[Leica] Supersize & fascinating knowledge

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Every once in a while, we the Luggites, come up with a completely non-Leica 
topic that is interesting, fascinating and so informative it's amazing. A 
very special topic!

Any other site? Never happen as the topic would be booooooooooed off the 
stage or deleted! Banned, whatever! However. Here?  A damn fine bunch of 
folks who like to learn.

The family snapped a bit on this at the beginning, but in the end it evolved 
into a very interesting informative topic. I don't have any doubt my 
attitudes have changed in-relation to "big folks."

I found Adam's input very interesting because it came from someone who's 
"been there!" And folks for me, is far more informative and interesting than 
from a person who read a book and  has all the answers. Not that we had 
that. Adam was....  Blunt? But hey the guy lived it, he had a right to speak 
his piece from experience! !

My good fortune has been, I've rarely had to be concerned with "being over 
weight / sized."  Probably the luck of the draw in the big picture of 
things. However, a situation where all of a sudden I couldn't comfortably 
wear a favourite pair of trousers drove me crazy! I'm sure some of you have 
similar experiences! :-)

Anyway I'd begin to eat half of whatever was on my plate......... yep got 
lots of "cross words about the cooking, making dinner, never make a meal 
again, etc." Well it sort of got on my nerves..... I mean you can only take 
the bitching so long! :-) So I'd eat a tiny bit more only to pacify! ;-)

But I think the situation really is, too each his own in how you handle this 
kind of thing.

I'd cut back on the intake and left the table always ready to eat more, or 
left feeling a tad hungry. Not sure this is best for everyone, but it helped 
me. Another, I would walk an hour after dinner. Quite often I'd start within 
a half hour of dinner! Not sure that's a proper way of doing it as far as 
fitness people think. But some how it worked.

But the bottom line on this topic is.... "we all learned something about the 
condition" which in the past I'd think was a "visual condition" perceived of 
other less fortunate folks than ourselves.

But once again, the LUG family far out performed itself and everyone learned 
something than being about a one topic (Leica) camera family.

Good on all of us! Thanks folks, because this is what makes this place such 
a wonderful spot to come home to!

ted