On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:43:23 -0600, Paleo Phil <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Just the other day when I tried that someone suggested I should eat rice  
> cakes with peanut butter to fatten up in a healhful way.

Fatten up in a healthy way -- what a concept.

I get the "too skinny" remark from time to time as well, and I find it  
quite annoying. However, there isn't much I can do about it, so I just  
ignore it.  For one, I am *not* too skinny, it's just that most Americans  
are overweight, and a good percentage of them greatly so.  So if you  
compare me to the average, then yeah, I'm underweight.  The problem is  
that the average is skewed.  Just because everyone else is overweight  
doesn't mean I have to be.  I don't need to "fit in" that way.

I also look at it this way -- if indeed I needed to gain weight, there are  
only two choices:  gain muscle, or gain fat.  Gaining muscle is extremely  
difficult (I've been working out for years, haven't gained much yet), and  
why on Earth would I *want* to gain fat just so I could weigh more?

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   Robert Kesterson
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