Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[buellm2]

For most of my life it was a constant struggle to eat enough to not lose weight.   Hyper active gym rat lifestyle, high metabolism and a stretchy stomach made "All You Can Eat" my 4 favorite words.    At around 55 things started to change and I found body fat on my abdomen.   Now at 69 I'm actually watching what I eat and quality is more important than quantity.    I can still pack it away though.   A couple years ago I was at a PAL festival and the kids talked me into entering a watermelon eating contest.     Even though I had already eaten lunch it was too easy a win to be a contest.      Todays plan, eat, shoot, walk dog, eat, shoot, nap, eat, shoot, read, go to bed.  Warm weather today so maybe some outside shooting.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Good Job !
Your making excellent progress Dan.
Hang in there and keep up the good work.


By the time I was 60, I had let my weight get out of hand and was around 260lbs with a 43 inch waist.
I retired in 2016 at age 66 and started watching my food intake plus going to the YMCA and excersing regularly, three days a week.
I lift weights, run on an eliptcial machine and ride an excersize bike. ( Sit ups & Pushups too )
I also Snowshoe and Xcountry ski in the winter and ride my mountain bike in the Spring, Summer and Fall.

Now I am 72 years old, my weight is down and I am in fairly good physical condition.
My waist is 33 inches and I am 5'10'' tall.
My weight now days runs between 180 to 185 Lbs.
I feel a lot better with the extra weight gone and have more energy.


Best Wishes - Tom

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Scott just add a pint of high quality ice cream 5 days a week right before bed. That worked for me back when my metabolism and energy burned was like you describe. For years a typical workday included 18,000 to 20,000 steps and a lot of lifting too.

The last 5 years I am not burning so many calories so I eat a lot less just to keep from gaining. I am 6' even and currently 210-213 (down about 25lbs from my all time heaviest) with a 38 inch waste, I would like to weigh between 185-190 but with my pain level and NO real pain pills I can't seem to exercise enough to loose more. I really like good ice cream but RARELY eat it now because I would be HUGE if I ate all I want.

I can't seem to force myself to eat any less, I do miss being a bottomless food pit. Oh well it was good while it lasted. My routine now is Coffee for breakfast, a good lunch between 1:00 and 3:00 PM, and a small meal between 5:00 and 7:00 PM.

I think I take in about 350 calories a day in Coffee-Mate creamer.          

[Hoosier Daddy]

I have a pot of coffee and a bowl of cigarettes before work.
First break I get a sammich out of the "Spinning wheel of Death" at 9:00
Lunch at Noon, left overs from the night before dinner.
Then a chocolate "sweet treat" at 2:00-3:00..
Big Supper at 6:00 (lot's of carbs) is the norm, bag the left-overs for the next days lunch.
Then about mid-night / 01:00 I wake up and have a bowl of cereal or Graham Crackers -n-milk.

I am always on the run.. That's my job... but it has been for 40 years. 

[buellm2]

Success stories are making me feel a bit stout.   Not long ago 300 lbs was fast approaching and my wife made a few not too subtle suggestions.  She's generally right.   Hoping to go under 1/8 of a ton this spring or summer.   Maybe fall.  By next winter for sure.   Next spring at the latest.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Well, I "planned" on finally getting my newest "over the winter" guns outdoors today.
Yesterday was clear and calm but cold (22F) and I had a "honey-do" list.
Today it is already warmer, but dreary and damp with a fair amount of wind.

You wanna hear Mother Nature laugh... tell her your plans. 

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Sunday!!! Up at 0430 CT. After this coffee I’m going to get my day started, last minute plans from last night. Usually, when I’m on call but don’t have a job on my board on Sunday morning I’ll drive my van to Ch**ch, so I don’t have to pull my whole family out if I get called while I’m there. But, and this is rare, my wife was saying last night how the grass has blown up and really needs cut. I mean she’s usually on my case for cutting the grass when she feels I should be doing something else. I ordered new blades, I only have one good set now and I was waiting until they come in. But I decided she was right, we’ve got more rain & sunshine and warm weather this week, next week the grass will be a foot tall. So, I’m going to sharpen the blades I have & get the mowing done and the first line trimming. I’ll watch the service on line when I’m through. If I get called out to work, it’ll have to wait to get finished despite all this.

[Jshooter71]

Good Job !
Your making excellent progress Dan.
Hang in there and keep up the good work.


By the time I was 60, I had let my weight get out of hand and was around 260lbs with a 43 inch waist.
I retired in 2016 at age 66 and started watching my food intake plus going to the YMCA and excersing regularly, three days a week.
I lift weights, run on an eliptcial machine and ride an excersize bike. ( Sit ups & Pushups too )
I also Snowshoe and Xcountry ski in the winter and ride my mountain bike in the Spring, Summer and Fall.

Now I am 72 years old, my weight is down and I am in fairly good physical condition.
My waist is 33 inches and I am 5'10'' tall.
My weight now days runs between 180 to 185 Lbs.
I feel a lot better with the extra weight gone and have more energy.


Best Wishes - Tom

Tommy, you Sir, are an inspiration to all of us… I’m 20 years younger (51 in a few weeks) and feel out of shape. I’m 5’ 9”, 195 lbs. & 33” waist… and often times “tired” and “in pain” are are just excuses that come too easily to mind. I really need to get back into “fighting shape” if I don’t want to succumb to “really too tired & in too much pain” to be active enough over the next 20 years. 

[Lt. Dan]

Good morning GTA! And I hope everyone has a great Sunday!!! Up at 0500 CDT. And I agree, Tom you are an inspiration to all of us. At my heaviest I was at 254 and I remember how miserable and out of shape I felt. Friday I weighed 207.8, yesterday I weighed 207.6 this morning 207.4, not much but I didn't get any exercise those days either and I fried fish for lunch yesterday. LOL As long as the weight is dropping I'm satisfied.

Last night we had one of our granddaughters spend the night, she forgot to pack any clothes for church so we will be streaming church today and ZOOM our Bible fellowship class.

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

Tommy, you Sir, are an inspiration to all of us… I’m 20 years younger (51 in a few weeks) and feel out of shape. I’m 5’ 9”, 195 lbs. & 33” waist… and often times “tired” and “in pain” are are just excuses that come too easily to mind. I really need to get back into “fighting shape” if I don’t want to succumb to “really too tired & in too much pain” to be active enough over the next 20 years. 

Good morning GTA! And I hope everyone has a great Sunday!!! Up at 0500 CDT. And I agree, Tom you are an inspiration to all of us. At my heaviest I was at 254 and I remember how miserable and out of shape I felt. Friday I weighed 207.8, yesterday I weighed 207.6 this morning 207.4, not much but I didn't get any exercise those days either and I fried fish for lunch yesterday. LOL As long as the weight is dropping I'm satisfied.

Last night we had one of our granddaughters spend the night, she forgot to pack any clothes for church so we will be streaming church today and ZOOM our Bible fellowship class.

Hi John & Dan

The older I got the more weight I put on and the physicaly weaker I became.
Once I retired, I had the time to exersize and improve my over all physical condition, so I did.
It was hard at first, to get into the routine going to the gym 3 days a week, but eventually it became a way of life.
I am strong enought now that I can cock those Hatsan 125's with one hand and shoot them as much as I want.
If I was not strength training, I doubt that would be able to handle them at age 72.
I knew that if I wanted to continue doing the activities that I enjoyed I would have to get in better shape.
My wife is 75 and she goes with me. JoAnne does a water aerobics class while I am upstairs in the weight room.
We both have benifited from regular excersizing and it is an activity that we can do together.



Best Wishes - Tom

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Good morning All! Well it is going to be cooler and a little wet today. Nothing serious, the weather radar and forecast shows no rain but there is a heavy mist falling to the ground, so it is raining lightly, enough to feel it and for the ground to be very wet, but not enough to show on the live radar map. I am sure a lot of folks would not call it rain but I will just because there are droplets of water falling, though very small, so rain-droplets. 

I was going to wash my trucks yesterday but am glad I put it off now.

It's Sunday so my plans are mostly about Ch**ch today. May eat out for lunch and maybe take a power nap if I feel like it too. The afternoon is suppose to be 66°-68°F and mostly cloudy.

 

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Monday!!! I didn’t get any calls this weekend, so it’s back to the grind. It’s supposed to rain all day today and I have to go pickup the rest of my filters for the PM I tried to do Friday. I don’t like doing PMs in the rain on the roof. So, we’ll have to see how that goes. My new van should be ready any day now, I’m hoping it’s this week. 

[avator]

Morning...
Productive Sunday around here..
We had a double wide set of steps leading up to the front deck. The rain water running off the roof over the years rotted the set nearest the house so I cut it all out and eliminated that set. I skirted underneath and Betty Lou filled it in with pavers. Then I finished off the hand rail. Everything is good and solid now and Betty Lou will use the hand rail to put out herb plants.
Then we did some grocery shopping and watched the Nascar race.

[Blowpipe Sam]

About a month ago we had a marine surveyor inspect all our tour boats.  The report made its way up through channels to the Capitol and late Saturday we got a frantic call saying not to run anymore tours.  No explanation just no more boats “temporarily”.  Sounds like the surveyor found something that scared the poo out of the bean counters.  The State is terrified of liability suits so maybe we’re going to get some major repairs to our fleet.

Anyhoo. . .  I’m a boat captain.  Without boats I’m at loose ends.  So I told my APM (assistant park manager) that I had accumulated 48 hours of comp time and I would like to use it.
So I’m taking the day off!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I usually wait until the last minute, but I am going to try to get my taxes done today. But I don't want to.    Oh well might as well get it over with.

I might? check back in later on today?? 

[A.K.A. Tommy Boy]

So....it snowed at my place last night.
I got about 2 inches of wet heavy snow.
I got up early and went out and cleared the driveway this morning.



Best Wishes - Tom

[Firewalker]

So....it snowed at my place last night.
I got about 2 inches of wet heavy snow.
I got up early and went out and cleared the driveway this morning.



Best Wishes - Tom

Whatchadoin with our snow, Tom? 

[Lt. Dan]

I usually wait until the last minute, but I am going to try to get my taxes done today. But I don't want to.    Oh well might as well get it over with.

I might? check back in later on today?? 

I picked our taxes up from the accountant this morning. Got to pay 'em some.....but we did sell 45 acres of timber last year. I just hate it when Uncle holds his hand out.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Well between the memsahib and my mother I didn’t get much day off.  I’ve been moving heavy furniture (my mom’s hobby) and gardening ( the memsahib’s hobby) all day.
I’m pooped.  Be happy to get back to work tomorrow!

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

I usually wait until the last minute, but I am going to try to get my taxes done today. But I don't want to.    Oh well might as well get it over with.

I might? check back in later on today?? 

Well I got sidetracked by my siblings and had to start moving heavy furniture out of my dad's trust house instead. I'm beat and have extra pain now. On the bright side I had a great Avocado Bacon Cheeseburger for lunch.