BS: How to stay thin without really trying

Subject: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 11:24 PM

It's easy. Don't eat junk food. Never marry or have kids. Avoid a job that requires wearing a tie or a 3 piece suit. Turn your TV into a fish tank. Walk instead of driving if the destination is 3 blocks or less away. Avoid enlisting in a small town rural police force that wears tight pants and jack boots. Never call yourself "Bubba". NEVER use the drive-through at a bank, restaurant, etc. Eat moderately and make sure to eat raw vegetables a fair bit. Exercise a lot. Move to Cuba, and just watch how the locals do it...fat people are rather rare there, but most people are in good shape. A hot climate can help. Drink lots of water, and sweat it out. Discharge bottled-up emotions. Think thin thoughts (this last may be the most crucial of all).

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Bobert
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 11:28 PM

Smaller portions..... an' a little exercize... Hey, you don't have to go crazy here... Just cut the portions and move around a little... Ain't rocket science...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 01:13 AM

Smoke. I was never fat when I smoked.

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Grab
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 07:08 AM

It's the "exercise a lot" bit that kind of conflicts with the "without really trying" heading.

The "spread" is starting to hit me, so I've caught it early before it sets in for good. I've started running twice a week in the mornings, and the flab that was starting to build up has mostly gone after 6 weeks of that.   I can't say it's exactly painless though - the twofold problem of (a) hauling yourself out of bed on a frosty morning, and (b) forcing yourself round the last quarter of your circuit when you're out there, are not what I'd call enjoyable. Like most painful things, exercise only feels good when it stops.

On this subject, a quote from a friend who's planning on doing the London Marathon:-

Up to 3 miles:
Elated with the occasion.
Glad to be alive
Waving at the crowd

Around 10 miles:
Enjoying the occasion
Alive
Ignoring the crowd

Around 18 miles:
No longer enjoying the occasion
Lucky to be alive
Swearing at the crowd

Around 22 miles:
Crying like a baby
Wishing to be dead
Pleading with the crowd

26.2 miles:
Gibbering incomprehensibly
Believing one is dead
Boring the crowd rigid with split times...

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Ethereal Purple
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 08:02 AM

Or... just be me :-)

I've been trying to put on weight for ages! And if anyone been on the vegan thread... it isn't the veganism! I've actually put on weight since I turned vegan... but maybe that's cause I eat more now. Now I'm not really bothered about it... because at least I'm healthy :-)... but I'd still rather put on some more weight! Not be fat... but not too thin!

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 08:19 AM

choose your parents well.

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: mack/misophist
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 02:04 PM

The best advice here is from the GUEST. All that can be added is 'Start with your great-grandparents.'

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: LilyFestre
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 03:01 PM

Hey Purple,

While attending college, my best girlfriend was like you. She is and was really thin. People would make hurtful comments to her just as they did to me (I was the exact opposite of her). It seems no matter what you do, you had better do it for yourself because the rest of the world is NEVER, I repeat, NEVER going to be happy.

Michelle :)

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 06:25 PM

About the smoking thing: It is true that many people who remain thin as smokers put on weight soon after they quit. This is probably because they're enjoying food more, eating more, and it's even more because their body is not depleting itself all the time trying to fight a rearguard action against the ill effects of the smoking habit.

In my case, I have never smoked and I've always been thin. My parents are both quite fat (and started getting that way in their 30's and 40's). I am 55 and I'm still thin. GUEST's argument has just gone down in flames... :-)

It's attitude. Attitude is the most important thing. Your body type and your general behaviour tend to develop from your inner attitude, and attitude goes deep. Sometimes deeper than you think.

Some people are happy to be large, some are happy to be small. Either way of being happy sounds good to me. Some people wouldn't be happy no matter what size they were. Ask Abe Lincoln about that. He said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 09:19 PM

Become unemployed....

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: Fossil
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 12:02 PM

Atkins does it for me.

best wishes,

Fossil, down 11.5 kilos in two-and-a half months and still drinking...

Subject: RE: BS: How to stay thin without really trying
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 02:34 PM

Just don't eat more than you burn up in the course of your daily life.

If your daily life is energetic, eat more; if it's sedentary, eat less.

It's not exactly rocket science.