Comments on: Worried About Your Waistline? Just Become Amish!

By: Amish Books

Amish Books — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:46:06 +0000

yea there arent many people that could exercise like that other than professional athletes but man if i could I beat I would be in amazing shape.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:39:53 +0000

Great heavens. I have a job (nurse) that requires 3 to 4 hours of moderate physical activity a day. I also work out at least three times a week with a trainer, and run and walk on my own. And I’m *still* a generous size 14, even with eating healthy and all that crap.

My theory is that my sister and I are a combination of throwback to previous generations and good examples that antidepressants really *do* change the way you metabolize food. I went from a size 4 to a 12 and then to a 14 in a little under a year, even with huge amounts of exercise and calorie restriction.

Scruit, I say. As long as my body moves as it should and I can put in a full 14-hour day at work without trouble, as long as I can mow the lawn/tile the backsplash/walk the dogs/build shelves/whatever without falling over, I’m not complaining.

By: Twistie

Twistie — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:49:31 +0000

Oh Plumcake, nobody uses battery-operated weasel socks in a way that fails to void the warranty!

Olivia, I think that’s the best argument against becoming Amish I’ve ever heard.

By: Olivia

Olivia — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:55:13 +0000

But if we become Amish, how will we read this blog?

By: Plumcake

Plumcake — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:01:54 +0000

wait, so that’s TOTALLY not what I’ve been using my battery-operated weasel socks for…IYKWIM(AITYD)* Damn, there goes ANOTHER voided warranty.

*If you know what I mean (and I think you do)

By: rosarita

rosarita — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:04:12 +0000

Too funny. I live in Amish country, in the central US. Like, the announcements at my local WalMart store are made in English, Spanish and German. The first settlers here were Amish, and my family background is Amish and Mennonite. Newsflash – the majority of Amish women I see in public at said WalMart, etc. are fat. The Amish eat lots of meat and potatoes, homegrown vegetables and fruits, and lots and lots of desserts, most notably pie. Their homemade breads, cookies, pies and jams & jellies are in great demand by tourists and locals alike. Lots of hard work on the farm (I have never seen an Amishman mow the grass or do any type of gardening, that’s strictly for the women and female children), and lots of cooking and baking, and lots of eating! I get a great deal of satisfaction from doing the same. :)

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:36:28 +0000

All my ancestors are skinny as reeds, so god knows what strange mutation resulted in me, but even when I was working on a farm I was still curvy. And I was the ONLY person on that farm, looking after 10 horses, 2 dogs, 4 cats, and 400 acres. That was unquestionably the thinnest I’ve ever been as an adult, but it’s completely unrealistic to think I’m going to find the time to add four hours of digging out basements, and five hours of riding a day to my current busy blogging schedule. It’s so hard to type on horseback!

It also reminds me of those ridonkulous articles that claim housework counts as a workout and you can lose weight just by cleaning your house. Let me ask you this: do you clean your house now? And are you thin? You could, presumably, get thin by cleaning sufficient OTHER people’s houses in addition to your own, but then we come up against the time constraints mentioned earlier. Besides, who looks good in those rubber gloves?

By: Mo

Mo — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:29:43 +0000

I agree, their suggestions are ridiculous. So you can “overcome” genetics. Wow, did they tell the geneticists? Cause I’d seriously like to “overcome” being 5 feet tall. And I also have a photo, of my maternal 4th-great grandmother. She’s a little taller than I am, but she sure as hell isn’t what I’d call slender. And our faces make the resemblance obvious, not just in the fact that they’re round. Hell, my Grandpa always had a large stomach, and he built oil tanks for a living.