Beer and diet

There is a pretty good workout plan at onehundredpushups.com for this that will get you to 100 faster than what you are doing. You aren't doing enough volume of pushups right now imo. Doing more than 100 pushups and sets closer together is recommended. Hope you get into the club. You certainly at a good point to get there quickly. Good luck.

 

No need your advice is sound and greatly appreciated.

 

before my gym opened though I did a ton of pushups. A fun challenge is "how many pushups can I do in 30 minutes?". If you can go every day, try it. Or every other day. Just try to beat the # from the last workout. You can then buy some bands you can throw over a door. You'll be able to do triceps, curls, lateral raises, rows. It is enough to get by for a while!

Regarding beer and diet..yeah..its not so much the 4-6 beers I have once a week..it's the frozen pizza I destroy sometimes later on. I"m learning though and keeping a Lean Cuisine pizza that is just 350 calories on hand rather than eating an entire Tombstone.

I suppose I could not have 6 beers...but that's no fun.

 

@mickyge. I said it before and I'll say it again,that LOOKS delicious and looks satisfying. Brilliant , imaginative piece of cooking.

 

Thank you again Sir, I was trying to prove a point about diets. Cheers.

 

I do the same, I can kill a whole frozen or fresh pizza by myself or a pound of pasta at a sitting. Looking at the weeks amount of carbs and calories from those meals is an eye opener.

 

Thanks a lot! I'm diving into it! (It's actually hundredpushups.com)

 

The hundred push-ups program is too hard for me, i am plateauing at thirty reps. Also i bench pressed last week and didn't notice much strength increase from pushing up. Because of that i am going to lower the reps and increase the weight next week by using a 15 kg resistance band when i do my push ups. This way i hope to gain some strength and break my plateau.

After a couple of weeks i'll continue the one hundred push up challenge. But at this point it only frustrates me not being able to do more then a thirty. Other then that i lost some more weight - the initial reason changed my lifestyle - but it seems less important then gaining strength these days.

What has all of this to do with beer? A lot, since i drink every night and often heavy. People have been telling me that i look in good shape, which is ironic since i am leaning towards being an alcoholic. I am not advocating alcoholism - i'd be an idiot - but i can say that losing weight can still be possible even if you drink like a fish.

 

Jeez, I still have a metabolism like an incinerator (for now) but if I have any number of beers consecutively for more than a handful of days, I get bloated, my whole digestive system gets screwed up, and I just feel pudgy and ugly. It could just be water retention, but it throws everything out of whack for me, mentally and physically.

I am a long-distance near-daily runner and even that can’t compensate for daily/heavy drinking (trust me, I’ve tried hah). I’m too vain for that anyway

 

My loose change growler has a very valid point as I am concerned:



In hindsight I might have rinsed the dust top off with a baby wipe or something but I'm not going to pretend I clean very often.

 

I only drink pints and at night, plus is compensate it by eating very little. Sacrifices have be made lol,

No but seriously, i don't advocate my drinking and whenever i quit for a while i feel better. But after i while i miss the pints and start drinking again.

 

Personally, I do push ups until I can't in the morning and then 10 minutues of stretching. 10 minutes of stretching in the evening. I work a physical job that I figure takes care or the rest. That is the extent of my work out.

I drink what I want when I want, and while I consume animal protein at almost every meal, most of my calories are plant based, with a healthy helping of fiber.

While I don't do any cardio, I'm asked by doctors if I do long distance running. Yet to have any test results telling me to change it up.

I'm also a smoker, and I know I should give it up, but at 41, I feel like I'm doing better than lots of folks in their 20s.

 

Most calories are plant based? I mean no disrespect, but perhaps do you mean that consumption by volume is plant based?

Unless you include oils, it’s pretty tough if you eat animal protein or carbs to get most calories from plants. That’s basically only eating beans.

 

My farts are legendary...

Also, the vast majority of carbs anyone intakes are plant based.
I prefer to use meat as a seasoning. Cured pork and aged cheese are used to give flavor and, for lack of a better term, "fullness" to the meal.

I use olive or sesame oil generously, depending on what I'm going for.

 

Fair enough.

I understand that carbs are “plant based”, it’s just not usually what people mean when they say that.

Our of curiosity, what does a typical day of meals look like for you, when most calories are plant based? Just having a hard time seeing this, having known many vegetarians, and even some vegans. Unless you are eating a raw diet, or specifically avoid fats or oils, beans must be far and away the largest contributor for most people for calories. (Even if you eat a ton of avocado, I’d call those calories fat calories, not “plant based” per se. Perhaps this is semantics, though.)

 

Normal home cooked meal: rice, potatoes, or pasta form the base. Render out some sorta cured pork: Bacon, salumi, pancetta, side meat, what have you. Scoop the crispy bits out as a garnish, make the rest in the fat. Add onions and garlic, maybe some ginger Make some sort of sauce in the fat.
Depending on the vegetable, I either roast after dressing with olive oil or sesame oil (depending on what I'm going for). A lot of the time, vegetable is cooked into the sauce.
Potatoes are obviously roasted. Rice gets cooked in the fat, pasta gets mixed into the sauce I make from the fat, along with vegetables. If I'm feeling Mexican, I make something to tuck into a tortilla.

That's usually my meal for the day. I will eat two meals on Sundays (my one day off currently). I feel free to have a big, heavy, fatty, animal rich meal once or twice a week because I know that this diet works. More often than not, I get seafood, though.

 

Thanks for your feedback. I see where you are coming from now. Personally, I wouldn’t consider that predominately plant based calories, but I see where you are coming from, and it’s just a definitional/semantics thing to me. (My wife and I sometimes disagree about something, and after a lot of talking it all comes down to how we both envisioned or defined something, where it may be open to interpretation. For example, in this case potatoes are obviously plants, not animal based, but they are also carbs, and not inherently what most people think of when they say plants.)

Appreciate you taking the time to respond.

As my wife is from louisiana and I am (what I call) an adopted Cajun, we eat a lot of rice. Far more than any northerner nearby that I know (unless they are non-white, since rice is a core ingredient in many cultures around the world).

 

Same. I have cut back on beer so much that A) looking back I can't believe that there was once a time when I drank as much as I did; while that was a relatively short lived phase for me and was still not an every night thing, for me it was definitely too much B) now even just a few beers in a sitting can do a number on me (although it seems that the style of beer can make a huge difference).

I am shocked at how much some people can put away around here, nowadays if I did that I would probably die

 

I’ve definitely teetered on falling down some slippery slopes. Looking back, I am usually embarrassed by how much I would regularly drink, sometimes around like 4-6 drinks on worknights, getting into double digits on the weekends sometimes. I learned that my heart’s not in it, I could never justify that lifestyle and the crippling hangovers were definitely not worth it. I don’t know how long-term alcoholics do it, man. I guess I’m lucky.

 

Absolutely. 3-6 high ABV beers in one sitting is no joke, I would sometimes do that on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I avoided drinking during the week for the most part but occasionally a friend(s) would want to go out during the week because of their schedule and before you know it you're 3-4 crazy beers in on one of those nights too.

I had fun and I got to try a lot of different beers during this time by default but as I got older I'm thankful I put the brakes on all of that. Not too long ago I ended up having four beers in one night and even with sufficient water intake and making the right food choices I still felt like crap the next day. But not a bad thing I suppose when you think about it