Being fat and sloppy is often the main topic of conversation with my friends; even when we are at a restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0Listening to my\u00a0friends talk about diet,\u00a0one would\u00a0believe them to be\u00a0diet and weight loss experts.\u00a0\u00a0No one couldn’t tell by looking at them though.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0eagerly\u00a0listen to their diet\u00a0theories with rapt attention,\u00a0drinking in\u00a0the wisdom of my buddies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Most of the\u00a0diet\u00a0talk\u00a0centers on\u00a0eliminating carbs and sugars from the\u00a0diet.\u00a0 They tell me\u00a0that\u00a0magical\u00a0thinning\u00a0that happens when we\u00a0eliminate those items.\u00a0 These things even I have heard about before. \u00a0Last Saturday night, I spent an hour in a car with three slob friends\u00a0listening to\u00a0their best current strategies for losing weight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turns out that my friends, while not eating sugary, fried and high calorie\u00a0foods, are\u00a0at the cutting edge of the science\u00a0of calorie loss,\u00a0and\u00a0stay up to date on\u00a0scientific literature\u00a0about the best weight loss theories.\u00a0\u00a0They inform me that the best\u00a0diet is cold water.\u00a0 Not drinking it; but\u00a0taking long showers in it.\u00a0 I know real men\u00a0take cold showers\u00a0and Navy Seals do too, but I’m not stupid.\u00a0\u00a0They can’t convince me to do that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Losing weight can be done in only 10 minutes a day twice a week they insist.\u00a0\u00a0They presented a compelling case\u00a0that the energy\u00a0required while shivering in\u00a0freezing\u00a0water\u00a0will\u00a0cause\u00a0me to lose weight.\u00a0\u00a0This is what my\u00a0buddies\u00a0say and I believe them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since I told them I wouldn’t\u00a0take cold showers, they\u00a0recomended I\u00a0stand in a swimming pool and let the pounds roll off me.\u00a0 That advice struck me as reasonable.\u00a0 So,\u00a0I’ll\u00a0ask my neighbor if I can stand in\u00a0his unheated pool for 10\u00a0minutes a couple times a week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I can picture myself in the pool,\u00a0shivering and losing weight.\u00a0 How easy!\u00a0\u00a0I then\u00a0imagine\u00a0total strangers\u00a0coming up to me and ask me how is it that I look so good.\u00a0 I’ll beam with pride and smile.\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t\u00a0tell them\u00a0anything, I’ll keep\u00a0my little secret to myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before I get started, I have to ask my friends\u00a0how to get the courage\u00a0to jump into and sit in\u00a0someone’s freezing pool for\u00a010 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Being fat and sloppy is often the main topic of conversation with my friends; even when we are at a restaurant.\u00a0\u00a0Listening to my\u00a0friends talk about diet,\u00a0one would\u00a0believe them to be\u00a0diet and weight loss experts.\u00a0\u00a0No one couldn’t tell by looking at them though.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0eagerly\u00a0listen to their diet\u00a0theories with rapt attention,\u00a0drinking in\u00a0the wisdom of my buddies.\u00a0 Most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,4,19,18],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericanmale","tag-diet","tag-exercise","tag-food","tag-swimming-pool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatandsloppy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}