tbright1965 Member

I'll go you one better, anyone who voted for EITHER Trump or Clinton. Fortunately my wife has more sense than to have voted for either one, so she still in the circle of trust :) The rest is a pretty good list. Doesn't take care of herself, is gross. She does let me take care of her car, home, etc and then takes care of me.

In the event of the failure of your primary parachute, you have the rest of your life to deploy your reserve parachute.

Edit - delete, cannot read tables today, DOH!

Some minor flaws in the analysis. Might get newbie gains of 12 pounds. Someone whose been at it a while may not see that sort of gain. Someone who carried around a 300# body is going to have some muscles to start with, so are they even going to be a newbie in their legs and perhaps their core? Assuming of course they were…

That's why I added the clarification all other factors being equal such as rate of speed and distance....

You didn't have to assume, I literally wrote LOL. I've also posted watt values from workouts, and the formulas calculating calories, so not sure why you would link refuting watts while reading one of my posts. As I said, way to miss it. I'm not a sheer number of people, I'm me. You don't have to assume, you can use my…

Way to miss the point, my comment was humor. I thought the LOL made that point obvious. True, I should have been more clear with my "all other factors being equal." So all other factors being equal, the bigger man will burn more calories on the same road ride than the smaller rider. That is same rate and distance. He'll do…

On a road bike, climbing hills as in the video, yes. Probably not 33% more than them, but a bit more. Indoor cycle, no difference. The only work I'm doing is against the resistance of the bike. Mass plays no role in that training event. Outdoors, a larger man faces more wind resistance, and has to work harder to climb…

I did note the ride in the video looked rather hilly, which is why I commented as I did. I know my 50" chest isn't as aero as someone with a 32" chest. But I do have the advantage on the downhill :) Which is probably more than negated by the extra mass I carry up hill. One thing to note is the mass advantage downhill more…

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I need to get my woo count up, so I'm going to jump in here. A little background, I took a spiritual gifts test at church some 20 years ago and scored ZERO in the compassion measurement. Apparently, I struggle with having low compassion. <-sarcasm. But seriously, for the vast majority of people, say 90% plus, we have a…

If they were fat *kitten* like me, they would have been done in 3/4s of the time, LOL.

A few more data points. I'm still getting a consistent approximately 20% over expected Calorie burn. People were telling me I should eat ALL my exercise calories and were critical when I suggested I was only eating back 1/2 of them. I'd rather leave 200 Calories on the table and eat 2300 Calories instead of 2600 to keep…

I would have a hard time burning 30000 Calories in a week. I wonder if the machine calls them kcals and she saw 30 and thinks 30,000 Calories. There is some unfortunate confusion as what we commonly refer to as Calories are really kcals. 1kcalorie = 1 Calorie with the capital C. Most laypersons don’t notice and are not…

Believe me, if it were solely my decision, that would have already occurred. Blended family means I have less than one vote in this matter.

Food is probably your biggest lever, so work it accordingly. I do agree, try some simple swaps. You might also consider a food scale and start logging what you are eating using the scale. A calorie deficit is what you need to lose weight. How you get there is a personal choice. Accurate measurements help achieve your…

Balance. Cardio does burn more during the exercise, but when the exercise is over, the burn is pretty much over as well> If you build up some additional muscle mass, you may not burn as much during the exercise. However, muscle at rest requires more calories just to keep around, so you will use more energy at rest with…

According to this chart, I'm obese in both my before and after pics. I'm 215# in the after pic. I'm 5'11" in both pictures. Probably somewhere just under 280 in the before photo, just inside the Obese region of the chart. I know, N=1 here. But such charts don't consider build. I do have a large chest, 49-50" and short…

I'm just venting/sharing here, and warn that I don't have any answers, so you can stop reading now and I won't be offended. My step son is ~half my age, and has been taking my "fat" shirts and sweaters. His waist is too large to take my old fat pants. I've moved from 38" waist pants and XLT shirts to 34-35" waist pants and…

Well, biking for me. I can bike 50 miles and make a round trip to a nice coffee shop with friends. I've yet to figure out how to get anywhere lifting weights. However, I too recognize the importance of a good mix of resistance and cardio training.

My observations lead me to believe I've experienced this. My indicated watt output on the bike will DROP when I go from seated to standing. I can put more of the energy into the bike when I am just pushing and pulling the pedals. When I'm doing jumps or running, while I may be using energy, it's not necessarily going into…

If you have a means of measuring your average watts over the period, then you may have a better chance to come up with a good number. Of course, even that is only as good as the calculation of average watts. I'm about your size, shorter by 2" but the same weight. Our spin bikes and apps would give me similar numbers. We've…

Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but at some point, until maybe the last couple of centuries, natural selection played a part. Before we had medical advances, those who were dealt a bad hand genetically didn't have as much opportunity to pass on their genes. Today, people are living longer. Even those who may have…

I was very specific where I commented on the part about men shouldn’t feel .... I made no comment about the touching part of the post. I thought it was obvious the touching was wrong and didn’t say anything. I should have been more clear. One can be critical of ONE part of a post without invalidating the entire post.…

If you deny and dismiss, you are unable to see. Go back, without denying and dismissing what I've said and read and it should be clear. I've already highlighted the double standards.

You are killing me smols. So now you get to decide what is relevant in my story. How rich. Right, okay. Odd that from my perspective, I've not said women were wrong. I have said that it seems to be a double standard. Are you saying double standards are right? That I am wrong to bristle at double standards? I wish you well.…

Perhaps what you describe as a strange place is my OCD logical mind just having a normal day. The world would be so much easier for me if it had a lot fewer double standards. And yes, I do have a reaction of sorts to all sorts of generalizations that trigger that dislike for double standards. My point is, we can choose to…

This was the post I was answering: I don't think my response suggested that one person not listen to another. People don't need to listen to one another. But that doesn't mean I don't think they shouldn't. But your point brings up another contradiction. On one hand, you suggest entitlement in the form of demanding…

Who said anything about touching someone? It was exactly what I said. In both cases, one person is telling the other how to feel or perform. No real difference. However, some seem to think there is a difference and it's okay when their team tells another how to perform or feel, but is against when another team uses the…

Okay, feel, perform, whatever. The scenario asks the man to perform the stoic role where nothing bothers him. Does it really matter if it's perform or feel? You can make a case that either is what is requested. Respond (or don't respond) to this information as I think, feel, believe you should. The verb really doesn't…