[quote]Kanada wrote:
Regarding the trend of young women to have soft midsections, i blame it on the ah-ah-ah-ah-alcohol. and cookies. women seem to love sweets and gettin drunk enough to be easy.
for the younger girls, sweets are hopefully the main culprit[/quote]
Not for SickAbz
[quote]Tex32 wrote:
I get criticized every morning for rolling into school with big ass omelets, steak and eggs, jambalaya, shakes with raw eggs, etc by kids with muffins and bagels slugging down tankards of extra cream, extra sugar frappacinos. But its all the skinny fat kids who do it so I just smile and exaggerate my enjoyment of whatever I’m eating.
You know, Cain was a vegetarian…[/quote]
I’ve copied this off T-Mag years ago and refer to it when I get lazy…it happens. Tex32’s comment about enjoying his ____ that much more.
“So, what are you doing for a living these days?” Bob asked me. We’re sitting on the couch at one of those tedious holiday get-togethers, you know, the ones where you’re supposed to be nice to family members you never see except during major holidays and funerals. I think Bob is my wife’s brother-in-law’s second cousin or something.
“I’m the assistant editor and a writer for Testosterone magazine,” I say. Bob looks at me with a blank expression on his face, as if I’d just told him I sell handmade testicle warmers beside the freeway and was looking to open franchises across the nation.
“It’s a bodybuilding magazine,” I say.
Blank expression. Deer caught in the headlights. Ronnie Coleman doing trigonometry.
“Oh,” Bob finally says, “I heard you were, like, one of those bodybuilder guys or something. So, what’s that like, you know, working out every day and stuff? I just don’t have time to lift weights all day, but I have been meaning to get rid of this beer belly.” He takes another sip of beer. “What do you suggest?” Sip.
At first I was a little offended. I wanted to grab him up and say, “You can’t tell I’m a bodybuilder?! Look at my ass! Now, if that’s not a nice round squat-built piece of sirloin, I don’t know what is! You think that comes naturally? I can crack walnuts with this puppy! Wanna see? Huh, punk? Do ya? Do ya?”
Then I realize this just might cause a scene and could cost me several Christmas presents. I was planning on returning any presents I got and using the money to buy a power rack, so I didn’t want to jeopardize this gift getting opportunity. I also realized that old Bob probably had a certain preconceived image of a bodybuilder and I just didn’t fit that image. I’m not gorilla huge; I weigh about 205 at 5’11" right now. (When I first started lifting I was a pudgy 159, so that’s not too shabby.) Also, I wasn’t wearing clown pants, a fluorescent string tank top, a hanky on my head and one of those little fanny packs. And isn’t that what real bodybuilders are supposed to wear?
Bob continued to sit there drinking his Natural Light, smoking a cigarette and waiting for an answer, oblivious to the fact that he’d come this close to seeing some serious walnut- crunching ass power. I tried to figure out how I could explain to the average guy what the typical T-Man does and why he does it. How could I get him to understand what it is we do, how we feel, how we live? So I took a deep breath and told him something like this:
"Well, Bob, I guess you could use the term bodybuilder if you really need a label for what it is we do. Most of us actually don’t stand on stage and compete, though. We lift weights and manipulate our diets so that we’ll look good naked. Sure, it’s healthy too, and we’ll probably live a longer and more productive life than the average guy, but mostly it’s about the naked thing. Truthfully, it goes beyond even that.
"Let’s be honest here. We do it because of people like you, Bob. We look at you sitting there with your gut hanging over your belt and we watch you grunt and groan just getting out of a chair. Guys like you are our inspiration, Bob. You’re better than Anthony Robbins, Bill Phillips, Deepak Chopra, and Zig fucking Ziglar all wrapped up into one. We love it when guys like you talk about not having time to exercise. Every time we see you munching on a bag of potato chips, you inspire us. You’re my shot in the arm, Bob, my living and breathing wake-up call, my own personal success coach.
"You want to know what it is we do? We overcome. We’re too busy to train, too, but we overcome. We’re too busy to prepare healthy meals and eat them five or six times a day, but we overcome. We can’t always afford supplements, our genetics aren’t perfect, and we don’t always feel like going to the gym. Some of us used to be just like you, Bob, but guess what? We’ve overcome.
"We like to watch ‘normal’ people like you tell us about how they can’t get in shape. We smile and nod sympathetically like we feel your pain, but actually, we’re thinking that you’re a pathetic piece of shit that needs to grow a spine and join a gym. You smile sheepishly and say that you just can’t stay motivated and just can’t stand that feeling of being sore. (For some reason you think that admitting your weaknesses somehow justifies them.) We listen to you bitch and moan. We watch you look for the easy way out. Because of people like you, Bob, we never miss a workout.
"You ask us for advice about diet and training and usually we politely offer some guidance, but deep inside we know you won’t take our advice. You know that too. We smile and say, ‘Hope that helps. Good luck,’ but actually we’re thinking, ‘Boy, it would suck to be you.’ We know that 99% of people won’t listen to us. Once they hear that it takes hard work, sacrifice and discipline, they stop listening and tune us out.
"We know they wanted us to say that building a great body is easy, but it just isn’t. This did not take five minutes a day on a TorsoTrack. We did not get this way in 12 short weeks using a Bowflex and the Suzanne Somers’ ‘Get Skinny’ diet. A good body does not cost five easy payments of $39.95.
"We like it that while you’re eating a candy bar and drinking Mountain Dew, we’re sucking down a protein shake. You see, that makes it taste even better to us. While you’re asleep we’re either getting up early or staying up late, hitting the iron, pushing ourselves, learning, succeeding and failing and rising above the norm with every rep. Can you feel that, Bob? Can you relate? No? Good. This wouldn’t be half as fun if you could.
"We do it because we absolutely and totally get off on it. We do it because people like you, Bob, either can’t or won’t. We do it because what we do in the gym transfers over into the rest of our lives and changes us, physically, mentally, maybe even spiritually. We do it because it beats watching fishing and golf on TV. By the way, do you know what it’s like to turn the head of a beautiful woman because of the way you’re built? It feels good, Bob. Damned good.
"When we’re in the gym, we’re in this indescribable euphoria zone. It’s a feeling of being on, of being completely alive and aware. If you haven’t been there, then it’s like trying to describe color to a person who’s been blind since birth. Within this haze of pleasure and pain, there’s knowledge and power, self-discipline and self-reliance. If you do it long enough, Bob, there’s even enlightenment. Sometimes, the answers to questions you didn’t even know you had are sitting there on those rubber mats, wrapped up in a neat package of iron plates and bars.
"Want to lose that beer belly, Bob? I have a nutty idea. Put down the fucking beer. I’ll tell you what, Bob. Christmas morning I’m getting up real early and hitting the iron. I want to watch my daughter open her presents and spend the whole day with her, so this is the only time I have to train. The gym will be closed, so I’m going out in my garage to workout. You be at my house at six in the morning, okay? I’ll be glad to help you get started on a weight training program. It’ll be colder than Hillary Clinton’s coochie in there, so dress warm.
"But let me tell you something, Bob. If you don’t show up, don’t bother asking me again. And don’t you ever sit there and let me hear you bitch about your beer belly again. This is your chance, your big opportunity to break out of that rut. If you don’t show up, Bob, you’ve learned a very important lesson about yourself, haven’t you? You won’t like that lesson.
"You won’t like that feeling in the pit of your stomach either or that taste in your mouth. It will taste worse than defeat, Bob. Defeat tastes pretty goddamned nasty, but what you’ll be experiencing will be much worse. It will be the knowledge that you’re weak, mentally and physically. What’s worse is that you’ll have accepted that feeling. The feeling will always be with you. In the happiest moments of your life, it’ll be there, lying under the surface like a malignant tumor. Ignore it at your own peril, Bob.
“Don’t look at me like that either. This just may be the best Christmas present you’ll get this year. Next Christmas, Bob, when I see you again, I’m going to be a little bigger, a little stronger, and a little leaner. What will you be? Will you still be making excuses? This is a gift, Bob, from me to you. I’m giving you the chance to look fate in those pretty eyes of hers and say, ‘Step off, bitch. This is my party and you’re not invited.’ What do you say, Bob? Monday, Christmas morning, 6am, my house. The ball’s in your court.”
Okay, so maybe that’s not the exact words I used with Bob, but you get the picture. Will Bob show up Monday? I don’t know, but I kind of doubt it. In fact, Bob will probably take me off his Christmas card list. He probably thinks I’ve got “too much Testosterone,” like that’s a bad thing. I think Bob is just stuck in a rut, and as the saying goes, the only difference between a rut and a grave is depth.
The way out of the rut is to make major changes in your life, most of which won’t be too pleasant in the beginning. The opportunity to make those changes seldom comes as bluntly as I put it to Bob. Most of the time, that opportunity knocks very softly. What I did was basically give Bob a verbal slap in the face. You can react two ways to a slap. You can get angry at the person doing the slapping, or you can realize that he was just trying to get you to wake up and focus on what you really want and, more importantly, what it’ll take to get it.
If you’re a regular T-mag reader, I doubt you need to be called out like Bob. But maybe you’ve caught yourself slacking a little here lately. Maybe you’ve missed a few workouts or maybe you started a little too early on the usual holiday feasting, like, say, back in September. Just remember that the time to start working on that summer body is now. The time to get rid of those bad habits that hold you back in the gym is now. You want to look totally different by next Christmas? Start now. This isn’t because of the holidays or any corny New Year’s resolutions either. The best time is always now.
Christmas day I want you to enjoy being with your family and friends. I want you to open presents, sip a little eggnog and have a good meal. But if your regularily scheduled workout happens to fall on December 25th, what will you be doing at six o’clock that morning?
That’s what separates us from guys like Bob.
[quote]mike_70 wrote:
I’ve copied this off T-Mag years ago and refer to it when I get lazy…it happens. Tex32’s comment about enjoying his ____ that much more.
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Thank you so much. That was perfect. I would have never found that article. I’m not a Bob but I do know some Bobs that I can use this to explain myself to (not because I want to be respected but because I dont like being misunderstood).
People are just so undereducated about nutrition really and yet always have a opinion. I’m sure a lot of us were once like these people we speak of before visiting a site such as T-Nation.
Having nutrition discussions with nutrition ignorant people is by far the most frustrating thing I will ever have to do (considering it happens nearly daily).
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]schultzie wrote:
It seems that the whole vegetarian diet for body composition and health movement is one of the most damaging trends to young females today. I work with a large amount of 17-22 year old girls, and more than half of them have some degree of anemia. Not to mention they are either way underweight, or overweight with below average muscle mass. All of them have problems with energy and have various degrees of mood swings, which I know can be a result of their cycles, but shouldn’t be an excuse to let it run rampant.
Almost every day they ask me about diet advice. I used to tell them in depth of what to do but honestly now, I just tell them to follow the government food guide. It’s not even close to optimal, but compared to what they are doing now…
If they seriously just made sure to get ~80g of protein a day, which is absolutely nothing, they would feel so much better. I don’t even care if its 80g of soy nuts and tofu.[/quote]
I would go as far as to say women in general are “food ignorant”. I had one of the assistants at work make a HUGE issue about the amount of fluid I was drinking as if it would kill me. She was referring to the half gallon of MAG-10 I was drinking throughout the day. You see, because I am trying to build or maintain muscle, this automatically made how I eat “bad” in their minds. She literally asked, “is drinking that much water healthy”…in a tone signifying she thought it wasn’t.
You see, half a gallon of water = bad…if you are trying to build muscle.
Me eating the literal same meal for lunch 99% of the time of 1lb steak+rice+vegetables = bad…because I’m really muscular.
Mind you, these are the same women who literally made a habit of going out once a week for PIE and who bring so many baked goods to work that you would think the break room was the storage room at Dunkin Donuts.
These same women fasted all of last week because they all got fat over the holidays.
But me…the guy who has the same meal everyday is the one who is eating so unhealthy they need to basically have an intervention.
This right here is why I try to avoid even discussing how to eat when in a group of women.
They are now into a routine of missing lunch completely (no solid food at all) but drinking pureed fruit as their meal everyday…BECAUSE OF HOW HEALTHY THAT IS.[/quote]
This is very true, but it goes a lot farther than just food. It is everything about the lifestyle that is taboo.
Ever had a guy tell you squats are bad for your needs and then go run 4 miles?
Remember that bbing video about that young guy (the fish and rice cakes guy) and his mom standing in the kitchen talking about how all the stuff he was doing wasnâ??t healthy all the while smoking a cigarette?
Steroids fall pretty well into this category of ignorance and extreme hypocrisy especially for women. It seems that any woman will tell you that steroids are bad, you shouldnâ??t do them, they would be disappointed if you did them, est. (yes, I actually have women I know come up and volunteer this intervention style). I also know that all of these women take female hormones for looks and/or birth control. So, if you take hormones to improve musculature/masculinity itâ??s intervention worthy, but taking them to control acne, thatâ??s okay.
Anything associated with a muscle building lifestyle can’t be good. Call a protein shake and protein shake and it’ll destroy your kidneys. Call it a health food or “weightloss” drink and the same people talking about kidney failure will line up for it.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]schultzie wrote:
It seems that the whole vegetarian diet for body composition and health movement is one of the most damaging trends to young females today. I work with a large amount of 17-22 year old girls, and more than half of them have some degree of anemia. Not to mention they are either way underweight, or overweight with below average muscle mass. All of them have problems with energy and have various degrees of mood swings, which I know can be a result of their cycles, but shouldn’t be an excuse to let it run rampant.
Almost every day they ask me about diet advice. I used to tell them in depth of what to do but honestly now, I just tell them to follow the government food guide. It’s not even close to optimal, but compared to what they are doing now…
If they seriously just made sure to get ~80g of protein a day, which is absolutely nothing, they would feel so much better. I don’t even care if its 80g of soy nuts and tofu.[/quote]
I would go as far as to say women in general are “food ignorant”. I had one of the assistants at work make a HUGE issue about the amount of fluid I was drinking as if it would kill me. She was referring to the half gallon of MAG-10 I was drinking throughout the day. You see, because I am trying to build or maintain muscle, this automatically made how I eat “bad” in their minds. She literally asked, “is drinking that much water healthy”…in a tone signifying she thought it wasn’t.
You see, half a gallon of water = bad…if you are trying to build muscle.
Me eating the literal same meal for lunch 99% of the time of 1lb steak+rice+vegetables = bad…because I’m really muscular.
Mind you, these are the same women who literally made a habit of going out once a week for PIE and who bring so many baked goods to work that you would think the break room was the storage room at Dunkin Donuts.
These same women fasted all of last week because they all got fat over the holidays.
But me…the guy who has the same meal everyday is the one who is eating so unhealthy they need to basically have an intervention.
This right here is why I try to avoid even discussing how to eat when in a group of women.
They are now into a routine of missing lunch completely (no solid food at all) but drinking pureed fruit as their meal everyday…BECAUSE OF HOW HEALTHY THAT IS.[/quote]
This is very true, but it goes a lot farther than just food. It is everything about the lifestyle that is taboo.
Ever had a guy tell you squats are bad for your needs and then go run 4 miles?
Remember that bbing video about that young guy (the fish and rice cakes guy) and his mom standing in the kitchen talking about how all the stuff he was doing wasnâ??t healthy all the while smoking a cigarette?
Steroids fall pretty well into this category of ignorance and extreme hypocrisy especially for women. It seems that any woman will tell you that steroids are bad, you shouldnâ??t do them, they would be disappointed if you did them, est. (yes, I actually have women I know come up and volunteer this intervention style). I also know that all of these women take female hormones for looks and/or birth control. So, if you take hormones to improve musculature/masculinity itâ??s intervention worthy, but taking them to control acne, thatâ??s okay.
Anything associated with a muscle building lifestyle can’t be good. Call a protein shake and protein shake and it’ll destroy your kidneys. Call it a health food or “weightloss” drink and the same people talking about kidney failure will line up for it.
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Very true. If I called my protein shakes “energy drinks”, no one would say shit. If I replaced my steaks with fried chicken, I wouldn’t hear a word about how unhealthy it supposedly is.
You would think some of this ridiculous hypocrisy would be evident to even them at least some of the time.
These are also the same people that oooooh and aaaaah at how Sly looked in the last Rocky at 60 years old.
“How does he do it?” they ask.
“Dude he takes HGH. That’s why,” comes an answer.
Then they roll their eyes and say, “Of course.”
As if the shit all the work for you…
[quote]Geddan wrote:
Quick question: When did the “meat is bad and unhealthy” trend start?
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When they did a study on people who didn’t do shit but eat 3lbs of beef a day and the people eventually got cancer at 55.
Then you do another study on vegans and grown men are all 140lbs or less. Must be a magic way to lose weight.
This is America they try to steer everything to either the left or the right, fuck straight.
[quote]hungry4more wrote:
[quote]jo3 wrote:
On an unrelated note, I wish I could eat a pound of steak in one sitting like it was nothing. Doing that puts me in a food coma.[/quote]
Weak man, weak. Try drinking a dozen eggs every day…THAT gets comments. Lol.[/quote]
What’s worse is when your friend’s wife who graduated with a biochem degree freaks out when she finds out that you eat at least three eggs with your oatmeal every morning. Apparently it’s bad for my cholesterol, and I’m going to die of a heart attack before I’m 40.
Okay reading some of these post some of these people are pretty radical. I haven’t even come close to some of the situations some of you posted.
DD has a good point about steroids and yet a ton of woman are using some form of estrogen.
[quote]Fuzzyapple wrote:
Okay reading some of these post some of these people are pretty radical. I haven’t even come close to some of the situations some of you posted.
DD has a good point about steroids and yet a ton of woman are using some form of estrogen. [/quote]
I never came in contact with behavior like this until I actually started working at a real job. These people need stuff to talk about to fuel the gossip machine so anything that makes you stand out is fair game.
Talked to a kid in the gym the other night. He asked me what I ate. Told him about 8-10 eggs every morning, about 2 lbs of meat, and potatoes and vegetables and protein shakes. He was fascinated, said he wanted to tell his mom this-- she’s an R.D.
He went home and talked to “Mom”.
Tonight I saw him. “Mom” said that there will be no ‘mass egg eating’ in her household because it’s suicide via cholesterol. Apparently, she was animatedly appalled that I would even speak such evil to her son (who is 20-ish) and wants to lift.
The initials apparently lock you into whichever dogma is thrown at you in school. Apologies to Bricknyce.
Lots of great posts in these thread!
My parents complain about my protein intake everyday, thinking that it would cause all kinds of diseases (My protein intake is definitely lower than what it should be). They are fatasses that think vegetarians are healthy, but are to lazy and care too much about taste of foods to do anything. The other day, I was drinking a cup of milk and eating some peanuts before going to bed and they gave me a huge fuss about it for a whole damn hour. All that stress completely screwed my schedule; I was tired for the next day. My workout couldn’t even be as intense as I planned. They think eating, especially something with protein, before bed is terrible for health and proceeded to ruin my health even more. Even after showing them legit research papers, they still claim that they know more than me about health. They can’t even do a proper air squat when I urged them to try. I’d say I waste an hour everyday arguing with my parents about my diet and lifting every day. Can’t wait until college.
For school, I take 1/2 pound of terrible quality deli meat in cheap bread and 1-2 pounds of random fruits and vegetables and 2 hard-boiled eggs (yes, my parents give me shit about my cholesterol level for only having 2 eggs per day). I’m known as the guy with the huge sandwich and the garden. Most other people bring small pbj sandwiches or sandwiches with only 1 oz of the same low quality ham and a bag of chips. People often wonder why my lunch is 3 times as big as theirs yet I’m not fat like them. The sad thing is that I know my diet is crap (restricted by parents), but it’s still probably better than that of 99% of the people at school. Today, a freshman girl was telling me that I should put ranch in my bag of fruits and vegetables. Another day, a vegetarian girl stuffing her face with a chocolate bar and microwaveable pizza was complaining about how much meat was in my sandwich. sigh Can’t stand people who eat with no purpose and want everyone else to do the same.
[quote]cct wrote:
Lots of great posts in these thread!
My parents complain about my protein intake everyday, thinking that it would cause all kinds of diseases (My protein intake is definitely lower than what it should be). They are fatasses that think vegetarians are healthy, but are to lazy and care too much about taste of foods to do anything. The other day, I was drinking a cup of milk and eating some peanuts before going to bed and they gave me a huge fuss about it for a whole damn hour. All that stress completely screwed my schedule; I was tired for the next day. My workout couldn’t even be as intense as I planned. They think eating, especially something with protein, before bed is terrible for health and proceeded to ruin my health even more. Even after showing them legit research papers, they still claim that they know more than me about health. They can’t even do a proper air squat when I urged them to try. I’d say I waste an hour everyday arguing with my parents about my diet and lifting every day. Can’t wait until college.
For school, I take 1/2 pound of terrible quality deli meat in cheap bread and 1-2 pounds of random fruits and vegetables and 2 hard-boiled eggs (yes, my parents give me shit about my cholesterol level for only having 2 eggs per day). I’m known as the guy with the huge sandwich and the garden. Most other people bring small pbj sandwiches or sandwiches with only 1 oz of the same low quality ham and a bag of chips. People often wonder why my lunch is 3 times as big as theirs yet I’m not fat like them. The sad thing is that I know my diet is crap (restricted by parents), but it’s still probably better than that of 99% of the people at school. Today, a freshman girl was telling me that I should put ranch in my bag of fruits and vegetables. Another day, a vegetarian girl stuffing her face with a chocolate bar and microwaveable pizza was complaining about how much meat was in my sandwich. sigh Can’t stand people who eat with no purpose and want everyone else to do the same. [/quote]
just wait till you get to college where everyone knows everything!!!
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, kid. Keep doin your thing though and keep learning … and remember it takes all types of people to make the world we live in, if everyone was the same what would make you you?
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Talked to a kid in the gym the other night. He asked me what I ate. Told him about 8-10 eggs every morning, about 2 lbs of meat, and potatoes and vegetables and protein shakes. He was fascinated, said he wanted to tell his mom this-- she’s an R.D.
He went home and talked to “Mom”.
Tonight I saw him. “Mom” said that there will be no ‘mass egg eating’ in her household because it’s suicide via cholesterol. Apparently, she was animatedly appalled that I would even speak such evil to her son (who is 20-ish) and wants to lift.
The initials apparently lock you into whichever dogma is thrown at you in school. Apologies to Bricknyce.
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This might be the only “field” in which people who actually know shit can almost consider initialed titles to be a bad thing(obviously there are exceptions). Like when someone introduces themselves and comes out with “I’m a CPT” early in the conversation, I prepare myself for some really dumb shit to come out of their mouths in the next few sentences.
[quote]polo77j wrote:
[quote]cct wrote:
Lots of great posts in these thread!
My parents complain about my protein intake everyday, thinking that it would cause all kinds of diseases (My protein intake is definitely lower than what it should be). They are fatasses that think vegetarians are healthy, but are to lazy and care too much about taste of foods to do anything. The other day, I was drinking a cup of milk and eating some peanuts before going to bed and they gave me a huge fuss about it for a whole damn hour. All that stress completely screwed my schedule; I was tired for the next day. My workout couldn’t even be as intense as I planned. They think eating, especially something with protein, before bed is terrible for health and proceeded to ruin my health even more. Even after showing them legit research papers, they still claim that they know more than me about health. They can’t even do a proper air squat when I urged them to try. I’d say I waste an hour everyday arguing with my parents about my diet and lifting every day. Can’t wait until college.
For school, I take 1/2 pound of terrible quality deli meat in cheap bread and 1-2 pounds of random fruits and vegetables and 2 hard-boiled eggs (yes, my parents give me shit about my cholesterol level for only having 2 eggs per day). I’m known as the guy with the huge sandwich and the garden. Most other people bring small pbj sandwiches or sandwiches with only 1 oz of the same low quality ham and a bag of chips. People often wonder why my lunch is 3 times as big as theirs yet I’m not fat like them. The sad thing is that I know my diet is crap (restricted by parents), but it’s still probably better than that of 99% of the people at school. Today, a freshman girl was telling me that I should put ranch in my bag of fruits and vegetables. Another day, a vegetarian girl stuffing her face with a chocolate bar and microwaveable pizza was complaining about how much meat was in my sandwich. sigh Can’t stand people who eat with no purpose and want everyone else to do the same. [/quote]
just wait till you get to college where everyone knows everything!!!
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet, kid. Keep doin your thing though and keep learning … and remember it takes all types of people to make the world we live in, if everyone was the same what would make you you?
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College is fun, nothing is better than listening to people that eat pizza twice a day, only get water from drinking Coke or Pepsi products, and binge drink complain about being fat… Then they think you’re crazy because you take the time to exercise and put some effort into your diet. It’s like they want to be in a perpetual state of complaining.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Talked to a kid in the gym the other night. He asked me what I ate. Told him about 8-10 eggs every morning, about 2 lbs of meat, and potatoes and vegetables and protein shakes. He was fascinated, said he wanted to tell his mom this-- she’s an R.D.
He went home and talked to “Mom”.
Tonight I saw him. “Mom” said that there will be no ‘mass egg eating’ in her household because it’s suicide via cholesterol. Apparently, she was animatedly appalled that I would even speak such evil to her son (who is 20-ish) and wants to lift.
The initials apparently lock you into whichever dogma is thrown at you in school. Apologies to Bricknyce.
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I feel that as soon as I get my degree, I’ll have an overwhelming urge to start profusely apologizing for the dogmatic approach of many Dietitians. (Or hunt them down; for cardio)
Question, is the term ‘Dietitian’ a protected term in the US as well? I know in Canada ‘Nutritionist’ can be anybody, but one must have a degree to be called a ‘Dietitian’.
(Hasn’t helped much though, apparently)
@ Silverhydra: I think your question is moot. With how many ignorant people out there Nutritionist and Dietitian are the same thing. Nutritionist isnt a preotected term in the US either. Dietitian is though. Same thing goes for the UK as well.
