Perhaps you should buy a mini exercise bike and bike at home when you watch tv or do things on your computer.

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I’d love it if someone paid me to workout and eat right! Maybe I should start a blog listing my dialy problems and have people donate money to help my family and I be healthy….but then it would just make me feel like I was living off people which is not my cup of tea. Okay, this has turned into a much longer reply than it was meant to be I shall shut up now.

Oh dear at the moment I am much in need of any dieting tips that I can find! So here is this weeks carnival to help us with our slimming, healthy living, dieting and even improving our exercise regime. Veteran…

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I also wouldn’t contribute if Patrick was running one of the (for North America) usual charity schemes: Somebody volunteers to do something for fun and self-promotion and (oddly) this activity is linked up with other people giving money to a third party institution or cause. “Run for the Cure”, “24 hour blogathon for charity X”, etc. etc.

This idea of “doing X for charity” is something I’ve only encountered in North America — and I hadn’t noticed any distinction between Canada and the US on this topic.

In general I don’t give money to charities.

There, I said it. Let the condemnation rain down over me (those who know me will know that I won’t care).

I’m not wholly uncharitable. I sometimes give stuff away that I don’t need myself. Last winter I gave away a duvet to a local charity through my work place. They were collecting clothes for homeless people in Burnaby, I didn’t need the duvet, and I knew it would be of great use to a street person (we were getting rid of it because it was too warm).

I grew up in a welfare society. A society that worked. People paid a lot of taxes and in return, the state did a good job of taking care of people. It supports the poor, it guarantees that parents can get a spot in a daycare for their kids, it provides free health care and education to its citizens (it’s not a healthy society where only the moneyed can afford to take an education or be healthy).

To me, that’s how a society should work.

The folks from charity X may say that they’re covering the holes. I say that they’re supporting a broken model of a society where large holes are allowed to exist, because “charities will pick up the slack”.

If you have the power to vote in the country where you live (unfortunately I don’t), vote to get the holes plugged.

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May I suggest taking a look at http://www.sethroberts.net

Here is the progress for one person

http://boards.sethroberts.net/index.php?topic=1258.0

Your mileage may vary.

Works for me too a bit slower. [Email me and I'll send you a link]

Cheers and best wishes,

Al

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ok, here’s what i think right now:

it’s great, wonderful that you want to lose weight.

i’d like to help you.

we’re community. community is built on reciprocity. i give you something, you give me something, we help each other. and we also want to have a sense that the person we’re helping is doing all they can to help themselves.

now it looks like you could use help with losing weight. you’ve probably tried all kinds of things already and they haven’t worked (maybe blog about that?).

what i don’t get is why you need help getting money. what does your weight have to do with the money? (it’s not a rhetorial question, i’m actually interested)

i’m not trying to be confrontational here, just explaining why you haven’t “sold” me on giving you money.

you HAVE sold me on wanting to help you lose weight.