Tonight, I come to you, my friends, in SHAME...

PastorP · Postby **PastorP** » November 28th, 2008, 3:02 pm

irthnvesl wrote:John, you are a sinner among sinners, the chiefest of them all. Repent and be baptized. Turn or burn. Go to confession NOW while there is still time. Receive your absolution.

The sign of absolution is a smaller waistline becuz of yo repentance by turning and going in a different direcshun from that sinful food.

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 28th, 2008, 3:54 pm

PastorP,

That is a truism sir. Metanoia - with the mind. Indicates a change in behavior which doesn't seem to have affected my expanding waistline at this point. :lol:

Anybody found any scriptural loopholes to the whole gluttony thing yet? Some of you Greek scholars need to get to work!

JohnDB · Postby **JohnDB** » November 29th, 2008, 2:58 am

I only got a thirty inch waist...

I will work it off on monday...I got a couple of foreman wanting me on their crews...so...I will be working outside monday digging using that "third world" excavator.

How about an Old Testament legend.

Obadiah, the guy who hid all of those prophets and fed them while Jezebel was trying to kill Elijah...he was so fat that one day while sitting on a stool he laughed so hard that he fell off and broke his arm...the resulting infection killed him. His widow was the one who got the jars and had to fill them with the Oil...(Elisha told her to do it)

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 29th, 2008, 4:18 am

John, my brother, just give your waist some time. It will grow my brother. That's what my waist was when I got out of the army in 1988. I've added about six inches since then.

JohnDB · Postby **JohnDB** » November 29th, 2008, 4:30 am

actually,
I have a hard time maintaining weight. I often have to force myself to eat even when I ain't hungry. The thirty inches is an increase of 2 inches from when it was a 28. But it can all disapear in nothing flat if I ain't careful.

I usually eat calorie dense foods but crave the lighter foods. I love good bread and don't need butter on it in order to enjoy it...but that is low calore (without the butter) I like potatoes too...again with just a bit of salt on them...but don't mind the butter, cheese, or sour cream on them...so I will load them up. But I have learned to like a lot of calorie dense foods like cheese, nuts, salad dressings and etc.

I regularly work it off in some fashion...so when I "overeat" I can really pack in the groceries...

Considering I am about the same age as you...I ain't doing too bad...course my hair is thinning...and that cholesterol leve of mine is a bit of a yo yo...200-350. Ahh well...we all gotta die of something.

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 29th, 2008, 4:55 am

Somehow I was thinking that you were younger. Must have mixed you up with someone else. That's pretty awesome to have such a small waistline at your age. I'm 42 and you?

JohnDB · Postby **JohnDB** » November 29th, 2008, 4:56 am

Same...

TW · Postby TW » November 29th, 2008, 5:28 am

At the risk of making you guys jealous. I'm 64 years old, just short of 5' 11", about 3% body fat, perfect cholesterol (145), and on a good day I weigh 135 lbs. The most that I have ever weighed was 165 lbs. when I worked construction. JohnDB, I didn't know that you operated an Armstrong Power Shovel, the thought of that takes me back a lot of years. :lol:

TW

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 29th, 2008, 5:48 am

TW, you sir, have provoked me to jealosy. I'm not sure though if that is enough to change my behaviour. :lol:

JohnDB · Postby **JohnDB** » November 29th, 2008, 5:48 am

Well..it isn't by choice...

The contractor I work for doesn't want to rent one for the small ditch we need to dig for the conduit we are going to place in the ditch. So...we are going to do it the really old fashioned way.

I usually don't dig like that normally. I usually am running wire and conduit inside of buildings or wiring up lights, switches and recepticles...sometimes working inside of control cabinets...but this is a "special" job...

I ain't been there at this company long enough to make anyone mad yet...maybe it is simply because I am available and can do the work.

But on the bright side...I won't get my morning "juice" monday...heh heh heh

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » November 29th, 2008, 6:36 am

TW wrote:At the risk of making you guys jealous. I'm 64 years old, just short of 5' 11", about 3% body fat, perfect cholesterol (145), and on a good day I weigh 135 lbs. The most that I have ever weighed was 165 lbs. when I worked construction.

TW, I love you, really, but just this once - I hate you. :wink:

And as for you, irthnvesl, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more."

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 29th, 2008, 7:02 am

Thanks soulsearcher. I needed that. :lol:

PastorP · Postby **PastorP** » November 29th, 2008, 8:12 am

irthnvesl wrote:Thanks soulsearcher. I needed that.

You better quit that committing "adultery" at the table, or is that gluttony? :?:

Russell Roberts · Postby **Russell Roberts** » November 29th, 2008, 9:09 am

It depends on what food I'm eating. If it is say...a ham sandwich, my cornbread dressing accuses me of being 'unfaithful'. I guess it all depends on from whose perspective my brother. :lol:

soulsearcher · Postby **soulsearcher** » November 29th, 2008, 9:36 am

I can commit "food adultery" with a pork chop faster than you say the church flag pledge. :wink:

Jude 2