I've come to terms with it: I'm prejudiced against fat people

Fat people with fat kids fill me with rage. Irresponsible parenting.

family dude wrote:

Get a family, alot of stress and some 60 hour work weeks. I thought being rail thin was easy as shit until I got the three of those. Now staying thin dropped from being top 1 or 2 things on my list of shit to do to being way down the list.

That's less time to eat actually. Why do 'busy" people have so much time to stuff their pie holes?

Keepitfun wrote:

The problem is people don't know how to make a meal without oil. The fat you eat is the fat you wear, it goes straight on to the hips. The body stores it as is. You can literally test a persons fat and tell them what they eat.

Because they eat too much fat they don't eat enough carbs so they don't even have the energy to burn the fat off. If they do eat a lot of carbs they end up f*****g their insulin and get diabetes.

People don't have a clue, even nutritionists.

My sisters friend is obese and recently got diabetes. She saw me eating a 3KG watermelon after a workout and told me I'll end up with diabetes I said bitch you ain't eaten a piece of fruit for 10 years.

That's weird, I can practically drink bacon grease and not gain weight. I fry everything and haven't gained an ounce since high school 30 years ago.

I also eat entire watermelons and kale though.

Unless you're training for a marathon, in which case you'll have some support.

Also, slower runners that take their running somewhat seriously have a lot of respect for fast runners. There are tons of people out there running 4-6 days a week with 27:00 5k PR's. Those coworkers/bosses can be an ally to those who are fast. Not much different than having a boss that sucks at golf drooling over his new hire with a 3 handicap.

Until the running/golfing affects time at the office. People love to say "so and so is fast" the Monday after a big race, but no one likes the guy who takes an extra ten minutes for his lunch because of a run.

I try to be really supportive of my wife's running so that I can always get support in return. Once we had kids, doubles kind of went out the window. Taking that much time out of a day to run is just unrealistic unless you have some major goal like OT qualifier. My wife let me do it for a few years before kids, but now she is like, "Nope, you already ran. Fold the laundry and make me a glass of wine you cuck waif! I've been watching the rugrats since 5:30 AM. You put them to bed."

...and you know what? That is the best part of my day.

get your facts straight wrote:

O wise one, please enlighten us then as to how all possible medical conditions that have the potential to affect one's metabolism and appetite are under people's complete conscious control

They don't necessarily have control over the diseases/conditions themselves (although of course they can be managed through medication), but people absolutely have control over what they put in their mouths.

Have a condition and notice that you've put on ten pounds? That fat didn't appear out of nowhere; you had to eat a surplus of 35,000 calories. I always hear people say how their metabolisms have slowed down over the years, but I never see them changing their eating habits. Golly, I wonder what will happen?

Ran a 31.17 @ 15 ... Broke 14 in 5 k and 30 In 10 k 3.42 in 1500. Ran for twenty plus years eating whatever I wanted 5 kids and 70 hr a week work. Gained @ 2 lbs a year for twenty years . am I one of your fat asses or you in twenty / thirty years...think about it before you call others names. Seven stress fractures and arthritis make me a stationary bike rider today but at least I still workout....maybe this is you In the future...

P.s. this means on a yearly average I ate an extra 4000 calories in 365.25 days... Or @10 calories a day extra........ Maybe you in the future..........

Oldie wrote:

P.s. this means on a yearly average I ate an extra 4000 calories in 365.25 days... Or @10 calories a day extra........ Maybe you in the future..........

So eat 10 fewer calories per day (or go nuts and eat 20 fewer!) for the next 20 years and get back down to your college weight.

Broke 2:30 for the 'thon while billing 70 hours a week at my firm. Stop rationalizing your bad behavior and lack of willpower.

Fat people are evil. Their ugly fatness is an exterior manifestation of the evil lurking within!

It's pretty funny how ignorant many people are being on this thread.

So many are assuming that being fat is nothing more than one dimension of the problem.

There's the "It's as simple as the number of calories consumed vs. number of calories expended" guy.

There's the "It's as simple as how much total fat you consume" guy.

There's the "It's as simple as the type of fat you consume" guy.

There's the "It's as simple as the amount of sugar (simple carbs) you consume" guy.

There's the "It's as simple as whether or not you were born with a disorder" guy.

There's the "It's as simple as how much stress you have in your life" guy.

And so on.

ALL of those things are just SOME of the dimensions of the problem. You could "succeed" at all but one, and still be fat if you do that 'one' thing poorly enough. Likewise, you could be mediocre at most of those things, but excel at just one & still be thin.

That being said, though, the fat "epidemic" is really getting out of control and disgusting. I know that not everyone is going to look like Taylor Swift or Hugh Jackman, but it's unacceptable that the American obesity rate is over 30%. If all of the obese people in America got the basics in check one at a time (decrease sugar, decrease fried foods consumption, increase sleep as much as your schedule allows, etc.) you'd see obesity rates drop significantly.

Shaming is just an excuse to harass and bully others that insecure people use. I'm sure you have your own faults and things in your control that are imperfect too. You probably have to point out others' faults just to feel better about your own imperfections. That's what's really sad. Why else would you really care? How does them being fat actually affect your life? It doesn't. Mind your own business and stop dragging others down with your own misery and insecurities!

Did exactly that till my son was blown up in Afhanistan and my life was uprooted and overturned . if you're a parent you would understand if not a parent you wouldn't understand... Son in a coma for a hundred plus days till even expected to live........ Then a thousand + days till out of the hospital and lifetime care for him plus daily therapy for him...being out of town and out of work How in the hell was I supposed to watch those 10 and I mean only 10 calories a day ..... Just remember sh..t happens and no matter how hard we try things may not be the be the same as we expected or though .... Just remember this could be you.... So I would recommend not calling a Spade a spade unless you understand there may be cirumstanses for these people ..

P.s.s

Also lost my grandson to SIDS along with other problems with my other kids... But l am one to use excuses...just pointing out this could be you...

Meant not one to use excuses

Also ran 2.24.06 marathon weighing 178 and 6 ft. @ 38....

I'm prejudiced against people who take the elevator in a two story building. Those people are just so f'ing lazy. Stair are faster and you get a little exercise.

I work in a cubicle type setting. I've noticed that I fidget and move much more than my co-workers who are portly. This is not something I consciously do, I just get antsy if I'm not moving a little. I'm amazed by how long my overweight co-workers can sit without needing to get up and stretch their legs, etc. The reason I say this is to point out that being skinny is not entirely due to your amazing will power and discipline. Your body has a predisposition to being skinny. You can probably get away with a lot more sloth and gluttony, and still gain much less weight than the fat people you are judging. Furthermore, I've noticed that for myself, and other waifs, I get sick to my stomach much sooner if I eat extremely sugary or greasy food.Once again, this is not something I decided to do, I've been that why since I was a child. So OP, get off your high high horse. Is it good to be skinny? Yes. But your arrogance is more disgusting than the sloth and gluttony that you are so repulsed by.

Furthermore, I notice just as many non-overweight people taking the elevator as obese people. So while there is a correlation between physical laziness and body type, it is not as directly related as you would think. There are plenty of skinny people who are just as lazy as large people.

So, if you are active and eat healthy, great. Keep doing it. But don't assume that you are a better person than someone who doesn't. You have just as many flaws as them in other ways, maybe even more so. Pride is much uglier than anything else.