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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| working out too often can also cause your immune system to weaken...so doing it 6 times a weak and punishing yourself on the treadmill might not be such good advice... |
Initially, probably true. However, as you train your body over time, your immune system also benefits. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:49 am Post subject: |
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| Witht he lifestyle most waygookin lead Im not surprised you guys are coming down with crap. Crappy eating habits, drinking, lack of serious exercise, discipline issues. Personally I havent been sick for ages. I attribute that to keeping fit and eating healthy food, avoiding alcohol, etc. |
With the lifestyle most ESL teachers lead, particularly those who teach small children, I'm not surprised you guys and girls are coming down with colds, the flu and all the rest. Many of you might not be eating right, as it takes time -- the shopping, the preparation, the cooking, and often harder when you're doing all that for just one. And the drinking. It's too easy to fall into a heavy-drinking lifestyle here. I've never enjoyed the taste of beer enough to want to just plant myself on the sofa and knock them back by myself. Beer is for groups. A few V&Ts, though... that was my downfall at one time. Come home from work, crack the ice tray, slice the lemon, and pour...one...two....three.... and that, too frequently, was the way the evening went. Something I've had to watch, and some of you may know what I mean. Then there's exercise. I've always run, but I've never been into the "gym" & workout routines. Almost nobody was that I grew up with. I lift barbells at home. Nothing strenuous at all. Health clubs just aren't my scene, I guess. I probably do more bending and flexing and lifting in the garden of a weekend than all the exercise I get during the week. "Discipline issues"... not sure what that one means. Abstaining from harmful substances? Prayer before going to bed? Yeah, I think those aren't bad ideas.
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:51 am Post subject: |
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I wrote about this last week on another thread. Last Friday I was so sick that I couldn't sit upright. I had a temperature of 39 and couldn't eat. I thought it was gastroenteritis again, which I experienced a bad bout of a couple of months ago, but I didn't vomit or have diarrhea. I took a nap and awoke with a collossal headache that lasted the rest of the day. But by Saturday afternoon I was half recovered. In fact, I wanted to go out and play basketball, only the wife refused to let me out. No fair. Michael Jordan's allowed to do it.
Anyway, good immune system on Spark-Daddy, I guess.
Sparkles*_* |
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 4:53 am Post subject: |
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| Witht he lifestyle most waygookin lead Im not surprised you guys are coming down with crap. Crappy eating habits, drinking, lack of serious exercise, discipline issues. Personally I havent been sick for ages. I attribute that to keeping fit and eating healthy food, avoiding alcohol, etc. |
With the lifestyle most ESL teachers lead, particularly those who teach small children, I'm not surprised you guys and girls are coming down with colds, the flu and all the rest. Many of you might not be eating right, as it takes time -- the shopping, the preparation, the cooking, and often harder when you're doing all that for just one. And the drinking. It's too easy to fall into a heavy-drinking lifestyle here. I've never enjoyed the taste of beer enough to want to just plant myself on the sofa and knock them back by myself. Beer is for groups. A few V&Ts, though... that was my downfall at one time. Come home from work, crack the ice tray, slice the lemon, and pour...one...two....three.... and that, too frequently, was the way the evening went. Something I've had to watch, and some of you may know what I mean. Then there's exercise. I've always run, but I've never been into the "gym" & workout routines. Almost nobody was that I grew up with. I lift barbells at home. Nothing strenuous at all. Health clubs just aren't my style, I guess. I probably do more bending and flexing and lifting in the garden of a weekend that all the exercise I get during the week. "Discipline issues"... not sure what that one means. Abstaining from harmful substances? Prayer before going to bed? Yeah, I think those aren't bad ideas. |
Discipline is what keeps you from trashing all the plans and new year's resolutions and keeping to a strict regimen of good eating and exercise for a whole lifetime instead of a month or two.
When I make a plan, I stick to it. I never deviate from a course of action that I have layed out for myself. |
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: whatever
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| I teach 400 hundred grade 5 students, and I'm currently teaching 40 classes a week until July (oh july please come soon!) I don't always have time to eat properly or exercise but I try to stay away from fast food and to make time to live healthily (doesn't always happen right now tho). I haven't caught any bugs yet but there has been a nasty one going around the kids lately so I've got my guard up. Unfortunately, sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're busy/stressed/tired and it just knocks you cold. DW...there's no need to be such a pompous a-s-s cuz, afterall, you're just human like the rest of us |
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| I teach 400 hundred grade 5 students, and I'm currently teaching 40 classes a week until July (oh july please come soon!) I don't always have time to eat properly or exercise but I try to stay away from fast food and to make time to live healthily (doesn't always happen right now tho). I haven't caught any bugs yet but there has been a nasty one going around the kids lately so I've got my guard up. Unfortunately, sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're busy/stressed/tired and it just knocks you cold. DW...there's no need to be such a pompous a-s-s cuz, afterall, you're just human like the rest of us |
Technically, yes I am human. I just lack many of the human weaknesses. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| I_Am_Wrong wrote: |
| I teach 400 hundred grade 5 students, and I'm currently teaching 40 classes a week until July (oh july please come soon!) I don't always have time to eat properly or exercise but I try to stay away from fast food and to make time to live healthily (doesn't always happen right now tho). I haven't caught any bugs yet but there has been a nasty one going around the kids lately so I've got my guard up. Unfortunately, sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're busy/stressed/tired and it just knocks you cold. DW...there's no need to be such a pompous a-s-s cuz, afterall, you're just human like the rest of us |
Technically, yes I am human. I just lack many of the human weaknesses. |
Save hubris and vanity. |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:16 am Post subject: |
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| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| I_Am_Wrong wrote: |
| I teach 400 hundred grade 5 students, and I'm currently teaching 40 classes a week until July (oh july please come soon!) I don't always have time to eat properly or exercise but I try to stay away from fast food and to make time to live healthily (doesn't always happen right now tho). I haven't caught any bugs yet but there has been a nasty one going around the kids lately so I've got my guard up. Unfortunately, sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're busy/stressed/tired and it just knocks you cold. DW...there's no need to be such a pompous a-s-s cuz, afterall, you're just human like the rest of us |
Technically, yes I am human. I just lack many of the human weaknesses. |
yeah you lack so many human weaknesses that you make up for it picking on sick people.
Pardon the pun but you make me sick. I'd love to find you and cough on you so you can endure what a lot of us have gone through. |
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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I have been in Korea for a little over four years. The first 2 1/2 I taught I was ALWAYS sick. I mean I had perhaps 10-15 colds a year. Since I have stopped teaching, I have been sick perhaps two times and neither of them major. I work twice as hard and drink just as much.
Being around children in a society that has no concern for giving other people a cold is the root cause for many of us being sick so often. Also, being from another part of the world, we have no built up the immunity that would fight off all the small colds that we get (having to go to the doctor three times a week to get your meds doesnt help either i.e. people rarely get the full course that is needed to fight off a cold and relapse a few weeks later).
How many of you were sick the first month you came here? |
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Daechidong Waygookin
Joined: 22 Nov 2004
Location: No Longer on Dave's. Ive quit.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: |
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| Daechidong Waygookin wrote: |
| I_Am_Wrong wrote: |
| I teach 400 hundred grade 5 students, and I'm currently teaching 40 classes a week until July (oh july please come soon!) I don't always have time to eat properly or exercise but I try to stay away from fast food and to make time to live healthily (doesn't always happen right now tho). I haven't caught any bugs yet but there has been a nasty one going around the kids lately so I've got my guard up. Unfortunately, sometimes there's nothing you can do when you're busy/stressed/tired and it just knocks you cold. DW...there's no need to be such a pompous a-s-s cuz, afterall, you're just human like the rest of us |
Technically, yes I am human. I just lack many of the human weaknesses. |
yeah you lack so many human weaknesses that you make up for it picking on sick people.
Pardon the pun but you make me sick. I'd love to find you and cough on you so you can endure what a lot of us have gone through. |
OH PLEASE!
You had a cold. Its not as if you had cancer or AIDS. Spare me the grim details of your brave battle with the cold you once had. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:08 am Post subject: |
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OH PLEASE!
You had a cold. Its not as if you had cancer or AIDS. Spare me the grim details of your brave battle with the cold you once had. |
Today the ajeosshi at my local super didn't put in the pack of smokes I asked for while making my purchase at the counter. I know he did it on purpose. He's a racist scumbag.
In other news, a young black girl in Alabama was raped and stabbed to death by a gang of high school boys. "N*gger *** recepticle" was written on her bare chest with indelible ink.
Things are tough all over.
Sparkles*_* |
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I_Am_Wrong
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:33 pm Post subject: |
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so living with your parents until your 28 isn't a weakness?
burn. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Six more weeks of teaching kids. Here's hoping/expecting that these perpetual colds will clear up a bit after that. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't there something wrong that needs checked if you're getting colds all the time? A person should not feel sick all year or get 10-15 colds per year. That's very abnormal.
I'm not blaming anyone for sickness. That would be stupid. 
My guess is one should get a cold or two per year. More than 5 colds per year and maybe you have a hectic lifestyle which leaves you vulnerable. But sick all year??? I have known teachers in Korea who were never well. I mean, to me that says one should be in a hospital getting all manner of tests done. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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Isn't there something wrong that needs checked if you're getting colds all the time? A person should not feel sick all year or get 10-15 colds per year. That's very abnormal.
I'm not blaming anyone for sickness. That would be stupid.
My guess is one should get a cold or two per year. More than 5 colds per year and maybe you have a hectic lifestyle which leaves you vulnerable. But sick all year??? I have known teachers in Korea who were never well. I mean, to me that says one should be in a hospital getting all manner of tests done. |
This can happen when you have severe allergies. It can also happen your first year in a new country. |
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