The Freaks at Prevention Magazine posted an article that caught my eye on Yahoo!’s mainpage.
The title is “14 Surprising Signs You’ll Live Longer Than You Think”
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Your Mom Had You Young – Lovely, we just got started and I’m failing already and my kids (if I have them) are pretty much screwed too.
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You’re a Tea Lover- This is true actually but I don’t drink it very often
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You’d Rather Walk – Um…isn’t that why we’re all here?
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You Skip Soda (Even Diet)- I do now but I drank my weight in syrupy carbonated Diet Coke gold before I quit.
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You Have Strong Legs – I thought I did before that sadistic bastard Billy Blanks proved otherwise
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You Eat Purple Food – I do like blueberries but abso-freaking-lutely hate wine (they mention drinking red). I hate it. If I’m somewhere snooty or with someone I don’t want to offend I will drink it. But I’m holding my breath. HZ is crying out in horror as she reads that.
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You Were a Healthy-Weight Teen – Woot I’m okay here!
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You Don’t Like Burgers – Hello? Southern California is the Mecca of In-N-Out! Are these people serious?
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You’ve Been a College Freshman – I have and since that’s pretty much where my weight problems started I’m thinking it’s not as awesome as these people think.
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You Really Like Your Friends… – I do actually, they’re lovely people.
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…and They’re Healthy – Hmmm, how about if we’re all getting healthy. That counts right?
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You Embrace New Challenges – HELL YEAH! Finally a homerun!
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You Don’t Have a Housekeeper – This one makes me laugh. Doesn’t it imply that just because I don’t have a housekeeper that means *I* am doing the housekeeping. Suuuure.
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You’re a Flourisher- What the heck is a flourisher? Goes to look Ahhh basically it means are you an optimist. Apparently I am because I just threw my entire weight/diet/exercise obsession on the internet so people can read and comment. You’d have to be a nut job an optimist to do that right? RIGHT?!!!
I got less then half and I took off a half point for being a recovering Diet Coke junkie.
How about you all?
Um, by my calculations I’m a 9/14
That’s pretty darn good. (Of course, I’m counting the ‘don’t have a housekeeper’ one even though I rarely actually clean my own house…)
How on earth are you 9/14? Now I’m jealous!
Are you sure being a flourisher doesn’t have something to do with jazz hands?
aw man yeah In-N-Out, god I miss those. sob!
I’m a 9. And I think its *pom pom swish* more than Carb’s jazz hands….that has to burn some extra calories…
Sabrina, CONGRATS on being better off then I am. I think the *pom pom swish* is more a part of my daily life then Jazz hands but I’m willing to work on both if it scores me points. LOL.
Cinde I love love love In-N-Out, strangely I don’t have it very often but I need to know it’s here.
I do miss Dunkin’ Donuts though. Their coffee is seriously awesome. (Better then Starbucks)
Hmmm, let’s see.
1. Yes (she was 20).
2. Hell no, that stuff is disgusting.
3. Mostly.
4. No.
5. Yes.
6. Some, and I do drink red wine (with dark chocolate and sometimes wish I still smoked ~ it’s the happy triumverate).
7. In retrospect, that’s a yes.
8. I don’t like them; I love them!
9. Only for a couple of months; I don’t think it counts.
10. I do.
11. As a group, not so much in the way of healthy habits.
12. I try.
13. If I could afford one, I would have one. There’s no magic in cleaning a house.
14. Yep that’s me.
I’d say mine’s not looking great.
Connie, you’re in good company (or maybe bad company?) Either way, we shall overcome.
Aww crap! I could be in trouble here. I hope I make it to the half-marathon!
Laura I was totally just thinking the same thing!
Okay, let’s go through these again. A very long and snarky response….
1. What do they count as young? Cause 14 she was not and I do not think that would necessarily make for a healthy child, but then that’s just me; I’m pretty sure that the leaders of the FLDS, the loons in Utah, Arizona and Texas, would disagree. Oh, she was 26. I wouldn’t say that was old, but what is their definition of young?
2. Tea Lover? I am pretty sure that this is outlawed through most sodomy laws throughout the Bible belt and most of the mid-west. OH, they mean love to drink tea. I’d rather have coffee ~ thanks!
3. I’d rather walk than do what? No, really. Cause if they think I’d rather walk than read or I’d rather walk than have good ol’ dirty, nasty, sweaty sex then the people who put this together need some serious help. I walk, but I wouldn’t rather do it than about anything else….
4. I have for the last three and a half years. Hmm, almost as long as having quit smoking. Interesting.
5. You have strong legs. Uhm, they hold up over 200 pounds and I walk about 20 to 30 miles a week on the poor things. So, I’d say they are strong.
6. I love PURPLE food. Eggplant, beets, purple cabbage. Uhm CZ, aren’t blueberries, well, blue?
7. Absolutely healthy weight teen – freakin’ college and peri menopause!
8. Depends on the day for me and then I’ll go through periods of eating burgers for every meal. Right now, I am oddly attracted to the Del Taco Double Cheeseburger. Another thing I’d rather do than walk… yep, eat!
9. You’ve been a college freshman – good lord almighty, I can still count that?
10. I ADORE my friends. They are the best people in the world!
11. and they’re healthy. I’ll defer to CZ on this and go with getting healthier.
12. ROFLMAO – oh dear. Not only do I embrace them, I usually create them. It is horrible to ever be bored because then I do crazy things – 3 days, 20 miles a day and camping out at night – crazy!
13. I want a housekeeper. I don’t care what that might or might do to my longevity. Plus it helps share the wealth.
14. You’re a flourisher. I think this means that you flourish in any given situation; you know making lemonade out of lemons, blah, blah, blah. I am definitely a flourisher, but still with the amount of weight I need to lose, I am just not sure that flourishing under all circumstances is a good thing.
Hmm, I guess that would be 9 or 10, but really I embrace my inner whiner which gets me through the exercising crapola. Another 4.5 miles of walking tonight. AARGH!
Kristen it might in fact be about Jazz hands. I’ve got those too so either way I’m good.
Mia, it looks like you’re doing better then I am. And thank you for that observation about *blue* berries not being a purple food. Punk.