Akshully in our home ec we did chicken noodle soup, spaghetti, yknow THE EASY STUFF…. no sesame crusted hamachi tuna (maybe cuz it was expensive) and we never EVER got to use sharp knives to dice an onion the teacher always had our onions diced as well as the carrots or whatever…. mainly because i live in an inner city suburb of pittsburgh that has quite rapidly gone to hell in a handbasket…. if the kids will throw PENNIES at each other in hopes of blinding (or seriously hurting) another the second the teacher turns their back (or the lights go out which was often) why should she trust the little heathens with knives?

I saw my old home ec teacher yesterday, as it turns out the school discontinued the program (and her position) the year after i graduated.

i dare the grammar nazis to come after my lack of caps. i always seem to get at least one.

For me it means ‘Prostate Specific Antigen’, but that’s because my father and my paternal uncles all had prostate cancer.

Now they don’t even have a life skills department. Then again none of the old teachers that were there when I went to school even teach anymore and sadly everything has gone down hill. As it stands i loved it when I went to school there, but now i wouldn’t even dream of sending my kids there, they got the lowest scores in the PSA test.

There are also those women that can’t cook what about them? They constitute ordering pizza, chinese, mcdonalds, KFC or something coming out of a box as “Dinner” being “done”. I home cook everything every day, whether I want to or not because I know all that stuff is REALLY bad for you (Watch supersize me, it made me SICK) esp if you eat it every day. Not only that it’s EXPENSIVE AS HELL (that shit adds up quick when you go thru your checkbook).

It’s cheaper to buy lean cuts of chicken or beef, I buy yes i will admit frozen veg but i steam them till they’re done, NOT till they’re mush. I will eat brown rice, or sometimes skip the starch all together. And i’m 5’8 and still weigh almost 260 pounds. Have had every test ran, doctors all come back with the same thing: “Huh. That’s strange. Everything seems normal and yet you’re huge”. Thank you captain obvious. But the good news is since I got divorced two months ago I dropped TWO PANT SIZES. So that’s what, the equivalent of 20 pounds? It’s AMAZING what stress will do to your body, and what a relief it is NOT HAVING IT!!!

I cut starches and sweets out of my diet, and bought a good used bicycle. Every time I went on an errand I asked myself, “Can I do this on the bike?” If I could, I did. I lost 10″ off my waistline and had to send all my trousers to Goodwill. My diabetes is under control without any use of drugs, and I want to keep it that way as long as I can. Every time I hear a doughnut or a hot fudge sundae or a Whitman’s sampler or a plate of Toll House cookies calling my name, I say to myself, “I LIKE my eyes; I like my kidneys; I like my fingers and toes; I want to keep them.”

Type II Diabetes, Hypertension, Arteriosclerosis, Osteoarthritis, and a host of other conditions that were formerly almost always seen only in the middle aged and elderly are now becoming more and more common in adolescents and even in elementary aged children. There are two elementary schools and one middle school that I pass regularly, and–while I haven’t made a survey–it seems that the vast majority of children at both schools look like the Pillsbury Doughboy or the Michelin Man. When I look at pictures of schoolchildren only ten years ago, far fewer were pudgy; when I look at my own HS yearbooks, I see hardly any fat kids. While genetics may be a part of why one is lean or plump, it certainly isn’t the whole story.

Oh my god…that injury is excruciatingly horrible just to read – I am cringing – horrific!!! And don’t worry about going easy on doctors – like I said, people are dying because of this fake panic. The bit about birth? Utter nonsense – you know they didn’t used to spout that crap even 20 years ago, really. It’s a brave new world. Ever seen the Venus of Willendorf? She’s the ancient symbol of fertility, and she am fat – it used to be considered a good thing for birth. Our own government is declaring war on fat people (the War Against Obesity) and it’s not good. I’m gonna give you just one more link, but it’s a good one.

Lol!! Yeah the friend I mentioned at First Do No Harm has trouble finding exercises due to long-ago joint injuries, so she’s kind of stuck with very few options on that score. I never thought of the dog thing though hehe.

Now I’m coming up with all the exceptions to that (degenerative joints! being attacked by dogs! sunstroke!) so I’ll quit while I’m ahead… or, at least, not any further behind than I’ve gotten so far…

There are several varieties of fat acceptance sites (with varying political ideologies) and there are doctors and nurses waking up to the truth of the matter, too, so hang in there. Despite Meme Roth’s screaming, like I said, FA has been making it into the mainstream more and more.

One of the most heartrending facts is that fat people die for lack of medical care when doctors do not listen to them and merely try to get them to lose weight and it’ll all go away – there is a whole site dedicated to that reality, called “First, Do No Harm”. I’ll include a link to that one as well. A dear friend of mine is on the staff there.