On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 13:58:54 +0900, Declan Murphy
<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Raj Feridun wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 23:49:50 +0900, Declan Murphy
>> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well actually I decided to shed the blubber in May 2002 and by August
>> of that year I had reached my goal at the speedy pace of about 12kg
>> per month. So I'm really pushing 16 months at goal weight now. My diet
>> was a very unhealthy but effective one I just dreamed up one day based
>> mainly on the concept of mainly eating tofu (mmmmmmm hiya yakko!) and
>> a little grilled fish, rice and salad once a day. I ended up paying
>> the price for that though when I got sick as a dog with some sort of
>> straight from hell inflammatory condition throughout the entire upper
>> part of my body. It lasted right through the winter last year and the
>> doctors suppose it was a hormonal thing as a side effect of my patent
>> pending tofu starvation diet. 

>1) How is it possible to be sick as a dog right through the winter and 
>still be able to work,

Well, I actually missed/lost a lot of work.

>concentrate, 

I've never been very good at that.

>fornicate etc? 

No problem there the sickness killed my libido completely for a few
months.

>What do you do in Matsuyama?

I work for a shipping company as their in-house English "counselor".

>2) After you deflated, how did you iron out all the wrinkles?

Fortunately aside from a few pesky stretchmarks on the abdominal area
I snapped back into pretty good shape due in large part to the
combination of exercise (I jog 5km a day) I did with the dieting.
While I was really sick I wasn't running of course but then I was just
losing weight like crazy. The human body is remarkably resilient if
you take care of it. 

In the U.S. now these stomach-stapling surgical procedures for the
growing population of super-fatsos seem to be all the rage. One
operation and you quickly drop all the extra weight without exercise
or any pain. But then they all end up looking like those shar-pei dogs
with all the hanging folds of stretched out skin and I say GOOD! Noone
wants to do anything the hard/right way.