Sounds like a serious breech of medical ethics.
Aside from the expectable administrative incompetence.
Hey - that's my excuse! 🙂
I've been doing a lot of cycling since all this crap started... So hopefully I'm fitter, and maybe even shed a few grams...
I still remember a medical specialist telling me I must weigh more notwithstanding my BMI is between 21 and 25! This was when doctors suspected I had metastatic cancer. It was a never-ending maratona, better described as a nightmare, of visits to medical experts until after 16 months it was decided I did not have any active cancers. During one of those visits a medical expert insisted my weight was too low for my height, with me arguing back that I did not need another 15Kg of FAT! I argued if it were 15Kg of muscle scattered over my entire body that would have been benificial, but I had to be able to exercise without excessive pains.
Even though all medical results resulted in the negative, doctors warned me to be vigilant if I experience sudden fever, profuse night sweats, inexplainable weakness, loss of appetite and loss of weight for no reason.
On a particular visit to a haemotologist, blood expert, I was relieved to learn, indications were showing I did not have active cancer with the haemotologist replying curtly, "Don't be too optimistic, it can kill you without you noticing it!" Needless to state, that was very encouraging...
My natural weight is about 70Kg with variations of about 6Kg from time to time.
Even though all medical results resulted in the negative, doctors warned me to be vigilant if I experience sudden fever, profuse night sweats, inexplainable weakness, loss of appetite and loss of weight for no reason.
On a particular visit to a haemotologist, blood expert, I was relieved to learn, indications were showing I did not have active cancer with the haemotologist replying curtly, "Don't be too optimistic, it can kill you without you noticing it!" Needless to state, that was very encouraging...
My natural weight is about 70Kg with variations of about 6Kg from time to time.
I like.
Try kinda leaning on the counter while weighing yourself. Much better results.
I had a great one this morning before our walk.
Wait... what?
I'm currently an inch shorter, 12lbs less and sadly not muscular. I have no idea what has happened so can only assume, like wolverine I have an adamantium plated skeleton. Meh, trousers fit, wife is happy, all is good 🙂
Actually my weight scale is out of order due empty batteries, but there is a mirror on the wall. He can speak! And told me i have the ideal weight of an aircraft carrier !
172 cm and it looks for 90 Kg . The problem is not the weight, it is the distribution, a few years ago it was on the shoulders, but in the meantime around my hips and dropping lower....
172 cm and it looks for 90 Kg . The problem is not the weight, it is the distribution, a few years ago it was on the shoulders, but in the meantime around my hips and dropping lower....
He is referring to the one with steel "fingernails."
This happened during a time period when Motorola was self insured, but contracted with Anthem Healthcare (one of the worst) to do the administration of benefits. They had two prices for company provided health insurance. To get the lowest cost for insurance you had to sign up and agree to all this nonsense, including in house blood testing every year.
I can't complain because the first "comprehensive baseline report" found an underlying medical problem that I had been fighting for 30+ years, my whole endocrine system was whacked.
I reached 130 pounds (60 Kg) and 71 inches (180 cm) BMI = 18 at age 16 and stopped growing. At age 25 (picture) I had made it to 140 pounds (60 Kg), 72 inches with a BMI of 19. I ate junk food by the bucket load (3000 - 4000 Kcal/day), but did not gain weight. By age 45 I had managed to add a little body fat and get to 150 pounds (68 Kg).
The discovery of several out of range parameters on that comprehensive lab test led to a new round of different doctors, several treatments that did nothing, or made me feel sick. One did appear to help, so I stuck with it.
Motorola put in a gym in 2000, and made it free to employees, so I went almost every workday. Their fitness consultant explained that I had been doing too much exercise and that I needed to cut back, way back, and do a regimented program instead of every exercise in those "useless fitness magazines." That was the real reason everything was out of whack. Trying to keep up with the 25 year old crowd that I worked with had put my body into a state of constant stress.
Slowly everything started to work, all those out of range parameters came into range, or "close enough." I started gaining muscle and within 3 years I was big, 207 Lbs (95 Kg). Food intake was still 3000-4000 kcal / day, but better quality than my younger days.
It's been all downhill since then though. The second picture was taken in 2011, age 59. Weight was about 190 Lbs (86 Kg). I have lost another 20 pounds of muscle since then, probably due to lower food intake.....no more fat paycheck.
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Yeah, good thing I live here. 🙂
Wool sweaters are the right kind of thing.
I don't have any kind of problem with that, some of my very best thinking and trouble shooting have been while in a deep focus and a bit and a half on the hungry side. Sort of keeps you hungry for a solution 😀
But then I got married, and whenever I'm hiding away working hard at something she comes along with some kind of tasty treat she made.
It's a tough life.
Not complaining! Have to support her hobbies is all 😀
No matter how much I diet or work out, I estimate that it's completely unrealistic to get below 100kg's again.
It is interesting whether indoors, recirculated air gyms will continue operating. The majority seem to be designed with little regard to the prevention of viral transmissions. Can they keep their members safe? Will a sufficient number of people continue their membership?
For many years, the only thing i did at the gym, was , elongating the membership and pay the bill.😱
I have to say, if I can't exercise outdoors in the fresh air, I'd rather not.
I still can't work out why I weigh as much as George on the right and look like George on the left. There is 20kg unaccounted for somewhere...
I still can't work out why I weigh as much as George on the right and look like George on the left. There is 20kg unaccounted for somewhere...
It will be interesting to see, but few patrons will afford the kinds of facilities required to have positive pressure/that kind of clean. Unless the latter is actually done *by* the patrons. I would imagine that it'll be waiting room only right after restrictions loosen, like New Years Day times 100. Lots of people are dying to move.
I'm with Bill, though, most of my exercise is outdoors, but I do like swimming so that requires facilities beyond my personal means.
*Looks longingly at the pool, albeit the chemicals they throw in there are pretty potent disinfectants.*
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In my case, I used this indoor time to make some electronic experiments like a Phantastron, and making or testing new recipes. Like this one learned in youtube from Pino Prestanizzi, like this fried pizza made on saturday night.
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I don't know, but I'm not in a hurry to go back to mine. I quit going about a month before the lockdown, and it will be at least that long of a wait before I return.
My membership is part of my health insurance program, but the gym only gets paid if I go, roughly $2.50 every time I show up. At 7 AM when I usually go, most of the people are also older retirees like myself on a similar pay system. How that works out for the gym with less people going, I don't know.
I have been slowly assembling a DIY home gym made from stuff I have collected over the years from yard sales, trash, and flea markets.
On the electronic experiment side of things, I put together a 20 WPC SE tube amp prototype. The chassis and cabinet will not be done until we have some outdoor table saw weather. It snowed Saturday, and rained all morning today.
Depending on the lockdown duration, there are two more amp designs that only exist in LT Spice at the moment. One or both will get turned into reality, depending on how hard they resist the transition.
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There was a case in China where one guy in an air-conditioned restaurant infected everybody who sat between him and the air-con intake.
That's how gyms in South Africa used to be. And you had to attend a minimum workouts a month or your health insurance would go up. By month end there would be scores of people waiting to just swipe their cards at reception and then head home 🙂
That cracked me up. Thank you Bill. I'll now use one of those disinfecting wipes on my screen and keyboard so I don't infect myself.
Wait, what?
Osvaldo, make sure you take that over to the Lounge and the Food thread.
I used to swim a mile at lunch in the pool here.
With my skill level w/r to proper breathing, my lungs typically were deeply disinfected at least twice a day. It's that "mouth out of water breath in, mouth in water breath out" thing that occasionally tripped me up.
It got to where the lifeguard just laughed.
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