tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42272389411433218372024-03-08T02:44:02.412-08:00Kevin R BittingerKevin R Bittingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07355691727351709065noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227238941143321837.post-22357288091591116962009-08-26T21:02:00.000-07:002009-08-26T21:03:21.283-07:00Getting a fixI need my fix.<br />Sorry.<br />No, I need it.<br />Too bad.<br />Give me it. Give me something. Anything.<br />I’m not in the business anymore.<br />It doesn’t matter if you are or not. Either way, I still need my fix. Now where can I get it.<br />Listen, this is it for me. I’m not doing it anymore. I was as hooked as you are. But I have a life. A wife, a kid, I can’t give that up. I love them more than anything in my life, so if it means giving up my wealth, or worse…<br />I’m sorry but I’m not in the mood. I just need what you have.<br />But I don’t have it! I’m out. I’ve cleaned up and I suggest you do the same. You care about Julia. She means so much to you.<br />Don’t toy with me! I need this for her. She’s in greater danger of me when I’m off the stuff than when I’m on. You don’t know what it’s like.<br />I do. I know what it’s like before, during, and after. I know it helps. But the only thing that last is staying away. Do yoga, work out, whatever it takes. Just get off of it and don’t look back! I don’t regret it, neither will you.<br />No! You don’t understand. Listen. It’s not that easy. Why do you think we see so many of our cohorts dependent on the government? This is insane. We can’t keep it up. I was a pioneer of the advancements we’ve made in the past few decades. But this is too much. It doesn’t make since. Not now. Not until I get my fix!<br />NO. It’s not worth it.<br />Oh but it is. Now if you don’t know where I can get my fix, then I certainly do.<br />It doesn’t matter. I’ll take my chances. <br />You won’t! There’s no chance here! If you’re not going to tell me…<br />I’m not telling you anything. (Tears in eyes) I know you’re better than that. This is the problem, I know that I’m better than that. We can’t keep doing this. Think about it!<br />Thirty years ago I’d have a drink! Nothing more!! I didn’t have any issues, I would stay the course, whatever they told me, but there’s something different now. Something I can’t control. You’ve felt it. You know what it is and how it is tamed. There is no reasoning behind it. It’s like commerce. People kill people every day in the process of making money. They don’t care! And for what? They are doing it for their own selfish needs.<br />But that’s different.<br />Why? Because we see their faces? No! It’s the same. Only we know what we’re doing and see it. We know!<br />And does that make us better? No, it makes us insane! We know what we did but that doesn’t stop us from doing it again. At least those pompus bastards who only think of themselves only think of themselves! They don’t think of the consequences. They don’t have to. They are served on a plate! We on the other hand… Listen, I can’t even talk about it. I can’t think about it. I am done.<br />You’re right. I’m sorry. It’s the only way.<br />I’ll fight.<br />And you’ll loose.Kevin R Bittingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07355691727351709065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227238941143321837.post-4708881933222427612009-08-25T18:58:00.000-07:002009-09-08T18:16:17.769-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_34euYDGw8eE/SqcBGOy5aKI/AAAAAAAAABU/zBbez6XbbL0/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 291px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_34euYDGw8eE/SqcBGOy5aKI/AAAAAAAAABU/zBbez6XbbL0/s320/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379269486479763618" /></a><br /><br />Here is a small sample of beer, mainly light, and what the percentage of alcohol by volume is per calorie. <br />Notes:<br />1. Milwaulkee's best... "The Beast Light" gives hangovers!!<br />2. Miller light is ok at best<br />3. Mic Ultra Amber is my choice but Bud Select is a close competitor. So when I'm watching my waste but want a buzz, I'll switch up between the two.<br />4. When buzz and money are not an issue, Guinness Foreign Extra Stout every single time. It's filling and more expensive but oh so good. <br />Mix it up. Do a half and half, Guinness and Bud Select. Whatever makes you happy and keeps you skinny. Enjoy!<br /><br />Update: Bud Select 55 clocks in at 55 calories 2.5 abv and 4.55% abv/calorie. I'll update further if I ever get around to trying it.<br />Umm.. it's ok. It's about as good as Bud Select, but you don't feel the buzz as soon so it doesn't taste better as fast.Kevin R Bittingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07355691727351709065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227238941143321837.post-60147031024844850152009-08-25T10:49:00.000-07:002009-08-27T06:57:13.912-07:00The Veg<meta name="Title" content=""> <meta name="Keywords" content=""> <meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"> <link rel="File-List" href="file://localhost/Users/kbitting/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>833</o:Words> <o:characters>4752</o:Characters> <o:lines>39</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>9</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>5835</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.517</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Pizza Pizza pie, oh my my my my.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">What are you doing?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Nothing why?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">You’re going crazy! You need to straighten up before you get in trouble.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Who’s going to get me in trouble?<span style=""> </span>Are you going to send me to my room?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">No, but mom will.<span style=""> </span>She’s not in a very good mood and your poor excuse for singing won’t make it any better.<span style=""> </span>Just quiet down, take a chill pill, start doing homework.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I never do homework at home.<span style=""> </span>What would I do at school?<span style=""> </span>And besides, I’ll take care of mom, don’t you worry.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Whatever.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">(Door from house to garage closes.<span style=""> </span>Billy quickly turns radio off.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Oh, hey mom.<span style=""> </span>Didn’t hear you come in.<span style=""> </span>I was just about to get back to my homework.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">You didn’t mow the lawn today.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Yeah, um, I’ve had a lot going on.<span style=""> </span>You know, homework and practice, I’ll have some time tomorrow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">That’s what you’ve been saying for a week now.<span style=""> </span>It better be done by the time I get home tomorrow or else you’re missing practice on Thursday.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But mom!<span style=""> </span>I’m getting so good!<span style=""> </span>And Coach Jackie will be so mad!<span style=""> </span>I promise, I’ll have it done tomorrow.<span style=""> </span>But Jill can’t be tanning out back.<span style=""> </span>She always gets in my way.<span style=""> </span>What does she do around here anyway.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Not much.<span style=""> </span>That’s why she doesn’t get paid for anything.<span style=""> </span>You know your sister, she’s better at spending money than making it.<span style=""> </span>What’s for dinner?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I’m making soy burgers with spinach and protein shakes for dessert.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Sounds delicious.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">How was work?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">You know, same old same old.<span style=""> </span>It seems to be getting worse recently though, people are acting strange.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Stranger than usual?<span style=""> </span>I swear mom, I don’t even understand what the big deal is.<span style=""> </span>How could people be this out of control?<span style=""> </span>I mean, you grew up just like them didn’t you?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Yes son, but it’s hard to explain.<span style=""> </span>People didn’t really understand the changes that were going to be made, why they were going to made, they felt like their freedoms were being taken away.<span style=""> </span>I, fortunately, wasn’t affected like they were and realized that it was the best for society.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">What if it’s not the best for society?<span style=""> </span>Didn’t we spend a good hundred years trying to put a chicken in every pot?<span style=""> </span>We thought that that was going to solve all of our problems and in many cases, it just made it worse.<span style=""> </span>Maybe the government should just stay out of our lives and let us make decisions for ourselves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But that’s the problem.<span style=""> </span>When we make decisions we tend not always to do what’s best for everyone.<span style=""> </span>The idea that everyone should have wealth and be in a better position is very subjective.<span style=""> </span>We tried giving people their freedom and they ended up just slowly destroying the planet and themselves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Now they just destroy each other.<span style=""> </span>Besides, we’re still killing the planet.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Yes but where would we be if we stayed en route?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Well, we’d still have homelessness, and of course starvation.<span style=""> </span>I know this kid at school who said that he wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the change.<span style=""> </span>He gave a whole presentation on it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">And it’s affected many more people around the world Billy.<span style=""> </span>It’s more far reaching than we can imagine.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But aren’t there other things we can do?<span style=""> </span>People still have gas driven cars, and they still are cutting down the rain forest.<span style=""> </span>And think of the brutality that has come about since the big change.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Yes, but it was something that was changeable very quickly.<span style=""> </span>It would be harder to tell someone that they’d have to find another way to commute to work each day…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But the rain forest.<span style=""> </span>Aren’t they still being chopped down just to suite the needs of the wealthy.<span style=""> </span>I mean, there are other sources of renewable wood.<span style=""> </span>And you know that they are not living by society’s dietary rules…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">And that’s why none of them live in the US, because there are people like me who work hard to stop these criminals.<span style=""> </span>Look Billy, I know this is a touchy subject and you’re probably going to have a hard time keeping yourself convinced that it need be this way.<span style=""> </span>But you have to think of the alternatives.<span style=""> </span>It’s never going to be a perfect world, but we can try to make it a better one.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But these people.<span style=""> </span>What if Jill’s next?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">She won’t be.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Or nanny, or the kid down the street?<span style=""> </span>What if the kid from class who feels that the law has saved his future is destroyed by the consequences?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Billy, it really isn’t that bad.<span style=""> </span>Incidents are up but they’re still manageable.<span style=""> </span>And every criminal that we catch…</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">You mean kill.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I mean stop from killing, is one more that we don’t have to worry about.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">But they say it’s in our blood.<span style=""> </span>That it’s our animal instinct that we are trying to suppress.<span style=""> </span>That’s why these criminals are so insane.<span style=""> </span>They say that once their done they calm down.<span style=""> </span>It’s like they’ve gotten their fix and they won’t need to satisfy it for a while longer.<span style=""> </span>Why don’t we just find a drug to help them?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">There is only one drug for them unfortunately.<span style=""> </span>When we decided to inoculate the animals we sealed are fate.<span style=""> </span>We didn’t know we’d be creating these monstrous outbursts. </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Shouldn’t we find a way to administer the serum to ourselves?<span style=""> </span>Wouldn’t that stop the problem?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">All testing to this point shows that it would kill us.<span style=""> </span>We just have to control ourselves.<span style=""> </span>I have no pity for them.<span style=""> </span>Just the thought of it makes me sick.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Not hungry?<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Billy!<span style=""> </span>I don’t want to ever hear you say anything like that again!<span style=""> </span>If they heard you, Billy, I know if I heard you!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Isn’t that why people complain?<span style=""> </span>There freedom of speech is even taken away.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">That is not something that shouldn’t be spoken about.<span style=""> </span>This isn’t a game.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">You’re right.<span style=""> </span>It’s a real issue.<span style=""> </span>Shouldn’t we put ourselves in their shoes?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">We are in their shoes!<span style=""> </span>There’s no difference between us and them, that’s why I have no pity.<span style=""> </span>I can control myself why can’t they?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I just sometimes wonder what animal flesh taste like.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">It’s not worth it!<span style=""> </span>Now go to your room!</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">I sometimes wonder what human flesh taste like.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">(tears in her eyes) Go to your room right now!</p> <!--EndFragment--> Kevin R Bittingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07355691727351709065noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4227238941143321837.post-24515820379742516732009-06-25T08:49:00.000-07:002009-08-19T05:43:59.487-07:00Book, feel free to comment<meta name="Title" content=""> 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style=""> </span>There are three types of people in the world, the fat, the skinny, and the strong.<span style=""> </span>We’ll go into greater detail later on that one.<span style=""> </span>But for now, there are three reasons why one should never eat meat, it’s unhealthy, it hurts the environment, and it is immoral.<span style=""> </span>But before we take off on that subject matter I would just like to say that there are three reasons why one should eat meat, all of which I will explain at a later point.<span style=""> </span>And besides, we really haven’t even touched on three matters that I really think that we should just get out there, put into the open, before anything else is said about anything.<span style=""> </span>Now, onto part one of a series of essays that will explain why a person’s train of thought is what will keep them fat, skinny, or strong.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Yesterday, I counted my calories.<span style=""> </span>That’s not really unusual, I’ve gotten into the habit of doing this for the past few years ever since I decided to loose weight.<span style=""> </span>And I did loose weight, and much of it was due to counting calories, but that is not why I lost weight.<span style=""> </span>I lost weight because I obsessed about it.<span style=""> </span>I noticed a change.<span style=""> </span>I did the right thing to do in order to loose weight, only not the right thing to do when one should be loosing weight.<span style=""> </span>I saw a difference, so I stuck to it.<span style=""> </span>I was fat.<span style=""> </span>Being fat is extremely helpful when trying to loose weight.<span style=""> </span>Not caring what you look like is extremely helpful when trying to loose weight.<span style=""> </span>A fat person loosing a pound is nothing.<span style=""> </span>I think that I thought that first pound away.<span style=""> </span>That’s not what I mean by it’s a person’s train of thought that makes them skinny, I’m just saying that that is how fat I was.<span style=""> </span>I didn’t have to do any strenuous lifting or dieting, I just thought about being skinny, which I did very little of previously, and the extra calories burned in the straining of my brain that much further probably lost me a pound in about an hour.<span style=""> </span>That is why it’s easy for a fat person to loose weight, because there’s so much of it to be lost.<span style=""> </span>It’s not really even loosing it, it’s shifting it.<span style=""> </span>A fat person, first of all, has no idea where a pound of fat is in order to have lost it, there’s just too much to keep track of.<span style=""> </span>But it is seriously like shifting the weight.<span style=""> </span>That could be water loss for anyone.<span style=""> </span>The average person can have about four pounds of water weight gained and lost throughout the day.<span style=""> </span>Sorry, gained or shifted.<span style=""> </span>Although you could say shifted for anyone.<span style=""> </span>Matter, energy, they don’t disappear, they are just displaced.<span style=""> </span>Fat turns into energy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>This is the cyclality of life.<span style=""> </span>From dust we come, to dust we return.<span style=""> </span>A little morbid but some truth to it no?<span style=""> </span>Well it doesn’t matter if you agree or not because I’m using an archaic form of communication in which you have no way of replying to me.<span style=""> </span>Even if you did want to get in contact with, I’d welcome it freely, you still probably wouldn’t care enough, even by the time you finish the exhaustingly long sentence, to do.<span style=""> </span>That’s even saying that you’ remember what your question or concern was anyway.<span style=""> </span>I dabbled on web pages before, and thought about the opportunity that advertisements would lend within that process, but I never caught on.<span style=""> </span>Pretty ironic if I end up putting this on a webpage along with or instead of publishing it in hard copy.<span style=""> </span>Still not sure if I’d want to go to a wiki or something a little less maliable.<span style=""> </span>I think that I’m getting off the point though, and there’s no sense in doing that.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>So, why count calories?<span style=""> </span>It’s common sense.<span style=""> </span>It’s watching what you eat.<span style=""> </span>But in the most efficient manner.<span style=""> </span>It’s one thing to think you know what’s good for you and say I won’t eat the bad and will eat the good and it’s<span style=""> </span>a completely different matter to know what’ws good to know what’s bad toa<span style=""> </span>very mathematical point.<span style=""> </span>It’s kind of funny because we know that cake and sweets are bad for us but why.<span style=""> </span>Well, there a re a lot of reasons and even other reasons that would say that some are good for you, but that’s only exciting if you’re interested in that sort of thing, so I won’t bore the majority.<span style=""> </span>So I picked up an apple and said, this is good.<span style=""> </span>Was it?<span style=""> </span>Who really knows but me and God.<span style=""> </span>WE can analyse and assume all we want. And we’d probably be right, but should we play such games.<span style=""> </span>This is where dietscome in isn’t it.<span style=""> </span>We stop the guessing game and the assumptions, because everyone in the whole wide world thinks that making an assumption is an awful thing to do so they call it by another name or don’t mention what they’re doing at all, yes, that’s right people, I just made an inference aboput every person in the world!<span style=""> </span>Or at least the United States.<span style=""> </span>So, why are we so lazy.<span style=""> </span>We’re not, we’re just impatient.<span style=""> </span>If we were to follow the true rules of loosing weight, counting calories, so on, we would take forever to see significant changes.<span style=""> </span>Unless your fat.<span style=""> </span>In that case you just need a little self control.<span style=""> </span>I’ must have lost a good five pounds by now in my writings….<span style=""> </span>But I’m not fat, I just haven’t eaten in a while.<span style=""> </span>That’s right people!<span style=""> </span>Starvation!<span style=""> </span>Aneroxia!<span style=""> </span>I’m sure even Ballemia works, I’ve never tried it, but it must have some sort of efficacy otherwise why the appeal right??<span style=""> </span>Now, not eating has totally worked for me before.<span style=""> </span>That’s a great way to count calories right?<span style=""> </span>It’s pretty easy to count to zero.<span style=""> </span>Why the bad press.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Just like any quick fix, it’s probablyu not the best idea.<span style=""> </span>Don’t get me wrong, I’ll drink a cup of coffeee for the purpose of getting an energy rush, but I know that I’m going to loose it and be even more tired in a few hours or so.<span style=""> </span>In the same manner, I might decide to stop eating to loose a few pounds, but at what cost?<span style=""> </span>Eoither I loose a coupld of pounds during the day and eat twice as much as usual when the evening comes and gain it allback.<span style=""> </span>Or I loose ten pounds for the week and gain it all back the next week because my metabolisnm is so screwed up because of my highly eratic eating fashion, or I wait an even longer time and I loose a lot of weight, mainly because of atrophy.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Muscle eighs about four times as much as fat.<span style=""> </span>You gain muscle in the opposite manner as one looses weight.<span style=""> </span>If I want to loose weight, loose muscle, I stop eating.<span style=""> </span>The body starts to eat away at the immediate reserves of cabrs within your system and then it resorts to targeting more long term storage areas.<span style=""> </span>This is when it starts going after yor fat, this is a good thing folks, just in case you’re not keeping up.<span style=""> </span>But then, then tis starts to go after muscle.<span style=""> </span>Muscle can also be broken down into nutrients and essential energy to be used to fuel the bodys activities.<span style=""> </span>So you’re loosing fat, you’re loosing muscle,<span style=""> </span>what’s important to you?<span style=""> </span>If you don’t mind being<span style=""> </span>a skinny weak guy then there probably aren’t too many issues beyond that it’s just not healthy.<span style=""> </span>If you’re planning on keeping weight off after your fast thaen it might be an issue as well.<span style=""> </span>Your muscle, along with weighing more than fat, also needs to be maintained and takes a lot more maintainance than fat.<span style=""> </span>This not only means activily working out to make yourself stronger but also constantly feeding it with more energy, more carbs.<span style=""> </span>Your muscle burns calories while you sit around doing nothing.<span style=""> </span>They’re free loaders, that’s whjy I like working out so much.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>It kind of sucks to work out.<span style=""> </span>I mean, it’s a lot of work, and you get tired.<span style=""> </span>And usually youe doing it before you go to work, or after your done working.<span style=""> </span>But you really haven’t been working.<span style=""> </span>I mean unless you live somewhere outside of the US or if you are in some sort of manual labor job than you’re doing little physical work.<span style=""> </span>You’re probably more than likelyjust doing a series of tasks over and over again.<span style=""> </span>Going through the daily activities one by one or one after another depending on what you do.<span style=""> </span>Inputting, answering phones, dialing phones, writing paperwork, filing paperwork, seeing patients, seeing clients.<span style=""> </span>What do you do every hour of your work day that’s probably the same as every other work day in your entire life?<span style=""> </span>I’m sure you’ve thought about it it.<span style=""> </span>You might have even thought of it in terms of weight loss beacuas a lot of these people tell you to do little things every single day in order to loose weight bit by bit every ssecond of your life.<span style=""> </span>Increase your metabolism right.<span style=""> </span>But the truth is you’re prooabbly not doing anything that is phycially exhausting throughout the day.<span style=""> </span>Just mentally.<span style=""> </span>We think that we’re physically exhausted,<span style=""> </span>so when we go to exhaust ourselves physically, it’s not really working for us.<span style=""> </span>We go at our daily business hit themgym but don’et hit it hard.<span style=""> </span>Barely hit it at all, we almost miss it in fact.<span style=""> </span>So what’s the point.<span style=""> </span>The point is, if we get there we’re are going to do something.<span style=""> </span>Better yet, don’t go to the gym.<span style=""> </span>Go somewhere else.<span style=""> </span>Go somewhere without amotor vehicle.<span style=""> </span>Don’t worry about where it si you’re going, or if you do pick someplace that is far away.<span style=""> </span>If you don’t have time to go nowhere with no real care of where there is than you better planb it. <span style=""> </span>Go Somehwere where you need to see someone or do something or pick something light up.<span style=""> </span>Go toa<span style=""> </span>nutritious dinging spot, whatever.<span style=""> </span>Go walk to the 7 eleven that is farthest away from your house to get that slurphy that you were going to get no matter what.<span style=""> </span>If you were going to get it anyway might as well burn as many calories going to get it right? </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Now If you’re going no where than go to the farthest nowhere possible.<span style=""> </span>Don’t mind no matter where you’re going, just get there.<span style=""> </span>Wink.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Let’s go progressive.<span style=""> </span>And I’m not talking insurance.<span style=""> </span>That’s a change for me since I’m an insurance agent.<span style=""> </span>On that one, what is something we can do today to significantly impact tomorrow.<span style=""> </span>Or even, what can we do this week that will make a change in next month.<span style=""> </span>What will go different this month that will make us feel different about ourselves and the world around us next year.<span style=""> </span>These are all important questions.<span style=""> </span>What it boils down to is, the little sacrifices affects long term gains.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>Think of it in terms of saving money.<span style=""> </span>A dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow, this is why we invest.<span style=""> </span>So through time, that dollar saved among many dollars saved, with compounded interest will give you the security for, whatever.<span style=""> </span>Let’s say, for living comfortably.<span style=""> </span>No matter whether it’s a short term goal such as a vacation, or more long term, such as retirement, it’s the little things that will get us there.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style=""> </span>In the same manner, losing weight most be looked at.<span style=""> </span>It might be more lucrative to eat fattening foods, not work out, whatever the case might be that keeps us from loosing a couple of pounds this week.<span style=""> </span>I mean, what is a couple of pounds?<span style=""> </span>Your weight probably fluctuates about four to five pounds a day in water weight, why go through all of the trouble to loose a couple of pounds in a week?<span style=""> </span>Even worse, what if we don’t loose any weight?<span style=""> </span>What if we gain muscle, which weighs four times as much as fat, and the scales says we’re just as fat as before?<span style=""> </span>I’d rather go out to the movies and spend my money today rather than sacrificing for little to no gains.<span style=""> </span>But here’s the thing, if we don’t sacrifice today, not only are we loosing the opportunity to loose those couple of pounds but we are also training ourselves to be bad.<span style=""> </span>Just like if we never save, it becomes more difficult to save because we’ll miss those dollars, it’s also going to become harder to loose weight the longer we wait.<span style=""> </span>Don’t let the eternal brick wall of I’ll do it later get between you and your goals.<span style=""> </span>A pound may not seem like a lot, but it will get you in a position to loose much more.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 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