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Cooking with impunity!
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Cooking with impunity! Years ago I was very overweight. I've lost about 140 lbs and still losing. I've always been athletic and after a while sat on my ass, ate and didn't exercise. 8 years ago at age 52 I decided to do something about it and started a really intense exercise program that 99.999% Americans would not have done, or wanted to do. It involved being at the gym when the doors opened at 5am lifting weights, at noon lunch hour I either ran, or took a stepping class. During the winter it was stepping, during the warmer months, it was running. Everyday I ran, and it sucked. It started as a run walk program before I could continue to run without stopping. I started running and walking 1/4 mile every day for two weeks and then every week I added 1/4 mile to it. My first goal was to run 1/4 mile without walking. Eventually I was up to running 4 miles without stopping. At 5pm I was doing yoga for an hour. Then from 6pm to 8-9pm I entered the ring and started Ultimate Fighting, MMA, Mixed Martial Arts. You can see it on Spike TV. It's as brutal as it you see it, judo, ju jitsu, boxing, elbows to the face, knees to the head or stomach, punches, kicks, choke holds, trying to choke the opponent out, break a bone, or dislocate a joint. Wny? I was overweight, out of shape, and I didn't know how to defend myself. Then at 9 or little after, I would stop by the gym and swim, take a whirlpool, steam, shower, dress, and get home at 11pm and to to bed. My girlfriend didn't see me much. Saturdays I would fight from 9am to 12-2pm, then hit the weights at the gym, steam, shower, dress. I was fighting guys 10 yrs to 35 years younger than me, mostly 20-35 years younger. Am I right? Few Americans would want to have partake in this exercise program? I didn't go out to a restaurant for 9 months. Cut out all the crap in my diet. Taking a whey protein shake often to rebuild muscle. I still fight at age 60 several evenings a week, not the 7 days a week I did before. At first it was a store front property, then it became an invitation only private fight club (not for money), and now again, I fight in someone's basement with others. He has a nice section of the basement padded, nice equipment. Several of my training partners are now in the UFC. No, I couldn't beat them but I could give them a difficult time, and if the opening was there, I could hurt them. But that is never the purpose of training, to hurt your training partner. The purpose is to improve yourself, improve your training partner. And if you got into a difficult position, you could "tap" out and play would stop. Then 7 years ago I told my girlfriend if she joined a gym, I would cook dinner for her Mon-Fri nights. She joined a gym, first Curves, and then Ladies Express. 6 years later I'm still waiting for her to quit the gym so I can quit cooking. I can cook anything I want, without impunity, because she doesn't want to take up the cooking. I was always a very good cook, right from the get go. Because I've been cooking for a while now, I've gotten better and am an now an outstanding cook, getting very inventive. At times being invited to cook for small get togethers, special occasions, Valentines Day, Anniversaries. When I cook something and it's good, I want to take a bite, and say Wow, this is good. When I cook something that's inventive, I want to say Wow, this is good. And since I change something most nights I cook, some are Wow, some are pretty good, some are good, and others are so so. The last absolutely the most major notable failure was 35 years ago when I saw a recipe in Ann Landers that called for using peanut butter in meat loaf. That was terrible. Terrible. Maybe the only food I've ever thrown out other than burning food. |
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This is a great story - thank you for sharing! That is a hard core work out!!! I thought what I did was hard core. I don't think that anymore after reading of your typical day! Good for you and your GF for going healthy and getting in great shape!!!
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