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Today I found a perfect way to lose weight

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So here's the deal:

First, go drive to a beach in a warmish area, like 70+ degrees, and blaring sunlight.
- Don an 8mm full body wetsuit with booties, hood, and gloves.
- Put on a weight belt with 22lbs.
- Put on a BC with a 70lbs steel tank attached to it.
- Grab your fins, mask, etc
- Start hoofing it all the way across a parking lot and onto the beach
- Traverse the sandy beach. Loose sand, of course.
- Enter the water, waddle out to waist deep while the waves crash onto you
- Balance yourself (somehow) and put on fins while the waves crash onto you
- Surface swim through the waves
- Surface swim another 100 yards or so
- Decend and do a dive
- Ascend and surface swim 100 yards back to the shallows
- Dodge waves and take off your fins
- Keep on trucking across the sandy beach and parking lot back to your car
- Change tanks and do it again

My first shore dive. My first cold water dive. I have to say, I am not impressed or very happy with either. I'll be doing quite a few of them over the next month as I get my divemaster certification. I have a feeling I'll be losing like 20lbs in this month.

Jesus christ I'm whooped.

So yeah, do that if you want to lose weight :lol:
 
rivrrat said:
So here's the deal:

First, go drive to a beach in a warmish area, like 70+ degrees, and blaring sunlight.
- Don an 8mm full body wetsuit with booties, hood, and gloves.
- Put on a weight belt with 22lbs.
- Put on a BC with a 70lbs steel tank attached to it.
- Grab your fins, mask, etc
- Start hoofing it all the way across a parking lot and onto the beach
- Traverse the sandy beach. Loose sand, of course.
- Enter the water, waddle out to waist deep while the waves crash onto you
- Balance yourself (somehow) and put on fins while the waves crash onto you
- Surface swim through the waves
- Surface swim another 100 yards or so
- Decend and do a dive
- Ascend and surface swim 100 yards back to the shallows
- Dodge waves and take off your fins
- Keep on trucking across the sandy beach and parking lot back to your car
- Change tanks and do it again

My first shore dive. My first cold water dive. I have to say, I am not impressed or very happy with either. I'll be doing quite a few of them over the next month as I get my divemaster certification. I have a feeling I'll be losing like 20lbs in this month.

Jesus christ I'm whooped.

So yeah, do that if you want to lose weight :lol:
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And then Bonnie has the audacity to claim that women are smarter then men.
 
rivrrat said:
So here's the deal:

First, go drive to a beach in a warmish area, like 70+ degrees, and blaring sunlight.
- Don an 8mm full body wetsuit with booties, hood, and gloves.
- Put on a weight belt with 22lbs.
- Put on a BC with a 70lbs steel tank attached to it.
- Grab your fins, mask, etc
- Start hoofing it all the way across a parking lot and onto the beach
- Traverse the sandy beach. Loose sand, of course.
- Enter the water, waddle out to waist deep while the waves crash onto you
- Balance yourself (somehow) and put on fins while the waves crash onto you
- Surface swim through the waves
- Surface swim another 100 yards or so
- Decend and do a dive
- Ascend and surface swim 100 yards back to the shallows
- Dodge waves and take off your fins
- Keep on trucking across the sandy beach and parking lot back to your car
- Change tanks and do it again

My first shore dive. My first cold water dive. I have to say, I am not impressed or very happy with either. I'll be doing quite a few of them over the next month as I get my divemaster certification. I have a feeling I'll be losing like 20lbs in this month.

Jesus christ I'm whooped.

So yeah, do that if you want to lose weight :lol:
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I've never been diving but it sounds like it might be fun. I don't think I'd lose 20 lbs though :mrgreen: Do you get to see a lot of cool fish?
 
Kayleigh Katz said:
I've never been diving but it sounds like it might be fun. I don't think I'd lose 20 lbs though :mrgreen: Do you get to see a lot of cool fish?
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Not a whole lot on those dives, no. Saw a lobster and a tiny 4inch octopus. Florida and the Caribbean have a crapload of pretty fish though.

But, at least on these dives there's a *chance* I could see blue or grey whales.
 
rivrrat said:
Not a whole lot on those dives, no. Saw a lobster and a tiny 4inch octopus. Florida and the Caribbean have a crapload of pretty fish though.

But, at least on these dives there's a *chance* I could see blue or grey whales.
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I would probably head to Florida if I tried it, the water would be too cold here, I would think. I dunno though, I never go to the beach around here.

I think it would be just so cool to see a whale though... where did you say this is? SoCal?
 
Kayleigh Katz said:
I think it would be just so cool to see a whale though...
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Me too. I saw a commercial the other day and there where a bunch of whales featured in it and I commented pretty much exactly what you said. I also have this huuuge desire to see and play with a dolphin at some point in my life. It's a goal I hope to accomplish soon.
 
americanwoman said:
Me too. I saw a commercial the other day and there where a bunch of whales featured in it and I commented pretty much exactly what you said. I also have this huuuge desire to see and play with a dolphin at some point in my life. It's a goal I hope to accomplish soon.
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yeah dolphins are cool too. It would be fun to be pulled along by one of these wonderful creatures and kinda experience what it's like for them to glide through the water.

Animals are so cool, there should be more threads that celebrate them here.
 
Kayleigh Katz said:
I would probably head to Florida if I tried it, the water would be too cold here, I would think. I dunno though, I never go to the beach around here.

I think it would be just so cool to see a whale though... where did you say this is? SoCal?
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americanwoman said:
Me too. I saw a commercial the other day and there where a bunch of whales featured in it and I commented pretty much exactly what you said. I also have this huuuge desire to see and play with a dolphin at some point in my life. It's a goal I hope to accomplish soon.
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SoCal, yeah. San Diego. Whales migrate through here in the winter. I asked my instructor if he'd seen any and said he'd actually seen a 25ft juvenile whale a couple weeks ago out there. Said it hung around for like a day, which was unusual and they thought something might be wrong with it (and thus were readying rescue help for it) but then it took off on it's own eventually.

Dolphins aren't uncommon out theere either. Not much else to see, the cold water sucks ass and the trek to the shore in all that gear seriously blows, so it could all be made worth it by seeing whales or dolphins. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

And I would love, love LOVE to see either. Though I'd probably piss myself if I saw an adult blue whale.
 
Kayleigh Katz said:
But they are friendly, right?
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Oh yes, they only eat plankton. But still... they're like 100ft long and weigh hundreds of tons. Even though I *know* they are friendly, I still think the sheer shock of seeing something THAT big would make me freeze in fear for a bit. Manatees shocked me with their size, and they're nowhere near the size of whales.

Sizecomparisons.GIF
 
rivrrat said:
Oh yes, they only eat plankton. But still... they're like 100ft long and weigh hundreds of tons. Even though I *know* they are friendly, I still think the sheer shock of seeing something THAT big would make me freeze in fear for a bit. Manatees shocked me with their size, and they're nowhere near the size of whales.

Sizecomparisons.GIF
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Oh... I um... I was thinking of a smaller whale... OMG, yes I think I might pee too. Would something that big even be aware of us?
 
Kayleigh Katz said:
Oh... I um... I was thinking of a smaller whale... OMG, yes I think I might pee too. Would something that big even be aware of us?
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I dunno. If they are, I'm sure they think us as significant as an ant, though. LOL
 
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