Don’t be mad, he’s only trying to give you some advice!

Why do people feel obligated to come up to you, although they don’t know you and it’s probably the first time they’ve seen you, and “give you advice” about something they have no business in?
What do I mean? Let me tell you… are you a smoker? If you are, you’d know what I mean. You go outside, you try to enjoy a cigarette, but 1 out of every 5 people who pass by feel the need to jump on your face and start lecturing you about smoking and how bad it is and shit like that. Most of them do it in a hostile way, thinking god will give them credit for what they’re doing…….. in 3, 2, 1…. The first thing you thought of is the Quranic verse that tells you to give other muslims advice. I had this discussion with a lot of people around me, after someone tried to lecture me about the evils of tobacco (the only thing he got was a funny look from me and “do you really think I don’t know that? I want to kill myself, kaifi!!”), and in the end, it seemed like I was at fault. “he’s just trying to give you some advice. God! Relax a little”… and shit like that… I just laid back, relaxed, look at the fat guy and said “ya5i, why don’t you take care of your health? Don’t you know that obesity will kill you? It only takes a little self control to watch what you eat… and it’s only human to exercise for an hour a day… why don’t you do that? And besides, do you know the odors all that junk food makes your body produce? Wallah, you’re not only hurting yourself, you’re hurting your whole family. And besides, I mean, do you think it really looks good to be that fat?”
Needless to say, I was given the “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!” look from everyone… then I said “see… that’s how I see it… I have no business telling this dude what to, or not to do! Why didn’t you look at that other guy that tried to give me advice, as you want to call it, the same way?”… I got the “no, this is different… it’s not his fault he’s overweight.”…
What I wanted to say was “it’s not my fault I smoke. God wants me to smoke”… but that would just open up a huge can of worms. So I just said ok, whatever!

I mind my own business, most of the time… I don’t remember if I ever stuck my nose in anyone else’s business… I don’t think I ever did… but I could be wrong… anyway, you don’t see me walking up to every fucking fat ass on the road and try to lecture him about his shit. So fuck off and don’t try to give me brotherly advice on how to quit smoking. I don’t want to quit. If I wanted to quit I would’ve. And that’s what I tell everyone. I just don’t want to! And by me smoking or whatever, I think that’s an obvious statement that “I want to smoke now, so fuck off”… but people are stupid. This applies to other things in general, not just smoking. But I’m just saying, is it acceptable to lecture every fat person I see about self control and shit like that? Is it? then why is it acceptable to lecture anyone else about something they do that hurts themselves and isn’t bothering anyone else? If I smoked inside a public place that does not allow smoking (like all fucking Saudis do at seef mall in Bahrain… fucking pricks) yes, I should be lectured, and actually kicked out of the mall. I don’t know why I mentioned that… had nothing to do with the subject… maybe it did… whatever…

Priority at the gym

You always hear me complaining about people hogging up the machines and benches at the gym, when they don’t even know how to train, they don’t have a goal, and they don’t even break a sweat by working out for 90 minutes. The way I see it is that serious trainers should have priority over those machines and benches and what not. Of course, people are going to say “who the hell do you think you are? They have every right to workout just as much as you do! You ass!”… they have a right to workout, but I have the priority. My wife was complaining that all these fat asses at the gym were hogging up the treadmills going 1 mile per week and burning a total of 2 calories in an hour while munching on a snickers bar, and she has to wait for 20-30 minutes for the manatee to get off the machine. I asked her why she didn’t call the fitness trainer and tell them to get the fuck off (they have a 20 minute time limit per session), she said she didn’t want to bother them because they were there first. Now, mere mortals can’t understand this concept of serious trainees should come first. And they think it’s unjust and wrong. Tell me, if you were going to the computer lab at the university, they only have, let’s say, 10 computers in the lab, and they’re all full. You have a paper you want to write and it’s due next week… you find that 8 of the 10 people occupying the computers are surfing the next, watching youtube videos, downloading music, checking out porn, and chatting on messenger… would you say “they came here first. They have the right to use those computers for as long as they want. I just have to wait because I came after them.”… fuck no. you’d go ape shit. Admit it! you’d go call the lab instructor or whatever and complain, and demand that he/she kicks them out of the lab because it’s for people who want to study and have actual work to do. Right? The same shit applies for people in the gym. Some people are going there (most of them) just to say that they go to a gym. They use every goddamn machine there is in the gym every goddamn day! And if you ask them “what muscle does this machine work?” they’d answer “ummm… ummm… the name of the machine is… ummm… lat pulldown? (reading it from the panel)… so I think it works your abs”… they go there to waste your time, and their time. I believe that they do not have a right to be there if they aren’t serious. This isn’t a fucking playground. You know how many times I’ve had to deal with ass holes in the gym… laying fucking yoga mats under the squat rack, hogging up the preacher curl machine even while resting and when you ask to squeeze a set in while he rests he says “no no… I have about 10 mintues to go here”, 1 smythe machine in the gym being hogged by two old asses where one of them thinks he’s benching 135 lbs but in reality he’s benching 60 lbs and his friend is barbell rowing 75 lbs as a spot, they do 6 alternating sets without giving anyone a chance to join in (3 people were waiting), and when they were done, they started doing incline presses and said “we only need around 20 more minutes”…
If this happened anywhere other than the gym, people would be outraged and they’d probably kill the guy who was causing all this shit… but since it’s a gym, and nobody wants to work out, and they’re happy to waste another 50 minutes of their time so that they could tell their friends “oh man, I did so much shit at the gym today… took me fucking 2 hours” and brag about how they work so hard in the gym yet they still look like a whale, no body wants to understand or even try to understand the priority system of a gym.


Fucking summer

I’m down to 2800 cals per day of fat and protein only (350 gr protein, 160 gr fat), doing only moderate intensity cardio for 40 minutes 7 times per week (twice on Sunday and Tuesday), only working out 3 days per week for about 30 minutes per session, and my metabolism is a son of a bitch!!! People at work are starting to ask me if I’m ok or if I have diabeeetus :) … it’s good in a way (burning a shitload of calories by doing nothing at all) and bad in the sense that I look like a sweaty pig all the time. Gonna do this for 3 weeks and then go down to 2500 cals with a higher carbohydrate intake. But the heat is just unbearable. We had a lot of dust coming in for 2 weeks… people were complaining but I loved it. no humidity and it keeps the temp down a bit… now it’s gone and it’s as hot as shit… 48 degrees C today… fucking hell!!! Either way, dust, no dust… I know I’m gonna get sick sometime soon… this is usually the time of year when I get hellish throat infections and crap. I’d better stock up on the anti biotics.