European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse By Don Tate staff writer attack Mac truck had a Bell Ful sure. He smoaeo1 of it does t love him. For years. Colon. Irom puerto Rico piled on the Spagnolli like foam piles on Beer he s also into his filth Lour of German Beer. His bulge Battle has been against nearly inhuman Odds because Colon a Mere moral has been a Cook and supervisor of Cooks for nearly 23 years in the army. The kind of Job i do in the Kitchen All Day you Don t Burn much calories says the mess sergeant in the 440th signal in consolidated dining room at car brai. Day after Mould watering Day. Year after salivating year life was one Long Chow line As Luck would have it Coton laments i am a Man who likes to was Pluto to cow except in Vietnam cooking in sandbagged bunkers Wilh rockets crunching Down outside. A Hoodoo. Boom Boom All the time. Terrible. Too scary to eat. A Hoodoo. I left that place weighing 149 but Back in the slates cooking among the bubbling vats of irresistible was in came to seem natural for him to input Toui meals a Day. Only appropriate that he should sip taste lick Lap slurp nibble sniff and snack Between Means what was food for j he remembered that once in was thought thai the bigger the belly the redder the face then the healthier the Cook and the eater. Eat everything on your plate Sonny were once thought to be words of Wisdom. Colon ate. Until one Day i look Down at my stomach. I am 5-f89 9 and weighing 225 pounds. I m sluggish Leel Lazy lira my clothes look funny. What is happening to my clothe my clothes Don t treat me right. I never get a Pinch Teal and no Onn orders me to do it but i know i have to lose weight. Bui i keep pulling in off. Next week next Woolf then i look Down Al my stomach. How the hell i get so Tat my clothes Tell me sergeant you better order yourself to lose weight. on his own the Spaghetti Lover has dropped 14 pounds in two months. His goal is 186 by Winter. He s deep into aerobics and running and Down to two meals Day breakfast and lunch with some fruit or juice in ? the evenings after exercise More important he is Yaeling better All the would he share his secret of How not to Eal so much the secret of not eating so much confides Colon is not to open the Mouth and put in the for spec. 4 Bob Mccament 22, the pounds crept upon him one plus one Phis one As he con Valescu from an Accident until there were 200 of them Puffin up his s-fool-3 irame. My face grew round. I had hand in Mouth disease. Always reaching for something. Cokes Candy gum. A cigarette. Poking something in my Mouth filling up Ifil Hole whenever i was bored irritated stressed. Puff put Page 14 the stars and stripes
