I was going to pull quotes but this whole response was just so damned good, I decided to highlight the entire thing. Bookmarking this.
PS: My twenties were a matter/antimatter experiment of spectacular physical condition coupled with the most depraved nutrition imaginable. It’s also when the first signs of metabolic syndrome hit me like Mack truck. Coincidence?
PPS: I just wish “underdogs” were paid for effort.
PPPS: Socks love cankles, why else would they hug them so tight?
“Cankles”? You lost me there. Is that “ankles with canker sores”?
My friend Google informs me that cankles are slang for when ankles are so swollen (typically due to edema) that they just sort of blend into one’s calves. He also informs me that you haven’t returned his calls.
It is derived from Calf + Ankle = Cankle. Meaning you CANNOT TELL where the Calf Ends and the Ankle Begins.
It is huge in Sever Edema, Diabetics, and obesity. Imagine, in my case, NOT seeing the ANKLE bone sticking out on either side. My shoe size was 3 sizes larger than it is today. Normally wrists and ankles don’t carry a lot of excess weight. But for some they do, and for MANY they have no idea it is Edema. (I knew dress socks left major indentations on my shin… Now I realize that was the first signs of inflammation and edema)
Paul… I love that you ask questions when you don’t know… As you post some of the best answers when you DO Know!
He was just being facetious. And making dad jokes.
Edit: Turns out he wasn’t. Didn’t see that coming. My bad.
Hey! There are plenty of things I don’t know! For example: where I put my glasses, where I left my coffee cup, why you kids call that stuff music, what’s wrong with today’s youts . . . . 
(And why no one remembers any of the movies I’ve seen . . . )
I didn’t know the word cankles before… I have just checked and I don’t even have one cankle. But it’s just a sprained ankle, it’s swollen but healing and not THAT bad (still feels and looks so off!). I can wear my boots, they are very comfy ones with wriggle room but still show the not serious level.
A relative has cankles though along with diabetes and other problems.
Do you only have one coffee cup? I had 3 yesterday, it helped a lot 
(But my room is upstairs, I am lazy and have a swollen sprained ankle, I really needed them. Yesterday I finally could bring down my collected coffee cups from my room as my stability got better on my steep stairs.)
only time I heard cankles was in that movie Shallow Hal.
his friend says to Hal something like… ya can’t really like looking at her cause she got cankles and I thought, what is that? being a gal ya think I woulda heard that one but I didn’t. I heard every fat joke implied to gal’s bodies I thought but this one was a new one on me.
This was so inspiring!! There are so many aspects to good health markers, and the scale really isn’t one in my opinion! I have size 8 Levi’s that I couldn’t get past my upper thighs…now they are on but I just need an inch or 2 before I can zip them!
I look forward to the day when doctors realize that body weight is a poor measure of health.
I have been taking monthly photos of my face and body. With digital photography the cost and effort is hardly more than stepping on a scale. A photo reveals a lot and a slide show of photos over time is a record of changing health. Even without medical training most anyone can look at photos and instantly sense if someone is doing well or headed for trouble. I think it has more meaning than most of what is in my medical records.
When I was in Stockholm. On the clean and efficient public transport. People would chat to me in Swedish. I would answer them in Germglish. As I have a smattering of German to call upon, and could work out common words. They would speak perfect English straight away to my Italian-looking wife. I knew I was close to my ancestral home.
I have curly, dark hair (with a few strands of gray, here and there) and green eyes. I don’t look Swedish at all!
