Confronting Morbid Obesity

Here's an artist who is morbidly obese and has created this very touching video about his weight loss issues. His name is James Barany.

Bonsoir - just watched Shrek 3

Just got back from the cinema, £50 lighter (OUCH!!!) and probably 2 lb heavier.
Hows that for funny!!!

it costs a FORTUNE the cinema. 2 adults, 2 kids (one is on loan for the night!), 2 pots of minstrels, 2 small popcorn, 2 large (aka demi pins!) of coke and a bottle of water. FIFTY QUID.

Good grief. I feel like I have been violated.

I was not too happy about the rude word for 'bottom' being used in a UNIVERSAL rated movie for 4 years and above. Nor was I really delighted with the amount of - quite realistic - violence involved. Its quite unnerving simply because the lines between cartoon and reality have been blurred by technology. I wasn't quite sure at certain points whether it was a REAL leg on a cartoon body, or not... Scarily real. Just hope kids get the difference.

When I think about kids getting a grip on reality, I always think of that programme about the kids born in 2000. Child of our time show. I remember when they were about 6 he asked them to look at the television, and it showed a bowl of popcorn. Then he asked them all individually what would happen if he turned the telly upside down.

Interestingly he asked the parents whether their kids knew the difference between reality and fiction on TV before hand. All said that "Of course they know the difference" (and let them view things like Eastenders and other things depicting 'real life' - mind you if real life were that bad I think I would slash my wrists and be done with it!)

well interestingly enough, only 1 child said that "nothing would happen... its just telly" A few didn't know what would happen, but the majority said "NO! It would all fall out silly!"

So there we go.

Proved to me that I needed to curb what DS watched big style.


Anyway, I was also not pleased with the fact that there was a lot of things about magic, witches and other stuff in it. don't really like all that for kids. I wouldn't dream about letting DS watch Harry Potter, so a watered down version of Arthur and Merlin and witches all wreaking havoc still has the same essence.

I VERY nearly dragged them all out... that's how strongly I thought about it. Happily for them the bad words and the majority of the witchery/cussing/frighting etc happens within a 5 minute span about 4/5ths the way through. It was all over and went back to fantasy fairy stuff again.

But, different to the other happy go lucky innocuous Shrek 1 and 2. Didn't really do it for me.

Anyway,
I am about to eat my first take away curry after 2 months and have a glass of wine. Its a day off the diet, as the pot of minstrels will tell you.... Oh No. Actually they wont tell you because i ATE THEM ALL. HA HA HA HA

I am also going to watch Marie Antoinette this evening with DH, Travelling Buddy and TB's husband.

As of now I am NOT going to call her travelling buddy, I am just going to write TB. I know its also a horrid disease, but she knows I love her!!

nighty night

Janet Jackson Gains Weight

The Skinny Website has just posted these new photos of Janet Jackson. After losing over 60 pounds and keeping the weight off for more than a year, it looks like she has gained more than a few pounds since her cover photo on US Magazine (just seven weeks ago) where they celebrated her one year weight loss anniversary.

Competitive Eating

Joey Chestnut is a competitive eater from San Jose, California. On July 4th he won the 92nd Annual Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, beating six-time defending champion Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi by consuming 66 hot dogs and buns in twelve minutes.

Jocelyn Noveck writes;

Watching these "gustatory gladiators," as the show calls them, brings a few basic questions to mind. Why do people subject themselves to this torture? More importantly, how do they do it (when most of us would get sick after, oh, four hot dogs or six waffles or a dozen ribs)? And is there any long-term harm?

The first question is pretty simple. Why do people do it? As with many things, the desire for fame and money. Prize money at some events can be $30,000 for the top player, and the Nathan's contest, for example, gets an hour of Big Event coverage on ESPN.

Still, there must be something deeper — the fiercest of competitive instincts — motivating Sonya Thomas, the most unlikely speed-eating champ you'll ever see. The woman they call the "Black Widow" weighs 105 pounds. Yet, she can consume one-sixth of her body weight — routinely defeating guys three times her size.

Some of these men are so big, "it looks like they have their own ecosystem," says the witty George Shea, who with brother Richard runs the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Thomas, in comparison, "looks like she couldn't finish a tin of cottage cheese." (Spoken like a man who probably never eats cottage cheese ... since when does it come in a tin?)

Thomas is an assistant manager at Burger King, which in terms of speed-eating training seems as good as it can get — kind of like Andre Agassi growing up on a tennis court.

See the rest of the article here.

Walking the Weight Off

Mr. Fat Guy set out to lose 100 pounds. He is six feet tall and weighed 303 at Christmas. That's when he started walking off the weight. By March he had lost 28 pounds.

But then he fell off the wagon. In June he started in earnest again. He now weighs 281 pounds and has recently made an extreme goal of walking two hours per day. When he keeps to his regular walks the weight falls off quickly. See his progress at No More Mr. Fat Guy.

The beautiful photo above is by chaosinjune.

BABY OIL - OH YES PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Still feeling a touch miserable...

But, VERY please with my fill.... I have some good restriction.

This morning I had baby rice and a spoonful of jam for brekkie. I like baby rice better than porridge. Also its less calories!! HA HA.

For lunch I had a slimfast smoothie, and I have just had my dinner and I am full full full.

ahhhh

So cals today:
baby rice - 190
slimfast - 200
dinner - 600

Not bad - 990 cals. Bingo!<



I have spent the day wondering if it would be possible to do the pool or not... but it threatened to rain all day, and with weather reports always being wrong, I thought it best not to. However, this must be the only day in the entire history of the universe when they got the weather right. It said fine all day, but showers at about 5pm. As if on cue... 5pm the rain comes down.

Grrrr.

I will trust it tomorrow and it will be wrong you wait and see!

anyway, I thought of a cunning plan for my bathroom. You know I have had major grout haze headache for nearly a year now... well today I SORTED IT! OH YES! I was once again looking at another expensive bottle of tile haze remover in the bathroom which did absolutely nothing the first time I used it. I was looking at it, with its smug £10.95 price tag and then at the wall COVERED in grout haze, then back at the bottle.

"Hmmm" thinks I. "Whenever the walls get wet, it shows the colour of the tiles perfectly and looks nice.... then it dries and it goes all white and floury again...."

"It needs to stay wet....Sugar solution worked until it washed off.... Hmmm...."

And then I hit on it.

OIL.

Baby oil gel to be precise.

I tested it on a little patch and my tiles gleamed through with their magnificent colours. I then showered it and used a bit of soap and then went and had a coffee. I came back about an hour late and there was the solitary gleaming tile shining, NO! BEAMING out at me!

I got hastily to work and now my bathroom looks like a showroom! its fabulous. I could leap for joy.

I always knew that there would be a good use for that baby oil!!! HA HA

Declare Your Independence

Presented with permission from our Living After Weight Loss Surgery Neighbor Judy Petite:"Happy Birthday, USA! This month, this nation celebrates a time when we declared we would no longer be governed by another entitity that did not have our best interests at heart. No, our forefathers declared that our nation would freely and independently be in charge of its own affairs.Have you read the