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   Invisible said, 11 months ago

   Funny. I like The Buckets so I can’t wait for this to really get into its groove.
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   Three Steps Over Japan said, 11 months ago

   Something tells me that Hubris has ceased to be a walking ad for his outdoor shop. May be time to hit the trails himself…
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   Greg Cravens said, 11 months ago

   Oh, you can be out of shape and still enjoy the heck out of the outdoors. The secret is those chocolate Zingers.
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   Three Steps Over Japan said, 11 months ago

   @Greg Cravens

   It’s one thing being a skinny chef, it’s another being the well-groomed barber in a city with only two barbers. A fat exercise shop owner, though…?
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   Greg Cravens said, 11 months ago

   Exercise shop? Naaaah. Outdoor shop. I’ve known guys that had to remove the saddles from their whitewater kayaks to squeeze in. I’m appalled by the size of my own gut, even after I’ve spend Summer mornings on the mountain bike on my favorite trail. Outside magazine (and others) do endless stories about the hikers on the Appalachian Trail, and almost always include the great big fat guy that chugs along. We’re Americans. We eat processed crud and we play outside. Contradictory, but whattaya gon’ do?
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   Greg Cravens said, 11 months ago

   Also, to give Allan and you guys your due, Hubris has crept up to 147 at TopWebComics. Highest it’s ever been. Thanks for participating this month! I still plan to one day start doing their incentive thing, and have sketches and things you can only see by voting.
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   Doctor Toon said, 11 months ago

   Perfect Abs need very specific exercises and I’ve never been the type to exercise just to exercise
   

   
   My job keeps me fit, nearly 50 still wearing the same size pants as in High School and better muscle definition than ever
   

   
   The thought of doing any additional exercise beyond my job and household chores is beyond me
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   Three Steps Over Japan said, 11 months ago

   @Greg Cravens

   There’s a bike trail just outside Tokyo that runs along the Tamagawa river from Kawasaki out to the hills north of Tokyo. A second river with a smaller bike path intersects the first and runs east towards Mount Fuji up into some serious hills. Total route distance is 60-75 miles depending on where you turn around. Doing that ride 3 times a week, interspersed with a few 25-mile rides for speed brought my weight down from 230 to about 190. With that kind of riding, fast food makes you feel sick, so you want healthy. I’d still be doing that if I didn’t have to move out of Tokyo last year. Instead, I’m stuck 3 miles from an active volcano, and most of my exercise comes from hobbling 4 blocks on crutches to do food shopping after having been hit by a car 3 months ago and getting my foot broke. If the only way to reach a destination is on crutches, fast food also loses its appeal (I don’t want to carry the extra weight).
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   Dragoncat said, 11 months ago

   What a coincidence! I am also singe and over 40. And for as long as I can remember, I have always been “pear-shaped”, and have been ostracized because of it by family and – dare I say! – friends alike. Even the teachers made fun of me!
   All attempts to become the skinny, sexy, beautiful girl everyone wanted me to be failed miserably. The best – or should I say ONLY – advice I ever received for the relentless teasing was “Just ignore it”.
   
   I’ve had to “ignore it” for nearly twenty years.
   
   
   It was not until my college years that society FINALLY decided to give it a rest, and see me for the smart, hard-working girl I really am.
   
   To this day, I am still “pear-shaped”. SO WHAT?!!!
   It does not stop me from getting up in the morning, doing an honest day’s work, taking long walks, or even learning Martial Arts. I don’t have to be a size 6 to wear a purple karate belt. And I have yet to hear my doctor say that I’m on death’s door.
   
   So when I look at myself in the mirror, I don’t kill myself over my slightly-large stomach. It’s keeping my HAIR under control that’s my main concern.
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    kroykali said, 11 months ago

    @Dragoncat

    Dragoncat – I was also teased as a kid, for being very skinny, by my older brothers and kids in school.
    In my “rant” above, I was not referring to genetics, which sounds like your situation. I was referring to people who CAN improve their health and weight, but simply don’t bother. I hope you didn’t think I was taking a shot at you.
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    starlilies said, 11 months ago

    Wow, Hubris is decribing my husband perfectly! He laughs and jiggles his big belly around! Says it’s my fault for being such a great cook. Nope, it’s his fault for all the snacks he eats in between the cooking.. ;)
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    Dragoncat said, 11 months ago

    @kroykali

    Nah…! But I can’t really say my shape comes from genetics.
    Nevertheless, it felt wonderful to get that weight off my shoulders.
    All is well…
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    Linda Dean said, 11 months ago

    @Greg Cravens

    way cool! (from a daily voter)
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 11 months ago

    We are brought up in a culture of beautiful people, pumped with steroids and shaved by scalpels and photo-shopped to some small group’s idea and ideal of perfection even if it is debilitating. While in the mean time our for-profit food companies give us highly processed food full of fast carbs, sugar, fats and salt. Huge portions hell bent on stuffing our guts to the max. So we are in a pull one way and pushed another. It leaves most of in a tizzy. Not a healthy environment.

    
    

    Recent research has shown that if you have that gut, and I do too, seems to be instrumental or a symptom of or helping to have us come down with dementia. If you don’t have it the chances are lessened.
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    pcolli said, 11 months ago

    If this character was an outdoor person he wouldn’t have time to open his shop (if he’s not just an employee) to sell things to all those people who kayak, swim, trek, climb etc.

    Them that can -do. Them that can’t – teach or sell to them that do.
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