Posted on 08/15/2011 11:14:26 AM PDT by Mount Athos
IMO parents who make kids eat all that is on their plate is sometimes at fault.
My Mother always insisted we clen our plates before leaving the table.
When you are full-—get up.If there is something left put it away for later or toss it away, do not stuff yourself just to empty your plate. I believe we are especially guilty of this at restaurnts.
I found the best way to control pasta portions is to make it myself. One egg + 1 cup flour + little water if necessary is plenty of pasta for a taste and just enough work that I’ll only make one batch at a time. With a good pasta press, it’s pretty simple.
Fat people make better behaved socialists. There are many exceptions but they commit less crime, run away slower, make a bigger target to shoot at. They also often make less money, look less beautiful, do not make their neighbors feel as envious, mostly sit still. There’s no easier way to level the beauty playing field than to get people on food stamps.
You are kidding right? You want MORE time in a nursing home? And that's worth nutty yoyo dieting? Each to their own.
So sorry about your brother. - I’ve been thin and I’ve been chubby. In this “society”, it seems that one can never be “thin” enough; and we’re brow-beaten by families, the government, and the advertising agencies to “lose weight” if we’re chubby. I’m doing the best I can; and I’m tired of the “we’re just nagging you for your own good” speeches.
It seems that back in the days when food was hard to come by, it was FASHIONABLE to be porky (Renaissance women). When only the wealthy could afford rich food, skinny poor people were looked down on for being skinny, and poor. - Now that most everyone can afford rich, fattening foods, we’re not allowed to enjoy it in peace. I’m fed up with it.
A friend’s daughter wants to get gastric bypass surgery. Well, I’ve known three people, friends and family, who have had that surgery. One got an esophageal infection, a paralyzed digestive tract, lay in the hospital for 8 weeks; and almost died. Lost some weight, but said there was no way in the world she would have done it if she’d known what she would go through. She is 68. A friend had surgery done years ago. More were necessitated to try to correct what the original operation had caused in her body. She ended up fatter than ever and sick to boot. - Another was a cousin who had the surgery. The last time I saw him, he had lost weight; but looked like death warmed over in the face. He was also copping a cocky attitude, stating, “It’s amazing what a little surgery can do!” I haven’t heard anything from him in the past few years; so don’t know what evolved.
I’m sick of it; I’m doing the best I can. - I finally decided that even if my husband (who often blasted me for being “overweight” - and it’s funny HE was always “overweight” himself by about 40 or 50 lbs.). Well, I finally decided that even if he had been married to Cindy Crawford; he would have focused on the mole under her nose and that was all he would have seen after the first six months. Now, I have a level of PEACE about it.
Damned twerps, anyway...
Divorce and other similar personal disasters have been proven excellent methods for losing excess weight.
Depends on how much effort you’re putting into trying to live forever. If you don’t get to enjoy your wedding cake because cake is unhealthy it probably is a waste of effort. The trick is to maximize your results, increase your life WHILE maintaining its joys.
Fixx was the longest lived male in his family for 3 generations. There was a family history of heart trouble and before he started jogging he smoked 2 packs a day and he weighed 80 pounds more than when he wrote the book. Yeah he’s a great punchline for Bill Hicks jokes, but the truth is all that jogging probably added 10 years to his life.
“Seriously - have you no idea what horrible burden you maybe putting on your possible future offspring? You may wind up in a nursing home when your contribution to the great genetic pool is in their 20s - trying to start their own life, but stuck having to care for you.”
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Not necessarily. One of my relatives lived to be 97. She outlived all of her children and several of her grandchildren. And no one was really stuck taking care of her. She lived in her own home until the day she entered the hospital for the last time.
Really not wise to make rash generalizations. Statistics have a way of backfiring big time.
I don’t eat after 6:00pm and dinner is not the largest meal. Doesn’t even make sense why you’d want to eat just hour before going to sleep. Portion control is the key.
So you can digest it while you are asleep? There is a good reason we get sleepy after a heavy meal.
Portion control is key. As is caloric expenditure exceeding caloric intake. The timing of such isn’t as important.
“I said retirement home, not nursing home.”
I see, my mistake.
However others have rightly pointed out that once we get into our 70s our taste buds apparently die off, at least largely, and so we eat less.
I know a lady from church just went to heaven this year - in her nineties - very petite - anyway, they had a terrible time getting her to DRINK. She just had lost the sensation of thirst and would have certainly died of dehydration if church friends had not visited daily and pushed fluids on her. She simply didn’t want them, and would not drink unless continually reminded and encouraged..
So it is not just food, but liquids we apparently get tired of when we get up there in age.
ignorant. That’s what you are.
For one thing, the wife to be is more than a decade younger than I. for another, longevity is in my genes. My relatives live well into their 80s without even trying...sometimes even past 100 although the ones that accomplish that are more fastidious with their health. As for the wife to be, her mother was 46 when she was born(without any complications or medication I might add) and is currently still working full time plus overtime even though pushing 80. She is amazing. Both my parents are still working even though over 70 and should leave a considerable amount of wealth when they pass. They intend to work until they drop dead and so do I. That’s the way we are in my family and also in the wife’s to be family. the condition I’m in and the willpower and discipline I have, I expect to see 90 no problem.
No one will be supporting me. I have my own money and will continue to amass ever greater wealth for at least another quarter century.
>Being fat can actually be good for you — with obese people who are otherwise healthy living just as long as slim people — according to a Canadian study published Monday.<
And just how many “otherwise healthy” obese folks are there? Obesity is closely associated with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, heart disease, joint and back problems to mention a few disorders. Obesity is also the hallmark of a poor diet.
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