BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 05:31 AM

Well, sort of large keyhole!

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 10:36 AM

Hello Eliza, I do care about my health really and eat as much fruit vegetables and fibre as I can but deep down I am also doing it because of the ridicule obese people get. My weight isn't too bad, but I still have to keep an eye on it being on the short side. On the other hand I do have a sweet tooth so it is hard to say no to a portion of gateau or fruit pie.

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 03:07 PM

I know what you mean Patsy, as people nowadays are obsessed with appearance and glamour and make nasty remarks about fatties. I used to subscribe to this view but my African husband cured me. In his culture, your looks are very much secondary to your personality and good qualities. It's very heartening to know, and any remarks about my fat bottom now wash over me. (Even my strict doctor sister is horrible about my weight, and keeps saying "You're obese!" as often as she can!)

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 03:12 PM

By the way, autolycus, thank you and I take on board your warning about eating too much fat. My sister harps on about it all the time. I don't crave sweet sugary things like Patsy, but stuff in butter, cheese, and cream. I'm a devil for dairy. It all ends up on my legs and bum, ghastly. But I find it hard not to eat it. An addiction I suppose. Must try harder to give it up.

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: gnu
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 06:58 PM

Eat every two hours... just a small bit of fruit or veggies... simple stuff out of a jar or can if need be. And, then, a proper meal for supper or even a treat in lieu of supper and some veggies a few hours later.

Been a few diet threads here over the years. Good info on them. Some Catters have lost over a hundred pounds following simple diets. Check em out.

As for "fat" women... I like a woman with some meat on her bones. Now, obese to the point of unhealthy is never good for her or for "me", but neither is skinny really... is it?

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: Greg B
Date: 30 Nov 11 - 07:52 PM

My "before" picture is me in the family line-up at Karen's daughter's wedding--- two weeks after my myocardial infarction, and a stent into my lower anterior descending (aka "widow-maker") coronary artery.

I look like I've got a bloody beach-ball down the front of my suit.

Fourteen months later, after 5-6 days a week in the gym, I've taken off 20 pounds. But that actually is taking off 40 pounds of fat and putting on 20 of muscle.

I no longer eat butter; or very much beef.

My body fat percentage is 13%... the edge of the "athlete" range for men.

A typical "cardio" work-out is 10 minutes on a treadmill at 4.3MPH and 15-degrees; 54 floors on a stair-mill, 20 minutes on an elliptical cross-country course. Then maybe ten minutes of rowing. And then two circuits of weight-training.

I celebrated my six-month anniversary of my MI doing the Philadelphia Lung Association "Fight for Air Climb," 55 floors up a sky-scraper in 14 minutes. I celebrated one year by doing the same climb in 9:36 on a stair-mill.

I'm hoping to post a respectable "Masters Class" score in the event this Spring.

I'm just about the same jeans size as I was at half my age, 26 years ago.

This is hard work. And on the eating side, it's not one decision, but a dozen decisions a day and hundred a week and a thousand a year.

It's abandoning the cart (trolley) and choosing to carry the two 31-pound boxes of cat-litter from the back of PetSmart to the cashier and to the car. (The cashier remarked, "well that'd be the work-out for the day as she watched me curl them onto the belt." Yes, it would, and was.)

It's worth it.

And I *should* have done this before needing to save my life a procedure that cost $US70,000 retail and about $US15,000 at the insurance rates. Not to mention that a heart attack really hurts. A lot.

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 03 Dec 11 - 06:52 AM

"and this was when we still had insurance so it was private" says it all, very working class hero Richard.

I wouldn't dream of not having private medical insurance, and more so my wife who since the end of July this year has had a TVT, cataracts in both eyes removed and an endoscopy, not to mention countless physiotherapy sessions - money very well spent.

You would be surprised at the number of working class people at our local BMI hospital!

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: autolycus
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 05:32 AM

Key facts about cancer and "lifestyle"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/dec/07/cancer-causes-list

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: Alan Day
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 11:19 AM

I once read a true story about a woman who worked as a cook and lived in the holiday complex restaurant. Sadly she put on so much weight that she could not get through a doorway. The time came when the building had to be demolished and she had to be air lifted out of the building through the roof. Which brings to mind the chap who reported that his wife's knickers had been stolen and although she didn't mind the disappearance of the knickers she would like the ten pegs back.
Enough of this joking. I seriously wonder if craving for food is not the brain craving for liquid.
Please remember that most of us prefer a nice personality and are not put off by size, heavy ,tall, thin, large or small breasted.Although I must admit not to enjoy seeing a very heavy person stuffing vast quantities of food, or alternatively thin people who pick away at food.
I must admit to being two stone over the weight that I was when I was younger playing all manner of sports.
Al

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: Ed T
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 11:57 AM

Weight loss myths

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 02:57 PM

And not only fat(?)

No sex please, we're British and over 60

10/14/2011

LONDON — An event organized by a British city to school its older residents in the arts of safe sex has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

The "Generation Sex" workshop was part of an annual over-60s festival in the southern English city of Portsmouth and billed as a "frank, fun and factual" way for older people to talk about sex in later life.

"The background was the risk of sexually-transmitted diseases in older people and the need to practice safer sex," said Drusilla Moody, Portsmouth Council's tourism and visitor services manager.

Entry would have been free, but those taking part would have had to supply proof of age and of residency in Portsmouth.

These requirements are no longer needed, since the workshop was cancelled "because too few people booked places", Moody said.

© 2011 Thomson Reuters.

(Maybe they just think they know it all? That's pretty "British" isn't it?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: UK women are 'fattest in Europe'
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Dec 11 - 03:49 PM

who cares?