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  1. #61
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    Okay everyone--here's how you loose weight.

    1) stop eating American style foods! Cut them out completely... especially fried foods, soft drinks (even diet drink), breads, and red meat. This is the crap that got you in the condition you are in. You are all suffering from life style diseases--that inflame any kind of genetic/medical issues.

    2) break a sweat for more than one hour per day! Turn off the computer, turn off Hannity and Dope-ra, etc. Go outside and don't come back until you are dripping with sweat. You have to burn calories.

    3) drink lots of purified water!

    4) repeat step 1.

    I don't buy this big bone and medical condition hogwash at all. It all comes down to the crap you stuff into your mouth. I see lots of planetiods (throwing off gravitational waves BTW) rolling around Walmart and Costco in those electric carts provided for semi-invalid people... and I also carefully study what they purchase to eat--and to the person they load up with starchy, sugary, processed crap, potatoes and beef and so on down the line.

    When I am in Japan, I do not see overweight people. There are no planetoids trundling around the streets. People there have to walk and do physical things just to survive... also they consume a completely different diet which is 180 degrees out from American shokuji (foods). For the most part they are height/weight porportional.

    If you are a fatty--the blame is completely yours.

    ST

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    I can lose weight, and no longer be a "planetoid",

    but you will always be an insensitive ass.


    drive
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    Thumbs up OMG! What a PERFECT comback Drive!

    Quote Originally Posted by driveshesaid View Post
    I can lose weight, and no longer be a "planetoid",

    but you will always be an insensitive ass.


    drive
    RIGHT ON DRIVE!!

    You have no idea of what you speak ST.

    First ... judge not, least thee be judged.

    Second ... since you are NOT of the female type ... how in the world could you EVEN think you know of what you speak.

    True story:
    I was having some serious FEMALE troubles about a year after the birth of my fifth child, my only girl. I was in the hospital every single month for two to three days due to extreme pain in the female area. This went on for twelve months ... every month.
    My own GP was out having just had major female surgery of her own. I got a very nice but very lack of knowledge of females male doctor.
    When I decribed to him that it felt like the bottom was falling out ... He went totally blank. He just kept looking at me with this super strange look on his face. Then he turned beet red! He was a DOCTOR!!
    Then, he reached for the door to the room, shrugged and said, "Doc. B .... will be back on Monday. She will understand what you mean. Here's some pain meds, take as directed."
    He turned and left me there ... thinking what in the hell just happened here?


    I did tell my good friend, Dr. B what Dr. C had said. I'd never heard her laugh sooooooooooooo loud in my life!

    The point is: She DID understand what I was talking about. Ended up it was precanerous ovarian cancer. Everything was out and gone within five days!
    Thank GOD for a female doctor!!

    I do have very serious health issues ... one is cancer in my thyroid, more in my kidney. AND, I am a little overweight which is controlled by the meds for the above trouble.


    ST ... you really owe all the women of the Tree, who are overweight by no fault of their own, an I AM TRULY SORRY LADIES!

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    shinmen,

    you either did not read the statement in the OP that said:

    without getting into the whole overweight argument, this is just about the information that plus size clothes and how the fashion industry is starting to get better clothes for sizes 12 and up

    or, you are ignoring it. perhaps you did not understand that this thread as not for the smacking of people tht are over weight. in such case, let me make it very clear.

    this thread is not for others to come in and start poking fun at, offering solutions to lose weight, belittling, demeaning, calling people names, etc

    this thread is about plus size clothes and how the fashion industry is getting better clothes for sizes 12 and up. if you cannot offer anything in that dept., without being a jerk, then leave the thread and do not return
    float like a butterfly...

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    Some of the coolest women I know are seriously overweight. I say, if you're stuck with it, embrace it. It builds character.

    Back to the OP, I can see the small, home based made-to-order dress shop as a possible business opportunity for a person with some good sewing skills. It wouldn't make the owner rich, but would provide an additional income. If it were me, I might work mostly off a few basic tunic and skirt, or tunic and pant patterns, keep swatches of suitable fabrics on hand, and order the yardage as soon as the customer placed an order. If the customer's deposit covers the fabric cost, there is not much risk or overhead for the seamstress. I wouldn't keep stock, except for some sample pieces in different sizes that the customer could try on and from there, we could discuss individual preferences for the customer's order.

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