Reply By: Furry Canary

Welcome back!  I hope the high ate us was not too bad.

Why, thank you Dr Guy. It's lovely to be remembered. And no, all is well in the Canary household!

Furry Canary: (and I really hope that name doesn't mean what I think it might)

Okay...? Relax, take a load off. I am being completely honest in saying that I had never heard of V8 until it was explained to me by LW.



Of course. A real man cultivates his prejudices like a hothouse flower, and he makes sure he gets sufficient mental exercise by jumping to every conclusion within reach. These are the keys to a civilised mind.

'Furry Canary: (and I really hope that name doesn't mean what I think it might)'
I doubt it very much, but it depends upon which conclusion you've jumped to on this occasion ...

'Relax, take a load off. I am being completely honest in saying that I had never heard of V8 until it was explained to me by LW.'
Oh, I'm very relaxed, thanks. And I take no issue with you not having heard of V8. But if you choose to extrapolate from your own experiences to those of the population in general without checking your facts, eventually - like here - you're going to slip up.

'A real man ... makes sure he gets sufficient mental exercise by jumping to every conclusion within reach.'
But jumping to conclusions is the least energetic way of getting from A to B. So, I put it to you, it's rather like completing a marathon by taking a taxi. Hardly 'exercise', and hardly the stuff of a 'real man' (whatever that might be).

That was a joke, Furry. 'Jumping', get it?

Anyway it doesn't matter. Good to see you back around here anyway.

'That was a joke, Furry. 'Jumping', get it?'
Of course, hence the (attempt at a) humorous response. Thanks for the welcome back.

Well, I'm a bit obese (BMI 32) so I guess I'll share my view on the matter. I guess if I had enough self-discipline this could be resolved, so I'll attribute some of the blame on my lack of will power.

I find to me, it's very hard to get myself to lose weight, and easy to gain and maintain weight. If one eats a great deal less all of a sudden, your body will get all defensive and start lowering its metabolism and even breaking down things like muscle before it breaks down fat to try and conserve as much as possible.

Remember, as far as our evolutionary history is concerned, food was far more scarce back in the day, and so it was advantageous to store fat and limit the burning of fat as much as possible since having food wasn't something that could be relied upon. Plus many of the health problems coming from obesity start to take effect after the average life span of our distant ancestors in any case.

The real key is to increase ones metabolism via things like exercising and building muscles as well so that one has a greater resting metabolism. Now, as far as exercising is concerned, it's rather boring to me. If I were doing it with someone else, then the appeal increases greatly, but I dont' know that many people who exersice.

I gained weight at an incredibley rapid pace when I left La Paz, Bolivia (an altitude of around 13,000 ft) and moved to Hungary where the altitude was much lower. Living at a high altitude meant that it took a lot of energy to simply breathe, and so when I moved, my diet remained the same, but my metabolism took a deep plunge. And since then, I've been able to keep around the same weight to size ratio.

I guess if I could fit an exersice time into a routine then it'd be easier, but I find it hard to have much of any kind of routine in college, since my workloads vary greatly from day to day, and I find myself living a more spontaneous life. Probably when I get a job where my schedule is more stable, I'll have better luck, but for right now, it's not too great of a concern. I try exercising from time to time but it's not much fun and hard to get myself to do it at any given moment.

lw oopsie

I usually go with "curvy".