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fabrisseI am obese. I am working on changing that, but, currently, I am obese. I've lost nearly forty pounds in the last two years, and my doctor doesn't recommend that I lose too quickly because I have a heart condition.
I love eating in restaurants. It gives me ideas for new recipes, and often, I try to figure out how to lower the fat content of a dish so that it's healthier. (I don't use fakes. I'll do without or balance the rest of the meal to avoid such hideousness as fat-free cream.)
The legislature of Mississippi has introduced a bill to "prohibit food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese." Really, it's here, if you want to have a look.
Now I'm pretty sure this is a state that still permits smoking in restaurants, so I'm not certain I buy the idea that this is about improving the health of the state. And as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eanja pointed out when I mentioned it at work, what about health food or vegetarian or vegan restaurants. Surely those of us whose BMI is out of whack should be encouraged to eat at such establishments, not banned from them.
I love eating in restaurants. It gives me ideas for new recipes, and often, I try to figure out how to lower the fat content of a dish so that it's healthier. (I don't use fakes. I'll do without or balance the rest of the meal to avoid such hideousness as fat-free cream.)
The legislature of Mississippi has introduced a bill to "prohibit food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese." Really, it's here, if you want to have a look.
Now I'm pretty sure this is a state that still permits smoking in restaurants, so I'm not certain I buy the idea that this is about improving the health of the state. And as
eanja pointed out when I mentioned it at work, what about health food or vegetarian or vegan restaurants. Surely those of us whose BMI is out of whack should be encouraged to eat at such establishments, not banned from them.
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Date: 2008-02-04 10:02 pm (UTC)And aren't there a good many more factors relating to obesity.
It's not as if eating is optional.
My, do these people know anything? About anything? The hell?
Good job about the weight loss, though. Sounds like quite a lot to me.
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Date: 2008-02-04 11:02 pm (UTC)The worst part is Southern cooking is heavy on fats in general. Chances are excellent that these people are getting more of their fat at home than at a restaurant. For example, the standard way to cook many vegetables in the rural south is with a piece of fatback (a type of salt pork) boiled in with them. Back in the day, most people had meat in the winter or had no meat at all, and the fatback gave them a few extra calories.
As far as my own weight loss goes, moving to DC will be a help. I'll be walking more just to get to and from work. I've already found a yoga studio that sounds good and I know where Curves is. So, if I can get on a schedule, my BMI, if not my weight, should be decreasing. I have to lose at least another 40 pounds (18.1 kilos according to an online calculator) to be at the very top end of the "healthy weight" category. Realistically, I should lose about twenty five kilos for optimum health.
Most of my weight issues have to do with injuries and lack of exercise, but I've been fat for over five years, so this isn't a new issue for me.
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Date: 2008-02-06 10:42 pm (UTC)That sounds really, really icky to me...
Weightloss sounds way more impressive if you go with pounds.