[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, December 4, 2003

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[mylife]

I wouldnt touch this one!

[ctonious]

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, December 4, 2003 | Shmuley Boteach

Shmuley,eh? (Was this out of the Onion?)

Well, I suppose we men should greet our women coming home from work in a tutu, with a bouquet of roses, the Lifetime channel on the tube, and a scrumptious dinner of celery, carrots and Atkins shake mix on the table.

As they say, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and John Gray and Shmuley Boteach are from Uranus.

[dawn53]

Hi John,

I bought a Mr. Wonderful talking doll.

His answer to the question of weight:

"No, you don't look at all fat in that dress. How can anything make you look fat?"

Here's a link to an ebay listing for the item. If you follow his instructions you can hear all the WONDERFUL things that Mr. Wonderful says.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2968656718&category=19257

[Egon]

About four years after we got married, my wife started ballooning too. About nine months later, she rapidly lost the weight. I blame myself.

[uncbob]

Well I noticed the first thing women/men at work did after a divorce was start taking off the pounds and joining a health club and the contact lenses made a comeback

[goldstategop]

I'd have to say it sounds like pop psych advice. But there's truth to it. When a couple started dating and then getting hooked up they took price in each other appearance and noticed their partner and that made a guy feel handsome and a woman feel beautiful. Marriage can make you stop trying to bring out the best in each other and then the people in it started taking each other for granted. Before husbands fault their wives for being fat, they should ask what made their wives stop being sexually attractive to them. A few kind words will do wonders indifference and hostile comments won't. Treat your wife like your greatest blessing and reflect on how hard it was to win her in the first place. That will make guys want to keep the Fat Lady jokes in the closet.

[Nataku X]

Western culture puts more emphasis on money and schooling than on good health--when it should be the other way around.

If you do not have good health, all the honor rolls and luxury furniture and parties in the world will not make up for it...

[syriacus]

This article makes a lot of sense.

I have to admit, I thought the article was going to say that women would not gain so much weight if their husbands had greater appetites for healthier foods.

Men seem to like foods with more fat than women do. If a woman prepares meals her husband likes, she, too, will probably eat more like a man would eat.

I'm not saying it's the man's fault that the women gain weight. After all, there are single women who are overweight.

But I think thoughtful meal planning (which is time-consuming) is necessary. The women need to cook veggies for themselves, even if their husbands turn up their noses at vegetables.

[randita]

IMO, the reason women (and men, too) are overweight is because they watch too much TV and eat too many low-fat, high-carb foods.

Adopt South Beach or Atkins as a guideline for weight loss and weight maintenance and turn off the TV in favor of exercise and you will lose weight.

[madison10]

Without reading it..yet. I'll just say "yes" on general principles. Is truly the case if the husband is overweight or came from a family that "eats for happiness."

[LadyDoc]

We're NOT "fat".....We're soft and Fluffy...

[Publius6961]

First, there is something just a little hypocritical in the contemporary contention of husbands that only their wives need appear sexy while they can have endless folds of whale blubber hanging down their stomachs.

This is the only touche in the article.
Of course it works both ways, or all bets are off.

[Maria S]

Probably some good points in the article!

A psychologist once told me something interesting about couples: A couple that 'looks' similar in appearance (both good-looking, both fat, both homely, etc.) will probably stay together a lot longer than a couple that is very different in appearance (one great-looking and in good shape, the other somewhat homely and fat).

Exceptions are if the 'lesser' one in the couple has an outstanding personality (you know the kind; everybody enjoys being around him/her!). The other exception: a homely, fat, bald guy can pretty much attract whatever type he chooses...if he's rich!

[SamAdams76]

This article focuses on the women but there are a lot of men who "let themselves go" as well. I think the reasons given in the article (for why wives get fat) is a lot of bunk. There are three primary factors for the obesity problem we are facing:

• In our modern society, the caloric expenditure for daily life has been greatly reduced. For instance, we drive to the store instead of walking there. We use elevators and escalators instead of climbing stairs (I see healthy young people riding escalators at the mall while the stairways are completely empty). We have washing machines clean our laundry and dishes instead of hand-washing them ourselves. We now have machines perform most of the manual labor in the workplace (for most jobs). Most of the "work" has even been taken out of yard work. Neighbors of mine use riding lawn mowers and snowblowers and they even vaccum up the leaves instead of raking them, for example.

• Food is cheap and very plentiful. For most of human existence, food was relatively scarce and most worried daily about where there next meal would come from. Today, that worry has been removed for even the very poor in the United States.

• Most foods sold in the United States are heavily processed "convenience" foods that can be eaten right out of the package or microwaved for a few minutes. The drawback to this convenience is the fact that these foods are loaded with artificial sweeteners (such as high fructose corn syrup) and preservatives, hydrogenated vegetable oils (trans-fats), and other man-made substances that the human body is not used to consuming. Additionally, salt (sodium) is a major ingredient in many processed foods which carries health risks of its own.

By re-introducing regular daily exercise and switching back to a diet of whole, natural foods, while avoiding the heavily processed junk foods, one can address the obesity problem. One does not have to be a "gym rat," just one or two brisk walks a day of three miles or more combined with a natural food diet that consists of meat, vegetables, berries, eggs, fish, cheese, yogurt, nuts and pure olive oil, lots of clean water (and yes, beer and wine too) will take the weight off and make you much, much healthier.

I have done this and lost over 100 pounds over the past eight months. I am now in my normal weight range for the first time in my adult life. There's no secret to my success. I basically went back to the lifestyle of my ancestors - lots of brisk walking and the consumption of whole, fresh foods only. Some will call it a "low-carb" diet but I never really counted carbs. By eliminating all the processed foods and the junk foods and the sugary drinks, I have eliminated perhaps 75% of the carbs that were in my diet before without even thinking about it.

Now my wife is following the same plan and she has lost 30 pounds since September.

So Happy Losing and have a Merry Christmas!

[Mamzelle]

Maybe a man's flagging libido seeks any excuse for its diminishment...? Blaming someone else serves the trick--I mean, if a guy's impotent, it must be because his wife is insufficiently attractive. Couldn't be that there's anything wrong with *him*!

[ItsOurTimeNow]

I (jokingly) tell my wife, "If you want me to start acting like a Soap Opera Guy, then you need to start dressing like a Victoria's Secret Gal."

Seriously though...we both put on weight when she was pregnant w/ our daughter 3 years ago. We'd always say that we were going to start eating better and exercising more, but we'd always lose the motivation after a few weeks.

I ended up taking the initiative and going on the Atkins plan back in August. She wasn't very much into it, but once she saw that it was working for me, she took to it as well.

I guess "leading by example" works pretty well.

[Kenton]

Gosh, after reading this I feel as if I should apologize on behalf of all males for all the fat wives out there... but I'm hoping that you'll let me blame this all on George Bush. ;)

[dawn53]

I actually bought it to take to a company Christmas party for a gift exchange. One of those exchanges where you can steal a present from anybody that's opened one before you. It was a HOT item, LOL, but only the women wanted to keep it.

I will say this, my husband laughed hysterically everytime he'd listen to it!

My favorite lines: "Let's just cuddle tonight" and "Can't your mother stay another week."

[Phaedrus]

Well, of course we are AND everything else! ... ;-}

[Diddle E. Squat]

Its all the gun's fault. The gun made me shoot it.