Obesity, A Southern tradition.

[Bird]

Yeah, Jim, my Dad owned service stations when they were service stations; i.e., we sold gas, checked air in the customers' tires, washed their windows, fixed flats, changed oil & filters, greased cars, washed cars, etc. We did have soda machines and we had a small case with some peanuts and candy bars, but nothing like you see today. Incidentally, my Dad almost never snacked between meals; 6' 1" and 170 pounds, wiry and strong. Then he quit smoking for a year, took to snacking at times, gained weight until he weighed 210 and went back to smoking. He never got back down to 170, but he did get under 200 and continued to smoke past his 80th birthday.

 

[Lasgambler]

Ya know, this overweight thing starts early nowadays. The grandkids were here from Montana for a week.( boys ages 13 and 10).They are active and lean, but I can't understand how. They were here almost a week and I don't think they ever went outside. They played video games.

It could have been my fault that they stayed inside. On the way here from the airport in Las Vegas, I was warning them about the Rattlesnakes.

Just read that Colorado is the thinnest state.

 

[SPYDERLK]

SNIP...now what did I do with my bag of pretzels?

At least theyre no fat!
larry

 

[toy]

Talleyho 8 there is a good reason that most of the criminals caught today are skinny people, let me give you an example of that reason. Two men were going to rob a local quick stop, ones name was wirey Harry [115# soaking wet], and the others name was fat uncle Bob [260# before eating the doughnut he has in his hand. Now fat uncle Bob wears a belt and it cinched up tight because he knows its hard to hang under an overhang on a cliff. Now wirey Harry he wears a pair of paints that looks like they belong to fat uncle Bob and he wears his belt loose if he even wears one. Now they pull out whatever their weapon and say this is a hold up and grab the money out of the cash register and are ready to make their gettaway but there is a policeman in the back of the store getting a doughnut, that is where fat uncle Bob got the doughnut that he was holding in his hand. Anyhow long story getting closer to the end, both crooks run out the door just as hard as they can go with the policeman in hot pursuit. Now when this robbery started wirey Harry's paints was hanging at about 1/4 skide mark showing. As they are running Harry is pulling ahead of fat uncle Bob by about 15ft but by this time his paints are showing about 1/2 skide mark and uncle Bob is beginning to suck wind, good thing the policeman eats doughnuts too. As the chase continues wirey Harry is about 30ft ahead of fat uncle Bob but by this time all of the skide mark is showing and fat uncle Bob is huffing and puffing but he is still in the race even though the policeman is closing in fast. Then all of a sudden the unexpected happens wirey Harry's paints fall all the way down to the knees becoming in effect a set of leg irons and down wirey harry goes like a ton of bricks and fat uncle Bob passes wirey Harry sounding like a wind tunnel vacum cleaner sucking wind but he didn't have to outrun the policeman he only had to outrun wirey Harry and he did that. When the policeman arrests wirey Harry his knees is all skinned up along with his hands and a fat lip where he hit the ground when he fell. Now wirey Harry starts hollering police brutality sues the police officer and the town wins two million dollar award and appears to be set for life but that is not the end of the story. Fat uncle Bob catches up with wirey Harry and kills him, not to get the money no , instead he kills him because when wirey Harry fell he tore a hole in fat uncle Bob's paints that he had borrowed to wear on the holdup ; End of story. This is just meant to be a hummerous story and I hope Harry Bob and the doughnut eating Policeman don't get offended by it .

 

[toy]

Speaking of putting on the pounds the other day I weighed myself and told the wife that I had put on quiet a few pounds and she said let me see your feet so I pulled up my britches legs and she said that my ankles were pretty big so she goes through the house and in a few minutes she comes back with a little pill and said take this and .....I did. Any way about thirty or fourty minutes later Al Gore could have hooked up a hydroelectric plant to me cause I sure had the water. Needless to say I didn't go anywhere that day, I kindly hung out in one of the smaller rooms in our house. lol.

 

[toy]

Eddy in reading your response with your view of overweight people , if we were at dinner together somewhere I don't suppose there would be any need to ask you to pass the chicken or the mashed potatoes and brown gravy would they. just a kidding. Mark you said we were what we eat so I'd like to tell a story. Onced upon a time I was in a store and I saw a pack of hogie buns and I said to myself [I talk to myself all the time] I said self get those buns a sub sounds pretty good, and I did. I got home with the buns and we fixed subs and we had two buns left over. About a week went by and I checked the buns ready to throw them out but to my surprise they were still good so I left them. I did the same thing the next week and the next week and the next week and so on. After about three months I checked the buns and they were still soft and no mold on them. With the statement that we are what we eat I know when I lay this old body down and go to my long home and centuries later when my body is found and they take me to a lab to study my remains I know they will be trying to figure out how my body was so well preserved and how my body was prepaired for burial and I won't be here to tell them it was the hogie bun that preserved me. When I was growing up we raised what we eat and we home canned our food for the winter ond off season dug a hole and put our potatoes in it and our food didn't have a bunch of additives in it and we were a healthier nation. We did eat lard back then but the hog that gave us the lard was healthy when it was assissanated for a good cause. I won't say that everything was peaches and cream back then because there was a lot of grumble pie going on in the garden but it wasn't going on when dad was close by to hear it.

 

[Egon]

Does that mean I can't have my monthly fix of greasy hamburger[one that makes a mess] and fries???

My Doctor says I am not over weight but I kinda feel a loss of about 10 pounds would be nice.

 

[Logan]

Egon,
It's like my doctor said when he asked me if I drink. I told him that if I go fishing I might take a six pack with me and drink it. He pondered a minute and said "Nothing wrong with that, just don't go fishing every day",

 

[Bird]

Logan, my doctor asked me if I knew how to tell if a person drank too much. I didn't, so he said that's a person who drinks more than his doctor does.

 

[alchemysa]

The only excuse for being fat is that you dont want to be, .
larry

For many its not that simple. Don't assume that all fat people are just lazy slobs who eat too much. My beautiul daughter has struggled with her weight for most of her life. As a kid she was always active, played sport, swam a lot, rode bikes and horses, and walked to school (with a healthy lunch). As an adult she has always worked hard, sometimes working 3 jobs at once to earn money to travel. And she always ate carefully - a salad sandwich or just a few crackers and fruit. But she could never lose weight and became technically obese. Finally in her mid thirties she discovered she was a 'celiac'. This means she is gluten intolerant. Gluten is found in food made from wheat, barley, rye and oats. (Thats a big field!). The gluten threw her metabolism completely out of whack, although she didnt have any other symptoms to point to the problem.

For years we thought a whole grain sandwich was 'healthy' but for her it was exactly the opposite. Now she's on a totally gluten free diet and the weight is just falling off her. She's not eating less, she never ate a lot anyway, but she's changed from a 'healthy diet', to a diet thats healthy FOR HER.

So sad that its taken 30 years to find out. She has put up with a lot of mental pain in that time.