During the physical, do they still do the stress EKG on the treadmill? When I went through the process, we were waiting our turn to get on the treadmill, and watching the guys in front of us. The guy next to me was a smoker.

As we watched the guy on the treadmill huffing and puffing for about 5 minutes, he said, "Phuck me, there's no way I'm going to be able to do that!" He was not "fat" but he did smoke.

Never saw him again. So it may be the physical that weeds out 'fat guys', not so much the fat guys sitting across the table!

Luckily for me, I was running 6 miles a day at that time, so I had no worries there. But as Bar points out, it's too easy to gain weight if you fly International trips, you eat out of boredom! I put on quite a few lbs. when flying right seat in the MD911. When I finally decided to lose it, I just simply stopped eating anything but salads on the airplane, (no dressing, just lemon juice) spent more time in the gym and on my bike, and was able to drop 20lbs. in about 6mo.

I've got to go ride my bike now, you all have fun with the pancakes!