LOL at nearly everything posted above (in a good way that is). King Kabuki, your posts are speaking to me brother!
My wife is probably the closest person to me who lives an unhealthy lifestyle. When we met she was totally lean and HOT. She's since put on A LOT of weight. She smokes. She drinks a little, but not bad. But she has absolutley no clue about healthy eating habits (note: I have a clue, but I eat pretty shitty also). As bad as I eat, she is worse. And she rarely exercises. She'll go to the gym maybe twice a month and thinks that is going to make a difference. She just ends up killing herself in some aerobics class and hurting for the next two weeks.
She eats more than me. If we go out to a chinese buffet she'll stack her plate 3 feet high and go back 3 times for more. We order a pizza and she has 3/4 of it and a large pepsi. She comes home from the grocery store with bags and bags of crap (bacon, cookies, sweetened cereal, soda, etc). We're slowly changing our ways. We're talking quite a bit about altering our diet (one reason I'm here in the Dieting Discussion Thread in the first place). I go with her now to the grocery store and nix any crap in the bud. I figure it's easier to keep it out of the house than to try and resist it once it's there. Her biggest weakness is denial (mine is discipline).
Oh, btw, the most unhealthy friend I have is a guy who is just a goofball. Great friend, but a goofball.
He works out, but it's so goofy. He jumps rope and counts each skip. So he'll say, " I did 521 skips last night." and I'm like "You counted the skips? Why don't you just time yourself?" I went running with him once, and when we started he just sprinted down the road. I thought, "Holy shit, this guys got one helluva pace..." but he ended up stopping about a 1/4 mile down the road, bent over on his knees, breathing hard. I stopped with him thinking something was wrong. After a bit he stood up and said, "You ready?" and took off running at a full sprint. Again he gassed about 1/4 mile down the road and I stopped with him. Knowing that we were planning a 3 mile run, I finally said something after about 5 of these sprint / stop cycles. I suggested that we run at an easy pace, but not stop, just kinda go for a jog. So...he said ok, and took of sprinting. I was like "WTF???!!!" We stopped and caught our breath about 20 times during that jog.
So, then his diet is kinda like someone mentioned above. He'll fast all day, then break and binge out on junk food all night. Mind you, I've got my own issues, but I've tried to tell him that fasting is bullshit. He still does this nearly every day.
One time him and I went to the weight room together. When we got there I started on the bench. He proceeded to work on judo rolls right in the middle of the weight room.
He works out, but it's kind of this useless goofy shit. I think a lot of it does him no good whatsoever, and in fact may be hurting him. I think he ate lead paint chips as a child.
