Re: Colon and Semi-colon
 

Because the whole point of a QWERTY keyboard is to slow you down?

Althuogh, seriously, how often do you use either a colon or a semi-colon?

Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

My best friend called me this morning to say his doctor told him he needs to lose (at least) 40 pounds. Though he is a tall man, he is in deep denial about how fat he has become. He argued with me that fitness will be his ticket back to svelteness and that the weight gain has happened over the past 8 months. He is wrong on both counts.

I pointed out to him that he ate a bucket of buttered popcorn and the equivalent of 4 servings of pasta while I was with him last night.

His response: "I hadn't eaten all day and I didn't drink beer!" And then we argued over portion-size.

Any advice on conveying information about proper nutrition and portion size to a man in deep denial?

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

Fuck Lebowski. There. I said it. Decent movie, but it's nowhere near Raising Arizona.

TM

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Have him read The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food.

Re: The Top 10 White Trash Heroes of Cinema
 

But it's like the white version of Friday!

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Count his calories for him and then count the number of calories he burns on average every day. Convert the difference into pounds gained in front of him and be quiet as it sinks in.

TM

Re: Colon and Semi-colon
 

It doesn't matter how often I use the colon; It only matters that I use it more often than the semicolon.

Re: The Informant
 

Speaking of Oprah and bad spin class songs, I have to admit that the group dance the Oprah audience did to that terrible Black Eyed Peas song was kind of cool. Let us not speak of this again.

Also, although I have been the non-Wilco-loving outlier on this board for a while, the more I hear "Wilco (the song)," the more I think it kicks ass. Something about the riff and the wailing feedbacky guitar. That's rock and roll.

Re: The Informant
 

You are not alone in your outlier status. You are alone in thinking that song kicks ass.

Re: The Informant
 

I am used to walking the lonely path.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I recently read that to lose weight, one should eat 11 x one's current weight (assuming 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week) in calories, to lose 1 pound a week.

Re: The Informant
 

No. He is not alone.

You're not alone, Flower. You. Are. Not. Alone.

Sean from Good Will Hunting would like to hug you now.

Re: Colon and Semi-colon
 

I more frequently use semicolons. But why is the "e" key under your left middle finger and the "a" your left pinky?

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I always suggest fasting and...wait, don't you have a vomitorium?

Re: Colon and Semi-colon
 

i use both " and ' more than semi-colon or colon. semi-colon and colons should be shift options for " and ' if you want to be truthful.

Re: Colon and Semi-colon
 

I appreciate your honesty.

Re: The Informant
 

in Metro Detroit, the spin class teachers all carry a Nazi aura, both in looks and in the clipped orders. spin instructors in a state that is 95% Aryan must be very scary- like in uniforms?

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

"If you lose 40 pounds by Christmas, I will fuck you."

Next question.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Good strategy, but I will leave that to his girlfriend as I lack credibility on the issue.

I just saw this in my rss feed: Hard Truth About Just How Many Calories Are In Fast Food: "Other shockers: the Dunkin' Donuts Blueberry Crumb Donut weighs in at 470 calories — disconcerting for something that takes three seconds to eat — and the Subway footlong Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki packs an un-Jared-like 760 calories between its buns."

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

760 for lunch. 760 for dinner. 300 for breakfast. That leaves room for a snack or a few glasses of wine.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

This is really about the only effective male weight loss regime, isn't it?

Let's write a diet book, Sidd, it will sell millions. And Sasha Grey can be in the movie version.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

translation: I feel the colon is more important that the semi-colon, but I'm too passive aggressive to just say so.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Plus, if you go to Chevy's and get one of the giant tostada salads, that subtracts calories. After all, it's a salad.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Speaking of colons...

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I doubt evenodds' friend would be interested in my vomitorium. Though he is, of course, welcome to give it a try.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I liked the comment about how someone's doctor told him, "If it tastes good, spit it out."

Whoever talked about the formula of losing weight being 11x(your weight) = calories to consume, dat's CRAZEE!! That's too few calories, I think -- or maybe that's just not much physical activity.

Those fuckers at Subway have brainwashed my kids into thinking Subway is health food. I suppose it's better than french fries and greasy hamburgers, but health food?!? Not exactly.

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

I'm marrying into white-trashiosity. With a vengeance! The crown jewel in my WT cred? My FIL-to-be is a race-car driver.*



*But it's road racing, not NASCAR -- that still counts, though, right?!

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

Wow. I never thought you'd be one of us. Way cool.

Who sponsors him?

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

This summer, my friends, including the fat fattie, started checking my breath after I'd been to the ladies' room in restaurants, no matter how many times I have told them I am not bulimic.

I am incapable of making myself vomit, even when I really need to.

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

If he's not American, it doesn't count.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Me too. It's not fun when you're hungover.

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

Road racing? Isn't that the very non-WT grand prix?

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

As apple pie, baybee.

I'm IN!!

Re: P&P On YouTube
 

Um....

I don't remember?

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

People who have never had a problem with weight control sound like sanctimonous jackasses when telling people who do have problems with weight control what to do. Stay out of it, because you can't lose the weight for him and you're very likely to sabatoge the whole thing if you get pushy about it. I speak from deep personal experience on both sides of the weight loss equation on this.

If you feel the need to help, send him this link. Tell him a deeply out of shape friend of yours lost a lot of weight when she followed a regimine similar to the first schedule in this link and running burns a lot of calories. He can start on October 1 and be ready by January 24. If you feel the need to give him more, tell him also to investigate http://www.sparkpeople.com or http://www.weightwatchers.com. Those two programs offer much, much more than any individual person can.

God Bless America!
 

This is why I love America. Anybody can be what they want to be!

Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 

I wouldn't drink either one. I suppose if you had to, pouring some into coffee would be tolerable. I think you'll be disappointed with either one as a beverage, though.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

Team in Training is also another excellent way to train for any endurance event, with the added benefit of group-think!

I am currently training to run the Disney Half-Marathon on January 9, 2010 with Team in Training. Anyone who would like to make a donation can pm me for the link, or click on it right from my facebook page.

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I can't put my fingers on it at the moment, but I recently read about a new study that supported your theory -- that to lose a meaningful amount of weight, fewer calories does far more than increased exercise. Maybe you will have better success with google-fu. When I did google, a bunch of interesting supporting articles came up.

Time: "Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin"

and

Link

Re: Fat Oprah vs Thin Oprah
 

I ran a half-marathon last January that had lots of TIT (ha!) participants. They seem rather devoted and organized.