Fitness and Weightloss
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@scottalanmiller said:
My life was in so much turmoil last year that I lost all track of my diet. This year I am really hoping that I can at very least focus on health if not weight loss directly. We moved to Greece on January 1st and so it works out that we will be in countries where eating very healthy will be very easy for a full six months. I'll be walking places all of the time and eating local produce almost exclusively. There is no local restaurant (at least during this season) so no eating out options. All food has to be made at home or with great travel effort.
I am hoping that small village life for an extended period of time will help me to "reset" to healthy eating again.
My wife has done all of our cooking over the last four months by way of freezer meals. We do all the prep work and reeze what needs to be frozen a couple of times a month, and then eat whatever gets tossed into the crock pot for lunch and supper. We have actually been feeling better since we're eating a little more healthily than fast food all the time. I started to notice a difference near the beginning of December. I hope this trend continues.
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I did 9 km yesterday, that's over 5 miles. That wasn't too bad.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
Aye, could lose a few more myself. Two years ago I was just over 300, lost 80 in 2014, put on 10-20 in 2015 and now I'd like to drop about 50 of fat and put on 20 of muscle. 5'11, goal weight of 180ish.
Might actually have to start lifting heavy things for no other reason. Irritates me a bit that it's such an unproductive activity other than building muscle mass.
I find exercise to be boring... I've tried a running game (Zombies Run!) and while they take the edge off it still just feels repetitive and like I'm wasting my time. Maybe I need to do the treadmill powered computer thing.
Same problem here... I wished I had kep up running when I was,..er.. not as wise as I am now.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I walk to get groceries, bakery products, etc. when living in Europe. Hoping that that gets me up and moving a lot more over the next six months.
It's twelve miles to the store,.. and of course twelve back. we go through 3 gallons of milk and other stuff a week.... not something I am doing on foot for bike.
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We have a local store at the end of the street. Milk and eggs would come from there. But for a serious local bakery, I love one about 3km away. Well worth the walk and bread is easy to carry.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver I shoot for twice a week, plus around a local golf course. Goal is usually 12-20km / week.
Hmm... We have a reservoir with some trails around it not too far from my house (~7 miles/11km) walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
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@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
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you hear sounds of clanging and somebody yelling OW! in the background.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
Yeah that is about right.
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@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
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Yes, it's because the streets were not built for cars but for carts. The houses are very close together and where there aren't houses there are walls, drop offs or one thing or another. Not a lot of spare space and all of the roads are very recent additions.
In the village to the north of us about two kilometers away the main street is so narrow that two cars cannot pass for most of it!
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
It's probably because the roads were laid down for horse drawn buggies.
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@coliver Think about it. The population of the island reaches back to at least 600BC (not looking, just off the top of my head). No cars back then. Small island, decent population, built before cars.
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@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@MattSpeller said:
@coliver said:
walking to it would be treacherous but the trails are nice and rugged.
Put your cellphone down
Walking along the road in upstate NY is hazardous. It seems like people get points for driving as close to pedestrians as possible.
I've done it, that's nothing. In Crete I have to turn sideways every time a car goes by! Zero visibility, they have no idea that I am even there until the last second. It's a bit crazy. Can't take the kids out at all, has to be only me.
Wow... that's nuts. Is that due to the buildings on the island?
It's probably because the roads were laid down for horse drawn buggies.
Even predates horses. Would have been donkeys.
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I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
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@art_of_shred said:
@coliver Think about it. The population of the island reaches back to at least 600BC (not looking, just off the top of my head). No cars back then. Small island, decent population, built before cars.
It's the oldest civilization point in all of Europe. Super old. A lot of the island's main cities were designed, built and heavily populated between 2000 BC and 1400 BC. The city we are near is a little newer, it wasn't a city in that period, just a fishy village so the streets were probably laid our during the Ancient Greek, Phoenician or Roman times.
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@coliver said:
I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
Boston is almost a full 4,000 years news than Knossos.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
I'm just used to modern US cities, even Boston has enough room in most of its streets to accommodate 1.5 or 2 cars. Although US cities are downright new compared to Crete or most European cities.
Boston is almost a full 4,000 years news than Knossos.
No doubt, just boggles the mind to think of living somewhere with that much history.
