Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 19, 2022

or just slim down and the clothes will fit again (I’m impressed his jeans and belt still fit)

Good point. I finally have a Plan B in place—a Keto and Factor food diet every day, plus more walking exercise.

As we age one of the few life pleasures we still have left is eating . Hard to give that up ;-(

And let’s all jump on the latest diet bandwagon without talking to a doctor or dietician. And then wonder why our electrolyte levels tank, our blood glucose levels drop like a stone, our kidney function goes wonky, or our prescriptions start to have reactions with the supplements we started taking because we saw an ad in a golfing magazine, etc etc.

’Cause we all know so much more than somebody who went to college for four years, med school for years, interned and held a residency for even more years, and so on just because we saw an ad on TV with some ex-jock or has been starlet.

Some of me ol’ clothes bearly fits me now.

ahhh, don’t worry in couple more months will all be eating less.

been there! wait…. I AM there !

A real Plugger should know about elastic waste band clothing “for-the-win”…….

What do you do when the “buy bigger clothes” plan backfires on you and you can’t afford to buy smaller clothes? I have lots of nice, new, bigger clothes I bought just before the pandemic hit. I never got a chance to wear them to the office. Now that I am back, I find I have lost two sizes at least and they just hang on me. I can’t get rid of NICE clothes! I would take them in, but I don’t have space to set up my sewing machine. I would ask someone to do it for me, but 1) I don’t have any friends that sew, and 2) I can’t afford to hire seamstress. I have checked with dry cleaners and they are NOT cheap when it comes to altering clothes (especially if you are a woman).

That’s like trying to lower your body mass index by growing taller.

I curb my hand to mouth ration and walk 5-7 times week. You make time for you want. I was almost in a 5X- never again. Between 2-3x and working.

I lost 100lb in the past 2 years. Kinda nice to have to buy smaller clothes every few months.

Because Pluggers are morbidly obese.

And then his family will have to order the XX size coffin.

C’mon, Mr. McKee. We can do better than this worn-out adage. Let’s get back to the “somewhat-normal” Plugger routine of brain-farts, etc.

Or maybe somethin’ about those-dang millenials, who are never obese. Just “husky”-built, whilst they sit/lay/(attempt to)drive, suckin’ down a slurpee, an’ peckin’ out their future-obits, IF they manage to live long enough to match-up with us…?

ouch

I have lost 80+lbs over the last couple of decades and am at just about normal weight for my short height.

I am still wearing the same size that I did before losing the weight and this includes both clothes that date back about 25 years and clothes purchased just before the pandemic.

One day I started to complain to husband about my size not changing and then thought about it – I hate buying clothes and if I had to buy all new clothes, in addition to many of the clothes styles I like no longer existing (such as cotton/poly tee shirts with pocket – (I live in tee shirts) I would have to spend the time and money shopping, both of which I hate todo.