diets: classic or dud

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or: why are ppl afraid to die at 40?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Julio, you are a contrary bastard.

Dud. Moderation and exercise are so U+K it's not even funny.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I do not fear dying at 40, short of the invention of time travel.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't really want to live a very long time. I'm told I'd make a great "old person" (Bette Davis/Abe Simpson division) but I've never looked into my future and seen myself past the age of, oh, 35.

Diets: Yeah, fruits and veggies and water and exercise are all good things. You should be getting all that stuff anyway. As long as you don't starve yourself you're not really doing yourself any HARM by dieting.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

meat is ok too, you know.

I just eat bits of everything. why the hell are ppl bothering with the 'atkins' diet and all that crap?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Because the last time I tried to join a gym, they wanted $600 up front, that's why.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Diets: Duddest
Diet Coke: CLASSIC+ But only because it is more addictive than smack.
Frequent exercise: Sensible

Yesterday I found out that I am at my lightest weight- since 10th Grade (158 lbs). I am not like, "proud" of this, I look kinda sickly.

― Hunter (Hunter), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

that atkins diet looks like a load of shit. CHEESE is okay, CARBOS aren't? bollocks. also the people they hold up as successful examples of it are usually bulimics. think certain ex spice girls.

i eat whatever i fucking want. last night i consumed two huge bowls of ice cream and i savoured every mouthful. i'm not thin and i don't want to be, but i am healthy, i get all the right nutrients from vegetarian meals and i get enough exercise from walking around town a lot (there are some mean hills in dunedin). i feel pretty strongly about this because as a teenager i got brainwashed into thinking i wasn't thin enough despite having been perfectly healthy and my own mother encouraged me to go on diets. now i can't understand how i could have been so self-loathing. hearing skinny girls whinge about how they want to change their bodies - usually by going on diets - makes me want to scream. i think that a lot of us women have some seriously ludicrous self-images.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

You can do side-bends or sit-ups, but you don't have to give up ice cream. That's my wisdom of the day.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it is chocolate week and i still haven't had any chocolate!

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I regularly went on diets by the time I was 10. Dud dud dud. I really think diets only make you fatter in the long run.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 15 July 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

to this day i look in the mirror and immediately see what society thinks are my body flaws. my solution: blow myself a kiss, say "society is a bunch of losers anyway", and dance around my room to kajagoogoo.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

my apologies for the xtina-isms.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

di your attitude rocks! i wish more people (inc myself really) thought that way

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Plus di you are super-hottt.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

:-D :-D

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay to all the above re: what Di said and what others say about her. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 July 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Diets are temporary extremist decisions on eating. This is bad. Thus, diets = dud.

Making smart decisions about what to eat and the whole "everything in moderation" line is a permanent thing. This is good. Thus, moderation = classic.

Exercise, when done properly, is also classic.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah but you can't be moderate all the time. no-one is perfect. if you like to eat copious amounts of junk food with your friends to celebrate julio iglesias once a week, thats not a bad thing.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Point taken.

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

(i essentially agree with you dee)

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

di is a juicy peach

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

furry on the outside, slimy in the middle!

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

and tastes like cat vomit!

Oh wait, that isn't right...

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

this is why i'm still not married

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

its okay, i have a stoney centre too.

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i always seem to end up chewing on the stone for an hour after i've finished the peach..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 02:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I so want to start a "Mid-july peaches/nectarines: Classic, or The flavor, texture and essence to which all foodstuffs should aspire to be" thread, but I'll just leave it at this. The answer is definitely the latter. Also: NOTHING is as deliciously slurptasticly satisfying as a perfect nectarine, yet nothing is as soul-crushingly disappointing as a mealy lame juiceless one-- discuss.

Someday, lying on my deathbed as my life's memories wash over me like an outgoing tide, the recollection of the experience of a perfect nectarine will surely bring me to tears.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

''yeah but you can't be moderate all the time. no-one is perfect. if you like to eat copious amounts of junk food with your friends to celebrate julio iglesias once a week, thats not a bad thing.''

you gonna celbrate me! awww...(just take that iglesias away and you'll be fine).

eating junk food in moderation. also good. especially if its pizza hut and burger king (can't stand the the other chains). glad we agree.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Diets are dud, it has to be said, but sadly necessary for some. I have followed the Slimming W0rld diet in the past & did very well on it, it's great cos you get to eat loads of food so you are never hungry. Still though, i'd love to eat anything I liked without ever putting any weight on, sadly this isn't the case. Still exercise & healthy eating should eliminate the need for diets, theoretically!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Because the last time I tried to join a gym, they wanted $600 up front, that's why.

why do you need a gym to exercise? what you need is an air force!

― angela (angela), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I've just lost a stone in the space of three weeks just by cutting the crap out of my diet and eating loads of fruit and veg. Still got a very long way to go though.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray, well done!!

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife has lost 60 pounds over the past 6 months. I've lost 20 in three months. So classic. We both look like we did when we met 8 years ago.

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, diets are totally clutch. I've lost 26 lbs. since February and built up tons of muscle mass. The bible:

Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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