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	2004/02/22, 12:27 AM That would be me. I am back from our cruise. As many of you know , you eat on cruises. The food is free, plentiful varied and delicious. Some of you know I don't drink. Some more of you know I quit smokin about 2 months ago. That only leaves me food and sex.Gentlemen leave sex in the bedroom so I'll tell you about my eating. For the last 6 months I have strictly eaten from BB1's "grocery list for body builders." I have counted calories religiously. I have faithfully done my workouts, both weights and cardio. I have made gains and losses in the correct places. Well, for 1 week in February, I engaged in an orgy of eating. I had my usual six meals a day on this cruise. I had 4 eggs and 6 link sausages with pancakes for breakfast. At 10:30 A.M. I hit the Fruit bar. At noon, 3 or 4 pieces of pizza, a burger, wild rice and burrito burger mix was the indulgence. I followed that with ice cream topped with chocolate and/or butterscotch sauce chased with at least 4 cookies. At 3:30 I went to the shipboard gym and lifted for an hour and then had another burger in my room. Dinner started at 8 and was usually 7 course. All at my table were serious cruisers and we all ate at least 3 desserts. At midnight there is a buffet and you basically repeat the process. I gained 8 pounds. I loved it. I feel absolutly no shame. I didn't smoke or drink. I start back to my sane lifestyle of lean meat , fish, complex carps and protein shakes on Monday. The massuse inquired anout my "normal" diet because she said she didn't see many geezers who were so solid She placed my BF at 15% on day with an electronic gizmo. I don't want to know what it is now. I don't care . I am very full,happy and back in training. Mutt and Rev8ball, I thought of you 2 a couple of times. You guys would love cruising. -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
azredhead57 Posts: 1,651 Joined: 2003/04/11	2004/02/22, 01:13 AM LMAO :big_smile: Good for you Charlie. Glad you had a good time. -------------- ~Victoria~ ...Do not be discouraged; everyone who got where he is, started where he was.--anon ...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
tenorsaxmandave Posts: 538 Joined: 2003/01/23	2004/02/22, 01:21 AM Ahoy, Chuck! Did you get to meet Gopher and Captain Steubing? :big_smile: And what are these strange foods you speak of? Pancakes? Pizza? Ice Cream? Glad to have you back, Chuck! TSMD
agamble Posts: 1,029 Joined: 2003/09/22	2004/02/22, 09:17 AM I've gotta go on one of those things!
mmaibohm Posts: 1,621 Joined: 2003/09/30	2004/02/22, 09:26 AM Sounds fun! The wife wants to go on one of thoose alaskan cruises. -------------- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain
angelsnow Posts: 122 Joined: 2003/02/11	2004/02/22, 09:51 AM Nice to see you back ! Glad you had fun ! -------------- "If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance"
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2004/02/22, 10:36 AM An orgy of food.... mmmmmm.... I was at a dinner last night, nothing quite like your cruise Charlie, but still felt obligated to have the bread and raisin pudding.. after watching the food intake for a week... I felt it was going to do no harm! It's good for the mental fitness to do that too! Welcome back! t -------------- Tim "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2004/02/22, 11:27 AM Glad to have you back Charlie, and it is cool you feel no "remorse" about your eating. You well shouldn't, we all need to do those things, and vacations should definitely be enjoyment times. If you have no contests or anything of the such, there is absloutely no reason you should not indulge periodically. It keeps sanity under control, and you have enough drive to get right back in the saddle when it is over and do what you have to do. Glad you had a great time! It can be healthy and refreshing.:) -------------- If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything....
	2004/02/22, 03:31 PM I was happy week before last with the 400 lb squat record but I was tickled by my tablemates reaction as the sheer volume of food I packed away. Nobody got in the way of my fork. I wanted to tell them I ate every day like that but Elaine wouldn't let me. -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
hecdarec Posts: 2,457 Joined: 2003/12/16	2004/02/22, 06:21 PM Good for you Charlie! Welcome back, you were sorely missed. -------------- Hecdarec in full effect.
CatfishCody Posts: 8 Joined: 2004/02/18	2004/02/22, 06:25 PM Good 4 u that u had fun!
	2004/02/22, 06:29 PM Hec my brother in arms. I want you to know I stood on the fantail of the ship and saluted those poor dumb grunts in Gitmo........right after I mooned 'em. I sang the Marines Hymn and Anchors Aweigh with my pants around my knees and then security suggested I go to my cabin and dress for dinner. What a week buddy. Take your girl cruisin whenever you can. -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
hecdarec Posts: 2,457 Joined: 2003/12/16	2004/02/22, 07:46 PM We actually went on a cruise for our honeymoon. One of the best things I have ever done. -------------- Hecdarec in full effect.
Taurie Posts: 374 Joined: 2003/10/15	2004/02/23, 12:37 AM You did the right thing Charlie. Great to have you back. Pssst...check your mail.
I_Am-aZon Posts: 893 Joined: 2003/02/18	2004/02/23, 09:21 AM Glad you had fun Charlie - Im off on my own cruise this Thursday! Woohoo! I can hardly wait! (And just because I knew I would be confronted with all that wonderful food, I took off a few pounds ahead of time !!) Sure glad they have a gym onboard :)
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2004/02/23, 09:43 AM Charlie glad to see you did not fall overboard, you know what with your own eyesight being what it is. LOl glad you had fun!:love: -------------- LIFT HEAVY! BECOME STRONG, LIKE BULL!
fryer91 Posts: 441 Joined: 2003/09/29	2004/02/23, 11:00 AM Welcome back Sir Charles...Glad to hear you enjoyed everything. Diets and vacation do not work very well together. Usually ends up with a fight with the Mrs...Hope you washed the salt outa the crack; might get a burnin if you didn't.:laugh:
	2004/02/23, 04:18 PM Yo Muttersnapper, I was the youngest person on the whole damn boat. Scary huh? ============ Quoting from 7707mutt: Charlie glad to see you did not fall overboard, you know what with your own eyesight being what it is. LOl glad you had fun!:love: ============= -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
rpacheco Posts: 3,770 Joined: 2001/12/13	2004/02/23, 04:25 PM Glad you had a good time! As you can see, many changes here and many more slated. :big_smile: -------------- **_Robert_** Pain is temporary; glory is forever!
nerraw Posts: 236 Joined: 2003/03/09	2004/02/23, 05:50 PM Charlie, I did much the same..seems we're living parallel lives, only I never had the pleasure of a masueuse and my trip was an over indulgent business foray into Africa and not a cruise for pleasure, although that is how it ended up And I never did travel with my wife so any tender pleasure were left at home.... I felt so disgusted with myself, even though I've not smoked for 97 days (who's counting anyway?) and eaten to the detail of my plan. I went straight to the gym, galloped an eye popping five miles, up hills, round bends, sprints through straights type wrok-out before clambering onto the benches for a series of lifts, lunges pulls and pushes to my max poundage. Only to get up from the barbell and feel my back blow! I crawled out the gym and have bee doubled over for the past week...... Never again am I going to stray, never, I'm back on track, feed wise, and now can't wait to be healthy and strong again. Cheers, Warren
Shakkai Posts: 142 Joined: 2003/12/05	2004/02/26, 08:27 AM Charlie, sounds like you had a blast. I am hoping to get my husband on a cruise before we start a family... and hopefully while (or when) I look good in a two-piece. Orgy of food... hm. Sounds fun. Nice to see you back though, I kinda wondered what happened to ya.:) -------------- The average dog is nicer than the average person. -Andy Rooney
	2004/02/26, 10:08 AM After 4 days back on my normal diet 5 of the 8 lbs I gained have come off. Maybe it was water weight gain. Whatever it was it seems glutony pounds are short term. Definitly worth the price of eating. -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
Jdelts Posts: 1,218 Joined: 2003/10/19	2004/02/26, 12:54 PM Did you stand at the front of the ship and yell "I'm the king of the world!" like Leo did in Titanic? If not, why? .......Good to have you back Chuck.:cool: -------------- May the lift be with you.
	2004/02/26, 01:01 PM My buddy delts!!! Feeling better?? No man, after I mooned those jarheads at Gitmo, I kept a lower profile on deck. Really shook up the old folks. -------------- Some times life is like herding cats. Charlie
vikingchild Posts: 143 Joined: 2004/02/18	2004/02/28, 07:36 AM welcome back charlie -------------- Dave "lost viking seeking Valhalla"