Why do Painters work wardrobe consists of nothing but white everything?
There are a few reasons we wear white:
1) During the painting process we are contiously wiping our fingers/hands on our overalls whether it be excess caulking, picking something out of our brushes and rollers, roller lint of the wall while painting, wiping of a fiver etc. No matter how many differnet colours are on our overalls they still don't look dirty.
2) When painting outside wearing white is a lot cooler.
3) It is the unoffcial uniform of a painter. 2 painters identical talent and skill, one wears white overalls the other wears jeans and t-shirt. The one on the white will always get more work because he looks the part. It is familiar to people and familiarity gives confidance.
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Doc, over the last few months I have shed some unwanted lbs. Now I have some sking the is "looser". Will this tighten up on its own eventually or?
Unless you're maybe 17 years old, typically not. By about the late 20's your skin has already lost the ability to snap back. However, it can move a bit, so if you bulk up some muscle, you'll use some of it's tension.
The skin is fixed down to the underlying muscle in several places. These are typically places that the skin will form folds. If you get fat enough, these folds become deep. If you lose weight and gain muscle mass, it won't really tighten up the skin on the far side of one of these creases. Leg muscle volume increases won't tighten the skin on the tummy, for example, and neither will building up the pecs. However, building up the muscles of the torso (core and back) will pull on the skin of the flanks and abdomen.
Do tons of lat pulls.
Oh... and by the way... that "loose skin" is hungry fat. The fat is still under the skin and it's pissed off at you for starving it. If you give it the chance, it'll preferentially rob you of your nutritional stores and spring back to it's original size.
The key to keeping it off is to maintain a cardio workout program at maybe 70 to 80 percent of your maximal output 3 or 4 times a week for an hour or so... the more the better.
Dieting sucks. Don't deprive yourself of good food, just don't let your portions get out of control. Keep your activity level high enough to metabolize what you eat, and you'll stay healthy.
Which leads me to another question. Why do I almost always want and order a salad at a restaurant but hardly ever have that same craving at home? I know it's good for me. I actually LIKE salad.
I'm not a big fan of sweets, either, so it's not like I reach for a Snickers instead of the lettuce.
M
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The salad somehow tastes better when somebody else makes it. I don't know why, but it's true. Maybe there is a medical explanation for that one - but I suspect I need a shrink to make sense of this one.
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I'll add a related but unrelated question to help bump the thread...I also tore my acl in my right knee twice - once 9 years ago, and once 6. The first time I had part of my hamstring removed, tied up, and put in place of the torn (all the way through - just two stumps left on either side) acl. My body took it well and after about 10 months of therapy, I was back where I used to be. Then 2 years later, I tore it again, though this time less severe. This time, he just trimmed it and left it - I have about 80% left. The second surgery also included some meniscus removal which left me with no padding between the bones. I was told I could bike and swim and that's it. Well, I was also told that I would need a replacement by the time I'm 30ish. I'm 25 now and I want to do a triathlon next year and an ironman the following. I figure since they're going to replace it, why not do the things I've always wanted to do. Is this an absolutely terrible idea? I've started running with good shoes that I bought and I have NO pain in my knee. I did 16 miles last week and I hope to do 20 this week. No pain, no swelling.
What do you think, is this a terrible idea? Am I going to hurt myself further?
Which leads me to another question. Why do I almost always want and order a salad at a restaurant but hardly ever have that same craving at home? I know it's good for me. I actually LIKE salad.
I'm not a big fan of sweets, either, so it's not like I reach for a Snickers instead of the lettuce.
M
Here's my theory:
A large part of the appeal of a salad is the presentation. A dinner salad at a restaurant is usually very colorful and large. The lettuce is at the bottom, the interesting ingredients are layered or even sectored off. Sometimes they're even arranged in a pattern. You pick and choose what to do with it. You can toss it, you can eat it in sections. You can mix and match ingredients.
At home, you chop some stuff and throw it in a bowl. It takes time and effort. The likelihood that you're going to "plate" the salad in an appealing way for yourself is rather low.
The effort-to-interest ratio isn't favorable.
Consider trying the experiment of storing unmixed salad ingredients in small amounts. Have a dozen pint sized tupperware containers in the fridge with chopped onion, chopped bell pepper, chopped mushrooms, chopped radishes, chopped olives, chopped cooked potato or squash, chopped cucumber... cook up some macaroni or shells and tupperware it too. Open a can of kidney beans and dump it in a tupperware. Open a can of heart-of-palm. Have a container of artichoke hearts ready. Keep a bag of shredded cheddar ready. Buy 3 different kinds of dressing. Keep raisins, dried cranberries, and crushed walnuts in the pantry.
Whatever you do... make sure you do all this prep work in one setting and then don't touch it that day.
Store it. Forget about it. The next day, on the way home, stop off and get yourself a bag of mixed greens.
1 small pinch of mixed greens, plus a spoonful from 4 or 5 of your ingredients, and you'll have a pretty interesting salad.
If you rinse and dry those veggies before you chop them, it'll be 4 or 5 days before some of those ingredients become unappealing.
If it's as easy as a salad bar, you'll eat salad every day.
A large part of the appeal of a salad is the presentation. A dinner salad at a restaurant is usually very colorful and large. The lettuce is at the bottom, the interesting ingredients are layered or even sectored off. Sometimes they're even arranged in a pattern. You pick and choose what to do with it. You can toss it, you can eat it in sections. You can mix and match ingredients.
At home, you chop some stuff and throw it in a bowl. It takes time and effort. The likelihood that you're going to "plate" the salad in an appealing way for yourself is rather low.
The effort-to-interest ratio isn't favorable.
Consider trying the experiment of storing unmixed salad ingredients in small amounts. Have a dozen pint sized tupperware containers in the fridge with chopped onion, chopped bell pepper, chopped mushrooms, chopped radishes, chopped olives, chopped cooked potato or squash, chopped cucumber... cook up some macaroni or shells and tupperware it too. Open a can of kidney beans and dump it in a tupperware. Open a can of heart-of-palm. Have a container of artichoke hearts ready. Keep a bag of shredded cheddar ready. Buy 3 different kinds of dressing. Keep raisins, dried cranberries, and crushed walnuts in the pantry.
Whatever you do... make sure you do all this prep work in one setting and then don't touch it that day.
Store it. Forget about it. The next day, on the way home, stop off and get yourself a bag of mixed greens.
1 small pinch of mixed greens, plus a spoonful from 4 or 5 of your ingredients, and you'll have a pretty interesting salad.
If you rinse and dry those veggies before you chop them, it'll be 4 or 5 days before some of those ingredients become unappealing.
If it's as easy as a salad bar, you'll eat salad every day.
Will you come and do this for me instead? It will be massively appealing!
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"That seems to be when you're in your element and at your happiest. ...just an observation, but put a winch line in your hand in a boreal forest, a muddy woodland, or an arid desert and the word harmony suddenly makes sense "
. So far everything is good: no pain in the knee, no swelling and I'm doing about 20 miles a week right now. 
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