Finally weighed in

"Bob M" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:27:38 GMT, Carmen wrote:

On 7-Dec-2004, "Roger Zoul" wrote:

Ada Ma wrote:
||Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise and
||whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is that
||she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P

Almost. Cubit did start exercising one he lost a lot of weight - he
was afraid that exercise is harmful to really overweight folks. I
think you're right about the girlfriend thing, though.

Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements too.

That might not be too bad of a requirement.

Since it's just my husband and me in the household, and we both
control carbs and usually stick to whole foods, it really simplifies a
multitude of situations like:

o Shopping
o Entertaining
o Keeping fridge and cupboards free of temptations
o Restaurant selection
o Day to day meal preparation

Heck, people have all kinds
of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality, etc.), so I
don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad.

I don't either; but a partner can always change diet later. It's
rather hard to predict or control that.

My best friend from highschool posted a personal on the net, requesting a
"tallish, athletic blonde". The woman that he met and married four years
ago is a shortish, sluggish (literally-she has thyroid issues) brunette...We
laugh it up all the time over that one!

My mother says she wont date a man that has any living relatives, and of
course, she has been single and not dating for 20 years....

Glitter Girl
"Concordia" wrote in message
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"Bob M" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:27:38 GMT, Carmen wrote:

On 7-Dec-2004, "Roger Zoul" wrote:

Ada Ma wrote:
||Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise and
||whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is that
||she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P

Almost. Cubit did start exercising one he lost a lot of weight - he
was afraid that exercise is harmful to really overweight folks. I
think you're right about the girlfriend thing, though.

Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements too.

That might not be too bad of a requirement.

Since it's just my husband and me in the household, and we both
control carbs and usually stick to whole foods, it really simplifies a
multitude of situations like:

o Shopping
o Entertaining
o Keeping fridge and cupboards free of temptations
o Restaurant selection
o Day to day meal preparation

Heck, people have all kinds
of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality, etc.), so I
don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad.

I don't either; but a partner can always change diet later. It's
rather hard to predict or control that.

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:37:53 -0600, Glitter Girl
wrote:

My best friend from highschool posted a personal on the net, requesting a
"tallish, athletic blonde". The woman that he met and married four years
ago is a shortish, sluggish (literally-she has thyroid issues)
brunette...We
laugh it up all the time over that one!

I think that many people's ideals of what they want and what they would
accept often don't meet. Personally, I go more for personality over
anything else.

My mother says she wont date a man that has any living relatives, and of
course, she has been single and not dating for 20 years....

Glitter Girl
"Concordia" wrote in message
...
"Bob M" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:27:38 GMT, Carmen wrote:

On 7-Dec-2004, "Roger Zoul" wrote:

Ada Ma wrote:
||Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise and
||whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is that
||she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P

Almost. Cubit did start exercising one he lost a lot of weight - he
was afraid that exercise is harmful to really overweight folks. I
think you're right about the girlfriend thing, though.

Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements too.

That might not be too bad of a requirement.

Since it's just my husband and me in the household, and we both
control carbs and usually stick to whole foods, it really simplifies a
multitude of situations like:

o Shopping
o Entertaining
o Keeping fridge and cupboards free of temptations
o Restaurant selection
o Day to day meal preparation

Heck, people have all kinds
of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality, etc.), so
I
don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad.

I don't either; but a partner can always change diet later. It's
rather hard to predict or control that.




That is true. Personally, I don't care what my partner eats as long as
she doesn't care what I eat.

--
Bob in CT

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 08:37:53 -0600, Glitter Girl
wrote:

My best friend from highschool posted a personal on the net, requesting a
"tallish, athletic blonde". The woman that he met and married four years
ago is a shortish, sluggish (literally-she has thyroid issues)
brunette...We
laugh it up all the time over that one!

I think that many people's ideals of what they want and what they would
accept often don't meet. Personally, I go more for personality over
anything else.

My mother says she wont date a man that has any living relatives, and of
course, she has been single and not dating for 20 years....

Glitter Girl
"Concordia" wrote in message
...
"Bob M" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 19:27:38 GMT, Carmen wrote:

On 7-Dec-2004, "Roger Zoul" wrote:

Ada Ma wrote:
||Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise and
||whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is that
||she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P

Almost. Cubit did start exercising one he lost a lot of weight - he
was afraid that exercise is harmful to really overweight folks. I
think you're right about the girlfriend thing, though.

Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements too.

That might not be too bad of a requirement.

Since it's just my husband and me in the household, and we both
control carbs and usually stick to whole foods, it really simplifies a
multitude of situations like:

o Shopping
o Entertaining
o Keeping fridge and cupboards free of temptations
o Restaurant selection
o Day to day meal preparation

Heck, people have all kinds
of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality, etc.), so
I
don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad.

I don't either; but a partner can always change diet later. It's
rather hard to predict or control that.




That is true. Personally, I don't care what my partner eats as long as
she doesn't care what I eat.

--
Bob in CT

Hi Bob,

Ada Ma:
Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise
and whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is
that
she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P

Carmen:
Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements
too.

Bob M.:
That might not be too bad of a requirement. Heck, people have all
kinds of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality,
etc.),
so I don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad. I knew one guy
who
said (his words), "I could never marry a woman with small
[breasts]." (The
latter changed from the real wording.) At least having a
"requirement" of
something that's important -- like diet -- is better than putting
arbitrary requirements on a mate. I used to read personals and be
intrigued by one, then find out that she wanted someone four inches
taller than me (even though she's 4 inches shorter than me) or wants
black
haired men.

Diet can be far too transient in nature, and IMO therein lies the
danger. Cubit is pushing 50 and still unmarried. He's stated the
desire to date, but placing that sort of requirement on prospective
partners looks an awful lot like putting up barbed wire around the
"Welcome" mat. Is the food someone eats important enough to outweigh
compatibility in other areas? Or is it a subconscious way to avoid
commitment? It could go either way.

take care,
Carmen

Carmen wrote:
|| Hi Bob,
||
|| Ada Ma:
|| Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise
||||| and whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is
||||| that
||||| she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P
||
|| Carmen:
|||| Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
|||| looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements
|||| too.
||
|| Bob M.:
||| That might not be too bad of a requirement. Heck, people have all
||| kinds of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality,
||| etc.),
||| so I don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad. I knew one guy
||| who
||| said (his words), "I could never marry a woman with small
||| [breasts]." (The
||| latter changed from the real wording.) At least having a
||| "requirement" of
||| something that's important -- like diet -- is better than putting
||| arbitrary requirements on a mate. I used to read personals and be
||| intrigued by one, then find out that she wanted someone four inches
||| taller than me (even though she's 4 inches shorter than me) or wants
||| black
||| haired men.
||
|| Diet can be far too transient in nature, and IMO therein lies the
|| danger. Cubit is pushing 50 and still unmarried. He's stated the
|| desire to date, but placing that sort of requirement on prospective
|| partners looks an awful lot like putting up barbed wire around the
|| "Welcome" mat. Is the food someone eats important enough to outweigh
|| compatibility in other areas? Or is it a subconscious way to avoid
|| commitment? It could go either way.

Cubit's pushing 50? I thought he was a youngster!

I'd rather be single than be in a bad marriage

And single ain't so bad when you can find plenty of nice ladies to date!!

But I'd rather be married to a great lady than to be constantly dating lots
of different ones, trying to figure out what makes each of them tick.

Carmen wrote:
|| Hi Bob,
||
|| Ada Ma:
|| Cubit is the one who insists on doing no exercise
||||| and whose minimal requirement for a prospective girlfriend is
||||| that
||||| she must be willing to go low carb forever. Am I right? :-P
||
|| Carmen:
|||| Yup, that was him. Searching for a worthwhile prospective partner
|||| looks hard enough without chucking in those sort of requirements
|||| too.
||
|| Bob M.:
||| That might not be too bad of a requirement. Heck, people have all
||| kinds of requirements (must be X tall, have a certain personality,
||| etc.),
||| so I don't consider Cubit's requirement that bad. I knew one guy
||| who
||| said (his words), "I could never marry a woman with small
||| [breasts]." (The
||| latter changed from the real wording.) At least having a
||| "requirement" of
||| something that's important -- like diet -- is better than putting
||| arbitrary requirements on a mate. I used to read personals and be
||| intrigued by one, then find out that she wanted someone four inches
||| taller than me (even though she's 4 inches shorter than me) or wants
||| black
||| haired men.
||
|| Diet can be far too transient in nature, and IMO therein lies the
|| danger. Cubit is pushing 50 and still unmarried. He's stated the
|| desire to date, but placing that sort of requirement on prospective
|| partners looks an awful lot like putting up barbed wire around the
|| "Welcome" mat. Is the food someone eats important enough to outweigh
|| compatibility in other areas? Or is it a subconscious way to avoid
|| commitment? It could go either way.

Cubit's pushing 50? I thought he was a youngster!

I'd rather be single than be in a bad marriage

And single ain't so bad when you can find plenty of nice ladies to date!!

But I'd rather be married to a great lady than to be constantly dating lots
of different ones, trying to figure out what makes each of them tick.