I blame evolution.

Seriously - millions of years of the body adapting to work as best possible on a reduced-calorie, low-density (ie low calories/kg of food) diet, particularly with regard to storing excess fuel as fat whenever possible. Then *WHAM* we invent agriculture. All of a sudden, calories are cheap and plentiful, and come in densities only found in things like fats and honey (relatively rare and hard to come by)

So now you can get the calories that would have taken you a week of hunting and gathering in a single meal.

And on top of that, evolution bred in an instinctual aversion to heavy work - because expending calories unecessarily might kill you when there's no food to be had. But no heavy work means the fat never burns off.

We are literally built to get fat and lazy on the amount of food intake and workload that is typical with modern life - because the timeframe between the discovery of agriculture and the modern day is not evolutionarily long enough to have caused counter-adaptation.

Bring on the genetic engineering! I want a stomach that shuts off "hungry" at far lower calorie intake. I want a metabolism that recognises when I'm at 10% body fat and shuts off the fat storage mechanism once 10% is exceeded. I want sugar cravings shut off.

DG

Are you a gipsy?

No, but I do own two copies of this Band of Gypsys record...


Which reminds me I need to go phonograph hunting. I hope yard sale season begins in earnest here pretty quick.

Similar.

That was really a soft ball down the middle of the plate.

Whooooshhhh doesn't ride that much. That's how many donuts he's eaten this month.

In cycling news, my Quark has arrived.

Did you know the expression "gyp" as in a rip-off is considered pejorative and anti-gypsy??

Just got home from my first ride in about two weeks. I suck. :o

I did get to try the Garmin 810 out though. Seems to be pretty nice.

http://app.strava.com/activities/41431976

correct. after all on a trainer/rollers you are not actually going anywhere. milage on a trainer should be nought. the stats to record are time and intensity.

Says the man with the WHOOPING 700 miles this year..:roflmao2:

One statement is false while the other possibly is true. Don't strain your pea brain trying to figure it out....;)

Don't talk about the Pope that way.

From what I've seen of you stick boys I suggest laying off the trainers and mixing in a steak and some weights. Almanac is calling for heavy winds this spring world wide. This of course does not apply to LC, Pcad and myself. We know how to maintain non- twggy like shapes:thumb:

711.

Yeah. My mistake. I was trying to be nice. I knew it wasn't how many donuts you inhaled. You're more an Oscar Meyer kind of guy, and that's how many... Well. You know.

There's a car with a kayak affixed to its roof across the street.

Do people really go kayaking this time of year?

Piggly Wiggly by you Gomer.

Correct.

I've never actually eaten at a White Castle. We don't have them in the OC. Thank God.

Woohoo!

Is that a grey market Quarq?

Meanwhile,

Year 'round here.