Sentences with phrase «as couch potatoes»

As couch potatoes become more likely to have a phone or tablet in hand, controlling your TV from that device is becoming more important.

A sign for «Immersion Room» could well describe almost everything here, with real and sculpted people as couch potatoes and cooks.

Many owners of retired racing Greyhounds describe them as couch potatoes who prefer to sleep most of the day.

Researchers selected 10 lean men and women and 10 slightly obese people who self described themselves as couch potatoes.

Someone who expects the Rock's supplements to somehow work magic whilst they continue to live life as a couch potato not exercising much more than their remote control finger is going to be disappointed.

For those who've spent most of their lives as a couch potato, but now wish to lose weight or manage improve diabetes management, Jelleyman suggests moderate - intensity interval training to start — after all, HIIT isn't for everyone.

To do that, we recommend using an indexing strategy such as the Couch Potato (see page 44 for a recommended portfolio), or a low - cost balanced mutual fund (see page 42 for some recommended funds).

Hallam will educate you on how to index invest, more commonly known as the Couch Potato Strategy.

This is the only potentially negative retirement personality type: While some might only be taking a temporary sabbatical from activities while they reassess their goals, there's a danger of fading away as a couch potato.

And when investing makes you nervous, you're liable to abandon your strategy, which is just about the worst thing you can do as a Couch Potato.

At the far extreme, you could manage your money as a Couch Potato for 65 years before you'd pay as much as a single year costs for a variable annuity with a living benefits rider.

This would be like a dog trainer claiming to the world they can train any dog to do anything so long as it is kept in a fenced yard, and the dog's temperament is as a couch potato, food loving, mild mannered, field dog bred, neutered, male, adult Labrador Retriever.

The Sealyham averages about 22 - 24 pounds, and are known as the couch potato of the terrier breed.

This boy is not interested in hanging out as a couch potato — he would rather be at your side exploring the park, or going on a hike.

He will never be satisfied with life as a couch potato.

Once past the puppy stage, he is calm and quiet indoors, moving lightly and gracefully, not toppling your lamps and fulfilling his role as couch potato quite admirably.

There are a number of legitimate reasons for career gaps and assuming you did not spend your time as a couch potato watching TV, you should not be reluctant to explain what the causes were.

There are numerous legitimate reasons for employment gaps and assuming you did not spend your time as a couch potato watching TV, you should not be afraid to explain what the reasons were.

Not exact matches

And if you do that, I guarantee that you'll be as pleasantly surprised as I was when I transformed from couch potato to gym rat.

Satyanand's transformation from couch potato to runner may have been slow and steady (and clearly mimicable for most people), but just because it wasn't the stuff of late night fitness equipment infomercials, doesn't mean it wasn't just as transformative.

Sure, there are pieces that wouldn't look out of place in West Elm, but then there are furnishings tailor - made for the middle - aged man cave, such as a massive black leather sofa with built - in surround sound, a power - reclining feature, phone - charging ports and Bluetooth connectivity to allow couch potatoes to play music from their smartphones.

Hi Brian, The lazy couch potato approach to earn passive income with as minimal effort as possible is through dividend income from stocks.

Later as our portfolio grew we switched to a more passive / cheaper couch potato portfolio.

As you may have noticed, I've watched with some consternation as headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.&raquAs you may have noticed, I've watched with some consternation as headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.&raquas headlines about the (not - so - revelatory) disclosure that I attend an Episcopal church declare that I've «left evangelicals for Episcopalians,» «dropped evangelical pretense for mainline Christianity,» and «departed evangelicalism to embrace a couch potato, cafeteria - style Christianity.»

You don't want to see your kid as a typical potato couch one day, do you?

As in, the hours beginning last Thursday night, which was couch - potato nirvana: NBA Finals Game 7 (highest rating since 1998), Team USA's stirring comeback against Slovenia (most TV households for a soccer match in U.S. history) and, for a snack, the U.S. Open and its ocean views.

There will still be a plethora of games, because try as we might to find more productive things to do, we'll still end up on the couch watching Ohio and Nevada duke it out in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.

Initially it seemed like just another blanket, but our little one still uses it today, for herself in her bed, for couch potato moments, for her dolls, as a play blanket when her niece comes by, etc..

An experimental drug touted as «exercise in a pill» has dramatically increased endurance in couch potato mice, even after a lifetime of inactivity.

«If you compare a person who is 30 pounds overweight but physically active with someone who is thin but a coach potato, you'll find the thin couch potato has a higher risk of premature death and of some chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension,» Franke says.

Video game tournaments as a spectator «sport» provide fodder for the mindless, and attract more to couch - potato land (12 January,...

In contrast, people described as «couch potatoes» are putting their health at risk by spending too much time sat down and not exercising, the paper said.

This stereotype led content owners to envision the Internet as a delivery conduit to sell movies to passive couch potatoes.

It doesn't matter if you're thin as a rail or curvy, whether you're a couch potato or gym rat.

Rich's nutrition philosophy is more than a diet, it's more like a regimen or religion: «I can say with full confidence that my rapid transformation from a middle - aged couch potato to Ultraman — to in fact, everything I've accomplished as an endurance athlete — begins and ends with my PlantPower Diet.»

We're not advocating you turn into a couch potato, but rather incorporate as much movement into your day as possible.

not a vague malaise otherwise known as being a daytime TV couch potato with nothing to live for besides keeping up with the Kardashians and complaining about the woman next door who is clearly an unfit mother, just look at what her kids are wearing to school these days.

In discussing the limited evidence for the «probable» link between red meat and colorectal cancer, the WHO itself concedes that it is not possible to rule out other explanations (which it helpfully describes as «chance, bias or confounding»).2 Harcombe agrees, arguing that even when studies strive to adjust statistically for baseline differences in relevant factors such as socioeconomic status, body mass index, physical activity, smoking status and diabetes, it is impossible to grapple fully with all the factors that differentiate «the couch potato» from «the paleo buff» (her ideal), or to take into account the «chasm» that separates fresh and traditionally preserved meats from modern manufactured meat products.9

Just like the beer bellied couch potato sports enthusiast, or the sugar plum fairy who likes her late afternoon wine and nibbles, candida prefers refined snack type foods, alcohol like beer and wine as well as chocolate, ice cream, donuts, take - out and candy.

I've been looking for better info for people like me who truly are / were couch potatoes, slow and overweight as I am, to make progress without injury.

But according to a Finnish study, soon to be published in Experimental Gerontology, running and cycling are as bad for the speed at which you age as living like a couch potato.

Stay active and busy as much as possible — am not a couch potato.

They provide a glimpse into whether we have the same fitness (or couch potato) life habits as one another.

And as mop - topped teenage couch potato Garth (again drawn from life — this time based on Dana's brother Brad), Carvey was teamed with Mike Myers in a flawless on - going parody of cheap cable - access television.

«I like to watch,» Chauncey says, who spends his whole life in front of a T.V., just as earth must be one big program to god, a couch potato himself, in the sense that all he does is observe the human struggle with the same indifference as the idiot gardener.

This often - unemployed, romantically challenged loser can show up as a perpetual adolescent (in Judd Apatow's Knocked Up or The 40 - Year - Old Virgin), or a charmless misanthrope (in Noah Baumbach's Greenberg), or a happy couch potato (in a Bud Light commercial).

So our pot - smoking couch - potato begs off a few hits from best buds, fellow losers, and dim - witted neighbors Mick (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Austin Powers» Seth Green) and Pnub (The Mighty Ducks» Elden Ratliff, now using the Elden Henson moniker as credited in She's All That and The Mighty).

It's not a stretch to see the bespectacled Halliday, who Rylance invests with an affecting Wozniakian introversion, as another of the master director's onscreen surrogates — a gentle couch potato as obsessed with»80s touchstones as Spielberg and his film - brat contemporaries were with their own seminal, formative big - screen experiences.

John Ritter (Sling Blade, Tadpole) stars as Roy Knables, a mediocre plumbing supplies salesman by day, a couch potato at all other times.

Written and directed by storyboard artist Nathan Greno, this brief cartoon puts the couch potato hamster into action hero mode, as he helps Bolt and Penny outwit Dr. Calico.