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  1. 2 minutes ago, Wulaw Horn said:

    Surgery or diet/exercise?  How long did it take? 

    Diet/exercise even though most people I encounter ask if I had the surgery.  I decided it was time to make a change on my 30th birthday (I turn 35 next month).  Complete diet 180, stopped eating out, stopped drinking calories, did low carb for the first 2 years.  Lost about 90 pounds within the first 4 months or so.  Then hit the exercise routine for about a year, then COVID hit and I started running for exercise.  I was probably 195 when COVID hit and kept running all the way down to 180.  Switched up my diet to be high carb, high protein, medium fat and when the gyms opened again, did a hybrid routine of gym/running.  To answer your question, I was down to 185 in about 3 years.

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  2. Ran a 15k race today. Hadn’t run in about 2 weeks due to having a nasty cold. Surprised myself and did it in 1:19:28, 8:33 per mile average. Not bad really and pretty happy with myself. First time I’ve done a race this distance and first race since the Houston Marathon. Fresh15 in Tyler is a fantastic race.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Nueces River Rat said:

    I'll agree with one thing about HEB.   The curbside/personal shopper thing is getting on my nerves at least at my local HEB.    It's a smaller store compared to your Plus type stores meaning the isles are smaller and those huge blue carts they use make it a chore to get around especially when the same isle has Olds using the electric carts and regular shoppers chit chatting on their phones.   I understand the curbside thing took off as a necessity during the Covid chaos, but it needs to be looked at by retailers. I don't know if you can get that cat back in the bag though...

     

    If someone is reported to go full Karen at a Corpus HEB, it might be me.....

    I will agree with this. Luckily, they’re expanding the HEB that I shop at and will be done within the next 4 months. My son’s school also has a new HEB by it so my wife can stop there on the way to pick him up. 

  4. 16 hours ago, YGIFS said:

    I got none of these pro-tips, shortcuts, hidden secrets, cool ideas in the corner of the magazine kinda shit to offer up.  Except one.  And only 'cause it's so fucking basic.  Y'all sub what you're gonna sub.  Twist, manipulate, change out, switcheroo, what have you.  I got nothing on you.  Just a guy working a mid-life reboot to the systems.  

    But one thing I did years ago that helped a fuckton and put me at least in a small position to succeed at much more monumental tasks in my mid-40's was this:

    Don't add salt to your meals.  That's it.  Just don't put out a salt shaker at home and don't use the one at a restaurant.  I ain't saying to track sodium in your meals, on your shopping cart, whatever.  My simple suggestion is keep eating what you eat, cook what you cook, order what your order, dine out where you dine out.  One small thing you can avoid that makes a huge fucking difference is just be you, eat like you eat...just don't add salt.  It can be something high in sodium already, but just decide not to shake anything extra onto it.  At home or out in public, just don't pick up the shaker.  Eat the fuck outta whatever you ordered or cooked in your kitchen, just skip the salt shaker.  Tiniest fucking change makes the biggest fucking difference.  And best of all, your food already salted to death...you don't even notice you skipped it after a week.

    I buy quarts of kosher salt. Use that shit on everything. Even in my oatmeal. Any doctor who recommends eating less salt is a fucking moron. Salt. Isn’t. Bad. For. You. 

     

  5. 3 hours ago, Doc Daneeka said:

    This is the way. I don’t bother with them anymore, but when I was a fat fuck I frequented a few weight loss forums associated with apps I was trying out for calorie tracking. The people running those forums were pushing particular diets or supplements or whatever and I was, for the purposes of weight loss, very strongly about “calories in, calories out.” This always ended up in a “you’re not losing weight because you’re not following our method (paying us money)” versus my “you’re not losing weight because you’re eating too much” face off. Their forums, their rules, their moderation, so those always ended the same way.

    Thirteen years ago, my doctor told me I was thisclose to high blood pressure meds. I was like, “oh, hell no” and when I left his office I sat in my car and downloaded My Fitness Pal and Map My Walk. Ordered a food scale and activity tracking band from Amazon. Ordered an activity I weighed 335 and not in a good way. Even at 6’9” I was right at obese level 2.

    I’m a big fan of over-analyzing stuff and I love me some Excel, so you can imagine how that went. One of my daughters weighed 120 at the time, so I decided to shoot for losing 120 pounds. I started weighing the hell out of everything I ate. Tracked calories in, calories out, and weight every day. All kinds of charts. I walked every day, rain, sleet, snow, hail, heat, cold, whatever. I’ve always hated running, but did Couch to 10K just to say I did. 

    Went to the doctor the next year at 205. The PA told me someone mistakenly recorded me at 335 instead of 235 the previous year. “No, 335 was right.” Doctor said BP meds were off the table. Every crappy thing about my blood work, etc. was now good to go. 

    205 was probably a little low, so I settled around 220, which was still good enough for 34” waist pants. I put on a little weight after each summer and try to go a little harder on the weights, but I’m old AF so I don’t know that it makes much difference. I’m shooting to be back at 215-220 by tax day. 

    I have a 1200+ day streak of closing all rings on my Apple Watch — it would be about double that, but for a day and a half the damned thing refused to register that I was standing up — that I want to keep going for the rest of the year. Also intend to walk 2000 miles this year and run 0 miles. 

    TLDR: I lost 120+ pounds over a decade ago and have kept it off since then. If I can do that, y’all can hit your goals, too, just by being too fucking stubborn to fail. 

    Props.  5 years ago, I was 316 at 6'2".  I lost 120+ pounds and got to 180 lbs.  Decided I needed to actually gain a bit of weight and am eating around 3,200 calories a day.  I love food.  I love being able to walk into a store and actually buy clothes off the shelf.  Due to my love of eating food, I have to have a high activity so I run (a lot) or lift weight every day.  I'm also 34 (soon to be 35) years old and want to live a lot longer than I would have if I was 300+ pounds.  I'm also a numbers guy and weigh all my meals and track everything.  I'm a little OCD but I don't care.  It gives me peace.  I splurge every now and then and hit up Mr. Gatti's with my wife and son or buy something sweet to indulge in because I'm human and have to have some pleasantries.  But 99% of my diet consists of rice, potatoes, chicken, beef/steak, oatmeal, eggs, avocados, peanut butter and homemade bread.  I have very little to no sugar, at all. 

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  6. 6 hours ago, speed817 said:

     

    I think a 750w PSU would work.  But it also depends if you are overclocking.  I upgraded my PSU from a 650w to an 850w when I got my 3080 just to be safe even though all the online calculators said I should be ok..  I'm running a 9700k OC'd to 5.0 Ghz on all cores with the 3080 and haven't had any issues.

    Don’t plan on overclocking.

  7. Heading out today from Steamboat. Skiing was great Friday and Sunday. We went out to the mountain yesterday and a storm had blown through. Wind blowing 30+ and about 15/20 degrees. Wasn’t fun for the 6 year old. Called it a day around 1:30 or so and headed back to the condo. Hit up How Ya Doin’ pizza north of downtown for dinner. Definitely a must go for those coming to steamboat. First pic is the “CBD” pizza. Second is their meats pizza. I think they call it “the smeatz”:

     

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  8. Looking at upgrading my GPU from a 5700xt to a 3080 or 4080 but worried I may need a bigger power supply. Current rig is an AMD 3700x, x570 MB, 32g ddr4, gigabyte 5700xt, and a 750w gold rated PSU.

    Anybody think I should bump up the power supply or would I be good? Also thought of just giving this PC to my son and building a new one. I’ve been out of the loop the past 3 years on PC parts but by first glance, storage prices have come down massively and there’s a new line of GPUs that came out.

  9. 30 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Cool, actually same rental place I was referencing. Thx for feedback and please fire away with any recs (ski or non ski) for a group of ppl, families and ‘free’ adults, who’ve never been there. 

    Couple of good places to get some food are Backdoor Bar & Grill and How Ya Doin Pizza & Eatz.  The pizza place is right next door to a local brewery.  I don't drink but I've heard a bunch of folks just grab a pizza and head over to the brewery.  Those two places will be visited multiple times by my family over the next week.

    The actual springs are a cool place to visit too, especially during the winter.  I'm not sure how the road is up to the springs during the winter months (only visited them in the summer) but there's about 8 large pools of water that gradually get warmer.  If you go around 4PM or so and start, it'll be dark by the time you're in the warmest spring.  I don't think they allow kids after dark though as some folks ditch the clothes.

  10. 2 hours ago, bluto said:

    Booking stuff for SB in early march, scoping out rental gear and found ski and bike kare that’s literally half price of the regular steamboat site rentals. You familiar with them? Lift prices ain’t a joke there either. 

    I haven't heard of ski and bike kare.  We rent from steamboatskiandbike.com (Steamboat Ski and Bike).  They have two locations, one at the base and one downtown.  We always rent from the downtown location as it's cheaper.

    We also prepay for lift tickets and got a 20%(I believe) discount on them through our condo.  My most owned a condo there up until 2021 until she went full regard and sold it.  It was a ski in-ski out and sold it because it was "too small".  She regrets it.  She has an icon pass and will give it to my wife on days she doesn't ski.

    I've been to various places across Colorado and New Mexico (Brek, Crested Butte, Purgatory, Angel Fire, Santa Fe, Winter Park, Frisco, Vail) and I always go back to Steamboat.  It's definitely my favorite.  I think this is my 4th time skiing in Steamboat and 7th time total up there.  Summers up there are even better than winter IMO.  Love it up there - definitely worth the extra 2.5 hour drive from Denver.  Luckily, we're flying straight in from Houston and my mom is picking us up at the airport.

  11. Been back on the running over the last week after taking about a week off after the Houston Marathon.  I did a 6 mile run about 5 days after the marathon then a casual 10 miler a few days later.  It felt good.  It's nice being back in the gym though.  My 8 mile runs before work are hitting me just right.  Wake up at 5, out the door by 5:30, back home by 6:45 and out the door with the kiddo at 7:30.  I've got a 15k the first weekend of March then a half marathon the last weekend of March.

  12. Heading to Steamboat on Thursday with my wife and 6 year old.  This will be my 4th time in Steamboat.  Can't wait to get on the mountain.  Got my son lined up for a full day lesson on Friday (if I recall, this is his 4th time skiing?).  This will be my wife's third time.  I'll spend a few hours with her on the bunny hill so she can get her ski legs.

     

  13. So I've been running a hell of a lot more over the past 6 months (ran my first Marathon in Houston a few weeks ago) and I've got a few more races left - a 15k in early March and a half marathon in late March.  I've obviously decreased my mileage after finishing marathon training (long runs would be 16-20 miles) but over the last few weeks, I've been back in the gym more often (decreased gym to 3x per week when I was doing marathon training) and holy shit, I've lost a lot of strength. 

    Crazy how much long-distance running will impact strength.  My goal for 2023 will be to continue running through the summer and be able to pick back up with marathon training later in the fall of 2023.  I don't want to take the entire summer off running.  I've already signed up for the marathon next year and really want to improve my time.

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  14. 3 hours ago, BrazilHorn said:

    Figured I would start here with this question.

    I have a home gym that includes two Kettlebells (45 & 65lb respectively)

    I have a great app I am using for strength training and often it asks for KB Bench. I have to wrap a Tshirt around my wrist to give myself some type of cushion from the weight of the KB on my wrist bones.

    I have gloves for lifting but they don't do anything for my wrist in terms of keeping the weight from just bruising the shit out of me.

    Y'all do anything different, have better approach?

     

    Harbinger wrist wraps.

  15. I once worked at the same PwC office as that racist asshole Daniel Figurelli, who now goes by Daniel Joseph, in Houston, TX.  Unfortunately, I was unable to cross paths with him but I do know many people who worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Houston, TX at the same time as that racist Daniel Figurelli, now Daniel Joseph. 

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  16. 45 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said:

    Good job!

    I ran a full marathon 22 years ago and vividly remembering telling myself at mile 21 that I would never do this again.

     

     

    This is what I told my wife at mile 22.  We then signed up for it again last night.  I want to improve.

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  17. 53 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

    Congrats!! I was on the pace team for the marathon. The runners in our group fell off around mile 18-19 when you make the turn east to head back downtown. We probably lost 90 percent of the pack, so kudos to you for hanging on until Memorial Park. The heat definitely got to people; it was a great early morning but got warm quickly.

    What pace team were you a part of?

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