Damien

I became a vegetarian and replaced grilled chicken and salmon with plant-based meat. Yet, plant based meat is twice the price of regular meat :(  I realized this and attempted having, instead of real meat or fake meat, other sources that do whatever "meats" (real or fake) do.  A book called "Men's Health: Getting Abs", does not recommend such substitution for protein sources.

Yet, it has a list of dairies, starches & grains, nuts and fats, and fruits.  (And unlimited raw vegetables).  To not feel really hungry a lot, I would double up on its (limited) recommended amounts of each category per day.  

Dairies such as- cheese, cottage cheese, milk, plain low fat yogurt, or  sour cream.  Starches and grains such as- beans (black, cannellini, or garbanzo), (specific) cold cereal, oats, fist sized potato, pasta, pita bread, or tortilla.  Nuts + fats such as almond butter, cashew butter, or peanut butter.  I'd normally only have a couple or few pieces of fruit each day, but now I'd an extra piece.

Normally, I wouldn't have most of those listed dairies, starches + grains, or nuts.  I'd select 1 or 2 from each category that are the fittest. And I'd have salmon and grilled chicken.  

I once was pretty overweight, I lost 50 pounds doing the above.  Yet, I saw a video of animal slaughter and went vegetarian. Ever since, I have not lost the excessive weight that I wanted to, after the 1st 50 pounds.  Yet, I want to not kill animals.  There must be another way to be fit.  

What is it?

Years ago, at a gym, I paid a trainer for 30-60 minute lessons.  Each lesson was on a different muscle.  The lessons rocked.  He wrote down the name of each exercise.

Anyway, I found the list of exercises to improve the OBLIQUES.  I remember most of them.  This was years ago.  Yet, I do not remember the exercise "Fly Feet".

I googled it, youtubed it, and there are so many different answers, I am unsure.

Does anyone know what the exercise "Fly Feet? is?  It works the obliques.  If I remember correctly, it used no equipment.

Please no rude or sarcastic answers.

I used to be really overweight. Then for several months, each day I'd: eat like a champ, only drink water, intense cardio, sit ups, go to bed early, and I lost 45 pounds and 6 inches on my waist! 

At my former gym, I paid for 2 (30-60 minute) lessons: 1 on abs, 1 on obliques. I still have the list of exercises for both. Most abs exercises require: no equipment, or a weight plate, a mat, a medicine ball, a stability ball, a slam ball, + an ab-roller.

Yet, I'm looking at the oblique list of exercises, and most of them require weight machines, an incline bench, and other equipment that is really pricey or is only available at a gym. So, I've only been doing the few ones I can at home :(  The point- My abs look MUCH better (than when I was overweight).  My obliques only look somewhat better :/  I'm gonna keep striving with both.Yet, if within weeks or months I earn 6 pack abs, I DO NOT want to have chubby obliques on the sides of them ;(  I don't plan on rejoining a gym, due to other bills and responsibilities.  Perhaps I could save up and buy each piece of the necessary equipment?I believe the 19 forms of sit-ups the trainer taught me are why my abs look better (I do sets of 20 of them at home each week)I own 2 books on abs: The "The Abs Diet" and "Men's Health: Getting Abs".  Their recommended exercises rock, but they don't (or very rarely) mention the word obliques.  Please no rude or sarcastic answers.  God bless you all.  Are there books on obliques?

After years of wear, each of my ahtletic (polyester) pants and sweatpants (cotton) wore out.  I needed to buy several new pairs of such pants.

I drive to a few stores where I used to shop from the 90s to the late 2010s.  Department stores like Kohl's, JC Penny, Sears, stores like Walmart and Target.  I also shopped in mall stores such as Old Navy, Champs, Foot Locker, and Olympia Sports.

For decades, I've bought such pants by numerous brands.  Those that still exist now include Old Navy, Nike, Jordan, adidas, and others. No logo, or a small logo, is what I prefer. Yet, now, I'd buy a pair that fit normal if it had the word NAUTICA across the entire left leg!    

With COVID (and I'm super grateful I'm alive) most stores don't allow customers to try on clothes (rightfully so).  A few do.  I've tried on, or bought pairs that looked baggy, or normal, NOT skin tight.  I tried bigger sizzes, and they still fit like women's tights!    

What store or site can I buy normal pants?  They don't have to be 90s gangster baggy.  Somewhat (or maybe even slightly) loose and baggy is all I want.  

If anyone can please list stores or websites (or links) of such pants, please do so.  It is extremely appreciated.  As long as they are new, ebay links would be fine too.  

Thank you so much.  Hope you are having an epic day.   Please no rude or sarcastic answers.  God bless <3

I need to buy new boxer briefs.  Each week I do intense cardiovascular workouts.  They include jumping rope as fast as you can, wind sprints, and other rigorous exercise activities.  I say that because, I want to buy boxer briefs that don't shrink.

I am located near a mall that has Aeropostale, American Eagle, Nike, and Under Armor.  Each brand sells non-cotton boxer briefs made for athletic activities.  Walmart does too, yet theirs shrink in the wash many times.  

Under Armor and Nike boxer briefs probably never shrink in the wash, yet they are quite expensive.  American Eagle boxer briefs are not as expensive, but they are pricey.  Aeropostale boxer briefs cost more money than Walmart boxer briefs, are probably better than Walmart's, yet they may or may not shrink in the wash.

Before buying a bunch of new (non-cotton) boxer briefs, I wanted to ask yahoo answerers if they've worn Aeropostale boxer briefs before, and whether or not they shrink in the wash, and how many times.

Any input is greatly appreciated.  Please no rude or sarcastic answers.  Thank you.

This morning (and last night) it has been severely windy.  I own a dog, I always pick up after her dumps when walking her.  If there are no public garbage cans present on our path home, I place her (dump filled) bag in my garbage can at home.  For years, this has always worked.

Yet, the extreme wind today (12 degree wind chill) knocked over my trash can.  In that trash can was a trash bag filled with this weeks' dog dumps.  Not wanting them to fly onto my neighbors yards, I ran to each dump bag, picked it up, placed it in the garbage bag in the trash can, then placed the can in the (stable) garage.

Looking back, I could have taken 2 minutes to put on a pair of gloves.  I just would have felt so guilty and embarrassed had the poo bags gotten on my neighbors yards, I may have panicked.

Anyway, my hands smelled like dog feces afterwards.  I washed them for a minute or two, thoroughly.  Then again half an hour later.  They still smell like feces.  Should I just keep washing them every half hour?  Or, is there a special soap, or cloth, or anything I should buy to get the stench out?  :(  

If not, if I keep washing them regularly, will it take days (how many) for my hands to not smell like dog poop anymore?

Any help is greatly appreciated.  Please no mean or sarastic answers.  Thanks.  

God bless

Hello.  After a few years, my dress shoes got worn out.  Before buying a new pair, I wanted to know how both kinds of men's dress shoes are made: regular and patent leather.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but plain/regular/normal men's dress shoes are made of leather, right?  (Like most sneakers).  I've seen "faux leather jackets" in stores before (faux meaning French for fake).  Yet, on patent leather sneakers in stores, I've never seen a "faux patent leather shoes" on a box.

I care about cows (I don't eat roast beef, or for that matter chicken, turkey, buffalo, etc.)  I care about animals.  So, I was going to buy a pair of regular dress shoes.  Unsure what to do, I left the shoe store.  A friend told me how, it's just the way of the world, but a cow's skin in used to make dress shoes.

So, yahoo answerers, I thank you for answering this question.  I'm clearly no expert here.  I love how patent leather shoes look, so shiny.  Yet, are more cows killed (and used) for each patent leather dress shoe than for a regular dress shoe?

Any information is greatly appreciated.  Please no rude or sarcastic answers.

Thank you 

I love the sitcom The Jeffersons.  I used to own all 11 seasons on DVD.  I then donated them.  A couple of years later, I would like to buy some of the early seasons. 

Yet, I think beginning in season 5, there were countless "fat" jokes.  They were usually told by George and aimed at Tom Willis.Anyway, I'm definitely buying season one, 99.9% sure I'll by season 2, and if I remember season 3 correctly, it was not over the top with fat jokes.  Season 4, I'm pretty sure did not have endless fat jokes.  Right?  Yeah, I think I want to purchase the first 4 seasons, because I think season 5 is when the never ending fat jokes began.  (Once they started, they never ended).

Any helpful information on this is greatly appreciated.  Hope you are having a nice day.  Thanks.  God bless

I am out of the loop. I used to have cable. A year ago and before. Yet, instead of getting cable again, I have heard of companies that, for a monthly fee, can provide you with only the channels you prefer. I prefer channels that play college and pro basketball, such as NBATV, TNT, ESPN, NBC, ABC, MSG, and The Yes Network.  I also prefer channels that offer national news such as CNN and FOX News (please do not answer with arguments on which is better, thank you). 

I also like local (NYS) news channels, and channels that have judge shows and police shows.  I also enjoy channels like EWTN, National Geographic, the Weather Channel, the History Channel, and Discovery.  

So, in general, I may want to order about 15 channels.  Readers, please forgive me, I am clearly out of date/out of touch.  Yet, I heard that people can save money by hiring a company to offer them a package of only the channels they want, and that it's (at least slightly) less of a cost than ordering every cable channel.

This sounds awesome.  Yet, I don't remember the names of the companies that offer this.  Do you know of such companies?  Who are they?  Do you order by phone or on their websites?

Thank you for reading this long question.  Your help is greatly appreciated.  Hope you all are having a wonderful day.  

Peace and blessings.

And if they do daily intense cardio and hundreds of sit ups a day, sleep great every night, will they earn abs? 

I lost a ton of weight via eating better (see below) intense cardio every day, and hundreds of sit ups daily. Weights for balance, but my goal is to have abs + great sleep each night.

But, this is what I've been eating in recent months to keep pushing the excessive weight away, each day:1 apple, 1 banana, 1 can of Tuno (vegetarian tuna fish), 1 can of (drained) spinach, I drink only water, & eat varying amounts of the following raw vegetables:carrotts, celery sticks, peppers, cucumbers, squash, 1 package of mushrooms, eggplant, maybe a bag of lettuce, occasionally another raw vegetable which I can't remember off the top of my head.Added up, these do not meet the 1200 calorie mark I am supposed to have each day.Yet I was told that if I start having 1200-1225 calories a day, even if (the empty remainder) is from having a second apple, a second banana, a second can of Tuno, a second can of spinach, one piece of 60 calorie cheese, that I will put on weight for 6 months THEN become ripped.  During this time I will keep doing the sit ups and intense cardio, eat all I listed above, drink only water (except one cup of milk a day), yet I am afraid that I'll put on weight and it will stay (no abs)Yet, the other alternative is to keep eating a pretty low calorie diet (400 to 800 calories a day) by only eating from the list in paragraph 3.  Yet, I've read that, I'll keep slimming down, but after a certain point, I won't be able to go any further (no abs). What should I do?

Years ago, I took boxing lessons. At the end of each lesson, I was told to perform "rounds".  That meant- 2 minutes at 75% speed, one minute jumping rope as hard and fast as I could, then one minute standing still.  (There was a yellow, green, and red, timer). This was to condition the body for a boxing match (The last minute of each round is very important).  I started my way at 3 rounds, eventually worked my way up to 5 rounds. (Then the boxing gym shut down).

Anyway, I haven't done such rounds in years. I tried it at home today. The first two minutes of each round went fine. Yet, in the rapid speed minute (of each round), my heart was moving weirdly, and stressing like crazy.  I wasn't tired.  I tried 3 rounds.  I could take the pain (like in the boxing gyms).  Yet, my heart was going nuts.  I am going to schedule a heart doctor's appointment.

However, this training method was amazing for fitness.  Do you think I should go 3 minutes in a row at 80%, then rest for a minute, then repeat?  My father suggested doing that.  And do it for a longer number of 'rounds'.  Yet, I'm nervous it won't have the same results as doing the all-out minute of jumps.

What do you think I should do?

Any information is greatly appreciated.  Please no rude or sarcastic answers.  

Thank you.  Peace and blessings

I'd like to at least buy uppers, possibly downers.  Even though they are 6 bucks on ebay.  Each kind I buy, I follow the instructions very carefully.  Yet, somehow, within a minute, they fall off.  

Not that I would use super glue (unless I knew it could come off, even if a day later), but I'd really like to wear fake teeth over my teeth, briefly.  Just for a few photos.  Maybe for an interview.

Does anyone know any website or store that sells fake teeth (even if more expensive) to put over your real teeth, and that actually stay?  Ones that stick?  

Please no rude or sarcastic answers.  All help is deeply appreciated. 

In 2004 and before, one could commonly walk into Walmart, Sears, Target, Kmart, etc. and purchase a pair of (inexpensive) satin boxers.  In the mid 2010s, most stores stopped selling them.  Now, in 2020, none of them sell them.

Recently, I ordered a pair of satin boxers from ebay.  The seller had a positive rating, and many pictures of the boxers.  Yet, when they arrived, they were thin, and wouldn't naturally fit on anyone's body, like the kind sold in (above) stores.

Therefore, I do not want to waste money on boxer shorts sold on a website.

Does anyone know of any stores (real life stores) in which men's satin boxer shorts are sold?

Please no rude or sarcastic answers.    Thanks

At age 21, I drank each weekend for a month or 2, heavily. The food I ate at that time did not help either, or lack of exercise. I went from being ripped to having a gut. Years later, I decided to dedicate myself to becoming ripped again. Within months I lost 50 pounds, and i lost 7 inches off my waistline.  

I decided to eat really healthy 24/7. I drink only water, I eat mainly raw vegetables. I have a laborious job, so during the week, I have a couple of raw fruits before shift, or during lunch. I may have a banana or an apple. The sugar from the apple, or the fat from the banana, give me the needed energy to successfully do my job.

And, before shift starts, and during lunch, I have a cup of 55 calorie (vegetarian) fish, which is 0.5 grams of sugar. Other than that, during the week, I eat raw vegetables.  Each night, I have an eggplant and raw mushrooms. Each day, I eat carrots, and/or celery, squash, cucumber, red peppers (I read that red peppers are the healthiest color).

Exercise wise, on my 2 days off I perform an interval jump rope routine. (12 minutes total, from a moderate pace, to all out, to rest, to repeat.)  I learned this when I used to take boxing lessons.  You add a 'round' each month.  All week, I do sit ups and push ups.  On days off I lift weights (for balance). I've lifted for years/am strong.

I used to have abs & no love handles. I am close to getting it all back, but it feels like I won't. How long does the last phase last? Or what am I doing wrong?

A long time ago, i foolishly got rid of my old and slow laptop, which had a CD burner.  So much time went by before I bought a new one (seeing how useful it is to have one).  I bought one, brand new, at a store.  I assumed it had a CD burner on it, but it didn't.

I realized this after charging it, plugging it in, and following the set up instructions.  This happened about 6 months ago.  Not wanting to be wasteful, I still use(d) it.  (I'm typing on it right now actually).  Yet, I really miss being able to make mix CDs on it.

Such CDs help me with my daily and nightly life.  IE, I'd make an up-tempo mix to drive to work to (at a tough job) to inspire me and keep me working hard.  On my days off, I lift weights.  I'd make a weight lifting mix.  I'd make a reading mix.  I'd make a mix that helps me sleep before bed time.  

For cleaning around the house, I'd make an up-tempo doo wop mix.  For driving on weekends, I'd make an up-tempo spiritual mix.  (I believe in God).  I put aside enough money (200-300 bucks, plus tax) for a new laptop.  I should have looked at the box, or asked an employee, whether this laptop came with a CD burner.

Not to talk your ear off.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thank you.  Hope you are having a wonderful today.  No rude or sarcastic answers please.