What have you done to your 1st gen Tundra today?

You're among friends then.

 

Drifting a police interceptor crown Vic is a lot of fun.

 

I got diagnosed with diabetes and that scared me straight. I started cutting carbs and sugar and eating more veggies.
Started walking a mile in the morning and one in the evening, plus doing pool excercises. Doc has had me try all the diabetes/weight loss drugs (except wegovy). I was also lifting dumbbells til I injured my elbow... Technically I worked thru the injury for almost a year. I can lift again in two weeks. Had to do 12 weeks of PT.
Moved up to 3 miles a day in the winter and since summer I've been striving for 4-5 miles a day. I need to get back in the pool. I'm excited to start lifting again.

 

I mean I'm hitting it from all sides. Currently on ozempic. Once I can lift again, I'm going to sign up at the city rec center (defunct YMCA) and also take pool aerobics classes. I'll be looking for a lifting partner or a trainer in August. I just want to beef up without injuring myself. Seems to be a running theme with my life and weight lifting.
I figure once I drop another 40lbs or so, I'll start jogging every day. Maybe hit the elliptical.

 

Shit, Black Mamba lost like 50lbs just from quitting the alcohol

 

Ill jump in here because my joints are pretty jacked up so hard exercise is hard to manage. But i did drop 20 lbs with an Alkaline approach. That is alkaline diet. Shift your body from acidic foods to alkaline and then weight just comes off. Check out PH Miracle diet by Dr. Robert Young. Please dont do the drugs, too many side affects, just not normal.

 

I lost about shy of 10% of my body weight just by dropping beer. I was hovering around 190, sometimes up to 195. When I weighed myself this morning, 177.2 and I guess I dropped the beer like April-ish?

Cutting out the empty carbs makes a massive difference. If any of us can quit drinking, or even have the self control to dial it back to, like, one beer a day (which I found too difficult for myself), it can make a massive difference in 6-12 weeks. I sleep better than I have in years, and don't get winded as easy.

Granted, y'all are younger than me so I'm sure it'll be different, maybe faster results?

Now if the f'ing arthritis will stop progressing, I'll be happier...

 

And you get Ozempic ass! And now they're seeing vision loss is another issue.

Man, seeing what it's done to Randy Jackson is fucking scary! EDIT: This is one of the more-flattering pictures. It's scary seeing him talk in real life now! He looks like he's aged 30 years.

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Installed an Ultra-gauge MX and programmed it. Takes a bit to figure out, but even a knucklehead like me can do it.

 

Saw him couple weeks ago and he definitely did. He might have lost another 10 with the CDK bullshit haha.

 

I don't get it. Ozempic is making him age? I don't know anything about it other than people using it to lose weight.

 

People don't understand that skin is elastic and as you get older/fatter it stretches more and loses its ability to snap back (elasticity).
When some people use weight loss drugs intended for diabetics (especially when they don't have diabetes), they lose the weight too fast and their skin can't keep up, so they end up with lose skin. Same thing happens to bariatric surgery patients often.
There are surgeries to remove the excess skin. Also helps to tone your muscles while losing weight so you don't lose it too fast and you replace the fat with muscle. That way their skin can have better odds at shrinking some.

 

RJ is actually Type 2.

 

Anyone have ideas on how to torque down a new rear shocks with a rectangular head at the top instead of an Allen slot? Nothing to grab onto except that rectangle. Wrenching the nut only spins the whole shock top shaft.



This is what happens when I try to grab the top little rectangle with pliers and turn my smalll 14mm wrench.

 

Since we talking drogas, Mounjaro user here.

 

Find you a small wrench that fits the end. Maybe a 3/8 or smaller.

 

Problem is it's not a 6-sided hex, literally a rectangle. Will a small wrench fit and hold?

 

If it's not too loose it should work. Think of a square plug oil drain on a mower. The wrench only grabs onto 2 sides there too. Just find a small wrench that fits nice and snug.

 

You don't have to go Hulk on the top nut. Just tight enough to squish the rubber to almost the size of the washer pieces. Doesn't require 400 foot lbs.

 

Seems like a great excuse to get some 5100s

 

You could always try a "shock absorber socket". They are for the rectangular tops.

 

Who's that?

 

Pics of new shock shaft head for ideas?

 

If we’re talking 4600s, then yes but the wrench is 3.5 inches long.

 

Truth. Although I seem to have plateaued. I’ve not yet made it to 60lbs. I will be 6 months sober tomorrow

 

I’d go with Vice grips but it may mangle the end a bit