weight and vegas

Sorry for the late post. Some business meetings out here and arrived midnite their time. As I was walking toward the registration desk at the hotel, I noticed a disproportionate number of overweight people at the bar and at the gaming areas. Staying up late to gamble and drink is probably an activity the habitual morning exercise person does not do, even on vacations. I was thinking that casinos are probably a bad vacation choice if you are in a weight losing mode. When you gamble here, waitresses are bringing free drinks, and often when alcohol is consummed, you find yourself eating more food. This adds up to pounds going on as opposed to off.

Of course, not everyone gambling in a casino is a gamblerholic (okay, I admit...I played a fee blackjack hands). "Vices" tend to come in packages, and smoking, drinking, gambling and eating seem to all be related. Often the addicted gambler cannot understand how the alcoholic can ruin their life, the smoker cannot understand how someone can lose all their money to a casino and the drug addict cannot understand how someone can get up to over 300 pounds.


Addictions are in part chemically related and envbiromentally fostered. As this relates to families who have a high rate of morbid obesity, clearly "nature and nurture" contribute greatly. This does not mean that if you come from a family where virtually everyone is overweight, that you have a predestined future. This can be changed but clearly much work is required.

I hope that when I return, Serotonin-Plus is not owned by MGM-Mirage and the staff is not dealers and waitresses! Okay, I promise not to gamble away the business!