I was eating at Applebee’s in Dartmouth, MA, yesterday, with my wife Linda, and I was struck by the number of very fat women eating there.
Let’s not be hypocritical about this – my doctor says I could lose 20 pounds. I did lose 27 pounds by knocking off carbs. That was great. Even the feeling of being hungry was something to look forward to! And usually a glass of water took away the hunger pangs. I’ve relapsed and put back on a few pounds. I’m around 205 pounds and 5″10″, but I did drop from a 38″ waist to a 36″ waist. I can comfortably fit into much smaller jeans.
So I’m not a stranger to the battle of the bulge. But what I’m talking about is grossly overweight people. Men and women who are several hundred pounds. I’m guessing many of them probably weigh two to three times as much as the boys and girls who wait on them.
When I lived in England from 1995 through 2000, my partner then, Dr. Pamela Royle, worked in public health. Specifically, she looked at evidence for or against different treatments for medical conditions. She told me that one thing stood out very clearly in reading the research literature: the single most important factor in ill-health is being substantially overweight.
So I want to explore this issue in this blog.
No guilt-trips, no blaming fat people, and calling them pigs.
Just an examination of how being overweight can contribute to poor health overall.
Eat responsibly!
fat is the new modern
it makes us look good
I love your ‘Eat Responsibly’. That should be the mantra for us all. I try to follow the tip to eat until you feel like you’re 80% full and stop. Don’t eat until you’re stuffed.
I also make sure to take vitamins/minerals to make up for the fact that I’m not getting enough nutrition if I limit my food to any reasonable amount. I go to this article for advice on what vitamins, etc. to take to stay healthy.
Regarding seeing so many fat people out and about, I think it varies by city (I travel quite a bit.) In Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburg I seem to see more obese people than I do in Florida. Do you think it’s true that it varies by region?