Damaramu

Oh my god! Someone smoked pot! The world is over!

So now someone needs to orchestrate GSP vs. Anderson Silva to determine the best P4P fighter in the UFC. I still think Silva would probably kick his head off his shoulders though. Nothing against GSP, I just think Silva's one of the best fighters in the world. Not to mention he's big for a MW just like GSP is big for a WW. So I think GSP may have trouble with the size difference. But, that fight probably won't happen. Although I wonder if GSP is going to run into the same problem as Anderson Silva. Nobody to fight. So they just throw random people that have no business getting a title shot at him because that's all there is to fight?

I love that. Like you, random worker can do something to fix the prices or magically make the stock appear. I was always afraid of losing my minimum wage jobs back in high school. Looking back, those jobs were a dime a dozen so I don't know what I was afraid of. I wish I would've said something like "Go ahead. Ask them if they're hiring. I'm looking for a new job." or just simply tell them "I don't fuck care, whether you shop here or not doesn't affect my paycheck at all."

But Joe Rogan made sure to make every excuse for him possible.

Finally it's here. I kind of turned my brain off to the game during the two weeks of hype. Now I can enjoy it.

Yeah, having a job that makes me go to bed at 10 every night is pretty good about keeping me in check. However, I just have to fight off mid-day hunger. I decided I want to eat fucking sandwiches for lunch. So I got some sugar-free whole wheat bread. I was unaware bread had high fructose corn syrup in it. I still feel bad that I've basically only worked out twice this week, but such is the case when you're sick as a dog.

Well you know all this healthy eating would be great if I could work out! I worked out last Sunday. Then didn't work out again until Thursday because of being sick. Then Thursday I ran a mile and did some lunges and push-ups and that just made me feel sicker. Now today I'm still feeling sick to my stomach and I'm about to do my taxes! I've lost 7 pounds in a week, imagine how much I could've lost if I was working out everyday?

Yeah, it's just that I was used to eating SO much before. That was my problem. Instead of eating a serving size I'd unload with 4 serving sizes in one meal. I get what you're saying. I wonder how many calories the average person burns living their daily life? According to spark people I should be consuming 2200 calories a day. Would I need to consume less to lose weight?

I went to sparkpeople. It's a little confusing at first. I just figured that if I ate in moderation (IE not a gut-busting meal) and didn't have any processed sugar, little to no processed foods and lots of meat and veggies that having grains should be ok if I follow those other tenets for every meal. Then you throw in running my ASS off at the gym AFTER I lift heavy to get the muscles burning and the fat burning then I figure I should be able to lose 30 pounds in the next 6 months or so. And would you recommend eating a sandwich with whole wheat bread for lunch? Or is that too many carbs and too much empty processed food?

See I just hear conflicting reports. People say "Go low on carbs, the only carbs you should get should be from meat, fruit or veggies" and then I hear people say to only eat natural food. I also hear people say to lay off bread (even whole wheat) because it's nutritonally dead and does nothing but make you fat. This is really the first time in my life I've heard people say to only eat fruit, meat and veggies and cut out all processed foods including grains. This is really the first time I've come across this methodology. When you say moderation, do you mean like once a week? Twice a week? Also, cutting this stuff is really the only time I've seen real positive changes in my weight loss. Before I really can't lose weight. I just feel I'm maintaining at the gym. By only eating meat, fruit and veggies I've pretty much been forced to cut the junk food out and I mean I'm losing weight pretty rapidly and my wife is too. I dunno, there's so many different philiosophies out there and like a lot of them work, but I assume it's because different people have different bodies and different things work. I'm still trying to figure out what works for me. I know one thing though. I don't like veggies. If I don't make them one of only 3 things I can eat and force myself to eat them then I will never eat them. And yeah, I do CF but only twice a week.

Well, I'm 269 right now. I want to be at 230 by the summer. So like July. That seems a little unattainable, but who knows? 40 pounds in 6 months? The thing is, I haven't been skinny since 6th grade. So I don't know what a healthy weight would be. I could get down to 230 and realize that I need to be even thinner or leaner. You never know. Eating just meat, vegetables and fruit seems hardcore to me. But I'm going to try it. And then I'm going to integrate grains back in there. My wife is hooked on this diet right now. She loves it. She never wants to go off of it. lol. I don't see the harm in after I'm down to my target weight intergrating whole wheat bread back in, or pasta. She doesn't think it's a good idea, and the hardcore CF mbers seem to think I'll get all huge and fat again if I intergrated that stuff into my diet sparingly. WTF? I do think once I'm in better shape I will be able to work out harder and longer to burn more calories. And my testosterone levels will be higher so hopefully that'll do something good! lol

Oh yeah. And the CF nazi's are trying to sell me on intermittent fasting. I just don't see how not eating for long periods of time is supposed to help. But these people go on 12-24 hour fasts once or twice a week. They think it's great and claim it's the best thing for losing fat.

I'm still trying to get over this stomach bug. Last night I puked after the gym and all I could keep down was 1 piece of chicken and I fought to keep that down. This morning I ate real oatmeal and it's staying down, but I'm queasy. I hope that's not me mentally psyching myself out. I had stew the first night I started getting sick. So now I keep thinking of stew when I'm about to puke. I guess that's ruined that stew for me forever. I have a friend that got his worst hangover ever off Guiness. Now he can't drink Guiness because he thinks of puking when he does. Just like me and the stew. It wasn't the stew's fault, but I'll always associate the taste and smell. Anyway, I see what you're saying Tyler. Good points. I'm having pizza during the UFC. I'll try to keep it under control. I do keep psyching myself out. I had a sinus infection Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday my stomach become upset and it's been that way for 3 days. I think it's from the sinuses draining or a bug. But for some reason my mind is playing tricks with me saying stuff like "Your body is rejecting what you're eating." and "You aren't getting enough calories." or "You're too weak from not eating enough." I did feel abnormally tired last night after just running a mile on the treadmill, but that could be chalked up to being sick for a week and having not worked out since Sunday because of said sickness.

Those people on the Crossfit messageboards are crazy elitists. They compared me eating junk food on a "cheat day" to a recovering alcoholic trying to have one drink or a recovering drug addict having one hit. WTF? Like I'm going to eat a piece of pizza and go crazy and start shoveling every piece of bad food into my mouth for the next week!? Basically they're trying to say that the Paleo diet is the ONLY way to go and that I can never go off of it. That my diet from now till the day I die has to consist of fruit, vegetables, meat and nuts. And if I ever add grains or bread or anything back in, well then by god I'll gain 50 pounds and be back where I started. It's kind of an absurd thought. Like I said. I used to eat about 28 "cheat" meals a week. Now I'll only eat one. That's going to kill all my gains? Confusing. Plus, when I'm in shape I think I'll have a few more things going for me that will help me stay in shape. A) I'll have more muscle and less fat. So my muscle will be burning fat and I won't be storing as much. B) I won't be eating crap EVERY meal like I did before. And if I do eat something "un-paleo" it'll be sparingly. C) I'll be leaner and more muscular which means my endurance will probably be better (i'm working on it), thus I'll be able to workout much harder in the gym and lift much heavier. So, I'll be expending more calories and burning more when I workout because of my drive to keep the body I have and the capabilities of the new body I'll have. I almost feel like a robot getting an upgrade. D) If I integrate something back into my diet and despite all my exercise I start to see negative changes, then I'll probably just cut it back out! But, I really think once I'm lean and muscular that it'll be a lot easier to maintain. I always here it's easier to keep it than get it.

That Duke/Wake game was great. Of course I had to damn near watch it on mute thanks to Dukie V. Damn I wish he'd retire.

See, now I was told on another MB that I wasn't eating enough each day and was going to end up losing not only fat, but muscle unless I increased my caloric intake.

Are you differentiating between good carbs (sweet potatoes) and bad carbs, though? Just curious as I had my trainer put together a food plan for me a while ago when I started to seriously work out and it sounds pretty much the same but with portions of good complex carbs in there. Eating clean is fucking tough, though. Especially if you work in an office.. it's all sandwiches and burgers around here. So I pretty much go with fruit smoothies plus protein if I don't bring my own lunch. Oh, mind if I see your food list dude? Yeah. Here it is: And here's what I've eaten this week: I think it could use room for improvement. I was told I wasn't eating enough. I'm mentally psyching myself out though. Like the thought of healthy food is kind of making me sick while the thought of a greasy pizza sounds awesome. Gotta beat the mental block. I wrote my goals down. Here it is: I need to slim down and improve my endurance. So yes in addition to crossfit I get on the treadmill and run a bangload. I also run a lot of sprints outside my gym. I was down to like 250 when I was living in Dodge City. I've gotten back up to 275. In the 5 days I've been doing this I'm down to 268. Probably all water weight.

Yeah, I think the rankings were more for who has been the most consistent and "best" team throughout the decades. And if you really think about it, aside from the 90's OU has been there every decade since WWII. Hell the article even says they have the best winning percentage of anyone in the country. I like what one guy said on those comments. "OU may have lost to Florida, but if we had to trade our trophy case with Florida's we'd start jumping out windows."

Would you look at that. ESPN's magic formula decided OU was the best college football program since 36. Really can't argue with it too much when you start adding up the accomplishments since then.

The sig was made out of anger at the time. But I mean, thanks for giving me trouble like you usually do. Knew I could count on you. He did miss a weird amount of open receivers today though. But yes the defense was mind-boggling. Especially how they just pounded the Cards in the second half then when they got the lead the Cards suddenly answered back. It was pretty puzzling.

I agree with you Jack Swagger. McNabb may make some goofy ass mistakes sometimes, but at least he gets us there. Not winning them does suck and pisses me off, but with Kolb at QB we'd be in the cellar. And it's not like there's really that many good-great QBs in the league.

I'm sure he will. If they could get a pounder at the RB position and another WR threat to compliment Jackson then I think they'll be pretty damn good next season.

What sucks is this. McNabb is still a very good QB and the alternatives out there aren't much better than him. It's just frustrating to see him fuck up like he does year after year. I'm tired of hearing "The guys a winner!' Well I thought winners won games that mattered, not a bunch of regular season games and every playoff game except the NFC championship.

Man, it would've been nice to see the Eagles win. Well they probably would've won if McNabb could hit a WIDE OPEN RECEIVER. How many times did he over or under-throw someone that was wide-open with space to work!?

Well this fucking sucks. I have a sick feeling in my stomach.