Ticktockman

For bodyweight training, you might want to check out the book Convict Conditioning. I started doing it and I really like it. In the book they have you do leg raises. For beginners you start off doing leg raises from the edge of a chair or table.

Thanks, I'll check out Men's Fitness.

If you go to the Greenwich Village neighborhood in NYC you'll find a lot of great places to eat and drink, plus friendly locals. It's a residential area, unlike midtown or the financial district where most people are working or sightseeing.

I would say to get an easy to use food scale and a set of measuring cups. Try to accurately measure what you're eating instead of estimating it. At the beginning, log what you eat before you eat it so there are no surprises. After a while you'll probably know the calories in most of the foods you eat regularly, but give…

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For converting to and from metric, google does an excellent job. Just type in "convert 2 cups to liters", for example, and google does the work for you.

Years ago I was waiting for my luggage to come out at the airport and I noticed that Ross Perot was standing near me waiting for his luggage too. He's a surprisingly small guy. Standing right behind him, looking menacing, were two of the biggest guys I have ever seen. Bodyguards I guess. When his luggage came I was…

Marathon Man Well, in my mind anyway :)

I always log it when I eat out. I try to order things that are not too confusing, and don't have a lot of crazy unpronounceable sauces. Then I take my best guess at logging the ingredients and portions. Then I raise it by about 20% because I'm pretty bad at guessing :)

That whole article could be summed up in two sentences: 1. Losing a lot of weight and keeping it off is difficult (though not impossible) for a variety of poorly understood biological reasons. 2. Keeping weight off for the long term requires constant caution and vigilance. My own past experience has shown that it's…

My epiphany was that the root of my problems is poor impulse control. I can talk myself into eating (or doing) just about anything in half a second. To combat this I'm using a bunch of coping mechanisms. For example, I'm forcing myself to log everything before I eat it. Seeing "bag of Doritos" on my computer screen usually…

I'm one of those people who drives folks crazy because I don't get back to them quickly. Or ever :) I'm just not good at staying in touch. A lot of the problem is that I often forget to respond to people. But I also miss the old days when we could leave the house and actually be alone and unreachable for a while. For all…

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I can't eat eggs (any style) without toast. And I can't eat peanut butter without milk.

I'm a super nerd, so I put my daily weight measurement into a spreadsheet. Then I have a line chart showing my weight over time. What's good about this is that every day it will vary quite a bit from the previous day. But I can look at the trend over time and see that it's going down. It helps me focus on the big picture,…

I've had Alton Brown's sardine recipe and it's really, really good. Check it out: http://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/sherried-sardine-toast-video/72047.html

A lot of guys see marriage as possibly good, possibly bad, definitely scary. Your boyfriend might not know what his long term plans for marriage are. There are good and bad aspects of marriage; many guys see that and are ambivalent about it. When I was in my mid 20s, I really had no idea when or if I wanted to be married.…

I've found that eating frequently helps me. I have 3 meals plus at least 3 snacks per day. Also, I don't wait until I feel hungry to eat because I'm too tempted to overeat by then. I'll have a small snack midway between my meals just because it's time, and it heads off the hunger. Good luck!