"(PeteCresswell)" wrote:

Per Eeyo
On my canal trips btw I've lost quite a bit of weight from running around,
working locks and the like and it feels great.

I recently met an old windsurfing acquaintance. After he quit windsurfing, he
got *huge* - as in life-threateningly obese.

When I saw him last week, he looked great. Said he'd lost over 60 pounds.

The story is that before he was the owner of a data entry operation and never
got any exercise at all.

After data entry became a thing of the past, he eased into office
equipment/furnitu a job where a good bit of physical activity is involved.

He's not one to exercise for it's own sake... and he claims he didn't diet. It
was just the activity in the new job that made the diff.

Seems to support what I heard a long time ago: your body has a built-in appetite
regulating mechanism that makes you just the right amount of hungry - except
that it gets out of calibration without a certain minimum amount of physical
exercise.

Sounds like a good explanation to me.

Shame that kids of school age are getting obese through being driven to school and
back and the absence of any physical games in the curriculum these days.

Graham