Discussion » Darn it, man

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Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 9th November 2005:
 
I have to lose 40 pounds next year. :(


No more McDonalds, No More Nando's, No more Pizza, No More Chocolate, No more ice-cream, No more Slap Chips, No more...
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
I am FAT, man!
Posted by ellipse, around 11th November 2005:
 
but nando's is yummmy
Posted by jlittle_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
I'm fat too. Maybe we can duel diet.
Posted by WarHead, around 11th November 2005:
 
Why not start now, Syl, then you'll have a head start?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
Because there's Christmas pudding and turkey and trimmings and delicious Christmas choccies and and and!

Thanks James, that would be great. I need someone to kick my arse! (fat arse)
Posted by Grim..., around 11th November 2005:
 
Why do you have to lose 40 pounds?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
That is how much I have gained in the last two years. Terrible hey? (I am also going looking for a second-hand stationery bicycle. That will be my Christmas present to myself). I don't get enough excercise : that is the main problem.
Posted by ellipse, around 11th November 2005:
 
right syl
1. diets are for loosers
2. sadly like me 90% of your weight gain is out of your control, the fuckin drugs that make you happy also fuck with your metabolism and make you gain weight
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
"stationery bicycle."

I've never heard them called that before?

Is it made out of envelopes?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
You reckon? But 40 POUNDS? I was told that the anti-depressants would make me gain a bit of weight, but surely not such a lot! I must admit : I love food! I also comfort-eat as well. Sometimes i'm just not hungry, but eat because I'm stressed/bored/sad.

Hopefully I will be a loser and not a gainer. heh heh. Awful joke.

But yeah :

I like pancakes jam and honey
Steamy pud with custard runny
Boil it bake it grill it fry it
I can't have any cuz I,m on a diet

;)
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
sorry. stationary bycicle?
Posted by Brock, around 11th November 2005:
 
I'd never heard that either.

And if it was entirely stationary, it wouldn't be any good, would it?

How about "selectively moving bicycle"?
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
Yeah, ok. The only problem with a bike is that it hurts your arse and...other bits.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around 11th November 2005:
 
Maybe I should get a treadmill like janine. Aye, jan? Did you get yours yet?
Posted by ellipse, around November 2005:
 
i have a bike i ride it 20 minutes a day, but you know there are much more fun things in this world to ride
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
Like hot man cock?
Posted by ellipse, around November 2005:
 
well women cock has never really been my style
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Maybe I should get a treadmill like janine.


Do you mean that people walk all over her?

The bike you are thinking of is an exercise bike, rather than an ordinary one that doesn't move or made of office requisites.

Pity you can't start going to the gym before work, again, but gyms are expensive.

Over many years we've had all kinds of exercise kit in our house. Bullworker, exercise bike, Thigh Master (tm), Ab Crunch thingy, stepper, one of those daft K-TEL things that you tie to a door handle and also to your hands and feet, then lie on the floor waving your arms and legs about, weights, and one of those huge bouncy balls that seems to serve no useful purpose. None of them got used for more than a few weeks before whoever bought it lost their enthusiasm for it, and most of them have been sold or given away for other people not to use.

I should have gone into business selling these things, I'd have been richer than Cal by now.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Yeah, the gym costs R250 per month and I can't afford it anymore. Also, I am embarassed to walk in there looking like a beached whale. Now if we were all having more sex, we wouldn't have to ride bikes/gym thingy's etc Sadly, sex is like a distant fading memory for me. :( It's been so long I'm starting to doubt that I ever had sex at all.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Is Cal rich as well as sexy and brilliant? Life is just not fair!
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
We don't actually know, but we like to think so.
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Cal, are you rich as well as being sexy and brilliant? ;)
Posted by cal_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
amazingly so
Posted by Brock, around November 2005:
 
And, it would seem, remarkably deluded.
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
what on earth is/are Slap Chips?
Posted by Alfie_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Rich INSTEAD of sexy and brilliant
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
Like the chips you get with fish 'n chips. We call them slap, it's an Afrikaans word meaning limp. (as apposed to crisp/s)
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
eep
Posted by WarHead, around November 2005:
 
Some people in the north like 'Smack and Fish,' Smack being a sort of flat, round chip cooked in batter, more properly known in the chip shops that sell them as a scallop, though they are no relation to scallops of the fish variety.
Posted by ellipse, around November 2005:
 
we call those potato fritters
Posted by syl_DUPE1, around November 2005:
 
or hash browns
Posted by ellipse, around 12th November 2005:
 
over here hash browns are grated potato smooshed together
no batter