That's why you gotta get a wife and have kids. When you have kids things just happen, sometimes they're scary things, sometimes they're heart-warming things. Or so I imagine, I'm far from that currently. It's like the saying goes, you have to first make things happen before things can happen.
"My career stagnated and I've no hobbies. I know, I should get pregnant! That way I don't have to come up with hobbies or be interesting - I can just be a mom!". I'm sure kids give you great purpose but getting them out of boredom is kinda nuts.
Start with swimming, it’s low impact. It trains your heart and lungs and teaches you that form is more important than effort. Starting with running while very fat will wear out your knee joints and the fat will compact/impact your spine on the lower vertebrae (hiking is fine and for people like us leads to calf muscles with cleavage).
Used to love swimming. Now, the only periods in which you could realistically swim here is 5-6AM with all the other office drones or on he weekends around kids and grandmas. It sucks.
"My career stagnated and I've no hobbies. I know, I should get pregnant! That way I don't have to come up with hobbies or be interesting - I can just be a mom!". I'm sure kids give you great purpose but getting them out of boredom is kinda nuts.
Used to love swimming. Now, the only periods in which you could realistically swim here is 5-6AM with all the other office drones or on he weekends around kids and grandmas. It sucks.
Pay a couple more quid for a posh gym. Seriously. I paid an extra quid a month and now instead of having to rush the gym I can sauna, swim, and get on weights any time of the day I like. Your time is worth more than having to do everything at 6am.
Yoga is a game changer for keeping things supple and preventing wear and tear down the road, and it's versatile in that it can be a relaxing stretch or a full body workout depending on your mood and energy levels. Can't recommend it enough, and I have no patience for the spiritual hippy side of it.
I have mentioned, maybe not in this thread, that my 96 year old mother lives with me. She’s bingeing on holiday football games and keeps up a running grunting, throat clearing and unh-ing that drives me nuts. She’s profoundly deaf even with hearing aids and I know she’s not aware of her vocalizations. Her doctor said it’s a problem for me but not for her.
When I’m 96 I hope I don’t drive my own daughter to wanting to poke holes in her ear drums. And noise canceling headphones don’t seem to filter her noises.
I'd love to. Swimming is a great way to get in shape really fast with minimal injury risk. Unfortunately, the only pool I have access to is closed for the winter. During the summer it's usually filled with children and urine. I could go to the Y, but there's the same issue only this time it's the urine of an entire city of children instead of just my apartment complex.
My plan is to stick to diet and walking during the winter. I'm not about to try running when there's snow and ice on the ground. Hopefully by spring I'll have dropped enough weight to be able to sit on my bike without the tires deflating.
"My career stagnated and I've no hobbies. I know, I should get pregnant! That way I don't have to come up with hobbies or be interesting - I can just be a mom!". I'm sure kids give you great purpose but getting them out of boredom is kinda nuts.
In high school I had a teacher who used to be a nurse, she was this old crusty black woman who had seen some shit, and just kind of out of nowhere she told us "don't have kids because you're bored or because you want a friend or because you think it'll save your relationship" and at the time I was like ???
Then you get older and realize this is the best advice you can give a bunch of high schoolers.
Do not expect a kid to fulfill your life, do not expect a relationship to fulfill your life. These are bad paths to go down.
I added up how much cocaine I've done in my life. It's weird to think a sleeping pillow in volume equals two plus cars worth that I've put up my nose, even after passing the cold acetone test. I'm glad I don't have those friends anymore and never want to go back to that life.
I added up how much cocaine I've done in my life. It's weird to think a sleeping pillow in volume equals two plus cars worth that I've put up my nose, even after passing the cold acetone test. I'm glad I don't have those friends anymore and never want to go back to that life.
I added up how much cocaine I've done in my life. It's weird to think a sleeping pillow in volume equals two plus cars worth that I've put up my nose, even after passing the cold acetone test. I'm glad I don't have those friends anymore and never want to go back to that life.
I was super lucky I had an epiphany after a mad weekend were I realised that I was currently getting away with it and it was best to stop now before it could become a problem. Haven’t touched drugs since. Even weed.
I'm not very old yet, although I'm already taking several steps to preserve my health as I age. I don't drink or smoke, I regularly exercise, I try to get good sleep, and I practice caloric restriction. I'd be open to trying supplements, but I'm not convinced that the current generation really move the needle beyond mimicking the effects of caloric restriction.
I'm not very old yet, although I'm already taking several steps to preserve my health as I age. I don't drink or smoke, I regularly exercise, I try to get good sleep, and I practice caloric restriction. I'd be open to trying supplements, but I'm not convinced that the current generation really move the needle beyond mimicking the effects of caloric restriction.
I take a fuckton of vitamins, in useless vague terms
bedtime -
2x costco senior multi
2x costco calcium
3x bone mix
6x fibers
5x glucosamine/condroitin
3x potassium gluconates
1x iron
1x nac
I only ever hear two opinions on vitamins: "It changed my fucking life!" and "and then my doctor said I poisoned myself with pills".
I'd like to incorporate a few healthy supplements here and there, but knowing how dogshit even fresh meat is these days, I don't expect concentrated pills to actually contain anything life changing. And then I see relatively fit and physically engaged people also do vitamins, as if their diet doesn't already cover all bases.
And in the end, it's all guessing. Nobody gets their bloodworks done to then go "Oh I need this and this". They just put a finger in their ear and go "I hear zinc is nice for the winter!"
I only ever hear two opinions on vitamins: "It changed my fucking life!" and "and then my doctor said I poisoned myself with pills".
I'd like to incorporate a few healthy supplements here and there, but knowing how dogshit even fresh meat is these days, I don't expect concentrated pills to actually contain anything life changing. And then I see relatively fit and physically engaged people also do vitamins, as if their diet doesn't already cover all bases.
And in the end, it's all guessing. Nobody gets their bloodworks done to then go "Oh I need this and this". They just put a finger in their ear and go "I hear zinc is nice for the winter!"
for what it's worth I got some of the tips I base my ideas on from a doc I used to work with
the glucosamine is one where I _really_ noticed it when I ran out, it was before a big work event with a lot of setup/takedown, and when I was biking to work
three days off that my joints felt a shitload more like I hear 40 is supposed to be, after a bunch of trips up and down stairs in one afternoon literally benzo withdrawl level fucking miserable
could a wise elder in this thread tell me (and by association my mother) how to approach my stubborn father to go see a doctor on the regular, let alone once a decade? because his father - an orphan from the depression era - never saw one until he died, he thinks he can handle it on his own. he is starting to be unable to walk due to gout and weight because he works a desk job 70+ hrs a week. as a burger, i'm thinking about asking why he's paying for health insurance despite never using it, as he's said this to me god knows how many times about my own paid stuff much less impactful on my life, while my mom is about ready to hold him hostage in their shared car. should i tie a note to a cinderblock and lob it at him?
could a wise elder in this thread tell me (and by association my mother) how to approach my stubborn father to go see a doctor on the regular, let alone once a decade? because his father - an orphan from the depression era - never saw one until he died, he thinks he can handle it on his own. he is starting to be unable to walk due to gout and weight because he works a desk job 70+ hrs a week. as a burger, i'm thinking about asking why he's paying for health insurance despite never using it, as he's said this to me god knows how many times about my own paid stuff much less impactful on my life, while my mom is about ready to hold him hostage in their shared car. should i tie a note to a cinderblock and lob it at him?
Gout will permanently destroy your joints over time, and if he's getting it all the time, his uric acid is probably through the roof, which will eventually lead to kidney stones. Gout is one of the most painful non-life threatening conditions that most people will ever experience. Kidney stones can be and usually are much, much more painful than a gout attack.
Sticking with gout, tophi are ugly as shit, and once they develop, they will only get worse util your uric acid level is under control. I never got to the point of developing tophi, but I had gout attacks once every month to six weeks when I was still drinking. It took an episode of kidney stones for me to finally quit being retarded and get on allopurinol to get my uric acid under control.
Oh, and he probably won't like to hear this, I sure as hell didn't, but the #1 thing you can't have even in moderation is beer of any kind. There's a bunch of other shit you need to cut out of your diet too, even if you're on allopurinol or Uloric, but beer is by far the one most people struggle with the most.
By the way, this is what gout tophi look like:
Granted, that's a pretty extreme case, but almost everyone who has gout for long enough will get them to one degree or another eventually unless they get their uric acid level under control.
Muscle knots, all through my shoulders and neck. Too much landscaping and not enough stretching. Im still flexible though, and thank God, because I still need agility and flexibilty to do my job.
My eyes cant take glare like they use too. My eyesight hasnt gotten worse, but has improved a bit because of how I have to used them at work.
Still have thick mane of hair, but all gray now. Started graying in my twenties.
Hangovers hurt way worse.
Heat exhaustion takes at least 3 days to recover when it use to just take one.
Yoga is a game changer for keeping things supple and preventing wear and tear down the road, and it's versatile in that it can be a relaxing stretch or a full body workout depending on your mood and energy levels. Can't recommend it enough, and I have no patience for the spiritual hippy side of it.
I started doing yoga about 4 years ago, when I'd put on enough weight that lying on my back at night made me feel like I was suffocating. I'm not intensive about it, but I try to do at least 15-30 minutes a day, with a day off here and there. I have to be careful these days because I've developed what feels like arthritis in my right shoulder and left knee, so I can't do very strenuous positions. I've also never been particularly flexible. But besides changing up my diet, it helped me drop weight, and it's the only low-impact workout I've done that doesn't bore me to tears.
I randomly kicked a trashcan or something and broke a toe again
iirc osteoporosis ran on my mom's side of the family and tbh I'm a little femmy
I had stopped taking an extra calcium after I got mostly done healing from the car crash but I'm going back on it bigtime
I suspect my broken toes are because I'm a bit of a stoned drunken spaz and bump into shit, and I'm still sorta relieved to confirm my metal parts are so grown-in that I've kicked shit and broken a toe more than once now while the upgrades stay in place, but just in case I'm re-upping my calciums
