Pannus is just another word for nothing left to lose

This picture I drew does not represent the state of my body.  I weigh 240 lbs currently, about 50 lbs too heavy for my 6'1" frame (maybe losing that much weight would leave me pretty scrawny, but around there).  My huge belly, my jowly fat-face, and my dangerously fatty liver hold this extra weight.

Discussed with a small Loved One about the idea of a "front butt", so I sketched this out.

I wanted to bring attention to the great atheist and erotic blogger Greta Christina, and her "dieting/not-dieting/healthy-living" experience

THE FAT-POSITIVE FEMINIST SKEPTICAL DIET, parts 1 thru 3

http://gretachristina.typepad.com/greta_christinas_weblog/2010/03/fatpositive-feminist-skeptical-diet-3-1.html

I had lost 15 pounds, just to gain it back.  Right now I am more interested in enhancing my intentionality with eating and enjoying being active everyday.  There is evidence that your weight is a function of the availability of tasty fats and carbs, and tasty empty calories, and very little to do with individual will power.  So enhancing my intentionality about what and how and how much I eat makes more sense to me.

We are what our ancestors did or didn't eat.

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I want to eat both the Paleolithic Diet AND the Modern Diet. Having both available on one giant plate is very appetizing to me.

DERIC BOWNDS' MINDBLOG: We are what our ancestors did or didn't eat.: "Ann Gibbons does a nice summary of our human ancestral diet and how it has changed to give us a modern array of diseases. Some slightly edited clips:

By the time hunter-gatherer modern humans swept into Europe about 40,000 years ago, they were adept at hunting large game and had also expanded their palates to dine regularly on small animals and freshwater fish....By studying the ratios of carbon and nitrogen isotopes from collagen in bones, ...the main sources of dietary protein of 27 early Europeans and Neandertals is known; fish eaters, for example, have more nitrogen-15 in their bones than meat eaters...the oldest known modern human in Europe—the 35,000-year-old jawbone from Pestera cu Oase cave in Romania—got much of his protein from fish. By 30,000 years ago, other modern humans got as much as 20% of their protein from fish.

The next big dietary shift came about 10,000 years ago, when humans began to domesticate plants and, later, animals. The move to agriculture introduced staples of the Western diet: cereal grains, sugars, and milk after weaning...The agricultural revolution favored people lucky enough to have gene variants that helped them digest milk, alcohol, and starch...when ethnic groups abandon traditional lifestyles and rapidly adopt Western diets, they often suffer. Researchers have known for more than a decade that the Pima of the southwestern United States have 'thrifty phenotypes': sluggish metabolisms that store fat efficiently and boost survival on low-calorie diets. That's probably because their ancestors in Mexico underwent frequent famine. When they eat the calorie-rich Western diet, the Pima develop high rates of obesity, diabetes, and high cholesterol, although their blood pressure stays relatively low...the Evenki reindeer herders and other indigenous peoples of Siberia have very high metabolisms, an adaptation to the cold that allows them to convert fat into energy efficiently. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, many Siberians abandoned traditional lifestyles and diets. They too became obese and developed heart disease but in a different way from the Pima: The Evenki retained low levels of cholesterol and diabetes but developed high blood pressure.

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Although we are what our ancestors ate, we are also what they didn't eat. In India, for example, more than 66% of the population in some regions experienced famine during British colonialism a century ago. Women who survived tended to have low-birth-weight babies, whose bodies were small and efficient at storing fat. It's as though these babies took cues during fetal and early development about their mothers' lifelong nutritional experience and adjusted their growth and body and organ size accordingly. Human stature often tracks the nutritional status of mothers, and it can take generations for descendants to recover. In India, average height in males dropped at a rate of almost 2 centimeters per century in the decades following colonialism...When these small babies gain weight in childhood, though, it stresses their smaller organs, such as the pancreas and heart, making them more susceptible to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. This is the case in south India today, where many people have thrifty phenotypes with less muscle and more fat per body size. Yet they are shifting rapidly to a high-fat, high-sugar diet. As a result, India risks becoming the diabetes capital of the world.

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I eat month old Twinkies from Super Market

I like to collect layers of fat around by belly and waist. Junk food from the supermarket helps

I don't collect anything. Oh wait, I have some books from the early 1900s. I think I got them from www.alibris.com or a marketplace vendor of Amazon. I got them because I could not get J. B. S. Haldane Possible Worlds and Other Essays and Augustus De Morgan A Budget of Paradoxes and early edition of 1936 How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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http://books.google.com/books?id=MrYdq40KQiAC&lpg=PP1&dq=Haldane%20Possible%20Worlds&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=wAwSAAAAYAAJ&dq=Augustus%20De%20Morgan&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q=&f=false Anyway, don't really collect old books. I throw my books on the floor, so I am the worst at preservation. I like going to the grocery store and buying:

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Oberto Original Beef Jerky http://www.obertosausagecompany.com/brand/Oh_Boy_Oberto Pringles - they have this crazy Hot Wings flavor - Pringles Extreme Blazin' Buffalo Wing Candy - the sour puckerific stuff - like Sour Patch Kids and Sour Patch Xploderz

Sour Patch Xploderz™ - Nutritional Information XPLODERZ NUTRITION FACTS Serving Size (40g) Amount Per Serving Calories 140 - % Daily Value* Total Fat 0 g - 0% Sodium 20 mg - 1% Total Carbohydrate 33 g - 11% Sugars 21 g Protein 2 g - 4% Vitamin A - 0% Vitamin C - 0% Calcium - 2% Iron - 0% Not a significant source of calories from fat, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, and iron. *Percent daily values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

God bless those who silently, unostentatiously "Keep on Rocking in the Free World"

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Silent Rockers

God bless those who silently, unostentatiously "Keep on Rocking in the Free World". That is not me - I am a obnoxious grouchy dude, all up in his own head, with too great an opinion of my lazy self. But those who do what needs to be done, and do it without a need for glory - these are the salt of the earth. My award would to grind their enemies and oppressors into hamburger meat, or 15,000 dollars, whichever they prefer - I'm easy. Mike Rowe from "Dirty Jobs" can host the award ceremony.

Cigarette Stompers

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Too many of my friends and other people I like smoke cigarettes. So they will die, and Big Tobacco gets rich of them too. That sucks. For everyone cool who quits smoking cigarettes, I would award them the option of a fine cigar or some fine loose tobacco for a pipe, so they can have one relaxing smoke at the end of the day. Or they can smoke a bowl. Because cool people deserve the best things in life, but they don't deserve to die and have their monies go to Big Tobacco.

Matter of National Security! I ate the Terrorist Cookies!

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I need excuses mainly for my constant snacking. I was diagnosed with a fatty liver, and with eating less, eating better, and exercise I have gone from an obese 255 pounds to 231 pounds (weighed myself yesterday). I am on my way down to 198 pounds (I may be fooling myself about being able to reach 198 pounds. I am 6'1", but the last time I was 198, I was a scrawny high schooler. Everyone else will be happy with something below 220).

But the lure of the snacks is strong. I am not sure why I bother with excuses, my Baby just lifts a hand to smack me when she catches me with crumbs around my mouth. I really don't get a chance to get a word in, before receiving the dope-smack to the head.