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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante] 1
#27057409 - 11/25/20 04:34 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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....it might be tomorrow for you Asante, but happy birthday again
you are a good one
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: twighead] 1
#27057447 - 11/25/20 04:55 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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С днём рождения!!
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: twighead]
#27057458 - 11/25/20 05:06 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I always start trends
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante] 1
#27057464 - 11/25/20 05:12 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gelukkige verjaardag mede-krijger!!
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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english mf, do you speak it - pulp fiction
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante] 1
#27057804 - 11/25/20 09:16 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Happy B day!
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante] 1
#27057938 - 11/25/20 11:02 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Asante said:
can't go swimming to take the weight off my bones
without a mouth mask, not even allowed to go out.
48 years old today.
Wish I had woken up 24.
Fuck it, make me 12 again
and I'll live all those years, smiling, once more.
Or you just did all those things just then, swimming is one of my biggest fears. Not of the water, not of diving, not of drowning, but sharks.
The most fear of mine is being eaten alive by a monster, and now old strikes like weather glows. I'd more likely walk right into a war than over an ocean shark pack.
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Fiery] 1
#27058053 - 11/26/20 01:46 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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happy birthday, asante (and spirit guide of asante)!
i'm not sure if it would work for you, but i saw a nutritional specialist in february and they prescribed me metformin extended release and topiramate(topamax) for weight loss, since i had slightly elevated blood sugar (~75ish when fasting) and get migraine headaches, and both medicines have a happy side effect of weight loss. (also, metformin is suspected to have a side effect of anti-aging in recent studies. ;3 )
i've gone from 268 lb to 230 lb from february to now, and the only reason it hasn't gone down lower is, i suspect, due to the last few months from me taking a few extra suplements of epicatechin (myostatin suppression for muscle growth), laxogenin, creatine powder, and arginine AGK powder. i've noticed that, despite not working out... i've been growing muscle. first my thighs, then my biceps, now i'm starting to see it a bit in the calves, triceps, chest, and i even have a center line forming in my ab area! i have a two pack forming, LOL! it's a lazy mans workout in pill form!
i have to wait till the first of december when i see my specialist to find out for sure, but i'm pretty sure i've gained quite a bit of muscle - but she's the one with the BMI machine that uses electrodes to measure body fat %. its been 4 months since my last measurement so should be quite drastic.
i've tried all sorts of diets and fasting and nothing worked - turned out a simple test revealed i had serious metabolic syndrome and was only burning 1650 calories a day instead of 2350ish like i shouldve been. maybe you simply need need some pillz to set you right as rain too like me?
p.s. losing all that weight feels effing AMAZING. i have tons more energy now, my back pain is gone, and i feel like 20 years younger. also, i feel excited because i think i might be moving up on the hotness scale by like 2 points and approaching "fuck" instead of "duck" levels. give yourself a birthday present of a lifetime, asante, and make this your goal if you can - and screw staying with old fashioned methods, cheat and use pillz. science rocks!
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Fiery]
#27058055 - 11/26/20 01:52 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I swim in my local pool, where only the pee sharks live

More than just multiple times weeklly exercise for hours on end, swimming at the pool was a liberation from my obesity (I'm weightless in the water, the only place where my body doesn't hinder me) and because I came often and made the most epic and loud splash dives outside of Sea World, I was much beloved there, from the kids to the elderly, from the lifeguards to security, so it was a microcosm, a community where I could be me, fat as I am, and be widely respected by the community at large.
I miss all that, it was so much more than just exercise, but a microcosm, a social group of thousands that was welcoming and thus fed my sense of enjoyment and self esteem where I got along well with all ages and ethnicities, even the troublemakers who, the security told me, were a lot less trouble when I was at the pool.
Respect in all directions begets respect from the majority, even the troublemakers.
I long back to continuation of the saga.
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante]
#27058060 - 11/26/20 02:05 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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A wonderful success story Psion, I will surely keep Metformin in mind but lets hope I stick wih the low carb program and sneak out of diabetic territory without adding a med to my impressive arsenal of medications and supplements, only the latter of them I take with gladness.
Drugs, medicines, they are poisonings with beneficial side effects. I accumulated a bunch of pharmacological toxins already.
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante] 1
#27058067 - 11/26/20 02:13 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I never knew about that and I'm sorry that your favorite exercise of freedom of movement was taken, but try to do the downward dog, and the warrior. Those are the two yoga poses I know, but sometimes in dance, the body will create movements to heal itself.
Like sometimes I do the jiggle wiggle and it just jives. I'm inside, without any human contact. Like Merlin one time was locked in a cavern for what seemed like an eternity.
Don't tie yourself to one set of behaviors when you can exercise all by yourself. And play music sometimes, if you want to.
And be happy because you know you are loved. Who cares if people trust you, it's love that makes it through, and the sun, usually which is certain to rise, even if behind clouded eyes or lies and people who despise it, the sun still glows and burns away the demise that was imminent, and now you can survive without it.
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Re: 48 years old today. [Re: Asante]
#27058079 - 11/26/20 02:29 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Asante said: A wonderful success story Psion, I will surely keep Metformin in mind but lets hope I stick wih the low carb program and sneak out of diabetic territory without adding a med to my impressive arsenal of medications and supplements, only the latter of them I take with gladness.
Drugs, medicines, they are poisonings with beneficial side effects. I accumulated a bunch of pharmacological toxins already.
eh, i get how you feel, believe me - im swallowing 4 pills in the morning, 2 in the afternoon, 3 plus 2 scoops of powder in the evening, and 4 at bedtime! - but i see it like this. i spend a whopping ~4-5 minutes of time or so swallowing all those annoying pills every day, in exchange for amazing benefits and feeling great, getting way WAY healthier, all for minimal effort. with maybe an occasional side effect of diarrhea or nausea once in a blue moon, and for all i know that was probably just something i ate anyways. (lol) truth be told, i get diarrhea less than i used to, probably because i've lost so much weight and am a lot healthier now. so while i might be poisoning my body a bit with those side effects of the pills - that's like worrying your thanksgiving turkey starting to burn when your house is on fire. my body was massively overweight and suffering serious side effects as a result of that, so suffering a few minor issues from weight loss pills is a minor price to pay for getting out of that bigger problem as quickly and painlessly as possible.
and damn was that painless and easy. i didn't even DO anything different. didn't exercise, didn't diet, nothing. it just literally melted right off. XD that said, i already wasn't overeating, and i had a job as a cashier, so i wasn't totally sedentary, so i got at least a little bit of movement every day.
sounds like you're already doing much of the right things too, so i wouldn't be surprised if something like metformin gave you that last boost you needed to kick your metabolism where it's supposed to be at. the 24 hour extended release one is just once a day and less likely to cause nausea as well - i've never had any sign of it at all.
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