It's rare that I'm not already on my third Mountain Dew before lunch...

Ponzholio: It's rare that I'm not already on my third Mountain Dew before lunch...

You sound fat

baronvonzipper: Ponzholio: It's rare that I'm not already on my third Mountain Dew before lunch...

You sound fat

I think it's just a race now to see if I get a heart attack or diabetes first...

I drink 2 to 3 liters of mt dew a day, and I'm only about 30 lbs over weight. I also sit on my ass where my jobs are computer programming, telephone service, and dealing cards.

Put down the cake, fatties.

ekdikeo4: I drink 2 to 3 liters of mt dew a day, and I'm only about 30 lbs over weight. I also sit on my ass where my jobs are computer programming, telephone service, and dealing cards.

Put down the cake, fatties.

(my gf is much more overweight than I am, but that's ok)

Amos Quito:

oh dear god, make it stop. MAKE IT STOP.

Amos Quito: ekdikeo4: I drink 2 to 3 liters of mt dew a day, and I'm only about 30 lbs over weight. I also sit on my ass where my jobs are computer programming, telephone service, and dealing cards.

Put down the cake, fatties.

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When you pry it from her cold, dead, chubby fingers.

/Wash it down with a "fizzy"

I don't know why, but I find the teeny tiny blurry spot over her eyes really funny.

yeah, as if anyone who knew that person wouldn't automatically know who it was?

well, i suppose it's possible.. maybe some guy who goes for really fat chicks..

Two cans of Coke (160 Calories each if made with sugar, 140 Calories each if made with corn syrup)
280-320 Calories.

Let's say you eat just enough Calories and pack on weight solely because of two cans of soda pop over this metabolic minimum needed to maintain your weight given your lifestyle and personal particulars. I'll use 360 Calories because it's divisible by 9, the number of kilo calories in a standard gram of fat:

1 day: 10 grams of fat, one third of an ounce roughly
1 week: 70 grams, a largish personal serving of potato chips
One year: 3652.5 grams of fat (3.652 kilograms at 2.2 pounds per kilogram, 8 pounds)
10 years: 36,525 g of fat (36.5 kg, 80 pounds, the weight of a child or anorexic woman)
20 years: 73,000 g or 73 kg, 161 pounds, the weight of a thin man or over-weight woman)
30 years: 109,000 g or 109 kg, 240 pounds, the weight of Homer Simpson
40 years: 146,000 g or 146 kg, 329 pounds, more than the weight of Homer Simpson when he fattened up to claim disability, by not even close to a local record in most US or Canadian towns and villages.

In short, you might well be 30 pounds over weight drinking a bit too much Mountain Dew every day and yes, that's not too bad if you start gaining weight slowly at 10 or so, but you should try to do better if you want a healthy and long old age.

It takes surprisingly little excess to become over-weight or obese. You really have to work at staying your ideal weight, let alone at zero body fat or in athletic condition. This is why obesity is becoming a global problem: normal people are prone to becoming obese with a reduction in exercise or increase in food intake, even at very modest levels of imbalance. You really have to work to fight human nature, aka evolution, because it has designed your body to live fast and die young because that was good enough for your ancestors over the last few billion years.

Over the next few centuries, if the species survives, it may become necessary for successful breeders to live longer--because the educations and resources to reproduce will become more time-intensive and scarce. According to an American sociologist I read about many years ago, the average age of maturity, when a young adult has all of the duties and privileges of adulthood, is about 30, which is longer than the life expectancy mere hundreds of generations ago. We may see it rise to 60 or 90 some day, in which case we'll probably be living to SF ages of 200 or 300 years--potentially immortal if we are not killed by accidents or suicide or something very close to being both.

After all, even if we conquer all of the diseases and make the world much safer than we can imagine today, there will still be opportunities to die accidentally or while taking stupid and remote risks such as sky-diving from the limits of space, making the long trek to orbit Pluto, or falling into a volcano while dancing on the rim.

Personally I am about twenty to thirty pounds over the weight I'd like to be and which would probably be healthiest for me. My weight plateaus for a while and then bounces in a short range for a while. It's been doing this since I was a twig of a freshman of 125 pounds--I was still skinny at 150 pounds, but weighed more than my sister-in-law, which caused her immense glee and satisfaction.

To give you an idea of how fortunate we all are in evolutionary and economic terms, in some of the countries hardest hit by HIV, there are children as young as four who are responsible for looking after their dying grandmother or other sole "care-giver". Many individuals become responsible for making the family living while still children.

Imagine a four year old having to provide all of the health care and make all of the money for themselves and another (or several) nearly helpless individuals. There are dogs that are better equipped to make their way in the world. That kid in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was Ritchie Rich compared to some children.

Many of us do not have the responsibilities of a true adult and never will. We are not responsible for any life other than our own and we are equipped with social safety nets that will provide for us even if we lapse into a forty year coma.

Our genes prepare us for a world in which you can be a grandmother at 25. We have to fight nature as well as our own preferences and proclivities if we are to avoid the diseases of affluence. Still, we are immensely lucky, and if nothing else, we are evolving to deal with the diseases of affluence--fat people are often remarkably strong, active and healthy. Our descendants will be able to lug around even greater burdens even if we slack off and don't provide them with slim healthy bodies and the mental resources to deal with temptation.

And you know what Oscar Wilde said: "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."

Fortunately, we can human engineer ourselves to even resist some temptations if we stop and think ,and put the temptations far enough out of reach for laziness to become our ally.

Moral: If your worst enemy is a slice of cheesecake, you should consider yourself very lucky and fortunate.

One of the soluble fibers that you are supposed to eat more of is called "pectin". It is the gelling agent in jams and jellies. This is why little old ladies who survive on white bread, cookies, jam, milk and tea live forever. They get plenty of fiber from the small amount of real fruit in jams, jellies, the odd tin of pears, etc.

You're probably better off eating like a little old lady than like a junk food-fed geek. The fruit alone can be your salvation.