This body/positive fat acceptance crap is dangerous

Slay girl! Working out makes her feel sexy BARF!

Damn girl - you go! 60 minutes up to 3 times per week - BEAST MODE! See you at the Disney Marathon!

I skimmed the article and didn't see her blaming society, but maybe she was.

I think this is a wonderful story. I love it when people make the effort to improve their lives. That takes a lot of willpower and courage to start from such a fitness "hole".

She's massively fat and out of shape, so why would you expect to be "impressed" with her workout. She's doing what she can and it sounds like she's make huge improvements from where she was.

I hope she realizes that health is at least 75% diet. She got the way she was due primarily to diet. If you just live a normal life, walk around, do chores and such but don't exercise and eat a very clean diet your weight will naturally be pretty close to where it should be. You won't be fit or strong, but you won't be massively unhealthy.

Lastly, I will say that people should [a] acknowledge that being fat is not a good thing and should be avoided and not accepted; while at the same time, not feel like a horrible human being just because they are fat. There are worse things. Your identity as a person can't come from fitness levels.

Did you even read it? She encourages people to do stuff. She said she is getting better by working out, which she just started doing.

Don't group her with the Raggin Chastains of the world.

i'm not going to troll with this thread. it genuinely sounded like she was trying to improve herself.

Health at Every Size wrote:

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/a12053908/sarah-sapora-fitspo/

Nothing about this workout is impressive even played at 4x speed. She thinks her "knee and back pain" are unrelated to weighing 400 lbs. Everything is society's fault, she can't even hold a job in the corporate world. Fat people should be encouraged to actually improve their lives, not celebrate this crap.

O magnificent, beautiful creature! Poet and singer of the sea!

You sound like a mature, pleasant, balanced person. Are you lost?

She doesn't need to be ashamed of her body. Neither does she need to put it out there and ask us to embrace it. I think she's a little too early in her journey to be asking us to go clappy-clappy and "Oooooooooh!!!"

But narcissism is an occupational hazard when you're first getting in shape. I remember when I began seriously to run, almost half a century ago. When those first cuts show up in your legs, it's a great thing. You want to wear shorts and show thigh. (I'm speaking as a straight guy here.) College kids do that.

When she gets down to 250, then it MIGHT be time to share pix on Instagram. Until then: meh.

I didn't realize that she's making a business of it. Jesus.

http://www.sarahpluslife.com/rainbeau-curves-helped-find-break-comfort-zone/

I think I'm going to start a website where I post selfies of my 59-year old skinny body with the very slight thickening in the middle--depending on season--covered with a fine fur of reddish hair. Lots of closeups of my receding hairline and my skinny arms. Not to brag, because I've got nothing to brag about, but just to get ugly.

THANK YOU, SARAH!!!!!!!!! You have liberated me.

Oh that's right: intersectionality says that straight white middle class guys have all the advantages and should therefore quietly cede the field. Sit down and shut up. No Instagram vanity sites.

So....no.

Why would a trainers have her working leg presses of all things? She should be doing about 90% of her workouts as cardio to drop weight, right?

KudzuRunner wrote:

Oh that's right: intersectionality says that straight white middle class guys have all the advantages and should therefore quietly cede the field. Sit down and shut up. No Instagram vanity sites.

Really? That's funny because a) I've never heard/read anyone saying they should quietly cede the field and b) I see a TON of white male Instagram vanity accounts.

As for this woman, are you people mocking her for exercising to try to get to a healthier weight? You're actually mocking someone who is exercising rather than sitting on their ass? Did u even read the article?

Jose the Plomero wrote:

Why would a trainers have her working leg presses of all things? She should be doing about 90% of her workouts as cardio to drop weight, right?

Only if she wants to be skinny fat.

"She doesn't need to be ashamed of her body. Neither does she need to put it out there and ask us to embrace it."

I missed when she asked YOU to embrace it. You don't have to, nor do you have to criticize her, but I guess it makes you feel superior.

Actually, I read most of the comments on here as supportive and questioning the OP on why he was mocking someone who was trying to better herself. To the extent there was much criticism, I think it primarily focused on the self-promoting nature of the entire thing, which self-promotion really shouldn't be shocking in this day age.

As to leg presses, I guess there is something to be said for engaging the biggest muscles in the body to increase metabolic burn by engaging and building the body's biggest muscles.

I hope she succeeds and becomes a wild success story of inspiration and profit.

just imagine Mo Farah underneath her. Can he bench press her to safety?

Those who can't cardio do weights and vice virsa.

Years ago we saw a woman at least this fat out walking near our neighborhood. Maybe three or four times over a few months.

We moved to the other side of town. Maybe two years later we were back in the old neighborhood, on a walk for some reason, and someone walking our way called out to us. She said she was the same person we'd seen years earlier, but she was completely different, I'd call her at a normal weight for someone of her height. Totally normal person. She said seeing us, out running so frequently, inspired her to finally get healthy. She said she went on a walk every single day from that point on.

I have no idea about diet. But still.

I'm not mocking her for wanting to get thin; I heartily applaud that mission. I'm mocking her for thinking that she needs to share quite so much of the early portion of her journey in quite so much living color.

I did read the story. I read this:

"Just last week, Sarah walked five miles outdoors for the first time."

I mean like Whoa! Hot diggity. And now, 11 months into her journey, she's cobbled together a business and is about to lead her first workshop.

And I'm supposed to applaud? I think it's great that she's filled with resolve to transform her life. I just think she needs to put in a little more time in the woodshed before she plays Amateur Hour at the Apollo.

Malcolm X once said, "If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress." I think she's showing off, frankly, before she's earned the right to show off. Put in some serious time. Make some serious transformative progress.

a canal, Panama wrote:

Years ago we saw a woman at least this fat out walking near our neighborhood. Maybe three or four times over a few months.

We moved to the other side of town. Maybe two years later we were back in the old neighborhood, on a walk for some reason, and someone walking our way called out to us. She said she was the same person we'd seen years earlier, but she was completely different, I'd call her at a normal weight for someone of her height. Totally normal person. She said seeing us, out running so frequently, inspired her to finally get healthy. She said she went on a walk every single day from that point on.

I have no idea about diet. But still.

There you go. Do the work. Bravo to her.