That's pretty damn mean...

What's 'it' that I haven't done yet?

If I choose to not let food get the upper hand then how is that wrong? Yes, I may be fighting genetics but I'm also fighting the nurture part too... Comfort food is my weakness. I have found other ways to answer that call.

No, what makes you a bad person is that you're not her age and haven't done it yet, yet you're patting yourself on the back as if you had. Let's see how you look AFTER your genetics and the effects of aging kick in; before that, you're just blowing hot air.

I look at her and see what I 'could be' and look inside me and realize what I 'want to be'. I want to be healthy! I don't want bad knees, a bad back, diabetes and poor hygiene. I love her for who she is and wish she could change but she's very limited now because of her health issues and she has every right to live, and die, the way that she wants but she is only starting to realize that she made bad choices through out her life and she is paying for them now and that realization isn't coming from me, it's from her doctors. Her orthopedist won't do her knee again until she loses weight. We never discuss her weight, I'm much more concerned with her out of control blood sugar.

We all fight our own battles.

Mine is so that hopefully I don't have the same battles she has when I get to that age. I feel your pain. I'm sorry... Other then that, bite me for you don't know me and never will... I am the me I want to be and Madison Avenue can drop dead!

But I did see a slide show with Giselle Budchen (butchered spelling) in a bikini on a beach from back in the 90's.

Uh, well, she be way to skinny... The Auschwitz look was in then and probably pre-crest. She looked 'healthy' but would likely blow away in a stiff breeze. My step-dad (RIP) would probably say that he'd have to 'shake the sheets to see if she were still in the bed'. He loved my mom and I'm grateful for that.

The anorexic or Auschwitz look isn't what I'm looking for. I want muscles to show, not bones. Being a walking skeleton isn't supposed to be taken literally... Like fat people, I've seen severely skinny people walking around with those sunken, listless eyes and the stringy hair and winced too... Society has a way of chewing people up and spitting them out and moving on...

Who is the 40+ female athlete who has been retired many times and had 2 kids and still came out of retirement 'one last time' to be in this olympics.

I saw a picture of her and was blown away. 40 and looking like that? Wow! It gave me hope. I've lost over 50 pounds in the past 5 years and hope to lose another 10 or 15 and my 'pudge'...

I CAN DO IT IF I WANT IT BAD ENOUGH!

There is no excuse to be a boat anchor blob anymore. It's always easier to fail.

The fat people that I see make me wince. The pain, the suffering, the poor hygiene, the malignant self image.

My mom is a 'fatty'. She weighs probably over 350 lbs! I CHOOSE NOT TO LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN I GET TO BE HER AGE. If that makes me a bad person somehow then so be it...

All they have is more smoke and bullshit to try to 'make a case' in the publics eye.

This 'case' has been a disgrace. That coupled with the 'other big case' left over from the 9/11 daze: Who shorted the stocks of the company stock that took a direct hit due to 9/11/2001.

Yet another mystery. Who did it, where were they at, why did some of them chicken out.

Yet another interesting 'coincidence' and another bumbled 'investigation' by the Bushist junta.

Who bungled the anthrax attacks is an interesting question. The idea that they were partisan is a no-brainer. Yeah it was a coincidence that democrats and a few 'journalists' were targeted. Pure 'coincidence'. Was it done by a 'lone wolf'? There aren't any 'lone wolves' in the Bushist Gestapo.

The more spinning the story does, the more it looks like it's flying apart but 'Joe six-pack' will be frightened and relieved that teh gub-ment has found their man (straw man style)...

Ever since Bush plopped on the political stage there have been profound cultural changes in this country. The styles of women's clothes changed. Skirts got longer, colours got grosser and even swim wear got less skimpy. Modesty seemed to be the big game... A return to a forced segregation of the sexes only seems proper in this wave of childishness towards members of the opposite sex.

Sex is bad in Victorian republican views. Sexy is almost as bad. Women are to be 'protected' from such desires as power, equality, birth control and sexuality. 'Good girls don't' and the 'bad boys' know where to find the 'bad girls' and they aren't in their beds or in better hotels. (The Larry Craig's of the GOP world excepted)

It's really rather pathologic when you look at it, also kinda funny too. Funny in a 'Oh my GAWD' way...

One could hope that things get back to reality under an Obama administration. In a McCain administration the true value of a woman is likely to be her private jet and money stash and not much else.