The Health, Diet and Exercise Thread

[thegrogmonster]

8 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

One year I cut down beer intake. I'd guesstimate about 8 beers/week reduction = roughly 150 x 8 = 1,200 calories.

Watched my carbs and worked out regulary. Lost 40 pounds in 1 year. I have pretty much kept it off ever since.

 

Not ever gonna quit beer completely. Life is meant to be enjoyed.

I gave up beer (30 - 40 a week) for a year and I lost 45kgs. I was drinking vodka and soda instead. I then decided I liked beer too much and have now put back on 30kgs.

[Butch]

On 4/29/2024 at 10:13 PM, galenkia said:

I do 45 minutes at 6mph on the treadmill every day, keeps my weight down as I am not doing anything else currently, and keeps my fitness up.

No interest in weight training anymore, don’t want to aggravate my right shoulder as it can give me pain.

My man-tits start to get sore after 30 minutes.

I've not been to the Gym since mid march, looking after my Dad, working and other stuff have simply meant I've just not got the time to spare.

I know it's an old excuse, and yes, I need to work on my time managment a bit more and get back into it.

[Pumpuynarak]

Life is all about enjoying oneself in retirement imo, i try not to do anything i don't enjoy. I get all the exercise i want with wifey, now if my thinking is shortening my life then so be it, i could'nt GAF....... I'm here to enjoy myself.

 

[Yessongs]

18 hours ago, Glasseye said:

 

I have a beer cut off valve. After about 4 of them I don't want anymore.

The calories are burned off the next day with my bike ride and lifts in the gym (4 or 5 times a week). 

Occassionally take a 5 day break.

All seems to keep me in reasonable balance, and enables me to enjoy some brews. Getting super loaded is rare. But, every now and then a little extra is managable. Like today.

4 beers for me these days is way too much, guess I am a candy ass plus....the Thai beers here, Chang, Leo and Singha are all crap IMO. If I drink beer, it is Budweiser or Corona. 4 in an evening makes my stomach bloated. But...for some god awful reason, I can drink Sangsom and Coke, like 10-12 in a night, and not have the stomach bloating. I need an expert to tell me why that is? 

18 hours ago, Zambo said:

I am at the gym 3 times a week for an hour, not so easy to check but i expect for weight control that has minimal effect, more for mobility and  keeping muscles in tone. For cardio i do 2km runs 4 times a week (some on a treadmill) so thats about 4 x 130 = 520 calories.

Thats it for regular exercise, so the greater amount of calories burnt will be walking to work and back and general living and breathing.

Looks like beer control will have to be kept in place, but nothing better than a couple of ice cold draft san miguel for stress relief when needed.

You are doing well, good program, as far the weight lifting not REALLY helping your weight, the experts might disagree. Anytime you do ANY physical exercise, you are burning calories, which in turn, helps control your weight. Is San Miguel any good? Philipino beer right? I have never tried it. 

[Stillearly]

4 minutes ago, Yessongs said:

4 beers for me these days is way too much, guess I am a candy ass plus....the Thai beers here, Chang, Leo and Singha are all crap IMO. If I drink beer, it is Budweiser or Corona. 4 in an evening makes my stomach bloated. But...for some god awful reason, I can drink Sangsom and Coke, like 10-12 in a night, and not have the stomach bloating. I need an expert to tell me why that is? 

 

I've always been the same in Thailand , a few beers and I feel full .... vodka however .... 

I've always put it down to the heat , but it maybe the Thai beers ... 🤷‍♂️

 

[Pumpuynarak]

51 minutes ago, Yessongs said:

4 beers for me these days is way too much, guess I am a candy ass plus....the Thai beers here, Chang, Leo and Singha are all crap IMO. If I drink beer, it is Budweiser or Corona. 4 in an evening makes my stomach bloated. But...for some god awful reason, I can drink Sangsom and Coke, like 10-12 in a night, and not have the stomach bloating. I need an expert to tell me why that is? 

Interesting question Mike, what with my lifestyle/consumption i never get stomach bloating. 

I only ever drink half a bottle of a Chang large beer per night at home, wifey will have a couple of small glasses and bin the rest then its a couple of sangsom cokes and thats it, when we're out its red wine with dinner and then however many sangsom cokes i care to consume usually 2/3, wifey sticks to the red wine, usually only a couple of glasses.

I'm a believer in moderation, i'm quite happy doing all the things that are not considered good for me but ALWAYS try to never over indulge and usually succeed.

As previously said i don't/can't get involved with exercising due to the fact i don't like it plus the stroke i suffered 2 years ago has seriously effected my walking/balance but wifey is exercising virtually every morning for at least an hour and at 42yo she enjoys it.

We are all different ehh ?

[Glasseye]

15 hours ago, Yessongs said:

4 beers for me these days is way too much, guess I am a candy ass plus....the Thai beers here, Chang, Leo and Singha are all crap IMO. If I drink beer, it is Budweiser or Corona. 4 in an evening makes my stomach bloated. But...for some god awful reason, I can drink Sangsom and Coke, like 10-12 in a night, and not have the stomach bloating. I need an expert to tell me why that is? 

You are doing well, good program, as far the weight lifting not REALLY helping your weight, the experts might disagree. Anytime you do ANY physical exercise, you are burning calories, which in turn, helps control your weight. Is San Miguel any good? Philipino beer right? I have never tried it. 

 

Because you drink Budweiser your gut is rotted out. The rum relaxes your gastric lining and allows you to pound them. WTF do I know....   ?

555555555555 !

Singha and Budweiser are two beers that I can barely get down. But I suppose if that was all that was available I would drink it.

I enjoy a nice Sangsom and diet from time to time.

[Glasseye]

On 5/7/2024 at 10:15 PM, coxyhog said:

Many times people have said to me "If you stopped going to the pub you wouldn't have to go to the gym".

My reply is always "That's two of the things that I enjoy most you want me to stop,no effing way".

 

Absofcukinglutely !    Except when cnuts are in the gym clogging up the joint, leaving water bottles, phones all kinds of shit laying around (a guy placed his phone, water bottle, and small bag on the bench of a row machine yesterday. It took all the will I could muster to not say anything. Staff are useless). Skinny guys grunting like they are having an amputation, etc.

When it is slow I am in heaven.

[Yessongs]

Well..what do we have here?  "Senior Citizens" day at the gym? Yeah OK, maybe I should not be so tough on myself LOL! 

2 of my buddies I have met over the time here at Fitness First. 

Talk about 2 different personalities....

On the left.. My buddy "Sun" 78 years old, been married 50 years, has a 48 year old Daughter he is trying to help find a "nice" guy for.  Hey, if I was available, she would get a look from me.....have seen multiple pics of her on his phone, she came by one Sunday afternoon to say hello to him. I got introduced, she is a very nice looking woman, naturally attractive, speaks perfect English etc. Sun is a PHD in "Biophysics" was a Director of Product Development at Dow Chemical locally here for 35 years before retiring at age 65. His Daughter is following in Dad's footsteps, she is a PHD in "Clinical Psychology" having graduated from a college in Singapore. He has an absolute "wicked" sense of humor. Tells me his wife is not happy with him....he spends too much time at the gym and not enough time with her. He told me he hopes she joins this "old lady" club, where they go knitting at some old persons senior citizen's home....outstanding. 

On the right....My buddy "Boonchai" 70 years old, retired now,  been married 42 years, owned a "Diamond" store in Los Angeles, in the city of Santa Monica for 30 years. Told me he misses the year around Calif weather ( I know the feeling) he told me he had enough of the "owning your own business" politics in Calif, sold the entire organization, cashed out and move back here 12 years ago. Was telling me they tripled the mandatory insurance he had to have back in 2009 and that was the last straw for him. Got robbed 2 times, LAPD never caught the ass-wipes that did it. LAPD told him for $450 per day, he could have an officer there on site. Yeah right! 

I am "the youngster" at age 68....LOL! We do all have one thing in common when we are there, fantasizing about the younger girls, with nice racks, that we will never have 😞

[Glasseye]

On 5/8/2024 at 3:17 AM, Butch said:

My man-tits start to get sore after 30 minutes.

I've not been to the Gym since mid march, looking after my Dad, working and other stuff have simply meant I've just not got the time to spare.

I know it's an old excuse, and yes, I need to work on my time managment a bit more and get back into it.

 

Maybe you should consider giving @Nightcrawler something else to suck on.

 

😵‍💫

[Glasseye]

3 hours ago, Yessongs said:

Well..what do we have here?  "Senior Citizens" day at the gym? Yeah OK, maybe I should not be so tough on myself LOL! 

2 of my buddies I have met over the time here at Fitness First. 

Talk about 2 different personalities....

On the left.. My buddy "Sun" 78 years old, been married 50 years, has a 48 year old Daughter he is trying to help find a "nice" guy for.  Hey, if I was available, she would get a look from me.....have seen multiple pics of her on his phone, she came by one Sunday afternoon to say hello to him. I got introduced, she is a very nice looking woman, naturally attractive, speaks perfect English etc. Sun is a PHD in "Biophysics" was a Director of Product Development at Dow Chemical locally here for 35 years before retiring at age 65. His Daughter is following in Dad's footsteps, she is a PHD in "Clinical Psychology" having graduated from a college in Singapore. He has an absolute "wicked" sense of humor. Tells me his wife is not happy with him....he spends too much time at the gym and not enough time with her. He told me he hopes she joins this "old lady" club, where they go knitting at some old persons senior citizen's home....outstanding. 

On the right....My buddy "Boonchai" 70 years old, retired now,  been married 42 years, owned a "Diamond" store in Los Angeles, in the city of Santa Monica for 30 years. Told me he misses the year around Calif weather ( I know the feeling) he told me he had enough of the "owning your own business" politics in Calif, sold the entire organization, cashed out and move back here 12 years ago. Was telling me they tripled the mandatory insurance he had to have back in 2009 and that was the last straw for him. Got robbed 2 times, LAPD never caught the ass-wipes that did it. LAPD told him for $450 per day, he could have an officer there on site. Yeah right! 

I am "the youngster" at age 68....LOL! We do all have one thing in common when we are there, fantasizing about the younger girls, with nice racks, that we will never have 😞

 

Looks exactly like the dumbbell rack at my place, with the exception of me standing between two pappa's holding hands.   😜

I doubt that the attractive daughter would be in the market for a worn out retired flatfoot. But stranger things have happened.

The smile on a face of a friend is worth more than anything in my book.

[forcebwithu]

For those that from suffer from hearing loss, I thought I'd post details of the hearing aids I bought last year.

What I bought were the Jabra Enhance Select 200. Cost after promo discount was $1,845 USD.

I went with Jabra as they offer remote testing via their website, and updates to my hearing aid settings based on the hearing test via their mobile app.

I just retook the test and it confirmed what I already knew, I have significantly impaired hearing in the right ear.

The test results will be forwarded to one of their audiologists, and I expect when they return from their weekend off I'll have a notification my hearing aids have been updated based on the latest test. Much better than the old days just a few years ago when you had to do all this in person.

Edited May 12 by forcebwithu

[fygjam]

2 hours ago, galenkia said:

I suffer from tinnitus...

 

2 hours ago, Nightcrawler said:

but the Tinitus drives me mad at times. ..

 

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

I have tinnitus as well...

I have suffered from tinnitus for many years and at times it can be frustrating. If the magic genie were to appear and say " I can double or treble the size of your dick or get rid of your tinnitus" it would be a no brainer. Sorry ladies.

I can handle it during the day, plenty of things to occupy my mind but at night trying to go to sleep and there is only one "sound." Mine is cicadas at 4 -6 kHz.

At the moment I'm into "coloured" noise. You've heard of "white noise", well I'm into "yellow brown noise". I got it off YouTube but I can't find the URL. It's just a fairly low frequency rumble, reminds me a bit of seat 63K on a Thai Airways A-330. Anyway plenty of these types of files on YouTube.

I'm not trying to hide or mask the tinnitus, been there, didn't work. It just gives my brain an alternate to the cicadas. I've got a pair of Bluetooth speakers which face each other at the head of the bed. I've loaded the sound files onto an old mobile phone and before I go to sleep just kick off the playback. The files are 10-12 hours long.

Anyway, works for me.

 

[forcebwithu]

41 minutes ago, fygjam said:

I have suffered from tinnitus for many years and at times it can be frustrating. If the magic genie were to appear and say " I can double or treble the size of your dick or get rid of your tinnitus" it would be a no brainer. Sorry ladies.

I can handle it during the day, plenty of things to occupy my mind but at night trying to go to sleep and there is only one "sound." Mine is cicadas at 4 -6 kHz.

At the moment I'm into "coloured" noise. You've heard of "white noise", well I'm into "yellow brown noise". I got it off YouTube but I can't find the URL. It's just a fairly low frequency rumble, reminds me a bit of seat 63K on a Thai Airways A-330. Anyway plenty of these types of files on YouTube.

I'm not trying to hide or mask the tinnitus, been there, didn't work. It just gives my brain an alternate to the cicadas. I've got a pair of Bluetooth speakers which face each other at the head of the bed. I've loaded the sound files onto an old mobile phone and before I go to sleep just kick off the playback. The files are 10-12 hours long.

Anyway, works for me.

Mine is a constant ringing at about 4 kHz. Same as you, if there is background noise it's easier to ignore and forget about the constant ringing. When sleeping I always have a fan running that acts as a white noise generator.

If anyone is interested in testing their hearing, hear's (pun intended) the link to Jabra's online hearing test.
https://www.jabra.com/hearing/hearing-test

[Pumpuynarak]

15 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Cost after promo discount was $1,845 USD.

Expensive ehh 🤔hope they did the job..... I've also got tinnitus in my left ear but its manageable not like some of you guys 🤔

Edited May 13 by Pumpuynarak

[forcebwithu]

2 minutes ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Expensive ehh 🤔hope they did the job.....

Those are actually in the mid-range of pricing. And yes, they're doing the job. Much better than the Lucid hearing aids I had before.

[Nightcrawler]

Had my second consultation with an ENT  specialist this morning, following my hearing test last week. We discussed my hearing loss and Tinnitus. He didn't think that the two were necessarily linked. Because the Tinnitis is more ore less on both sides, he ruled out having an MRI brain scan. 

He recommended an app on my phone which may help as I am going to sleep called Ambience and also suggested a sound pillow.

I have accepted a hearing aid which apparently will be free and I shall have to wait a couple of months to recieve it at my next appointment. 

One interesting thing I picked up on, was that he said, that the ringing noise is actually the sound of my nervous system. 

I wouldn't say either my hearing loss or Tninitus is debilitating at present but I think it was wise to start doing something about it Now. 

I think the device will be free under NHS because I am a follow on cancer patient at the hospital and I should imagine the device he will prescribe would otherwise be quite expensive privately, although I don't yet know the specific brand yet. 

Either way, it's better than using an "ear trumpet" 😁

 

[boydeste]

2 minutes ago, Nightcrawler said:

Had my second consultation with an ENT  specialist this morning, following my hearing test last week. We discussed my hearing loss and Tinnitus. He didn't think that the two were necessarily linked. Because the Tinnitis is more ore less on both sides, he ruled out having an MRI brain scan. 

He recommended an app on my phone which may help as I am going to sleep called Ambience and also suggested a sound pillow.

I have accepted a hearing aid which apparently will be free and I shall have to wait a couple of months to recieve it at my next appointment. 

One interesting thing I picked up on, was that he said, that the ringing noise is actually the sound of my nervous system. 

I wouldn't say either my hearing loss or Tninitus is debilitating at present but I think it was wise to start doing something about it Now. 

I think the device will be free under NHS because I am a follow on cancer patient at the hospital and I should imagine the device he will prescribe would otherwise be quite expensive privately, although I don't yet know the specific brand yet. 

Either way, it's better than using an "ear trumpet" 😁

 

My mate has a set of NHS supplied hearing aids and says they are great, he previously had a set he bought privately for a few grand, but they needed regular servicing and the batteries were costing him quite a bit too!

[Glasseye]

14 minutes ago, boydeste said:

My mate has a set of NHS supplied hearing aids and says they are great, he previously had a set he bought privately for a few grand, but they needed regular servicing and the batteries were costing him quite a bit too!

Hearing devices of that level are something to not go cheap on, that's for sure.

I think there are times we both need them.

I've seen up  close and personal for many years how quality is of the absolute with those things.

[forcebwithu]

17 hours ago, Nightcrawler said:

Had my second consultation with an ENT  specialist this morning, following my hearing test last week. We discussed my hearing loss and Tinnitus. He didn't think that the two were necessarily linked. Because the Tinnitis is more ore less on both sides, he ruled out having an MRI brain scan. 

He recommended an app on my phone which may help as I am going to sleep called Ambience and also suggested a sound pillow.

I have accepted a hearing aid which apparently will be free and I shall have to wait a couple of months to recieve it at my next appointment. 

One interesting thing I picked up on, was that he said, that the ringing noise is actually the sound of my nervous system. 

I wouldn't say either my hearing loss or Tninitus is debilitating at present but I think it was wise to start doing something about it Now. 

I think the device will be free under NHS because I am a follow on cancer patient at the hospital and I should imagine the device he will prescribe would otherwise be quite expensive privately, although I don't yet know the specific brand yet. 

Either way, it's better than using an "ear trumpet" 😁

 

Most often the cause of tinnitus is degeneration of the hair cells in the cochlea. The ringing sound we perceive is the damaged hair cells sending a constant signal to our brain as if they were activated by sound.

I'm surprised the ENT specialist wouldn't think tinnitus and hearing loss are linked. The ringing sound interferes with the ability to hear sounds at certain frequencies, most often on the high end of the sound spectrum. As my test results indicated,
"You may have trouble hearing higher-pitched voices like women and children, or consonant sounds, like K, F, S, TH. This can lead to misheard words and misunderstandings."

 

[Glasseye]

17 hours ago, boydeste said:

My mate has a set of NHS supplied hearing aids and says they are great, he previously had a set he bought privately for a few grand, but they needed regular servicing and the batteries were costing him quite a bit too!

 

Good to keep those things in a little dehumidifier. They have a stone that soaks up the water. You change the stone every now and then. Can add years to them.

[forcebwithu]

I have one of these gizmos for cleaning and drying my hearing aids. Use it about once a month. Other times I keep the hearing aids in the charger case, along with a packet of silica gel that acts as a dehumidifier.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096BMPS64/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00

[Glasseye]

43 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

I have one of these gizmos for cleaning and drying my hearing aids. Use it about once a month. Other times I keep the hearing aids in the charger case, along with a packet of silica gel that acts as a dehumidifier.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096BMPS64/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00

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