This guy from the BBC message board about obesity is either a wind up or a freak of nature!
I do no exercise at all. I smoke 20 - 30 cigarettes a day. I drink more lager or vodka/red bull than my "recommended allowance". I drive to work (would be a 5 minute walk), I sit at a desk all day, In the evening I usually watch 5-6 hrs of TV, I eat burgers, pizzas, fish and chips, crisps, chocolate etc and very little fruit and veg. I am not overweight (slight beer belly) and have not been seriously ill since childhood (Now 44). A recent medical exam showed normal BP, below average cholesterol and normal BMI. I admit that I could not do a 10 mile run or cycle 40 miles but I don't want/need to so why should I exercise?
This guy from the BBC message board about obesity is either a wind up or a freak of nature!
Er, no.
Well, I mean, if he is, so am I. 12/15 eggs (usually fried), over 250g butter, over 800 grams chocolate (plus all the hot choc I can drink), loads of pasta and red meat in a week. I don't drink much (my definition of binge drinking is "four pints in the same month) but I believe I more than make that up in whipped cream. I'm 1m 85, 59 Kg. Used to be 57, I gained 2 Kg in the 18 months since I started cycling again (after 10 years of mostly sedentary life), which makes it my biggest and fastest weight gain in my life - and that includes 6 years on and off on fattening diets. My blood cholesterol is usually below minimum, and other fats are extremely low. My BP is 60/90 and my BMI is below normal.
Oh yes, I smoke between 10 and 25 cigarettes a day, depending on stress, level of p***ed-off-ness with my boss, number of security patches to install on servers, and wife's need to put up new curtains EVERY saturday.
This guy from the BBC message board about obesity is either a wind up or a freak of nature!
I do no exercise at all. I smoke 20 - 30 cigarettes a day. I drink more lager or vodka/red bull than my "recommended allowance". I drive to work (would be a 5 minute walk), I sit at a desk all day, In the evening I usually watch 5-6 hrs of TV, I eat burgers, pizzas, fish and chips, crisps, chocolate etc and very little fruit and veg. I am not overweight (slight beer belly) and have not been seriously ill since childhood (Now 44). A recent medical exam showed normal BP, below average cholesterol and normal BMI. I admit that I could not do a 10 mile run or cycle 40 miles but I don't want/need to so why should I exercise?
This guy from the BBC message board about obesity is either a wind up or a freak of nature!
He's not the only one. I distinctly remember a lady at work (as I was *jealous* as hell of her), was very slim and she was a lovely person too. She made great play of the fact she never exercised and she ate anything and often. I can attest to the amount of chocolate, sweets and crisps she ate as well as the amount of full-sugar soft drinks she consumed. I was genuinely astounded at the amount she ate - she eating almost constantly throughout the day - and she added insult to injury by saying she looked forward to a "proper dinner" when she went home of an evening. This woman was a tall and willowy size 10, yet she literally stuffed her face all day.
BAH!
Cheers, helen s
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This woman was a tall and willowy size 10, yet she literally stuffed her face all day.
Oh. She sounds like a _really_ lovely person.
She was a lovely person. She had a great sense of humour, a kind heart, hard-working and fun to be around. She could just eat anything and everything in large quantities and not put on any weight.
Cheers, helen s
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This woman was a tall and willowy size 10, yet she literally stuffed her face all day.
Oh. She sounds like a _really_ lovely person.
She was a lovely person. She had a great sense of humour, a kind heart, hard-working and fun to be around. She could just eat anything and everything in large quantities and not put on any weight.
But presumably she wasn't literally stuffing her face all day which was what simonb was saying. I've had the misfortune to be in the same place as 2 people who do literally stuff their faces all day (not both of them at the same time) and it really is a hideous site, not least because of their humongousness. Not to mention the fact that this also makes them a little hard to wash, too. It's a sad waste of a person.
Now someone who merely eats two or three snacks between each meal, well that's OK
A classic example of why you should ignore anecdotal evidence in favour of robust whole-population data...
My grandad was sent home from the Somme with 6 months to live after being gassed aged 18yo smoked 40 woodbines a day from 16yo until his death aged 87yo and ate everything in front of him and took no excercise but was always thin.But all his friends died before him. TerryJ
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A classic example of why you should ignore anecdotal evidence in favour of robust whole-population data...
My grandad was sent home from the Somme with 6 months to live after being gassed aged 18yo smoked 40 woodbines a day from 16yo until his death aged 87yo and ate everything in front of him and took no excercise but was always thin.But all his friends died before him. TerryJ
Did he wear a helmet??....or alternately, did they??....could be very useful input here ;-) Dave.
