Quote: (07-18-2013 02:42 PM)renotime Wrote:
Good for Al.
The dude looks 70, though.
I can tell/warn you from personal experience as someone who gained weight and is now losing it (which is what I think Sharpton did) once you get past a certain point- for me it was about 30 lbs overweight--even if you lose the weight,
your body never goes back to its original shape, flexibility or resilience.
The extra weight puts a lot of wear on everything-- your spine, your heart, your lungs, your knees, your feet ( there are all these 100+ lb overweight women at the Government place I used to work getting foot surgery) I think-- and it stretches the skin on your face and neck to some extent. As you get older you don't recover from stuff like your spinal disks getting thin and similar problems.
I know some of you are going to be busting ass to try to set yourselves up financially; and that is when you are most vulnerable:
1) You have
money for booze ( extremely fattening)
2) The
hours also conflict with exercising a lot which help ward off fatness. "Yessiree, he's hard worker, here 'til 7 every night." Overwork and obvious fatigue are status markers.
3) You have
money for restaurants who don't care if you get fat, they just want you to buy more.
4) You're
tired from work ( less exercise again),
5) you keep
getting social reward at work because they don't care about your sexual attractiveness
6) You're distracted and may
not even be looking at yourself in the mirror or weighing yourself.
7) One of the
main warnings you are too fat for your inherent design is high blood pressure and it has almost no symptoms. I had it for 15+ years before I took action.
8) Being fat relative to your optimum design is
not conspicuous in wealthy countries now. It is normal. If you are your best weight you may very well look gaunt to everyone else whose standards are distorted.
How would you treat a car if it was the only car you were ever going to be able to buy?
You're riding in it.
Be warned.