On Fri, 7 Jan 2011 06:35:14 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:
>On Jan 6, 9:23*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
>> On 06/01/2011 1:18 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> >> I am not going to say that Americans are fatter than Canadians or than
>> >> Europeans. A lot of Americans are very fit, or appear to be. *The thing
>> >> that puzzles me is the number of really, really fat people. *Within
>> >> minutes of crossing the border I see people way fatter than you usually
>> >> see here. I mean, absolutely huge. I don't know how people allow
>> >> themselves to get that fat. *Maybe I should rephrase that to allowing
>> >> their loived ones to get that fat, because people the size I am thinking
>> >> of do not do it on their own. They are enabled.
>>
>> > Here's the difference between a thin man and a fat man:
>>
>> > When the thin man notices his trousers are getting a little snug,
>> > he says, "Got to lose a few pounds". *The fat man says "Got to
>> > buy bigger pants."
>>
>> I have been working the pounds off bit by bit. My long range goal had
>> been to lose weight through exercise because I found that diets alone
>> don't work on the long run. You lose weight quickly but then you usually
>> gain it back with interest. While I was working on that I weighed myself
>> every morning and if my weight was up I skipped some treats and did
>> extra exercise.
>>
>> > You'd probably say that my husband and I are really, really fat.
>> > We are. *I'm about 260 (5' 8"), and he's about 360 (5' 5").
>> > It's not difficult to allow oneself to get that fat. *Gain 10
>> > pounds a year for 12 years (or 5 pounds a year for 24 years),
>> > and you're 120 pounds overweight. * It's really not that difficult.
>> > Five or ten pounds is barley noticeable; I have to change by 20
>> > pounds to need a different clothing size.
>>
>> I have to hand it do you for being so candid about that and respectfully
>> ask if there is a point where you just give up and figure that it is now
>> out of your hands?
>
>Oh, we never exactly give up. But we never exactly buckle down
>and do what's necessary to lose the weight. The exercise is
>the sticking point for both of us. Generally we're fitter in October
>than we are in March, because we enjoy working on home
>improvement projects.
>
>>I am trying to picture how large your husband is.
>
>Here's a picture (sorry the rocket thingy is there; he's
>the picture-taker in the family, so I don't have very many
>of him):
>
>http://www.adi.com/~hamilton/image001.jpg
>
>It's from 2006, so he might have been more like 340 then.
>It's so difficult for me to tell; I see him every day.
>
>>He
>> is 7" shorter than me and has more than 100 pounds on me. *A change in
>> pant size for me is closer to 10 pounds.
>
>Women's clothes are so irregularly sized, the same size
>can fit wildly differently. Men wouldn't stand for it. (I've
>got a couple of 3x blouses that are really more like 2x.
>And don't get me started on pants. Why can't we go
>by inches like you fellas do?) Generally, my "dress size"
>is 10% of my weight. So to go from a 26 to a 24, I'd have
>to lose 20 pounds. It would be different if I were much
>taller or shorter, of course.
>
>Cindy Hamilton
Making excuses about how clothing is sized is just a silly alibi. The
best way for yoose to lose weight is to place poster size pictures of
yourselves on the fridge and place full length mirrors in every room.