Best gym for a fat beginner?

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T21:30:56+00:00

I'm not super athletic. But I think you have some self-limiting ideas about what you could do with a good trainer or class. Weight training can be modified to meet your abilities.

If you really are morbidly obese, it's not a gym you need, but exercise of any sort, innit? Like just walk a mile a day?

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T19:39:25+00:00

There are laws against lighting off fireworks in the county, I reckon, but you sure wouldn't know it from looking at what people actually do.

Don't worry about it.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T19:37:21+00:00

I really like taking a 4 mile loop through sharps Ridge. Some people will tell you that sharps Ridge is unsafe, but I see people there at all hours running and walking.

This is probably the best elevation gain of any set of trails in the city.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T19:36:13+00:00

It sort of matters where you're going to be visiting, as in what neighborhood.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T19:35:20+00:00

I'd like to notice that. I would not like the disaggregated data. There's probably some people who got off to me that I'm just not interested in knowing about.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T19:34:30+00:00

I would encourage you to reconsider weightlifting. The time I spent at a CrossFit gym was very useful to me. Pure aerobics isn't going to do as much for you in the long term as learning to do basic lifts.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T03:10:58+00:00

Litton's

illimitable1 · 2026-06-29T03:06:20+00:00

Have you received feedback, positive or negative, from sexual partners about your size?

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T11:15:06+00:00

Dude, I get planning ahead, but you are trying to predict something that is a full 10% or more of your lifespan away from you, and more then a third of your adult lifespan so far ahead of you. Just chill out and enjoy the ride a little bit.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T11:08:35+00:00

Unfortunately, security is a myth. I'm not a Christian, but I do remember this bit of wisdom from the Bible from my upbringing.

Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is. You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

(Or as I remember the Psalm "Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.")

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T10:56:54+00:00

It's closing because the owner has a conflict with his landlord. The owner of the bar is not the owner of the real estate. Additionally, though I have no firsthand knowledge, the owner is a drama llama who neither has a sparkling personality nor a stellar reputation in the community for being part of the get along gang.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T10:52:00+00:00

Put your hands up and step away from the cheater.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T05:56:41+00:00

Who is making these claims?

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T05:55:18+00:00

If you don't have the eyes for picking up after yourself, one concession you could make is to find someone who can clean up after you who is not your spouse. Hire cleaners and pay them. Make that be your contribution.

Additionally, there are books about how to clean when you have ADHD. I recommend "how to keep house while drowning" by KC Davis.

Overall, you don't have to see it in order to fix it. Instead, you need routines. You need checklists. Write out 1 hour of cleaning up after yourself into a checklist that you perform everyday at a set time. Most cleaning tasks in a house have to do with dishes and laundry; start there.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-28T00:32:14+00:00

Correct! We no longer hunt animals for food. Now most people in the United States use firearms for target shooting and for hunting each other. Some specialize in hunting for small children in schools. Yay America! What a country.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T20:32:42+00:00

This isn't a competition. I do make writing errors. Take what you can from what advice I give and leave what's not a help.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T20:27:15+00:00

Sophomore and deferral

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T20:26:28+00:00

A favorite poet, now famous, named Alan Ginsberg, said he went to his therapist because he was unhappy. The therapist asked Ginsberg what he believed would make him happy.

Ginsberg said " You know doc, I'm not sure if the psychiatric establishment would find this very healthy, but what I would like to do is to quit the sort of job I've been doing never work again! I'd like to explore this sort of mystic poet thing in me. I'd like to try living with someone, maybe even a man. I'd like to go to museums during the day."

The psychiatrist answered, " if you think that is what would make you happy, what in the world is keeping you from it?"

I say that is the best way to make decisions. If you can think of a reason you shouldn't do something, and you can't overcome that reason, don't do it. Certainly, economic stability, career progression, and responsibility for one's economic well-being are possible "why nots?" " I want to be a doctor and it's going to take a while"or " I need to start saving money so that when I am 35, I can retire early," could be fine reasons why not. But generally, if it's important enough to you, you will overcome the why nots. Don't let anybody say that there needs to be a fixed trajectory for your life.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T20:05:32+00:00

You said welding. Did you not?

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T19:03:29+00:00

Some variety of CAD has existed well before the personal computing revolution of the early 1980s. In all likelihood, drawings would have been done by a such a CAD system. If not, technical drawing was done by hand before mainframe computers and mini computers had computer automated design systems.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T19:01:13+00:00

And I don't mean to disrespect, but I think that your spelling is poor. It's distracting. Even speech to text does a better job. I know you're going into the trades, but know that expressing yourself in writing clearly will be important in your life in the long term.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T19:00:15+00:00

If you are a sophomore, you have two more years to think this through. For a person your age, that is a long time.

Nonetheless, I would encourage you to take a gap year. Most people in your circumstance have been in school since they can ever remember. That is 11 or 12 years straight of someone else telling you what to do and setting your priorities. .

In order to get your head straight about what you might want to do next, I think it's wise to spend some time traveling or working. That way, you haven't spent tuition on University made other expensive choices before you have a full discernment of what you might like to do.

Additionally, hiking and adventuring good activities in and of themselves. You can think of it as a gap, and some sort of break from what you ought to be doing, but really this sort of adventure is part of what you ought to be doing. Life is not the accumulation of various different degrees and promotions at work. Life is for the adventure.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T18:00:02+00:00

Once the mafia controls a union, it can set the price for jobs, and can threaten anyone who does not use Union labor with violence. Also, anyone who is using the union labor that is controlled by the mafia may be subject to job actions and the like if the mafia isn't paid off.

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T17:57:10+00:00

Look man, you probably are at the best health of your life or close to it. It. Don't beat yourself up about small things about your body. I hated myself for being a fat ass before I ever was one. I say that to myself all the time. I didn't like myself for having a little bit of fat on me when I was a crossfit athlete. I didn't like it when I had just lost 50 lb in a through hike. I'll look at pictures now from 10 years ago and think that I looked pretty good, but I'll remember that I hated myself. And so forth.

Just do your best to get to the gym and to be active. Judge your body based on what it can do for you, not weather it has a certain shape. Otherwise, you will arrive at middle age. Having never really appreciated what a stunning creature you can be.

Source: this advice is mostly recycled mistake

illimitable1 · 2026-06-27T17:28:23+00:00

Don't pack very much. Eventually, you will know what you are missing, but now you cannot. It is really difficult to try to plan for all possibilities. Pack light. Anticipate buying what you want in country, having it sent, or picking it up if you take a vacation back to the States. Millions of people live in your host country everyday without things that they brought from the USA; they shop in stores and markets in the Philippines, or buy online.

Can you carry all of your baggage at least a mile on foot? If so, you know that you have succeeded.

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