I am quite in a shape. Round is the shape! Eating is my passion and pastime!

I don't exercise at all.
If God had wanted me to touch my toes
He would have put them up higher on my body.

Anonymous

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One of life's mysteries is how a two-pound box of candy can make a woman gain five pounds.

Anonymous

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Here is a beautiful poem 

The Lazy Man's Guide to Exercise

63

by FatMan911*

borrowed with thanks from 

http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Lazy-Mans-Guide-to-Exercise

"For most of us exercise is a 4 letter word, and not one of those nice ones, but with a little creativity and imagination it’s easy to get a full week of exercise and not really do anything different. It’s all a mater of perception Enjoy the lazy man’s exercise routine

Monday: 
Wade through paperwork.. 
Run around in circles.

Open a can of worms
Start the ball rolling..

Tuesday: 
Beat around the bush
Push my luck. 
Make mountains out of mole hills. 
Hit the nail on the head.

Wednesday: 
Bend over backwards. 
Jump on the band wagon. 
Drag my heels.
Jump to conclusions

Thursday: 
Toot my own horn. 
Climb the ladder of success. 
Pull out the stops. 
Add fuel to the fire.

Friday: 
Go over the edge.
Put my foot in my mouth. 
Balance the books.
Climb the walls.

Saturday: 
Now that we’ve had a full week of exercise it’s time to grab a brew and watch a little Television" 

No poetry for Sunday? Yes. After six hectic days, just relax on Sunday!

or take the doggie out on the street for a jog. It is good for him.

*By the way, FatMan911 is a really wonderful person.

Read it in his own words:

Hi my names Jerry

I’m an obese man who weights close to 500 lbs, (though I’m not sure because there isn’t a scale large enough to weigh me), I’m 54 years old, and I was just laid off in August, for the first time in my life I’m on unemployment. I’m scared, worried, depressed, angry, frustrated, and I don’t know what’s going to happen.

In this economy, in this culture, I think I’m screwed.

On November 27, 2009 I started what I would estimate to be a 2 to 3 year journey toward greater health, weight loss, and a better me, starting with a 90 day fast

And so this blog is about the difficulties in my life, the struggle with weight loss and unemployment, the frustrations with being an obese man in a thin culture, My pain, my sorrows, my life.

And maybe some of my joys

If you walk with me along my journey I thank you for your company

If you berate me I will defend myself

For the value of a man should not determined by the size of his girth, but the strength of his character, and the kindness of his heart.

P.S.

I'm asking people to write to the Dr. Phil Show on my behalf, Just send a quick email to

drphil.com@cbsparamount.com

(I've been told that this address doesn't work any more so you might have to go through his website at http://www.drphil.com/plugger/respond/?plugID=9164 )

below is a sample letter if you would like to just cut and paste something

Dear Dr. Phil

I met Jerry Bacik through Hubpages where he writes a daily blog (under the title FatMan911) about his experiences as a 500lbs man trying to loose his weight and get back into shape. He is a wonderful and spiritual person, whom I find courageous in his attempt to deal with his situation. I’m a little concerned because he’s unemployed and has no health insurance so he is unable to see a doctor to monitor his progress and to check his health. You can read about his progress and his situation on “Hubpages” at ( http://hubpages.com/profile/FatMan911 ) as well as your own website at ( http://community.drphil.com/profile/fatman911 ) Please consider helping him see a Doctor and assisting him with his weight loss.

Thank You and May God bless you

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In case you want to have a glimpse of his other writings, in case you feel you are obliged and duty bound to eat thrice a day at nearly fixed times, say half an hour here or there.

Things to Do Instead of Eating part I 68

http://hubpages.com/hub/Things-to-Do-Instead-of-Eating-part-I

 

Day 56 of my fast, Day one of the rest of my life.

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post

http://hubpages.com/hub/Hunger-is-an-Illusion )  I fully believe that we eat for a variety of reasons, and the least amount being hunger, we eat because we are frustrated, or angry, we eat because we are conditioned over years to eat at a certain time, or we eat because we are simply bored and don’t have anything better to do. And so I thought that I would come up with a few suggestions of things to do instead of eating. Over the course of the next few days I will present around 50 activities which I hope will give you some ideas of your own, so enjoy, try some out, and have some fun.

Go on a virtual trip

I know money is tight for everyone so why not go on a virtual trip, plan your itinerary, figure out which airport you are going to take off of, which one you will land, what hotel your going to stay at, what sights you are going to see, if you are going to see museums, cathedrals, palaces etc. then go on line and find pictures and video’s for each and every step, remember that the more precise that you are the more it will feel like your taking a trip. So look up hotel rooms, Google maps street views, see what a taxi looks like, watch tacky tourist videos, and snap shots, listen to local music, immerse yourself into the culture and sights and sounds of your tourist destination, this can take days, and is a fun and cheep way to go traveling.

Act like a tourist in your own home town

Pretend you are a traveler who’s seeing your own hometown for the first time. So often there are a lot of “Hole in the wall” museums that you might not even know about, many are free or cost very little, see if there are any animal sanctuaries, botanical gardens, manufacturing plants, wineries, become a tourist, and explore your own back yard, sometimes you might be surprised what’s been right around the corner.

Buy a jig saw puzzle and put it together

I can’t tell you the last time I actually put together a jig saw puzzle, it takes concentration, it’s time consuming, and when you’ve completed it you have a sense of accomplishment. If you don’t want to spend to much money go to your neighborhood thrift store, more then likely you can pick one up for like a buck, then just play around, be a kid again, and have fun.

Paint a picture

I know I’m an artists so I have to say this, but you don’t have to be an artist, get some cheap watercolors, or a kids art set, then plan out you picture, figure what you want it to look like, make a light sketch and then color it in, have fun, get messy, and if you get frustrated, throw paint at it, become an abstract artist.

Write a letter, email, or make a phone call to an old friend

In our busy, fast passed world, so often we forget to keep in contact with other people, so I’m sure there has to be someone out there you just haven’t written or talked to for a long time. Well do it now.

Send a letter off to your Congressman or the President.

No matter what your politics are, I’m sure you have an opinion on the state of the world. So instead of just yelling at your TV set, write a letter, or send an email, to your Congressman, or to the President. Let your voice be heard. Even if you think everything is going great tell your representatives, I’m sure they don’t get to many positive letters either.

Learn a new dance

Haven’t you always wanted to learn to dance a salsa or a tango, or just learn the fox trot? Well; go on line, and find out how, get the music, learn the steps, practice in the safety of your own room, enlist your kids, or your wife, or husband, or a giant big teddy bear, and have fun.

Keep your mind active, your body engaged, and your spirit invigorated, and trust me you wont be thinking about food or eating, so try some of these suggestions and I will be back tomorrow with more.

Until then Peace

FM "

Thanks- Jerry  Bacik alias FatMan911 & best wishes

And ... the award for the ugliest & the fattest people goes to ... ( Body Beautiful-I )

Two press reports ( extracts) - without comment:

 

Report#1

 

Wed Nov 11, 2009, 

LONDON (Reuters) -  

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  Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating website that says it only allows "beautiful people" to join.
• Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted...
• Existing members of the "elite dating site" rate how attractive potential members are over a 48 hour period, after applicants upload a recent photo and personal profile.

• Swedish men have proved the most successful, with 65 percent being accepted, while Norwegian women are considered the most beautiful with 76 percent accepted, the website said.
• The way that BeautifulPeople.com accepts new members is simple. A potential member applies with a photo and a brief profile. Over 48 hours, existing members of the opposite sex vote whether or not to admit them....
• Options are: "Yes definitely," "Hmm yes, O.K," "Hmm no, not really" and "No definitely not."
• The site was founded in 2002 in Denmark and went live across the globe last month. Since then, the site has rejected nearly 1.8 million people from 190 countries, admitting just 360,000 new members.

• "I would say Britain is stumbling because they don't spend as much time polishing up their appearance and they are letting themselves down on physical fitness," Beautiful People managing director Greg Hodge said. "Next to Brazilian and Scandinavian beauties, British people just aren't as toned or glamorous."
• Only the male Russian and Polish applicants fared worse than British men, although Russian women had a 44 percent acceptance rate. Polish women did not appear in the table.
• German applicants were slated for offering up unflattering photographs, which may have hindered their acceptance rates at 15 percent for men and 13 percent for women, the lowest rate in their category.
• "German men and women aren't faring well, but they are submitting stern images, they need to soften up," Hodge said
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Report#2

 

It's a big (fat)world  , after all.

By Laurie Cunningham — Special to GlobalPost

Updated: November 26, 2009

 CHICAGO — 

If you tend to pack on a few kilograms over the holidays, blame it on globalization. .... In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.

• The common fat-o-meter among nations is body mass index (BMI), a calculation based on a person’s height and weight.The World Health Organization defines “overweight” as an individual with a BMI of 25 or more and “obese” as someone with a BMI of 30 or higher.
• Today, one in three of the world’s adults is overweight and one in 10 is obese.
  

•  By 2015, WHO estimates the number of chubby adults will balloon to 2.3 billion — equal to the combined populations of China, Europe and the U.S.
• ...... In the past 50 years, more of us have started driving to work instead of walking, opening a box of mac ‘n cheese instead of cooking, pushing computer keys instead of plows and taking the elevator rather than the stairs.
• “The combination of these factors is driving obesity all over the world ......., what’s really alarming is that it’s not just the middle aged, it’s children and adolescents. That’s new.”
• In honor of Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday dedicated to eating until we can’t breathe, we decided to take a look at the Top 10 Fattest Countries in the world, based on national health surveys WHO compiled between 2000 and 2008.

• Yes, it's a big world after all:        
• 1) American Samoa, 93.5 percent (of population that's overweight).  Since World War II, an explosion of obesity on the islands has corresponded with a rise in migration to the U.S., New Zealand, France and Australia. That began to change dietary habits as family members abroad introduced those back home to Western eating and sent money home, giving locals the means to buy more food.
• 2) Kiribati, 81.5 percent. Between 1964 and 2001, food imports to the least developed Pacific nations, such as Kiribati, which comprises 33 islands clustered around the equator, increased six-fold, ....leading to a huge influx in fatty food and processed meat, such as Spam and mutton flaps (fatty sheep scraps), often sold at lower prices than native food.
• 3) U.S., 66.7 percent . In the early 1960s, 24 percent of Americans were overweight.
  

• Today, two-thirds of Americans are too fat, and the numbers on the scale keep going up. Health experts attribute the rise to an over-production of oil, fat and sugar — the result of government farm subsidies started in the 1970s that made it much cheaper to manufacture products like high fructose corn syrup, a common ingredient in processed foods. 
• “The .. food companies seek new ways to market to the public. Obesity was collateral damage.”
  

• 4) Germany, 66.5 percent . When Germany found out that it was the fattest nation in Europe, health experts blamed the usual suspects: beer, fatty foods and lack of physical activity. ....... Germans are suffering from an easy availability of junk food and more sedentary jobs and lifestyles. As part of the government’s campaign to reduce obesity levels by 2020, it has launched programs to serve more fruits and vegetables in public schools.
• 5) Egypt, 66 percent. ...In the 1960s, Egypt produced enough food to feed its people a steady diet of red meat, poultry, lentils, maize and dairy products. But by the 1980s, the population had outgrown food production, leading to an increase in food imports that created poorer eating habits. Obesity among Egyptian women is particularly high, often attributed to cultural taboos on women exercising or playing sports.

• 6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9 percent.   Once considered a problem only in high-income countries, obesity is dramatically on the rise in low- and middle-income countries like Bosnia-Herzegovina, where smoking, drinking and eating unhealthy foods spiked during the war that ravaged the country from 1992 to 1995. Those living just above the poverty line ...... are gaining weight the fastest, partly because of the tendency to fill up on cheap processed foods high in calories and low on nutritional value.

• 7) New Zealand, 62.7 percent.  In a study at the University of Otago, researchers found that how much time New Zealand children spend watching television is a better predictor of obesity than what they eat or how much they exercise. 
• The study found that 41 percent of the children who were overweight by age 26 were those who had watched the most TV. 
• Television is not the only reason New Zealanders are gaining weight, but it’s one modern development often cited for growing childhood obesity. 
• 8) Israel, 61.9 percent. In the past 30 years, the number of obese Israelis has tripled....... Like in most developed countries, flab is most prevalent among Israelis with less education, with Jewish women with college degrees having the lowest levels of obesity and Arab women with basic education having the highest.
• 9) Croatia, 61.4 percent.  Croatia, where cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, is also a victim of the globalization of the food market, which tends to suppress traditional diets as cheaper processed foods from the U.S. and Europe flood store shelves.
• It’s no wonder that a Croatian charity announced in June that it had created the world’s largest pair of jeans — the size of six tennis courts — stitched together from 8,023 donated pairs of jeans.
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• 10) United Kingdom, 61 percent.  Last month, "The Observer" ... reported that the heaviest man in the world was not in the U.S., but a 48-year-old Brit living in low-incoming housing in Ipswich “eating takeaways and playing computer games.” His weight: 980 pounds ( or 445 kgs) . 

• British bellies are expanding for the same reasons as everywhere else. A recent survey, however, ranked (poorly)  in physical exercise, leading Health Secretary Andy Burnham to comment, "We're really in danger of being known as the best in the world for watching sport, but one of the worst for getting out there and doing it for ourselves."
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