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Riding a bike for an hour or two is fairly easy compared to 1-2 hours of almost any other common form of aerobic exercise.
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except sex according to Sukhi's recent posting.!

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Works for me, I don't have a weight problem!

Oh boy,

Yes, that was a side effect. I now have two boys!

So she didn't suffer from a diagnosed metabolic disorder ... I was unsure on that point from your post. In a way, she was lucky to be able to opt for medical intervention as this is not always possible/available. It would seem that my eldest brother's only chance of a future would be via surgical intervention, but his current weight rules this option out. In his case, dieting is not really an option as he also suffers from schizophrenia and he really couldn't care less what happens anymore. He was recently diagnosed with diabetes, has the worst case of varicose viens I have ever seen, cannot breathe properly anymore and has also suffered more than one mini stroke!

I know the pain associated with RA can be really debilitating, I suffer from another type of arthritis but I can sympathise with your wife! I am not in constant pain (yet?), but during the bad periods the pain can really make life miserable! RA is particularly cruel as it usually strikes when you are still young. Did your wife have any idea that she might be at an increased risk of RA .... I believe it is hereditary?

No metabolic condition that we are aware of, although her docs do think the thyroids played up a lot.

Anyhow as for the hereditory thing, yes, MIL has fibromialgia (sp) with is very similar

Makes your "beer gut" look like a little puppy fat Yosser.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/08/11....ap/index.html

You should have put this under the "eeeeewwwwww" thread I started! Ugh!

Send him over to my house at 6.30am for my morning run, I'll soon shave a few pounds off him.

Absolutely true. I moved to SD 12 years ago and married a Mexican-American woman. Here's a photo of what she looked like at the beach when I met her


and what she looks like now. She's been eating fine, just not healthy.

The reason that happens is purely medical. Once a woman has snared her partner she does not feel the need to stay thin & attractive as she does not need to appeal to a man anymore.

The same behaviour is exhibited in the male, he decides that he can leave the loo seat up, break wind in front of his loved one and other male traits that he kept hidden till the wedding.

she also seems to have a nasty facial disfigurement as a side effect of her eating difficulties

Try the 'Body For Life' diet (ISBN: 0060193395), I lost 30lbs in 3 months doing that. Bill Philips is a real motivator, I went from doing virtually no exercise to making visits to the gym before work every day.

-tom

Can Yosser's beer gut be described as an awful hang-over ?

Oh, she's still attractive to me, thooough clearly not thin.