Magazine Weight
Athenasby Regalado
I knew I needed to speak up, but it was so uncomfortable. I agonized over it for so long, and finally, one Motzaei Shabbos, I decided to just do it. I shared my story online, and asked everyone to share theirs.
Instead, thousands and thousands of people opened up in my messages. And over the course of the next 72 hours, as I read the raw emotional messages from strangers around the world, I discovered, with increasing horror, the depth and breadth of the problem.
I heard from women (and frankly, experienced myself) about the pain of trying to get a gown in a larger size. I heard about teenagers who walked into a gown gemach and were offered a matronly mother-of-the-bride dress, or even a maternity gown.
I heard stories of parents, teachers, principals, and even therapists telling people to lose weight so they could do better socially and make more friends. I heard of kids having to switch schools because of incessant weight-related bullying.
The stories are endless. The pain is endless. I could go on and on. I asked people to share what they had learned from all of the stories I had posted. So many people expressed with sadness and relief that they were not as alone as they always felt they were. And countless others said that their eyes were opened to just how impactful their seemingly innocent comments were, and how even just one well-meaning comment can stay with someone for an entire lifetime.
Selling a few magazines for first time ever. Can someone give me an estimate as to how much a "Time" or "Sports Illustrated" regular issue might weigh? I've searched and can't find an answer. Thanks very much!
Hi There...I've sold many issues over the years...Average weight with envelope I would say is 8 oz...older issues (pre 1987) weigh more, newer issues (post 1998) a little less...set one standard shipping price if you have a large amount to sell....good luck
Also, since I know many of us have to deal with the ridiculousness of lightening stock guns to get SP's and Shadows to make weight for IDPA SSP since although their uppers and lowers are different and unique to the SP-series models they're really just a "factory modification of a regular CZ-75" and their rails are really "full-length dustcovers" (not "rule-bashing", just poking fun), having a list kicking around of what the different mags weigh may be helpful to other guys besides myself as each of the different variants are slightly different weight-wise.
Specifically in my case, I'm wondering about the Mec-Gar 9mm AFC 17-rounders as they go for half the cost of the factory 9mm 19-rounders, but since my gun just makes weight for IDPA with the 19rd mags if they're any heavier I can't use them. I'm going to pick up some more mags and I'm trying to figure out what'll work out best...
Also, since I know many of us have to deal with the ridiculousness of lightening stock guns to get SP's and Shadows to make weight for IDPA SSP since they're really just a "factory modification of a regular CZ-75" and their rails are really "full-length dustcovers" (not "rule-bashing", just poking fun), having a list kicking around of what the different mags weigh may be helpful to other guys besides myself as each of the different variants are slightly different weight-wise.
Thanks though, as that helps. According to CZ-Customs the factory 9mm 10rounders with the plastic towards the bottom of the tubes are 2.6ozs, and I've read elsewhere here on benos that the factory 19rd 9mm mags weigh 3.0ozs so there's a start...
My SP-01 is 38.9oz with a comp hammer, tactical rear sight, Dawson front sight, flat mainspring plug, 11lb recoil spring, 13lb hammer-spring, and VZ G10 grips (FYI, CZ-Customs lists them at 1.4oz, they're lighter than that, mine feel near as light as the plastic ones which are listed at .6oz), with factory 19rd mags. Maybe I lucked out and got a light one...
A Shadow may be harder as it's got more metal in the slide where a FPB is on an SP-01 (I'd trade the weight advantage for the shorter reset though in a heartbeat), who knows, maybe the SP's smaller safeties help a little too...
I recently had a conversation over a crisp Budweiser and it meandered into the topic of weight. My friend jokingly coined the term New York 25 that night, a phenomenon just as sneaky as the Freshman 15 but one that, unlike in college, I did not avoid.
The most exciting article I found was a GQ India piece on the topic. Not only did the article include a stock photo of a ripping young lad, but it also had a video set to surf rock of a man in a suit mall grabbing a Wet Willy and Flameboy board. It was for these reasons amongst others I knew I could trust the information in the article.
What I learned was 60 minutes of skateboarding could burn anywhere from 300 to 500 calories. At this point, I felt comfortable in the science, and the possibility of having a body transformation through skateboarding was looking more and more realistic.
I was a C student in college, and I credit Chemistry and Physics for booting me from my pre-med track into the College of Journalism. I think these are two necessary facts to know about me before I make a wildly unprofessional hypothesis, which is as follows:
The whole point was to only add skateboarding back into my life in a consistent way. This means I continued to eat like shit and drink copious amounts of Budweiser. We got a lot of suggestions about dieting and cutting out certain aspects of my life that are unhealthy, but then why are we here? We all know eating healthy and drinking less helps you lose weight.
I have always been surrounded by rail-thin skateboarders who eat worse than I do, drink more than I do and continue to keep their belts latched on the tightest hole. This is why the experiment interested me in the first place, to see if skateboarding is a valid means to lose weight. I think it can be, and while this may look like a failed experiment, skateboarding has been and always will be a good way to stay active in lieu of spending your day with meatheads in the gym.
If nothing else, I hope this experiment got some of my fellow big-boy skateboarders to the park, and it was fun hearing all of you PhD holding at-home scientists hypothesizing what would happen and making suggestions about what I should do differently.
Kushner was one of the first investigators to understand the true power of these medications. He was the lead author on a seminal 2021 paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine that evaluated the effectiveness of semaglutide in people with obesity. The study found that semaglutide was up to two times more effective than current weight loss drugs.
Obesity is a serious disease like hypertension and diabetes that we really need to start paying more attention to, and these drugs mean we can actually do something about it quite effectively in selected individuals.
The new medications rely on a different mechanism entirely by targeting gut hormones. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone released in response to food intake, makes patients feel full, stimulates insulin release, inhibits glucagon secretion, and regulates gastric emptying. Semaglutide mimics GLP-1, reducing hunger and food cravings.
Results from the randomized, double-blind SELECT (Semaglutide Effects on Heart Disease and Stroke in Patients with Overweight or Obesity) trial published in December 2023 have shown that semaglutide may reduce the risk of cardiovascular events such as heart attacks and strokes in people with obesity. In August, Novo Nordisk (the manufacturer of Wegovy) released topline results that found that 2.4 mg of semaglutide injected once a week caused on average a 20 percent reduction in major adverse cardiovascular events in people with overweight or obesity. Kushner serves on the steering committee for the SELECT trial.
At Northwestern, a clinical trial showed that the drugs can also help patients with heart failure and obesity lose weight while also improving symptoms and increasing exercise capacity (see sidebar).
Kushner was also a co-author on a study published in Nature Medicine in October 2023 that showed tirzepatide, an antidiabetic drug currently used to treat type 2 diabetes, was effective in helping individuals without diabetes who are overweight or have obesity lose weight in combination with other lifestyle changes. The FDA approved tirzepatide in November.
Kushner stresses that a critical piece of the continued success of these drugs is for primary care professionals to engage fully in caring for their patients with obesity. At the moment, he says, these providers often refer patients with obesity to specialists such as obesity medicine physicians or endocrinologists.
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