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[linnea]

I (and my physician) would consider it hell of positive if I was considerably smaller.

Didn't you mention at one point that Mrs. West got the lap-band surgery? One of my acquaintances here in Colorado got that done, and she lost about 85 pounds. She was about 5'2" and weighed around 240. It costs a lot ($8,000 +) but it sounds like it could be very worthwhile.

[AugustWest]

It's been a very positive experience for the Mrs.  She's lost about 70 lbs to date and I don't think she's done.

She had to jump through hell of hoops to get the insurance company to pay for it.  Based on her experience, I'm not close to big enough to get it approved.  Also, I'm not psychologically in the right place to do it.

[linnea]

It's been a very positive experience for the Mrs.  She's lost about 70 lbs to date and I don't think she's done.

She had to jump through hell of hoops to get the insurance company to pay for it.  Based on her experience, I'm not close to big enough to get it approved.  Also, I'm not psychologically in the right place to do it.

Oh. The girl I knew just paid cash to have it done, since her insurer wouldn't cover it.

[Bobby Isosceles]

I just realized, the real joke here is that Phillipe will end up being the next Nice Pete.

[Golfhaus]

5'11", 134-137. Somewhere in there.

5'9", 212 at my last doctor's visit. Bad enough, but the cholesterol level of 236 is what really has the doctor worried. Gonna start going to the gym tomorrow, I think. Me and an elliptical machine have a date.

[linnea]

5'9", 212 at my last doctor's visit. Bad enough, but the cholesterol level of 236 is what really has the doctor worried. Gonna start going to the gym tomorrow, I think. Me and an elliptical machine have a date.

I would be so fuck*ng thrilled to have an extra room in my house with a decent elliptical machine. It would be so great. Having a full-on home gym with treadmill, elliptical, stationary bike, and stairmill would be ideal. Damn.

Once I get a car, however, I am getting a membership to a gym...shyness and self-consciousness be damned. It's something I've just gotta get over.

[KeithHernandez]

I used to run four miles a day before college at a local gym, and I found that fine.  Now, in college, with the free college gym, I hate going unless it is to play basketball or raquetball.  Something about the fact that it is just for college students bugs me.  Also, considering this is my fifth year, I am hell of out of shape.  Real shame too, I am the type of person who HAS to work out or I gain weight like no other.  I have gained at least 50 lbs in the last four-ish years, and, really, I live life (drinking/eating) the same as before college.

I might try to get a cheap membership at a Y or something.  It doesn't bug me if friends or strangers are around when I am working out, but people from classes or parties or bars or friends friends, I don't know, it is uncomfortable.

[jaydub]

I would be so fuck*ng thrilled to have an extra room in my house with a decent elliptical machine. It would be so great. Having a full-on home gym with treadmill, elliptical, stationary bike, and stairmill would be ideal. Damn.

Once I get a car, however, I am getting a membership to a gym...shyness and self-consciousness be damned. It's something I've just gotta get over.

Yeah, home gyms are rarely worth it.  They become clothes racks on installment payments.  Right now we have a treadmill (a really nice one) semi-buried in the garage, serving as a storage platform for Christmas decorations.  We got the thing only over my most strenuous objections.  For the sake of domestic harmony, I do not bring the topic up at home.  Personally, I have accepted that I am motivated by the attention of others.  I am far more likely to stick to a program if there are people who miss me when I don't show up, and could ask me what I've been up to for the past few weeks.  Shallow of me, perhaps, but it works.

[Golfhaus]

I might try to get a cheap membership at a Y or something.  It doesn't bug me if friends or strangers are around when I am working out, but people from classes or parties or bars or friends friends, I don't know, it is uncomfortable.

I was always under the impression that the Y was a cheap gym to join. Not the case here. Of the five or six gyms we looked at, the Y was by far the most expensive (~ 60 bucks a month!) of the batch.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Gyms are, on the whole, expensive.  Even the county rec center here costs a good bit.  It's a commitment.

I may have already sung the praises of Freecycle.  If you get on your local list, you may catch someone giving away a treadmill or other piece of exercise equiment that's become a laundry rack.  Free = good.

[Dexter]

Dont feel bad, inev, my girlfriend has the same circumference as my cat. Yes I measured.
If my cat wore skirts, they could share skirts.

I'm left wondering: is your cat really, really fat, or is your girlfriend really, really skinny?

[Arachno-capitalist]

I'm left wondering: is your cat really, really fat, or is your girlfriend really, really skinny?

Yes.

[Dexter]

Yes.

Oh.

[Drygioni]

The fact that Phillipe so cuttingly remarked 'Mr Bear is gay!' cracked me up. I've heard my 8 year old brother call anything he dislikes 'gay' a million times.

(He stopped after I sat down and talked to him about the fact that 'gay' is not an insult, and giving the myriad reasons why. He's pretty open minded for his age)

[lprkn]

I liked the Stupanada insult. I must try to work that into conversation.