tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63961988045760971462024-03-13T12:07:01.794-07:00DurangObesityI blog about the obesity epidemic.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-31197245270647922352017-02-25T06:27:00.000-08:002017-02-25T06:27:26.250-08:00Via Weight Watchers Oprah Winfrey Reveals She Likes Chips<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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I cut the TV cable cord over two years ago. At some point in time after the cord cutting one of my television viewing methods became CBS All Access.<br /><br />Watching TV online one soon finds oneself seeing the same commercial.<br /><br />Over and over and over again.<br /><br />Usually the commercial repetitiveness is easy to ignore.<br /><br />But every once in a while there is a commercial which wears out its welcome.<br /><br />I like Oprah Winfrey. The whole world likes Oprah Winfrey. What is not to like about Oprah Winfrey?<br /><br />Well.<br /><br />I do not like Oprah's Weight Watcher ads, which repeat, ad nauseam, literally, on CBS.<br /><br />There is one moment in Oprah's Weight Watcher ads which has become especially cringe worthy.<br /><br />Oprah is talking to a woman who has lost a lot of weight with this special new Weight Watcher program which apparently, magically, lets you eat all you want, and is a finely tuned 15% more effective than the previous Weight Watcher program.<br /><br />Oprah asks the woman how the weight loss shows up in her life. The woman shares a point or two, marvels about now knowing how to eat right, and that she eats more than when she used to gain weight whilst eating.<br /><br />And then the woman shares with Oprah that on this Weight Watchers program she can eat chips.<br /><br />To which Oprah excitedly shares, in shout mode, like it a a news flash, that "<i>I like chips</i>." And then, in case this revelation has not sunk in, excitedly repeats "<i>I like chips</i>."<br /><br />I think it was somewhere around the 50th time I heard Oprah declare that she likes chips that the Weight Watchers commercials started to wear out their welcome.<br /><br />Early on, after learning Oprah likes chips I wondered what type chips she was liking. Potato chips, tortilla chips, some other type of chips? Or any type of chip.<br /><br />Eventually I quit wondering about what type chips Oprah liked and just wanted her to quit talking about it...DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-22448441896315317752016-01-07T06:02:00.000-08:002016-01-07T06:02:05.212-08:00The Obese Evolution of 2016 Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />From a formerly slightly obese reader....<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I found an entertaining illustration I thought you might get a kick out of which illustrates how many have evolved from pre-historic man to the current condition of much of humanity.</span><br /><br />Personally, my stage of human evolution is still stuck being like that guy in the middle. <br /><br />I think this is the second, or third, new year in a row where I did not need to make a New Year's Resolution to lose weight and get under 200 pounds.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-26022090637897413122015-06-02T08:48:00.001-07:002015-06-02T08:48:47.080-07:00Are You Too Fat To Fly?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently I was told a sad tale about a Tacoma, Washington obese woman's ruined Hawaiian vacation plans. <br /><br />After successfully checking in, at some point during the pre-board phase of flying the woman was pulled aside and basically told she was too fat to fly, and would need to buy an extra seat or fly first class.<br /><br />No extra seat was available on that flight. Nor was a first class seat available. She was told she could wait til a seat was available on another flight or cancel.<br /><br />The Hawaiian vacation was cancelled, followed by the failed vacationer going into embarrassed hiding.<br /><br />For even a normal sized person flying is a cramped experience, the seats too narrow, not enough leg room.<br /><br />Why would an obese person want to put themselves through such torture? And there is no denying that letting a morbidly obese person board is not fair to the other passengers, to those stuck on the same row, and to the rest of the passengers. What if there is an emergency?<br /><br />It is a bit ironic that the bags one checks in get weighed, with a fee charged if they weigh over the allowed amount. Carry on bags must not be over a certain size or you will be made to check them in as baggage.<br /><br />Yet humans of all sizes pay the same fare. With only some of the obese denied boarding. A skinny 6 foot 6 guy weighing 250 pounds pays the same as a little old lady weighing 90 pounds.<br /><br />Googling "<i>Too Fat To Fly</i>" I came upon a guy named Michael Slade's amusing description of what he experienced when he found himself crammed up against the window by a woman he calls Mrs. Jumbo, squeezing herself into the middle seat.<br /><br />The title of Mr. Slade's tale is "<b><a href="http://michaelsladewriter.com/too-fat-to-fly-coach/" target="_blank">Too Fat To Fly Coach</a></b>".<br /><br />The entire story is an amusingly woeful tale. Below are the final three paragraphs....<br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What I care about is I had to spend a five-plus hour flight from Newark to San Francisco wedged up against the wall of the plane, feeling a mountain of wool-encased blubber pressed up against my left hip and leg. What I care about is that I could not change the channel or adjust the volume for my in-flight entertainment because Mrs. Jumbo’s flesh had engulfed the arm rest that housed the controls… much the way the Blob engulfed everything it came in contact with in the 1958 Steve McQueen movie. I care that it was only by contorting myself into a tiny corner of my allotted seat that I could avoid becoming engulfed like the unfortunate arm rest. I care that I paid for a seat and wound up with something between a half and three-quarters of a seat, whereas Mrs. Jumbo paid for a seat and wound up with something between one and a half and two seats (based on my assumption that her left side oozed over as much as her right side).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I realize that to squeeze in more passengers the airlines are making seats narrower and leg room almost non-existent. And I realize that they are doing this at the same time that 68.3% of Americans are overweight and 35.7% are clinically obese (and that those percentages are rising). But none of that should be my problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">If the airlines are willing and able to set and (at times) enforce a rule that says bags measuring more than 22 inches can not be carried on… if they can have the necessary tools to measure the size of a questionable bag, and determine whether or not it can be placed in the overhead compartment, if they can say, “I’m sorry, that bag is too big to be put in the overhead compartment, you will have to check it,” then they should also be able to measure the width of a questionable passenger and say, “I’m sorry, those hips are too wide to fit in a coach seat. You will either have to purchase a second seat or upgrade yourself to Business or First Class where the seats are wider.”</span>DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-13535164679842399952014-10-06T16:30:00.000-07:002014-10-06T16:30:10.175-07:00Someone Somewhere Thinks There Are 13 Problems With Pork<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have only observed the feeding habits, up close, of one morbidly obese person. She, like the pig in the picture, also no longer had a neck due the swelling adipose tissue obliterating the connector between head and shoulders.<br /><br />Personally I like pigs. I think pigs are cute. Bacon is delicious. So are pork chops.<br /><br />But, on Facebook today I saw that someone had a problem with pork, 13 problems to be exact. I don't know how accurate the following claimed problems are, but I thought they were worth sharing....<br /><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">13 PROBLEMS WITH PORK</span></b><br />
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1) A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals.<br />
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2) The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison.<br />
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3) When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. But when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time.<br />
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4) Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.<br />
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5) Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons.<br />
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6) Farmers will often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten they will not be harmed by the venom.<br />
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7) When a pig is butchered, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animal's flesh. In a few days the swine flesh is full of worms.<br />
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8) Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature at which pork can be cooked to ensure that all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs will be killed.<br />
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9) Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3 oz T bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3 oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3 oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat.<br />
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10) Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet causing its food to be purified of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh.<br />
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11) The swine carries about 30 diseases which can be easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcass (Leviticus 11:8).<br />
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12) The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism.<br />
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13) The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-76328325573979099872014-08-08T08:54:00.001-07:002014-08-08T08:54:37.713-07:00I Feel Bad Because I Look Old Fat & Ugly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />I thought the above was amusing. I suspect that after the husband complimented his wife's near perfect eyesight he quickly found himself regretting giving her the heartfelt compliment.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-36055886408874782232014-06-20T08:20:00.001-07:002014-06-20T08:20:34.687-07:00Food Is The Most Abused Anti Anxiety Drug<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I do not know if an extensive scientific study has confirmed the message on this sign, but both points seem likely true to me.<br /><br />As in food likely is the world's most abused anti-anxiety drug, while getting regular exercise is likely the world's most underutilized anti-depressant.<br /><br />DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-63047363576310901922014-05-26T16:25:00.000-07:002014-05-26T16:25:13.163-07:00Gallup Finds Americans Continue To Grow More Obese Which Has Me Pondering Plus-Sized Feeding Habits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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According to Gallup the U.S. Obesity rate continued to climb in 2013, with 27.2% of the American population having reached the obesity level of weight gain.<br />
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A day or two ago I was reading an article about obesity and dieting woes on a news website. Which news website I don't remember. Most likely CNN.<br />
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Part of that article dealt with the futility of fad diets which purport to magically melt the pounds away, effortlessly, magically succeeding where all other diets have failed.<br />
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One bit of information struck me as odd, that being that over 30% of the American population have no understanding of the rudimentary reality of the fact that if one consumes more calories than ones body uses that that excess calorie consumer is going to gain weight.<br />
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I have observed up close and personal the feeding habits of a person with no understanding of the concept that eating calories in excess of ones caloric needs is going to be stored as fat.<br />
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This particular person whose eating habits I've observed up close and personal is morbidly obese. She knows she is morbidly obese. She knows she overeats. And yet she continues to do so.<br />
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A few examples of what I observed of this person's feeding habits.<br />
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She was going to Weight Watchers. And at that point in time she had actually lost quite a bit of weight, now all re-gained, plus a couple hundred new pounds. She had been to a Weight Watchers meeting before picking me up to take me from one location to another. On the way she asked if I was hungry. I indicated I was. So, we stopped at a Metzel's. We ordered the turkey dinner. She asked for an extra side of cranberries. I asked if this turkey dinner was okay with Weight Watchers. She said she'd add up the points and make up for it later. Whatever that meant.<br />
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And then, with the turkey dinner finished, the waitress showed up and asked if we would like dessert. I said no thank you, while the Weight Watcher ordered a double hot fudge brownie sundae. I was appalled. And more appalled when I saw the big plate covered with brownies, ice cream, hot fudge and whipped cream.<br />
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She ate the whole thing.<br />
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A week later I was with the Weight Watcher and others at an excellent Indian restaurant. By the time dinner was over I was completely satisfied and full. The Indian restaurant offered no desserts which met the Weight Watchers sweet needs. And so, as we drove away, the Weight Watcher directed her husband to go to a nearby fast food joint where she special ordered something she must have special ordered many times previous, that being a large container intended for a milkshake, but instead filled with soft vanilla ice cream and hot fudge.<br />
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A few days after observing the milkshake-sized hot fudge indulgence I was in a grocery store with the Weight Watcher.<br />
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I saw her put fresh green beans in a bag and into her shopping cart. I thought, well this is a level of healthy I've not often observed from the Weight Watcher.<br />
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Next in the cart was bacon. What is the bacon for, I asked? To cook with the beans, replied the Weight Watcher.<br />
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Next she stood as if mesmerized by a box of chocolate chip cookies, as if trying to resist the impulse, when she suddenly struck with a swift grab and tossed the cookies into the cart.<br />
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Next in the cart were three donuts.<br />
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Near the donuts was an in-house Starbucks. The Weight Watcher ordered a super sweet vanilla drink. I asked the super sweet vanilla drink maker how many calories were in the drink. Around 1,200 was the number she uttered.<br />
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Recently I read somewhere that some designator of such things, designated obesity as a disease. I don't remember if the determination was that it is a mental illness type disease, or not. But I suspect that is the reality, that being that underlying mental health issues are the underlying reason for the irrational behavior of sticking way more calories in ones mouth than one needs to live a healthy life....DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-55777293699626317542014-04-24T07:52:00.001-07:002014-04-24T07:52:46.766-07:00America Continues In The Top Spot As Most Obese Nation In The World<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Some Americans like to think that America is #1 in just about anything imaginable.<br /><br />There is a website, <b><a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/" target="_blank">NationMaster</a></b>, which compares the nations of the world in all sorts of categories. <br /><br />America is in the top spot in many of those categories.<br /><br />One of the categories America is #1 in is Obesity. <br /><br />As in the United States of America is the most Obese nation in the world.<br /><br />You can go to the NationMaster website and check out the stats for <b><a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Health/Obesity" target="_blank">Health and Obesity</a></b>.<br /><br />America is not as healthy as some other nations in the world in several health statistics.<br /><br />With 30.6% of Americans at a state of being overweight to a level that is considered Obese it got me wondering what the grand total poundage of all that excess weight might be. How many calories to the Obese Americans have collectively stored, in fat, on their bodies?<br /><br />How much did all that weight cost to add to all those Obese bodies? In other words, how much wealth is invested in all those excess pounds?<br /><br />If the 30.6% of American who are Obese decided to go on a diet would this cause some sort of economic mayhem? That is one statistic I would really like to know, as in, how much money has all that extra weight cost to gain?DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-7060226114248490402014-01-24T09:44:00.001-08:002014-01-24T09:44:44.783-08:00I Don't Think I Will Be Getting Myself A Flattering Man Push Up Muscle Shirt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This morning on Facebook one of my Facebook friends had posted a link to a website called The Flattering Man.<br /><br />The Facebook Friend posting The Flattering Man link wrote that he was ordering one of these for his brother.<br /><br />My reaction upon first seeing the advertisement for The Push Up Muscle Shirt was that it was a ridiculous idea.<br /><br />So, I went to <b><a href="http://www.theflatteringman.com/" target="_blank">The Flattering Man</a></b> website and soon found out that I was correct about The Push Up Muscle Shirt being a ridiculous idea.<br /><br />The Flattering Man website opens to the page you see above, suggesting you order a Muscle Shirt right now so as to squeeze your fat into muscles, instantly.<br /><br />A short time after the initial page loads the screen goes white and loads a video.<br /><br />Soon a very muscular man walks through a door, towards the viewer. Then the muscular man gets in the viewers face verbalizing words along the line of...<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Don't you run away. You stay right where you are. I have something you need to hear. What's wrong with you? You really think there is a shirt that can turn a fat slob like you into looking like a muscular man like me? You think that would impress a woman? What would a woman think when you took off your shirt and she sees you are a fat man?"</span><br /><br />I did not listen to the entire lecture. The audio was a bit choppy. I think my paraphrasing above is fairly close to what the muscular man was saying, but for your own amusement, go to <b><a href="http://www.theflatteringman.com/" target="_blank">The Flattering Man</a></b> website and hear it with your own ears.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-6545704627303429622013-08-23T09:05:00.000-07:002013-08-23T09:05:27.148-07:00Saudi King Abdullah Orders Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari To Lose Weight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the picture you are looking at a Saudi Arabian named Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari.<br /><br />Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari is in his late teens. At 1,345 pounds he is believed to be one of the heaviest, most obese, people in the world.<br /><br />Saudi King Abdullah learned of his morbidly obese subject and ordered that he be transferred from his residence in the South Saudi province of Jazan to the capital of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, to undergo treatment at the King Fahd Medical City.<br /><br />It took a forklift to get Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari, strapped to his bed, to a truck to take him to a plane to fly him to Riyadh where the Fahd Medical City has built special beds and trolleys to facilitate moving Khalid.<br /><br />Khalid's treatment will be a series of exercise and nutritional programs designed to help him shrink.<br /><br />Apparently many nations in the Middle East have developed an obesity problem. Kuwait, at 42.8%, has the largest number of obese citizens. Saudi Arabia is slightly less obese with 35.2% its people being obese.<br /><br />
I was unable to find any information as to what it is that Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari consumed that caused him to put on so much weight at such a young age.<br /><br />I have only observed, up close, the feeding habits of one morbidly obese person. It was easy to see why this person continually gained weight.<br /><br />What I don't understand is what causes people to continue to over consume calories once they reach the point where mobility is compromised.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-44847239624394977972013-06-07T08:34:00.000-07:002013-06-07T08:34:19.339-07:00America's Number One Obesity Ranking With Mexico Coming In Second<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am currently located in Texas. Texas is in the American South. The American South is the most obese region of America.<br /><br />When I exit Texas and head North and West the population begins noticeably shrinking by the time I get to Colorado and remains shrunk all the way to the West Coast.<br /><br />The Wikipedia article titled <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_obesity" target="_blank">Epidemiology of obesity</a></b> contains the following blurb about the overweight American South....<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As of 2007, 33% of men and 36% of women are obese. Rates of obesity vary between social groups, with minorities and low-income individuals more likely to be overweight. The rates are as high as 50% among African American women.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Geography is a major factor. The American South has been described alternatively as "Stroke belt", "Obesity belt", or "Diabetes belt", to reflect the fact that all residents of the region have high incidences of these three conditions, compared to people of the same race/ethnicity elsewhere in the country. </span><br /><br />The American South is the most obese region of America. Can you guess what is the most obese developed country on the planet? If you guessed America, you guessed correctly....<br /><br /><b>Developed Nation Obesity Ranking</b></div>
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<tr class="datarow" id="0" name="us"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 1 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/us.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us-united-states/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>United States</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">30.6% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 220px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="1" name="mx"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 2 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/mx.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/mx-mexico/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Mexico</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">24.2% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 174px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="2" name="uk"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 3 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/uk.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/uk-united-kingdom/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>United Kingdom</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">23% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 165px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="3" name="lo"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 4 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/lo.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/lo-slovakia/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Slovakia</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">22.4% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 161px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="4" name="gr"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 5 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/gr.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/gr-greece/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Greece</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">21.9% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 157px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="5" name="as"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 6 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/as.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/as-australia/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Australia</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">21.7% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 156px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="6" name="nz"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 7 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/nz.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/nz-new-zealand/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>New Zealand</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">20.9% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 150px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="7" name="hu"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 8 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/hu.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/hu-hungary/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Hungary</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">18.8% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 135px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="8" name="lu"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 9 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/lu.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/lu-luxembourg/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Luxembourg</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">18.4% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 132px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="9" name="ez"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 10 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ez.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ez-czech-republic/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Czech Republic</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">14.8% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 106px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="10" name="ca"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 11 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ca.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ca-canada/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Canada</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">14.3% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 103px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="11" name="sp"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 12 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/sp.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sp-spain/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Spain</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">13.1% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 94px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="12" name="ei"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 13 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ei.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ei-ireland/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Ireland</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">13% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 93px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="13" name="gm"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 14 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/gm.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/gm-germany/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Germany</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">12.9% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 93px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="14" name="po"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">= 15 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/po.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/po-portugal/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Portugal</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">12.8% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 92px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="15" name="fi"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">= 15 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/fi.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/fi-finland/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Finland</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">12.8% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 92px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="16" name="ic"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 17 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ic.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ic-iceland/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Iceland</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">12.4% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 89px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="17" name="tu"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 18 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/tu.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/tu-turkey/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Turkey</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">12% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 86px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="18" name="be"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 19 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/be.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/be-belgium/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Belgium</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">11.7% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 84px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="19" name="nl"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 20 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/nl.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/nl-netherlands/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Netherlands</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">10% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 72px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="20" name="sw"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 21 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/sw.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sw-sweden/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Sweden</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">9.7% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 70px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="21" name="da"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 22 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/da.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/da-denmark/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Denmark</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">9.5% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 68px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="22" name="fr"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 23 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/fr.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/fr-france/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>France</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">9.4% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 68px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="23" name="au"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 24 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/au.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/au-austria/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Austria</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">9.1% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 65px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="24" name="it"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 25 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/it.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/it-italy/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Italy</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">8.5% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 61px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="25" name="no"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 26 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/no.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/no-norway/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Norway</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">8.3% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 60px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="26" name="sz"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;"># 27 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/sz.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/sz-switzerland/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Switzerland</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">7.7% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBarHl" style="background-color: #5382a1; height: 15px; width: 55px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="27" name="ks"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">= 28 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ks.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ks-korea-south/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Korea, South</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">3.2% </td><td class="td255"><div class="graphBar" style="background-color: #96b3c6; height: 15px; width: 23px;">
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<tr class="datarow" id="28" name="ja"><td class="td40" style="text-align: right; width: 40px;">= 28 </td><td class="td150" style="width: 150px;"><span style="position: relative; top: 2px;"><img border="1" height="12" src="http://tfw.cachefly.net/snm/images/nm/flags/height12/ja.gif" width="18" /></span> <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ja-japan/hea-health" style="color: #02729d;"><b>Japan</b></a>:</td><td class="td180" style="text-align: right; width: 180px;">3.2% </td><td class="td255"><br /></td></tr>
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DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-66299397030090392882013-04-29T09:21:00.005-07:002013-04-29T09:24:05.113-07:00Chaz Bono Loses 60 Pounds By Changing His Eating Habits.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Chaz Bono is sending out an admirably good message regarding weight loss.<br />
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Chaz Bono has been in the news lately due to his 60 pound weight loss, which has rendered a noticeably slimmer Chaz Bono.<br />
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Chaz is not promoting any special diet as being his means of achieving significant weight reduction.<br />
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What Chaz Bono is promoting is the fact that he lost weight by learning to eat a more properly nutritious diet.<br />
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As in Chaz Bono knocked off the high calorie snacks and desserts and junk food and started eating more fruits and vegetables and lean meats.<br />
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With the healthier diet Chaz felt more energetic, which brought about an amped up exercise regimen, which also amped up the weight loss.<br />
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I think <i>Dancing with the Stars</i> should give Chaz Bono another shot at the coveted mirror ball trophy. <br />
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If Chaz could talk his mom, Cher, into also dancing, <i>Dancing with the Stars </i>would have the biggest star dancing that they have ever had on the ballroom floor....DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-14259357096120313302012-12-22T19:38:00.000-08:002012-12-22T19:44:21.718-08:00Frosty the Snowman's Drastic Weight Loss & Extreme Body Makeover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Frosty the Snowman is providing some weight loss inspiration for the upcoming period of New Year's Resolutions. That being the time of the year when so many of us strive to get to that ideal figure of ideal measurements so few of us ever manage to get to, even after year after year and decade after decade of trying.<br />
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I think if Frosty the Snowman can be such a Big Loser, so can I. <br />
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So can you.<br />
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I also notice that Frosty got a nose job as part of his Extreme Makeover. That is too drastic. No nose job for me.<br />
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Actually, now that you are making me think about it, Frosty the Snowman is a really bad example of a role model for dieting and getting in shape. All Frosty needed to do to re-shape his shape was get a hot air blower.<br />
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No need to reduce caloric intake, or increase exercise. <br />
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All Frosty needed to lose weight and get in shape was well placed heat.<br />
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I think there is a lesson for all of us in this....DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-8572298158582401152012-11-08T09:06:00.001-08:002012-11-08T09:06:26.345-08:00The Airlines Are Getting Serious About Flying Obese Customers Of Size<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have no fear of flying. I do have a fear of the claustrophobic nature of flying. <br /><br />When I get onboard and find my seat I sit there hoping that I end up having the row to myself. That has happened only once. My next wish is that I have the window seat, someone has the aisle seat, with the middle seat empty.<br /><br />If all the seats are taken it is my next hope that it is a small kid sitting next to me, next hope a small teenager, next a small female, next a small male.<br /><br />I have only been stuck next to a full sized male once. This felt very crowded.<br /><br />My greatest flying fear is to be in my seat and see an obese person making their way down the aisle, with me sitting there hoping this person is not going to sit next to me. This has never happened and I've only been on one plane where there was a hugely plus-sized person on board, with the plus-sizedness coming from both height and girth.<br /><br />The various airlines have been getting a bit tougher with their policies regarding hugely overweight people getting onboard, with Southwest Airlines leading the way.<br /><br />With Southwest you either fit in the 17 inches between the armrests or you buy a second seat.<br /><br />United is now urging passengers who require extra seating to book that extra seat prior to getting to the airport, where you may be refused plane entry at the gate if you have not purchased an extra seat.<br /><br />I wonder how many obese people are actually flying? Like I previously said, I have only seen one really big person on a plane.<br /><br />It seems sort of unfair to the non-obese that a person weighing 150 pounds pays the same as a person weighing 500 pounds.<br /><br />If you check in your luggage and it weighs even slightly over the allotted weight, you pay extra.<br /><br />It takes a lot more airplane fuel to lift 500 pounds off the ground than 150 pounds.<br /><br />Maybe some planes should be retrofitted with special seats for the obese, like two in a row, rather than three. The obese person then books their flight on these special retrofitted planes and pays a surcharge.<br /><br />That seems fair.<br /><br />An obese person has spent a lot of money on food to add all that extra girth. It really does not seem fair that the non-obese should basically subsidize the lifestyle of the obese by paying the same for an airplane ticket.<br /><br />And how is it fair for a person who is well within that 17 inches between armrests to be placed next to a person who spreads outside that perimeter? It clearly is not fair.<br /><br />I am almost 100% certain I will be flying soon. Hopefully without a "customer of size" as the airlines like to refer to the obese, sitting next to me.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-50371536031385051532012-10-05T09:00:00.002-07:002012-10-05T09:00:35.851-07:00Betty Jo Bouvier's Shampoo Weight Loss Discovery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This morning I got email from Betty Jo Bouvier with what I thought was an amusing joke. Googling for an image to go along with this joke I quickly learned that this joke has been widely disseminated on many websites.<br /><br />But, it was new to me, so I thought I'd share Betty Jo Bouvier's Weight Loss Discovery...<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">FINALLY! A practical and useful health warning. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Shampoo Warning!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't know WHY I didn't figure this out sooner! I use shampoo in the shower! When I wash my hair, the shampoo runs down my whole body. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Printed very clearly on the shampoo label is this warning: </span>"<b>FOR EXTRA BODY AND VOLUME.</b>"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">No wonder I have been gaining weight! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Well! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I have gotten rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dawn Dish Soap instead. <br /><br />Its label reads:</span> "<b>DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE</b>."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Problem solved! If I don't answer the phone, I'll be in the shower...</span><br />
DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-59238583731804554722012-08-03T08:32:00.002-07:002012-08-03T08:32:45.002-07:00Colin Farrell Uses NBC's Biggest Loser to Get in Shape for Total Recall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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NBC's <i>Biggest Loser</i> is one of Irish actor Colin Farrell's favorite American TV shows.<br /><br />When Colin Farrell got the lead role in a 2012 remake of the 1990 version of <i>Total Recall</i>, playing the Arnold Schwarzenegger character, Douglas Quaid, Farrell faced the dilemma of needing to get himself in Schwarzenegger shape.<br /><br />And, so Farrell decided to follow the same course of action he'd seen work so often on <i>Biggest Loser</i>.<br /><br />
When Colin Farrell began his <i>Biggest Loser</i> losing plan he was not hugely overweight, or hugely out of shape. What he needed to do was get himself in fighting trim, with his gut sucked in and his manboobs firmed up.<br /><br />To quote Colin Farrell on his get in shape plan...“<i>One of my favorite shows on television is The Biggest Loser. When people that size can lose weight and get healthy again, it is possible for anyone, I ate lots of greens and chicken, I didn’t order dessert for four months. I stayed off the sugar and got myself on the treadmill. It’s just discipline and not that hard when you apply the science to it.</i>"<br /><br />I hope Colin Farrell is able to keep in the good shape he got into for <i>Total Recall</i> and does not blimp up again, a phenomenon that happens to so many of us after successfully getting in good shape for a movie part.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-21990790458404149182012-07-13T12:47:00.000-07:002012-07-13T12:47:09.658-07:00I Did Not Know I Am On The Six Weeks To OMG Diet Plan Which Has Me Skinnier Than All My Friends<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had not heard of SIX WEEKS TO OMG til yesterday.<br /><br />When I learned the details of this new fad diet I was appalled to realize I've basically been on the OMG diet for months.<br /><br />I did not realize this was the reason I'd gotten skinnier than all my friends.<br /><br />A guy calling himself Venice A. Fultion, who also goes by Paul Khanna, is the creator of this magical way to lose weight.<br /><br />Apparently weight loss professionals have been critical of the OMG diet.<br /><br />As I understand it, the claim is that following the OMG method will allow you to lose 20 - 30 pounds in Six Weeks, thus causing your friends to say "OMG" when they see the new skinny you.<br /><br />The Six Weeks to OMG plan, as I understand it, is each morning of the Six Weeks, you get up and drink a lot of coffee to amp up your energy level and metabolism.<br /><br />Then you go get yourself some calorie burning exercise. I assume this would be walking fast, jogging, riding a bike, swimming, that type thing.<br /><br />After you are done getting your exercise you're supposed to get into a tub of not warm water, thus making your body work hard to keep you warm.<br /><br />You let 3 hours go by from the time you drink the coffee til you eat your first food of the day.<br /><br />And the food you consume must be heavily weighted to lean proteins, cutting way back on the carbs.<br /><br />Does this sound all that much different from the Atkins Diet?<br /><br />The claim the pseudo diet doctor is making is that with no food in your system you body is going to burn fat to energize the exercise, with additional fat burned when your body has to work to warm you when you're in that tub of cold water.<br /><br />My version of the OMG plan has been that I drink coffee, then do some exercising on a Nautilus machine, then go swimming, then take a cold shower after the swim. And then have something light and lean for breakfast, which usually takes place a couple hours, not three, after I've had my morning coffee.<br /><br />I have gotten skinnier. I don't know if it my accidental version of the OMG diet that has caused me to get skinnier than all my friends. I suspect the real culprit is I've been eating less and exercising more.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-30010457103321280442012-02-25T07:47:00.000-08:002012-02-25T07:47:29.626-08:00I Am Inches From Being In As Good A Shape As A 72 Year Old Man<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0-l0kmFidE/T0kAz6L4KpI/AAAAAAAAAN0/ljJXvXQ7wh0/s1600/78+year+old+man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l0-l0kmFidE/T0kAz6L4KpI/AAAAAAAAAN0/ljJXvXQ7wh0/s1600/78+year+old+man.jpg" /></a></div>The ad on the left has been showing up lately on my <b><a href="http://durangotexas.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Durango Texas blog</a></b>. I don't know why this ad shows up. I don't remember blogging about being an old guy in great shape.<br />
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If it is true that this is an actual photo of a 72 year old doctor who has used science, nutrition and exercise to achieve the results we are looking at in the picture, well, sign me up for that program.<br />
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I have a couple decades to go before I am 72 and, hopefully, in as good a shape as this particular doctor.<br />
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I am currently having some success at reducing the beer gut-like growth that I mysteriously grew without having had the pleasure of consuming excessive amounts of beer.<br />
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My around the middle waist measurement has receded about an inch since I started receding. I can now suck the measuring tape in to just under 36 inches.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-80531564684444057822012-02-09T07:36:00.000-08:002012-02-09T07:36:52.812-08:00I Wish I Was As Thin As I Was When I Thought I Was Fat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gqronh92-OU/TzPmzeBQuhI/AAAAAAAAANs/dVdiHaB5Lug/s1600/Fat+Thin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gqronh92-OU/TzPmzeBQuhI/AAAAAAAAANs/dVdiHaB5Lug/s400/Fat+Thin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
I saw this amusing vintage poster this morning on Mary Kellogg Bishop's Facebook page. I can identify with the sentiment expressed by the lady in the Lounger Chair, due to the fact that I would not mind being as thin as I was, back at a weight, that at that point in time, I thought was fat.<br />
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As in, let's say, around 195 pounds. <br />
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At 195 pounds I would feel really skinny at this particular point in time.<br />
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I am almost 100% certain that is not Mary Kellogg Bishop lounging in the Lounger Chair in the poster.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-48556664887148047472012-01-31T14:28:00.000-08:002012-01-31T14:28:44.666-08:00Losing Weight For Jesus To Get A Bod4God<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FCdPYu54Vf4/TyhnCWdQfcI/AAAAAAAAANk/G6ki8fbvGMQ/s1600/Fat+Jesus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FCdPYu54Vf4/TyhnCWdQfcI/AAAAAAAAANk/G6ki8fbvGMQ/s320/Fat+Jesus.jpg" width="272" /></a></div>A few days ago, when I confessed I'd ballooned way over 200 pounds and had grown what amounted to a minor beer belly, that I had acquired without the pleasure of drinking beer, <b><a href="http://durangobese.blogspot.com/2012/01/to-lose-my-beer-gut-i-want-to-lose.html" target="_blank">I said</a></b> whenever I have detected shrinkage I would blog about it, along with a piece of interesting info of the weight loss/health variety.<br />
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Well, my ongoing shrinkage has now shrunk my pseudo beer gut to being under 37 inches in circumference.<br />
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After I blogged about my ballooning beer gut I discovered that several pairs of pants, which used to be baggy on me, no longer are. Discovering this has increased my desire to shrink.<br />
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As for a piece of interesting info of the weight loss/health variety.<br />
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Well, there is this preacher, Steve Reynolds, head pastor at the Capital Baptist Church in Annandale, Virginia, who has tossed aside all the usual reasons people motivate themselves to lose weight, you know, like me, to fit into jeans that are now too tight, to return to a high school reunion, to feel better about yourself, to lower your blood pressure.<br />
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Toss all those familiar weight loss reasons out the window. <br />
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Pastor Reynolds wants you to do it for Jesus.<br />
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Pastor Reynolds has written a book titled "Bod4God."<br />
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Since 2007 Pastor Reynolds has led his congregation to lose over 12,000 pounds.<br />
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Pastor Reynolds practices what he preaches. He has lost 120 pounds.<br />
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Pastor Reynolds says, "I want to show people, all types of people, especially Christian people, that we're made by God, but we're also made for God, and we need to honor him with our bodies,"<br />
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So there you have it, lose weight for Jesus and get yourself a good Bod for God.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-78441405864112610862012-01-25T09:05:00.000-08:002012-01-25T09:05:36.528-08:00To Lose My Beer Gut I Want to Lose Weight Like the Japanese<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGkm7Yb78VY/TyAye3RupuI/AAAAAAAAANc/6A5NpWmYbvk/s1600/Skinny+Japanese.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xGkm7Yb78VY/TyAye3RupuI/AAAAAAAAANc/6A5NpWmYbvk/s320/Skinny+Japanese.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>A couple days ago I fessed up to the fact that not only did I re-gain the weight I lost on last year's Super Bowl Goal Diet, I went past that previous high, to a new one in the 220 pound zone.<br />
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But, like I said in my fessing up blogging, <b><a href="http://durangobese.blogspot.com/2012/01/my-2011-super-bowl-weight-loss.html" target="_blank">My 2011 Super Bowl Weight Loss Disappeared with a Beer Gut by the Start of 2012</a></b> the weight this time is concentrated in my waist zone, creating a beer belly without having had the pleasure of drinking too much beer.<br />
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For my 2012 Beer Gut Reduction Plan I am not going to document my ongoing weight loss. I am not even going to get on the scale. All I needed to know is I have gone over 220. What I am going to do is document the shrinkage of my waist.<br />
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When I am in non-beer gut mode, my waist is around 30 inches. My beer gutted waist is currently over 37 inches. I am calling 37 inches my starting point for shrinkage. Whenever I have detected shrinkage I will blog about it, along with a piece of interesting info of the weight loss/health variety.<br />
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This blogging's interesting info of the weight loss/health variety came from FoxNews online in an article titled "Want to Lose Weight? Eat Like the Japanese" by Valerie Frankel of <b><a href="http://health.com/" target="_blank">Health.com</a></b>.<br />
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<b>Want to Lose Weight? Eat Like the Japanese</b><br />
<b>7 ways to become healthier today</b><br />
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Think it's time to make some healthy lifestyle adjustments? Dan Buettner, author of "The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest," is right behind you. Buettner is crossing Iowa in a bus, attempting to change American towns into healthier places. "More than 40 percent of Americans smoked in the '60s, and only 20 percent do now," he points out. "We can turn around our diet and lifestyle, too."<br />
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One thing we Americans have going for us: We are always up for a challenge. So try these healthful ideas inspired by healthy women around the world.<br />
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<b>1. Take 20 percent off</b><br />
Blue zones—like areas in Italy, Japan, Greece, California, and Costa Rica where the people have traditionally stayed active to age 100 or older—are some of the healthiest in the world. "In every Blue Zone, they eat less than we do, by at least 20 percent," Buettner says.<br />
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One trick for slashing portions: "Instead of putting big platters of food at the center of the table, fill each plate at the counter," Buettner says.<br />
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<b>2. Pile on the plants</b><br />
Not only are plant-based diets rich in antioxidants and other good-for-you nutrients, they're also better for your waistline. "A plate of food in Okinawa has one-fifth the calorie density of a typical American meal," Buettner says. "You can chow down for a fraction of the calories."<br />
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Buettner suggests thinking of meat as a condiment rather than the main event, and subbing in more beans, legumes, and nuts.<br />
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<b>3. Love the foods that love you back</b><br />
A diet of berries and elk or tofu and sea vegetables might seem utterly foreign—but taste buds can be retrained. "Americans love fat, salt, and sugar because that's what we're used to," says David L. Katz, MD, founding director of the Yale Prevention Research Center. "But studies show that if you eat more wholesome foods, you can learn to prefer them."<br />
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An easy way to start: Search for stealth sugar, which Dr. Katz says is found in many packaged foods. "Once you get rid of that hidden sugar, you'll start to prefer less-sweet foods," he notes.<br />
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<b>4. Sit down—and slow down.</b><br />
It might be too much to cook every meal. But we can sit at a table to eat our takeout instead of scarfing it down in the car. Savor each bite as the French do; stretch your meals out for 20 whole minutes. You'll end up eating less and enjoying more.<br />
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<b>5. Get up</b><br />
"The longest-living people don't think of exercise as a chore," Buettner says. Instead, little bits of movement are a constant part of their everyday lives. Make like a French woman and take a short walk after dinner.<br />
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Shovel your own snow instead of paying the kid next door; make extra trips carrying laundry up and down the stairs.<br />
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<b>6. Get out</b><br />
Every Blue Zone is known for its strong social and family bonds. Besides spending quality time at home with family, surround yourself with healthy-living friends—good health habits are contagious, research shows.<br />
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Be sure to get involved in your community, too, whether it's at church, a gardening group, or a volunteer organization. These connections can add years to your life, Buettner says.<br />
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<b>7. Take it easy</b><br />
Even the world's healthiest people get stressed out sometimes. What they all have, Buettner says, are daily strategies to shed stress. Meditate, go for a run, make a dinner date with your best friend—and don't worry about your inability to be a French woman or a Greek farmer.<br />
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It's OK to enjoy the occasional cheeseburger. What matters is a cumulative lifestyle pattern of enjoying healthful food, staying connected to others, and keeping yourself moving.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-1671544438821893962012-01-21T14:06:00.000-08:002012-01-21T14:06:18.083-08:00My 2011 Super Bowl Weight Loss Disappeared with a Beer Gut by the Start of 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2rf4nEbMGr0/TxswqCGqePI/AAAAAAAAANU/UZ0Q_ROQsZo/s1600/Fat+Man.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2rf4nEbMGr0/TxswqCGqePI/AAAAAAAAANU/UZ0Q_ROQsZo/s320/Fat+Man.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I use this photo for illustration purposes. It is not me in the picture.<br />
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In December of 2010 I started this blog you are reading right now. The reason I started this blog was because I had once again gained weight and gone over the 200 pound mark.<br />
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I knew at the start of every New Year millions of people make a resolution to lose weight. I thought I'd do the same thing and track my weight loss on this blog.<br />
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Well.<br />
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My goal was to hit 190 pounds by the time of the Super Bowl. I forget what I had ballooned to before I began re-shrinking. I think it was, maybe, 211.<br />
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So. I got to my Super Bowl goal. And then proceeded, as 2011 progressed, to gain the weight back, til I surpassed my old high and nearing the start of the New Year of 2012 I was closing in on 220.<br />
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I have not weighed myself in weeks.<br />
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Yesterday I was horrified to find that multiple pants that fit me loosely, what seems a short time ago, are now uncomfortably tight. <br />
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I was appalled.<br />
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I am down to two pair of pants that are comfortable to wear.<br />
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I somehow had convinced myself I was getting more muscular, hence the size gain. Maybe there is some of that. I do get a lot of exercise.<br />
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But, added muscle does not explain the swelling of my waist.<br />
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I pretty much have a beer gut without having had the pleasure of drinking a lot of beer.<br />
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In April of 2006 I returned from an annoying visit to the Pacific Northwest. At that point in time I weighed something like 205 and comfortably fit into the pants I tried on last night, hoping to wear them to an event, that caused me to realize I've reached a new low of getting fat.<br />
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When I returned to Texas in May of 2006 I amped up my exercise routine, mostly really long bike rides of the mountain bike sort. I began to shrink. I did not actually go on any sort of diet.<br />
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By July of 2008 I returned to the Pacific Northwest again. I had shrunk down to around 170. I was skinny. People made note of me being skinny. Some said gaunt. I felt good. And the plane ride was the most comfortable ever, due to being skinny.<br />
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Upon my return to Texas, in August of 2008, I was again annoyed with my visit to the Pacific Northwest. This time, apparently, the annoyance did not cause me to shrink, instead it caused me to swell.<br />
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Like I already said, the last I weighed myself I was approaching 220. I have not weighed myself again, because I don't care how much I weigh.<br />
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What I care about with this bout of shrinking is to shrink the pseudo beer gut. The last I measured I was 37 inches around my waist. On some people that would be skinny. When I weighed 180 my waist was 29 inches.<br />
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So, during this latest, and I hope, my last bout of losing weight, I am not going to keep track of my weight. I instead am going to keep track of the number of diminishing inches around my waist.<br />
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Every few days I will blog my progress.<br />
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I am hoping the shrinkage occurs quickly. I don't see why it won't. I get a lot of exercise. I eat very nutritionally, albeit, obviously, too frequently in too large a quantity, for too long.<br />
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I need to get myself shrunk back to being comfortable on a plane size by the late March/early April time frame. I am planning on getting on a plane in early Spring. I don't want that seat belt to feel like it is squeezing me.<br />
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The current size of my "Beer Gut" is 37 inches. The goal is 30 inches.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-78994185661674540782011-12-23T13:58:00.000-08:002011-12-23T13:58:43.923-08:00How Us Dutch People Stay Slim Except When We Live In America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UnicGvrGpYU/TvT2SBwP1wI/AAAAAAAAANM/ZwyWsqfEHmE/s1600/Fat+Dutchman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UnicGvrGpYU/TvT2SBwP1wI/AAAAAAAAANM/ZwyWsqfEHmE/s320/Fat+Dutchman.jpg" width="232" /></a></div>A few days ago <b><a href="http://durangotexas.blogspot.com/2011/12/waiting-on-turkey-walking-around-fosdic.html" target="_blank">on one of my other blogs</a></b> I lamented about how my Dutch genetics cause me to be able to gain weight with little effort.<br />
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A Dutch dike fixer, calling him or herself "Slow Leak," pointed me to an article about why the Dutch stay so slim, titled "<b><a href="http://www.expatica.com/nl/leisure/dining_cuisine/How-the-Dutch-stay-slim_17527.html" target="_blank">How the Dutch Stay Slim.</a></b>"<br />
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You can <b><a href="http://www.expatica.com/nl/leisure/dining_cuisine/How-the-Dutch-stay-slim_17527.html" target="_blank">read the article</a></b> to learn the 8 secrets nutritionist Mandy Dunlop believes help the Dutch win the battle of the bulge.<br />
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I pretty much do the 8 Dutch secrets, for the most part. Yet I still way too easily gain weight. I think this may be because I am in America, not in Holland.<br />
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I thought the comments that this article generated were amusing and made some interesting observations, like the first one, with a reference to Wal-Mart....<br />
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<b>JSK posted: 2011-08-29 15:58:14</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As someone who has spend ample time is both the us and the netherlands, i have some observations. I do not think dutch people are particularily slim but they weigh less than americans *on average* plus there is a lot less variation between people (that is: dutch people are more average in general). So if i walk around on a american college campus there are more slim people (esp. women) than on a campus in the netherlands. However, in the american Walmart you see huge people the size of which you would very rarely observe in the Netherlands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Why the average American weight is higher than the Dutch average, has to do with food and lifestyle, but not in the flattering way most people in the Netherlands think. Americans drive and eat more, but the reason is that automobiles are far more affordable and American food is a lot tastier (the supermarket freezer pizza of the brand "Digorno" is superior to Dutch restaurant pizza, for example). Place a dutch person in the U.S. and he'll gain 10 kilograms in no time (i'm speaking from experience).</span><br />
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<b>buitenlander posted: 2011-08-09 11:28:12</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">are you joking? Dutch and slim are two words that should not be put together in one sentence... :)</span><br />
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<b>barbara posted: 2011-08-10 09:19:11</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">My Dutch husband is slim, rides his bike 2 hours a day, eats bread and cheese for breakfast and lunch, and large amount of potatoes for dinner. All of my Dutch relatives and friends are slim, and I credit this to their bike riding and a moderate amount of food. Some may disagree; I am stating what I know as fact, not a global statement that ALL Dutch people are a certain way. But while living in Holland for ten years I saw more slim than fat people. When I left in 2006, I noticed some were gaining weight, but also were biking less and eating more fast foods or in restaurants.</span><br />
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<b>the thinker posted: 2011-08-10 09:50:14</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I think its genetics - Dutch people are tall and have lean muscles. They are not that predisposed to be fat the same way they are not predisposed to be well build. You can hardly see a really well build Dutchman as they have small bones and chests.</span><br />
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<b>CW posted: 2011-08-10 11:22:29</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I gained 10 kilos after I moved to Holland, eating a Dutch diet and cycling. Let's face it, tall skinny Dutch people marry tall skinny Dutch people and have tall skinny Dutch kids! It's in the DNA. </span><br />
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<b>are posted: 2011-08-10 13:43:28</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This entire thing is hilarious. The Dutch are getting fatter by the day, and the problem is so huge (no pun intended) that it has entered Parliamentary discussions. I am sometimes astounded at how fat some of the women are -- easily as fat as my fellow Americans in the US. And I am equally frustrated by the fact that there are so few Dutch women who are actually thin. The vast majority are overweight to some extent, even if not obese. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And if you read the recipes in the Allerhande, which guides so many Dutch family meals, it's easy to see why. VERY low nutritional value, VERY high fat content, and generally about 1000 calories PER MEAL. Nutrition is an unknown in the Netherlands, and it's not getting better - it's getting worse. Fat pigs.</span><br />
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<b>ustanother posted: 2011-08-10 15:41:42</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">This article is a big joke! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dutch eat no fruit and no vegetables. They eat the same sandwich every day, with butter, cheese and surrogate of ham. How can you call this healthy. Then the funny part is that according to the article one thing that helps is the fact that they drink black coffee instead of milk and coffee...but then at every meal they drink milk instead of water!!! Come on!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Laura posted: 2011-08-11 11:29:40</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Well written article but I beg to differ. I don't think the Dutch are paricularly slim! In fact, kind of the opposite. Lot's of tummy hidden behind the large shirts and sweaters, and the ever expandable leggings, hmm. My obersvation is this: they eat on the run, snack quite a bit - even which biking, and their market baskets are often filled with typical junk food. I am not sure if I would follow your suggestions for a healthy diet. Too much dairy and too much caffeine are the red flags for me.</span>DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-79725567418945008392011-10-22T08:35:00.000-07:002011-10-22T08:35:10.629-07:00Dear Diet I've Got To Stop Cheating On You<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-da1UT5j9tLo/TqLiP1xVJmI/AAAAAAAAANA/pHJcngjcyKM/s1600/Dear+Diet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-da1UT5j9tLo/TqLiP1xVJmI/AAAAAAAAANA/pHJcngjcyKM/s1600/Dear+Diet.jpg" /></a></div><br />
On Facebook there has been an epidemic of Facebookers posting inspirational or amusing or pointless graphic messages lately. I thought this "Dear Diet" one was of the amusing sort.DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6396198804576097146.post-12771442935674988142011-08-25T08:03:00.000-07:002011-08-25T08:04:48.127-07:00Jenny Craig Spokeswoman Carrie Fisher Has Lost 50 Pounds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bv4y8tT7zEk/TlZhW1PNYeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Antu3vqoX80/s1600/Carrie+Fisher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bv4y8tT7zEk/TlZhW1PNYeI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Antu3vqoX80/s320/Carrie+Fisher.jpg" width="232" /></a></div>That is Princess Leia, also known as Carrie Fisher, with her ex-boyfriend, Jabba the Hut. This relationship did not last too long.<br />
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Jabba the Hut was morbidly obese. I don't know if Carrie Fisher picked up bad eating habits from Jabba, but in the decades following their break-up in the 1970s, Carrie Fisher put on a lot of weight.<br />
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Currently Carrie Fisher is celebrating losing a lot of weight. She has lost 50 pounds on the Jenny Craig weight-loss plan.<br />
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Carrie Fisher took over the Jenny Craig celebrity spokeswoman role last year. Previous Jenny Craig weight-loss spokeswomen have been Valerie Bertinelli and Kirstie Alley.<br />
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I do not remember if Kirstie Alley's <i>Fat Actress</i> TV show aired before or after she was the Jenny Craig celebrity spokeswoman.<br />
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The last time I saw Carrie Fisher on TV was when her step-mother, Elizabeth Taylor, died. Carrie looked like she'd lost a lot of weight at that point in time.<br />
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I don't believe Carrie Fisher is going to be sporting her Princess Leia attire. She is quoted as saying, "I'm not going to wear a lot of sleeveless things. I think after 50, there's a law."DurangObesityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128902198870514955noreply@blogger.com0