Posted on 10/15/2017 1:29:45 AM PDT by markomalley
Yet another reason to end the food stamp program.
Not on food stamps, but I went to sign up with national guard after 9/11. I live in NYC.
5 11, 240 pounds. They said too heavy.
I stopped boxing only maybe 4 years earlier so i was still plenty strong and it seems knocking 40 pounds off in a strict 2 month military program would be worth the addition of someone who’s in otherwise good condition.
It would be two months of discipline before training too.
And these people in stamps need to be buying 70 cents a pound chicken.
Or not getting anything at all!!
But they want to live like working folks without the work
My platoon at Parris Island had a recruit drop from 250 to 180 in 13 weeks. While the rest of us were on 5,000+ (IIRC) calories/day, he got perhaps 3,000.
Any Freeper nutritionist out there to chek my math?
Too fat and or too weak of character and mind.
Frankly, the article is full of pathetically passe’ cliches.
Too many candy bars? Hamburgers? TV? Where do these people have their heads? Are they oblivious to the technological inducements to indolence? Smart phones, etc?
Bike lanes? The state is already riddled with them and so the answer is more?
Nobody ate more candy bars or hamburgers than my generation. A fat teenager then was the exception and an object of ridicule. I met a friend the other night at the local pub and the youngsters were a bunch of porkers. Fat AND body ink? What a turnoff.
In retrospect, we were the golden ones.
(BTW, an enlistment bonus? Where was that concept fifty years ago?)
Get 4 hours of intensive non stop (except for a 10 min break) cardio work.
Each of these packages has to be picked up...scanned....and stacked in the correct space on a shelf in the delivery truck
Packages include beds....barrels...heavy truck parts...boxes of ammunition...folded furniture from Ikea.
Wear a handy hand scanner:
mrs WeWaWes works in the wellness/fitness/obesity/diabetes world and i get the facts daily and we have been in the midst of an epidemic for a long time. she recommends: “moderation, lean protein and fresh vegetables” as a bumper sticker diet. eliminate the bread, pasta and sugar.
Growing up in the 70s the only candy we got all year was what we collected on Halloween. It was so exciting going through our bags afterward to see what we got - and then everything had to be frozen for 24 hours before we could have a piece. Oh, and watch out for needles!
The Seventies were definitely a better time to be a kid...
5,000 is a lot of calories. You were probably getting around 3,000 and him 2,000. Just an assumption.
“Young Chinese are ‘too fat and masturbate too much to pass army fitness tests’”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3580426/posts
They will also be impeded by the leftist anti-American indoctrination into communist/socialist ideology by the public school systems!
I hope it wasn't this guy.
more bicycle lanes
5,000 calories was what we were told. We would routinely do 100 to 200 'squat thrusts' per infraction, several times each day. We once did 1,000 straight followed by 600 the next morning. In addition we had runs in combat boots.
I was in good shape before PI. I gained 16 lbs during boot camp - just muscle, no fat.
This calculator indicates a daily calorie burn of 3,950 plus factoring in weight gain of 16 lbs @ 3,500 cal/lb over the course of 13 weeks adds 650 cal/day. My estimated total would have been 4,600.
University of Arizona - Winning Edge: Nutrition for Fitness & Sport Workshop 2004
"You need to make an investment in children in their younger years."
It's ironic to think that the school lunch program started because the military in WW II thought that American youth were under nourished, and wanted the lunch program to be sure that we had sufficient numbers of well nourished men to fight any future wars.
I guess that is one government program that succeeded a little too well. /sarc
Pork Chop Platoon.
I was that weight and height but lost 60 lbs. to be at my weight watchers lifetime goal weight of 179 lbs, same as my senior year high school football weight.
It took nearly three years and I have been at goal now for 4 years.
People have no clue about, weight, weight loss and obesity. Neither do most nutrition “scientists”.
Incidentally, only 20% of Weight Watchers reach goal. And fewer than 25% of them (less than 5% of the total participants) maintain goal after five years. And Weight Watchers is one of the few valid programs.
In short, America’s obesity pandemic is not going to be fixed. It will only exponentially increase.
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