Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

[MaliBuckeye]

My new workout regimen:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPNYVOWudKg"]Burnout challenge[/ame]

(I'm the guy on the left)

 

[DubCoffman62]

I have a friend wasting money on herbalife, anybody here ever tried it?

 

[Dryden]

http://www.runnersworld.com/general-interest/watch-barefoot-running-professor-on-colbert-report

 

[Buckeneye]

I've got to get a new pair of 5 fingers.

 

[Buckeneye]

I have a friend wasting money on herbalife, anybody here ever tried it?

Yeah. Tell him there is a reason humans have a liver and kidneys.

 

[exhawg]

I've got to get a new pair of 5 fingers.

I have 2 pairs of Fila Skele-toes. Probably not as nice, but I think they were $20 and come in my size (13-14).

Unrelated, but I ran a mile for the first time in more than 10 years this morning. I thought my pace was good until I checked my watch when I finished. Took me 8 minutes. I figured I was in better shape than that, but running is different than anything else I've been doing so my lungs were burning pretty bad. Now that it's warming up outside I might try to build up to something like a 5K a couple times a week.

I have tendinitis in both elbows right now from working them a little too hard over the past few months so I'm trying to find other things to do so I can take it easy on my arms but keep pushing overall.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Carbonated drinks aren't bad. Sodastream is alright but they hose you on gas cylinders. I built one myself off directions on the internet that uses normal gas cylinders thay you can refill at the welding shop really cheap and then start off simple like carbonating your mio or some kool aid and then start creating your own drinks from scratch later. If you are lucky they will sell you a tank of nitrous which makes a creamier tasting bubble without the bite of CO2. I'll find the instructions and post them later if interested. Good activity project too if you got kids.

Nothing tastes as good as your own pop and you control what goes in them that way so you can tailor it to your diet.

Got all the equipment already. I have a dual head keg system that will run CO2 and beer gas side by side... or 2x of either. I was thinking of hard mounting my soda stream machine on top of the kegs and running a direct line into it.

Thanks for the info!

 

[CentralMOBuck]

Unrelated, but I ran a mile for the first time in more than 10 years this morning. I thought my pace was good until I checked my watch when I finished. Took me 8 minutes. I figured I was in better shape than that, but running is different than anything else I've been doing so my lungs were burning pretty bad. Now that it's warming up outside I might try to build up to something like a 5K a couple times a week.

That was me on Thursday. But I've never really tried running for distance outside in my entire life. I put down two miles in about 10 minutes. My lungs felt fine but my legs were burning.

 

[jlb1705]

Somehow all good food was developed to be bad for you. Other than a good steak pretty much everything else that I love to eat has a bunch of carbs.

I don't know if anyone else has tried it, but I'm doing a couple challenges on dietbet.com. Basically you have 28 days from when it starts to lose 4%. You put cash into the pot and get back a share of the winnings if you succeed (minus the 15% the website takes off the top). I did it twice in April and won $35 on $75 in bets. I just started two new ones last night but didn't look at a calendar to see that they don't end until after Memorial Day. Normally I would need to drop 10 lbs over the next 3 weeks, but now I need to shoot for closer to 20 since we're going to Schmidt's on the 25th for all you can eat sausage. It's a once a year splurge for me so I need to make sure I have enough of a buffer to not lose my money.

I highly recommend dietbet for anyone that is already looking to lose weight and wants some extra incentive.

I'm thinking about doing this. I've been losing about 7 lbs. every four weeks. I'd have to lose about 7.5 every four weeks at my current weight to win a bet. Seems attainable, and a good way to recoup some of the money I'm losing being fat-taxed on my life insurance until I get my weight low enough to get my rating changed.

 

[exhawg]

I'm thinking about doing this. I've been losing about 7 lbs. every four weeks. I'd have to lose about 7.5 every four weeks at my current weight to win a bet. Seems attainable, and a good way to recoup some of the money I'm losing being fat-taxed on my life insurance until I get my weight low enough to get my rating changed.

I just won my third dietbet so I'm waiting to see what I get. One note, stick to the lower buy in bets (35 or less). It seems like fewer people are successful if less money is on the line so the pay out is higher. If you are constantly trying to lose you can space out up to 5 bets to make sure you don't yo-yo. I'm down 20 or so since the beginning of the year, but I think I'm going to take a break through June to focus on weight training and a vacation in Mexico that will screw my diet for a week.

 

[jlb1705]

I just won my third dietbet so I'm waiting to see what I get. One note, stick to the lower buy in bets (35 or less). It seems like fewer people are successful if less money is on the line so the pay out is higher. If you are constantly trying to lose you can space out up to 5 bets to make sure you don't yo-yo. I'm down 20 or so since the beginning of the year, but I think I'm going to take a break through June to focus on weight training and a vacation in Mexico that will screw my diet for a week.

I was wondering where the better payouts were. The ones you've done - have they been with a high number of participants (large pot) or a smaller number (smaller pot)?

If I'm going to pay extra attention to this on top of what I'm already tracking, I at least want a decent return if I win. I'd hate to put up $20, and only get back $23 or something.

 

[WolverineMike]

this dietbet.com thing......so I can join like 4 bets at 25 bucks a piece, lose 4% of my body weight, which for me would be about 7 lbs, in a month, and I'm guaranteed a split of the purse? So unless every person that joins the bet loses their 4%, you get a return? Sounds to good to be true.

 

[exhawg]

this dietbet.com thing......so I can join like 4 bets at 25 bucks a piece, lose 4% of my body weight, which for me would be about 7 lbs, in a month, and I'm guaranteed a split of the purse? So unless every person that joins the bet loses their 4%, you get a return? Sounds to good to be true.

I would guess at least 15% have to fail to get your money back. In the first one I did 50% were successful and the second one 62% were successful. My boss is doing these also and I know she didn't make one of them and lost $50. In the 2 that I won I made a total of $35. I just requested my credits through Paypal so I'll let you know if I have any problems getting it out.

Edit-The money was sitting in my Paypal account this morning so for someone that is already planning on losing weight it is pretty much too good to be true. Just sucks for the people that don't make it.

 

[jlb1705]

this dietbet.com thing......so I can join like 4 bets at 25 bucks a piece, lose 4% of my body weight, which for me would be about 7 lbs, in a month, and I'm guaranteed a split of the purse? So unless every person that joins the bet loses their 4%, you get a return? Sounds to good to be true.

Looks like dietbet takes 20% of the pot in pools where the initial bet is under $100. That means of course that 20% of people would have to fail to break even. I'm not sure that it ever happens, but I'd hate to be in a really successful pool having bet $25, and only get $22 back because 90% of the entrants met their target weight.

 

[exhawg]

Looks like dietbet takes 20% of the pot in pools where the initial bet is under $100. That means of course that 20% of people would have to fail to break even. I'm not sure that it ever happens, but I'd hate to be in a really successful pool having bet $25, and only get $22 back because 90% of the entrants met their target weight.

I just noticed that. Looks like it changed from 15 to 20 on May 20th. Hopefully the 2 I'm in are grandfathered in at 15. I'll post what I get out of the two rounds I'm in now, but I've never heard anyone say that they won and lost money.