Here's a few pics for you from 2012. A before and after (2009 to 2012)
https://imgur.com/a/iz5Rqg4
Shirt off pic. You can see the washboard forming, pectorals were starting to form too. I was wearing a size 34.
https://imgur.com/a/ppsb6bh
You can build muscle with cardio and running. Sometimes it's genetics. My 14 year old son has been doing road bike racing the last 2 years, and has seen some crazy gains on his legs.
You seem to be the only person in this entire thread that has had the Kaiser "Thrive" experience.
>Calories don't appear magically in your body. That you may not have been able to refrain yourself for either eating healthy, or eating less, or both, is another issue entirely.
Cereal for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, and a proteins, side veg and roll for dinner.
>Or maybe it is the same issue, if you were actually doing exercise to compensate your bad eating habits.
Or maybe it's like I said, I can't even walk a mile now without pain. My mobility has been severely limited to the point where the only way I would have stayed at 180 would have been a 700 calorie a day diet.
>Also, if you had been in a country with good public healthcare (like in Western or Northern Europe), this wouldn't have been a problem either.
Does Canada count? I have friends here in the US that LOVE our privatized health care because in Canada they would be waiting months just to see their doctors.
>This isn't an issue with health and exercise, it's an issue with idiots in the medical system.
I think it was an issue with the medical system first, doctors second.
Kaiser is an HMO, not an insurer. You can almost think of an HMO like a Gym membership. Everyone pays a fairly flat fee and gets access to various bits of equipment (or healthcare in this instance) There is a few problems though.
1. You cannot really sue an HMO in California for Malpractice. So this allows them to make shitty judgement calls.
2. The Doctors at Kaiser also own stock.. So indirectly the doctors have an incentive to deny care, especially if they think it will be costly to the hospital bottom line.
3. In regards to #2, Kaiser will come up with crappy tests to deny care.. like using a BMI chart, instead of something more comprehensive like hydrostatic weighing.
I honestly feel you're better off not exercising after my experiences.
In 2013 I ran quite a bit, 2 to 4 miles a day. I had been doing this for several years and had a washboard stomach, rippling calves. Was never much of an arms guy. During one of my runs that year my knee did something it never did before, it bent backwards. I had pain on the inner knee that wouldn't go away. I went in to see my doc at Kaiser.
"You're 5'10 and 180 lbs, you need to lose weight"
"But I'm all muscle!"
"Ortho won't do anything for you at that weight"
Kaiser in all their infinite wisdom had cursed me that day. Despite being in the best shape of my life, sleeping soundly, tons of energy, my doc just looked at a BMI chart and decided the state of my health. I'd later self diagnose this as a torn meniscus, something pretty easy for them to fix. They're just not going to do it. With my body unable to burn calories like it did before, my weight has shot through the roof.
With that, I'd say not doing exercise might have been better. What I wouldn't give to be able to just walk a mile without pain, or up a flight of stairs without the knee clicking.
Where is the money going?
Unnecessary layers of process complexity and upper management/C-level bonuses.
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t0qer opined:
- but the spin CEC-P puts on it is purely political.
On a site that grants us the ability to write opinions, you seem to be bothered that people do. It's impossible to critique political opinion, without said critique being political itself. Less we forget that the opines of the founding fathers was considered "radical" print.
H1-B should be a path to citizenship, why?
It would eliminate the abuses of the system. Let me explain.
H1-B abuses exist because of the "Find a new job in 30 days if you get fired, or go back to India" While it's true, TaTa consulting charges $250k a year for an engineer, after they take their cut that engineer is lucky to be making $60k. I've seen it happen soooo many times.
So in reality, we need 3 things to happen.
1. Ban consulting companies like Tata and Infosys from playing the H1-B lottery.
2. Eliminate the "30 days" option.
3. Give H1-B's the same rights and recourse Americans have.
What a day to not have mod points. I don't see anything wrong with your comment. It's an actual quote, actual facts. The only troll/flamebait I see here is the CEO. If mods want to be mad at anyone, be mad at the CEO who said and did this stuff. CEC-P is just pointing out what was said and done.
Makes me think of Heavens Gate, a different cult.
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Texas has the highest rate of housing buildouts in the country. Many of these houses are in a lower latitude than Phoenix Arizona. I've always loved this quote from king of the hill on how building in these places is a monument to mans arrogance, and I think it's right on the money.
I get why real estate developers love these regions. Land is CHEAP, often times there's minimal roadblocks in the way of local regulations, labor pool is cheap and all of this adds up to high profits. All you have to do is build what is essentially life support systems, and there is the problem. Life support systems in these regions are a finite resource. The arid regions around the world tell the same story, when these resources dry up, they become ghost towns. If it wasn't for Northern California shipping water down to LA via the Aqueduct, it would be a ghost town (or at least sparsely populated) Air conditioning is what's made them livable.
For our carbon offset, we REALLY need to knock this off. It's not just Phoenix that's a monument to mans arrogance. Dubai, Vegas, most of Texas, LA are all culprits.
Well, Adobe is trying to purchase Figma but is running into regulatory concerns. Their entire reason for making this free to students is to hopefully drown out the negative attention from it being .
That said, Figma is not intended to be an Adobe replacement. Adobe is attempting to buy it to bring it into the fold so that they have a more robust collaborative UI design toolkit.
They're called taxes and infrastructure subsidies. The problem here, oversimplified, are twofold:
1. We already paid "Big Telco" billions for infrastructure and they pissed it away.
2. We allow all companies to not pay their fair share and thus the revenues are down.
Governing and taxation are broken.
How many NASA managers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? "That's a known problem... don't worry about it."
