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Happy birthday! Happy birthday!

I say just get a lawn chair and a 12 pack and hunker down in East St Louis for an evening. Something interesting is bound to happen.

One sure sign of a recession coming/arrived is a massive drop in oil prices without a corresponding drop in consumer prices. That or seasonal demand. Cross your fingers.

Thanks for the advice guys, it was always easy in the past to get back in shape, guess I am getting old.

That game looks addicting, so many options.

ya ya. I just hate it when the public buys on a headline and gets all upset about something that isn't true. Its the same as someone that got a citation fine for marijuana possession, skips his court date and goes to jail.

Happy birthday old man!

ya ROFL that is typed wrong. Meant to say that I am definitely not eating 5000 MORE calories per week as I was before. Meaning the extra cals I'm burning are way way more than any extra food from extra hunger. Never counted cals but Im sure I eat in the area of 2000 a day. I don't run because my knees can't take it, I played catcher thru HS and now I have old man knees when I run. Hobble for days afterwards. Biking doesn't even seem to make em sore. I can't afford any elliptical stuff as well. Not to worried about arms and chest and back, never had probs there. I guess mostly just trying to get the legs back in shape and trim the fat. But the lazy way, lol. I don't like diets and biking is about the only exercise I actually enjoy. I'm going to give it a few more weeks and can the damn scale. Maybe quit smoking too. Maybe.

A) The old lady probably shouldn't be driving then. If they don't like it they should not have bought a house there. C) Don't sign anything that you won't follow, or face the consequences. LOL at the B ) emoting.

Its going to take alot more help than that to cure my confusion.

Well I have always had a pretty crappy diet, though I don't really eat that much. I have not really been keeping track but the way I figure it I am eating about the same amount of food as I did before I started the plan... only minor change is I am trying to eat breakfast, a bigger lunch than normal, and a lighter supper. I am not really dieting at all though, want to avoid it if I can lol. The bike I use has 12 different riding programs built in that range and vary the resistances... I try to keep a constant 18-20 mph through the distances, it does give a reasonable interval workout I think. I never thought about the muscle thing keeping up with the fat loss. I am pretty sure that I am losing fat cuz the vikings beer belly is trimmer. Perhaps it evens out pretty well, I suppose like you say if it looks good who cares what number the scale says. It was freaking me out a bit, because by my estimates on pulse rates and my body size I was burning an extra 4000-6000 calories per week and not losing lbs. I am certainly not eating 5000 calories of food per week. I want to be back in biking shape so I can start doing trail and road events in the summers so I will keep going at it, it has only been 3 weeks. A dude at work said to throw some resistance exercise into the plan, but I don't want to lift (no gym, no interest in buying equipment). Anyone know of any reasonable resistance exercises that don't require much of any stuff? Is that just like crunches and pushups?

Nice view from the office Moss

True, my advice is to avoid trading right now entirely and invest in solid longer term investments with dividends. Trying to time this market with this instability is going to be near impossible unless you really know what you are doing.

I mean in theory it could mean server regulations, server shot registration, or other server regulars. Im confused.

Well he wasn't jailed for having brown grass, he was jailed for not showing at a mandatory court proceeding. There is a difference there. If he did go to court he may have been able to fight or defer the grass thing, and certainly would not have gone to jail. His irresponsibility landed him in jail. It is stupid that the homeowners assn would charge him for it but it is the rules that he probably signed to when he bought the house. If he didn't like it he should have not bought that house in that association. No sympathy for the guy.

Welcome to the forums Wolf!

Hey I have diabetes too, recently diagnosed can be tough to get a handle on insulin regimens. I have had it for 20 yrs so I am pretty used to it. Talk to your doc about certain insulin combinations that really allow you more freedom in your diet. Currently I take a 24 hr Lantus background with Short acting Humalog multiple times a day (whenever I eat pretty much or the glucose level needs a tweak). While I do have to give myself shots often, you will need to test often too, and it takes some practice to know what to take for the Humalog with what you eat... once you get the hang of it you can pretty much eat whatever you want, whenever you want and still keep the glucose levels in great control. It seems that (though I have not had to try to gain lbs this way) that you could start packing it in and still stay in good control. An idea at least, make sure to talk to your endicrinologist prior to making any changes in your stuff. I guess this is assuming that you have insulin dependant diabetes, if you don't and are regulated by diet, nevermind

Oh and FYI, not a fan of running or lifting if I can help it.

Started on an exercise bike about 3 weeks ago with the general plan of losing a little bit of weight. Had a pretty sedentary lifestyle previous with admittedly poor diet as well. Currently 215, want to be 190 eventually. I used to bike a whole ton so still have fairly stong biking legs, but been pushing it fairly hard, going about 25 miles 4 days a week, 35 miles 2 days a week, with one day off. Usually stints of 1.5-2 hrs at a good pulse rate. Fairly hard resistances too (read: I am usually beat when done for the day). My question for those that have started exercising to lose weight at some point (specifically those who kinda started out of nowhere). Feels like I must be burning tons of calories, I feel like the gut almost seems to be shrinkin a bit (from what I can tell), but the scale shows absolutely no weight loss, even a slight gain! What the heck? I wasn't expecting instant results and did not improve my diet all that much (and it isnt THAT bad) but this seems like a gyp to me. I was under the impression that aerobic stuff was good for loss, anyone run into this experience before? Any other stuff I should try and throw into a workout that might be better? Any stories of the pounds coming off after a longer stretch of an exercise plan?

She didn't seem all that stupid to me.

Selling off good long term investments in inherently successful companies now after this downturn would be rediculously silly. The financial companies have brought the entire market down, many stocks are way down without justification. Only sell positions in companies that do not have a decent future left in em. True buying in now to failing companies would be equally silly, but there are a ton of stocks out there that are on their 52 wk lows, but have solid economics. They will bounce back and bounce back well once people's irrational fear of a failure of the US and world economies pass and investors start actually looking at the prospects of a company instead of just selling everything they can. If you are still nervous, buy in to the companies you like 1/4 at a time (ie buy 1/4 of what you want 4 wednesdays) to lessen the chance of a continued down slide over the next few weeks. If you got out where fx did (or earlier) you might be ok staying out till the market comes back to reality, but selling now seems crazy to me. If you sell and lose 30%, then miss out on half the upturn you will have to go that much farther to get back to start. Focus on the companies that have strong numbers and you will be fine investing now for the long term. If you are trading, the game is way different. I don't day trade, I invest. Always research a company before they buy their stock. Use whatever markers for sucess you want but don't just base it off of some story you read online about a upcoming move. Now if you are invested in 401K accounts or retirement mutual funds, selling out of them now would be crazy. They are generally well rounded and researched accounts that are meant to pay off over the long term. Trying to play the market on these is silly unless you are really lucky. Have patience. If you don't want to day trade for individual stocks and don't need the money now or soon... try and keep it where it is, the economy is not in that bad of a shape, just alot of fear and instability right now. Just my personal opinion. I work in the financial sector but in no way am responsible for any actions based off this ramble

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Correct answer: There is no bus.

Congrats bro

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