Obesity

Such a slow knife! Lovely!

 

And dental decay now rising in children.

 

That is why I don't give a toss about what people say about me - until they live inside the space I occupy, they don't know me. And whilst I am here in the land of the living I think it is impossible to occupy my space!

I tell my asawa this - it is not just for now but for the avoidance of a huge set of health problems in the future.

 

The others are 'Happy (camper), Grumpy, Bashful, Doc, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey'?

Hey, that's 8 including 'Gluttony'.

 

I gained weight! From about 72kg to 86kg - and Filipino neighbours said I did not look healthy when I arrived but looked better after I put on weight! In other words, I was getting fatter like them.

 

i have lost forty pounds since coming here but have a long ways to go. more importantly to me is that i came here on ten prescription meds and i am now down to three, with two of those now being half tabs.

i ride a bicycle almost every day to market and my diet has shifted markedly towards fresh raw vegetables.

i once might have been within hailing distance of mr rye's fitness, having a 28 inch waist, weighing 140 pounds and running every day. wore a three piece suit to work, closed the discos at 2 a m three nights a week and my s*** didn't stink!! but those days are long long gone.

the most important change for me here is that i love every day. i am happier in my personal life than i have ever been. every two years when i go back to the states i reach a new level of loathing for that life i used to live. (tho i still miss the biscuits and gravy but even when i go back i don't eat them anymore)

i am always on the lookout for those things we expats have in common here and will offer the opinion that generally speaking we appear to be and or claim to be happier and more self satisfied here. i know it is markedly true for me.

this is probably a good time to say that my daily dose of dumaguete info is a positive for me and i enjoy the humor, observations, assistance to each other and electronic repartee!

 

I have. I was about 87kg (192 lbs) when I first moved here. Now it's an effort to stay above 70kg. My workout routine is about the same as years before (I can do more pushups but could be because I'm lighter now). And, as others have said, I also have a wife worried what others will think if I don't grow my belly bigger.