Good for you; let me know if you want any pointers.
Alternatively, you could opt to burn a few calories trying to show me my own butthole.
If you go even more of a deep dive you may be able to avoid your next colonoscopy! 
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No pointers needed, thanks. Execution has been going great. There are no cause and effect mysteries for me to solve.
Open mat went great last week.
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Can I ask what made you want to lose weight?
Health and performance reasons.
Can I ask, have you tried finding a local overweight doorman, biker or SHW BJJ competitor and repeating the words you expressed here?
It should be quite safe for you. Chances are you can simply run away after insulting them.
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@twojarslave I respect all of your posts and you have some highly thoughtful detailed responses. I don’t think @Andrewgen_Receptors was trying to physically flex here… do you? The virtual whos _____ is bigger contests are a waste. Its never gonna happen first of all and there’s never a resolution to it.
FWIW an equally trained and larger competitor is almost always likely to win as long as they have enough endurance conditioning. Also FWIW, a doorman’s biggest advantage in size is to doing HIS JOB which is move the unruly guest with as little harm (see liability) to that guest as possbile. For example, at my new low/cut of 190lbs, even though I’m semi trained, I couldn’t move a large guy without likely getting in a full on fight and/or causing rukus. However, you at 290lbs and trained could move probably up to an equal size guy without harming him and/or causing liability for the business at hand.
Regardless of my deviation for the topic at hand. My point was that I don’t think the premise of this topic was to shame specific people but it was definitely not presented well as such.
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I’m not sure of his intentions. Something tells me he isn’t going to seek out any of the people I listed to repeat the words he expressed in this thread.
Like many of the younger generation, he needs his safe space to feel good about his ideas.
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Understood. I hope you didn’t take my response in any negative light. You’re one of my favorite posters in the PWI section.
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I have been responding to you in good faith. You have not done the same for me.
I don’t wish ill for fat people. I actually wish for them to make the very changes you are making yourself.
Can I just say here that I’m saddened by @skyz banishment?
These posts are potentially about people we love or respect or whatever, though I know that wasn’t the intent of anyone in this thread. However, it is what it is and I think there should be room for what may be overreaction. Particularly in posters with a history of helpfulness and support.
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Don’t threaten us with a good time.
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I know. Now would be the perfect time for #team buttseks to join the thread.
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Of course! But you have to admit he did it to himself. He’s not banned just taking a time out for bad behavior. I don’t understand why his rhetoric is so bad and so ‘I’m a tough guy’ / demeaning. He has his own log and posts pictures, family stuff, etc. Why would you go around threatening people, cursing, and calling them names when you are so open about your personal life? I don’t get it.
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There needs to be a distinction between excessive worthless flab and functional mass.
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I never sought to have him banned. I reported exactly 0 of his comments.
That being said, he was coming across very unhinged. Far moreso than a 40-something year old man should have - at words spoken on the internet.
He is welcome to speak his mind, but mischaracterizing me as some deranged bully is a bit much, when really all i want is for people to better themselves. The subject in question being a 24 year old man with a BMI at or approaching 60, i hope this individual strives to better himself before his parents have to bury their child.
I don’t wish ill for Skyzyks or anyone else on this board. Okay, maybe Grool or whatever… but that’s its own thing.
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Hello Emily,
Skyz wants me to let you know that he appreciates your concern and that he will be okay no matter how the chips fall : - ).
- disclaimer I have read none of this thread and have no idea what’s going on, hahah.
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I am too.
He should not be banned. If that stupid Mensa fuck wasn’t banned after talking shit about my deceased fiancé years ago… Skyz comments were mild in comparison.
Of course! And just for the record, he’s only suspended for a week. And that wasn’t because he disagreed with the original poster’s ideas; it was the way that he chose to do so (and I realize you acknowledge that in your post).
Anyway, he is a very helpful and loyal T Nation community member, so I hope he returns after the week is up, and we can pick up where things left off (well, maybe the point just before this thread haha).
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Say what?!
Okay, sometimes we do miss stuff, and for whatever happened there, I am truly sorry.
I don’t want to turn this thread into a moderation debate, but we do welcome everyone to use the “flag” feature to bring a specific post to our attention.
Please use it with discretion, though. We don’t need to flag someone just because they don’t season their eggs.
(Sorry, @Andrewgen_Receptors. Low hanging fruit and all.)
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Thanks @BrickHead for giving me a heads-up on this thread.
Before I dive in with my thoughts, full disclosure: I have not read all 160 posts in this thread, so if someone has already said this or if it’s off base, I apologize. But here it goes…
Back story: I have struggled with an eating disorder on and off since I was 11 years old - I have never been overweight but have always been scared to death of being overweight. The first time I was hospitalized for the ED at age 11, I remember seeing a Dexatrim commercial and thinking that I could eat the chicken that they brought me for lunch because I could take that to be thin when I grew up. I had some very rough years throughout junior high, high school and in college and also at particularly rough times during my adult life. The ED is/was my fail safe coping mechanism, my mode of numbing out, my way to feel in control of something. The root was/is not fear of being fat and it’s/was not about food/exercise - it’s/was about feelings that I didn’t know how to or want to feel, it’s/was about find something I could feel in control of, it’s/was about escaping hurt and focusing on something else. I’ve had A LOT of therapy to figure all of this. My life has not been easy, it has not been fun and an ED is not something I would wish on my worst enemy.
Why was that little story important? Because, in my time as an RD I’ve worked with LOTS of overweight/obese folks and I’ve come to realize that in many of these cases, even though the behaviors are opposite the reasons behind them are the same - food brings comfort, it’s something to control, it’s a way to numb. Fat people do not upset me, but rather my heart goes out to them, because they are likely struggling with something much bigger than food.
A lot of us in here (sorry, not sorry) use exercise and food as control and numbing mechanisms too - granted not to DSM-level “disordered” in most cases, but there are some fine lines being walked. We’re just fortunate that our “disorder” is considered healthy by society. I’m not saying that overweight/obese folks should get a “get out of jail free” card, because they have deeper issues (in a lot of cases), but I’m saying that one day, waking up and choosing to eat egg whites instead of M&Ms for breakfast and working out instead of watching Netflix isn’t going to permanently fix anything. What’s more likely to happen is that one disorder/addiction will get traded for another and/or they’ll eventually revert back to their old coping mechanisms and end up gaining the weight back and sometimes more.
There’s not an easy solution. This world is filled with pain and broken people. Judging them doesn’t help them and we’ve all got our own junk. So, my best advice - Just worry about your jump rope and yourself. Plant healthy habit seeds where you can, listen if they want to talk. Don’t shame them, judge them or think you’re better than them because you have no idea what circumstances have brought them to where they are.
This may make me super unpopular, but that’s my 2.5 cents.
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