IMHO hear me out wrote:
Being fat is like a mental disorder...
That's why there are so many more fat people in the United States now compared to 50 years ago -- as a nation, we're going CRRRRAAAAAZY!!!!!
IMHO hear me out wrote:
Being fat is like a mental disorder...
That's why there are so many more fat people in the United States now compared to 50 years ago -- as a nation, we're going CRRRRAAAAAZY!!!!!
The comments section is full of people commenting on how shallow people are because "I never got hit on before and now that I've lost 30lbs I get hit on all the time."
Umm...yeah. Same with anything you do to improve your appearance. If I spend years walking around in ripped jeans and a filthy t-shirt, then I suddenly start to take some pride in myself and put on a suit, I'll get more attention from the girls once I've started dressing like a human. Physical attraction is part of a relationship. Am I supposed to go out with people I'm not attracted to out of some sense of political correctness and sensitivity? Sorry, but I'm not going to date you just to bolster your self-esteem. Nor do I expect anyone to do the same for me.
Good point. I just don't understand what's not attractive about this:
Fat people should not be coddled. You want them to believe in themselves and have good self-esteem, but you can't do that at the price of making them think it's okay to be the way they are. It's not okay. Don't give them so many good vibes that they can get away with thinking this, too. It's unhealthy and going to make things more miserable.
I've lost 50 lbs twice in my life thanks to running. Whether it be personal well-being, standing a chance with pretty girls, or not trying to give your parents a funeral to plan you're just much better off when you can accept the fact that being fat isn't helping you accomplish much of anything. The worst are parents and peers who enable fat people to keep being that way. I thank every peer and family member who made me feel self-conscious about it, but still valued. That's the difference between doing something good for yourself or offing yourself. Parents and peers should learn to know the difference instead of just saying, "Whelp, I'm not sure I can get the kid to respond correctly if I try, so I better just not try." Parents make more excuses than the kids do.
Ever notice how fat guys are often quite funny but fat chicks tends to have a shitie attitude? Just an observation.
I'm a hat person and I get made fun of all the time. Fedora, fez, coonskin, beaver top, beret--doesn't matter, the folks in Starbucks make fun of my all the same. But you know what? I've learned to throw on the deerstalker and live with it.
-Jason
I'm a hat person and I get made fun of all the time. Fedora, fez, coonskin, beaver top, beret--doesn't matter, the folks in Starbucks make fun of my all the same. But you know what? I've learned to throw on the deerstalker and live with it.
-Jason
It's good to know there are others like me out there!
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs wrote:
IMHO hear me out wrote:Being fat is like a mental disorder...
That's why there are so many more fat people in the United States now compared to 50 years ago -- as a nation, we're going CRRRRAAAAAZY!!!!!
I know people who struggle with weight issues who are not lazy. Some of them work very hard at their desks for 60+hrs/week at corporations and make very good $$$.... being obese is a difficult habit to break....if it were easy to do in this day and age, no one would be fat. It's easy for me and you to do which is why we're not fat. (many of us got into XC/Track in high school!!!) But THERE ARE MANY FOLKS ITS NOT EASY FOR.
Think of how it was when you started distance running. Most of you letsrunners are probably 15-18min 5K guys. If you guys started off as obese at age 30 and tried to get into cardio fitness, chances are a run (more like a f*cking slog) outside would be pure TORTURE! ...People who dont exercise at all view most exercise as complete TORTURE until they are pushed, get into it etc and realize that it's actually FUN and ADDICTING!!!
IMO we have many societal factors such as the technological advances and a workforce that's exhausted....and food industry pushing foods that cater to our taste buds to make the most $ they can
NativeAmerican populations have genes that weren't designed to handle our fatty European food. This is why they are more prone to type 2 diabetes than other groups even if they are barely overweight.
attractive ppl get more dates? wrote:
The comments section is full of people commenting on how shallow people are because "I never got hit on before and now that I've lost 30lbs I get hit on all the time."
I agree with you. It's a big problem for us skinny runner dudes. More fat women in the mix means fewer screwable women....Even the overweight chicks want bigger more muscular guys than scrawny distance runners.
IMHO hear me out wrote:
Being fat is like a mental disorder.
I'm amazed that I can still be surprised by the level of total stupidity on this site.
Do people with a mental disorder have a choice?
The level of obesity in the US is not normal or healthy. It harms individual people's health and costs society billions of dollars a year.
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes/index.html
This silly column's solution is "Campaign for better P.E. programs and healthier school lunches. Work to overhaul our country's horrific food-production system. Seek logical solutions for how to cope with a physically larger populace [which links to an article about making bigger and stronger airplane seats]."
Those aren't solutions. More PE and better school lunches would hardly do anything and I don't know what she means about overhauling food production. Bigger airplane seats also won't make people lose weight.
Here is the depressing map from the CDC showing obesity rates since 1985
http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
People have not undergone a genetic transformation since 1985 - they have changed behavior. Changing behavior back is what is needed to fix the problem. To change behavior you have to convince people to change. That's not being mean, any more than it's being mean to convince people to quit smoking.
I'm a big fan of Jezebel and Letsrun. I'm really glad that these two websites, with such drastically different outlooks on EVERYTHING have finally met each other.
The government needs to start throwing some ridiculous tax onto crap food.
Economics is a HUGE problem, here. The cheapest foods are the worst.
I went to Denmark one time and they tax the crap out of their unhealthy foods (and everything really) and it seriously curbed my enthusiasm for slamming down a few candy bars.
Do it like cigarettes. Start throwing in a dollar, two dollars, three dollars whatever tax on top of the retail price.
Lot of extra tax money there!
tax the fat wrote:
The government needs to start throwing some ridiculous tax onto crap food.
Economics is a HUGE problem, here. The cheapest foods are the worst.
Nice concept, but I have trouble seeing how it would work in practice.
Would all ground beef subject to the crap food tax? What if it's 95% lean? What if it's grass-fed steak? White flour? Whole corn meal (good for making Doritos)? Refined sugar? Honey? The lobbyists and special interests would be all over a crap food tax to make it favor their products and create loopholes. You would get the kind of anomalies like they have in the UK where hard cider is taxed less than beer, so the cheap drunks just switch from beer to cider. Somebody would figure out some way of selling crap food that avoided the crap food tax.
I also can't see that it would be in any politician's self-interest to become the champion of taxing junk food.
I am nice to everyone. However, being nice to fat chicks is sometimes misinterpreted as a sign of interest. I personally am not attracted to fat chicks and have no desire to go hogging, so this is kind of a downside.
No.
xxxlfatty wrote:
I would be more sympathetic to fatties if they're not at fault. I would think at least 3/4 of fatties are fat because they eat too much, shiiit too much and are simply lazy.
Most of the fat people that I know hardly eat anything. I easily out-eat them by at least 2 to 1. (I am 5' 11" and 150 lbs).
I would hazard the guess that 90% of the skinny folks on this site have always been skinny - that it was never really much of a choice.
tax the fat wrote:
Economics is a HUGE problem, here. The cheapest foods are the worst.
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That's just BS. Do you know how cheap beans and rice are?
Also, how unfair would it be if we runners had to pay two or three times extra for a can of Pringles and a Mountain Dew because some people can't control themselves?! Am I right?
