I turned 30 a month ago, and I have been putting on a ton of weight. I`ve really been going downhill fast. Age sucks! Anyway I was wondering if you all had a good diet for someone who likes to regularly put down a large pizza and a 12+ pack of beer but not put on any poundage… but is now 30+ and getting FRICKIN OBESE! How do you all keep fit? (besides surfing) THANKS!!!
Dunno, try the Large pizza & 12 pack diet.One pizza & !2 brews a day, ONLY. You could get rich if it works. Its only about 2700 Calories a day +or- 500. Let me know…
Welcome to the reality of getting older. If you want to eat that much pizza and drink that much beer, the only way you’re going to stay slim is to become a marathon runner, or train enough to challenge Lance Armstrong next year in the Tour de France. With age you have to make adjustments, but you don’t have to stop having fun.
Stay away from all the fads. Just eat less of whatever you are eating until you weight starts to drop. Surfer One: “I’m hungery” Surfer Two: “Eat a sandwich.” Surfer One: “What can I eat that is less fattening” Surfer Two: " Half a sandwich." SteveA
Take it from somone who knows if you don’t make lifestyle changes now you will be forced to later. I’ve lost 60lbs in the last eighteen months. I owe this to my Daughter and to surfing. If it had’nt been for my Daughter wanting to learn to surf I would not have wanted to start again and I might not have known how much my weight was keeping me from doing. I had to lose wieght to surf. I started a low carb diet no sugar,no bread, no pasta,no rice,limted amounts of fruits,watched the carb content in veggies. Ate lots of salads, chickin,and fish.Drank lots of water.I set goals for my self run 3 miles in 30 min (almost there 2.60 miles im 30min.)swim 1000 yards in 30 min.I run a min of 3 days a week I try to surf at least twice a week. When I frist started I could’nt surf for more than 15-20 min.now 1-2hours sessions are normal I could’nt run 11/2 miles in 30 min now I’m almost to 3 miles. I feel better my blood pressure is lower my clestorall(sp) is lower. do it now the longer who wait the harder it will be.
Take it from somone who knows if you don’t make lifestyle changes now you will be forced to later. I’ve lost 60lbs in the last eighteen months. I owe this to my Daughter and to surfing. If it had’nt been for my Daughter wanting to learn to surf I would not have wanted to start again and I might not have known how much my weight was keeping me from doing. I had to lose wieght to surf. I started a low carb diet no sugar,no bread, no pasta,no rice,limted amounts of fruits,watched the carb content in veggies. Ate lots of salads, chickin,and fish.Drank lots of water.I set goals for my self run 3 miles in 30 min (almost there 2.60 miles im 30min.)swim 1000 yards in 30 min.I run a min of 3 days a week I try to surf at least twice a week. When I frist started I could’nt surf for more than 15-20 min.now 1-2hours sessions are normal I could’nt run 11/2 miles in 30 min now I’m almost to 3 miles. I feel better my blood pressure is lower my clestorall(sp) is lower. do it now the longer who wait the harder it will be.
A lot of weight is another nail in the coffin. My fathers mother was a 400 pounder, so was his brother and my dad was a pretty large guy, so from the get go I realized that with very little work I too could be a fatty. But with surfing/shaping/active life style, I have at age 57 been able to keep my weight at 175 and would like to be in better tone, but it comes with age. No way around it
A lot of weight is another nail in the coffin. My fathers mother was a 400 pounder, so was his brother and my dad was a pretty large guy, so from the get go I realized that with very little work I too could be a fatty. But with surfing/shaping/active life style, I have at age 57 been able to keep my weight at 175 and would like to be in better tone, but it comes with age. No way around it
Sounds like good advice from everyone here. At 48 I’m always struggling with fitness and weight. Still, I always go back to that simple 5 word formula: “Eat less and exercise more.”
Sounds like good advice from everyone here. At 48 I’m always struggling with fitness and weight. Still, I always go back to that simple 5 word formula: “Eat less and exercise more.”
At 33 I found I was getting a middle tire, too many biscuits, now at 35 its gone and I’m back to the shape I was at 20, just with more hair on my chest. It is pissing the wife off no end. So just eat good food, lots of fuit and salad and excercise in the morning to get the metabolism going. Dont eat junk food, no processed food and go for a low carb menu with lots of fish and lean meat , then you can eat as much as you want. Also go for quality and not quantity, if you want a chocolate buy a small amount of the best quality. Get the metabolism up by exercising and then just eat when your hungry, the weight will fall off.
At 33 I found I was getting a middle tire, too many biscuits, now at 35 its gone and I’m back to the shape I was at 20, just with more hair on my chest. It is pissing the wife off no end. So just eat good food, lots of fuit and salad and excercise in the morning to get the metabolism going. Dont eat junk food, no processed food and go for a low carb menu with lots of fish and lean meat , then you can eat as much as you want. Also go for quality and not quantity, if you want a chocolate buy a small amount of the best quality. Get the metabolism up by exercising and then just eat when your hungry, the weight will fall off.
Check out “Surfing and Health” by Dr. Dorian Paskowitz. It’s an informative and entertaining book that basically provides a roadmap for improved physical, mental and spiritual health. Paskowitz intersperses a lot of first-hand surf stories along with his self-help advice. The book is great. Pay special attention to the chapter titled “Fat Makes Fat”.
Check out “Surfing and Health” by Dr. Dorian Paskowitz. It’s an informative and entertaining book that basically provides a roadmap for improved physical, mental and spiritual health. Paskowitz intersperses a lot of first-hand surf stories along with his self-help advice. The book is great. Pay special attention to the chapter titled “Fat Makes Fat”.
Look, don’t fight nature. Man, we white dudes have spent so much time living in subarctic climates over the last, oh, 30,000 years, that it’s perfectly natural for our bodies to get as fat as possible. It helps for when the winter freeze comes along and there isn’t any food for awhile. The Caribou and the Mammoth are fewer and fewer these days, so we have to stick to smaller animals, so the fat will come off. When the summer comes back and the ice is only a foot or two here and there, we can go back to digging for roots, eating big musk oxen, mammoths, etc. It’s nature. Don’t fight it. Eat, eat, eat. In all seriousness, I am 35 and fat. I am not obese yet, but exactly half way there. I am 200 pounds, 5,11. Twenty pounds less and I will be just right. Twenty pounds more and I will be officially obese. I checked the charts. The problem is, I live less than two miles from everything (Southern CA). Mexican food, Indian food, countless doughnut shops, ice cream, two In-N-Outs, five grocery stores, three Starbucks and an infinite number of Delis and Take out Mexican food places, not to mention a handful of 7-11s. Up until about three years ago I lived in central Florida. The nearest restaurant (the only restaurant) was twelve miles away down a country road, and the food sucked, so we only went there once or twice a month (mostly to drink). The nearest grocery store was fifteen miles, and the nearest town with all the good stuff I mentioned before was exactly 25 miles away. I lived on a golf course. Now, I know golf is not great excercise, but I played in the summer when it was 95 and humid. The pounds pored off. I also got a kidney stone from dehydration. The absolute fastest way to get thin and in shape is, unfortunately, running. Not walking, not jogging, but hard core, side-hurting, muscle straining, wanting-to-barf RUNNING. That’s what my dad does. He eats like a bloody pig and drinks like a sailor on leave, yet stays in perfect shape at 64. He runs six miles a day, 7.5 minute miles. It’s killing his feet, knees, toes, and back, but he’s hard as a rock. I, on the other hand, will continue to surf only. In the winter I lose weight because the waves are bigger, the paddles are harder and longer, because the waves are better. But I doubt I am going to take the time to run off the weight because I hate running and because I’d rather be surfing (or eating). Of course, there is a proven alternative to running, and it works: Smoking. Cigarettes will shoot up your metabolism and cause you to lose weight, guaranteed. Look at most smokers. They usually aren’t very fat. They are thin, with wrinkly skin and a voice like freddy Krueger. But, hey, they are thin. Finally, there’s anorexia. Works very fast. In fact, in two weeks with no food you’ll be right where you want to be. Of course, you’ll have to start eating slowly, mosly a liquid diet. you may not have much hair left, but you’ll be thin. Or, sail out to sea for two weeks, dump all your food (not water) overboard, and sail home. you’ll be weak, but you’ll make it, and you’ll show up looking like Tom Hanks did on that island that had huge surf breaking 360 degrees around the island all year long. Huh?
Look, don’t fight nature. Man, we white dudes have spent so much time living in subarctic climates over the last, oh, 30,000 years, that it’s perfectly natural for our bodies to get as fat as possible. It helps for when the winter freeze comes along and there isn’t any food for awhile. The Caribou and the Mammoth are fewer and fewer these days, so we have to stick to smaller animals, so the fat will come off. When the summer comes back and the ice is only a foot or two here and there, we can go back to digging for roots, eating big musk oxen, mammoths, etc. It’s nature. Don’t fight it. Eat, eat, eat. In all seriousness, I am 35 and fat. I am not obese yet, but exactly half way there. I am 200 pounds, 5,11. Twenty pounds less and I will be just right. Twenty pounds more and I will be officially obese. I checked the charts. The problem is, I live less than two miles from everything (Southern CA). Mexican food, Indian food, countless doughnut shops, ice cream, two In-N-Outs, five grocery stores, three Starbucks and an infinite number of Delis and Take out Mexican food places, not to mention a handful of 7-11s. Up until about three years ago I lived in central Florida. The nearest restaurant (the only restaurant) was twelve miles away down a country road, and the food sucked, so we only went there once or twice a month (mostly to drink). The nearest grocery store was fifteen miles, and the nearest town with all the good stuff I mentioned before was exactly 25 miles away. I lived on a golf course. Now, I know golf is not great excercise, but I played in the summer when it was 95 and humid. The pounds pored off. I also got a kidney stone from dehydration. The absolute fastest way to get thin and in shape is, unfortunately, running. Not walking, not jogging, but hard core, side-hurting, muscle straining, wanting-to-barf RUNNING. That’s what my dad does. He eats like a bloody pig and drinks like a sailor on leave, yet stays in perfect shape at 64. He runs six miles a day, 7.5 minute miles. It’s killing his feet, knees, toes, and back, but he’s hard as a rock. I, on the other hand, will continue to surf only. In the winter I lose weight because the waves are bigger, the paddles are harder and longer, because the waves are better. But I doubt I am going to take the time to run off the weight because I hate running and because I’d rather be surfing (or eating). Of course, there is a proven alternative to running, and it works: Smoking. Cigarettes will shoot up your metabolism and cause you to lose weight, guaranteed. Look at most smokers. They usually aren’t very fat. They are thin, with wrinkly skin and a voice like freddy Krueger. But, hey, they are thin. Finally, there’s anorexia. Works very fast. In fact, in two weeks with no food you’ll be right where you want to be. Of course, you’ll have to start eating slowly, mosly a liquid diet. you may not have much hair left, but you’ll be thin. Or, sail out to sea for two weeks, dump all your food (not water) overboard, and sail home. you’ll be weak, but you’ll make it, and you’ll show up looking like Tom Hanks did on that island that had huge surf breaking 360 degrees around the island all year long. Huh?
Howzit Lou, Don’t forget sugar diabetes, when I was diagnosed with S.D. I went from 170 Lbs.to 150 Lbs. And over an 8 year period I was down to 125 Lbs… At that time I went on insulin and now weigh a whopping 138 Lbs. I must say that the lighter weight makes a huge difference in my surfing. Unfortunatly sugar diabetes can also be health threatening and at 125 Lbs my body was literally feeding off itself since the S.D. made my body unable to process food. This really isn’t a cure for fatness but it did show me that losing weight can improve your surfing. Aloha, Kokua
Howzit Lou, Don’t forget sugar diabetes, when I was diagnosed with S.D. I went from 170 Lbs.to 150 Lbs. And over an 8 year period I was down to 125 Lbs… At that time I went on insulin and now weigh a whopping 138 Lbs. I must say that the lighter weight makes a huge difference in my surfing. Unfortunatly sugar diabetes can also be health threatening and at 125 Lbs my body was literally feeding off itself since the S.D. made my body unable to process food. This really isn’t a cure for fatness but it did show me that losing weight can improve your surfing. Aloha, Kokua
I just started the Fat Flush Diet Plan and have lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and don’t feel hungry. I have more energy and look forward to losing another 20 pounds or more. Like riding a horse if you fall off you can get right back on and starting riding again. Oh yeah, maybe like a surfboard. LOts of veggies and 4oz of lean meat twice a day. Need to get the Omega 3 fats into you too.
I just started the Fat Flush Diet Plan and have lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks and don’t feel hungry. I have more energy and look forward to losing another 20 pounds or more. Like riding a horse if you fall off you can get right back on and starting riding again. Oh yeah, maybe like a surfboard. LOts of veggies and 4oz of lean meat twice a day. Need to get the Omega 3 fats into you too.