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BoxsterCy said:
I don't even own a bathroom scale. I can probably guess my weigh with a pound or two. I weigh myself just for the hell of it when at Lifetime but haven't been in for a while. It's da summer of da bike, not the summer of da weights and indoor bike.

I don't get the whole scale thing. Look at yourself in the mirror. If you look like you are too fat and out of shape you are probably too fat and out of shape. If what looks back at you doesn't look bad than you are good to go. Okay, if what is looking back is too fat than you can use the scale to measure progress in becoming unfat, I guess.
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Yep, that's it is a nutshell. I got in the habit of doing it occasionally with both gaining weight during pregnancy and losing it after.

cyrocksmypants said:
Insecure about being TOO awesome?
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Yea, that must be it. Most people I know and like are insecure about something. Heck, my husband, with that whacked out family of his, told me after we were married that it was the first time he ever felt that someone actually loved him, his family included. (Must be why I never met them before I accepted the proposal). I am insecure about being old, and having quit my profession after ten years to stay home with my kids, about most things really. The only people I know that I can't stand think they are perfect.

If you are confident enough to send Nickels beach pictures, you could maybe cut down to weighing yourself once a week, I think that is what a lot of the fitness people recommend anyway.
 
cyrocksmypants said:
Oh trust me, she's gotten PLENTY of beach pictures. We even has a little bit of beach to herself she can enjoy. Still, nothing. She's a tough one to crack. Most women would have been putty in my hands at this point, but this one......
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Have you ever mailed her a baby pineapple?
 
cyrocksmypants said:
All I ate all day yesterday was some yogurt and granola for breakfast and some chips and queso for dinner. Ran 3.5 miles at the gym and did my regular weightlifting routine (bicep curls, incline press, leg press, tricep extension, abs, calf raises and front row) and I gained a pound. How the **** does that even work?!
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Muscle mass your building muscle mass. Yeah that's the answer.
 
carvers4math said:
Yep, that's it is a nutshell. I got in the habit of doing it occasionally with both gaining weight during pregnancy and losing it after.



Yea, that must be it. Most people I know and like are insecure about something. Heck, my husband, with that whacked out family of his, told me after we were married that it was the first time he ever felt that someone actually loved him, his family included. (Must be why I never met them before I accepted the proposal). I am insecure about being old, and having quit my profession after ten years to stay home with my kids, about most things really. The only people I know that I can't stand think they are perfect.

If you are confident enough to send Nickels beach pictures, you could maybe cut down to weighing yourself once a week, I think that is what a lot of the fitness people recommend anyway.
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My beach pics are far from Belfies.

Carvers, are you trying to psychoanalyze me?!
 
carvers4math said:
Most people I know and like are insecure about something. Heck, my husband, with that whacked out family of his, told me after we were married that it was the first time he ever felt that someone actually loved him, his family included. (Must be why I never met them before I accepted the proposal). I am insecure about being old, and having quit my profession after ten years to stay home with my kids, about most things really. The only people I know that I can't stand think they are perfect.
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One of the podcasts I listen to, he has talked about a psychologist (I think) that wrote a book, the thesis was essentially that everyone, deep down, is desperately insecure. We're insecure about different things, and we also react differently. Some people power up, overcompensating in some way, and others shut down...becoming shy or something similar.

Ahh, just found it...Paul Turnier: "The Strong and the Weak".

Excerpt of a podcast:

Paul Turnier wrote a little book that had a fabulous impact on my life called The Strong and the Weak. He was a Swiss psychologist. Translated from French to English, he interviewed all these people in his practice and basically realized that everyone’s desperately insecure. Some people have strong reactions, they power up, they yell, they scream, they tell you how many people report to them, how much money they make, where they live, where their zip code is, what they drive... and they do that to keep a distance and it works.

Other people feel desperately insecure and they use weak reactions. They look at the floor, they’re shy, they withdraw, they tell you all their problems and they’re like the victim. After you hear the sad story for the seventh time, you kind of see them in church and say, “I think I’ll use the other hallway.” Both keep people at a distance. When I discovered, “You know what, Ingram, you’re gonna be insecure the rest of your life. Your only security is in ******.” It removes the threat. Why should I care if someone I don’t know flips me off on the highway? I mean, who is this guy? My angry response when my security is threatened, tells me a lot more about the level of insecurity I have than the stupidity of the driver that just did that. When someone says the harsh word and my immediate reaction, “Hey, what’d you say?” Where’s that coming from? Why am I bolting to anger? It’s because I feel exposed. When they criticize my project, why do I get so defensive? Well because it’s really an attack on me, do you get it?
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Linky to the rest of the transcript and audio:

http://livingontheedge.org/broadcast/why-we-all-struggle-with-anger-part-2/daily-radio#.VZ8C6PlViR4
 
I just got the shut up look from my wife. Apparently when she mentioned that her sister bought the cupcakes for the wedding on Saturday from some lady out in Newhall and not someone in town she didn't want me to analyze and point out that the places in town we're businesses and thus had overhead, profit and other things to pay for thus the higher price she did not want a response.

#coolstorybro #runonsentence
 
So about 90 percent of my employees are female. That just tends to be the demographic of who works in the business. And about 75 percent of job fairs is being flirty with people to draw them in (it's not exactly easy to get people excited about a seasonal job). This becomes infinitely more uncomfortable when the job fair is a military job fair and most of them are spouses with someone active in the military (with their spouse right there with them.)
 
VeloClone said:
I was just trying to figure it out and I think my first RAGBRAI was in 1995. I missed half of the next one because of a new job and missed two years after that entirely because of another new job. Other than that I have been on every one since. I did miss a couple of days two years ago because Mrs. Velo decided to try to eat some pavement. I got her to the doctor and dentist and then got back for the end of the ride. Just call me Mr. Compassion.
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Ah, dude, you're in the RAGBRAI thread talking about drafting. Drafting!
 
cyrocksmypants said:
So about 90 percent of my employees are female. That just tends to be the demographic of who works in the business. And about 75 percent of job fairs is being flirty with people to draw them in (it's not exactly easy to get people excited about a seasonal job). This becomes infinitely more uncomfortable when the job fair is a military job fair and most of them are spouses with someone active in the military (with their spouse right there with them.)
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I just had 2 hours of SHARP training yesterday. That's Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention. It's a HUGE problem in the military so even us semi-retired civilian employee have to take it. The women who taught the class was VERY good. Work is a no flirt zone which is fine with me considering all of the bad **** that has gone on in DOD.
 
BoxsterCy said:
I just had 2 hours of SHARP training yesterday. That's Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention. It's a HUGE problem in the military so even us semi-retired civilian employee have to take it. The women who taught the class was VERY good. Work is a no flirt zone which is fine with me considering all of the bad **** that has gone on in DOD.
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It's not like, "I want to take you home tonight" flirting! It's a friendly flirt to make them think they actually might care about taxes.
 
wxman1 said:
I just got the shut up look from my wife. Apparently when she mentioned that her sister bought the cupcakes for the wedding on Saturday from some lady out in Newhall and not someone in town she didn't want me to analyze and point out that the places in town we're businesses and thus had overhead, profit and other things to pay for thus the higher price she did not want a response.

#coolstorybro #runonsentence
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I think you deserved the shut up look. Cupcakes?
 
wxman1 said:
I just got the shut up look from my wife. Apparently when she mentioned that her sister bought the cupcakes for the wedding on Saturday from some lady out in Newhall and not someone in town she didn't want me to analyze and point out that the places in town we're businesses and thus had overhead, profit and other things to pay for thus the higher price she did not want a response.

#coolstorybro #runonsentence
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I am expecting a complete rundown of the hipster wedding, the less sober you are the better. I have no idea what is hip, except that I am not.
 
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