Since Covid began, I lost 40 lbs with no exercise, just intermittent fasting.
Put 20 lbs back on after I learned what a Presumed Case is versus a Confirmed Case. The craziness of those definitions drove me back to drinking.
There's a lot of exercise nuts in my hood, my neighbor is a physical therapist and she looks like an olympic athlete. She's been running a boot camp where she gets enormous slobs out of their houses and makes them run. Everyone has to wear a mask, usually on the elbow or over the forehead. She's doing this to make ends meet, the hospital she works at was doing nothing but Covid patients and now only handles emergency room cases. She should start charging to watch, seeing a train of fatties come is better than anything on YouTube..
One guy down the street is a photographer and a bow hunter, he models for some of his photos. I keep catching him in the woods with his camera set up on a tripod, posing for action shots. He looks like he's aged 10 years since this all began. His sense of humor is gone, the only thing he ever wants to talk about is the Riots and Trump. His workout is climbing, he climbs trees with gear on. Goes up, sits for a minute, then climbs down. Does it for hours.
The only thing I see happening to people is anxiety. Maybe I'm just tuned into it, but it seems like everyone is on edge all the time. People are afraid of being confronted by some Karen telling them to put on a mask, and then there's the election. People should be working on what's inside than what's outside, I get tired of having the same conversation over and over.
Seriously, that's incredible work on your part, good for you. And I know it might be easy to think "well, I lost but then I gained half of it back". If you van avoid that mindset, do try, just look at the fact you made that change and lost that chunk of weight, and you can and will do it again.
Not sure where you started from and it's not my business, but I think in current climate of people being told "teehee LOL treat yoself!!" and encouraging people to veg out watching and eating shit, it's actually all the more impressive, when you've got the crabs yanking you down like that, to do that is all the more brilliant.
And not gonna lie, that sounds like a bad ass fucking workout, climbing a tree in full gear like that.
For me, my realisation that this is all based in lies - and like you, the bottle came a-calling and I went a couple of weeks on the "obliteration and liquid calories only" diet - came when I was told by someone who is a hospital based Doctor telling me he had seen managers telling staff to record all deaths of anything like covid, or where a person has it, as being directly caused by it.
That's lies, basically. It would be like if, for example, I had a brain tumour but was killed by a plane falling onto my head, and them recording my death as brain tumour related.
I've got a very dear friend. Massive stoner, lives in same building as I do. Really solid bloke, and funny AF, I actually thought he was One Of Us from how he talks, but he's not. He has been saying for weeks now this is all a ploy. The virus is no real massive issues unless you are old, otherwise ill or overweight, and the MR is low as fuck. They're going to, on his opinion, make us all so miserable we'll be gagging for the vaccine, but the vaccine is a front for something else.
I like him and I respect his opinions. And he never pushes this, only peaks of when asked, But the more I see of how things are going, the more I am inclined to think there is a grain of truth in it.
Flu vaccine is only 50% effective, no cold vaccine, try as we might. Why is this subtype of the coronavirus so special? It's new and manmade, how come we can vaccinate against this?
I dunno, I guess I'm spitballing, but from what I've seen and heard first hand from people who work in this field, and from how people are reacting, how the news are pushing it, all that? Something does not add up. It's barely deadly, it's only severe in fat old or otherwise sick people. If it is that serious, answer me this: (not you personally, again, I'm just spitballing): Why have we not shut down global travel completely? Why are people going on vacation and holiday and travelling for non-essential purposes? Why did we not do this from the off? Why are there not camps for people returning from abroad making it compulsory to quarantine?
If this is such a totes super srs bsns gonna kill is all pandemic, why can I still book and go on a vacation?
The rhetoric around the whole thing just feels off and wrong, and like we're not being given the full facts. Easier to turn a population against itself by getting the spastics who think a mask will protect them (they won't, your mask does fuck all, and this whole "it stops you passing it on!!"shit is a lie too. What, did your Momma never teach you how to use Kleenex for owt other than masturbating?? Again,not you, you, just the general you) than it is to present the full facts, which are, this is a serious issue for fat people, and fat people are a serious problem. I know that sounds harsh, but obese people make up the majority these days and it's been crushing healthcare for years now.
Hope you manage to keep up the awesome work, though I entirely completely get the drinking thing. I changed my approach, I smoke a little occasionally. But to combat the munchies, I cook my evening meal before hand. Neverlessness+ keeping to my calorie limit = best plan ever,
I was eating candy when I read this. LOL I'm not that fat (though the jury's still out on the piece of shit part) A friend of mine tested positive the other day. We were running errands together last week. This afternoon I coughed. I'm doomed.
Naw, you'll be fine. Seriously. All my raging against overweight people aside, it's not that big of a deal in people who're overweight, you can be a fair bit over and come out fine. People lost their shit over Italy but those wards were rammed with really, really fat old men.
Oh, and not to get OT, but your posts always make me laugh or think. If you're a piece of shit, then you're a witty and insightful one and that's heads and shoulders above most of the chattering plebs.
You ever see that episode of South Park about SARS??
Edited again to say: Well, you most likely know where I stand on the riots, but let's face it. Again, if so serious, why weren't the riots shut down? that poses two questions: Either the USA is thoroughly entirely cucked by bur loot murder, or the virus is not that much of a big deal, not really. I'll take an answer to either to be honest, from my elected representatives.
Honestly, you only have to look at how the difference in how a recent protest about covid restrictions in London were handled by the Met Police, and how the same Police force handled the burn loot murder riots. Difference is,state sanctioned violence has public backing of the retards who are stupid enough to believe their pathetic little mask will save them from anything and too scared to question anything - the narrative, their lifestyle choice, the fact that Google will tailor your search results to fit what it wants you to see and what it thinks you like, the fact that the media has been whipping us all into a frenzy for months over something less fatal than the flu - so it's fine. They knelt for the retards protesting over a junkie who swallowed his stash and had no damage to his neck at all, but they issued massive fines to people demanding answers on this whole "like totes super srs bsns virus pandemic".
If that doesn't give people a clue, maybe they're too damn stupid and should be written off?
