Day 59 of Raw - What Would You Give to be Thin?

I'm married to the greatest guy!

But don't let him see that, we don't want to give him the big head ;)

Chris is out of town for a few days visiting his father and family in California. I'm not crazy about being home alone although I do enjoy having total control of the Remote :)

When he was getting ready to leave town, I realized that my supply of oxy water would be non existent while he was gone. He's our resident oxy water maker. Not that it's hard to make, I just never have. I didn't want to stop his frantic packing to ask him directions so I just resigned myself to a few oxy waterless days and didn't mention it to him.

Well, when I got home from work yesterday evening, I was thrilled to realize that not only did he make me a big ol' batch of his delicious recipe flax crackers to tide me over while he was gone, he also had made up a jug of oxy water and left if for me in the fridge. Wow! How sweet is that?? I love you, sugar!

I feel that oxy water has been a huge contributor to our weight loss process and I also believe it is why we have not gotten sick with colds or anything else since we started drinking it over a year ago. To read more about oxy water, visit our site at http://www.spiritquesthealing.com/oxywater.html

Okay - here's an interesting tidbit. Found an article in the Houston Chronicle I wanted to share with you. It was in Monday's paper. They printed an article by Rob Stein from the Washington Post:

Survey indicates Americans will give anything to not be fat

Almost half of Americans would give up a year of their life to avoid being fat, according to a recent survey.

The online survey of 4,283 of Americans ages 13 to 79 also found that between 15 percent and 30 percent would rather leave their marriage, give up the possibility of having children, be depressed or become an alcoholic than be obese.

Five percent said they would rather lose a limb, and 4 percent said they would rather be blind.

"We were surprised by the sheer number of people who reported they would be willing to make major sacrifices to avoid being obese. It drive home the message that weight bias is powerful and pervasive," said Marlene Schwartz of Yale University.

Schwartz led a team of researchers tha reported the survey results in the journal Obesity.

The primary purpose of the survey was to gauge anti-fat bias.

People of all weight categories exhibited a significant implicit bias against people who are overweight, the researchers found. But they said that thinner people tended to be more biased.

"The fact that even obese individuals exhibited a significant implicit anti-fat bias is important because it suggests that they have internalized negative stereotypes, such as believing they are lazy," Schwartz said.

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