The Happy Thread

[Radical_Yue]

Started my new walk to work today. :3


It's just a hair under 2 miles and I'm loving it. The majority is uphill so it takes me a little under an hour due to an old injury that starts to act up. If I stand for more than 20 minutes or so my ankle starts to act up really badly. I was the smartest kid in the world when I was younger and 2 days after breaking bones in my foot and destroying my ankle, I thought it was a good idea to start walking on it. >_>;;

But beyond the pain, I'm super happy. I really, really missed my walks. I finally have my "me" time again to blast my ipod and just kind of be alone in my thoughts.


It feels good.

UP HILL BOTH WAYS

No Grandpa! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Castor Troy]

Since January I have gone from 108kg (238 pounds) to 91kg (200 pounds). In a little over week I'll be commencing the next stage in my goal to get super fit =O

What is your secret, sir?

[lloyd9988]

Since January I have gone from 108kg (238 pounds) to 91kg (200 pounds). In a little over week I'll be commencing the next stage in my goal to get super fit =O

What is your secret diet, sir?

fix'd

[Prodigi]

No diet, just eating well and doing light exercise. I'm very anti-diets because they almost never work, both because the diets themselves are usually denying your body things it actually needs, and because they're usually so ridiculous that nobody manages more than a couple of weeks on them. Just plain old eating well, and making sure you are getting all the things you need like good fats, can go a long way if you stick with it and don't slip up. For 3 months I subsisted on healthy cuts of meat from my local butcher, salads and vegies, and water - I cut out soft drinks and alcohol completely for the 3 months to let my system detox. Now I eat more regularly, allowing myself the occasional soft drink / beer or greasy burger, but just make sure I have time to cook dinner for myself most nights, lunch every weekend, and grab a healthier choice near work for lunch.

My main suggestion to anyone would be: avoid anything that says "low fat". Low fat usually means it's something that you actually want to get some fat out of (like yoghurt) as it can do your system good in small doses. By cutting out the fat it's depriving your body, and all you're getting instead is a boatload of sugar that they put in to offset the lack of flavour.

Now that I'm down to a more acceptable weight range, my next goal is to start doing intensive work-outs D:

[Pwolf]

[Fire_Starter]

Couch to 5K.

I started this back in '10, stopped just before I foolishly decided to drive 17 hours to San Antonio, never got back into it. Restarting it again this year and taking it all the way. I'll need to work back up to even week 1, since I'm even worse off than I was originally, but by the end of the year I want to be running 3 miles (at minimum) every day.

[Mkid]

Its raining. my calender fell off the wall. im alone in my house im scared

Perfect setting to play alan wake (im in the right frame of mind, i have NOTHING to do this weekend soo im GOOD!)

[Devolution]

started TWO new jobs this week!

working mon-fri at a scrapyard(oh god it's heaven D: who cares about the hard work, i get first pick of any car/interesting thing that gets scrapped!), and then fri-sat deliverying pizza, paid in cash, so i can keep gas in the car to get to the other job, lol.

all so i can pay my bills, rent and get my ass to Bronycon! ...and fix my other car so i can finally drive my baby again.

[Mkid]

fri-sat deliverying pizza, paid in cash, so i can keep gas in the car to get to the other job, lol.

Pizza Delivery BUDDIES!

[Castor Troy]

started TWO new jobs this week!

working mon-fri at a scrapyard(oh god it's heaven D: who cares about the hard work, i get first pick of any car/interesting thing that gets scrapped!), and then fri-sat deliverying pizza, paid in cash, so i can keep gas in the car to get to the other job, lol.

all so i can pay my bills, rent and get my ass to Bronycon! ...and fix my other car so i can finally drive my baby again.

[aerotem]

My yearbook picture made my fucking day.

[EvaFan]

egg, ham, cheese, onion, and tobasco burritos made myself, and...

It's so delicious...

[CodeZTM]

It's Popsicle season and the groceries/wal-mart have them on sale in many different varieties! :3

I love Popsicles.

[dj_ultima_the_great]

Sweet. I won fifty bucks.

Okay, this requires explanation. Before this year, I had never bought a lottery ticket in my life and had zero interest in doing so. However, I decided to do a little experiment this year, where I would buy a $1 scratch-off ticket every week for an entire year, and at the end, I would tally up the results of my luck. Obviously, if I win more than fifty-three dollars at any point, the experiment is moot, because I can't possibly lose more than that. Combined with the couple of dollars here and there that I've won in the last few months, this fifty dollar win means that no matter what, I will end on the plus side, and if I wanted, I could stop the experiment now.

But we're only six months in, and why stop now? It's paid for itself at this point, so I may as well continue to the end of the year (or the world, if you prefer).

The current total, by the way, is +38 dollars.

[Chained(E)Studio]

Venus Transit was today ='3
Hope some of you might have seen it, won't happen for another 117 years or something.
This guy below got good video of it!

Spoiler :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSFCYrGH83M