Queen-size women get fit VANCOUVER (CP) — Fit ness teacher Suzanne Bell doesn't try to pass herself off as the Jane Fonda of the queen-size set. She just wants to help the more than 400 large women in her fit- ness classes enjoy life more. Although her customers may never be Size 8s, they can feel better and be more fit, Bell says. Bell, founder of a company called Fitness and Fashion Enlarged, is herself a Size 44 who suffered through endless rounds of dieting and at tempts at losing weight. She says diets don't work for most people and the ridicule and abuse faced by over- weight women can make them reluctant to leave their homes. “It's such an irony,” Bell said in an interview at her exercise studio atop a Van. couver bowling alley. “You have everyone telling you should get skinny and lose weight and you should do something about it, and when you're out doing something about it you get ridiculed. “Large women stay at home and hide themselves away. They don't leave the house, they avoid social fune tions.” LOST WEIGHT Bell says she is comfor- table with her size and has lost 18 pounds since she started teaching fitness in 1982. The ebullient 37-year-old woman says she would feel comfortable going to a con ventional fitness class and she insists she is fit, despite her size. She started her own fit ness classes last March when the major corporation for which she taught fitness can celled the program. “I was the only fat woman in 50 slim, young fitness in structors,” she said. Bell's 15 fitness teachers are also on the big side — or at least they started out that way “I have one here that has lost 85 pounds in total, strictly from being involved in exercise.” NO JUMPING Although the classes em brace the “nojump, np bounce concept,” Bell says her students get a good workout. And a spin-off benefit which particularly pleases Bell is the inereased self- esteem that exercising with other women the same size brings. No spectators are al lowed. “Large women see instruc tors in a positive model image. People start acting differently, maybe buying a hot pink outfit in stead of a black one.” After Bell got her classes going, she was faced with a new dilemma — what large women could wear for exer cises So she contacted Vancou- ver manufacturer Camel. Dance to design fitness wear for her instructors. NO SIZE LIMITS Bell's line of fitness wear has no size limit. So far, it's available only through her classes, but she is consider ing starting a mail-order business. “I would say it’s probably a bit- more expensive because the manufacturer found some difficulties in cutting. They can't always get everything out of a width and when you're talking about a larger size they may be cutting double the length.” Bell spends about 50 per cent of her time deing public speaking, to groups such as university kinesiology class es role I must say to the credit of education there is a lot more information now to indicate being fat does not necessarily mean that you're out of eon trol and lazy and an under achiever It’s hard in this society to be happy as a large person It's not impossible. But I think rather than make a statement that I'm trying to tell everybody to be happy being large, I would like to say, I'm trying to change the lifestyle of large women. WEATHER CALENDAR A DELIGHT TORONTO (CP) — Squawk as you like about the weather, but if it'll make you feel any better the 1987 Canadian Weather Trivia Calendar can probably show you when things were worse. The calendar is a weather-watcher's delight, with a flashback on each date that recalls a climatic occasion in history For example, if there are a few snowflakes swirling on Feb. 14, the calendar recalls the vicious North Atlantic storm in 1982 that sank the Ocean Ranger oil drilling rig off the Newfoundland coast, with the loss of 84 lives. Winds in the area reached 145 kilometres an hour with waves as high as 21 metres. Or if the sidewalks are like a hockey rink on March 2, the calendar notes that a good freeze in 1965 proved a big help to a convicted drug smuggler being held on ice at a Montreal! jail. Lucien Rivard sallied out with a garden hose to flood the jail’s skating rink and escaped, using the hose to seale the wall. There are two dates that sports fans will find hard to complain about. PLAYED IN SNOW Whatever the weather next April 7, don’t forget that was the date in 1977 when baseball's Toronto Blue Jays played their first home game in the American League in a snowstorm with a wind chill of 10 degrees below zero. The Jays won, 94. Football fans in a funk as they look out the window Dec. 1 may be cheered to remember that was the date in 1962 that the Grey Cup game for the Canadian Football League championship had to be finished the next day when fog rolled in at Exhibition Stadium in Toronto. Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 28-27. For those sweltering on Aug. 21, there's relief in the recollection that heavy snow fell on the eastern provinces on that day in 1816 during what was known as “the year without summer.” And on April Fool's Day, jokers might find it hard to believe it was on that date back in 1848 that Niagara Falls returned to normal after the flow stopped for 40 hours because of an ice jam on the Niagara River. PROVIDES TRIVIA The calendar provides all kinds of weather trivia. It knocks the theory that animals foretell the severity of winter by the thickness and color of their fur or by the amounts of food they tuck away in the fall. But, the calendar asks: “Did you know that there is a close connection between the air temperature and the tempo of a cricket's chirp? And that ants can accurately report temperature changes since the higher the temperature, the faster they move.” The calendar, produced by David Phillips of Environment Canada, is available for $5.95 at bookshops and news stands that deal in Canadian government publications. Phillips — whose official title is superintendent, climatological development section, Canadian Climate Centre, Atmospheric Environment Service — is a native of Windsor, Ont., and a graduate of the universities of Windsor and Toronto. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. 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