Mark_88
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Aug 11, 2007
- Messages
- 18,554
- Age
- 69
- City
- Ontario, Canada
- Vehicle Year
- 2007
- Transmission
- Automatic
- My credo
- Love Thy Neighbor
Your problem isn't too much food...it's too much money. Here's what I did...got laid off from my job and decided to drink too much beer with my free time and extra money from the severance pay. I went from 220 to 250 in less than six months and thought I was healthy...
Soo...severance pay runs out, I get a part time job that pays minimum wage...suddenly I'm not drinking much and running away from bill collectors builds my cardio. I'm pushing my luck daily and manage to get a 95 Suzuki to fry it's head and pop a cork so I have to spend my lottery and beer money on finishing the Ranger.
My part time job goes Kaput and I can't find a job...start getting Employment Insurance that pays just enough to piss everyone off and not enough to pay anything off...my diet suffers...I quit drinking beer almost completely (except the free ones I was finding on the side of the road...you'd be amazed how much beer kids throw away on weekends)...I'm walking about ten K's a day looking for beer cans and bottles in the ditches...excellent cardio and I find enough to put gas in the truck...sometimes enough to buy some tobacco that I roll my own...great cardio there too...EI runs out and I happen to get into a program to start my own business...
Now I've started my own business and get daily workouts lifting other people's junk onto my Ranger (I can tailgate press a fridge in twenty seconds)...then I drive to a nice park and tear apart BBQ's strip copper wire and rearrange my junk before the final workout of driving to the salvage yard and seeing how far I can toss the heaviest piece of metal in my truck. I've managed to do about 30 foot shotput with a 4 pound burner from an old BBQ and I think I set the junkyard record for heaving a fridge three feet...OK, it was a small beer fridge...
I'm in better shape now...lost about 60 Lbs and dropped two inches on my waist (I was a 40, but now a 38)...
And...I've grown a mustache to help keep my face warm when scrounging for metal...
Poverty may suck, but you can be healthier from it...
Soo...severance pay runs out, I get a part time job that pays minimum wage...suddenly I'm not drinking much and running away from bill collectors builds my cardio. I'm pushing my luck daily and manage to get a 95 Suzuki to fry it's head and pop a cork so I have to spend my lottery and beer money on finishing the Ranger.
My part time job goes Kaput and I can't find a job...start getting Employment Insurance that pays just enough to piss everyone off and not enough to pay anything off...my diet suffers...I quit drinking beer almost completely (except the free ones I was finding on the side of the road...you'd be amazed how much beer kids throw away on weekends)...I'm walking about ten K's a day looking for beer cans and bottles in the ditches...excellent cardio and I find enough to put gas in the truck...sometimes enough to buy some tobacco that I roll my own...great cardio there too...EI runs out and I happen to get into a program to start my own business...
Now I've started my own business and get daily workouts lifting other people's junk onto my Ranger (I can tailgate press a fridge in twenty seconds)...then I drive to a nice park and tear apart BBQ's strip copper wire and rearrange my junk before the final workout of driving to the salvage yard and seeing how far I can toss the heaviest piece of metal in my truck. I've managed to do about 30 foot shotput with a 4 pound burner from an old BBQ and I think I set the junkyard record for heaving a fridge three feet...OK, it was a small beer fridge...
I'm in better shape now...lost about 60 Lbs and dropped two inches on my waist (I was a 40, but now a 38)...
And...I've grown a mustache to help keep my face warm when scrounging for metal...
Poverty may suck, but you can be healthier from it...
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