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Ok, I realize I’m not making a point that hasn’t been made before (even by myself). But I thought this was somewhat interesting.

Here is a webpage with a chart of different people at different height-weight combinations. It comes from the great cockeyed.com website.

http://www.cockeyed.com/photos/bodies/heightweight.shtml

So I sent this site to 30 of my male friends and 30 of my female friends and asked them to tell me which weight they thought was most attractive for a female  at each height between 5 feet 2 inches and 5 feet 8 inches.

The results? On average the difference between the weight the guys thought looked best was 32 pounds more than the weight females thought looked best at the same height.

I’m not trying to talk anyone out of losing weight. However if you’re a heterosexual female who wants to lose weight, and part of your motivation is being more attractive to guys, well you may want to readjust your goals.

I see a lot of beautiful women here, whose weight is perfectly healthy, driving themselves crazy as they try unnecessarily (in my opinion) to drop another 25 pounds. Of course it doesn’t really matter what I think, but if you’re not enjoying the process of losing weight and you’re beating yourself up all the time over those last few pounds,  you may be doing yourself more harm than good.

Just some thoughts. Good luck to everyone.

It’s that time again. Time to move the clocks forward which means you and I all lose an hour of sleep making this the worst night of the year. I don’t care what you say. I don’t care that this means it will be lighter later in the day. I’m not a farmer, it doesn’t effect me. I can afford electricity. I like when it gets dark early. I love the nightlife (I love to boogie… on the disco roooouunnnnddd!!!). Nothing good happens during the day. The day was made for working or going to school. During the day you go grocery shopping or clean your gutters or see the dentist. But at night you can go to a comedy club, see a band, go dancing, count the stars, make love. Why on earth would I want the daytime to last longer?

And for the love of god, if we HAVE to lose an hour, why do we have to lose an hour of precious slumber? Why can’t we move the clocks ahead at 4pm on Monday? That way you’d be like, “Just one more hour of work… oh wait, it’s time to push the clocks ahead, that means work’s over for today. This is great!” Instead we’re all going to be miserable because of our lost hour of sleep.

Okay, I’ve got that off my chest. I’m going to go try and capture that lost hour by heading to bed early.

This is in response to this blog post: http://khmerbeauty.buddyslim.com/2009/03/07/a-mans-plea-for-help-the-invasion-of-the-a-man/

I wanted to support my brother Rodney in the mourning of Nancy’s butt and all the other curves we’ve lost when you ladies lose weight.

Listen, I understand if you want to lose weight to be healthy and all that. And I definitely support anybody who wants to get their life and their behavior under control. I’m not suggesting anybody walk around at an unhealthy weight. But do us guys a favor and add a few pounds to your goal weight so you don’t end up losing the curves that make you so beautifully feminine. Please?

Ok, I’m not going to beg.

No, wait, I AM going to beg. Please? Please?!

Seriously, though, I realize you have to do what makes YOU feel good, but I see a lot of people on here beating themselves up over a few extra pounds that are actually sitting pretty good on their body. And remember, studies suggest a LITTLE extra weight isn’t such a bad thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4468001.stm

Alright, that’s it. I know I’m not going to convince anybody, but I had to speak my peace.

And Rodney, call me! We’ll go tip one back for the ones we’ve lost.

I posted this quote before but I accidentally deleted it. I wanted to post it again because it’s one of my favorite quotes/ideas.

I think the most important thing about making any personal change is having the belief that you do not need to act the way you’ve always acted. That if you choose to, you can change anything you want. I was reading the book The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy and this quote jumped out at me:

This is the locus of pure possibility, he thought, his neck prickling. What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.

So the next time you find yourself thinking, “I’m going to fail at this because I always fail at this,” just remember the idea of “pure possibility.”  If you’ve had a long history of failing to lose weight I think the first step to losing the weight is forgetting about that history.