On Jun 21, 5:01 pm, DaveInLakeVi...@webtv.net (Dave in Lake Villa)
wrote:

As usual Dimwit Dave's a f**kin liar...Anyone who is 50 pounds
overweight (MBI) as he has fessed up to elsewhere, can't be in "good
shape" unless you consider "fat and round" to be a shape.

Dumbwit's idea of exercise is sitting in his recliner trolling for
"real human contact" on the internet

My apologies. I had you mixed up with some other individual here who
posted saying he'd just got out of the hospital after his third or fouth
time having by-pass operations on his clogged heart arteries. Glad to
hear you're trying to keep in decent shape. But, really, I think you're
the execption to the rule. People look at me in civilian clothes and
they think and say "Too skinny." Simply not so. I'm the right weight for
my height. Plain and simple. It's the fact that the average American or
European is quite overweight these days. A considerable percentage fits
the obese category and a good percent of those fit the morbidly obese
category. So this overweight population looks around at all those obese
people then looks at themselves and even if they are overweight they
aren't obese at least so they feel good about their bodies. They look at
normal people like me and think "Too skinny".  It's all because their
reference point is skewed toward the obese end.

So, enjoy your friends and your guitar picking. And count your
blessings. But appreciate them, as well. And why do you jump to
conclusions about me being unhappy, discontent and angry? I'm not that
way at all. One reason for it is I vent. Would you deny me my venting?

Praise the Lord.

Shad O'Shay

My eating habits are pretty out of the ordinary.  Except for breakfast
which I eat regularly I eat maybe a dozen small meals a day. More like
snacking than eating. I never go to bed on a full stomach. If I eat
supper it's a light meal. Pasta, fish, salad or veggies.

I eat good stuff. Meats are fish, turkey breast, chicken breast, beef
jerky and canned tuna and canned sardines in mustard sauce or Lousianna
hot sauce. The above are mostly protein. It's been recently discovered
that a mix of about 20% protein and 80% complex carbohydrates (simple
carbs are sugar, corn syrup, soft drinks, etc. complex carbs are brown
rice, pasta, pinto beans, black beans, whole wheat things, etc.) For
racing and training I eat baggettes which are little bite-sized
sandwiches made with the above and also peanut butter and jelly. I drink
lots of sports drinks to replenish salts and to keep hydrated. And I
enjoy lots of 2% milk. Cyclists need lots of calcium because without it
they can get osteoporosis. I'm not fat-shy. An athlete needs to eat some
fats. The active body needs some fats besides what it can metabolize out
of the body. Ice cream  and milkshakes are among my favorites. Fat and
calcium.

I eat fruits - all kinds of fruits - apples, bannanas which are
wonderful, peaches, pears, plums, grapes, kiwis, strawberries, oranges,
grapefruit - you name it. I eat lots of veggies - just about anything
but spinnach. I just never cared for spinnach. I love broccoli and
cauliflower and those big salads with meats, boiled eggs, cheeses and
lots of ranch dressing. The thing is if you eat stuff that's alive you
get excellent nutrition out of it and those anti-oxidants are very
important for an athlete.

I avoid any and all deep-fried and pan fried foods except for McDonalds
hot apple pies. Besides a beef steak maybe once a week I don't do much
red meat. It can clog the arteries with cholesterol. I don't do soy. It
has female hormones in it and who needs that? On the road I eat granola
bars, energy bars, dates, Payday with Protein bars, raisins, bananas,
Rice Krispy treats,  etc.

The thing is to count calories and regulate weight by balancing the
calories used with the calories eaten. The higher quality the eaten
calories the better. But, you must keep the carb/protein balance in
mind. Used to be althletes thought the answer was to carbo load. Not any
more. You absorb the carbs better when they are mixed with protein. And
liquids. You gotta drink gallons of liquids. Your piss has to just be
very light yellow. Dark yellow says dehydrated.

Well, sorta but to a limited extent. It maybe's the same as Dave having
a wheel delivered to his campground but rather than having somebody
intsall it he does it himself.

In a typical training (or racing) day I wear a heart-rate monitor so I
can keep track of my heart rate but it's also programmed to give a
readout of calories used. Depending on how far and how hard I train, I
burn from five to eight thousand calories. It takes an additional 1,500
more calories a day just to keep my body going even for sleeping. So, I
balance the calories I eat with the calories I burn. It's easy to lose
weight because if you train hard you don't have much of an appetite. You
gotta eat a little something every half hour or so to try to keep on an
even keel. Try eating nine thousand calories a day on the go sometime.
It's not easy but you gotta do it to maintain weight. You don't want to
get so thin that you start metabolizing your muscles for energy. And
it's much better to eat lots of small portions of things a dozen or more
times a day than to sit down and eat three big meals a day.

Shad O'Shay