Getting Fat

Still cool today. Morning clouds startign to burn off. Outside temp in the 60s. It might reach 70 degrees later. My bicycle chain broke during my morning commute. Had to stop and fix that. Acutally, I replaced it on the spot. That chain has been snapping about once a month so I started carrying an extra chain to replace it next time it broke. It was tricky because it is a super-narrow 9 gear Shimano HG chain. The link pin didnt' want to line up with the hole in the outer part of the link. Continuing my commute, stopped at a coffee shop and washed most of the chain grease off my hands. Some won't come off. Had 2 cups coffee. Listening to: SomaFM streaming audio. Industrial noise/Experimental. Throbbing Gristle, Bauhaus, Coil, Skinny Puppy, Lustmord, Tool, Lab Report, Clock Dva, etc. One might describe this music genre as "Entertainment through pain."

I usually run 2 or 3 times a week for a total of around 20 miles/week. I commute by bicycle and dont' drive a car or take the bus. Since age 25 (quite a while ago), this I've needed to do to get in shape and maintain fitness. Now, I've missed running for the last 3 weeks. Partly because of work, and partly because changing my schedule to take care of the injured cat. So, yesterday evening, I was changing into some mud-clothes to wear while working in the garden. The pants I've had since high school. As I tried to button the waste, the thread holding the button snapped. And then, I noticed that my belly looks bloated. Time to get back to running and get rid of this gut. It took me 3 weeks to get it -- maybe a couple of weeks to get rid of it?

 

Gosh, 6 months after I left the army I had gained, literally, 12 kilos. It is the way of the world.I can write it off as the "Jewish Curse" (bald, chubby, glasses=almost all men at age 40), the joy that comes with belonging to an ethnicity where everyone is related by blood.

Like you I engage in nearly daily physical activity but it just won't change. I consume, seriously, maybe 1100 calories a day IF that (1 small meal is all I eat), walk at leasy 5 klicks every morning when on land and? It will not go away...Chalk up another neuroses (another "Jewish Curse" hahaha).

 

It's unbelievable how fast it happens. Aging + genetic predisposition are taking their toll. I'm getting back to running today. Bald, man, my hair has started to thin as well. My gf is going to get me drunk and shave my head tonight. Other than that, there's still no cure for baldness, but on getting fat, I'm going to do everything I can.

 

I've got a good 5 years of "not-too-fat" left in me... I must say though, at the current moment, you probably get a lot more exercise than I do (I usually commute everywhere on my bike as well-- though not for the last couple of weeks). I usually get about 60 miles of bike riding in a week, plus whatever walking and sports I do. Someday, perhaps soon, I'll catch up to you

 

Enjoy it while you can. Before I turned 25, it was easy to stay fit-looking. I could eat and drink beer as much as I wanted. All I had to do was a little cardio and go to the gym 3 times a week.
Follow up:
6 months later now, I've finally lost the gut. At the time of writing (last July), I thought it would only take a few weeks. I've been getting about the same amount of exercise, but the thing I changed was to be much more careful about what I've been eating. That means very little junk/fatty food. I've been drinking more tea to help kill my appetite. And I've been drinking fewer than 5 servings of alcohol per week. Alcohol has A LOT of calories. To help with the alcoholism, I sometimes take opiates/opiods to help kill the craving for alcohol. It seems like I can't go completely without one chemical or the other. What I'm doing now seems far less harmful, and my memory has greatly improved.

So, I've also sewn the buttons back on my pants, the narrow wasted pants from highschool whose buttons were popping off. It was more than 1 pair. I still wear them while gardening.