Why are sooo many Americans so overweight?

[Paul]

^^^
Not weird, I like(d) it too....
did you find it harder to quit smoking weed? -- didn't have to quit weed, the doc said that was OK for me to smoke. I've cut back on weed, but not b/c of anything more than I just spend more time w/ my girlfriend than I do w/ my goon friends...when I'm with her I don't really smoke weed, unless we're gonna go out to a bar or something, but when it's just us, I don't smoke it...Odds are I'll never quit weed. I can see myself being an 80 year old man, sitting on my porch, in my rocking chair, at my house in the country smoking a joint. I'll cut back, maybe even as much as 90%, but I don't think I'll ever flat out quit....I like getting high, listening to music, jamming on the guitar w/ friends, going to the grocery store (although I tend to spend more money when I do that), and especially while doing mundane chores/task...like laundry, going to the dry-cleaners, cleaning my room, etc...

I've never really been a heavy cig smoker, so it wasn't that difficult for me to stop...but I still had the urges, especially when I was able to walk and go out again....being at a club/bar made it very difficult.

Yeah, hangovers always felt so much worse when I reeked of smoke and my throat hurt. Yech

I hate smelling like smoke! If/when I smoke weed, the smoke smell doesn't linger like cigars/cigarettes...like the next morning when I wake up, my clothes smell horrible, and my throat is hoarse, and I feel like a 100 pound weight is on my chest all b/c of cigs; that's reason enough not to smoke heavy....but I still enjoy having just one or two cigs, that doesn't bother me the next morning...

[tuneschick]

pcook said:

did you find it harder to quit smoking weed? -- didn't have to quit weed, the doc said that was OK for me to smoke.

Oh sorry, I misread - I thought you said you had to quit both for six months and then were OK with the weed again... just reread it again and realize that's not what you said at all. I'm apparently retarded.

I can see myself being an 80 year old man, sitting on my porch, in my rocking chair, at my house in the country smoking a joint.

I just pictured you as Willie Nelson. That's awesome.

[Paul]

^^^^

When I'm an old man, that vision is probably pretty close...Out of all my friends here, only 4 of us are pot heads, the rest either don't do it at all, or just occasionally...I don't know why I like it so much, but I do...It doesn't make me sleepy or paranoid, I don't know how to explain it...Its like I think of stuff in a different way or something...like when I play guitar, all of a sudden when I'm high I'm trying things I don't normally do, and I'm more experimental...however, when I need to learn technique, I don't like to be high b/c I can't focus well enough...its an interesting balance; the weed pushes me to do things I normally don't do on the guitar, but to actually learn what I was doing, I need to be sober (if I can remember what I was doing; another side effect of smoking grass).

Anywho, I'll let you know how I hold up this weekend when I drink again...hopfully I'll have the willpower not to smoke (cigs).

On a side note, I've enjoyed our conversation I think this is the first time you and I have gone back and forth like this....
I don't venture off into the CE thread very often, but this one caught my eye....Who knows, maybe I'll post more over here; I am very opinionated after all...I just like coming to the Castaway site to escape all the bullshit in the world, not to get further caught up in it; hence the reason I stick to pretty much music only.

[shin]

My contribution to the problem:



Fuck yes. Get fatter, fatties.

True story: I weighed 210 pounds when I was 17. Then over a 5 month span, I did more exercise, and just genereally did more to improve my metabolism more so than my diet, and I lost 50 and went down to 160. This was back in very early 2000, and I stayed that way for 6 years no matter what I did or what I ate. My metabolism was just that on fire.

Then this March I look and notice I'm up to 185. I hadn't even gone over 170 since 1999. And after a while I figured out what the culprit was: during the Super Bowl period, I ate those Burger King Super Bowl XL chicken fries 40 packs in 5 minute spans on a tri-weekly basis. Like I'd drive out at 1 in the morning and fork over 10 dollars for them, and they'd be gone by the time I even got home.

And you know what? I'm finally down to 175 and it was still all worth it.

[shin]

The above sandwich has almost identical nutritional values as a Big Mac. I'm very proud of that. It means eating one is serious business.

[tuneschick]

pcook said:

^^^^

On a side note, I've enjoyed our conversation I think this is the first time you and I have gone back and forth like this....

I enjoyed it too (even though it took me 24 hours to return to it - oops!) Look forward to hearing how it goes this weekend. Good luck!

Shin dude, I don't even know what to say about that sandwich. I can't quite decide if I'm intrigued or repulsed. Maybe a little of both.

[shin]

Don't deny its powers.

[kmc]

I've had one. Slept all day afterwards.

[riley]

I know it's hard to believe, but if you flip the Ham Bomb on it's side, it becomes way more disgusting, and this has nothing to do with me being a vegetarian.

[riley]

for fuck's sake. why did I do that? jesus. bad call.

[tuneschick]

That was so wrong for so many reasons. And the image I'll have stuck in my head as I go to bed. Fucking thanks.

[shin]

Looks like Ann Coulter's snatchbasket.

[tuneschick]

Jesus. And just when I thought I couldn't be any more sickened by that thing.

I really need to start avoiding this thread.

[riley]

Hey all I did was turn a sandwich on it's side. Shin's the one who said it looked like Coulter's meat curtains.

[sisyphus]

oh god.

*nausea ensues*

so, anyone excited for "Fastfood Nation" to come out in theatres? anyone read the book? seriously, it's The Jungle all over....