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Originally posted by bellymonster View PostI'm not so fat I'm in danger of not being able to walk. I'm a 19 stoner but then I'm 6 foot 5 too, but I've been saddled with a beer belly through years of drinking abuse in my teens and twenties. Haven't been a binge drinker for nearly 8 years now but the belly is still there. Don't do it kids it's not worth it.
I'd like to be 3 stone lighter but my laziness is preventing that from happening. If only there was a cure....
You can tone up a bit.
Or cheat! Liposuction!
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostI had symptoms of a heart attack in March while on holiday in Bratislava. I had a full check-up on return to the UK and the doctor says that it was not a heart attack. However, my blood pressure was 160/110, cholesterol was 7, triglycerides twice the level that they should be. My weight was 15 stone at the time but that scare forced me to re-evaluate my lifestyle.
Since then I joined a gym, have lost two stone, run almost every day, and have drastically changed my diet by cutting out high levels of saturated fats (eg: stopped eating eggs, cheese and takeaways, eat only cereals(porridge or weetabix) with skimmed milk for breakfast) and I now drink less than 4 pints of beer a week.
I feel much more energetic and feel that I have more zest for life than before. Hopefully, I will also live longer but only time will tell !!!
What does your crap look like?
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Originally posted by Iron Condor View PostYou are not lazy, you are just unmotivated. Find an IT role that really motivates and challenges you... If nothing does then you need to motivate yourself with prepaing for plan B while you pass time in IT collecting the startup capital.
As for being fat, i cant help you there as i have always been skinny.
But how fat are we talking? I once worked on the third floor and the lifts broke down ,a guy who worked in IT was so fat he had to go back home in the morning because he knew he couldnt make it up the stairs.. i kid you not.
You need to get professonal help before it gets to that stage.
I'd like to be 3 stone lighter but my laziness is preventing that from happening. If only there was a cure....
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Originally posted by bellymonster View PostI'm fat because I'm lazy (and I eat too much).
Is there a cure for laziness? I was going to google but well I'm too....
As for being fat, i cant help you there as i have always been skinny.
But how fat are we talking? I once worked on the third floor and the lifts broke down ,a guy who worked in IT was so fat he had to go back home in the morning because he knew he couldnt make it up the stairs.. i kid you not.
You need to get professonal help before it gets to that stage.
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Originally posted by bellymonster View PostI think my laziness is affecting my work too, if I can get away with doing nowt, I will. Looking back I reckon I've always been like this and I spent a whole year during permidom sat in a portakabin doing nothing (and I mean nothing) but surfing the web.
How do you kick yourself out of laziness?
Permie managers of my previous companies did not bother to fire me and the cotract manager was more thinking of the sunk cost by the time they realised how lazy I was.
Ofcourse, I did not want to be like that. No, I did not suffer from depression.
Thnking, intelligence and all that crap, I think I'm no less to anyone, except that I cant be bothered with doing anything.
Spent 6 weeks at home, with no contracts. Which gave me some time to put things into perspective and to realise what an arse I have been. Atlast I found this new contract. determined to overcome the laziness, I am doing well so far (in terms of being busy).
I think the trick is not to procrastinate and being more determined and discplined.
If you can't bother be doing any of that I guess it will definitely get you one day. That is what I have realised.
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostI'm normally the last person to recommend handing oneself over to the medics, but what you describe sounds exactly like depression rather than mere laziness.
My brother-in-law was exactly the same a few years ago: No energy, no interest in anything. Everything was too much effort. He was drinking like a fish and sitting there surfing the web all day.
Mild depression has a nasty habit of developing into full-blown clinical depression if not addressed.
Fortunately he went to his GP and then a specialist. After a year or so of SSRIs (Prozac etc.) and some counselling he was fine and has been ever since.
He could never identify an underlying cause for his depression, it just seemed to creep up on him.
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Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View PostI think many of us can relate to that description of life. I would say: STOP IT. I came within the size of AndyW’s unmentionables of a heart attack through years of living like that. That was 10 years ago and I still haven’t fully recovered and receiving treatment for it. I’m a non-smoker, love my fruit and veg, and enjoy walking which probably saved me.
I had symptoms of a heart attack in March while on holiday in Bratislava. I had a full check-up on return to the UK and the doctor says that it was not a heart attack. However, my blood pressure was 160/110, cholesterol was 7, triglycerides twice the level that they should be. My weight was 15 stone at the time but that scare forced me to re-evaluate my lifestyle.
Since then I joined a gym, have lost two stone, run almost every day, and have drastically changed my diet by cutting out high levels of saturated fats (eg: stopped eating eggs, cheese and takeaways, eat only cereals(porridge or weetabix) with skimmed milk for breakfast) and I now drink less than 4 pints of beer a week.
I feel much more energetic and feel that I have more zest for life than before. Hopefully, I will also live longer but only time will tell !!!
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Originally posted by bogeyman View PostAfter a year or so of SSRIs (Prozac etc.) and some counselling he was fine and has been ever since.
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Yeah. I had depression once, as a student. No particular reason and after 6 months went away as quickly as it had come. Fortunately, that gave me a couple of months to catch up on my course work and pass the 2nd year exams. Depression is a horrible illness. Everything is grey and nothing seems worth the effort. Very depressing.
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Originally posted by bellymonster View PostI think my laziness is affecting my work too, if I can get away with doing nowt, I will. Looking back I reckon I've always been like this and I spent a whole year during permidom sat in a portakabin doing nothing (and I mean nothing) but surfing the web.
I even find myself going out without my mobile phone because I can't be arsed to climb the stairs and fetch it. I think I'm a basket case.
How do you kick yourself out of laziness?
My brother-in-law was exactly the same a few years ago: No energy, no interest in anything. Everything was too much effort. He was drinking like a fish and sitting there surfing the web all day.
Mild depression has a nasty habit of developing into full-blown clinical depression if not addressed.
Fortunately he went to his GP and then a specialist. After a year or so of SSRIs (Prozac etc.) and some counselling he was fine and has been ever since.
He could never identify an underlying cause for his depression, it just seemed to creep up on him.
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Originally posted by HairyArsedBloke View Post...Some one is under stress when they are not in full control of their life.
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