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I do it for exercise, and to burn off some of my excess nervous energy. I guess that's "unwinding," right?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 March 2003 10:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

hahaha i must burn off my excess nervous energy thats a difficult one.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Kate's advice is v. good, I did a similar thing last year: I was over 17 stone 12 months ago and by Christmas I was down to just under 13 stone...walking is slacker exercise, it's great

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 24 March 2003 10:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

imagine how large and unattractive i would be if i had a drivers licence...

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 10:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

How much is a stone? I'm not sure, but 17 --> 13 sounds mighty impressive.

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 24 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

according to some chart I've Googled, it's 14lb or 6.3503 kg

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 24 March 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

on the shaving thing - this might have been suggested already but why not grow a beard. the grizzly adams look is gonna hit big this spring.

― David X, Monday, 24 March 2003 12:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jesus, well done DG. I thought you were looking healthy on Friday! We thought it was because you'd had your hair cut!.

― chris (chris), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooh you cheeky bugger

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think DG has had a 'collagen implant'

― the pinefox, Monday, 24 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think the pinefox needs a 'slap'

― DG (D_To_The_G), Monday, 24 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Thank you, Simeon.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 March 2003 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

seriously though, as i think has been mentioned, feeling ugly can stem from wider issues than just the way you look. i'm going to get a bit hippy on you now: walking and excercise are excellent suggestions but i think they need to be integrated into your life rather than just tacked on as a method of overcoming low self esteem. its ironic that we have all these labor saving devices, we mostly work low physical activity jobs, and we then have to "workout" at the gym to catch up (why don't gyms run generators off treadmills?)
if i'm going to get extra leisure time i want to use it for leisure, not "work (outs)". I'm not suggesting you can't enjoy jogging, or pressing weights, or whatever, its just for me an element of worth or fun needs to be there and its not in those things.
dancings good! gardenings good! fuckings good! using your car as little as possible is a wonderful thing (maybe we wouldn't have greenhouse gases, or war either) and yes, as also mentioned, enjoying cooking means you're actively involved in understanding to "fuel" you put in that body.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cooking is good. I don't have a car so no worries. Thanks for all the advice upthread.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Also getting into the tying of bodily health to mental health (IE feeling good about yourself because you're fitter - and it does only take a little exercise to make a difference) can be tricky. If you tend to get down becuase there's not enough happening, it's a useful thing to do with your time. If you get down because everything's happening/you're not managing time properly, it'll be the first and most noticable thing to go, and can drag you down when you really don't need to be.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

me agree w/gaz...working out must be fun in order for someone to want to do and not look at it like a chore that *must* be done.
You said you have a bike--riding around Chicago is surely more fun than lifting weights (not good for burning fat) or running on a treadmill. Beyond being painfully boring, jogging may do you more harm than good: it takes a toll on your bones when you pound them on concrete and there are many things that could be damaged ie feet, knees, back.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 24 March 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

bikes are fun!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

i agree!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

(hills are not so fun.)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

Does no one in here swim? Maybe there's a pool at that school of yours. Swimming is fun, and if you go hard a better aerobic workout (fat-burning, muscle toning) than running + much less wear and tear on your body. I try to swim 4-5 times a week, and now I sleep through the formerly insomniac nights, not to mention look better and feel better. Get in the water already!

― Paula G., Monday, 24 March 2003 22:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

Water exercise is the best for injury-prone joints. And swimming works a whole array of muscles--it's excellent exercise.

But with biking you get outside...there's those paths along the lake in Chicago that would be great with the weather warming up...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

i admit it is a struggle to hoist my fat ass on the bike these days. i also feel like i get more exercise in the short run by walking the same distances (= i am more tired), even though i know it's wreaking more havoc on my body in the long run

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

i started biking again recently and crashed twice in the first two weeks! ouch! bad grazes, serious bruises.
bikes in cities are NOT fun, btw.

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 24 March 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

LAst night I rewatched old self-video-ed footage of myself and was amazed how different (better) I looked. (I did/do try to represent myself in the best possible way - to me - when filming myself though this is not as simple statement as it seems because I recently filmed myself staring into the camera after a massive crying bout looking really fucked up and puffy) uh anyway I just wanted to complain about how from about last year (I'm 27) I got one of those tiny tiny bits of skin sticking out below my eye and it really annoys me and I don't want to be covered in them as I age!

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

spectra you have always been gorgeous, and i can't say i ever noticed any little bit of skin under your eye.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 05:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

i recently test-rode one of these fancy new-fangled electric assisted bikes. it was pretty cool - going up a hill was not much more effort than being on the flat :-) it'd set you back about $1,000 tho :-(

― ron (ron), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

timspan

Time measured in Hopkinsecs?

As usual, though, I have nothing valuable to add.

― SittingPretty (sittingpretty), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 10:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

We're all getting uglier, it's horrible. I was pretty hot 5 years ago or so, y'know

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

SP, that sounds horrible.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...

today i realized that i am quite ugly. i'm not sure if this is a recent development.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

You're not ugly, mitch! Don't be silly!

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.atomandhispackage.com/graphics/ugly.jpg

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

If you can find a sport you enjoy, by god, do it. make efforts to find where you can do it. Get friends interested if it's a team thing. Join clubs. Be prepared to put aside some cash for it if it's, say, badminton or tennis - the satisfaction and pleasure you'll derive from an hour on the court will more than make up for the 2 pints of beer you're missing out on.

I've been playing football twice a week for the last few months, and although I am still larger than I'd like to be, that's because I've got complacent with the beer and curries knowing that I'm doing lots of exercise (I also cycle and occasionally swim, too - hurray for the non-winter seasons!). But I love it - it's a focus, it's something to look forward to, it's a challenge, and it has only benefits (apart from the rather frequent niggly injuries - I'm laid up with a collateral ligament injury in my left knee caused by trying to match Jerry the Nipper's superb quick turn).

Also, give up snacking if you do it. Fizzy drinks, sweets, crisps - almost entirely bad for you from a nutritional standpoint, and you'll enjoy your meals that much more. If you need to treat yourself, do it in the form of a special meal - even if it's lardier, there's bound to be more health benefits than pigging out on coke or nachos.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.ugly-things.com/images/brianjones.jpg

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 12:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

my ugliness level is holding steady.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 13:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

Good for you Jess! I, on the other hand am developing HUGE GIANT PUSTULES all over my face steadily as the days draw on - I think it's the air in Woolwich. Ah which reminds me I forgot to go to SUPERDRUG this afternoon yah boo.

I found a SWIMMING COSTUME and am thinking about going SWIMMING but then also think of things like HAIR ALL OVER BODY and quite frankly getting rid of it all just to jump in some water is a bit rub. What I need is my own personal BEACH. PLaying in the water is fun. I used play a macabre game called DEATH where I tried to float face down on the pool surface for as long as I could to see if I could fake drowning if need be....

I could do it for quite a long time! I managed to train my LUNGS well. No doubt I'd be bolloxed now though.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

yay for the health benefits of nachos!

yr far from ugly, mitch. i remember your picture because you kind of look like someone i know.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

"if need be"!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Specifically I was thinking if I was in a car being chased by the MAFIA and we went over a pier/cliff edge ect into loads of water and I had to come to the surface - they would shoot at me or something and I would have to pretend to be dead so they would go away but HA HA I would still be alive but with my superpowers of not breathing!

I assumed they wd miss with their gunfire - or they wd not even need to fire cos I would be drowned already.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THEY WILL STRIKE

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

'Enjoy the face you have now,' said Serge Gainsbourg, 'because in ten years you'll wish you still had it.'

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

My beauty tip: Learn all you can about the Photoshop filters menu and never go to FAPs.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey mark c where do you and jerry play? its about time i got out and did some good ol flailing and kicking of balls.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steve, we play in Fulham at 6.45 on a Monday night. It's a family (not either of our families, I should add) organised thing - the players range from a couple of extremely skilful 9 year olds to a rickety 45. It's fun though, no-one's either fantastic or appalling, and it's a very friendly atmosphere. Email me if you want further info.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sarah have you read The Little Friend? It could happen!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sarah you are copying my swimming idea. Which I am actually going to do. Apologies to anyone who has met me and finds the idea of me in swimwear more than a little disturbing. I too find it disturbing, but hopefully the swimming will gradulaly make things less disturbing. Or, to not beat around the bush, FAT.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I too am 25, and my body too has turned to crap this year, only on the inside too... In the past year I've got acid reflux (continually full stomach, phlegm in lungs, no breath) and RSI (continual pain in arms and shoulders and back + shouldn't type anymore, which sux as I'm a writer...). And to top it all, I now have the irrefutable photgraphic proof that my hairline in receding. AND I'm starting to get spots again, for the first time in 11 years. I am basically a walking Christmas pudding. Thank you, GOD!

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

christmas pudding? yum.

I am 25 and am incredibly pale and a bit flabby despite having sticks for legs. But I know I just need a good bit of sunshine and exercise and I'll be happy as can be like in the secret garden.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reading some of the posts on this thread... am I the only person who thinks that they look *better* at 33 than I did ten years ago? I am much less overweight, my skin is clear and I have decent(ish) hair now that I never had in my early 20's. I was a frigging ugly teenager and youth, but I've sort of grown into a non-hideousness or even attractiveness that I never had when I was young. So take heed! All is not lost!

― kate, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

No diving no bombing no heavy petting EE-URP.

Lixi - do we have a neu local swimming pool? I did aqua aerobics a couple of times you know. It's good! You get to do a very silly workout and then afterwards you get to mess about in the pool doing handstands or practising being a drowned corpse, whatever takes yr fancy.

I think I have forgotten to do a roll turn. Bah humbug.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have no desire to do group exercise.I intend to turn up, change in a darkened room which they will have erected specially for me, creep into the pool, swim a few lengths then return home, slightly moist as I will not have dared stay long in the changing rooms...

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

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