consuming alcohol while losing weight? - Page 4

Give up and then enjoy every drop of it! Life is too short to worry about restricting your pleasures. Also, aging can be good for men - gives them more authority and a certain sex appeal. Peter O'Toole has been a life long drinker and he doesn't look too bad for the wear, although it certainly took something of a toll on his complexion. Perhaps you should just decide to enjoy the next five years as much as possible - meaning casting aside discipline - and then accept that for the fifty after that you will be fat, boring, lacking sex appeal, and chained to a computer crunching numbers, plotting strategy and scrutinizing regulations. At least you will have five good years that way. The other fifty are likely to be mediocre even if you do restrict your drinking now. As for becoming a fatty, there's something romantic about the helplessness and weakness of that state. And the long, depressing drift into obesity befits a falling hero. It doesn't matter if you never were a hero. Accepting lard seems more noble than the strict and vainglorious combat against it - a phenomenon that reeks of the suburbs and rat racers. With love and comfort coming so easy for so many men these days, it is only fatties who can truly experience yearning and unrequited desires. Have I revealed too many of my own challenges and fears in this post? Well, yet another example of throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes, online postings are the closest I come to real risk and adventure. Frightening...

Shut the fuck up, you poisonous sloth.

Maybe he does have a point. Rock climbing would be much more challenging if I let myself get fat.

Try reading his post out loud in Hedonismbot's voice.

This dreadful, but perhaps deserved, response seems to go well with your avatar for some reason. So, I guess you have a consistent style. Is it a gun in his hand?

Your post was dreadful. I was agreeing with him and didn't put a [/sarcasm] tag for those who aren't so bright :P

And precisely what indicated that anyone had interpreted your witty retort as sincere? Still, I think you should utilize those tags - when facing a sheer rock face with an abyss below, you don't want to risk sending an ambiguous message.

Speak for yourself. And may be other fatties too.

Urghhh... this thread is for people interested in losing weight and maintain lean body mass and/or good look while being at it. Just stay the hell away, fatty.

Yes. BTW, helpless ranting such as this is exactly what blogs(like the one on Beijing fashion you run) are for.


Ad hominem?

I wouldn't know where to begin unraveling the strands of misinterpretation and misunderstanding of respective worldviews on both sides. I wonder if it would also be so difficult to communicate in person? Does the internet bring people together or divide them? If people from different parts of one country have such difficulty, what hope do different countries have of coming together? In any case, I feel that I really am from a different culture - and I liked Austin and San Antonio so much on my last trip. I probably would have been beaten up if I had met more of the locals. Or maybe fat is something you just don't joke about? Just to bring things back down to the tangible realm, I'm far from being a fatty, though I'm surely cruising for a bulge. Perhaps one becomes a fatty just by not taking the crusade against fat terribly seriously and making statements that sound faintly fatalistic. My slightly more serious recommendation would be to cut the alcohol entirely. Fattening amounts are clearly needed even to get moderately inebriated. Better yet, drink just for the flavor and then spit it out, as they do in wine tastings. Vanity is more important than debauchery. If your social or business life demands that you partake, as mine does, then cut the food and buy anti-aging cream.

I'm too vain to ever accept myself being fat, but I also lack the will to do some sort of strict exercise program so I tend to take the stairs for multi-storied buildings, and control what I eat. However, I like my hedonism just fine, slothful or otherwise. I apologize for nothing.

You're a more courageous man than I am then. I do think means of transport is a key way of regulating fat without adding annoying activities like weight-lifting and jogging. I've always found deliberately exercising and dieting to be tedious. Rather than jogging and cutting back on alcohol, you should make the bicycle your way to get around. Don't use automobiles and don't watch television. Those are my rules, and they seem to be working alright.

Woops I'm not in Austin anymore...back to the snowy northeast for me. Anyways, I share my views with people in person if they ask or are spewing forth something that disgusts me. I find it surprising that you are even shocked by the fact that people don't like fat so much in a body consciousness forum on styleforum. Let's take people who care about the way they dress and then lets take the subset of them that care about their body also.

There is no misinterpretation of your opening post in this thread. It claims that the rest of his life will be the best in the next 5 years and everything after that is just a slow bleeding process until death. I don't know about you, but I plan on enjoying myself for much longer than you do while maintaining myself in every way that you seem to think won't for the fifty years you speak of. We were given such wonderful bodies for a reason. Get out and play, or have we forgotten already what it's like to act like a kid and have fun? Get out, explore, try something new and demanding. Your body will thank you and you'll be much happier. You'll find you're less fat, less boring, have more sex appeal and not sitting behind a computer analyzing and scrutinizing.

Now off to frisbee practice so I can work on that damn IO.