Remember elite fat activist Ragen Chastain? She's back with a 10 hour marathon finish in Maine.

Lapped Miler wrote:

After crossing the finish line in Maine she whipped off her singlet to reveal a sports bra.

This thread is worthless without pics.

somebIoke wrote:

Lapped Miler wrote:

After crossing the finish line in Maine she whipped off her singlet to reveal a sports bra.

This thread is worthless without pics.

Please god no!

No pictures.

(if you want pictures, there are some satellites that can capture 80% of this woman)

somebIoke wrote:

Lapped Miler wrote:

After crossing the finish line in Maine she whipped off her singlet to reveal a sports bra.

This thread is worthless without pics.

Don't you simpletons get it? Words no longer mean what they mean.

There is no science. There is no truth. Did you not pay attention in high school and college?

Anyone can change his/her gender despite objective genetic, morphological and cellular evidence.

The free economies are destroying the climate in our time even though it was much warmer for long periods before industrialization.

And, the morbidly obese are healthy athletes who are RUNNING when they slowly saunter at 2 miles per hour.

Get with the program, you morons or Bill the Science Guy will come to your house and set you straight.

D-construction wrote:

Don't you simpletons get it? Words no longer mean what they mean.

Yeah! The President gets this; why can't you guys?

EZPass Mike wrote:

somebIoke wrote:

This thread is worthless without pics.

Please god no!

No pictures.

(if you want pictures, there are some satellites that can capture 80% of this woman)

Wouldn't you like to see a sprint finish between her and Ashley Graham?

There would be stuff in motion all over the place.

Of course, she should only receive medical advice from a physician.

I personally have a good one - a cardiologist who takes great pains with patients to avoid having to use one of the skills he is trained for - stent surgeries.

I can't help but think this woman would be better to prioritize diet over exercise. My doc really works on changing diet, including avoiding the incredible amount of carbs and sugars in processed foods. This all sounds tried and true, until, of course, one faces the prospect of real health problems, including, as is often the case, diabetes and heart disease. The reality is that for many of us eating properly is far more difficult than slugging through a training run each day. But in my 50's, I think diet takes priority over exercise (although I do that too, with an emphasis on enjoying it more than I did in my competitive days).

This does not mean she cannot be active. But on a true weight loss program, diet for most is far more significant than exercise (although light consistent exercise is of course desirable). Rigorous exercise should come later - and should be done with an eye towards still eating responsibly (and avoiding huge carb intake).

I don't deign to diminish her accomplishments in making the effort. But I am wary of conflating her attempts at exercise with living healthy.

DWF wrote:

This is the lady with the 12+ hour finish in Seattle a few years ago who has been "training" for an IRONMAN since 2014. She has dropped out of a ton of races and was caught cheating at a fun run 5K last year. She's registered for IMAZ again this year.

Cheating and dropping out of races? She'd fit in with NOPe.

SlimShady wrote:

EZPass Mike wrote:

Please god no!

No pictures.

(if you want pictures, there are some satellites that can capture 80% of this woman)

Wouldn't you like to see a sprint finish between her and Ashley Graham?

There would be stuff in motion all over the place.

I would like to see that, then at the end I hope Ashley keeps her t shirt on cause Im here for the real babe : Ragen Chastain!

Smashes her PB by over 2 Hours and 16 Minutes!!!

How many of you rake thin Mofos can claim such a thing!?

this is a contender wrote:

I can't help but think this woman would be better to prioritize diet over exercise.

She's not trying to lose weight. In fact, she's very insistent that losing weight is bad. Her whole shtick is "health at any size", which in her version means that being fat is not a health risk whatsoever. Any health risks that correlate with being obese are due to the psychological effects of being fat-shamed and/or the horrible effects of dieting and losing weight, which is wrong, bad, impossible, and wrong and bad again. I am not kidding about any of this.

Among her most impassioned sermons is condemning evil doctors like you who assume that she wants to lose weight or that she should lose weight. In her view, she doesn't have a problem; you are the problem. Doctors should treat her exactly the same as a thin person and not mention her obesity at all. She has published guidelines for fat people and included in her advice is "remember, you are the authority". Again, not kidding.

To prove that fat people can do anything and that obesity is by no means a hindrance, she has trained full-time (she doesn't have a job) for three years in order to waddle at pace that would be a casual walk pace for a sedentary, slightly overweight person.

Pringles wrote:

The 3-5 hours per day must consist of eating potato chips to maintain fatness,

This part is a +10000000

Slow on the uptake wrote:

Among her most impassioned sermons is condemning evil doctors like you who assume that she wants to lose weight or that she should lose weight. In her view, she doesn't have a problem; you are the problem. Doctors should treat her exactly the same as a thin person and not mention her obesity at all. She has published guidelines for fat people and included in her advice is "remember, you are the authority". Again, not kidding.

Buried among all that is a real problem that obese people genuinely face - which is that many of them find it very hard to get attention for any medical issues because any problem they have will be blamed on their weight. If I go in to the doctor and complain about my back, they look at my back. Maybe there is something wrong. If an obese person goes into the doctor and complains about their back, 9 times out of 10 they will be told to lose weight. It's assumed that nothing is wrong beyond their weight.

I have a friend who is a little heavy. She went to the doctor and complained that her foot hurt. She was told to lose weight. She said that she was unable to exercise because of her foot problems. She was told to eat less. She went to another doctor and then (I think) another, and someone finally took an x-ray of her foot and, hey, broken bone. No wonder it hurt.

The HAES/fat acceptance movements have a lot of problems and I'm not a fan, but it is a fact that heavy people can have a hard time getting doctors to believe that they have health issues unrelated to their weight.

Her foot was broken because of the crushing weight on it.

DontFeedTheTroll wrote:

I have a friend who is a little heavy. She went to the doctor and complained that her foot hurt. She was told to lose weight. She said that she was unable to exercise because of her foot problems. She was told to eat less. She went to another doctor and then (I think) another, and someone finally took an x-ray of her foot and, hey, broken bone. No wonder it hurt.

The HAES/fat acceptance movements have a lot of problems and I'm not a fan, but it is a fact that heavy people can have a hard time getting doctors to believe that they have health issues unrelated to their weight.

I'm in the husky category myself - and it's my fault. I love my coffee and donuts and ice cream. So last summer I had hurt my right femur and went to a doctor who told me to lose weight and go to PT. PT went on for 5 months and I was hounded to lose weight. Finally I went and got a MRI and turns out I had a stress fracture. Good job medical professionals.

However, I'm at least trying to go from superfatass to just fatass and not be a social media whore in the process.

You guys must be really bored

Jsksks wrote:

You guys must be really bored

I'm bored with reading vague posts that offer nothing but a chance for me to scratch my head and say, "Huh?"

Which guys are you referring to? Me a confused cat.

Anyone, you included, who posts to this thread can be deemed "bored", not that it's a correct label.

Concrete Angel wrote:

Her foot was broken because of the crushing weight on it.

I heard she dropped a 12-pack of Hostess sugar donuts on her foot. Surprisingly heavy, them thar munchies.

EZPass Mike wrote:

(if you want pictures, there are some satellites that can capture 80% of this woman)

Some of those spy-in-the-sky satellites supposedly can read a license plate from over 100 miles away. Is it possible to read Ms Chastain's singlet's XXL neck tag from outer space?