Knights of the Round Bottoms

Knights of the Round Bottoms:

I remember when I started blogging about weight loss. One of the first blogs I found was Twice The Man and the Knights of the Round Bottoms. TTM was a really nice guy. Unfortunately, he deleted his blog. Hopefully he is doing very well where ever he is at. I have occasionally visited some of the other blogs from the Knights of the Round Bottoms. The last two inductees, Captain Jeff and Half-Man are the most successful members! They both provide a lot of the encouragement and positive attitude that was the forte of TTM. Thanks for all the support and encouragement!

Out of the 21 members that I found listed, 11 lost at least one pound. Eight lost more than ten pounds. Three lost one hundred pounds or more. Four of the Knights/Ladies gained weight, and six deleted their blogs. Of the 21 Knights, only six have blogged in the past three months. Four of those six are the top four weight losers. Is it mere coincidence, or does blogging help people lose weight?

1. Sir Captain Jeff -Started at 360 lbs/164 kg in September 2004; Most Recent 213 lbs/97 kg; Net Loss: 147 lbs/67 kg as of October 2007.
2. Sir Half the Man -Started at 380 lbs/173 kg in January 2007; Most Recent: 279/127 kg; Net Loss: 101 lbs/46 kg as of October 2007.
3. Lord Man Boobs -Started at 275 lbs/125 kg in May 2005; Most Recent: 175 lbs/80 kg; Net Loss: 100 lbs/45 kg as of October 2007.
4. Lady Atkins -Started at 206 lbs/94 kg in March 2004; Most Recent: 134 lbs/61 kg; Net Loss: 72 lbs/33 kg as of October 2007.
5. Sir Lee Padthaiserver - Started at 282 lbs/128 kg in September 2005, Most Recent: 250 lbs/114 kg; Net Loss: 32 lbs/15 kg; Last Post: July 2007.
6. Lord Chubalot -Started at 200 lbs/91 kg in January 2005; Most Recent: 178 lbs/81 kg; Net Loss: 22 lbs/10kg; Last Post: September 2007.
7. Sir Weight Trimmer -Started at 234 lbs/106 kg in December 2006; Most Recent: 216 lbs/98 kg; Net Loss: 18 lbs/8 kg; Last Post: August, 2007.
8. Sir Semisolid -Started at 205 lbs/93 kg in September 2005; Most Recent: 191 lbs/87 kg; Net Loss: 14 lbs/6 kg; Last Post: April, 2007.
9. Sir Fluffy - Started at 276 lbs/125 kg in August 2007; Most Recent: 269 lbs/123 kg; Net Loss: 7 lbs/3 kg; Last Post: September 2007.
10. Sir Bellyjeans -Started at 254 lbs/115 kg in November 2006; Most Recent: 248 lbs/113 kg; Net Loss: 6 lbs/3 kg; Last Post: May, 2007.
11. Lord Lessismore - Started at 169 lbs/77 kg in February 2005; Most Recent: 166 lbs/76 kg; Net Loss: 3 lbs; Last Post: December 2006
12. Sir Squishy -Started at 243 lbs/110 kg in May 2005; Most Recent: 245/107 kg; Net Gain: 2 lbs; Last Post: March, 2007.
13. Josh, Esquire -Started at 209 lbs/95 kg in February 2006; Most Recent: 216 lbs/98 kg; Net Gain: 7 lbs/3 kg as of October 2007.
14. Lady Lean -Started at 185 lbs/84 kg in September 2005; Most Recent: 194 lbs/88 kg; Net Gain of 9 lbs/4 kg as of October 2007.
15. Sir Pork in Boots -Start: 309 lbs/140 kg November 2005; Most recent: 319 lbs/145 kg; Net Gain: 10 lbs/5 kg; Last Post: April 2007.
16. Sir Howling Belly -deleted blog (address hijacked by an ad-spammer)
17. Sir Twice the Man -deleted blog (address hijacked by an ad-spammer)
18. Lady FJL -deleted blog (dead link).
19. The Word of Tim -Exercise Oracle? no info provided. Last Post: May, 2007.
20. The Earl of Arrogant Bastard -no info provided; Last Post: January 2007.
21. Duchess Tuckess - deleted blog (dead link).

Good luck to all the Knights, especially Captain Jeff, Half the Man, and Lady Lean who are frequently visitors!

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Well, the past couple of weeks have flown by. It has been tough for several months because I had lost my motivation to lose weight. It is hard to explain, but this is what it comes down to: Dieting and losing weight is very frustrating to me. I don't like restricting my food intake. I have spent most of my whole life overweight. I have been a glutton most of the time. I have enjoyed eating whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. I have paid the price by being overweight and/or obese. I have paid the price in terms of jobs and career opportunities, and I have paid the price in terms of healthy living and my ability to go out and have a normal life and look normal. My family has paid the price too. Whether it has been as a result of my earning less money than I should be, or because I look different, or because I don't go out dancing, camping, etc., as much as other normal Dads and husbands.
Obese people earn less money. I am convinced of that. If you send a fat person and a normal-size person to get the same job and they are both equally qualified, the odds are that the normal-size person will get the job. Now every time I have ever posted this, someone will say, "Well I am a very fat guy/gal and I have a great job and I make a lot of money." Did you start out obese? Are you a typical situation? Do obese people generally get great jobs? How many obese actors and singers are there? Now there is the singer Meatloaf, and there are a few obese actors around, but are they major movie stars? Considering that 35% of America is overweight, are 35% of the actors overweight? Are 35% of the models and celebrities overweight? Is Tom Cruise, Will Smith, young John Travolta, Robert DeNiro, Clint Eastwood, Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Sylvester Stallone, John Cusack, etc. overweight? Who are the overweight actors? I guess John Goodman and Tom Arnold are the best known blubber-butts. Are any of them major stars? Who are the top celebrities for women/girls? Hannah Montana, Halle Berry, Claire Danes, Kirsten Dunst, Hillary Duff, Lindsey Lohan, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Jada Pinkett, Renee Zellwiger, are any of them overweight? How many famous stars are obese? How many are overweight? How many are the leading actors in movies, or the headline acts in major concert tours?

Gastric Bypass: A lot of the fat celebrities like Willard Scott, Al Roker, Randy Jackson (American Idol), Carnie Wilson (singer), and Star Jones have all had gastric bypass operations in order to slim down. They look great, but the bottom line is that I don't respect them. Every time I meet a gastric bypass fattie I want to say, "You are worthless and weak, and you couldn't do it the hard way." How many gastric bypass blogs are there? What do those folks have to blog about? Meeting their surgeon and getting their prescriptions filled? It does not take a lot of effort to do that, in my opinion. Do you admire someone who lost weight even if it was with stomach stapling or some other surgical procedure? Do you think people that do liposuction or other procedures lack any character? Is it strictly about looking good?

I am losing weight again. So there. I am laying it on the line. Every time I do that, a bunch of the froot loop bloggers disappear. Some people want their weight loss all pink stars and cherry rainbows. Can you believe that I have been losing weight eating Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches? I stopped feeling sorry for myself over not losing weight. I have always managed to lose weight my own twisted way. I cannot do it with South Beach Diet, Atkins Diet, or following any other official diet. The monotony of most diets burns me out after a couple of weeks. It just doesn't work for me. So I thought about the Chinese Buffet Diet. Then I thought about the Pizza Buffet Diet. I realized that I had done those before and had not lost any weight...! So I came up with a new plan. The Peanut Butter and Jelly Diet. I have been eating Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches for the past two weeks. I don't even like peanut butter very much. But one day it just clicked. I can eat Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches forever and I can lose weight! I have always told myself I would do it my way and find my own path to healthy living. Peanut butter has protein. Jelly has sugar. Bread has wheat? Hey, it is working, so I am not going to knock it. I have gotten myself out of the dieting rut. After all, dieting is all about calories. If you limit your calories then you can eat anything within those limitations.

Miami Dolphins Football

Miami Dolphins Visit London: The Miami Dolphins will be playing the New York Giants in Wembley Stadium tomorrow! This is the first NFL game ever played in Europe. It counts as a home game for the Miami Dolphins, which means that season ticket holders got stiffed one game. Zach Thomas will not be playing because he was in a fender-bender as he left the stadium last week and he wanted to stay home and rest. Ronnie Brown, Trent Green, and Renaldo Hill are out for the season. Channing Crowder, a Dolphins player thought he had to hire an interpreter in England. He says he had no idea where England was on the map, and he did not know the British speak English. Yes, he plays football for the Miami Dolphins. Now you understand why the Fins are 0-7. The New York Giants are 5-2. I wonder if the people in the UK are excited about NFL Football? There are reports that the tickets sold out in 90 minutes, and that the NFL is more popular than soccer. ESPN has been saying that soccer stadiums are often half empty. I doubt that is true, but it seems like there is a lot of hype to market NFL Football in Europe. Update: The Dolphins lost again, this time it was 13-10. Now they Fins are 0-8 and have lost eleven in a row going back to the last three games of last year.


Update Game 7: The Perfect Season continues! The Dolphins got dismantled by the New England Patriots. It was 42-7 at half-time. Then the Patriots took a pity break and slacked off. The final score was 49-28, but I think the Patriots could have scored 70 points on the Fins if they had wanted too. Safety Renaldo Hill and first round pick Ronnie Brown both suffered anterior cruciate ligament injuries to their knees and they will be getting surgery and are out for the rest of the season.

Update Game 6: The Miami Dolphins were crushed again, this time by the Cleveland Browns. The score was around 23-3 at one point, and eventually the Dolphins mounted a half-hearted comeback and the final score was 41-31. Following the game, Wide Receiver Chris Chambers was traded to the San Diego Chargers for a second round draft pick next year. The Fins are now 0-6 for this year.

Update Game 5: The Dolphins lost again, 22-19. This time they lost in the final seconds, as Chris Brown kicked a 57 yard field goal with only one second left. The Houston Texans are not a very good team, and the Dolphins could have won. The Fins are now 0-5. Trent Green was injured when he tried to block someone after Ted Ginn, Jr. fumbled the ball and lost 21 yards. Ted Ginn does not seem to understand that you don't run backwards. The idea is to run forwards. This is the Fins first round pick, and he seems to be dumber than a wooden post.

Update Game 4: The Dolphins lose again. This time it was their old quarterback, Daunte Culpepper, who came back for revenge. Leading the Oakland Raiders to a 35-17 drubbing of the Fins, Culpepper ran in three touchdowns and threw for two more. Culpepper is old, slow, and has bad knees. The Dolphins are older and slower. Sometimes it looked like the Dolphins were running after Culpepper in slow motion. Like usual, Joey Porter did not do much, and Jason Taylor was usually too little, too late.

Update Game 3: The Dolphins lose again, 31-28 to the New York Jets. This week Ronnie Brown really did a great job running the ball and catching too. However, the defense was horrible and special teams allowed a kick to be returned for a touchdown. The big free-agent aquisition of Joey Porter has resulted in nothing, as Porter seems to be all talk and not much else.

Update Game 2: The Dolphins lose ugly, 37-20 to the Dallas Cowboys. The Quarterback, Trent Green threw four interceptions and fumbled the ball once. Nobody showed up to play. Zach Thomas got a concussion. This is starting to look like a long season!

Update Game 1: Washington Redskins 16, Miami Dolphins 13 (Overtime) like usual, Chris Chambers dropped the ball a few times. The Fins had several dropped passes from the receivers and many penalties that set them back. The running game did not do much either. At least it was a close game. Jay Feely, the kicker who replaced Lindo Mare did not miss any field goals, and that is a big improvement. Weight Loss Champ Jesse Chatman made several good runs and contributed a lot to the offense.

The NFL (National Football League) Season has begun, and the Indianapolis Colts trounced the New Orleans Saints 41-10. Ouch. I used to like the Saints, but then they picked up Linda Mare, the choking dog who used to be the kicker for the Miami Dolphins. That was bad karma for the Saints. Now the Dolphins begin their season today. Last year they were 6-10 under Nick Saban. Saban then quit in shame to go to the Alabama Crimson Tide college football team. Now Cam Cameron is the head coach. He used to be the Offensive Coordinator for the San Diego Chargers. He is a rookie coach. Can the Dolphins win? Well it depends on some of these guys:

The Weight Loss Story: Jesse Chatman is someone to root for. He had not played football most of the 2005 season because he gained over fifty pounds on his playing weight of 220 lbs. Chatman is only 5'8" tall, and as a running back he has to be fast, not fat. He last played on the San Diego Chargers, where the new Dolphins Head Coach, Cam Cameron, was the Offensive Coordinater. Being overweight made Jesse Chatman useless as a professional athlete. After being cut and traded and cut from several teams, Chatman was out of the NFL in 2006. Reportedly, he had blimped up to over 300 lbs during 2006, and nobody expected him to return to pro football. However, at some point he got motivated, and he lost at least 80 pounds and came back weighing in at 220 lbs. and he made the Dolphins roster. Update: After making some contributions for the first two games, Chatman was not used much in game 3.

THE GOOD:


Jason Taylor, the perrenial pro-bowl and MVP defensive lineman who usually leads the team in sacks, and who always gives the Fins 110%!



Zach Thomas is one of the best in the NFL, and while some doubt that he will ever get into the Hall of Fame, he is definitely a powerhouse of guts, energy, and effort. Update: Thomas sat out game 3 due to a concussion.


John Beck, this rookie quarterback is the future of the franchise, and hopefully he will develop into something great. If not, then the Dolphins have whiffed again on another draft pick.


THE UNKNOWN FACTORS:



Joey Porter was the only major off-season signing, and he was injured and had knee surgery a month ago. He has not played in any of the pre-season games. The Pittsburgh Steelers did not want to re-sign him because he is too old and injury-prone at 32 years. Update: So far Joey Porter is a big fat zero. After the first week's game, he got into an argument with long-time radio commentator (and former player) Jim Mandich. Porter did not like any criticism and put a verbal smackdown on the elderly Mandich. However, that is the only time this year that Porter had shown any guts. Man-up, Joey. Time to start hitting the football players on the other teams instead of yelling at reporters.


Ronnie Brown was the overall #2 pick a couple of years ago, and he has yet to stand out as a running back. His yardage is not very impressive, and his speed is not outstanding. He has never broken a run all the way to score a touchdown, and he usually gets caught from behind whenever he breaks through a hole in the defense. Update: Great results in Game 3, hopefully Brown will finally become the stud running back he should be. Update 2: Ronnie Brown busted his ACL in game 7 (Patriots) and is out for the rest of the season. Good luck to him in rehabbing after the surgery!


The first round pick this year was Ted Ginn, Jr., whose leg was in a cast because he had broken his ankle. The last time the Dolphins used their first pick for a guy with a bad leg it was Yatil Green who never played in the NFL after blowing out his knees in pre-season practice in each of his first and only two years. Update: Ginn caught his first NFL pass in game 3!



Chris Chambers, the #1 receiver for the past six seasons, has a tendency to drop the ball. Whenever it matters, especially third downs, Chambers will drop it. Update: In spite of dropping a few balls, Chambers has made some great catches. Update 2: Chris Chambers was traded to the San Diego Chargers for a second round draft pick. That was a great deal. Hopefully Chambers will blossom when he is on a good team, and The Fins will get a top rookie next year in the draft.



Jason Allen, the first round pick who could not learn the defensive scheme and has been confused ever since. He gets burned by opposing receivers regularly. Sometimes he spends the entire game on the bench. Maybe this is his break-out year? Update: The coach never even mentions this guy anymore.



Trent Green, the quarterback who was picked up from the Kansas City Chiefs after he spent a large part of last year injured due to a concussion. Since the Dolphins have a notoriously weak Offensive Line, the odds are good that Green will be on his back often. One more concussion could spell the end for this 37 year old veteran. Update: He passed for over 300 yards against the Jets in game 3. In Game 5 he was injured (concussion).


THE UGLY:

Former coach Nick Saban, who had a personal bodyguard and would not permit anyone to speak to him directly (unless they were pro athletes or millionaires). Reportedly he had a member of the Dolphins' Headquarters janitorial staff fired for saying hello to him. Update: Little Napoleon had started 3-0 but got upset this week in overtime. I wonder how many janitors Saban has had fired at Alabama?

Daunte Culpepper who came to Miami to sit on the bench for one season and rehab his injuries. He collected at least eight million dollars and then left complaining that he was not treated with respect. Update: Culpepper is playing for the Oakland Raiders, thanks to an injury to their starter.

Ricky Williams, suspended for the fourth time for testing positive for drugs (marijuana).

The cheerleaders and the inevitable stories about their off-field activities.

WHAT LOSERS SAY: "It is still a work in progress." "We are still rebuilding." "The running game is still developing." "This is not what they wanted, but they tried hard."

Buffet Fever

Weekly Weight Loss Champion: I did not have too much time to post this week. Last week Celtic Girl lost 6.16 lbs and she was the weight loss champion. Celtic Girl had gained 15 lbs. in the past few weeks but managed to get the back-sliding under control. This week she lost another 2 lbs. and is halfway back to her lowest weight. Celtic Girl has recently found a new hobby. She likes to go shopping for shoes! The young guys who fit her for her shoes love to compliment her feet. Could this be the beginning of a foot fetish? Whatever is helping Celtic Girl to lose weight has to be a good thing. Maybe we should all go shopping? I could use a new pair of black shoes, but I need to get a higher paying job first. This week, Abba (I'm Fat) came through with a loss of 4 lbs. That is great progress! Abba is another blogger who has done some back-sliding in recent weeks. Both Celtic Girl and Abba have a lot in common with many who have spent their lives overweight. No doubt many other people who are trying to lose weight have been in the situation of back-sliding after some success losing weight? How do you deal with it? Arlene is in that situation. I had gone down to 266 lbs. and in January and by March I had gained back twenty pounds. I have been going up and down all year, but I have not gotten back to the 266 lbs. That is very frustrating. I can see from reading other weight loss blogs that I am not the only one. How do you deal with this frustrating situation? It is not a question of the body adapting to the weight loss, or of carb-loading or starvation or anything else. It is a question of motivation. How do you stay motivated? How do you stick to just salads and vegetables or whatever your diet is?? How do you keep the focus and discipline day after day, regardless of the stresses of life? Many of us have weight problems because we respond to stress by over-eating. So how can you lose weight when life never stops dealing stress??

I seem to be constantly hungry. I am thinking about food every ten minutes. It is very difficult to even stay at the weight that I am. Even though I have not really been losing weight, it is a constant battle. I want to go to the Pizza Buffet! I want to go to the Chinese Buffet! I want a plate full of chinese rice, egg rolls, chow mein, egg foo young, dumplings, battered chicken, and all the other incredibly tasty and fattening treats at the Chinese Buffet! I want to go to the Sushi Buffet and eat several pounds of sushi with the spicy green paste and soy sauce! There are Oktoberfest festivals that have great German food, bratwurst, beer, and I want to be there and enjoying the great food! I love food, and I wish I could look good and be healthy regardless of how much food I ate. Unfortunately, the truth is that fat people do not look good. If you google dumb or stupid, you will see that many of the photos, cartoons, and banners that depict stupid people usually show them as being fat. As in fat, lazy, and stupid. There are so many prejudices that exist against the overweight that on the one hand it is depressing and yet it has to motivate a fat person to lose weight. Life and the world can be unfair. There are some things that we can control, and weight is one of them. Unlike some folks who have disabilities that are totally outside of their control, at least an overweight person can change his life by making the sacrifices and the tough choices. Then again, maybe some people are just meant to be fat? I am starting to think I should just give up and move on to some other challenge that I can succeed at. The weight loss never ends and I am not making any progress. It is frustrating. I want to be hard like Iron-Man, but I am soft flabby man. Very sad.

Check out all the fat porkers at the buffet table! Don't become one of them!

Buffet tables bring out the lard-bottoms of every ethnic group, age and denomination!

Isabelle Caro went too far with her diet! She has fought anorexia for fourteen years and she blames the fashion industry! She has turned against the fashion industry because they promote eating disorders like bulemia, anorexia, and purging. Isabelle, if you are reading this blog, please feel free to contact me. I can help you.

Obese Fat Kids II

Obesity, where does it begin? When does a little baby become addicted to food and overeating?? When do good kids turn bad? Are kids overweight because of an oral fixation, or is it something deeper, more complex, perhaps even sinister?


Are overweight kids just trying to over-compensate for those pleasant, early memories of feeding directly from breasts?


Is childhood obesity really an epidemic? Are the next generations kids all going to be on heart medications by the time they are teenagers?? Last year I posted a whole bunch of photos of obese kids here, and I was amazed to see so many kids that are way past chubby or fat. These are big fat gigantic kids. What do you think when you see some enormous kid walking at the mall or at the supermarket? Are the parents usually fat too? Do you think that parents who let their kids become obese should have the kids removed from the home?? Are the mothers and fathers of fat kids causing serious damage to the health of their children? Do fat kids face social humilation? Are overweight people lacking in social skills as a result?

A nervous Abigail sat in one of the clinic's patient rooms recently. It was the 12-year-old's first visit and she was waiting to get into the BodPod, an oval, space-age looking contraption that checks kids' body-mass index. Her doctor wanted to know her BMI.

The new social cause for school counselors is to get fat kids to lose weight. While these counsellors have good intentions, it will also lead to a lot of meddling in the lives of parents and their children. The big issue used to be drugs, now it is obesity.

Hopefully doctors are more aware of nutrition and fitness nowadays. When I was a kid, every doctor's diet plan was the same blurry mimeographed sheet listing cereal for breakfast, boiled eggs for lunch, and skinless chicken breasts for dinner (each meal with a serving of fruits and/or vegetables).

This is a 12 year old girl who weighed 240 lbs. and her parents took her to have liposuction to remove 90 lbs. of fat. She was weighing 150 lbs. after the lipo. The solution that makes the most money for doctors is liposuction, stomach-stapling, gastric-bypass, etc. If you can lose weight on your own the medical and diet industry don't make money!!!

This is a weird photo, but the little girl is definitely overweight.

Three slices of pizza is two slices too many! Where are her parents to tell this fat girl to stop eating?

This kid's family wants him to become a sumo wrestler. I am not making this up. Sumo wrestlers make a lot of money in Japan.

Keep your kids away from the fast food restaurants!

Being the fat kid sucks during the P.E. class when all the other kids are showing off while the fat kid sits on the bench.

This fat kid needs to stay away from the cake, but most school cafeterias serve cake, and parents often give their kids lots of sweets to. In the old days, a good Mom would bake a cake or a pie on the weekends. Is that over now? Are bake sales and home-made cookies verboten?

Even China is facing an obesity epidemic due to the increased food choices that the prosperity of the limited free market economy has brought to the people. Here is a photo of an obese boy eating glazed dog. Dog meat is a favorite staple of many Asian nations.

This kid raised the water level in the pool by several inches!

In Puerto Rico, overweight kids are required to stay after school to ride the stationary bike and to do extra exercise so they will lose weight.

This Scottish boy needs a bra and a good diet!

These are fat kids, not dwarfs. How many dogs did these kids eat at their school cafeteria? Keep in mind that dog meat is served on the school menu in China.

This poor kid can't stand to look at the scale. Is he heartbroken and ashamed by his weight?

Even the sumo wrestling school turned him down. You can't wrestle if you can't get off the couch!

He'll never get that tub off the ground unless he drops a few pounds!! What do you think of obese people flying coach? Have you ever gotten stuck between two obese people for a flight that lasts several hours? Do you think they should be forced to pay for an extra seat?

This overweight kid participated in the Shaq Challenge and lost a few pounds. Ironically, over the course of his career, Shaquille O'Neil has been criticized often for being overweight and out of shape.

This kid has cool booties. As you can see, he is already developing a big belly. It looks like he has Hershey's Kisses in his hand.

A kid with a candy bar in hand as he studies and does his homework. Is homework forcing kids to eat more snacks in order to maintain their energy? Are kids overweight because of homework??



I feel sorry for this kid, and I have to wonder who put this shirt on him, and took this photo (which comes up all over Google). No doubt the poor kid has no clue what it is about, and it is very sad if he has been corrupted by cynical and perverted adults. What kind of adult would make fun of little kids? Damn, what's this world coming to??


A kid dressed as a bag of fries for Halloween?? Talk about being objectified! Hopefully his parents got the outfit for free from McDonald's!?

Look at Fatboy recording another podcast! No wonder he hasn't posted any messages lately!

This photo is darn creepy. I hope the poor kid in the photo is still alive. He looks like he is in bad shape.

Are those cherry tarts? Donuts? Apple scruffs?

I think this obese little kid is the same as the one below?



The UK governement is trying to take this kid away from his parents because they are endangering his health as a result of obesity. How are they going to keep him from eating if he is in foster care?? Are they going to put him in a home with a locked refrigerator?

What do you all think of obese kids and the childhood obesity problem?

I AM IRON-MAN!

The first comic books that I ever got was Amazing Spider-Man #119 and 120 which featured a battle royale between Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk. I was hooked. I had gotten these comic books in a trade for Classics Illustrated comic books from the 1940s. Not exactly a fair deal at the time, but it was worth it to me. The year was around 1972, and I was nine years old. I soon discovered Thor, Iron-Man, and Captain America, and the rest is history!! What a great time for me as a kid. Once I got into trading comic books I used to type up my own catalog and I would sell them at school (and trade). This was back when comic books were about adventure and fun, not drama. Iron-Man and Dr. Strange were two of the most complex characters. They had problems controlling their drinking and getting motivated to get things done. However, once they got the ball rolling, they tended to come out like gangbusters!!

Spider-Man on the other hand was usually neurotic and sad and getting pushed back by others. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Spider-Man was a very exciting character. However, there have been long stretches where the writers have made Spidey a very sensitive and politically correct character. I have always liked Spidey, but he has become a bit of a pushover. The most recent movie, Spider-Man 3, really sealed the deal for me. I had originally named this blog Iron-Man, and the URL for the blog is ironman63. That is the character that I really admire because he has overcome all of his many character flaws in order to succeed. Did I mention that the Iron-Man movie is coming out next year?? I have seen the previews, and it looks a lot less wimpy than Spider-Man. Anyhow, Mick remarked on my last post that after seeing all those guys in their Spidey outfits, that maybe I should re-name myself. Then it all came together! IRON-MAN! If one horse won't get you to the finish line, then jump on to the next one. Iron-Man will get me there!

Remember, even little Sammy Squirrel has a big heart. It is not the size of the fighter that counts, but the size of the fight within him (or her). Check out the tragic story of the Puerto Rico Pet Massacre!

Weekly Weight Loss Winner: Another week has passed and then some!! Willow has blown by everyone and their dogs and cats and stands on a plateu by herself where no one can even come close unless it is to look up her skirt. Willow lost 4.4 pounds two weeks ago, and then went and lost another 8.8 pounds this past week!!! Willow has set the new world record of Weekly Weight Loss!! Willow is IRON-WOMAN!!! The Woman of Steel! SUPERGIRL!! Meanwhile, Lady Rose was burning down the house and got under 200 lbs. for the first time in many, many years!! Nona just posted some hot new pics of her bod!! Whoa!! Check her out, especially if you are a guy!! Abba is getting back on the horse, one hoof at a time! Cactus Freak girl is discovering that other fat girls are hating on her. You have to read her blog to see what happened at McDonald's when the fat girls were giving each other the hairy eyeball. Wanna-B-Slim has dropped back to where she was a couple of weeks ago. Barbara is losing weight again! Patty is still surrounded by a lot of turbulence but she is going to school and forging ahead like a trooper regardless of anything! Vegas Girl is back after many months missing in action! Joey is still missing. Captain Jeff just hit a new low of 213 lbs. Celtic Girl dropped nearly half of the fifteen pounds that she had gained last week! Chris H is remodeling her house and it looks great! Christine keeps losing weight and she is a major success story! Lots of stories in the naked jungle of weight loss!! If you lost weight last week, pat yourself on the back. If you gained weight, then kick yourself in the ass. Over and out, superheroes!!

Sport Shake and Spiderman

September Nutrition & Exercise: In September, I averaged 2,916 calories, 185.8 grams of protein, 77 g of Fat, and 402 g of carbohydrates per day. I did 1365 minutes of cardio and 9 workouts with weights. I included walking in the park as part of the cardio. A nice walk around Tropical Park on a sunny day takes between 45 minutes and an hour.

Sport Shake is probably one of the most fattening protein shakes ever made. It is also the one I like the most, and it is the tastiest (in my humble opinion). An 11 ounce (325 ml) can has 340 calories, 9 grams of fat, 6 g of saturated fat, 30 g of cholesterol, 310 g of sodium, 520 g of potassium, 53 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of fiber, and 52 g of sugars. The total protein payoff is 12 grams! That is a ratio of one gram of protein per 28.3 calories! Milk provides one gram of protein per 13. 5 calories. You could have 22 ounces of milk instead of one can of Sport Shake for the same amount of calories. However, Sport Shake tastes great. I think it must have condensed milk (not evaporated milk) added to the flavor, it is just so milky sweet and delicious!

When my daughter was a baby, I used to put Sport Shake in her baby bottle whenever I took her out and ran out of baby formula. I used to take a couple of bottles of baby formula with me whenever I took her out, but sometimes she would drink it all and wanted more. I used to take her to the park and put her on the baby seat of the bike and drive her around. She loved Sport Shake. It was one of the few things that I could always count on her to drink. Sometimes she would turn down the baby formula and drink Sport Shake instead. I had a theory that the extra protein and calories would help her growth. I don't know if I was correct, but now she is very tall, thin, and strong for her age. So even though Sport Shake is not something that I can drink regularly, it brings back fond memories for me. I still buy cans of Sport Shake for my daughter, and she still loves them. She still loves going to the park also. Sport Skakes are delicious! Sport Shakes range in price from around $1.50 per can up to $2.35. My favorite flavor is vanilla, it is the sweetest. Sport Shake is also sold in chocolate, strawberry, banana, and strawberry-banana. Every flavor has the same amount of calories and nutritional values. I find that the other flavors taste too much like they were mixed with Nestle's Quik powder. It is hard to explain, but any flavor of Nestle's Quik powder just gives milk an artificial flavor. The syrup versions give milk a fuller flavor. Most of the time Sport Shake is sold in gasoline station and convenience stores. Sport Shake is not available in local supermarkets like Publix, Sedano's, or Winn Dixie. Try some on a cheat day, but don't blame me if you get addicted. I warned you...

Should I dress like Spider-Man for Halloween??

On the left is the original television Spider-Man from the first season, in 1977. The character of Peter Parker was played by Nicholas Hammond. The guy in the spider suit had a much thinner body than the actor. On the right is the current Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) .

This is the Amazing Spider-Man from the second (and final) season of the TV series (1978). To make the character look more menacing, they added black goggles, a utility belt, and metal web-shooters (wrist-bands).

Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson, if the actors were being cast for the movies based on their characters' dorky comic book personalities.

This is some guy in a Spidey costume. Not bad.

This is a guy with a body-painted Spidey costume. I wonder if he went "Trick or Treating" around his neighborhood? I have seen women at various festivals who will have their tops body-painted and that seems to legal for walking around in public. I wonder if a guy can walk the streets "body-painted?"

This is some college professor tossing back a drink in a Spidey costume. He has camel toe...


No, I am not holding up a liquor store. This is my Spider-Man outfit. It looks more like the Scarlet Spider (Spidey's clone back in the 1990s). Note to self: red shorts and socks will be a plus. This is a work in progress.

Pan Cubano

Weekly Weight Loss Winner: This past week looked like a tough week for the bloggers. Several have noted weight gains. I was nearly down to under 280 and then ate a big loaf of Cuban bread and gained like six pounds in a day. It was heartbreaking. I cried so hard that I shit my pants. Instead of blowing by everyone like I usually do because I don't take notes at each blog and then I forget who did what and when; this week I took out my pad and wrote down intensive notes. That is how organized I am. Give me a merit star. Nona at 55KGs lost eleven pounds over the course of a trip to Vienna with her boyfriend! Yes, they had the Do Not Disturb sign on their room all the time. Great sex beats great dieting every time. Put the two together and you can lose a lot of weight!! Abba has been gaining weight uncontrollably and will soon tip over the scales at 300 lbs. if she does not take charge of herself. I am not sure what is happening in her life, but it must be a lot of stress. Hope you can get it together Abba. Texas Gal has been adding on the pounds too. Higher water intake is the key to her diet in the next few weeks. When you are gaining weight, sometimes focusing on one thing that can help you stop the gain is what it takes. Do it!! Stop the Gain!! Celtic Girl gained a massive 15 pounds. That is like six months of weight loss down the drain. I am very sorry CG. I hope you are not giving up...! I am very sad that you have taken this big step back, but I know you can rebound from it. Please do it! Become the Blobinator! Burn that fat up!! Christine gained some weight and has started a 12 week weight loss challenge for the other bloggers to join up. I would join, but the last time I did a weight loss challenge I gained ten pounds. The stress of competing against others makes me break out in cold sweats! Chris H has been busy beating up some chicks that messed with her over at her blog, and I did not see if she lost any weight, but she had like 80 comments per post. I missed the bitch-slapping incident but it sounds like it was fun!! You Go Chris! Put them witches in line. Lay down the law! Arlene fell off her wagon again and has apparently edged even closer to going back over 200? Patty has been through a lot of stress with funerals and visiting doctors, and I hope she is OK and gets back to it soon. Sayre is working out a lot with her brother, but she gained 2.6 pounds last week. That is how the scale can de-motivate anyone. I hate scales, and as soon as I reach my goal weight and become a billionaire, I am going to buy up all the companies that make scales and close them down. Sharron has slipped too. Part of it is that her husband is getting gigantic and has no interest in dieting. Another part of it is that she does not want to walk outside because of the motherf*cking flies!!! Damn, what a lame excuse. There are gnats and those little damn flies and mosquitoes and other buzzing bastards here in Florida, and I have made a point of walking the damn dog nearly every night just so I can say I went for a walk. That walk might be what is keeping me from keeling over dead of a heart attack. Am I going to let some little shit-fly stop me?? HELL NO. Wanna-B-Slim gained 1.1 kilos which is like six months of dieting for her. Get pissed off and stop slacking. All that progress cannot be sabotaged like this. Willowwishesless lost 2 kilos (4.4 lbs) last week, but even though we were supposed to be trading blog-links, I am not on hers, so she is gone from this one (DQed). When someone tells you to link them and they don't link you, it is not a big deal, but it kind of frosts my ass. Remember what Drill Instructor R. Lee Ermey said about the "reach-around" being common courtesy? Anyhow, Willow is doing great, and this week she lost even more weight! Good for you! On a positive note, Nita lost two pounds! Captain Jeff lost three pounds! Joey has not posted in a month, I miss his food reviews... Mark started a dieting website but never posts about his own diet. Not sure if he ever reached his goal weight. Mick has not even posted about his weight for weeks. He has been travelling all over the USA and then came home and was made repugnant and given a hefty salary increase so he can stay on til the last day when the factory closes down. He was given the keys and has to turn out the lights and close the gates every night. It is a tough job, but Mick has been working there for 42 years, ever since he finished his tour of duty in 'Nam where he was in British Special Forces. This week's Star Champion of Weight Loss is LYN!!! She lost 1.5 kilos the hard way (no sex) and that is like 3.3 pounds. No Twinkies for Lyn. She puts her pants on one leg at a time like everyone else, but she takes no prisoners in the kitchen. Cookies, candies, brownies, all go into the garbage. No macca (Mc Donalds), no Burger Queen. Just raw vegetables and sawdust. Congratulations to everyone that lost weight (Nona, Lyn, Captain Jeff, Nita) and anyone else that I missed.

I love bread. I had not eaten Cuban Bread (Pan Cubano) in a couple of months. The main reason that I avoid Pan Cubano is because it is sold in loaves (see photo), and I usually will eat the whole loaf. Cuban Bread is similar to French Bread, except it is less crusty and the inner bread dough is soft and tender. I love it toasted with butter, or with tuna fish salad. Back when I was mega-obese, I would buy two loaves. One to eat on the drive from the bakery to the house, and then I would eat whatever was left of the other loaf after giving the family a couple of hours to have breakfast, etc. Not surprisingly, today was no different. I did not buy two loaves, but since my family has jumped on the healthy-eating bandwagon, nobody wanted any bread. So I got to eat the whole loaf. Because I felt guilty about it, I did not eat anything else the whole day, just water. Bread and water. At some point as I was watching the Miami Dolphins get trashed by the Oakland Raiders, I started feeling queesy. I went to the restroom and I knew that I had the squirts really bad. So bad that as I was pulling down my underwear the goo squirted out. Most of it went into the bowl. I will spare the rest of the details... I relate this cautionary tale just so that all of you can learn from my mistakes. Don't eat a whole loaf of bread. The aftermath is not a pretty sight.
This is a loaf of bread. Supposedly two ounces has only 134 calories. Therefore a whole 16 ounce loaf should only have 2,144 calories. People in prison would lose weight eating bread and water back in the vintage 1930s movies. James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart got skinny on bread rations. Remember Papillon with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman? They were eating bread all the time and they could barely survive.

This is a loaf too. Any questions?

Bolthouse Farms Mocha Cappucino

Bolthouse Farms Perfectly Protein Mocha Cappucino with Whey Protein tastes like a typical Frappucino type of drink. My wife bought it thinking this is some very healthy new product, and she was so happy to show it to me that I feel bad for her. I told her that it was a great buy, gave her a kiss and drank a cup. However, this "Perfectly Protein Mocha Cappucino" is a perfect example of how food companies get over on people by putting a lot of bullshit on their labels. If you drink a cup (8 ounces) of milk, you would get 9 grams of protein for 110 calories. If you drink a cup of Perfectly Protein Mocha Cappucino you get 10 grams of protein for 178 calories. Not exactly a great source of protein. In fact, if you drank 178 calories worth of milk, you would get 14.5 grams of protein. Aside from the misleading hype on the label ("with Whey Protein"), this stuff tastes pretty good. Considering how fattening it is, I guess it should taste good. I hope my sweet wife does not buy any more of this stuff, as she thinks it is very good for my diet, and I don't have the heart to tell her any different. I have to say that it really frosts my ass to see something labelled as a protein drink when it has less protein per-calorie than milk. I wonder how many well-meaning family members buy things like this for their obese relatives?? It puts another spin on my previous post about the mega-obese and their families. I wonder how many of those mega-obese dudes are being fed bogus protein shakes and similar products that say they are healthy and dietary on the labels while in fact piling on the calories and fat??