Yes, another “Vision Quest” reference.
Blame my elder son this time. He brought the above weigh-in video clip to my attention because he knew it would remind me, as it did him, of the big weigh-in scene in the movie. (Oh, and to you adolescent boys out there — don’t bother watching the above clip; you never get to see anything. For an ultimate fighter, who you might think would be about as bashful as a Viking shieldmaiden, she’s very demure.)
“Think light,” said Kooch (a great secondary character, by the way). And Loudon did.
Speaking of which…
I’m nowhere nearer to being able to wrestle Shute than I was the last time I mentioned it.
But I learned this week that I shouldn’t worry, because my weight, at 180-something, remains way under the national average now:
Americans aren’t growing taller, but their waistlines are growing wider. A new federal report reveals that U.S. men and women weigh about 15 lb. more than they did 20 years ago.
In the report, published Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, researchers looked at data from 2011 to 2014. They found that the average man, who’s about 5 ft. 9 in., weighs 195.7 lb., and the average woman, almost 5 ft. 4 lb., weighs 168.5 lb. For men, that’s about 15 lb. more than average in 1988–94; women are now more than 16 lb. heavier. Men and women’s heights were about the same two decades ago….
This is a puzzle, though, because 75 percent of us reporting eating healthy…
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Translation: This is actually a post about Americans being way heavier than they were a couple of decades ago.
I just have my own way of burying the lede…
Want to lose weight? Burn more calories than you take in. Eat less, move more, or both. If you work at a desk, find a way to walk around an hour a day.
Get a step counter app or fitbit and get 10000 steps in every day no matter what. You’ll lose weight over time.