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Random thoughts on weight loss

jjohn on 2003-04-10T12:44:37

  • "I'm not fat -- you're way too fucking skinny."
  • "Richard Simmons was misquoted in the movie Star Trek: Generations. The full quote is 'Time is the fire in which we burn calories!'"
  • If you want to feel better about yourself, hang around with fatter people.
  • Cat's love being fat and it appears they consider it a sign of verility.
  • In wilderness, no one chastizes bears for their pot bellies.

you might also add....

hfb on 2003-04-10T14:47:26

In Africa, beauty pagent contestants carbo-load before the contest so they look round and healthy instead of a victim of a famine like the white girls in fashion magazines. :)

Re:you might also add....

chromatic on 2003-04-10T17:12:45

Victim of a famine or victim of a drive-by heroin injection? It's so hard to tell anymore.

But...

jmac on 2003-04-10T16:23:28

I feel I really must point out that you're actually not fat. Seriously. I think it's strange that you seem to think this.

Re:But...

jjohn on 2003-04-10T23:05:05

I feel I really must point out that you're actually not fat. Seriously. I think it's strange that you seem to think this.

I'm not fat: I'm big-boned, mom says.

Gosh, I don't think that came out right...

Re:But...

pdcawley on 2003-04-11T05:23:24

I'm definitely fat. I think I might have got back under 350 pounds, but it's touch and go; I don't currently have a set of scales that goes high enough.

But then there's the Far Side cartoon

Fletch on 2003-04-10T17:07:35

With the rotund bear and the caption along the lines of `Harvey grew uncomfortable when the other bears stared at his enormous deer gut'.