My post-lockdown commute back to work

I had the knock on the door at 11am and was chaperoned down to the Covid testing station.

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It was the PCR test, one to the back of the throat and one up the nose. I'd gone 53 years with never having a swab test and now I've had three in the past 6 weeks.

In two days I get the results. If I pass I believe I get privileges such as being allowed out into the garden for an hour a day.

On the way back to my room I tried to do the deal with my chaperone in the lift... a very generous offer for a couple of bottles of Hong Thong. He was having none of it... reckoned there are cameras everywhere.

So excitement over, off he went. I'm now working on Plan B.

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Once I get home I've decided to finally turn things around this year and have been busy on Lazada.

Before I do the deed... any of you gym types... Edmond? What do you think of this bad boy? JP... is this the one you have?

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Yep thats the one I have and love it Mendip. Put in a bit of time each day. Very sturdy and well designed pulley system.

Its brisk 10k walks you need mate, slowly built up so those cankles can take it.:) and a nutritionist and possibly your stomach stapled.

I'll join you in Spring when I come out of hibernation:)

Start by drinking a litre of water before your food to fill you up.

Baby steps.

I can't believe how strict that 2 week isolation you are going through is.

Fuck that for a laugh

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

Its brisk 10k walks you need mate, slowly built up so those cankles can take it.:) and a nutritionist and possibly your stomach stapled.

I'll join you in Spring when I come out of hibernation:)

Start by drinking a litre of water before your food to fill you up.

Baby steps.

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^ THIS,

plus Mendip, start with those hotel exercises I had in the video ... DID YOU WATCH IT?

Those fancy exercise machines don't do the work ... YOU have to :)

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Originally Posted by Mendip

Before I do the deed... any of you gym types... Edmond? What do you think of this bad boy?

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Looks good.

But as Dave-O said, it's you that does the work, not the machine.

Weights are only one part of it. Diet and cardio another.

For me, getting out moving every day with walks, then jogs, then runs, and now either running or cycling each morning was the main thing for stripping off 10kg of blubber.

I then do free-weights in the afternoon. Bench, dumbbells and bar. The only things I use my Homegym for are back (lat-pull downs) and triceps (tricep, err, pull downs, using the same bar.)

Cardio in the morning - walking running cycling
Gym in the afternoon
While cutting out sugars and lowering the amount of stodge in your diet

Everyday, slowly but surely will work wonders.



Good luck. :tumbs:

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Originally Posted by Edmond

cutting out sugars

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Well, Mendip's diet and lifestyle have been pretty much 'public domain' for the last few months, so here's my prescription, since he asked...;)

Step 1
Cut down your drinking. Especially that 'nothing' drinking when you swig back about a thousand calories just for something to do about 5 nights per week.

Step 2
Whichever form of aerobic exercise you favour.

Cost
Zero baht.

OR

......spend thousands and fanny about with it, washing down dustbin lid-sized pizzas with booze but balancing it out with whey protein drinks. :D

BTW... it may be worth calculating your BMI.

Dont listen to Cyrille about BMI or whey.

Wait til Spring, and you can follow my Dilph Lungren thread

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2021/01/529.jpg

Go slow, catch monkey

I am with Dave and Edmond. I use the gym system in conjunction with putting in about 12 to 15k steps a day plus a cycle ride ranging from 7 to 20 kms a day(depending on my mood and work timing). It's about balance and diet. I will say however I have absolutely no plan to give up drinking. I keep active so I can drink and sustain my weight. I am very disciplined about my diet and portion sizes and never eat breakfast. Never have.

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aerobic exercise

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No time like the present.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFxLgml4wXI


Rock that Lycra Mendy.


I do agree though. Moving and sweating for an hour everyday will be better than only shifting from the armchair to the home gym, for melting that blubber.

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

Dont listen to Cyrille about BMI or whey.

Wait til Spring, and you can follow my Dilph Lungren thread

https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2021/01/529.jpg

Go slow, catch monkey

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I do not know what all that surrounding crap is Dil, but that is a nice looking RibEye. Light salt and pepper, a rub of a garlic and onion powder and BAM...grill time. Sear on each side for 3 mins, lower BBQ heat and few more flips and that is ready to be chowed down with a good whiskey or ice cold beer. You could toss in a veggie or 2 for garnishing if ya want but no peas please. :smileylaughing:

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Originally Posted by JPPR2

I am very disciplined about my diet and portion sizes and never eat breakfast.

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Funny you should say that.

In 2 years I've naturally shifted from beans, hashbrown, toast, eggs and sausages, to only bacon and eggs, which now fills me up and gets me through a 40km bike ride or 10km jog 20 minutes later.

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Originally Posted by Dillinger

Wait til Spring, and you can follow my Dilph Lungren thread

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Please don't post photos.

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I've naturally shifted ...

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Christ, here goes TD's Arthur Fonzarelli again.

You 'naturally shifted' fuck all. :D

You found out that the other constituents of your breakfast were bad news, and started eating just bacon and eggs.

Very sensible, unlike all the nonsense dill fannies around with. I bet he had a nutri bullet too, but jammed it with all the turmeric he put in.

I was not going to mention BMI as I am not sure about how valid it is BUT lots of doctors use it as a quick and dirty comparison.
So I calculated mine and I come in at 29 (height 1.8m,weight 94kgs) so according to the charts I am just under the 30 which would qualify me as obese.
So I can proudly say I am just a fat kunt.

As for our mate Mendip he has said his weight is 110kgs so to get under a BMI of 30 he would need to be 1.92m tall and looking a photos he posted I don't think he there yet.
So he's got to join the OBESE club.
So if you want get our of the obese club and join my fat kunt club Mendip, you need to grow a lot or loss some weight.

How's that for motivation?
If its not enough then I can't help you sorry!

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Originally Posted by Edmond

Funny you should say that.

In 2 years I've naturally shifted from beans, hashbrown, toast, eggs and sausages, to only bacon and eggs, which now fills me up and gets me through a 40km bike ride or 10km jog 20 minutes later.

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Who would put themselves through that much torture just to be able to say they are not a fat kunt?
I knew a lot of young healthy fit people who used to do all that shit and now they're dead so I guess it helped them lead a short BUT healthy life.
I'm planning on a long and who gives a fuk life, so far its working.

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Originally Posted by cyrille

You 'naturally shifted' fuck all.

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I did.


In fact, I'm currently writing a book about it, that will help educate university professors on the subject.

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Who would put themselves through that much torture just to be able to say they are not a fat kunt?

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Other than it being enjoyable, looking and feeling fantastic, plus being able to be annoyingly patronizing about it, I'm not sure. :)

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I was not going to mention BMI

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I just mentioned it because Mendip rejects the 'obese' tag out of hand.

As you know, you no longer need to be a beachball.

Pictorial evidence suggests he's there or not far away.

Sorry Mendip, but knowing your starting point is useful. ;)

Do you have a bike back at home Mendy?

He's got that fantastic swimming pool.

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Originally Posted by Edmond

In 2 years I've naturally shifted from beans, hashbrown, toast, eggs and sausages, to only bacon and eggs, which now fills me up and gets me through a 40km bike ride or 10km jog 20 minutes later.

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You know bacon is really pretty bad for you. Loaded with preservatives, you fry it and its loaded with Sodium. Don't get me wrong I LOVE bacon but eat it once every 2 to 3 weeks. I see these daily pics you guys post of breakfasts that could feed a family of four. That Breakfast you mentioned is a Fat ass breakfast. You do not need that much food to roll on a 40Km bike ride. I knock back a glass of OJ clock off 20km with ease.

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You 'naturally shifted' fuck all

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Who would put themselves through that much torture just to be able to say they are not a fat kunt

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Exactly right. Remember doctors and the medical community keep changing all the numbers as it pays big money to have everyone with diabetes, hypertension and "fat kunts" as you stated. I refuse to give up the things I like for some silly ass number derived from a sample experiment on 5,000 people. Moderation, portion size with proper food, daily activity is all one needs to remain healthy and naturally fit. All the extra work folks do to look like a man Fitness mag is up to them but I too know a lot of guys that did marathons, triathlons, extreme weight lifting and many of them are dead or having numerous surgeries to fix all the shit they fuked up. And the big weight lifter guys are flabby now as they built up so much mass with all those protein diets that they cannot sustain it.

@ mendy: Just find a comfortable routine regiment that works for you. If you enjoy it, you will do it and that is 90% of the game anyway. :)

So is that a yes or no on the gym then? :)


I hate to say it, but I think Cyrille's nailed it.

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Originally Posted by cyrille

Well, Mendip's diet and lifestyle have been pretty much 'public domain' for the last few months, so here's my prescription, since he asked...;)

Step 1
Cut down your drinking. Especially that 'nothing' drinking when you swig back about a thousand calories just for something to do about 5 nights per week.

Step 2
Whichever form of aerobic exercise you favour.

Cost
Zero baht.

OR

......spend thousands and fanny about with it, washing down dustbin lid-sized pizzas with booze but balancing it out with whey protein drinks. :D

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Several things have instigated this.

The latest one was, strangely enough, this BMI thing you're talking about. I had to fill out a medical app when I started quarantine to upload my temperature twice a day. For some reason I also had to enter my height and weight, and somehow this app seems to think that I'm 'obese'. It seems that I've gone past ootai's 'fat kunt' stage, and I'm really not happy about it.

Thanks to a combination of Covid and Brexit my regular overseas work tripst will be extremely difficult to maintain. The dry offshore trips have always regulated my weight, but if I'm to be spending a lot more time at home I have to accept I need a life style change.

My life at home is very different to my life at work, and to be honest my diet isn't too bad. No dustbin sized pizzas in Korat, and plenty of veg. I can cut the carbs right down. But as Cyrille politely points out, I need to stop the habitual guzzling of Leo in the evenings. So there's Step 1.

Step 2... cycling ain't gonna happen on the roads near me. And 10km walks are a good idea, but it's fitting them in. Two school runs a day and everything else going on don't leave a lot of spare time before it gets dark in the evening, not to mention 40 degree heat by March. And there's nowhere close by that really lends itself to long walks without a lengthy drive first. My plan is to split up the dog walks after the morning school run... instead of one walk with five dogs, do two walks. Maybe once I lose a bit of weight the walk with the younger digs can turn into a jog. That's 3 or 4km, just like that.

We have a 12m long pool, so there's an easy half hour of lengths every morning, and again in the evening during my Leo time. I'll do this with my daughter in the evening as she also needs more exercise.

And I thought a half hour on a fancy poolside gym before the swim would be good... it's not only me, I have to make it fun for my daughter.

That leaves Leo on a Friday night with my Welsh mate and a few Hong Thongs on a Saturday night.

Job done!

I was actually talking to a couple of Farang mates here in the village this morning and cycling to get fit or to save money came up in discussion.
all of us agreed that riding a bicycle anywhere on a well used Thai road would almost be suicidal so it would have to be riding around the countryside on non sealed backroads.
To do that I think you would need one of those bike with large tryes (tires for JPPR2) and it would need shock absorbers as well.
The closest main road to me is Hwy 24 and there is no way I am riding a b push bike on it.
Also as an excuse, I have had a knee replacement and have read that riding is not really a good thing to do.
So I guess its back to the chair and being or remaining a fat kunt.

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Originally Posted by Mendip

For some reason I also had to enter my height and weight, and somehow this app seems to think that I'm 'obese'.

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That explains why they serve you those lean meals.. They must be laughing in the kitchen, "let's see if he eats this or returns it" :)