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VE3WBZ > OM 07.01.11 19:14l 136 Lines 5382 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: RE:G0TEZ on Smoking...etc
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From: VE3WBZ@VE3LSR.#SCON.ON.CAN.NOAM
To : OM@WW
TO: OM @WW
FR: VE3WBZ
DT: Friday, January 7th.,2011 @1108hrs EST
<< Quoting G0TEZ to OM @WW >>
> From : G0TEZ To : OM @WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 07-Jan 00:25
> Bid : 960038G0TEZ Message # : 79047
> Title : VE3WBZ,I agree.
>
> From: G0TEZ@GB7CIP.#32.GBR.EU
> To : OM@WW
>
> Part of what Pete said to Bob:
>
>> There is me and another ...well we want just to fit our jeans
>> again. <g>....
>
> That's me. I am not sure if I had put out a bull about it at
> the tome but something happened to make me horribly obese
> after stopping smoking for 8 years.
Hello Ian G0TEZ and Bob VK6BE, and all others in here;
I really don't know what to say or add Ian, as I read your's
first and then I also read Bob VK6BE and his comments.
There is somewhere I heard, that ., If one does not smoke they
get fat, so they smoke to answer to the stresses of the day's
nerves to kill them. I guess in recovery and all with the
job I ate, as I don't smoke. I note too Ian you noticed this
and yes...many I knew in the family were slim and trim as they
smoked, but then they got away from smoking due to all the
warnings, and laws and filled out like balloons. I mean really
BIG. The WAR never helped, as smoking got a boost from that
nerve wracking time...and thats what got my mother going on smokes.
> I tried dieting and going to the gym. Nothing worked then -
> three years ago I was looking at some old photos where I noticed
> that, whenever I had stopped smoking for a few months or even a
> year or two, I had got bigger, not obese, just bigger so, after
> a lot of thought, I decided to start smoking.
>
> It worked better than I thought. After one month, a friend of
> mine said
> "you look a lot thinner around the face and you only have one chin now."
>
> I gave it a while before I risked weighing and measuring myself
> and was pleasantly surprised to find I had loast
> 3 1/2 Stn = 49Lbs Ca 20kg and 7ins off my waist = 16.8 cm.
>
> I was already on a healthy diet and excercising and, with the combination,
> I have lost even more since then.
>
> I am to old to worry about being attractive to women but,
> to quote Pete, it is nice to get into the old jeans I thought
> I would never wear again.
>
> Just prior to starting smoking I had bought a suit for a wedding.
> One year later it hung on me loosely and the trousers definitely
> needed a belt or they would fall down.
> I went out and bought another suit - a lot smaller all round.
>
> On a more serious note, my doctor did some tests and was a bit
> puzzled that my TSH is way down, so is my cholesterol and the
> diabetes test came back showing me at zero chance of getting
> diabetes. MY BP is nice and low, usually 120/75, O.K. for
> someone half my age.
>
> As for Bob; if he has reached 88, he is beating the odds nicely,
> good luck Bob, hope you reach the ton.
>
> A friend of mine will be 88 soon but he tries to enjoy himself.
> He has been with me to Amsterdam two years running and wants me
> to go again this year.
> We don't do anything wildly exciting but, he talked me into
> looking around De Beers and goes in the Hard Rock Cafe. He might
> have to go on his own this years as I am determined to get round
> to going to Toulouse to visite Space City where they have all the
> ESA and Russian rockets as well as the spare Mir space station
> used for training. I also want to look around Aerospatiale where
> they make the Airbus as well as visiting the student bars and
> Le Frog and Bifteck pub which, I hear is full of many nationalities,
> mainly working for Rolls Royce and other aerospace companies.
>
> He is one of these people who just HATES the French so we might
> have an argument as he won't go but. if I can afford it, I will
> and he will have to tour Amsterdam on his own.
>
> NB I'll probably stock up on cheap Gitanes and Gauloises while
> I'm there. I know all the downsides of smoking,brnchitis,
> emphysemia, lung cancer etc but give me a thin coffin over a
> fat one anytime. Smoking kills but so does obesity.
>
> I will now sit back and wait for the flak.........
>
> 73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
>
> Message timed: 00:25 on 2011-Jan-07
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> E-mail ihg0tez@talktalk.net
> Skype ian-g0tez
>
> [End of Message #79047 from G0TEZ]
It is really worth the re-posting. Sorry everyoe, but so
worhwhile, and it even this time covers anyone out there wanting
to quit smoking, and then the subject brought up, seems to
be if you quit smoking... you get fat... but then that is eating.
Here in North America, that is the culture...another reason for
my move.
Thanks Ian ... Now to look at Bob's comments and post together
because they really go together nicely and I am sure are a benefit
to those reading.
73 Pete VE3WBZ
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