Not eating our way to obesity ?

You are very fortunate that the things you enjoy most are also healthy and beneficial.

 

This is about what I expected.
Good for you that you were able to slow down on extra meals.
The not drinking lol, I bet you’re as much fun at a restaurant as you are in TH.

 

I look at this somewhat like long term care insurance. The fixed is that it is absolute that they take your premium for 20-30 years. The variable is whether you use any of the benefit. Given that they only reimburse at around $100-$110/day, the likelihood of someone getting their policy benefit limit is negligible.

If I give up something that I truly enjoy doing on the HOPE that I MIGHT get a FEW extra good years is not really a trade that I’m willing to make.

 

Excellent point.
Also our genes play a huge role in all of it.
I was fortunate to receive some good genes from my mother.
No cavities and I never even brush my tooth!

 

Well, I can’t argue a point on this matter as it’s not my area of expertise. However, I know I feel better staying off sugar, especially sweets and my “sugar” stays at or below 100 and A1C slightly above 5.

RE exercise, I’m a believer. I just finished a 50.1 mile ride about 30 minutes ago which gives me 124.3 miles over the last 3 days. I’m tired as heck but feel great and ready for a soak in the hot tub. For me, 3 hours on a bike does wonders for the body and mind. Plus, riding The Loop or A1A along the Atlantic is great scenery.

 

Mostly the former. But I think we inherit tendencies, which leads to the latter.

 

I haven't given up a single thing other than excess. I eat burgers, pizza, fries, etc the difference is I don't over indulge and I stay active. Indulge is relative to a meal, a day, a week etc in that I gauge what over indulgence is by how "well or badly" I have been eating and how active and inactive I've been. I don't believe in diets or counting calories but what I've been told is called intuitive eating and behavior.

Simply put I don't eat a half a pizza I eat two slices and a salad. If I want a burger I eat a burger but I don't need mayo, bacon, etc and I can eat it with veggies or even a kid size fry. I don't drink to get drunk but I have a drink or two when I feel like it throughout the week. I clean it up if I haven't been active until I get back on track.

All of that takes a backseat when I attend a party or special occasion and I indulge in whatever spread is available that day I just don't do it two days in a row. I don't budge from 180 185 although I have been as heavy as 200 in my sloppiness days (fast food eat in a crappy climate where I didn't work out at all.) Some of that is genetics but there is absolutely a diet and exercise component as I have ran the spectrum of skinny, fly weight to chiseled middle weight to sloppy overweight over time.

 

Let me see, brought to us by the Fast Food Industry and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?

Being fat will kill your Thymus gland. Now if you can prevent that from shriveling up onto a small ball of fat then maybe...

 

I don't trust the food industry. I remember back in the '70's when a small percentage of people were fat, You remember that? What changed? It's what's in the food that changed... clowns in the food industry blame our lifestyles. I doubt that's why children under 7 are now fat.

 

I make up for it with my yodeling

 

I'm doing my best to be kind to that article...

 

All I know is that my Godfather used to say: "nunca he conocido gordo que no le gusta comer."

Translation: {I} never met a fat guy who doesn’t like to eat."

To which I must concur.

Still waiting for that mythical finicky fat guy who has to be persuaded to or coaxed into eat{ing}