Update Season VI - "A New Day Dawning"

[MasterJedi]

I don't believe for a minute he walked a minute, much less 45 minutes.

Yeah, it's crap. I let myself get out of shape in the last 6 months by a combination of colds (one bad one), surgery and making excuses. Before that I was about 20lbs heavier then I wanted to be and gained another 10lbs. Finally started getting back into the exercise phase and my lower back and legs have been killing me and that's only with 30lbs, Bushie has about 150+ extra weight so I imagine he didn't do it because he can't.

[MasterJedi]

Your ideal weight is not 200 lbs. You've stated previosuly that you're about 5'8".   But there's no need to set some distant goal. Focus on doing the right thing now. Do you not have fat clinics in OK? A coworker here goes to one and has lost quite a bit of weight on some sort of stimulant.

Focusing on the scale is stupid.  Ray Rice is 5'8 212. Obviously this is a silly comparison, but it calls to mind the larger idea that the goal should be to feel better.  Losing some weight and being more active will make someone healthier, have more energy and a side benefit that you will look better.

Now this is all moot because it is quite clear that Bushie is already bargaining with himself. The family, the weather and who knows what next week and month (Kenya?)

Yes, we all know that BMI doesn't work for some people.  Jeff doesn't fall into that category.

Well this is true because from the sounds of it he is in much worse shape than the BMI would suggest.  General point is say he was a healthy and energetic 230, who cares what the scale might say.

Because at 230 he'd have no difference then where he is now. His goal should be 170 but I doubt he'll ever get below 250.

[MasterJedi]

Hm, that's weird. The middle school I went to for one year had a pool outside, but we never used it during gym class. It was actually technically a public city pool and was only open during the summer (even the school swim team practiced at a private club pool about a mile away). Otherwise I don't think any of the public schools in my city had their own pools. Maybe it's a suburban thing? That just seems like an incredibly expensive/unnecessary luxury.

My high school had an indoor pool and the school had been built in the 50's and been there the whole time. And every high school in the area has one too. You probably just went to horrible, poor urban schools.

[MasterJedi]

I assume you mean Bayer as in aspirin (although they also make Aleve), in which case, it's aspirin.

Aspirin's great.  My favorite.  I take some almost every day, in powdered form.

Cocaine is not aspirin opebo.

[MasterJedi]

Some great golf on today. My two favorites are atop the leader board. Go Tiger, go Freddy!

Golf is the best thing to watch on a Sunday to take a nap, it'll put you right to sleep. Now, playing it is a different story, i'm good at the long game but not at the short game. Almost never play so that would be the reason, but watching golf is the same thing as watching paint dry or the grass grow.

[MasterJedi]

Bushie, maybe you should try to become a righteous person yourself and not lie about everything or try to make your life seem different then that is. It's not a healthy thing to do and it's not a Christian thing to do. Besides that you want to go to Kenya for purely selfish reasons and not to really spread the word God. It'll end very badly for you if you don't realize what this move will actually be like and if you're not going for the right reasons (spread word of God and help the poor).

[MasterJedi]

if at age 30 you cant walk a quarter of a mile without getting worn out, that is a very bad sign.

i am no athlete myself...but a quarter of a mile?

....that's like two blocks in Minneapolis. Holy sh!t. Geez, I just walked twice that just walking back from church just now.

Try it carrying enough stuff so that you weigh 270 lbs. Won't be so easy.

Not the same though, he'd still be in shape enough to carry that around for awhile. Granted he would get tired out faster then he normally was but his muscle isn't atrophied where he couldn't at least do a good deal of work with the same weight.