Ive put on a bit of weight & got a little podgy since I gave up smoking, it has slowed my metabolism somewhat. I comfortable though- if no-one likes the way I look then to hell with them. I am who I am.


But more on a serious note, if weight loss/gain is doing your wifes head in??? Tell her about breaking a guitar string. Now thats annoying!!

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oh man... that's the first thing i thought of. That's the best commercial EVER!!!

Hi Claude: Though I am definitely not a "weirdo health guru" I have an uncomfortable sensation I might be one of "these skinny slim old farts" of which you speak. Oh dear.

However, it seems to me your central message is; DRINK BEER! I am with you on that. Bottoms up!

Now I'm off to eat too. But I don't want to tell you what. And yes, I plan to still talk to you after that.

Cheers - C

PS Claude, do you seriously, honestly smuggle cheeseburgers to people in hospital? People you care about? Were they in having triple heart bypasses, by any chance...?

Ceri

You gotta mod me!

What are the diet details?

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No no and no

Honestly? The missus went on a strict diet for many months after Christmas so we stopped eating huge meals together at ten at night when she got home from work. Instead I ate smaller, healthier meals at six, which is what my body seems to really want.

I lost four inches on the waist without even trying. Turns out like secondary smoking I've been doing secondary dieting.

...Also, the truth I'm almost too embarrassed to admit on this thread: I don't actually like very much in the way of saturated fat, huge steaks, gallons of cola, bucketloads of popcorn - etc etc. What a wuss, huh?

Cheers - C

We traditionaly existed on a diet of fruit and minimal meat, when we were living on the tree line.

That coupled with running away sabre toothed tigers must have kept us trim.

Now the worst we have to worry about is a couple of ferral moggies.

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No no and no

One morning, after we had ben married about 15 years, my wife woke me with a smack. I asked here what that was for and she said that she had a dream that I was kissing another woman! She smacked me for kissing a girl in her dream.

Ceri wrote: PS Claude, do you seriously, honestly smuggle cheeseburgers to people in hospital? People you care about? Were they in having triple heart bypasses, by any chance...?

It was a case of knee replacement and the poor guy was starving on the hospital diet. So after a few days of progressive health improvement, I brought him a few health bars and suplement pudding that I bought in a drugstore. The guy is still alive today.
I know a guy who was visiting a dying old aunt in a hospital. When other family members arrived they were outraged to find that the lady was eating from a chocolate box that someone gave her. They left with the remaining chocolates because everyone in the family knew that the old aunt had diabetes. Once everyone finally left the room, he found his aunt's doctor who told him that his aunt had at most one week to live because she was dying from cancer. So he went down to the hospital's gift shop and bought her a big box of chocolate. After that he went home happy and never saw his aunt again.
Well I tried to make a funny rant about beer, food and intolerance and I never intended to offend anyone, not even the skinny slim old farts. I'd like to be like them, but I love food too much. Next time I see my doctor, I'm gonna ask him tips on loosing some weight, just before he takes his coffee break and leave the building to smoke outside with other nurses and health workers.
Claude. [/u]

Fellas, quite frankly I've got a whole bunch of money invested in my mid section...Id hate to lose it

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Claude, I thought we lived thousands of miles apart. But it seems you have the same doctor as me. Nuttin' like being given health advice by someone who visibly lives the life of a smoking, drinking, couch potato.

He nearly died of shock (that's almost true) when I turned out to have taken his advice on cholesterol, diet and weight. That had never happened in his working life before...

Cheers - C