Americans are too lazy to walk

joelcolorado · Intermediate Crude Joined: May 25, 2008 Posts: 654

Here is the bottom line. If you are eating BELOW your needed calorie intake of like 1700 calories, you will NOT gain weight.

I had to write down EVERY calorie consumed to finally wake up. THAT makes you realize how much is in food. If you are eating that much at a buffet, you are eating prob 5,000 calories. Sorry, just the way it is.

One cup of most stuff like dry cereal is 150 cals, so imagine good tasting things? Its disgusting.

1200 cals and you will lose that 120 pounds. Trust me. Bout 3 pounds a week to start then slower as you go.

Nickel

WildRose · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 1021

Heineken

Good for you, Rose. (Maybe not so good for your knee, though.)

Consider yoga if you aren't already doing it. It's the most powerful weapon available to the aging bod.
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"Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog

"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother

PrairieMule

Pig headed is a great word to describe it. Good ol' Yankee can do moxie. We have lost this, now we just bitch and grow fat. I don't know how many times we have finished a long day and we are headed home only to find a tree on the fence.

In this scenario there is no bitching, only cursing. We are allowed to curse as in yell "You G** D*mn tree!" directly at the inert dead tree. Now being Baptist I substitute blasphemy with variations of the "F" word. Cursing gets us mad. Mad makes us move when we are tired.

This is acceptable behavior on a ranch.

On the flip side, we are not allowed to whine or bitch. "Oh why did this happen Lord? We are so tired. I can't deal with this! This isn't my fault, it's someone else's negligence ". Whining makes you resolved that there is nothing you can do. This is the same attitude that keeps us from wearing out the tread on our expensive sneakers.

There will be no customer service to bitch at after the powerdown. There will be no one to sue when we slip on a slick sidewalk.

Time we accept this.
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In other words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite.-from Full Metal Jacket

Heineken

Yes, there's nothing worse, in my book, than blaming others for the consequences of your own decisions and choices.

Cursing is fine as long as you accept responsibility for every wrinkle in your life. That's the first step to smoothing out the wrinkle. When you blame others, you also (consciously or unconsciously) place the power to FIX the problem in THEIR hands---hands that aren't ever going to lift a finger to solve your problem. Just like that fallen tree, which won't ever get cleaned up until YOU clean it up (unless you're rich enough to pay through the nose to have someone else do it, of course).

Wayne Dyer has written cogently about this phenomenon in his classic, "Your Erroneous Zones."
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"Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog

"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother

PrairieMule

I'm going to have reflect on that H, that's deep.

I know I am straying off the subject of americans to lazy to walk, but I think we are on to something here. The american work ethic still exists, but it has morphed into something different. Now we must be be able to juggle and manage all bits and pieces of information on our monitor screens and phonelines instead of how it use to be. In the process we have physically let ourselves go.
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In other words, it's a huge sh*t sandwich, and we're all gonna have to take a bite.-from Full Metal Jacket

MidwesternMom · Tar Sands Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 30

Canuk

In many cities the sidewalks are the responsibility of the property owner for building and maintenance. In Allentown, PA my Mother had to repair a section of the sidewalk a tree heaved at her expense. When I lived in Auburn NY I remember a homeowner having to replace an asphalt sidewalk he had installed since it did not meet code - he had tried to save some cash instead of concrete. It seems that if enough town residents want a sidewalk you can have it added to the bylaws or zoning and they will be forced to install them.

Alternately you could take the approach we have in Ontario where the City or Town builds the sidewalks and repairs or replaces them. Increase in property tax but spreads the cost over more years and more evenly over the property tax base.

Contact your alderman or councilperson and see about the change - what can it hurt...