Red has now become “the loyal opposition”.
And, as King Garion has said, allowed herself to be put on a leash.
Maybe that’s all Red wanted all along, for someone to LISTEN to her.
She might just become a decent citizen and neighbor after all.
Very few seriously heavy people can lose weight and keep it off long term.
They are fighting the World, the Flesh and the devil too.
No one ever got heavy on purpose to offend the thin people,
who naturally, have no flaws of their own.
Not true.
There are three main body types, endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.
There are of course, variations in these, but you tend to the end of each spectrum, before it becomes significant.
Fat slobs are nearly always under exercised Endomorph types. However, you don’t need much exercise to keep yourself in trim.
Although Endomorph types do make for very strong athletic types.
The downside is Endomorph types are always behind the body composition eight ball, and tend to put fat on easily, and take if off hard.
The best default Endomorph diet is Keto or Carnivorous, with plenty of leafy greens, fresh clean water, and daily or regular weekly exercise. The more light cardio, the better.
Endomorph types need to Avoid excess carbs and sugar. Endomorph types DO Not want avoid daily or weekly exercise.
Although in the middle of the range, Mesomorph’s, drive you bonkers, as they can gain and lose weight easily. They also tend to be well proportioned and tend to the athletic, with less effort than Endomorph’s.
Then we have the Ectomorph’s, the runts of the litter, if Woodman’s image is any guide.
Slim build, Fast metabolic rate but comparatively less muscle mass than the other two body types. They can eat a loaf of bread and wash it down with a beer, with little ill effect.
However, there are always exceptions to the rule.
Ectomorph’s can be quite muscular, quite strong and quite fit. Mesomorph’s can be unfit and fatter than the denser Endomorph’s.
The trick isn’t to moan and gripe and make excuse’s.
The trick is to accept your body type and adjust your diet and excise needs to suit. More so if your not into athletic pursuits.
However, unless your medically disabled, avoiding exercise, even light exercise, regardless of your body type, is bad, very, very, bad.
As I previously noted, even a casual walk around the block, once a day, or once every other day, is often all that is needed to maintain the very basic requirements of body health.
Failing that, there are more than enough light cardio solutions that can be had, very cheaply.
For those that aren’t otherwise medically restricted, any Walmart catalog will show that for under $500 bucks, or in most cases, less than $300 bucks, you can get a decent excise bike, delivered.
Then, in the safety of whatever part of your residence, lose 5 pounds a week, without much effort, or rather, twenty minutes a day, and then strive to consistently keep it off.
Like Woody’s image, no guess as to what build I have. And yes, I’ve been super fit and super muscular, and super unfit and well overweight.
Also, getting modestly fit again is painful, slow, and not without problems, including maintaining that balance.
Should you like your food, and like your drink, and not want to live like a hermetic monk, you will put bad mass back on, because Endomorph types do.
However, you need to have an overall goal of managing that, and strive for continuous modest weight loss, before it becomes a problem, particularly as you get older.
Lastly, healthy is a weight range, not an absolute height and weight figure. Find what works for you, and keep at it.
Just don’t whine, or play the victim, because I know better, and I don’t buy the BS.
Back in the real world, I’ve had multiple heart attacks, and suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure. Eventually, I got the message.
I kid you not, modest weight loss and modest fitness gains is the only reason I’m still here, and enjoying my food, my drink, PeterCat’s grand tales, and not living like a hermetic monk.
As for our dear Redheaded Activist fool, and the generally unfit and overweight, even in Fiction, heart attacks are real, as is diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and a host of other issues, that aren’t found in the generally healthy weight range.
Regardless of genre, and even in PeterCat’s wonderful Chronicles of the Wolf Universe, stupidity has consequences.
Darwin awards a thing. Oddly enough, most people don’t realize they even qualified, until they achieve one.
Big Red isn’t fit enough to survive a week outside civilization. and for a lot of similar unfit people, in any remote and in some risky or unfortunate circumstance, more than a day.
Even in a Fictional Universe, that’s not a good thing.
hehe,, i am the Ectomorph.!
went in bootcamp at 5’2″ and eyes of … green
an weighed 98lbs,,. they gar oh teed that i would
weigh at-least 103 if not 110.. came out at 97. o.0
they even had me on triple rations..
i’m the same size as Teresa (except bust-line.)
useless info, i’m in my 50’s…
LOL well put King Garion! I was hoping that was his
primary point in all of this.
Yes you don’t tick off a cat they will show fangs and claws suddenly
and without warning. we had one who was very nice unless you
sneezed then he would at first wag his tail then look at you then
away, when he’d look back he’d strike lol.
Requesting clarification is a failing for a lot of politicians, they’d
rather insult and argue then try to find a middle ground, instead of
trying that off the bat. I hate watching debates they just make me
want to slap them both and yell “wake up!”
Sigh… sadly it could be wouldn’t be the first time someone went for the bigger better deal
I’ll not make snap decisions though it’s like when the left wing went after Trump they claimed
much but couldn’t back up their accusations with facts. Just loud pointless opinions. Sounds
familiar strip wise huh lol.
Politics is just like death and taxes we can’t escape either/ither/or. I still see Paloci? in my
mind acting like a child stamping her feet clinching her fists screaming
“But I wanted Hillery!!!! WAAAAAAA!!!”
LMBO!!!
Sorry, but his official position about wanting to have advisors who
have a different point of you sounds more rational and wiser to me
than the “keeping her on a leash bit”.
Any one who only listens to those who will tell them what they
already believe to be true risks losing perspective.
There’s plenty of examples of “wise and beloved rulers” who ended
up with “advisors” that never dared to voice a different vision.
Usually doesn’t end well. And isn’t fun to live under either.
Okay, you’re stretching to criticize now. Nothing in life is black and white,
King Garion can have input from someone who disagrees with him but who he’s
training to think and argue their points rationally, with logic.
He’s just not interested in receiving advice or criticism from someone who
argues using emotion instead of logic.
So he plans to train her to back up her opinions with facts and logic, he’s
not going to try and change her opinions. If she does, it will be her
choice, and that will carry over to her communications with others.
Sorry if I came across too strong (and yes I have the
tendencies to play the devil’s advocate).
And maybe I did misunderstood him.
He did tell her that he doesn’t want to stay in his bubble – but the
“put her on a leash” part to me sounded like this might have been more
of a front.
If was honest about wanting her input (I’m not talking about following
any of her advice) and the leash bit is just an added bonus …
I’m sorry for misunderstanding.
To me one of the biggest problems with a monarchy is the tendency of
advisors to isolate their ruler from unpleasant facts and to only tell
them what they want to hear.
Mr. Walker is a very good history teacher, and Teresa and her friends
(now advisors) were his students.
I didn’t realize it in the beginning, but having an accurate and complete
education of history is one of the cornerstones of Imperial society.
Schools are vital, Imperial schools are determined to teach students how to think, not what to think.
(Edited your comment to correct error you pointed to)
That has actually been discussed earlier in the story. King Bishop, gangster,
and Matthew Costman, federal agent, knew that America would eventually fall,
so they were preparing. Warehouse contracts for FEMA supplies, etc.
The reason they chose a monarchy is here: http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-026/
to TGW-028 and http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-038/
In short, they wanted long-term stability, and having an Emperor rule for life
would provide that.
It’s a joke that they named it as an Empire because “King King Bishop” would
sound awkward. They expected it to not expand beyond a kingdom in size.
But things don’t always go as planned.
Ok. I got that part, including the joke about King King.
But why should an Empire be more stable than a Democracy. The Romans where
a republic for way over 700 years before things started to decay.
Then came the power struggles, then Caesar tried to become Imperator for
live (and got killed for it) The Empire was never as stable after that.
In-fighting. Power hungry Emperors more caring for their own pleasure
than for their people and country …
—–
The main problem with keeping a stable and “good” government
for any prolonged time is the rules succession …
In a democracy you have to make sure that the elections are fair and that
good people get a chance to run for office. And that those who run only
for their own profit get discouraged.
In a monarchy there’s a strong trend towards building dynasties. (There’s
even been POPES who made sure that their own offspring “Inherited” the chair!)
This is usually a very bad thing. You avoided it with King -> Theresa.
But what happens when it’s her time to resign?
Does she choose her own successor?
Does some kind of council appoint one?
The people?
And are they appointed for life? For a fixed time?
Stability always comes down to this: how do you
prevent “bad” people coming to power?
How to you control them, and who do you dispose of them?
In my opinion, democracies have better answers to those
questions than monarchies.
This Empire is a more stable society because with a lifelong ruler, the
rules governing that society don’t change quickly. Teresa has veto power
over anything the People’s House or the Council of Kings tries to do.
It probably won’t last forever, but then, my webcomic won’t, either.
Just as royalty can not intermarry, Teresa, like her Kings, must choose
a successor who is not a close blood relation. Not even necessarily
Terran. She has plenty of time to choose, as being bonded to a Dragonfly
extends ones lifespan to hundreds of years. Considering that she has,
and will probably keep, the regard of the military, the Legion, and
Imperial Security, the odds of bureaucratic infighting becoming a
problem are rather low. And Teresa is not one to care for her own
pleasure to any great extent, as Kings Guard insured before she was
chosen as his successor. This Empire started off with good people
at the top, and they chose good successors. The best thing about
minimal government is that most citizens can live their entire
lives without seeing any Imperial influence in their lives.
Clarification: “Good” people does not necessarily mean “Nice”
people.
Democracy is nothing more than mob rule. A Republic is better,
and a Constitutional Republic better still, as long as the
leaders respect the limits placed on them by that Constitution.
Which ours haven’t respected for generations.
A Democracy may be stable as a government, but it’s citizens
lives are certainly not.
Please make further comments on what is the current page at the time.
Most of my readers won’t see this conversation, and letting them be
involved is much of the pleasure I get from writing this webcomic.
Red has now become “the loyal opposition”.
And, as King Garion has said, allowed herself to be put on a leash.
Maybe that’s all Red wanted all along, for someone to LISTEN to her.
She might just become a decent citizen and neighbor after all.
And sometimes she might have actually a point,
a point no one else might make just out of loyalty.
Or, a point, from a different point of view
(life experiences, education, philosophy, politics, et al)
and maybe decide to lose weight!
This is fiction, not fantasy.
Very few seriously heavy people can lose weight and keep it off long term.
They are fighting the World, the Flesh and the devil too.
No one ever got heavy on purpose to offend the thin people,
who naturally, have no flaws of their own.
Kitty,
Not true.
There are three main body types, endomorph, mesomorph, and ectomorph.
There are of course, variations in these, but you tend to the end of each spectrum, before it becomes significant.
Fat slobs are nearly always under exercised Endomorph types. However, you don’t need much exercise to keep yourself in trim.
Although Endomorph types do make for very strong athletic types.
The downside is Endomorph types are always behind the body composition eight ball, and tend to put fat on easily, and take if off hard.
The best default Endomorph diet is Keto or Carnivorous, with plenty of leafy greens, fresh clean water, and daily or regular weekly exercise. The more light cardio, the better.
Endomorph types need to Avoid excess carbs and sugar. Endomorph types DO Not want avoid daily or weekly exercise.
Although in the middle of the range, Mesomorph’s, drive you bonkers, as they can gain and lose weight easily. They also tend to be well proportioned and tend to the athletic, with less effort than Endomorph’s.
Then we have the Ectomorph’s, the runts of the litter, if Woodman’s image is any guide.
Slim build, Fast metabolic rate but comparatively less muscle mass than the other two body types. They can eat a loaf of bread and wash it down with a beer, with little ill effect.
However, there are always exceptions to the rule.
Ectomorph’s can be quite muscular, quite strong and quite fit. Mesomorph’s can be unfit and fatter than the denser Endomorph’s.
The trick isn’t to moan and gripe and make excuse’s.
The trick is to accept your body type and adjust your diet and excise needs to suit. More so if your not into athletic pursuits.
However, unless your medically disabled, avoiding exercise, even light exercise, regardless of your body type, is bad, very, very, bad.
As I previously noted, even a casual walk around the block, once a day, or once every other day, is often all that is needed to maintain the very basic requirements of body health.
Failing that, there are more than enough light cardio solutions that can be had, very cheaply.
For those that aren’t otherwise medically restricted, any Walmart catalog will show that for under $500 bucks, or in most cases, less than $300 bucks, you can get a decent excise bike, delivered.
Then, in the safety of whatever part of your residence, lose 5 pounds a week, without much effort, or rather, twenty minutes a day, and then strive to consistently keep it off.
Like Woody’s image, no guess as to what build I have. And yes, I’ve been super fit and super muscular, and super unfit and well overweight.
Also, getting modestly fit again is painful, slow, and not without problems, including maintaining that balance.
Should you like your food, and like your drink, and not want to live like a hermetic monk, you will put bad mass back on, because Endomorph types do.
However, you need to have an overall goal of managing that, and strive for continuous modest weight loss, before it becomes a problem, particularly as you get older.
Lastly, healthy is a weight range, not an absolute height and weight figure. Find what works for you, and keep at it.
Just don’t whine, or play the victim, because I know better, and I don’t buy the BS.
Back in the real world, I’ve had multiple heart attacks, and suffered from diabetes and high blood pressure. Eventually, I got the message.
I kid you not, modest weight loss and modest fitness gains is the only reason I’m still here, and enjoying my food, my drink, PeterCat’s grand tales, and not living like a hermetic monk.
As for our dear Redheaded Activist fool, and the generally unfit and overweight, even in Fiction, heart attacks are real, as is diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke and a host of other issues, that aren’t found in the generally healthy weight range.
Regardless of genre, and even in PeterCat’s wonderful Chronicles of the Wolf Universe, stupidity has consequences.
Darwin awards a thing. Oddly enough, most people don’t realize they even qualified, until they achieve one.
Big Red isn’t fit enough to survive a week outside civilization. and for a lot of similar unfit people, in any remote and in some risky or unfortunate circumstance, more than a day.
Even in a Fictional Universe, that’s not a good thing.
I have been on both sides of the the looking glass.
its easy to talk about, hard to do.
Congrats to you for making it work.
hehe,, i am the Ectomorph.!
went in bootcamp at 5’2″ and eyes of … green
an weighed 98lbs,,. they gar oh teed that i would
weigh at-least 103 if not 110.. came out at 97. o.0
they even had me on triple rations..
i’m the same size as Teresa (except bust-line.)
useless info, i’m in my 50’s…
https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/fitness-guru-dies-suddenly-from-heart-attack/
and,, that is not the only case..
stepdad, 6’1″, 77 years old, 40lbps overweight,.
except for a straight out run,,
can out-door most 30 years younger than him..
so,, not a hard rule,,, more of a guide..
“She might just become a decent citizen and neighbor after all.”
Perhaps, but would you bet the farm on it? Leopards, spots?
Bet the farm? Nope!
Be polite in public? Yep.
>apologize immediately and request clarification
Good advice even if your life is not at stake :}
Still lurking…
Still glad you are.
LOL well put King Garion! I was hoping that was his
primary point in all of this.
Yes you don’t tick off a cat they will show fangs and claws suddenly
and without warning. we had one who was very nice unless you
sneezed then he would at first wag his tail then look at you then
away, when he’d look back he’d strike lol.
Requesting clarification is a failing for a lot of politicians, they’d
rather insult and argue then try to find a middle ground, instead of
trying that off the bat. I hate watching debates they just make me
want to slap them both and yell “wake up!”
Yeah, I know… Politics. Sorry. But can this be true?
https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/27054/western-leaders-tied-to-ukraine-bioweapons-labs/
Absolutely not true. It’s Russian propaganda and a poor one.
Nowadays I don’t know what to believe. There are so many lies on all
sides, Ukraine and everything else, it seems.
There are three corrupt governments involved.
All three.
None of their voices are trustworthy.
Sigh… sadly it could be wouldn’t be the first time someone went for the bigger better deal
I’ll not make snap decisions though it’s like when the left wing went after Trump they claimed
much but couldn’t back up their accusations with facts. Just loud pointless opinions. Sounds
familiar strip wise huh lol.
Politics is just like death and taxes we can’t escape either/ither/or. I still see Paloci? in my
mind acting like a child stamping her feet clinching her fists screaming
“But I wanted Hillery!!!! WAAAAAAA!!!”
LMBO!!!
Sorry, but his official position about wanting to have advisors who
have a different point of you sounds more rational and wiser to me
than the “keeping her on a leash bit”.
Any one who only listens to those who will tell them what they
already believe to be true risks losing perspective.
There’s plenty of examples of “wise and beloved rulers” who ended
up with “advisors” that never dared to voice a different vision.
Usually doesn’t end well. And isn’t fun to live under either.
Okay, you’re stretching to criticize now. Nothing in life is black and white,
King Garion can have input from someone who disagrees with him but who he’s
training to think and argue their points rationally, with logic.
He’s just not interested in receiving advice or criticism from someone who
argues using emotion instead of logic.
So he plans to train her to back up her opinions with facts and logic, he’s
not going to try and change her opinions. If she does, it will be her
choice, and that will carry over to her communications with others.
Sorry if I came across too strong (and yes I have the
tendencies to play the devil’s advocate).
And maybe I did misunderstood him.
He did tell her that he doesn’t want to stay in his bubble – but the
“put her on a leash” part to me sounded like this might have been more
of a front.
If was honest about wanting her input (I’m not talking about following
any of her advice) and the leash bit is just an added bonus …
I’m sorry for misunderstanding.
To me one of the biggest problems with a monarchy is the tendency of
advisors to isolate their ruler from unpleasant facts and to only tell
them what they want to hear.
Mr. Walker is a very good history teacher, and Teresa and her friends
(now advisors) were his students.
I didn’t realize it in the beginning, but having an accurate and complete
education of history is one of the cornerstones of Imperial society.
Schools are vital, Imperial schools are determined to teach students
how to think, not what to think.
(Edited your comment to correct error you pointed to)
Why did you chose monarchies over democracies by the way?
That has actually been discussed earlier in the story. King Bishop, gangster,
and Matthew Costman, federal agent, knew that America would eventually fall,
so they were preparing. Warehouse contracts for FEMA supplies, etc.
The reason they chose a monarchy is here: http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-026/
to TGW-028 and http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-038/
In short, they wanted long-term stability, and having an Emperor rule for life
would provide that.
It’s a joke that they named it as an Empire because “King King Bishop” would
sound awkward. They expected it to not expand beyond a kingdom in size.
But things don’t always go as planned.
Ok. I got that part, including the joke about King King.
But why should an Empire be more stable than a Democracy. The Romans where
a republic for way over 700 years before things started to decay.
Then came the power struggles, then Caesar tried to become Imperator for
live (and got killed for it) The Empire was never as stable after that.
In-fighting. Power hungry Emperors more caring for their own pleasure
than for their people and country …
—–
The main problem with keeping a stable and “good” government
for any prolonged time is the rules succession …
In a democracy you have to make sure that the elections are fair and that
good people get a chance to run for office. And that those who run only
for their own profit get discouraged.
In a monarchy there’s a strong trend towards building dynasties. (There’s
even been POPES who made sure that their own offspring “Inherited” the chair!)
This is usually a very bad thing. You avoided it with King -> Theresa.
But what happens when it’s her time to resign?
Does she choose her own successor?
Does some kind of council appoint one?
The people?
And are they appointed for life? For a fixed time?
Stability always comes down to this: how do you
prevent “bad” people coming to power?
How to you control them, and who do you dispose of them?
In my opinion, democracies have better answers to those
questions than monarchies.
This Empire is a more stable society because with a lifelong ruler, the
rules governing that society don’t change quickly. Teresa has veto power
over anything the People’s House or the Council of Kings tries to do.
It probably won’t last forever, but then, my webcomic won’t, either.
Just as royalty can not intermarry, Teresa, like her Kings, must choose
a successor who is not a close blood relation. Not even necessarily
Terran. She has plenty of time to choose, as being bonded to a Dragonfly
extends ones lifespan to hundreds of years. Considering that she has,
and will probably keep, the regard of the military, the Legion, and
Imperial Security, the odds of bureaucratic infighting becoming a
problem are rather low. And Teresa is not one to care for her own
pleasure to any great extent, as Kings Guard insured before she was
chosen as his successor. This Empire started off with good people
at the top, and they chose good successors. The best thing about
minimal government is that most citizens can live their entire
lives without seeing any Imperial influence in their lives.
Clarification: “Good” people does not necessarily mean “Nice”
people.
Democracy is nothing more than mob rule. A Republic is better,
and a Constitutional Republic better still, as long as the
leaders respect the limits placed on them by that Constitution.
Which ours haven’t respected for generations.
A Democracy may be stable as a government, but it’s citizens
lives are certainly not.
Please make further comments on what is the current page at the time.
Most of my readers won’t see this conversation, and letting them be
involved is much of the pleasure I get from writing this webcomic.
Will do
Panel 7: I believe the word should be
“recommend” not “recomment”