I am happy to announce that the chart shows I am at my ideal weight. 
Unfortunately, the chart also says I should be 3 feet taller. 
Will O’Ban
LMAO…
yeah, i should be about eight foot three inches if I read the chart right…
Well my 44 in waistline is clearly the result of the 12 pack of Pepsi a day habit I’ve garnered for the last decade.
I finally, about a month ago, broke the habit once and for all. Just reducing that sugar out of my diet is causing me to lose some weight. I didn’t really do it for the weight (my heart is in great shape, my colesterol is great…I’m actually quite healthy) but because I know that I really at my age need to cut down the sugar consumption. Diabetes runs in the family and it’s better to be safe than sorry.
I’m actually pretty happy being a fat man approaching middle age. Give me more grey in my hair and I cannot wait to don the Hawiian shirts and white poly pants up to my ribs.
Now, a sure-fire weightloss program should always start with a tapeworm.
Seriously though, staples are dangerous. Fad diets are sometimes very unhealthy. Pills can be downright deadly.
Watch your intake. Eat the right foods, eat healthy. Exercise. And don’t try to lose too much too quickly.
Yeah there is…
it’s called a tapeworm! 
Edited to say…
dangit, scheky beat me to the punch!
But you look so darned skinny in your avatar!
We might need some truth-in-advertising rules regarding avatars, I’m thinking.
Don’t forget the metal detector for hitting the beach on sunny days.
Picture is editted to hide the pot which begins just below midchest, so its not necessarily dishonest, just economical with the truth.
djm
EEwwww!!
Were you guys reading Seabiscuit? (It’s one way the jockeys used to lose weight.)
Or perhaps eating sashimi? My neighbor’s niece got a big dose of tapeworm from raw salmon.
M
Thanks!
I scanned through them and they seem to make sense. They also seem to be primarily talking about obesity, and I’m willing to concede I don’t know nothin’ about that. And I also don’t know what percentage of overweight people (some perhaps on their way to obesity, some perhaps not) is affected by genetic factors, but I don’t think everyone who’s overweight has a genetic problem, or is affected by the factors described.
I’m just overweight. My thyroid’s fine. No one in my family’s obese. It was really tough losing post-baby weight and getting in shape when I was 30-something, and it’s even tougher now–which tells me there’s some other factor affecting my metabolism or whatever. But I’m making progress by eating less and exercising more. But I didn’t make progress until I took more time to educate myself on what my basal metabolism was, and how many calories I was actually eating in a day.
Can we agree that diet and exercise is the place to start? And if it doesn’t work, go see a specialist.
M
Not if I can’t have chocolate! 
djm
Nobody said you cannot have chocolate! How horrible and unreasonable that would be!
I recommend, though, that you develop a taste for high-end chocolate rather than el-cheapo varieties like Hershey’s. It has more of the mood-enhancing factors and less of the cheap fillers and sugar.
For optimal dosing, try dark baking chocolate . . . unsweetened can be a real delight at times.
A nibble a day keeps the mood swings at bay!
Can’t stand waxy baker’s chocolate. Must … have … refined sugar! 
Actually, I see Lindt is now making 70% and 80% pure chocolate bars now. They’re still pretty flat and bitter, though, and the bars are hard to find yet.
djm
I like chocolate with oranges.
That always happens to me when I don’t wear Spandex.
djm
(Waaaayyyy ahead of you, Cran)
I finally checked that chart. I’m very happy to say that what I figured I should weigh fell in the normal range.
Oranges happen to you?
Like Lambie said–no one says you can’t have chocolate!
The new lifestyle adjustment (a.k.a. “diet”) I’m trying to follow doesn’t forbid anything. True, you can’t have very much of it, but you can fit a bite or two of chocolate into the scheme of things. I have gone over to the dark side, too, but haven’t sprung for the really high-end chocolate yet. My favorites? Dark chocolate-covered almonds. They’re practally therapeutic!
M
Oh, not nuts. Nuts are a no-no. Too much fat!
I guess we have to look at why we should partake in some of these fringe foods - flavenoids, i.e. anit-oxidants, anti-inflamatories, etc. This was the reason for the big push towards chocolate that is at least 70% pure. If you need nuts, hazelnuts (filberts) have the highest levels of anti-oxidants. For apples, its BC apples by a long stretch.
Flavenoids are also the reason some health gurus are pushing Chinese green tea, but the Chinese warn that too much will rot your guts out (its very acidic). The Chinese recommend bo-lei (pu-erh) as a more balanced type of tea.
Isn’t it fun to have so many things to obsess over?
djm
BC apple? Translation, please?
British Columbia Apples?
The area that the Washington state apples comes from extends north into BC
Really? We never see BC apples here!
We get them from New York, Washington, and New Zealand (in the off season). I really like the ones from New Zealand! Yum!