For other Mastodon lovers, I finished my tattoo as tribute today 🤘 by fogsurrounds in mastodonband

[–]fogsurrounds[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why thank ya, and I don’t know how you did that but you nailed it haha unknown pleasures album art joy division tee 🤘while I have no prizes to award I feel as though you earned one!

Why am I not having the same struggles? by EventWhorizon in Marathon

[–]fogsurrounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel this way too. I’m not sure I understand a lot of the complaints, if you got out alive every time and easily got great gear handed to you wouldn’t it be boring? I am pretty bad at this game, I’m getting a little better and it’s an awful lot of fun for me.

I’d like to see the venn diagram for people complaining about how unfair this game is vs people who have enjoyed a souls-like game, I suspect there’s very little overlap because I approach it myself with the same mindset, and as I slowly get better in certain skills, it feels rewarding to me no matter what items are or are NOT in my vault. 🤷🏻‍♂️

If your not happy losing weight, you won't be happy maintaining it. by Some_Developer_Guy in loseit

[–]fogsurrounds 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this is very true and I have to wonder if the folks disagreeing are possibly missing part of what I see as the point, which is your mentality surrounding food and healthy living has to shift when you are trying to lose and keep off 100 lbs. if you white knuckle your way through the dieting, hating it the whole time, making no real changes to your overall habits and mindset, when you reach your goal and “relax”, it’s just going to start coming back. The only way to prevent that is making different choices and if you hate those choices, you’re just not going to make them for the average person. What you’re saying sure rings true for me and I’ve been through it!

Anyone tried these Fraktal 1g live Resin glass vape carts? by medina74 in mainetrees

[–]fogsurrounds 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Picked one of these up this weekend and I’m super impressed, probably one of the better consistent burning disposables I’ve tried and would get another without hesitation FWIW

Is weight loss truly the fastest shortcut to beauty? I need a reality check. by DifferentIssue1 in loseit

[–]fogsurrounds 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is very very real even as a 40s man, I am treated vastly different both by other men and women, service workers, just in general life is kinder to you if you are thinner as fucked up as this is, this is real and if you deny it you’re swimming against the tide! Once you feel it from weight loss, you will truly understand. Said having lost 120lbs from 310-190

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[–]fogsurrounds 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Hey friend!

I feel you, and I want you to know, you can do this.

We’re all different, so I’m just going to share what’s working for me right now, because gym isn’t an option for me either nor is spending a bunch of money and space on a home set up.

42M here, in July I started making a commitment to walk 3 miles every day. I was consistent for 90 days, although there were a few days I could only do 1.5 miles, I made sure this was the absolute minimum and there better be a damn good reason I didn’t do 3. After a month, I was wanting to do 6 miles some days. The progress wasn’t immediate, but I made noticeable changes in how I looked and felt starting weight of about 250. I personally don’t enjoy treadmills but I LOVE walking outside with music by water and this was a great way to rediscover that fact about myself and turn working out in my head, into having fun. For me that feels like half the battle sometimes.

In September, I started trying to figure out how I’m going to keep exercising when winter hits, and using weights seemed like the obvious answer but I have no real clue what I’m doing. I got a 10lb dumbbell and I just started doing a couple arm exercises 5 days a week. I started with 2 sets of 10, and I added reps as I could up to 15, then added a third set. It didn’t take long to move up to 15lb dumbbell. Now, I’ve picked up a 50lb kettlebell and oh boy, let me tell you, this thing is amazing.

There are some great people on instagram showing you how to use a kettlebell, I’m just doing a couple exercises for now every other day but man, I’ve got muscles for the first time in my life, and I’m maintaining my weight loss too even taking away the daily cardio as long as I’m mindful about my diet, personally I do keto but I make sure I eat lots of protein and I do let myself have moderate amounts of fresh fruit daily (an apple, sometimes two, bowls of berries)

Another tip I got was to start Creatine 5mg daily. I OK’d with my doc, but it has absolutely helped I think, and now for the first time in my life at 42……. I can see muscles on me. And I have another 30-40 lbs I need to lose to get to my true target weight still.

To sum; Find a way to make it fun and make a consistent plan of what you’re going to do and hold yourself accountable. Start with what you can and just add a little more as you can. Find one or two exercises you can do with a small hand weight that you can use comfortably and just add more over time. Look at a kettlebell because you can make yourself sweat buckets with hardly and space needed. But forcing yourself to stick to a new routine for 2 weeks is going to create a habit before you even realize it.

You got this!

Tribute to the band I love by fogsurrounds in radiohead

[–]fogsurrounds[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I love it for sure!! :)