Fat Kids Love Cake - Italians Love Looks - So Darn Magro

Words of the post: Stai facendo buono (You are doing well.)
Magro (Skinny)

The first word of the post is actually a phrase. The bike at the gym told me that I was doing well in Italian when I was riding it yesterday, and I thought it was funny…ha.

I would like to take the time to list why Italians are so darn skinny.

1. They walk everywhere. I don’t care that all they eat are carbs. They are simply just burning off every meal they eat ten minutes later when they walk home or to their next destination.
2. In the olden days, Italians had public bathrooms. When I say public bathrooms, I mean public bathrooms. They were out in the open, and people would use the bathroom right next to eachother without stalls or doors, just open space. I have hypothesized that Italians wanted to impress one another, and they never wanted to be the “fat kid” going to the bathroom, so instead they tried hard to remain skinny so not to be embarrassed using the bathroom.
3. The dancing that I experienced in Florence was quite the workout. If Italians do this a lot, it def contributes to their skinniness.
4. Public nudity still remains here. Unlike the ancient days, there are no public bathrooms, but the Italians still don’t mind being naked in public—like the gym bathrooms or changing rooms. They don’t mind just taking off their clothes, and why should they—they are ridiculously skinny.
5. Unlike the cheese at home, the cheese here isn’t processed, so it isn’t as bad for you. Therefore, even though they eat much more cheese than us—it doesn’t affect them the way it does us in the states.
6. Everyone here drinks coffee, which acts a metabolism stimulant; therefore everyone is speeding up their metabolism every day. Fast metabolism = smaller body.
7. It is hot here. But Italians don’t recognize heat because they still wear winter coats and scarves every day. I wear shorts and polos—and I still sweat. This means that when they are walking everywhere that they go, they must be swimming in pools under those layers that they are wearing unless they have cut air holes in all their clothes.
8. They eat three meals a day, not five, not 2, three, and they eat nothing else. There is no snacking for them throughout the day. A meal is a meal, and the hours between that are their hours to do other things. Snacks = an American thing, so inbetween lunch and dinner, places are clearly making all their money off of Americans and other tourists.
9. Their clothes, in the stores come in mini sizes. One store here only carries smalls. I haven’t figured out if all the clothes in the store are actually small or if they are just all labeled small, but still they care about their size clearly. Their larges are American mediums sometimes even American smalls, and their jeans are clearly made for tall slim Europeans. Their size 6 is an American size 2, so you know what that says their size 0 is—American Kid. Skinny jeans take on a new meaning here.
10. Fast food here doesn’t exist. If you get a panino, it’s bread, ham and mozz—or mozz and tomatos. It isn’t ham, mozz, tomato, lettuce, mayo, oil, pickle, ect. What you see is what you get. Oh—and it still tastes good.