Phobias and Friday The Thirteenth

Today is Friday the 13th so all of you that suffer Paraskavedekatriaphobia lock your doors and wrap yourself in cotton wool unless your suffer from Koinoniphobia then your going to be in big trouble.

If you do venture out all you that suffer from Ailurophobia especially black ones, I hope they don’t cross your path.

And for those that suffer from Alektorophobia just have the bacon for breakfast or a nice BLT (Bacon Lettuce Tomato).

Those that suffer from Arithmophobia your in real trouble because they are everywhere.

Anyone that suffers from Bacteriophobia, order in more pinoclean.

All those that suffer Chrometophobia back away from the ATM and what ever you do don’t enter that bank.

If you suffer from Coulrophobia I would forget about running away to the circus.

You may think that God can help you but not for those that suffer from Ecclesiophobia.

And last but not least if you suffer from Ephebiphobia getting that job at the high school would be the worst thing you have ever decided to do.

Major Change To Diet Update

Well I have been on my new Diet plan for nearly a month. I went out yesterday to get some new shorts, as my old ones were more patches than pants. My First problem is where to buy shorts in my size, the patched one were 152cm. Well being on the internet I loaded up Google and started looking for “larger sized clothes”, well considering that Australia is reported as being one of the most obese countries in the western world.

Australia’s obesity rate sky-rocketing – report
By Tamara McLean
AAP November 14, 2007 01:09pm

AUSTRALIA is one of the fattest nations in the developed world, according to a new international report which singles out the country’s sky-rocketing obesity rate.

The report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development shows Australia performing well on smoking rates and survival from breast cancer and heart attacks compared with the other 29 OECD nations.

But it was one of the worst performers on obesity, with new figures showing almost one in every four Australians now has a body mass index (BMI) over 30.

Australia had the fifth highest adult obesity rate, 21.7 per cent, behind the US, 32.2 per cent, Mexico, 30.2 per cent, the UK, 23 per cent, and Greece, 21.9 per cent.

Australians are gaining weight even faster than people in the US, a notoriously fat nation.

“Using consistent measures of obesity over time, the rate of obesity has more than doubled over the past 20 years in the United States, while it has almost tripled in Australia,” said the report, Health at a Glance 2007.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), which supplied the figures to the OECD, said the obesity problem would trigger increased diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the future, placing extra stress on the health system.

“Given the time lag between the onset of obesity and subsequent health problems, the growing incidence of obesity in most OECD countries, including Australia, may mean higher health care costs in the future,” said AIHW spokesperson Louise York.

The nation performed better on other markers of health, winning the fifth lowest daily smoking rate after Sweden, the US, Portugal and Canada.

Australia succeeded in cutting its daily smoking rates in half over the last 20 years, from 35.4 per cent of adults in 1983 to 17.7 per cent in 2004.

It also had one of the lowest death rates among people admitted to hospital with a heart attack – five per cent compared with 25 per cent in Mexico.

Total health spending accounted for 9.5 per cent of GDP in 2004, in line with the OECD average. Health spending as a share of GDP was lower in Australia than in the US and several European countries but higher than Japan, UK and New Zealand.

“A strong rise in pharmaceutical spending has been one of the factors behind the rise in total health spending in Australia as well as in many other OECD countries,” Ms York said.

You would think that there would be places that would carry larger sized clothing.
Well let me tell you there isn’t!!!!
I found one store that wasn’t too far away (100kms) that had 152cm pants but only in long legs but I like shorts, they told me that they can get shorts in and the cut is the same as the long leg pants, so I though I will try the long ones on and see the fit. Well I was swimming in the 152cm ones and the next smaller size they had was 132 which were too tight and they didn’t have any of the in-between sizes. So I now know that I needed size 142cm, which made me smile because that is 10cm less than when I last got new pants. Smiles Again big Smiles. While traveling from store to store at the mall I spotted a scale, now I usually don’t weight myself between visits to the Diet Doctor but I thought what the hell. Well I was bug eyed when I saw the print out it said that I weighted 136.6Kg,

which is well down on the last visit to the Doctors and I didn’t empty my pockets either!
So this new Eating Plan appears to be working. But the most important thing is WILLPOWER!!

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