Nick maybe. *
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 9:49:01
Ha ha. Very true*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 9:57:48
He's apparently doing the OMAW diet. *
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doubledown
January 18, 2024, 9:45:49
That's the diet I was on when I was sick.
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Illiniphil
January 18, 2024, 9:51:07
Down 25.6 this morning. Still not hungry and feeling great*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 7:28:01
When your body consumes your liver to survive, FTW*
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Stu
January 18, 2024, 10:09:48
I've enough stored energy that it'll be a long time until it started eating essential organsal organ
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 10:12:30
we call this the Siege of Leningrad diet*
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IlliniOllie
January 18, 2024, 8:51:45
Yeah*
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cpsteine
January 18, 2024, 9:41:11
Karen Carpenter diet*
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Drippy
January 18, 2024, 8:55:48
At some point it's called anorexia.*
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Phytynlini
January 18, 2024, 8:46:28
That point is a long, long way in the future*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 8:50:36
That's what a lot of teenage girls say too*
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HamptonSki
January 18, 2024, 9:47:15
Be careful, dude*
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Taz
January 18, 2024, 9:43:50
I've listened to three quarters of a podcast. I'm sure it'll be fine*
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longsnapper
January 18, 2024, 9:59:55
But have you ever stayed at a holiday Inn? *
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Taz
January 18, 2024, 10:34:17
I’ve been fasting until noon daily, starting the day with stretching and resistance at 5am,
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doubledown
January 17, 2024, 20:29:02
this is inspiring me, it's go time tomorrow (maybe we should do another contest)*
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reggiedunlop
January 17, 2024, 17:24:38
Averaging 16000 steps/ day in the snow*
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Stu
January 17, 2024, 17:22:54
I’m down around 5-6 pounds since my surgery. Not sure what I’m doing different. *
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harb
January 17, 2024, 17:13:31
You sure they didn’t take out 5-6 lbs of something? *
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doubledown
January 17, 2024, 20:19:03
After a nasty GI virus and not eating anything but a few crackers for 3 days, I'm down 10!
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Illiniphil
January 17, 2024, 10:22:39
Now build on that momentum! *
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doubledown
January 17, 2024, 20:20:09
Exercise update. My 50/50/50 daily (Situps / Pushups / Minutes of Cardio)...
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haighter
January 17, 2024, 10:20:06
This is how I picture your workout routines
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Sounder
January 17, 2024, 10:25:51
LOL...just regular ole white guy pushups and situps and elliptical...
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haighter
January 17, 2024, 10:29:59
So my wife and I started taking the GOLO Release supplement.
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Desert
January 17, 2024, 9:24:43
Fucking A right, brother. Good luck!*
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longsnapper
January 17, 2024, 9:41:51
I feel fucking great, guys. Going to stretch this one to 4 days maybe*
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longsnapper
January 17, 2024, 9:02:08
down 21 lbs is great, glad it's working out for you *
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illiniranger
January 16, 2024, 12:49:54
I basically have six weight levels
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GMAW
January 16, 2024, 11:56:40
i am roughly 10 lbs heavier than college and am a 31/32 instead of a 30/31*
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suburbanmyth
January 16, 2024, 12:01:38
Impressive*
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GMAW
January 16, 2024, 12:03:34
thank you ozempic
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suburbanmyth
January 16, 2024, 12:08:20
sweet. have you also changed your activity levels in that time?*
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ArtVandelay
January 16, 2024, 11:54:28
I've reduced my alcohol intake since moving here and it's helped. Started 16-8 IF last week.
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ATL
January 16, 2024, 11:50:45
I went back to not drinking on school nights... and not "making up for it on the weekends".
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tvillini
January 16, 2024, 11:47:55
Similar—had been drinking basically every day, 1-2 drinks, and had drifted up too much in weight
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DT
January 16, 2024, 12:15:25
haha yes the not making up for it on the weekends is hard but key*
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CoronaTheirAss
January 16, 2024, 11:52:26
I need to do this. I'm getting way too many calories from beer and it's a big
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Taz
January 16, 2024, 11:51:22
thats great, just be aware that a lot of that weight loss might be muscle mass*
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bigbop85
January 16, 2024, 11:19:11
I still lift weights 3-4x per week. I haven't noticed anything*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 11:26:11
I mean, you are 100% losing muscle mass.
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gvibes
January 16, 2024, 11:36:13
I highly doubt it is significant, though.*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 11:53:17
It almost certainly is*
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gvibes
January 16, 2024, 12:23:31
If you have any research, I'd love to read it*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 12:24:35
Here is a review article - see pags 4-8
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gvibes
January 16, 2024, 12:33:33
That doesn't sound significant, though. It's not like I'm going from a normal weight to skinny.
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 12:40:39
holy crap, that's a lot of weight. that's amazing. I have been trying to eat more*
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cpsteine
January 16, 2024, 11:11:17
That’s … a lot. *
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doubledown
January 16, 2024, 11:10:27
Good for you! My BIL has had some fasting success. I’ve no desire (nm)
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Jack McMurdo
January 16, 2024, 10:59:59
nm*
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cpsteine
January 16, 2024, 11:10:13
Mondays and Wednesdays are fine. Tuesdays are tough*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 11:09:02
easy, just move it to Wed-Fri
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IlliniSax05
January 16, 2024, 11:44:51
you just miss taco Tuesday too much?*
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Sounder
January 16, 2024, 11:37:19
I thought giving up alcohol would help me lose weight
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Sounder
January 16, 2024, 10:58:48
I'd stop weighing yourself and just hit your workouts harder. Who cares how much you weigh...
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haighter
January 16, 2024, 11:14:57
I will feel better when I weigh less*
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Sounder
January 16, 2024, 11:29:08
And you'll know that right? You don't need to weigh yourself to know that do you? *
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haighter
January 16, 2024, 11:43:06
That’s crazy. I lost 15 pounds immediately after covid hit by not drinking anything for those first
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snipes824
January 16, 2024, 11:01:38
My rough math had me consuming 600-1000 calories of alcohol per effing day.*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 11:08:28
jesus, are you Norm from Cheers?
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IlliniSax05
January 16, 2024, 11:14:52
Peak pandemic, my units of measurement for wine was bottles*
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Sounder
January 16, 2024, 11:29:41
ooo
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IlliniSax05
January 16, 2024, 11:33:20
Essentially*
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longsnapper
January 16, 2024, 11:35:10
Next time don’t replace it with milkshakes *
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assassin
January 16, 2024, 10:59:49
Are you saying my daily rum milkshakes are a bad idea? *
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doubledown
January 16, 2024, 11:08:20
they're not a bad idea, just may be counterproductive
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IlliniSax05
January 16, 2024, 11:15:28
I have opinions about boozy ice cream*
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Sounder
January 16, 2024, 11:08:44
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