Butterthebean

Every grocery store in my area had pre cooked rotisserie chickens made fresh daily. No cooking required at all. Just peel it off the bone and eat.

3 miles walked today. Just one doggie companion because the other is getting his teeth cleaned. 8 miles total so far. 17 more days till I can run.

I've got a sad story about enabling. It starts with my FIL...as most sad stories do. He's an 80 year old, rural, southern baptist preacher. And he strongly believes that overeating is a sin. My MIL is overweight so he hasn't missed a day in the last 50 years to make a snarky remark about her weight. My wife and her 2 sisters listened to these remarks everyday of their lives so it's no wonder they all have exercise/eating/body image issues. Ironically, my FIL who is obesity biased, has a sheltie that is grossly overweight. It is 5 years old and can barely walk. I think it weights 75 pounds.....that's massive for a sheltie. The reason is....my in laws live a very traditional country life which includes 3 home cooked meals a day. And each of these meals usually contains something fried, something starchy and the main course is usually gravy. And the dog gets a plate full at each meal. He doesn't eat dog food. Plus, every time my FIL goes anywhere near the kitchen the dog gets a piece or 2 of bologna. And the topper is, twice a week FIL makes a whole pan of cinnamon rolls, complete with icing, which he hands out to the dog as treats. Finally the vet got fed up and accused my FIL of animal cruelty. She forced him to put the dog on low cal dog food and no more human food. This worked for about a month and the dog lost weight and started to regain some of the pep in his step. Unfortunately, after about a month the FIL gave in and went back to feeding the dog the way he always had. His reasoning was he couldn't bare to see the dog unhappy. I couldn't make this **** up. So here's my FIL....a highly educated, spiritual, principled, moral man (albeit misguided) who is basically killing his dog with junk food because he thinks it makes him happy. Obviously the dog returns his efforts with unconditional love. What dog wouldn't? But the bottom line is the FIL is clearly having some need for unconditional love met by feeding this dog anything and everything. Obviously the dog is going to eat whatever is given him. He can't make the choice to watch what he eats. But my FIL knows better....and in spite of his obesity bias in humans, thinks it's ok to make his dog obese because it's making them both happy. Unreasonable. But it got me thinking.....my grandmother would have been the same age as him. And she fed me the same way when I was a kid. Basically I could have anything I wanted, and it usually started with biscuits and ended with pie. And of course I loved her dearly. Why not? She never said no to me. But I'm wondering was she also fulfilling some need to be loved by her young grandson...the same way my FIL is doing with the dog? And I'm wondering do parents do this today with their kids? Or was it just that older generation? Is this why childhood obesity is so high? Parents equating happily fed kids with loving kids? But also setting them up for a lifetime for obesity?

I felt this way till I had the TT. That changed a lot in my mind even though with clothes on I still look very much the same to most people.

Perhaps a HR monitor is your next purchase. It will give you a very close idea on calories burned no matter what workout you do.

Oh lord. Butterpants! Where's the toast?

LOL....ok. Well that online thing I'm sure can't be wrong. But I've had 2 and they hurt like hell toward the elbow end of the bicep. It's called a distal bicep tear. If it tears at the shoulder it's called a proximal tear.

Yes we are all just bullies....or "likers" of bullies. This thread was such a testament to WLS genius before all the nose candy talk.

I would like to think I'm more than just the final destination of my nose nuggets, but perhaps not. Sigh.

Well I have done it but it doesn't define who I am as a person.

I don't know how many miles it counts for , but missus butter and I shook our groove things last night all the way to funky town.

Here we go again. It's not bullying just because someone disagrees with you.

Because we are all just food whores.

I don't eat donuts either, but I did fall on a piece of pecan pie last week.....3 times.