Were the animals out and about? I feel like the Oregon Zoo is one of the better Zoo's that I've been to as far as actually being able to see the animals. Seems like the Cheetahs are always in their little den, which might be my favorite part of the Oregon zoo since you can get so close to them. To be fair I have only been to maybe 5 or 6 zoos in the country, lol.
Yeah, the trick is (according to my wife, who used to work at the zoo in the summers): when it's cool and kind of drizzly, the animals LOVE it, and are always active. We watched an elephant and her baby play in the new wading pool for like 15 minutes. It was awesome.
An annual zoo membership is like $100 and includes parking. Best bargain in town, especially if you have kids or grandkids. And you can can as often as you like over the course of a year. It also gives you "reciprocity" or admission breaks to many other zoos around the country. The San Diego Zoo might be the best but you need to take out a second mortgage in order to afford to take the family for even one day. And they don't give reciprocity or admission breaks. Yes, the Oregon Zoo a very good zoo.
Don't forget members only night for the Zoo Lights! I imagine it's absolutely packed the first night Zoo Lights is open to the general public. San Diego Zoo was one of the other ones I've been to, and it might have been the 'best' but that probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who has been there. It was a few years ago that I went and I was younger so I don't remember any of the specific exhibits, I just remember there were tons of animals, and lots of walking. I even remember seeing a bus driving people around in the Zoo (That's how big it is for those who don't know!) Still though I think I'll take our quaint, well laid out Oregon Zoo any day of the week! The Washington DC Zoo is nice because it's free to get into, but I felt like the exhibits weren't that great. The monkey exhibit there isn't bad, but the Panda's were a disappointment... Could have just been bad timing, however I feel like I've never had bad timing at the Oregon Zoo.
35 lbs lost as of this morning. Heading out on a two week vacation to a foreign country; I'm hoping I can keep up my progress!
Nice job. I haven't been doing well on my weight goals, but haven't been gaining back either. I've had so much wine lately, that kind of throws off my effort, but I'm still working out, running and biking when I have the time. I'm still just about exactly under the 200lb mark. Next week I have a birthday, a friend coming to town, it's the week before finals and I'm training for a new job with a ton more responsibilities. It's going to make any weight loss difficult, but maybe if I can squeak out 1 lb, I'll be happy.
I've stayed within five pounds either way for the last year. I've been lifting every other day and my arms and shoulders are getting solid finally. 8 months of lifting like this in my 20s and I'd be massive. Haha, 41 going on 42 it doesn't grow so fast. I had next to no muscle in my upper body, the only thing I can take with gout is a BCAA without arginine in it. Not even creatine. The amino acids seem to help quite a bit, or the placebo effect is worth it anyway.
Going to start cutting back on the chicken and rice and try to drop anothet 75. The BCAAs are supposed to help me lose as little muscle as I can with reduced intake...we'll see.
I'm so damned close to my goal, but every ounce is so hard now. I lost the first 50lb with ease, the next 50lb were hard but doable. Now, it seems like I have to work so much harder, at the gym, on my intake, portion size, veggies, all that shit just to drop what I used to be able to accomplish with one hearty trip to toilet. But I'm about 20lb away from my overall big goal. I wouldn't be thin, but I'd be just slightly chubby, a great place to be.
I don't know the science but your metabolism doesn't completely like what you've done to it. However, doing it the right way as you are reduces the huge bounce back most fad dieters experience. I met a girl 2 years ago who had just started one of those stupid diets you can't keep doing forever. She only needed to lose 30-40 lbs and she lost 20 in no time. Then she felt shitty, stopped the diet and has packed on about 80. She can't eat anything without gaining now.
That's really common. It's how it was for me for years, weight 250, diet down to 235, rebound up to 275, rince and repeat up to 295, then past 310. I don't really diet much anymore except for very short stints. Mostly just changes how, what and when I eat. It's why I'm now happily to lose 1 lb a week vs trying to make 6lvs drop off magically.
When you regain fat, it is stubborn belly fat. Much harder to get rid of. It is foolish to quit a diet and go back to eating what got you overweight in the first place. Why waste all the hard work you put in losing it?
Because people do stupid diets that are unsustainable. Sure, if I could eat Oreos and Crab Rangoon for every meal and lose weight I'd do it. But I'd get tired of that eventually.
I have been out on the boat cruising Oregon for about six weeks now. It is rather a demanding way to live and hard not to lose weight. Although that is one of the benefits I was looking to see accomplished. It is easy to finally get to a place to anchor, tired and just go sleep awhile, expecting to fix something to eat later, only to get rousted out by some dang event requiring action and not get something to eat. So what? Live off the stored weight! Well, it doesn't work quiet so well for the mental condition when the electrolytes become too low. You need to make sure you get enough potassium some how. Need to eat those high potassium things like Bananas, melons, and green leafy stuff. I am going to add potassium salt substitute on the boat. I haven't got scales here but I am sure I dropped 20 - 25 pounds.
I need to take off around 2 1/2 lbs (that's two and a half, not 21!). The result of a San Francisco Ballet season pre and post show San Francisco restaurant tour; I tried 17 new places between Nutcracker in December and the student showcase last Friday, not counting two places I'd been to before that I returned to. As I am volunteering for the Clinton campaign, there has been eating pickup during phone banks/canvas but that is just one more week until primary. Hopefully it will all come off before next ballet season starts in December so I can try more SF eateries. One could live a long life and not try every good eating spot in the city. Also new job meant I had to adjust my schedule. I have just reworked it so I can be sure to get my full one hour workout in every day. Any bay residents who are interested I can direct to my 17 Yelp reviews! Can't really just live off stored fat, not good for blood sugar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconeogenesis Process by which body fat is converted into blood sugar.
From not eating? Your body makes exactly the amount of glucose it needs via gluconeogensis. If you have more than that, your body gets rid of some of it and adds the rest to your body as FAT.
