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I'm with the Prince on this on. Truth hurts but sometimes it needs to be said. And I'm just as guilty as many others about putting on too much weight. But at least I'm working on it.... lost 25 LBS so far.

lost 25 LBS so far.

Good show - that's almost 2 stone! Run a few more furlongs in the coming fortnight, and you'll be slim as a cricket wicket!

(I agree with the prince about staying in shape, but I resent the comparative part of his speech - I may be fat, but I don't want to be told of it by some jug-headed polo-geek.)

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I'm with the Prince on this on. Truth hurts but sometimes it needs to be said. And I'm just as guilty as many others about putting on too much weight. But at least I'm working on it.... lost 25 LBS so far.

I am as well - some of these people not happy with his comments remind me of some people being upset over Bill Cosby and his comments about the black community.

The truth can hurt very much, but when you go out, you notice more and more people and chilrdren are in bad shape.

I'm not in the same shape I was in when I was in the Air Force - once I retired and started working in the private sector, I found more and more excuses not to exercise or eat healthy, and several of my friends over the years are the same way, and it all just kind of sunk in over the past six months or so (weird how you can go for years and not realize something), and so I'm working on dropping 30 or so pounds.

Probably what sunk in was the prospect of being a grandparent and realizing that if I don't do something now, I'm not going to enjoy being a grandparent - I'd end up one of those grandparents that sit around, rather than one out fishing and hunting with their grandkids, or playing catch or whatever.

That scared the crap out of me - my grandfather farmed and ran cattle up until the very end, and was very active outdoors (hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, etc.) and I can't imagine what it would have been like to have one that was a couch potato - I would not have gotten to know him as well when I was growing up.

I'm afraid we are going to have a generation or two of children that are just not physically active, and anytime you see a large group of kids, it shows. I know, I'm getting old when I complain about the kids these days :-)

Being over weight may be a problem in the US, but it doesn't seem to be the cause of childhood diabetes.