[quote]mjnewland wrote:
8) On monday morning, after pushing the prowler, I weighed 301 lbs. Today, after pushing the prowler I weighed 191 lbs. [/quote]
LOL. That’s a lot of Prowler pushing! j/k
Lots of good work going on in here and nice job on the GPP/Prowler work. I need to build myself one.
MJ,I’ve given up on full blown Atkins diet. Too strick for me. I’ve added nuts and fruit for deserts or to satisfy cravings. I don’t remember who said it but it something like:‘I’ve never seen anyone getting fat from eating bananas’. You get the idea.
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
MJ,I’ve given up on full blown Atkins diet. Too strick for me. I’ve added nuts and fruit for deserts or to satisfy cravings. I don’t remember who said it but it something like:‘I’ve never seen anyone getting fat from eating bananas’. You get the idea.[/quote]
Sure do. I am not really doing “atkins” but its easier than explaining Protein Power by the Drs. Eades. similar, but with veggies.
As for catechism, I had 2 cookies on tuesday, and 4 cookies on thursday. Let he who is truly pure throw the first stone. I heard that quote about carrots and apples. nobody sits down in front of a football game, eats a bag of apples, and gets fat.
[quote]mjnewland wrote:
nobody sits down in front of a football game, eats a bag of apples, and gets fat.[/quote]
My mom has been a yo-yo dieter her whole life. She’ll count out her baby carrots, which always cracks me up because who gets fat eating carrots? Honestly, I’m better off avoiding sugar totally. I’m not good at eating just one of anything. And that’s a serious understatement.
I’ve found that when I get hungry while training, it’s always for protein. Canned tuna isn’t fun, but stills the cravings.
My last cardiologist handed me a copy of Protein Power as what I should eat. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
If I get hungry training, I’ll eat anything I can get my hands on. That’s why I try not to let myself get hungry. had a couple days “off” the diet cuz my fambly got me a happy dad’s day carrot cake. I told my wife “good thing it has carrots in it, or it’d be off my diet”. then had 17 or so servings of fritatta on sunday at my wife’s sister’s house. Wife was embarassed. I had to explain that since the fritatta was all egg, veg, and pigmeat, it was on the diet and could have as much as I wanted - this of course is not entirely true, but close enough.
Drove 400 miles this morning to eastern WY. Hoping to bench tonight, and push the prowler in the morning.
Love the prowler pushing- nice work.
numbering bullet points FTW
welding is fun- cool that you are making some gear and a little bit of cash.
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
Love the prowler pushing- nice work.
numbering bullet points FTW
welding is fun- cool that you are making some gear and a little bit of cash.[/quote]
too bad I can’t figure a way to turn it into a pile of cash…
prowler ftw
40 lbs x 40 yards x 8 pushes x 7,000 ft elevation. I was supposed to do either 12 or 14, with 12 being what I did last time. I even took more breaks between pushes. by the time I finished the 8th push, I was done. mosquitos were out but I was prepared for that and came out biteless.
I have not lifted this week, because by the end of the day i have just felt totally used. today, once again, I am hoping to bench if i can drag my fat into the weight room.
i have decided that something Kevin said was absolutely true. right now, considering my largeness and its affect on my health, its more important that I push the prowler than lift. so, I will concentrate on making the prowler happen as many days per week as I can, and lift when I can make it happen.
Your thread needs to be renamed ‘Prowler King’. Strong pushing.
Steve, I can’t consider myself the prowler king until I am pushing with 2 plates like little petey does.
This morning, I pushed the Prowler + 40 lbs x 40 yds x 12 trips. This is 4 more trips then yesterday. It really really sucked in an awesome kind of way. Still at 7k’ feet.
tomorrow is a driving day, so I am pretty sure that I won’t push before I hit the road. I am hoping to bench tonight, but that remains to be seen.
I agree with the others. Prowler pushing by itself will get you into pretty good shape.
What’s all the long distance driving to Wyoming for? and what’s the ‘big empty’? I’m assuming some large deserted plain or something.
Brett, I am banking on the prowler getting me into shape, because I can’t do much of anything else from a conditioning standpoint.
I live and work in Salt Lake City, UT. The company I work for is a software/IT company owned by an insurance company in Laramie WY, 400 miles away. For the past 2 years we have been building a new application that they will use to write policies with. I spent alot of time up here when the project first kicked off and we were gathering requirements. a year ago we did a gap analysis pilot, and I was up here all of January 2010 and most of February. Now, the product is nearly done, and we are doing UAT or User Acceptance Testing. This is the part where we find the last-minute bugs and small enhancement requests, but someone needs to be here to help the testers and keep them on track. I only have 1 more trip, the week of 11 July, planned, as the “go-live” dat is 22 July. the product we are building is for writing insurance in Colorado. Once that’s done, we immediately start doing the same thing for Montana and Wyoming. Mt/Wy the requirements are already collected, we just need to build it, and UAT for that will likely be the beginning of 2012.
I generally call the entire Western US “The Big Empty”. East of the Rocky Mountains, cities are much bigger and closer together. Out in the big empty, you can go a couple hundred miles along a major highway between towns. If you ever saw the movie “High Plains Drifter” that was about the area I’m in now. The High Plains are all of MT, WY, North and South Dakota, most of it over 7,000 feet. As an example, Wyoming is the size of France, maybe bigger, and only has 800,000 souls in it. I think only Alaska is more emptier. And Siberia.
I loves me some big empty.
That big empty sounds great. I love that sort of open country, the wilder the better.
I am finding it interesting how much money/how many resources insurance companies will put into their QA and UAT. Kind of a shock to me in my current environment. You want how long to test that part of the network? are you kidding me???
[quote]PeteS wrote:
I am finding it interesting how much money/how many resources insurance companies will put into their QA and UAT. Kind of a shock to me in my current environment. You want how long to test that part of the network? are you kidding me??? [/quote]
It depends on the type of insurance. companies in health insurance are fairly forward looking. P&C (property and casualty) are scared to death of technology. In our case, we have to fight for every second of UAT that we do, because the customer hates taking their people out of production - If they are testing, they are not underwriting. That’s why one of us needs to be onsite during every second of testing, to minimize time wasting.
Plus, in P&C there are reinsurance treaties and stuff so that a company can be left holding the bag if the rules don’t fire correctly.
This is some seriously boring shit. I’m going to bed
I like your thoughts on the big empty
such a city boy here I either want wall to wall people
or I want like gravel and tree.
I am not that suprised my wife works in catalog- designing and shooting them
she has been at Victoria Secret Avon and some other big beauty companies
and they take years to roll out software.
That’s why maps of the US are so misleading. There are fewer people in huge states like Wyoming than tiny places like Massachusetts.
I used to live in Los Angeles, and it’s very strange. A hundred miles of dense, concentrated urbanization, surround by “The big empty”. If you ever thought the LA’ers are cut off from the rest of the world, it’s literally true. It’s scary driving through hundred of miles of nothing, what if the car breaks down?
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
I am not that suprised my wife works in catalog and has been in Victoria Secret
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Good work Kevin
[quote]ecogenx wrote:
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
I am not that suprised my wife works in catalog and has been in Victoria Secret
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Good work Kevin[/quote]
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