Interesting thought...

[Jrgh17]

This was prompted by the obesity thread in Health Issues.

I love how we get all worried whenever our snakes have 'hips' and are very meticulous about their feeding schedules... yet how many of us neglect OURSELVES and our own care to some extent?

For instance:
Snake hips vs. owner being overweight
Using supplement for herps vs. us taking vitamins

I just kinda found the thought of it amusing. In some ways it's good (we take really good care of our animals), and in some ways it's bad how unhealthy we can be...

 

[bitsy]

You're right. I'm paranoid about my snakes eating the right things at the right times. But I can't remember the last time I ate a green vegetable!

As for out of condition, the lift was broken at work this morning and I was forced to walk up three floors using the stairs - nearly had a coronary and couldn't speak for five minutes...

 

[KJUN]

For instance:
Snake hips vs. owner being overweight
Using supplement for herps vs. us taking vitamins

I'll take it a step further. How can you take advice from a grossly overweight vet or doctor on the correct way to maintain a healthy condition in your animals? I'm stubborn, I don't got to doctors that are unhealthy (or smoke), and I would never use a vet like that, either.

PLUS, hips may be a bad thing to see on snakes, but they can look GOOD on women. Always remember, "A waist is a terrible thing to mind!"
KJ

 

[bitsy]

If I avoid doctors who look unhealthy, I'd never get to see one. Most of the guys in my local practice seem permanently on the verge of a nervous breakdown. And they're all on the "ample" side.

 

[Jrgh17]

You're right. I'm paranoid about my snakes eating the right things at the right times. But I can't remember the last time I ate a green vegetable!

As for out of condition, the lift was broken at work this morning and I was forced to walk up three floors using the stairs - nearly had a coronary and couldn't speak for five minutes...

:roflmao: Just don't start yourself on a once-ever-fourteen-days feeding schedule.

I'll take it a step further. How can you take advice from a grossly overweight vet or doctor on the correct way to maintain a healthy condition in your animals? I'm stubborn, I don't got to doctors that are unhealthy (or smoke), and I would never use a vet like that, either.

I've had swim coaches that might've been AWESOME onceuponatime, but now they've got beer bellies and no muscles. I DO NOT take it well when someone in that shape tells me that I am not swimming a 200 yard Butterfly fast enough. It's one of those things where I've wanted to yell "And why don't you get in here and beat my time?!?!" :smash: :smash:

I'm the same way with doctors,

PLUS, hips may be a bad thing to see on snakes, but they can look GOOD on women. Always remember, "A waist is a terrible thing to mind!"
KJ

:roflmao: Do you think guy cornsnakes are into ladies with curves too?

 

[KJUN]

Do you think guy cornsnakes are into ladies with curves too?

OBVIOUSLY NOT!

Don't you know the OLDEST cornsnake joke in the world?

Q: Why don't male cornsnakes have hands?
A: Because female cornsnakes don't have boobs!

OK, so I'm childish. I admit it. The best part of my wife's pregancy is the 2lbs NOT gained in the lower part of the body.

KJ

 

[Jrgh17]

Q: Why don't male cornsnakes have hands?
A: Because female cornsnakes don't have boobs!

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown:

 

[mike17l]

OK, so I'm childish. I admit it. The best part of my wife's pregancy is the 2lbs NOT gained in the lower part of the body.
KJ

Your welcome.

 

[jazzgeek]

As usual, it's time for me to stir a turd.

It's ENTIRELY possible for someone to be an "authority" in a field of endeavor without being 1) a proponent or adherent to the regimen needed in that endeavor or 2) the "original" in that field.

It's like saying that I held the opinion that my physics professor, who has devoted his life to Quantum Electrodynamics, is nothing but a total fraud because he's not Richard Feynman.

regards,
jazz

 

[Susan]

OK...Yes, I know I've put on too much weight over the past year and 4 months. In fact, I put on about 40+ pounds. I quit smoking and even though my eating habits changed a little, they didn't change that much, and the little extra I was eating was low cal and healthy, for the most part. I'm just on this side of 50 and I personally don't see the difference between having a heart attack caused by smoking or having a heart attack caused by being over-weight...other than the misery I went through to quit a 30+ year habit that I really didn't want to quit and the daily agony I go through because I still want to light up. That, and the fact they hubby and I have had "fun" once, and only once, since the day I quit smoking. I don't even have THAT anymore. So, yeah, I'm fat, and right now, I don't give a rat's patootie!

 

[Joejr14]

OK...Yes, I know I've put on too much weight over the past year and 4 months. In fact, I put on about 40+ pounds. I quit smoking and even though my eating habits changed a little, they didn't change that much, and the little extra I was eating was low cal and healthy, for the most part. I'm just on this side of 50 and I personally don't see the difference between having a heart attack caused by smoking or having a heart attack caused by being over-weight...other than the misery I went through to quit a 30+ year habit that I really didn't want to quit and the daily agony I go through because I still want to light up. That, and the fact they hubby and I have had "fun" once, and only once, since the day I quit smoking. I don't even have THAT anymore. So, yeah, I'm fat, and right now, I don't give a rat's patootie!

Boy it sure stinks to get old!

 

[v_various]

argh, I put on 7 pounds since christmas/the beginning of my love affair with beer. I'm still not overweight according to my BMI, but I bought myself DDR anyway (dance dance revolution, that video game where you dance around to the arrows). It's freaking fun and get's the heart rate up pretty good! Also, more veggies, less beer. That last one will be hard but I figure if every time I crave a beer I go for a corona instead of a lovely micro brew craft beer, I'll stop carving them soon enough.

 

[KJUN]

I personally don't see the difference between having a heart attack caused by smoking or having a heart attack caused by being over-weight..

Hey, at least you and your stuff smells better now! I'm sure it is nice to hear "You smell nice" occasionally instead of "You smell like smoke." I bet you smell much better now.

That, and the fact they hubby and I have had "fun" once, and only once, since the day I quit smoking.

If you haven't had fun, then you need to make him practice more.......

Don't feel bad. I'm much younger, not overweight (well, maybe a couple of pounds), don't smoke, and I'm usually "too tired" to bother....especially during snake breeding/hatching season. Oh, yeah, and during hunting season. I don't have an excuse. Well, other than just being lazy.

 

[Jrgh17]

You know... "fun" burns calories too. All the health organizations say that you need to get your heart rate up for about 30 minutes every day... Does this mean I can stop swimming in the off season? I'd have to find a workout buddy though...

P.S. Good for you guys who quit.

argh, I put on 7 pounds since christmas/the beginning of my love affair with beer. I'm still not overweight according to my BMI, but I bought myself DDR anyway (dance dance revolution, that video game where you dance around to the arrows). It's freaking fun and get's the heart rate up pretty good! Also, more veggies, less beer. That last one will be hard but I figure if every time I crave a beer I go for a corona instead of a lovely micro brew craft beer, I'll stop carving them soon enough.

I'm ashamed to say it, but I love DDR too.

And that is EXACTLY how my uncle quit drinking when he found out he had liver problems. He had a beer he hates every time he got a craving until all the positive association was gone.