Deep-fried pepperoni pizzas with cheddar cheese?
Haven't tried that yet.
Yet more health care rationing by HillaryCare (Europe).
Haven't tried that yet.
YUM! Where can I get one?
So much for personal responsibility.
"Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself
like he who takes it off"
A billion lean little Chinese people. Given enough money they WILL balloon up. They have just as much self-control as any one else.
The American fatso must have looked like a beached whale. Harharhar. And she couldn't whine, cry and complain to ANYONE. All she could do was go have another 5000-calorie meal to fill the vacuum in her soul.
I wonder what their reasoning is? Are they saying that artificial joints can't stand up to the added weight or is it that fatties don't deserve them because they brought joint deterioration on by themselves?
Haven't tried that yet.
Me neither...and definitely will never try a double choc-chip deep fried pizza.
I'm mortified to be fat. Especially when it wasn't always so.
Fifty Six years old now.
Three abdominal surgeries, the first big one at the 93rd Evac in Long Binh, November 1969.
That's still a weak excuse for my present condition and I promise to double my efforts to lose weight, for the utter shame of the ongoing ordeal cuts deep.
First it was denial of service and regulation of smokers
Now it's the beginnings of the same for obese...
Next, it's denial of public NHS procedures for joggers, bikers, adventurists, bicyclists, whatever....
It's all in the plan.......and you probably do SOMETHING that doesn't comport with it....
BTW, unless those overweight professional athletes change their lifestyles after they retire, they will very quickly blow up into a fattie. There are many retired NFL linebackers who die in their 40s and 50s and weigh over 300 pounds.
From April 2003 to January 2004, I went from 304 pounds with a size 48 waist to 197 pounds with a size 34 waist. That was the easy part. When you are losing weight and people around you are noticing, you are motivated to stick to the plan.
It has been far more difficult keeping the weight off than I ever imagined. While I was losing weight, I was able to exercise it off and still eat a lot of food (though I avoided processed foods and foods high in sugar/carbs). But after a while, my metabolism adjusted to the exercise and even as I walked 7-10 miles a day, I found that I could still easily gain the weight back if I didn't stick to a strict diet.
During the past year and a half, I went back up as high as 230 pounds and a size 36 waist but now I'm back on a stricter low-carb/exercise regimen and I am on my way back to about 200 pounds, which is about right for my 6'3" frame.
I am now resigned to the fact that I will need to watch what I eat for the rest of my life, regardless of how much exercise I get (and fortunately, I love to hike and still walk at least 5-7 miles a day).
Chinese are really quite insensitive about fat. I have a friend OF SIZE who was constantly approached at our health club by 95 pound Chinese women who would recommend diets to her.
I told her she should scream at them, "I'm fat??? Gosh, I never knew."
I didn't grow up fat. In fact, I was rail-thin to the point that when I went to Marine boot camp, they put me on double-rations because I was considered to be underweight.
During my school years, I remember how the fat kids were made fun of. There wasn't that many of them in those days so the teasing was especially cruel. I would never advocate the teasing of fat kids. It didn't seem to shame them into getting thin. In fact, it socially isolated them, probably causing them to get even fatter. After all, depression and overeating appear to be linked.
My weight gain happened after I left the Marines. It was slow and gradual so that I personally didn't notice how fat I was getting until co-workers and friends started teasing me about it - in a good-natured way, of course. But I started getting the message.
Trust me, it was no fun being fat. I found myself huffing and puffing just climbing a set of stairs. When my kids were young, I was too tired to play ball or go bike riding with them. I'd rather just sit on a lawn chair and watch or sit at the computer. I was one of those who didn't believe in leftovers. At family meals, I'd eat everything. If I opened a bag of chips or a box of cookies, I'd finish it.
So overeating and lack of exercise definitely was the root cause of my obesity. And teasing and ridicule wasn't going to dissuade me from my lifestyle.
I finally got fed up with my weight in March of 2003, when I went on a business convention and found that my suit didn't fit me anymore. During a banquet, the seams of my pants split and still, I sat at the table eating not only my dessert but the desserts of others at my table that didn't want theirs. It was at that point in time that I realized I had a real problem.
Once I took the weight off, I noticed an immediate difference with the way strangers treated me. They were much more friendlier and respectful. There seems to be an inbred disrespect of obese people in our culture. All I know is that I am treated much differently now then I was then.
Hey, those wings are lo-carb, that's diet food !!
What is sad about this article is the denial of healthcare based on bigotry. Ultimately this is what will doom socialized healthcare in the US: The simple fact that despite all promises to the contrary, its about rationing/denial of healthcare, not what you need when you need it.
Does the NHS cover mental health care, or treatment for suicide attempts?
Gad, how nice it must be to be English - world's largest superpower, center of all civilization, yada yada.
