“as a large person let me start by saying calling us fat is just mean & insensitive.”

You need to take that argument up with the dictionary. You can’t fault people for using words that ACCURATELY describe your body shape.

however, that said i am now 40 years old and weigh 312 pounds and the health risks associated with my size are taking a toll on me. i admit i never really tried that hard to diet and work out. i always wanted a quick fix. well there are no quick fixes. and it is going to take a long time to reach a healthy weight goal. but it is possible and i am well on my way. i’ve lost 20 pounds since i became determined to improve my health. it doesnt help me to hear mean nasty comments by thin vain people. if you really want to help say something supportive or constructive. otherwise just keep quiet. thank you for taking your time to allow me to vent. have a blessed day =)

So Thomas G thinks his self-loathing was really useful and should be spread around?

You know that much fatness signals ‘issues’ of some kind. It’s not merely a matter of self-control. Of course, this is what simplistic people with none of the skills necessary to analyse how societies operate WOULD say. We don’t judge wiry people who take speed or coke which keeps them thin but dead unhealthy – I suppose their addiciton is not visible? They don’t take up too much space. they have the required slim-line, rational modern body. Any of you so called analysts of social structures ever read Foucault? Ever read…..anything?

I wonder if tolerance would help – would stop contemporary anxieties coming out through food either in compulsions to eat or to not? After all the bad attitudes expressed here are implicated in disorders like anorexia. No doubt you all still feel good about yourselves though.

I don’t see that much acceptance of fat people of the kind that some bloggers think indulges them – lets them think they should be allowed to live in the world unhampered.

This whole page is a crock!

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Being fat is definitely just about how much you eat. I didn’t believe it for the longest time myself, until reality forced me to. I was pretty fat for many years – at 5,10 and between 195-220 – and then I started traveling overseas for the first time. What an eye opener! All these svelte, limber people! Such people exist in America to, especially in the bigger cities, but the proportions were so different!

And what happened is – I became ashamed and disgusted with myself! When you travel you are much more conscious of yourself as being judged as an outsider – you feel much more visible, especially an American, and I remember simply being mortified that I looked so much worse than most people around me.

Up till that point I had tried losing weight but gave up because it just seemed too hard – I was pretty much convinced that it was simply in my genes to be fat. But then some competetive kernel awakened in me and I decided that there is NO WAY all these thing people can be that way and yet it is impossible to me.

So I did an experiment. I will eat like the locals for a few months. Same portion size. Same foods. Everything. Same times during the day. And avoid fast food.

I remember thinking there is no way these people can be constantly hungry – they must be fairly full at least eating what they normally do, and it MUST be possible to maintain a normal weight without feeling hungry.

Guess what? Within a few months my weight dropped to 155-160, and has stayed there ever since.

Yes, I battled hunger at first, but then it subsided eventually. So big deal. The trick is, really, to always be a LITTLE hungry, but to never let yourself get TOO hungry. You gotta listen to those gut feelings and keep it right in the middle. If you get TOO hungry your body will unleash a chemichal storm that will FORCE you to overeat – that’s why crash dieters fail.

And I begin to think of it as a lifelong discipline, as a lifelong change in the way I eat, and now it’s no sweat at all.

I also roomed with several “naturally thin” people in my life who insisted they could eat whatever they wanted and not get fat. Guess what, they can’t. No one can. I observed their eating habits over months and what would happen is they would eat a huge meal at McDonalds or something and then eat very little for the next day or few days – they never thought about their eating habits, but assumed that since they ate at McDonalds or wherever “whenever they felt like it” they could eat what they want and never get thin.

In fact what was happening was that their metabolism naturally regulated their hunger cycles – these “naturally thin” people seem to feel less hungry less often and crave bad foods less intensely. In this respect they ARE lucky – but it is an optical illusion to think they can eat what they want and stay thin. They simply pay no attention to eating little – it happens “naturally” – and they occasionally indulge.

They are no more exempt from the second law of thermodynamics than the rest of us.

And yes, for me it was SHAME, pure, simple, intense SHAME at how I measured up against others that drove me to my transformation.

We need to bring back the shame culture.

#39 – AD – “What is now an average size zero for women’s dress sizes (they vary between clothing lines) was a size eight in the fifties, the era of Marilyn Monroe.”

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard today. If today’s zero was formerly an eight, the former twos and fours would be transparent. Or broomsticks. You’ve made a completely preposterous claim.

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i lost about 55 pounds in 6 months… To people with fast metabolisms who have never been fat, you have no idea what it’s like trying to loose weight. The key is to re-train your brain to forget sugar

“after 30 days of eating a small ration of rice and some fish and fruits, they’re still overweight.”

30 days is not nearly enough. It took me a year to lose 10 pounds. I went from about 125 to 108 steady. I also gained muscle mass, so I did lose more total pounds of fat than that. Nonetheless, those “lose fat quick” by starving methods do not work too well.

63, I’d take not getting laid anyday over a fat or ugly chick.

i’ll take ugly ovr fat anyday. you can close your eyes or turn the lights off and an ugly bitch w/ a nice body might do it for ya. a fat chick will always be fat unless you take out ur retinas and cut your fingers off

On a similar note, check out Americanized Asians living in the US. Asians are generally thin, but there’s a whole crop of fat Asians running through the streets here. They’re the Americanized ones that eat unhealthy foods. You can also see the change in diet in their complexions. Many “Americanized” Asians have acne and shit as well.
Chuck I’ve noticed this as well. It’s a quick way to tell who is American and who is not when walking thru Canal st.

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Man that fat is coming back in a big motherfuckin way. Okay, first fat people are prone to illness, that’s basic. Just because one fat guy doesn’t go to the doctor or have a disease yet is hardly a scientific survey of value. All the information points the other way:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7723918.stm

There’s no way around the truth. Fat people get diseases more than normal or underweight people. Fat dudes get in addition to heart attacks, increased strokes, cancer and a whole range of stuff including tiny penis and balls that are emaciated under the fat load.

I don’t watch much Survivor over the years but the reason the chubby person stays chubby is that they have spent years developing their fatness. It is “hardened” nuclear silo resistant fat.

Oh and they are lazy. They don’t exert or do as much as the other contestants. The other contestants have survival type skills because they are used to doing things. So they take on the tasks that need to be done readily.

Fat people are slags. If you watch that show, watch to see what the fat person does. You’ll probably notice they don’t do much of anything. And that other people on their “team” notice and don’t like it either. But they keep them around as they are an easy win for others later in the game. Eventually though, that easy win outlives its usefulness and the fat person must be tossed.

-Chuck I like your observations in all your posts, they are really true….

-Heather, while I applaud your braveness in coming out with your weight and height…I do pity the enviable boyfriend

-Roissy….just straight annihilating people (new nickname “Bulldog”)

-GManifesto you are absolutely right about food in other countries, we eat factory made shit here….organic or not organic its all bullshit……go to any other countries and try their “real” fruits and vegetable. Our food looks really good but is generally completely tasteless (unless it contains 50% added sodium or sugar)…

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I don’t know dude. Haven’t people watched Survivor. There’s always some overweight black chick as a contestant and after 30 days of eating a small ration of rice and some fish and fruits, they’re still overweight. Meanwhile, other contestants go from normal to skeletal. Some people can pretty much starve themselves and they still can’t lose the weight.

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Take enough money to pay a ticket and another ten grand and you should no longer need insurance. Just go to another place. Oh wait but my company does not let me not have insurance so I end up paying for everyone else even though I do not need insurance. 6000 dollar a year.

The world is pathetic peeps couldn’t say nigger but now you can say fat people slobs and shit. Fat people are not using up more health care dollars fool. They are paying for it or they get jack just like you and die. Thin people get cancer fat people get cancer. You know who is eating up the health care is females. I have been to the doctor 3 times in 33 years. Tell me a female who has done that. Yet I pay 6000 dollars a year for health insurance that I have not used in the last 4 years. That is 24 thousand dollars in 4 years for some shit I will prob never use until I get ready to fucking die. So I am fat but the sytem will sure as shit make mad loot on me. So you naive motherfuckers paying for insurance that keeps going up get mad at the insurance company. What the fuck is the point of insurance anyway if you have to use it and they raise rates. You pay your whole life for it so they make mad money even if at the end there is a 100k note to pay. Then when you actually get sick the insurance company can kick you off the policy. so tell me what the fuck the point is. Oh yea wife got a major operation done in Indonesia would have cost 100k in america but only cost 6k in indo. Yet I paid 24k for insurance. Would have saved mad money never having got insurance in the first place. Insurance made 24 thousand dollars in 4 years off of me. Understand that. Insurance is probably making more off someone making minimum wage than that person has spending money. So it is insurance ripping you the fuck off and the doctors keeping people at the end of their lives, alive long enough to rack up a 300k bill so that the persons family can go fucking bankrupt. The shit is a joke. Because the insurance will have a cap on benefits as well.
It is like the army. You are going to do so many push ups sit ups and run while you are there.
They blame people who fuck up for why the platoon is doing the push up situp
the thing is whether you fuck up or not you will be doing push ups and sit ups.
Whether people are fat or not your insurance is going to be going up because the insurance companies own your fucking asses all of them.
Should be free to be fat a fag a christian a muslim, thin, “wierd” You can even be black what the fuck ever as long as you ain’t hurting another person. So yea I believe in a free country for all which ain’t the way we are fucking headed in the us. Also how can it be insurance if when you use it they gouge you and just make you pay it back or are able to discontinue coverage?
When did being able to afford health insurance and be able to take care of a catastrophic event like a somewhat extended hospital stay for a loved one become the reason to be alive.

Another question how much have each of the men here paid into insurance and how many times have you been to a doctor. Don’t just look at how much you paid but look at how much your employer had to pay as well. That money could have been going into your pocket.