Fainting Dieters Delay NYC Subway
Thanks to CoryGlen for alerting us to this article about the New York City subway. Apparently it's being delayed because of dieters overdoing their new year's resolutions:
"Sick subway passengers, most of them dieters who faint from dizziness, are among the top causes of train delays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority."
Should I not laugh? That's pretty funny. Especially since I just spent five minutes trying to figure out how I can consume fewer than 1,300 calories today. Just a reminder that extreme diets are never a good idea: permanent lifestyle changes are. Maybe I'll go for a walk instead.
"Sick subway passengers, most of them dieters who faint from dizziness, are among the top causes of train delays, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority."
Should I not laugh? That's pretty funny. Especially since I just spent five minutes trying to figure out how I can consume fewer than 1,300 calories today. Just a reminder that extreme diets are never a good idea: permanent lifestyle changes are. Maybe I'll go for a walk instead.
posted by mo pie at 2:16 PM
2 Comments:
Wow! Funny and sad, and a great thing to be able to point to when anyone says diets fail because people are just not trying hard enough.
I'm in the lucky position of having gained 55 pounds just in time for the new year's scourging, and I am feeling very, very loath to go out and be seen. One of the things I felt the most monstrously relieved about when I dropped the 120 lbs I am now gaining back was that I had managed to get out of the red zone before everyone went COMPLETELY commando on fat people. (Wait a minute...does 'commando' just mean without underpants, or is there a more literal meaning in general usage? With the amount of sleep I've had this week, the idea of people protesting the national obesity epidemic by going without underpants is making me laugh). Anyway, I seem to have gone all the way around the barn just to end up back to the pig pen again in time for the biggest new year's fatty crackdown ever. Sigh.
Thanks for the link, and the laugh. Hope you had a good walk!
That story ran on this morning's CW11 'news' - I don't know. The couple of times that I've nearly passed out on the train it was a combination of several factors, two of them being the fact that the train was overheated and overcrowded, in addition to whatever was going on with me physically. So I can't help feeling like the MTA is passing the buck by singling out dieters. Maybe I just have leftover feelings of resentment from last Christmas' transit strike.
(Hiya - can't remember when/how I found this blog, but I've been lurking for a while now)
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