He ain't heavy, he's my brother: Bloke gives away SpaceX ticket because he was over weight limit Some out-of-this world generosity emerged out of Florida this week as it was revealed that one of the passengers on SpaceX's first space tourist flight in September was actually given his ticket by a friend. Pals Kyle Hippchen, 43, and Chris Sembroski, 42, were roommates at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical College, The Guardian …
"...it's possible but it's not the most healthy thing in the world to doI'd have to give up stuffing my face on the sofa and go outdoors so, fuck that..."
A quick bit of maths reveals that 330lbs is a shade over 25 1/2 stone, or "a tad overweight for a prop forward" as I like to call it.
SpaceX may need to revise their payload maths to first assume a spherical human...
At 150KG I don't think we're talking bone density issues. But yea, BMI is a bit of a joke, friend of mine is ripped and would be overweight according to BMI. Try telling him that when you're trying to keep up on a run or climbing a cliff.
Good on him for giving the ticket to his mate though.
Actually checked my BMI today and i'm severely underweight (17.9 apparently, 6ft 60kg), they recommended I speak to a GP in case i'm anorexic. Doesn't make sense to me as I drink a ton of beer and eat whatever I like.
Oh I do exercise 30-45 minutes a day, walking, running and swimming so not a complete slob. I like to think I balance out the drinking with the exercise :)
@Brad18600
The last grown man I've known of roughly those proportions had an out-of-control thyroid. I don't think it would be a bad idea to check in with the physicians.
(In my 20s, I ran a lot of marathons, in decent time for a recreational runner, but I don't think I ever dropped below 19.7 BMI.)
If you're 5'10 and 23 ½ stone, losing that five and a half stone as quickly as possible is by far the healthiest thing to do.
I'm not a health nazi, but 5'10 and 23 ½ stone? Christ.
17st 8lb ( the max weight ) isn't exactly tiny.
PS: Why is El Reg using foreign units - American and French, without providing a conversion to either Imperial or El Reg's own units ?
According to the El Reg Standards Soviet, 23 ½ stone is 17.153 Adult Badgers
"...foreign units - American"
What is not foreign to you?
The article uses _popular_ length and weight/mass units. Besides AWG (and we can debate that with Germans), there is no popular American units that aren't foreign. Even popular "non-unit" standards that have been popularized by America aren't just American/English (or even the majority). For example, the NATO phonetic alphabet has been popularized by America, but most of the words in it are not "American" (A.K.A. "English").
As an American I feel that the entire English language and it's base units are a clusterfuck compilation of "foreign".
FWIW, I can't prove it but I suspect if you go back far enough that even "Imperial" is a set of "foreign" (guessing Germanic / Middle-Eastern / Greecian / the-typical-players / etc. ).
El Reg is British. "Imperial" refers to British customary units.
Stones are extremely popular in Britain for measuring the weight of people ( 14lb in a stone ). I, and many British people, cannot picture what 123kg or 234lb looks like without converting it mentally to stone.
Just as if you're 1.79m tall, I'd have to convert that to feet and inches to work out what you're talking about.
Yes, you're right - imperial units are based on the original Roman units.
"Imperial" refers to British customary units.
Not any more. During and after WWII, British and American Customary Units were standardized to international units (which is what the USA now uses), which involved some stuff like adjusting the length of the mile. Then the UK changed directions and adopted the *other* international standardization effort. As a result, neither the American nor the British customary units are an exact match for the old Imperial units.
El Reg is British. "Imperial" refers to British customary units.
Stones are extremely popular in Britain for measuring the weight of people ( 14lb in a stone ). I, and many British people, cannot picture what 123kg or 234lb looks like without converting it mentally to stone.
Just as if you're 1.79m tall, I'd have to convert that to feet and inches to work out what you're talking about.
Quite right.
'Imperial' measures were implemented by the British in the early 19th century, basically standardising things across the then quite large and growing British Empire.
Imperial in turn was derived from an earlier 'English' set of measures, that had been around in various forms since the late middle ages.
The 'English' measures were in turn based on a mix of Roman and Anglo-Saxon measures.
The American Colonies (i.e. pre USA) were using the 'English' system (English colonies of course), but were then standardised into the US customary units' some time after independency.
So both Imperial and US units derive from early English units, and so on. Common ancestor, but not quite the same as each other (gallons etc).
As you imply, the English language, (and by extension measures), is the bast*rd child of many many peoples over many many years! :-)
> there is no popular American units that aren't foreign
Many of the units you use are 100% American and not the same as their Imperial counterparts with the same name.
Take the humble gallon for example, 1 USA gallon = 0.83 Imperial gallons. Similarly for pints, quarts, cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, etc the US measurement is not the same as the Imperial measurement making it 100% native.
Or would you suggest none of those are popular measurements?
Nope. All your units are old English units.
As mentioned above, the US system was based on the earlier English unit system, that predated the Imperial system (the Imperial system didn't come into being till well after US independence).
So both systems have a common ancestor, the old English units, why else do you think they use the same names?
The gallon originally (predating the USA), came in several sizes, depending on what you were measuring, there was a wine gallon, an ale gallon, a corn gallon etc etc. (The gallon was used for liquids and dry items).
The US, who was using the English units initially (after all they were an English colony), after independence and wanting to standardise measurements, decided having multiple gallons was a bit silly (quite rightly), so decided to standardise on a single main gallon size, and chose the wine gallon, dropping all the others.
Later on in Briton, when the Imperial units were standardised, they did the same, but based it on the ale gallon instead, dropping all the other gallons.
That's why the US and UK now have different sizes of gallon. They were both derived from old English units, we just picked different ones to use as the standardised gallon.
This is also why other measurements such as quarts and pints are different, as those are divisions of the gallon. A quart being a single quarter of a gallon, and a pint being one half of a quart.
So for example US and UK both have 8 pints in a gallon, just the UK pints are bigger, because the UK gallon is bigger, which sometimes catches out the tourists, if they hadn't noticed before a night out :-)
The Americans adopted International units in the period 1930 / 1960. The international standards were defined by an international standards negotiation process. The names of the units are the same as the names of British customary units, but the definitions match neither the preceding British Imperial definitions nor the preceding American definitions.
Subsequently the British adopted a different international standard, and later the Americans did the same: all or most American customary units are now defined in term of SI units.
Controversial it may be for fellas that are particularly tall and therefore eternally flirt with "technically obese" despite being fit as a fiddle, but an average-height chap clocking in at 150 kilograms is facing a short road to a particularly unpleasant decline and death whichever measure you opt to use.
Well, damn. I'm too fat as well... I guess back to Cracker Barrel.
There's nowhere to exercise here. There's a couple blocks to walk in downtown Titusville (little over a 1/4 mile) but no gyms or anything.
I can't cook, so I either eat out, have microwave, or a grilled cheese sandwich or ramen noodles.
That's possibly your problem. I managed a 25kg loss over 3-4 months after being diagnosed with T2 diabetes. So hit the reasearch, and decided T2 is basically carb intolerance. So switched pretty ruthlessly to a low carb diet and the weight fell off. Only exercise was spreading out my shopping so I was walking 1-2 miles.
Biggest challenge was adapting meals to cut down on high carb stuff like bread, spuds, pasta etc and figuring out alternatives. I love BLTs in a nice French baton, but made non-bread BLTs by just parcelling up the filling in lettuce leaves. Neat side effect is now I have cheap treats like bread or chips/fries maybe once a month.
There's growing recognition that a low-carb diet helps with weightloss and T2 diabetes management. Still some challenges, like the official UK and US diet advice is still heavy on the carbs, but that's down to lobbying from the food industry.
There's growing recognition that a low-carb diet helps with weightloss and T2 diabetes management.
Lowering carbs does seem to be key and worked for me.
And exercise. Grab an MP3 player, a couple of kg dumbells, and dance like no one's watching.
I shrug off any feelings of twattishness by knowing how much healthier I am.
Out of interest, do you view yourself as 'cured'? One of the mysteries I guess is why T2 'epidemic'? Especially when there's so many potential factors involved. Or fairly lax regulation around food additives. But my last few HbA1c tests have had me as 'healthy'. I suspect if I went back to my old diet, my pancreas would object again. I keep meaning to try a glucose tolerance test to see what that shows, but haven't found a handy way to get the standard drinks. Guess I could improvise though.
Learn to cook?
No, seriously. :) Simple meals are easy to cook (after a while - I get there's a learning curve), healthier, and tastier than any restaurant or takeout. There are a ton of YouTube channels dedicated to helping people to learn. French Cooking Academy, for example, has a lot of (early) videos that cover all the basics of food prep before diving into simple recipes. Just feel free to cut out some of the butter sometimes. ;)
I'm kinda dubious about services like HelloFresh. Mainly because of the VFM and cost per meal. It does have value in getting people to cook, but there are cheaper alternatives. I enjoy cooking though, and think the trick is to learn some basics, then start experimenting.
Then some simple meal planning can save on prep time and ways to use leftovers. Wierd thing I've noticed is a correlation between making shopping lists, and diligently following recipes, and inability to improvise.
And I guess the US can have fewer exercise options, and doesn't seem to encourage pedestrians. UK has that challenge as well though.
… making shopping lists, and diligently following recipes, and inability to improvise.
I’d alter that slightly — make shopping lists, diligently improvise (but keep track of what’s being done), and unwillingness to continue improvising once a particularly tasty dish has been produced, at which point it’s a recipe.
Purely from a personal viewpoint...
I was spending far too much on ready-meals/take out/eat-in and decided to get a couple of recipe books and try and learn how to cook.
Yes I diligently followed recipes to the letter at the start but after a while I had got confident enough in the basics that I could adapt, combine & improvise. Obviously YMMV but I think recipe books are a good start, just buy some that include things like making a rue & a simple cheese sauce as well as the fancy stuff.
My wife signed up to Hello Fresh and sure the food was ok along with a recipe to cook it but I prefer just going to the supermarket and doing it myself rather than paying someone else to figure out my dinner for me. Don't need someone else to decide what I eat (I do all/most of the cooking at home)
I'm sure they have a place, especially if you're new to cooking. My Early years 2 minute noodles featured often when studying but that was more of a financial thing.
Still anything that gets people cooking at home instead of ordering takeaway is a win really. Important life skill.
Apparently you don't have any good restaurants in your area. Or you call McDonalds a restaurant. It isn't.
A good chef in a restaurant is hard to beat. Yes, there are definitely people who know how to cook at home (my wife is one), but just saying learn how to cook and you'll do better than any restaurant chef is a rather tall order.
And, if you do, you can always open a restaurant ;)
Apparently you don't have any good restaurants in your area.
I live in Norway. There isn't a good restaurant in the country. ;)
Well, maybe there are one or two, but none near me.
But my point was that a lot of restaurants don't have good, healthy food - most have mediocre, barely healthy food. Unless you pay for it.
I know how to cook (well - I've never killed anyone that I know of), and enjoy doing so. Too busy engineering software and planning the house I want to build to have time to open a restaurant though. :)
You can get lots of excersize in almost zero space at all by pushing your luck, jumping to conclusions, leaps of faith, crunching your numbers, lifting your spirits, etc.
*Hands you a pint filled with laxative*
Drink up! You'll be skinnier in no time! =-D
*Cough*
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If you want a space reward to motivate getting fitter the target price for a ride on Starship is about $5000 (what you would currently pay for a vomit comet ticket). It will take a while for the price to drop that low (and for the final lithobraking manoeuvre to not be immediately followed by RUD). In the mean time: one month until Starship's Programmatic Environmental Assessment gets completed delayed.
That's more than two of me. In the same skin! (I'm the same height and clock in just a smidge over 70kg right now.)
For those enquiring minds out there, eat less. ;) Diseases notwithstanding, it's really that simple.
I dropped just over a kilo (2.2lbs) last week by switching to a slightly healthier diet. I've been having a (very) large milkshake (homemade with fresh or frozen fruit and the like) around 11, and then a salad with chicken or tuna or something for dinner around 18. I drink water and/or juice in between, and usually have some fresh fruit or some yoghurt later in the evening. For someone who spends his entire day sitting down punching keys and nudging a mouse I don't need more calories. Exercise is something that happens to other people.
You can drop a kilo in just a few minutes if you measure yourself before and after a 'big' trip to the toilet (I managed 1.2kg one time, but a lot of that was a very full bladder).
Make sure you're either always measuring at the same part of your routine each day, and/or by measuring more often and taking an average.
Get off the god damn Hobbit diet, there is no need for 7 or 8 meals a day, I get by nicely on a light lunch and dinner until I'm full, breakfast only on the weekends! I used to eat 5 meals a day back in the 80's and it showed.
Getting of the soapbox, that was a damn nice thing to do! He can have only one of these------>
To follow David Lettermans advice that leaves something like Dysentery !!!
Not to be recommended in any way !!!
Will help you to lose 'lots' of weight if you make it last a month or so.
A lot less pain just to 'Eat less' & 'Exercise more' !!!
Not by much, but there you go.
I’d never expect to be accepted for such a trip.
I’m always checking weight restrictions for light plane and helicopter joy flights, etc.
I just made it onto a space simulator weight wise in Singapore a few years back.
He should have expected this.
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