Posts by swamp_rat

I did my basic training a while back (for the CF not NG) and found that when it came to push-ups my problem was not my upper body but my core, although doing push-ups is great practice i would also focus on core excersices, seeing as how a womens centre of gravity is normally their hips, it makes it harder for us to do push-ups properly.  as for the cardio..i hate running and get the same probelm with my throat, although it is inevitable that you have to run in the NG, you could always try swimming to up your VO2 max (and it works your core...bonus).  other than that no tips for cardio...

It takes longer to pick up

White Christmas is my fave Christams movie, and the really old Scrooge, where you see the camera guy in the mirror, that one.

Christmas song, um, Carol of the Bells, or White Christmas by Bing Crosby.

He can walk, not sure for how long though. I think he would enjoy a dog (they have one already but just a little mop thing), but i'm not sure if he could handle a big dog that would keep him occupied.  He is extremely stubborn and won't admit defeat kinda guy, I'm thinking it's pretty impossible to find something.  My bf and his sisters are going to have a "sturn-talking-to" with him becasue they want him to move into the city.  Hopefully he goes for it.  He used to go to a wellness centre (for pyshio) but because it wasn't halping his arm, it was discontinued.  Hopefully they move into the city and he finds a club or something he can go to.  Thanks for your imput, I'll check the Federation for the Blind website for ideas.

Agreed.  I don't think its shallow to like someone because they make you laugh, that's normal.  I think it's shallow to feel that you liking someone heavy is a phase.  And if you are heavy yourself, who are you to judge?

I was in the same sort of situation. The guy wanted me to marry him (or at least said he did) not only that, he would ask me during sex if he could get me pregnant.  I was 20ish at the time and he was 27ish, I guess he felt his biological clock was ticking.  Make sure it's for real before you consider marrying the guy. Try to look at the situation from somone else perspective, is it lust or love?  In my situation, I knew it was only sex becasue I couldn't really stand the guy, we had some common intrest and could get along well enough but after a day or so, my only thought was "get me the eff outta here".

Jack Astors has the. best. bruchetta.  It's loaded with calories but is utterly delicious.  The serving is fairly large too.  My bf and I split it as a appy and both could barely make a dent in our meals.  Not sure if it's vegetarian, but I would think so.  It does have cheese and ailoi though.

I read a book called "The Fat Girls Guide to Life" and the author (Wendy Shanker) has a whole chapter about embracing being fat.  I call myself fat, I know I may not be what some people call fat, maybe chubby or overweight or heavier or whatever.  When it comes down to it, I'm fat.  End of story.  I think it is just that there is so much negative connotation with the word, not to mention it the tone it which it most often said.  There usually isn't a positive lilt in peoples voice, it tends to be disgust (well at least in my experience).  I'm with the OP, yes it's a weight loss site, but fat is fat (or we call it adipose-abundant).

Understood, I'll try to come up with a different way of summing it up.

Getting back on topic...something that has always confused me about religion;  why are there so many forms of Christianity? they all seem to have the same basic "rules" but are still quite different.  catholics go to confession Protestants don't, but they believe in the same god right?  I could be sounding completely idiotic right now just never really got the whole denomination thing.

I don't feel I am subjuagting myself. It makes me very happy to take care of my guy.  It's not all men I "bow down" to, just mine. 

 So maybe I'm not "anti-feminist" in all senses, but I'm sure there are a lot of women/feminist that think I'm out of my mind to "subjugate" myself to men.

Edit to add:  I didn't mean to suggest that all women should "pu on a bra...and take care of their man".  I meant that as my opinon, sorry for the confusion after reading it over I see how it reads.

Yes to all those BUT I also think that women should not be put in positions of high power (especially military/combat roles), I think that women should cater to their man, make them dinner, clean, that kinda stuff, and that we should be the less dominant, "weaker" sex.  That is why I said "a bit" of an anti-feminist, and frankly when I hear women whine about equal rights and all that, it for some reason annoys me.  I by all means am very happy that they did it so I can have rights and a job and all that, but I think enough is enough, put on a bra do your job and take care of your man.

*I am now preparing myself for a blast of ***** 

My boyfriend thinks "skinny girls are nasty".  My weight loss goal leaves me in the "overweight" range, but for me not to be over weight I'd have to be 160something and at 5'8.5" I think its way to skinny for my frame, as it is, at 180 my ribs show a bit.  The whole "more cushion of the pushing" statement is exactly why my guy doesn't want me to lose too much weight.  He told me he was once with a "skinny" girl and said that he and she would both get hurt during sex because "there wasn't enough padding".  Thank God for sensible men!

I'm bit of an anti-feminist, so I'll leave the whole women in the Bible thing alone.

I don't claim to have ever read the Bible much less studied it.  I do find religion fascinating, but I think it's more of a curious stand point.  I don't understand how people can devote their lives to a God they don't know exists.  Why give up so much for something unknown.  Believing in evolution, you don't lose anything, you can still debotch and sleep in on sundays and all that good stuff.  Yes it is a therory, but in my eyes, it's a pretty sound one.  Even to this day people are still evolving, maybe not at a overly noticable rate but we are.  800 years ago people did not live nearly as long as we did, and they were a lot shorter. 

You can live a good life without believing in one all powerful being.  Just because I don't believe in God doesn't mean I'm going to hate my mother and father or covet my neighbour.  I will still remain faithful to my husband, but until then, I'm going to look around for one that I want to spend my life with, and to that that, I feel it necessary to sleep with him before marrying him.  That does not make me immoral or a bad person. It makes me human. 

God does not control my actions, if I wanted to, (and could afford to) I would have stayed in bed and not come to work.  I did not get up for God.  I got up because I'm psychologically predispositioned to do so when my alarm goes off in the morning.

I think is having Christian faith is good; if you can believe in all the things that are said, more power to yah.  I cannot, however, stand when people are so gung-ho for God that they insist on trying to change my ways (not accussing anyone here of that).  I have had people in my life ask me if I have found my savour the Lord.  I say no, and then they go off thinking that if they blab enough I'll simply change my mind decide they are right, throw all my beliefs out the window and follow them to church.  If Christians aren't willing to listen to and believe what I say why should I do it for them. 

If when I die, and there is a God, I will freely and gladly admit I am wrong and ask for forgivness.  If the druids were right, then I live my next life reflective on how I lived this one.  If there is no one, my body will be burned, my ashes spread and my soul...well I don't know.  That's were my beliefs get confused, even to me.  I believe we have, not exactly a soul, but something in us, that makes us who we are.  If that is what a soul is, ok I have a soul, but there still, in my eyes, is no God. 

Very well said jblarghp.

I was baptized Catholic, but have only ever been to one church service and it was when I was too young to remember, in all honesty, I'm not sure why I was baptized.

Inorris55- You mentioned that your children both met their spouses' in church, do think that your beliefs have too greatly influenced their beliefs?  I think it's good for children to have that guidance and those morals instilled on them, but do you think some people take it too far?  Do you feel that you were "scared" into believing that you will burn in hell if you don't ask for forgiveness and live your life in a biblical sense? 

I find it really mind-boggling that people can so blindly follow God,  with all the stories from so long ago, how do you know which is true, what evidence other than what you've been taught, do you have to go on. 

I belive that Jesus existed, I believe he was crusified, as far as him dying for our sins and coming back, what proof is there?  If God made man in his image, why is there so much war, distruction and corruption in the world. I don't think turning to the bible for every bump life throughs me is something I could do, (it's an aufully long book to memorize).  I don't think I could ever chose just one religion, I would too curious what others are like.  And what if someone else religion is true, there is no God, and for not following the "right" religion you end up having a horrible "after-life".