So what you are saying is that the British use smaller "inches" so that the estimates of penis size will be about the same?
So what you are saying is that the British use smaller "inches" so that the estimates of penis size will be about the same?
iamme
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i'm 5'9". started college at about 140lbs. after a few years, got up to 150lbs. after my son was born i got really inactive and almost hit 180lbs. 
i've exercised and reduced my junk food intake and am now back down to 155-160lbs. i plan on burning more fat and putting on some more muscle. hopefully hitting about 165lbs in the end.
i don't consider myself fat.
i've exercised and reduced my junk food intake and am now back down to 155-160lbs. i plan on burning more fat and putting on some more muscle. hopefully hitting about 165lbs in the end.
i don't consider myself fat.
I was trying to point out that you lot might have got confused, example; a size7 shoe in the UK is different to a size7 in the US.
I dunno what american measurment for trousers are so i thought you might have got a little confused.
Anyway. Im happy with how i look. My footy coach doesnt complain at me for my size. I happen to be a very fast person on the field and have alot of stamina. So who gives a sh1t about my waist size.
Originally posted by: franguinho
im 6 foot 170 lbs
skinny except for the omnipresent beer gut
almost the same, but my beer got it bigger. 6ft 180 here
I am quite proud of my dickiedoo.......
what is a dickiedoo you ask?........
its when your gut sticks out farther than your dickie do
what is a dickiedoo you ask?........
its when your gut sticks out farther than your dickie do
moshquerade
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StageLeft
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That logic presupposes that genetics are the entire cause of fatness, which of course they are not. Believe me, you can be fat, just as the children of fat parents can be thin if they so choose to be. Most people, unfortunately, are slaves to their genetics & environment and have no real control over their weight, and so yeah you're right there is a definite correlation between parental and child weight, but it's not unbeatable by any means.
moshquerade
No Lifer
- Nov 1, 2001
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Dunno exact height, but im at least "6.2
I know. Its a little fcuked up using stones here in the UK. I prefer using Kilos for measurment.
You cant be serious!? Its all that keeps my alive! :beer:you could stand to cut back on your pub visits
My belly was starting to get flabby for a week or two there without my regular time at the gym... I just put in some extra time these last few weeks... almost gone.
And to think that when I was "fat" that I still fit loosely into a 32. I generally wear a 30 30 as well. I'm 5' 10" and weigh 162lbs... not fat... muscle.
And to think that when I was "fat" that I still fit loosely into a 32. I generally wear a 30 30 as well. I'm 5' 10" and weigh 162lbs... not fat... muscle.
Originally posted by: BoomAM
Dunno exact height, but im at least "6.2
I know. Its a little fcuked up using stones here in the UK. I prefer using Kilos for measurment.
You cant be serious!? Its all that keeps my alive! :beer:you could stand to cut back on your pub visits
whatever makes you happy. :beer:
To quote one of my posters above my PC;
:beer: "BEER! NOW THERES A TEMPORARY SOLUTION!!!" :beer:
:beer: "BEER! NOW THERES A TEMPORARY SOLUTION!!!" :beer:
AgaBoogaBoo
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Bad joke.Originally posted by: AgaBooga
Am I FAT? Not at all, I'm NTFS.
Go and sit in the corner. Yes...on that stool, and put that silly hat on as well.
Now everyone....lets all point and laugh!
0roo0roo
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good read, "Fat Land" : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
You reap what you sow. According to Critser, a leading journalist on health and obesity, America about 30 years ago went crazy sowing corn. Determined to satisfy an American public that "wanted what it wanted when it wanted it," agriculture secretary Earl Butz determined to lower American food prices by ending restrictions on trade and growing. The superabundance of cheap corn that resulted inspired Japanese scientists to invent a cheap sweetener called "high fructose corn syrup." This sweetener made food look and taste so great that it soon found its way into everything from bread to soda pop. Researchers ignored the way the stuff seemed to trigger fat storage. In his illuminating first book (which began life as a cover story for Harper's Magazine), Critser details what happened as this river of corn syrup (and cheap, lardlike palm oil) met with a fast-food marketing strategy that prized sales-via supersized "value" meals-over quality or conscience. The surgeon general has declared obesity an epidemic. About 61% of Americans are now overweight-20% of us are obese. Type 2 (i.e., fat-related) diabetes is exploding, even among children. Critser vividly describes the physical suffering that comes from being fat. He shows how the poor become the fattest, victimized above all by the lack of awareness. Critser's book is a good first step in rectifying that. In vivid prose conveying the urgency of the situation, with just the right amount of detail for general readers, Critser tells a story that they won't be able to shake when they pass the soda pop aisle in the supermarket. This book should attract a wide readership.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Childhood obesity, diabetes, and related illnesses are becoming major health problems in America. Nutrition journalist Critser presents a critical analysis of the many social and economic factors that make Americans, contrary to the book's subtitle, the second-fattest people in the world (the South Sea Islanders are fatter). He blames parents' reluctance to monitor their children's eating habits; the marketing tactics of fast-food companies, which influence us to overeat; the... read more
Book Description
What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.
See all editorial reviews...
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
You reap what you sow. According to Critser, a leading journalist on health and obesity, America about 30 years ago went crazy sowing corn. Determined to satisfy an American public that "wanted what it wanted when it wanted it," agriculture secretary Earl Butz determined to lower American food prices by ending restrictions on trade and growing. The superabundance of cheap corn that resulted inspired Japanese scientists to invent a cheap sweetener called "high fructose corn syrup." This sweetener made food look and taste so great that it soon found its way into everything from bread to soda pop. Researchers ignored the way the stuff seemed to trigger fat storage. In his illuminating first book (which began life as a cover story for Harper's Magazine), Critser details what happened as this river of corn syrup (and cheap, lardlike palm oil) met with a fast-food marketing strategy that prized sales-via supersized "value" meals-over quality or conscience. The surgeon general has declared obesity an epidemic. About 61% of Americans are now overweight-20% of us are obese. Type 2 (i.e., fat-related) diabetes is exploding, even among children. Critser vividly describes the physical suffering that comes from being fat. He shows how the poor become the fattest, victimized above all by the lack of awareness. Critser's book is a good first step in rectifying that. In vivid prose conveying the urgency of the situation, with just the right amount of detail for general readers, Critser tells a story that they won't be able to shake when they pass the soda pop aisle in the supermarket. This book should attract a wide readership.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Childhood obesity, diabetes, and related illnesses are becoming major health problems in America. Nutrition journalist Critser presents a critical analysis of the many social and economic factors that make Americans, contrary to the book's subtitle, the second-fattest people in the world (the South Sea Islanders are fatter). He blames parents' reluctance to monitor their children's eating habits; the marketing tactics of fast-food companies, which influence us to overeat; the... read more
Book Description
What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have made ourselves the second fattest people on the planet (after South Sea Islanders).
Fat Land highlights the groundbreaking research that implicates cheap fats and sugars as the alarming new metabolic factor making our calories stick and shows how and why children are too often the chief metabolic victims of such foods. No one else writing on fat America takes as hard a line as Critser on the institutionalized lies we've been telling ourselves about how much we can eat and how little we can exercise. His expose of the Los Angeles schools' opening of the nutritional floodgates in the lunchroom and his examination of the political and cultural forces that have set the bar on American fitness low and then lower, are both discerning reporting and impassioned wake-up calls.
Disarmingly funny, Fat Land leaves no diet book - including Dr. Atkins's - unturned. Fashions, both leisure and street, and American-style religion are subject to Critser's gimlet eye as well. Memorably, Fat Land takes on baby-boomer parenting shibboleths - that young children won't eat past the point of being full and that the dinner table isn't the place to talk about food rules - and gives advice many families will use to lose.
Critser's brilliantly drawn futuristic portrait of a Fat America just around the corner and his all too contemporary foray into the diabetes ward of a major children's hospital make Fat Land a chilling but brilliantly rendered portrait of the cost in human lives - many of them very young lives - of America's obesity epidemic.
See all editorial reviews...
6'0" 143 lbs, 30-31 waist 32" long. I've been going to the gym since the start of summer, gotten far stronger but only gained like 2 pounds, and all I eat usually is fast food (one of those people that for some reason really likes McDonalds). Lets just hope my metabolism doesn't slow down any time soon
The NTFS joke is getting old. I'm not FAT, or even NTFS - I'm XFS.
OTOH, while I would technically not be considered "obese," I am still not the appropriate weight for my own good health. I do exercise, but not consistently. It's very hard for me to stay motivated.
Maybe I should get a full length mirror to put in the bathroom, so I'll have to look at it every day before I get dressed; that might help.
OTOH, while I would technically not be considered "obese," I am still not the appropriate weight for my own good health. I do exercise, but not consistently. It's very hard for me to stay motivated.
Maybe I should get a full length mirror to put in the bathroom, so I'll have to look at it every day before I get dressed; that might help.
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