Frosty the Snowman's Drastic Weight Loss & Extreme Body Makeover

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.

I think if Frosty the Snowman can be such a Big Loser, so can I.

So can you.

I also notice that Frosty got a nose job as part of his Extreme Makeover. That is too drastic. No nose job for me.

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.

No need to reduce caloric intake, or increase exercise.

All Frosty needed to lose weight and get in shape was well placed heat.

I think there is a lesson for all of us in this....

The Airlines Are Getting Serious About Flying Obese Customers Of Size

I have no fear of flying. I do have a fear of the claustrophobic nature of flying.

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.

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.

I have only been stuck next to a full sized male once. This felt very crowded.

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.

The various airlines have been getting a bit tougher with their policies regarding hugely overweight people getting onboard, with Southwest Airlines leading the way.

With Southwest you either fit in the 17 inches between the armrests or you buy a second seat.

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.

I wonder how many obese people are actually flying? Like I previously said, I have only seen one really big person on a plane.

It seems sort of unfair to the non-obese that a person weighing 150 pounds pays the same as a person weighing 500 pounds.

If you check in your luggage and it weighs even slightly over the allotted weight, you pay extra.

It takes a lot more airplane fuel to lift 500 pounds off the ground than 150 pounds.

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.

That seems fair.

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.

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.

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.

Betty Jo Bouvier's Shampoo Weight Loss Discovery

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.

But, it was new to me, so I thought I'd share Betty Jo Bouvier's Weight Loss Discovery...

FINALLY!  A practical and useful health warning. 

Shampoo Warning!

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.

Printed very clearly on the shampoo label is this warning: "FOR EXTRA BODY AND VOLUME."

No wonder I have been gaining weight!  

Well!  

I have gotten rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dawn Dish Soap instead.

Its label reads: "DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE."

Problem solved! If I don't answer the phone, I'll be in the shower...

Colin Farrell Uses NBC's Biggest Loser to Get in Shape for Total Recall

NBC's Biggest Loser is one of Irish actor Colin Farrell's favorite American TV shows.

When Colin Farrell got the lead role in a 2012 remake of the 1990 version of Total Recall, playing the Arnold Schwarzenegger character, Douglas Quaid, Farrell faced the dilemma of needing to get himself in Schwarzenegger shape.

And, so Farrell decided to follow the same course of action he'd seen work so often on Biggest Loser.

When Colin Farrell began his Biggest Loser 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.

To quote Colin Farrell on his get in shape plan...“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 hope Colin Farrell is able to keep in the good shape he got into for Total Recall 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.

I Did Not Know I Am On The Six Weeks To OMG Diet Plan Which Has Me Skinnier Than All My Friends

I had not heard of SIX WEEKS TO OMG til yesterday.

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.

I did not realize this was the reason I'd gotten skinnier than all my friends.

A guy calling himself Venice A. Fultion, who also goes by Paul Khanna, is the creator of this magical way to lose weight.

Apparently weight loss professionals have been critical of the   OMG diet.

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.

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.

Then you go get yourself some calorie burning exercise. I assume this would be walking fast, jogging, riding a bike, swimming, that type thing.

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.

You let 3 hours go by from the time you drink the coffee til you eat your first food of the day.

And the food you consume must be heavily weighted to lean proteins, cutting way back on the carbs.

Does this sound all that much different from the Atkins Diet?

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.

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.

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.

I Am Inches From Being In As Good A Shape As A 72 Year Old Man

The ad on the left has been showing up lately on my Durango Texas blog. I don't know why this ad shows up. I don't remember blogging about being an old guy in great shape.

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.

I have a couple decades to go before I am 72 and, hopefully, in as good a shape as this particular doctor.

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.

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.

I Wish I Was As Thin As I Was When I Thought I Was Fat

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.

As in, let's say, around 195 pounds.

At 195 pounds I would feel really skinny at this particular point in time.

I am almost 100% certain that is not Mary Kellogg Bishop lounging in the Lounger Chair in the poster.