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tim1_2 wrote:All I eat is sausage gravy.

Did someone say...sausage gravy?

NEELY wrote:

Ev wrote:You don't need the garbage ones, but whey protein isolate (with nothing else added, no suagrs or caffeine and all that crap) like Gold Standard really helps. It's not a need but if you don't eat a lot of protein it is good to take.

Yeah drink water and that's it as your everyday beverage

Drinking a lot of water is huge.  

If you have a healthy diet though and very balanced you don't need the protein or other alternatives to good eating.  You have 5 smaller meals a day (not possible for most people) or just 3 very square and balanced meals you will be fine.

Another big thing is no carbs after a certain time of day especially after say 5pm.  I don't even have carbs after noon... once in the morning to jump start the body and that's it and it's never white bread.  There are lots of very easy things to do to keep weight down outside of exercising.  

Ev wrote:

wprager wrote:I still maintain there is only so much parents can do.  Our oldest, doesn't want to go out and do anything.  When he was younger we pushed him into swimming, soccer, skating, bike rides.  Eventually the pushing becomes difficult.  I swear, if it wasn't for us not keeping any chips/cookies/sugar cereals in the house he'd be in a bit of trouble.  I worry what could happen when he moves out on his own, without us nagging him to eat veggies, cut down on crap.  Our second, he's skinny like a rake.  Did soccer and swimming when younger, then switched to hockey 5 years ago, and has gotten into running the last couple of years.  He doesn't crave desserts and fatty foods like his brother, but his diet is extremely limited.  We go to a Chinese buffet and he piles his plate full of chicken wings; at home, with 90% of what we cook he ends up making a bowl of KD for himself.  But at least he's skinny and exercises very regularly.

Same parents (and also close in age so no big changes from one to the other) yet completely different.  Nature wins.

I only get wings and egg rolls and fried chicken from chinese places lol.

Get him some why protein and get him to lift. How old is he? Tell him to bulk up for high school.

As for the first kid, that sounds like I was. If he isn't fat or anything like that and if he's happy I'd say there's not much you can do.

NEELY wrote:You don't need all the garbage protein and whey products, you need a healthy diet and consistent exercise.  Find a hill, run up that 10 times hard.  Every time you get to the top do 20 pushups, every time you get to the bottom do 20 sit ups.  If the hill is too easy find a rock and run up with that.

You don't need a bench press (although it helps), you don't need a tredmil, you don't need a personal trainer.  You need discipline and that's it.  After that let the kid have a treat, let him eat some chips, w/e.  You work hard you should be rewarded like anything else.

Only thing people should 100% always stay away from is pop.

tim1_2 wrote:All I eat is sausage gravy.

Did someone say...sausage gravy?

wprager wrote:

tim1_2 wrote:All I eat is sausage gravy.

Did someone say...sausage gravy?

No.  No-one said it.  No-one *ever* says it.

Number Twenty Nine wrote:I have one kid who's the active fit jock and the other that's a lazy bookwormy type.

I guess I'm just doing a 1/2 assed job according to the resident Dr. Phil.  

Number Twenty Nine wrote:I have one kid who's the active fit jock and the other that's a lazy bookwormy type.

I guess I'm just doing a 1/2 assed job according to the resident Dr. Phil.  

Number Twenty Nine wrote:The other, a history teacher.

Call children's aid now!

Number Twenty Nine wrote:I have one kid who's the active fit jock and the other that's a lazy bookwormy type.

I guess I'm just doing a 1/2 assed job according to the resident Dr. Phil.  

wprager wrote:

NEELY wrote:You don't need all the garbage protein and whey products, you need a healthy diet and consistent exercise.  Find a hill, run up that 10 times hard.  Every time you get to the top do 20 pushups, every time you get to the bottom do 20 sit ups.  If the hill is too easy find a rock and run up with that.

You don't need a bench press (although it helps), you don't need a tredmil, you don't need a personal trainer.  You need discipline and that's it.  After that let the kid have a treat, let him eat some chips, w/e.  You work hard you should be rewarded like anything else.

Only thing people should 100% always stay away from is pop.

Discipline is the key word there.  He has very little and it's not something easily learned.  Don't have pop all the time, when we do, limit then to 1 a day, and it's either diet crap (yea, yeah, I know) or stuff low in sugar like ginger ale.  Treates (sweets, at least) are actually best *before* you exercise.  

Number Twenty Nine wrote:The other, a history teacher.

Call children's aid now!