Loss of productivity due to obesity costs as much as medical expenditures for the condition,according to a new study that pegs the cost of obesity among full time workers in the US @ 73.1 billion per year.

I may be obese, but I put over 15,000 miles on my Savage in the last 12 months, and I will put another 15,000 on it next year, and the year after, etc.  I guess that I am just "fat and happy",

Everybody quit worrying. The rising unemployment numbers will bring the national obesity rate down. It's natures way

Obesity make your bike suffer.

Phelonius

Skid Mark wrote on 10/09/10 at 19:47:32:

that is a tad OW. I am concidered portly at 5' 7" and 140. And I can still see my belt buckle and shoes.

I am concidered portly at 5' 7" and 140.

Nuh uhh Mick. Thats not portly, or heavy, or chunky. Im 5'6"  & weigh about 145 & I know what heavy Isnt.  Ive also noticed Ive seen lots more old guys built like me than the fatso types/.

I'm 6"1" and 265 lbs.  If I'm obese, bite me.  I can lift more that I weigh, and haven't weighed under 200 lbs since 1983.

yep i'm a lard ass.....and so?  .....graduated high school 300, went to college dropped 100 (got laid for the 1st time ), stayed around 200-230 for 5yr (got laid a lot more ), got married hit 290, got divorced dropped back to 200 ("marketing package" needed to be updated if i was going to get laid, again)........stayed 200-230 for 3yr got laid alot more & got married # 2......been married 19yr, 230 to 420 (The Pool Hall is closed, cant shoot pool with a piece of rope ) and diabetic and all those tricks that used to work to drop a 100 in 3 months or less dont work anymore......i show up for work everyday still, sure i cant run a sub 5.0 40yd anymore or get in a 3 point stance or throw the football 60 yards anymore (torn rotator cuffs)....but i bet if I tackled you - you'd remember it for a long time......thank God someone got to Michael Vick before i did, he would not have gotten up if I had a shot at him.

.......am I happy being a rope tote'n lard ass? nope. do I have good days? yes.......would i have done things different if i knew then (thin) what i know now (Gi-Freakin-normous!), of course who wouldn't?....but this is where i am in life, on this side of the dirt today so it is a good day, rode the cycle to work makes it a better day.....hopefully i'll still be on this side of the dirt tomorrow and life will go on....if not the sun will rise in the east and life will go on for the rest of the population that is left on this side dirt whether they be fat or thin and somewhere tween......Fat Boy - out