The famous fat monkeys at an animal park in Osaka, Japan have been discussed at PopFi before.  Well, those same pudgy primates are back in the news as those monkeys have dieted successfully!  Good for them!  The fattest of the monkeys has lost half his body weight, but with any weight loss that dramatic comes other issues, namely with loose skin.  So the Osaka zoo is looking into plastic surgery.  For monkeys.

I’ve lost a lot of weight in the past few years.  I’ve talked about that before.  It’s not half my body weight like certain flabby chimps, but uncomfortably close to it.  The solution to my problem, or at least some of the solution, has been weight training and muscle building.  I guess you can’t get monkeys to do cardio and free weights, though.

Even after all that, I’d be down for a little nip and tuck in certain areas that aren’t responding too well.  Maybe I could talk to this monkey vet and see if he’ll give me a tummy tuck while he’s busy hacking open primates.  It’s practically the same thing, after all.

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