Is this as bad as these RW commenters make it out to be?

What's wrong with that? I bett these snowflakes would consider Don Kardong philosophy on food triggering.

Agree it isn't a bad post by RW (and let's face it the average RW reader isn't going to be the one affected by the post reinforcing disordered eating habits...)

I do however agree it is a bit tasteless to post something like this after doing a recent article specifically on running and eating disorders. But if NordicTrack paid them enough to post, oh well. It's only bad if you want it to be.

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

When I posted on RW forums over a decade ago, someone took issue with the Quenton Cassidy quote "Gaunt is beautiful" as a sig for my posts as triggering. If me showing love for "Once a Runner" and valuing being lean makes you quit eating or go barf, your problem is with you and nobody else.

Reported, I don't need your fat shaming here

Some people just want a reason to be offended these days. They feel that when they post online about how offended they are by something, it shows how woke and progressive they are. It's a sign of vanity.

I guess it's problematic when other people see it and figure they too should be offended by something that could be objectively good (in this case, not overeating).

I get that some people could be genuinely offended by seeing a message telling them not to overeat, if they're individuals with eating disorders who are already averse to eating even a healthy amount of food. But then again, this message obviously isn't directed at them, the same way a message saying "Stop Smoking" obviously isn't directed at non smokers.

I think when these people feel the need to heed a message not-directed at them, and then gets offended for having heeded the message, then those individuals is in the wrong, not the messenger.

Can we just for a second take note of his terrible hairline?

It's Not Bad wrote:

Agree it isn't a bad post by RW (and let's face it the average RW reader isn't going to be the one affected by the post reinforcing disordered eating habits...)

I do however agree it is a bit tasteless to post something like this after doing a recent article specifically on running and eating disorders. But if NordicTrack paid them enough to post, oh well. It's only bad if you want it to be.

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

sheep goes bahhh bahhhh!

It's Not Bad wrote:

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

The rule of thumb is 100 calories per mile, and say you cover 4 miles in half an hour. Not hard to imagine a 400 calorie cookie. Panera says their chocolate chip cookie is 380 calories.

Cookie calories wrote:

It's Not Bad wrote:

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

The rule of thumb is 100 calories per mile, and say you cover 4 miles in half an hour. Not hard to imagine a 400 calorie cookie. Panera says their chocolate chip cookie is 380 calories.

I do 6 miles in 30 minutes so I get to eat 2 cookies!!

It's runner's world and runner's world people. Who the hell cares?

cjhi wrote:

It's runner's world and runner's world people. Who the hell cares?

Thank God, our forum beat there forum.

Cookie calories wrote:

It's Not Bad wrote:

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

The rule of thumb is 100 calories per mile, and say you cover 4 miles in half an hour. Not hard to imagine a 400 calorie cookie. Panera says their chocolate chip cookie is 380 calories.

The cookies from Panera are the size of dinner plates. I would think most home done Christmas cookies aren't QUITE as massive...

slave mentality wrote:

It's Not Bad wrote:

Agree it isn't a bad post by RW (and let's face it the average RW reader isn't going to be the one affected by the post reinforcing disordered eating habits...)

I do however agree it is a bit tasteless to post something like this after doing a recent article specifically on running and eating disorders. But if NordicTrack paid them enough to post, oh well. It's only bad if you want it to be.

Also what the hell is in that cookie that it takes 30 minutes to burn off?!?!

sheep goes bahhh bahhhh!

So are you suggesting that we can control RW and their decision to take money in exchange for posting content? They are free to do what they want, and acknowledging that fact doesn't make anyone a sheep.

Let's get our priorities straight: Obesity is the biggest public health crisis is modern America. Anorexia and bulimia are not even in the running.

But aside from that, this is a stupid post. 30min of exercise might immediately burn off the calories of a single cookie, but your body then has to work to recover from the run, which results in an increased metabolic rate. This Calorie accounting is way off.

That is right, this is why there is such an outrage against Trump.

You know, people's opinions on the internet just aren't worth getting all flustered about. The fact is EVERYONE gets offended by something. It just depends on what your priorities are. The internet audience is so gigantic that of course you'll find people out there who are offended by things you don't care about.

If you meet a Trump supporter who is convinced only liberals are sensitive snowflakes who get offended at little things, just kneel when the national anthem plays. Or suggest something negative about white people. You'll soon see that folks of all stripes get offended.