I will send you a decent low calorie, low sugar cookie recipe. You can bake. Like a man. Dov's had them, he knows what's what. I'm back on the same track, too.

I walked up the four flights of stairs to my office this afternoon - after a sensible lunch of a chicken sandwich with no mayo, bacon, or cheese.

There are a lot of people in my building who can't do the first and have no intention of doing the second. You take that shit for granted and then it's gone.

In the past year, I've started grinding all my red meat as well as making my own pork and veal sausages, cheese and bread.
I've never felt better.

In the past year, I've started grinding all my red meat as well as making my own pork and veal sausages, cheese and bread.
I've never felt better.

Also most people figure out that a gym isn't required at all, and isn't really even helpful, because it's expensive and it's so goddam easy to avoid.

That's truly some next level shit.

Agreed.
But you enjoy your amateur twenty-minute meals full of risotto, brussel sprouts and budget cuts. I don't give a fuck.

and dumpjack, cmon now w/ that "exercise is the healthiest thing you can undertake but ultimately it has very little impact on weight loss" thing. gotta speed up that metabolism, brah!

i dont really agree with this. you can find gyms not that expensive (my l.a. fitness is like $35 or $40/month). and knowing that i'm spending money/month is motivation enough to go. also, being in a giant room with others exercising really influences you to get going. once i go, i get pretty obsessed with it to the point that if i miss one day i feel like i'm slacking.

that's embarrassing just typing it.

I shouldn't sound so 100% about it when I say that, but I know a lot more people who have paid for gym memberships and not used them than people who went regularly. Also I fucking hated going to the gym the 2 times in my life when I tried to. Never lasted more than a few months, so that colors my perception of it. I don't like being in a gym, I don't like staring at tv's or the wall while I work out, I don't like having to gear up for going, etc. Nice girls' assess is about the only motivation, to be completely honest. But going to work/grocery store/homebrew place/friends houses by bike, the scenery is great and shit happens and there's progress and you didn't have to make time to do it and you didn't pay anyone for it. You can't get like BUFF that way, but buff isn't what I'm after. Just not fat.

But there are people for whom gyms work wonderfully - where it's a great fit. That population is a subset of the total number who go out and buy memberships, though. (That's why your gym is so cheap.)

great job Bob! keep it up man. full support!

oddly, i've actually started running for the first time in my life. feels great.