You can hide fat on other parts of the body with loose clothing, but a fat face never lies.

LOL… Very true my friend, very true!!

You know, John really is starting to grow on me. I have never really disliked the guy, but more less never really felt any common ground with him. I wrote this article a few days ago prior to publishing tonight. Since that time, I actually have spent quite a bit of time on John’s blog.

I am reading it backwards though. I am reading John Chow’s blog starting from his first post and working my way up. Tonight’s post doesn’t really poke fun at John, yeah… I am sure many people will get a kick out of the article, but the more I think about it, blogging can seriously pose a health issue for many.

I don’t know if you visited within the last week, but I ran a survey and collected quite a bit of useful information from my readers here. A shocking statistic that I would have never guessed: Over 54% of my readers invest 41+ hours per week into their own blogs. That is amazing!

I too fall guilty of not exercising and not eating healthy. In 2007, I didn’t exercise one bit and ate very poorly. With the new year I have changed my eating habits and have started exercising daily. I don’t get outdoors much with it being winter, but my wife and I did purchase a treadmill, stair stepper and both have begun to eat extremely well.

I am terrible about red meat. I love it!!! I have cut back red meat and eat a lot of chicken instead. I have started using ground turkey instead of beef. Unfortunately, I am NOT big on the veggies… I am a huge meat eater and have no means for eating things that are green. I am trying though… I do enjoy a great garden salad.

I haven’t gained any weight as I have an extremely high metabolism, but like I said, I should and have now started eating much better and started exercising daily.

EDIT:

Ha ha!! I just read your revision on your blog:

Garry Conn of, what else, Garry Conn dot Comm chimed in with an addendum to “John Chow Is Getting Fat!”. He’s right about John. He’s turning into a porker before our very eyes.

LOL!!! that is too funny and also thanks for the mention bud!

MONEY = FAT. It is as simple as that

I lost about 30 pounds because well…I’m broke now lol

-Mike

If money = fat, then I am going to eat pizza for breakfast, drink a case of beer for lunch, and eat pork rinds for dinner!!!

Show me the money!!!

lol

Age is a funny thing… I turn 31 in 3 days and it weird how quickly one day you wake up from feeling like, I am fine to waking up the next day to saying… “wow, no shit… I don’t feel 18 anymore.” lol!!! Granted, 31 isn’t really old… but its pretty wild looking back at pictures from 10 years ago when I was 21. Huge difference… totally huge difference.

I did not notice about this until I read this post of yours.

However, I do notice that John’s blog is now featuring food posts (good food) at least once a week now. Once in a while, we will be reading about him celebrating.

Anyway, it is his money and it is up to his decision on where to spend. I am just 18 and I already have a fat face. Also, I am poor as well. Thus, can I blame genetics?

He does look like he is swelling up a bit, could just be retaining water though.

Thanks Garry, great article. Wondering how JC is going to take this from here..
I hadn’t noticed that he’s getting fatter, if not for this article. I too think that there’s a direct relation with those juicy steaks he used to have earlier. Now, I’m looking for the same phenomenon with other successful bloggers…

thanks for the mention, I was thinking the same thing about chow gaining some poundage. It’s just something that happens.

Yikes! I’m not sure that is fat, but he is definitely looking festively plump.

@ Wayne,

He must have changed his eating habits. He used to blog about things that I would touch with a 10 foot pole, let alone pay for it.
Just give me a freaking hot dog, so I can hurry up and eat and get back to blogging. lol

@ Mani,

Hey hey!!! I already admitted that I am a lazy blogger. I did start to eat better and exercise. You might want to do a before and after on ShoeMoney…

@ Israel,

Yes, indeed… but now that you know about it, we need to make sure he gets a copy of your eBook so we can spare him. Early detection is the key and at this stage, John might only need about a month on a treadmill.

@ James & Kyle,

What else could it be? Are you considering that he might be “Stuffed” with money instead?

Garry if you think the life of a blogger is unhealthy, play poker for a living.
Poker players make bowlers look like Iron Man athletes.

Cary that is too much dude!!

I guess you would know… (are you saying that you have a little bit of experience in that field lol!!)

BTW, I am really enjoying my time spent at your blog. You are a very interesting person and it is great to get to know you better.

This could turn into some good link bait His blog is full of posts about his recent dinners, so obviously he’s going to get fat if he wants to keep his blog updated. I’m not a big fan of John or his blog for reasons I won’t mention here.

It’s nice to see you’re supporting RT. He’s a good guy and does deserve it.

RT is a very well rounded blogger. An excellent writer, very friendly and likable and a very giving person. His humbleness is very visible with the events that have recently taken place.

Garry- First, I have no room to talk as I’ve been eating out every single day for the past two months now so I have a little bit of shaving off to do myself. With that being said, do you realize that you just gave John Chow a few more dinners by writing this post?

Okay, actually you’ve only done this if he reads it, posts about it (links to your page) and tries making money off it. I don’t know about you but I’d take this post and find a few affiliate programs and talk about how I plan on losing weight with a few of these programs. I actually plan on hitting my treadmill in about a week and then looking at some healthy alternatives. But not everyone thinks like this. I do know what ya mean though, as people make more money they do seem to eat out a lot more. Talk with ya later.

Well thought out, perhaps that is what Israel is banking on. He has the free 7 page eBook for bloggers. I am sure that he is attempting to position himself into the field as being a leader in the Blogger’s Health Industry. The sky really is the limit… I vision landing advertisement deals with health clubs, insurance offers, etc… with blogging continuing to grow and with the whole virtual second life era spawning… its a matter of time before things of this caliper hit off… and yes, agreed… tons of money in this.

I agree with you guys, let’s get John a copy of that book (I sent him one but no reply yet) maybe a more closer person in his circle can get him one.

Arggg… I start my blog and diet at the same time. I wonder which will win?

Paul Shearer

very nice post Garry
it’s a good linkbait also

Link Bait!!! LOL!!!

Just reporting the facts ….

Mr. Chow usually is very wise of the good ol’ worm/hook/yank tactics… people try to game off his status every day. You should actually get a Google alert for his name and you’d be entertained for hours a day reading what people write about that guy. I’ll tell you this, John Chow must have some thick skin (no pun intended)… LOL!!!

All in all, John is a very cool guy, I have no problems with him and totally respect him. I think his blog will make a nice edition into the dot Com history books and people will read about this era of the Internet for years on end.

It’s a hilarious post Garry and big juicy steak is really appetizing.

A great way to establish a new habit (like a new diet or exercising) is using the 30 days trial tecnique.

ciao
alex

@ John,

Just for the record, if anyone cares, LOL!!! steak is my favorite food. I can eat it for breakfast with some nice runny eggs, I can eat it on a biscuit for lunch and I can eat it for dinner cooked ever so slightly. Yes, I do agree.. for once, John Chow actually took a picture of something that I would enjoy eating. Some of the other stuff tends to scare me a little bit.

@ Alexander,

Tell us more about this 30 day trial. I see that the page is dated back in 2005 and has a pretty decent PageRank.

“Some of the other stuff tends to scare me a little bit.” LOL

I think he’s getting older , Not fat. LoL.

John Chow makes up for his weight gain by earning $20,000 a month from his blog. :p

Can’t argue with that! LOL!!!!

Sorry Garry,

its a busy period for me, I have not the time to share my personal experience with the 30 day trial now. But trust me, it’s worth to invest 10 minutes to read the post and even some more posts by Steve Pavlina, there is a good reason why the post and the whole blog has such a good ranking: tons of great content.

ciao
alex

Hi Garry,

Love the post. When that top picture was taken, I was 185lbs and had 8.5% body fat. I was also working out at the time 3 to 4 times per week and road my bike 40KM everyday. Currently, I’m 204lbs and 13% body fat. I don’t go to the gym nearly as much and have done no riding for over a year. It is part of my New Year’s plan to get back to sub 10% body fat. Maybe I should make a case study of it.

Well, I had fish and veg for dinner- no salt even ! But I did have a glass of red wine and some dark chocolate. But basically you have to move your body !

@ Alex,

No worries, I’ll check out the page as well as the site soon. I have it bookmarked.

@ John,

Wow… you are a total health nut! You know, as we all get older it is a very good idea to exercise. I recently had a check up with my doctor and he was absolutely floored when I told him that I don’t exercise. Since then, my wife and I have purchased a treadmill and a few other smaller pieces of exercise equipment.

I honestly can’t wait until spring when our family will be engaged into more outdoor activities. Winter creates too many tendencies to play on the Wii with the kids rather than go out and throw the ball around.

Drop me a line if you do decide to go live on a study and I’ll be sure to tune in. Thanks for stopping by and I am glad to see that you do realize I was just poking some honest fun with you. We all gain a few pounds here and there! LOL

@ Robert,

I hear that red wine is actually good for you. Or is that just purely a myth? I am not really big on eating fish. I have totally cut down on red meats, but I have to say that I really do crave a nice steak dinner. Grrr….

Garry,

Hey, nice piece of investigative reporting.

Thanks for dropping a comment on my Money Making Blogs blog. I haven’t come across your blog until I found you through RT’s blog. Great blog you have going here. I’m going to read more of your posts when I have some time.

Ahh… time, the most precious commodity.

Just wonder if John would ever consider to donate money for a good cause like you’re promoting here. Back in October I tried to solicit money to help a 4 months old baby girl Gratia with a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD) to get a surgery and literally I begged John to carry the story, but nothing happened. Fortunately a cyber friend from Indonesia who was working on his doctorate in Boston saw the story after I contacted him in my way to find out how to contact an affiliate church here in the US, and with the help of this friend, finally we got a congregation from a church in Jakarta to come up with ~US$5000 for the surgery. Baby Gratia is a happy and healthy baby now. You can read the whole story in my postings around October. I’m glad to see the warm responses of the blogger community to RT’s story.

I think the 30 day trial method, i havent read that post yet, has to do with implementing a a never ending series of 30 day trial diets/ workouts from companies that offer them. Some may even offer longer trial periods. The point is to always try them , then quit before you need to pay. This also may help with keeping your body in shock and and not letting it get used to the same routine.

@israel

No, there is NO company behind that method and you have NOT to buy any product. That blog is a personal development blog owned by Steve Pavlina and he is ALL about providing only good, free and a lot of content (exactly as Garry does).

Please before writing false supposition, invest the few minutes to read the post.

The best is to jump around in his blog: his content is almost timeless, so also in the older post there is a lot to learn.

This man changed my life, he had a great influence on my actual way of thinking.

ciao
alex

Wow! So much worry about John Chow’s weight. Who should be concerned about that? Why don’t we see all this concern going towards people who are starving? If you’re really concerned about being overweight, suggest giving up a meal and using the money to take a hungry person out to eat.

hahah he has a fricking moon face, the fat git just makes restaurant posts now hahah and claims it back on tax man haha!