[quote]Makavali wrote:
iannotti wrote:
Makavali wrote:
I surround myself with people who can spell surround.
Cut him some slack, he is from New York!
You’re all Canadian to me.[/quote]
thats not fair
canada is like our quiet upstairs neighbor that only speaks up when we party too loud
and even then they sit there with the broom poking the floor
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Oh, these are the kind of people I like to surround myself with:
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I try not to surround myself with SteelyD.
Whenever I go to a restaurant with friends, I order a tall glass of milk. They think it’s hilarious; I laugh with them.
What’s also very rewarding is when a friend sees that the road they’re taking, paved with white bread, triple bacon cheeseburgers and french fries, is not going where he wants to end up, and in turn asks you for your help and then follows through.
The same people I’ve always hung around with. They know I go to the gym and lift weights, and eat more than double the average person.
Although thanks to genetics, I haven’t had to make too many lifestyle changes, other than put in extra time for food prep. Pretty much eat whatever I want and each month there’s a bit more muscle. Beer, triple classics from wendy’s, wings, white breads, donairs, steaks w/ blue cheese butter, donuts, coffee w/ cream.
Life is good.
You sound like an angsty teenager. Emo kid, don’t cry!
[quote]CaliforniaLaw wrote:
You sound like an angsty teenager. Emo kid, don’t cry![/quote]
But I’m almost twenty, what would I be then?
Don’t worry about it. For real, if your friends don’t have your back in regards to your goals or chosen lifestyle, they aren’t very good friends and you should find new ones.
Honestly, 99% of the non-related people you hang out with now you will not be hanging out with later in life. The true friends you have through life will most likely be less than fingers on one hand.
Those few people may not give two shits about protein and squats…and that’s fine. Because the true friends will respect the fact that it’s important to YOU and that’s a good enough reason for them to excuse Joe from hanging out at the bar all night (or whatever).
The ones that whine and piss and moan about it either don’t respect you (most likely) or are jealous that you are attempting to change (less likely, along the lines of Shugart’s toxic thread). Either way it’s not like they are actively kidnapping you to eat funnel cakes at the circus or whatever you were bitching about. At the most they are mildly annoying…and usually not even that because I don’t pay them the slightest bit of attention.
MUCH more threatening is your significant other’s thoughts on it, especially if you are married or living together. Being so diametrically opposed on something to ingrained to your lifestyle can erode either the relationship or your diet/training habits quickly.
Also don’t be a douchebag and act superior with a lifestyle built around fitness/lifting/diet, etc. You will convert no one and only irritate everyone around you. For some reason every one I know that starts lifting expounds upon proper protein utilization while I’m trying to drink a beer and it makes me want to kick them square in the nutz.
[quote]D_S wrote:
SteelyD wrote:
Oh, these are the kind of people I like to surround myself with:
I try not to surround myself with SteelyD.[/quote]
Well, if Rick Astley ain’t your cup o’ tea, then so be it…
You should be lucky you have any friends at all.
There are people who don’t surround themselves with ANYONE at all! Like me! Seriously, I don’t have ANY friends and I fucking hate it. I would much rather have friends around me making fun of my habits, then no friends at all…
Unless you count Dr. Shingy and Sir Konga-Kane. They both visit me occasionally during the day and regale me with funny stories on how to kill a roomfull of people with a empty bottle of diet pepsi, or how to woo the girls over by bringing them dead rodents.
Only I can see or hear them, and that makes it special for me. Sometimes they make it hurt because they keep daring me to do things that I am not comfortable with. I just put my hands over my ears and keep saying “NO NO NO!” Last time I did that, I was in the middle of class. The whole room looked over at me. I told them it wasn’t me, it was Sir Konga-Kane telling me that it IS ok to masturbate in front of the girls sitting behind me. He just kept pushing me, he wouldn’t stop!
Anyway, just be thankful you don’t have friends like mine.
[quote]skaz05 wrote:
You should be lucky you have any friends at all.
There are people who don’t surround themselves with ANYONE at all! Like me! Seriously, I don’t have ANY friends and I fucking hate it. I would much rather have friends around me making fun of my habits, then no friends at all…
Unless you count Dr. Shingy and Sir Konga-Kane. They both visit me occasionally during the day and regale me with funny stories on how to kill a roomfull of people with a empty bottle of diet pepsi, or how to woo the girls over by bringing them dead rodents.
Only I can see or hear them, and that makes it special for me. Sometimes they make it hurt because they keep daring me to do things that I am not comfortable with. I just put my hands over my ears and keep saying “NO NO NO!” Last time I did that, I was in the middle of class. The whole room looked over at me. I told them it wasn’t me, it was Sir Konga-Kane telling me that it IS ok to masturbate in front of the girls sitting behind me. He just kept pushing me, he wouldn’t stop!
Anyway, just be thankful you don’t have friends like mine.[/quote]
Did you end up whacking it in front of the girls or did you chicken out?
I honestly don’t understand this.
If you are in the least bit muscular or at the very least in shape, nobody would give you shit for your diet because they would see the results.
Most of my friends are overweight, some severely. I do cherish their friendship, and allow them their needling when I make demands at a restaurant for stuff that isn’t on the menu, or choose not to have more than 1 beer or drink.
Some of the stuff that is a bit aggravating is when I go to play pool with a buddy of mine, and he has 4 mugs and a few shots of whiskey, and makes comments about needing to reduce his caloric intake (along with the pooch in his midsection). Of all of my friends, only a couple are truly living a healthy lifestyle, and that’s fine by me. You can’t really convince anyone to do it, so you can’t be surprised when they don’t “get it”.
Living a healthy lifestyle and having friends that don’t is truly a double-edged sword. If you want to keep the friends AND the lifestyle, you’re going to have to have the mental strength NOT to give in to the temptations, as well as cultivate the relationships. My friends tell me I’m extreme (I think I’m quite moderate, but that’s relative to perception), and they are all about moderation. Well, if moderation means being 20+ pounds overweight, eating and sleeping like shit, and having the self-image of a scared ostrich, I’ll take extreme!
Don’t sweat other people’s perception of you. That’s their deal based on their priorities, strengths and weaknesses. The first person to pass judgement is usually the person with the lowest self esteem. Your opinion of yourself and your lifestyle choices ought to be all that matters to you.
Dont bother worrying about what people say or how they react to your lifestyle. If anything I kinda like peoples reaction.
If people question why I take so many vitamins or eat the way that I do, I simply tell them that I’m trying to stay healthy or I dont wat to become a slob. It usually registers well with most people and if it doesnt…oh well.
When it comes down to who I associate myself with, for me it beomes more of an issue of character and integrity as opposed to what their diet and exercise program is like.
[quote]DaahsirRoon wrote:
skaz05 wrote:
You should be lucky you have any friends at all.
There are people who don’t surround themselves with ANYONE at all! Like me! Seriously, I don’t have ANY friends and I fucking hate it. I would much rather have friends around me making fun of my habits, then no friends at all…
Unless you count Dr. Shingy and Sir Konga-Kane. They both visit me occasionally during the day and regale me with funny stories on how to kill a roomfull of people with a empty bottle of diet pepsi, or how to woo the girls over by bringing them dead rodents.
Only I can see or hear them, and that makes it special for me. Sometimes they make it hurt because they keep daring me to do things that I am not comfortable with. I just put my hands over my ears and keep saying “NO NO NO!” Last time I did that, I was in the middle of class. The whole room looked over at me. I told them it wasn’t me, it was Sir Konga-Kane telling me that it IS ok to masturbate in front of the girls sitting behind me. He just kept pushing me, he wouldn’t stop!
Anyway, just be thankful you don’t have friends like mine.
Did you end up whacking it in front of the girls or did you chicken out?[/quote]
No, Sir Konga-Kane kept daring me to do it, he was all like: “come on, just whip it out and give it a tug!” Every time he does this I just put my hands over my ears and scream " NO NO NO!" over and over again. Well, apparantly everyone freaks out when you start doing this, I tried to explain to everyone that it wasn’t my fault but thye weren’t having any of it.
So now I have to sit in the back of the classroom and everyone stays at least 2 seats away from me.