Is there anyone involved with Best Show, listerner/contributor, that isnt a....

[erika]

Yeah my mom's 5 feet tall and around 110 lbs. She's got high blood sugar and high cholesterol, but she never gains a pound. She was quite surprised to learn she had to go on a diet.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

thats interesting you bring that up, erika because diabetes runs on both sides of my family (maternal grandmother had it, mom is borderline, dad has it, and both paternal gradnparents had/have it) and i remember thinking about how plain dumb it is for me to be unhealthy considering it exponentially increases my risk for diabetes, let alone the fact that it's hereditary.

hence, im on my way to the gym now!

[dave from knoxville]

thats interesting you bring that up, erika because diabetes runs on both sides of my family (maternal grandmother had it, mom is borderline, dad has it, and both paternal gradnparents had/have it) and i remember thinking about how plain dumb it is for me to be unhealthy considering it exponentially increases my risk for diabetes, let alone the fact that it's hereditary.

hence, im on my way to the gym now!

Diabetes just sort of rolls around in my family, and settles at the lowest point in the room.

[Martin]

That's a horrible image, Dave.

[Sarah]

Diabetes just sort of rolls around in my family, and settles at the lowest point in the room.

Have you read Handling Sin yet, Dave?

[Pidgeon]

vegetarian?

I'm not trying to sound antagonistic, I'm just curious.

Was there something that made you think we were all veggies?

I likes my meats.

I've just heard a lot about vegetarianism on the show and forums.

[Sarah]

On the bright side, when you know you're pretty much guaranteed to have certain problems because of your genes, you can really relax.  I could eat no fat, and I'd still have sky-high cholesterol because it's in my blood (see that neat double entendre there?).

[Jixby Phillips]

Eating meat is wrong, but it makes up 80% of my diet pretty much.

[Mike]

I suppose I'm asking you veggies for your input. How did you quit? Why do you keep it up? Does your life taste horrible, and if not, how did you avoid that? Please, help me understand better, so I can make this decision properly.

Hey Regular Joe:  I became vegan by taking it slow, giving up one thing at a time.  At some point it stops being about what you can't have, and more about all the delicious things you can.  The best way to keep it up and make life taste good is, I think,  to learn how to cook.  The Madhur Jaffrey book Baron mentioned is good; I learned to cook by taking children's vegetarian cookbooks out of the library and starting with those.  It helped me to learn the basics, and not to be intimidated by recipes.

Mike

[dave from knoxville]

Diabetes just sort of rolls around in my family, and settles at the lowest point in the room.

Have you read Handling Sin yet, Dave?

I read about half of it, Sarah, and I was enjoying it, but real life (meaning the end of a term, like right now) intruded, and I never went back to it, I think partly because the fat slob "buddy" hit a little too close to home.

[dave from knoxville]

That's a horrible image, Dave.

I could be the next David Lynch!

[Sarah]

Again, it was the scene(s?) with the diabetic relatives that caused me to recommend the thing to you in the first place.  I meant no unflattering comparisons to be drawn between the friend--who is very sweet, I seem to recall--and you.

[Julie]

I know some lady who has diabetes and is really anemic right now. She drinks more than I ever did and doesn't think it's related to any of her health problems. I think that's funny.

[Sarah]

I have a sister like that.

[dave from knoxville]

Again, it was the scene(s?) with the diabetic relatives that caused me to recommend the thing to you in the first place.  I meant no unflattering comparisons to be drawn between the friend--who is very sweet, I seem to recall--and you.

Oh no, I know that, it's all on me! You're a fave, Sarah, no offense intended, and none taken. I am curious about what led to the disappearance of that as a film project, as mentioned on the sleeve. It was very cinematic.