True Life: I'm Happy I'm Fat

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[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Thats THEIR choice and unless they are leaching off of the government to pay for their healthcare,[/quote]

Not necessarily the government, but an overall impact in the healthcare system in general. Their poor lifestyle choice causes the price of health insurance to go up up and up.

Now speaking as someone who really does have a chronic illness that is not by choice, it baffles me how someone can be so selfish. Stuff yourself with food until you cause yourself to have adult diabetes, heart problems, etc. It is all ok because I’m happy that I can spend my life overindulging.

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[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Why is it any of your fucking business what another person does to their own quality of life? Thats THEIR choice and unless they are leaching off of the government to pay for their healthcare, then it does not affect you in any way other than the fact that you have to put on your big girl panties and deal with having to see them and walk the extra 2 ft to get around them on the sidewalk.

You guys act as if someones weight could completely negate their worth to society.[/quote]

GREAT F-CKING POST. My God, where the hell do the rest of you people get off? I have disdain for fat people, but that is not a character trait I’m proud of. I just cannot believ the crap I am reading - whatever happened to the concept of personal liberties? Yes, being fat is unhealthy - so is drinking, smoking and driving without a seatbelt. I may not smoke, but the seatbelt laws in this country are completely without validity, and I’ll be damned if anyone is going to tell me differently if I want to have a drink.

You’re damn right it’s ok. These are their lives and theyre hurting noone but themselves and their families - and youre not family, so butt out.

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I hate MTV but dammit I love that show.

What was the name of the chick that was on there that got busted for prostitution?

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[quote]KBCThird wrote:
Stronghold wrote:
Why is it any of your fucking business what another person does to their own quality of life? Thats THEIR choice and unless they are leaching off of the government to pay for their healthcare, then it does not affect you in any way other than the fact that you have to put on your big girl panties and deal with having to see them and walk the extra 2 ft to get around them on the sidewalk.

You guys act as if someones weight could completely negate their worth to society.

GREAT F-CKING POST. My God, where the hell do the rest of you people get off? I have disdain for fat people, but that is not a character trait I’m proud of. I just cannot believ the crap I am reading - whatever happened to the concept of personal liberties? Yes, being fat is unhealthy - so is drinking, smoking and driving without a seatbelt. I may not smoke, but the seatbelt laws in this country are completely without validity, and I’ll be damned if anyone is going to tell me differently if I want to have a drink.

The concept of this new show is insane. They’re bascially saying its ok to be obese! This is an outrage! Like its been said here time and time before obesity kills! So why the hell is mainstream america say its ok to be obese? Cue in the guy from Princess Bride " INCONCEIVABLE!" Being obese is a choice.

You’re damn right it’s ok. These are their lives and theyre hurting noone but themselves and their families - and youre not family, so butt out.[/quote]

Exactly. Theres a razor’s edge you guys are walking here. At what point does lifting go from a healthy pursuit to an unhealthy obsession? What about all of those “morbidly obese” powerlifters that we are all so fond of here? How about the bodybuilder who uses steroids to achieve his personal size goals but hurts no one else in doing so? Doing steroids is a choice.

Lifting weights is a choice. Gaining weight to be competitive at a sport is a choice. Are all of those people complete wastes of life and meaningless to society because of their choices? Pull up your huggies and pay a little less attention to others and more to yourselves, if they wanted your opinion on how to be healthier, Im sure they would ask for it.

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I used to be disgusted at that kind of thing, but I got through it. Now I realise that it’s their choice to do with their lives what they will, just as it’s my choice to eat clean through the week and exercise.

Besides, the more average everyone gets, the easier it is to excel.

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[quote]Dirty_Bulk wrote:
and it sure as fuck isn’t an ‘epidemic,’ so I don’t know if it can really be described as a disease in itself.
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I know you don’t want obesity to be referred to as a disease but you have to admit that most people who are sick, and only a small portion of the obese population is healthy (your shot-putters, heavyweight wrestlers, and other massive yet active folk whose bodyfat is hovering below 20%).

And since obesity isn’t a disease, but a condition, can we at least agree that obesity has reached epidemic proportions?

Don’t be bitter because you’ve gotten Chubby, Charles.

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These people cannot be happy with actually being fat, more like they are lazy cunts who are happier eating shitty food than they would be working out and controlling what they eat.

Given the choice I bet they would swap their fat stinking body for a perfect healty frame.

lazy cunts

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[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:
I hate MTV but dammit I love that show.

What was the name of the chick that was on there that got busted for prostitution?[/quote]

Her name was Bryttni…from Killeen. She was on the news a few days back arguing against her arrest for prostitution. Apparently,she was working at a strip club and rubbed her breasts against a undercover TABC agent. They politely tipped her with an arrest for prostitution.

At least she fulfilled her dream of being a dancer.

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[quote]FightingScott wrote:
Dirty_Bulk wrote:
and it sure as fuck isn’t an ‘epidemic,’ so I don’t know if it can really be described as a disease in itself.

I know you don’t want obesity to be referred to as a disease but you have to admit that most people who are sick, and only a small portion of the obese population is healthy (your shot-putters, heavyweight wrestlers, and other massive yet active folk whose bodyfat is hovering below 20%).

And since obesity isn’t a disease, but a condition, can we at least agree that obesity has reached epidemic proportions? [/quote]

No doubt fatness has reached the proportions of an epidemic disease, but having excess bodyfat is not a disease, it just happens to be your body’s reaction to the stimulus of caloric excess. Not that excess fat is good for you in any way, but likely football lineman and powerlifters will not have the level of health problems of a sedentary fat person. The fat itself is one peice of the their individual health puzzle.

‘Gotten?’ heh.

To the people that don’t care how fat people are, I really don’t care how anyone else lives their lives either. I don’t go around crusading against fatties in everyday life, and I sure don’t think being fat makes you a bad person. The health care issue is really a big gripe though. Paying other people’s medical bills when they aren’t taking care of their own health is bullshit. It’s also a whole lot harder to keep sympathy when you were once fat, too.

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[quote]Stronghold wrote:
I think you guys are getting a little carried away here. You do realize that all of this huffing and puffing about how terrible these people are for their lifestyle choices is very much akin to the shit much of the lifting population deals with (ie, steriods, too big, freaky, musclebound, roid rage, etc.).

If they want to be fat, fucking let them. If they want to whine about no one liking them because they are fat, fucking let them. As long as they dont expect for others to tiptoe around and accommodate them and the consequences of their lifestyle then let them be fat and whine till theyre blue in the face.

I feel like a lot of you guys are making character judgments based soley on a person’s weight. I myself hate people with short haircuts.[/quote]

yeah, i have a short haircut. Fuck you!

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Wasn’t there a study done, (of course there was because our government spends most of its money on studies and committees) showing that it is the lower income folks who were most in danger of being or becoming obese? That they can’t afford “good” food and fast food and processed foods are so much cheaper. We actually had a fast food place near my house and the name was “.39 Cent Burger” because that was all their burgers cost. They were always busy and near a high school until they burned down.

I am not saying being poor means you don’t have to take care of yourself, but it is a disadvantage when taking care of yourself.

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Are people here so fitness elitist and so into the whole health thing that they actually think about obese people? WHO GIVES A CRAP? Lord forbid people be fat AND happy. People bein’ happy about bein’ taht fat isn’t something I can relate to but if it helps them feel better then more power to 'em.

Their health is their own problem, and pointing out loudly, or your kids and their friends pounting out loudly that they’re fat won’t help it. How many people, really, truelly are motivated to change by ridicule? Not too damn many from what I’ve seen, they just get depressed and fall deeper in the hole.

But with more fat people comes good things: a)More fat chicks. That means more easy effort fun. B) Less competition for the fit folk. And C)The funniest mofos are usually fat dudes. Why are people trippin’ on fat folk so bad? It ain’t your problem.

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Shit, social Darwinism at it’s worst. The fact that most of us (and people not on this site too) have the mental strength to NOT gorge ourselves 24/7 means we must have some sort of genetic advantage. Survival of the fittest doesn’t mean shit anymore.

Francis Galton had the right idea.

EDIT: Minus the whole misuse by prejudiced bastards like Hitler and such.

Short hair rocks!

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[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Apparently,she was working at a strip club and rubbed her breasts against a undercover TABC agent. They politely tipped her with an arrest for prostitution.

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This is by far the most disturbing part of this whole thread.

Under no circumstance should a female ever be punished for rubbing her breasts against another person. Blasphemy, I say.

Oh, and fat people? I’ve given up caring. I’m “abnormal” at the opposite end of the spectrum, so to each their own. I’ll check back in with them at around age 60, and see who is doing better.

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When you compare people from other countries, the biggest difference between them and us is the number of fat people here. Shit like this is not helping the situation.

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[quote]AssClown wrote:
Are people here so fitness elitist and so into the whole health thing that they actually think about obese people? WHO GIVES A CRAP? Lord forbid people be fat AND happy. People bein’ happy about bein’ taht fat isn’t something I can relate to but if it helps them feel better then more power to 'em.

Their health is their own problem, and pointing out loudly, or your kids and their friends pounting out loudly that they’re fat won’t help it. How many people, really, truelly are motivated to change by ridicule? Not too damn many from what I’ve seen, they just get depressed and fall deeper in the hole.

But with more fat people comes good things: a)More fat chicks. That means more easy effort fun. B) Less competition for the fit folk. And C)The funniest mofos are usually fat dudes. Why are people trippin’ on fat folk so bad? It ain’t your problem.[/quote]

  1. Fat chicks aren’t fun, because they smell like fat chicks.
  2. Bill Cosby, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Jerry Seinfeld, Lewis Black, Howard Stern…all funny, none fat.
  3. When 60% of the country is overweight or obese, I think it is now officially everyone’s problem.
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[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:

Wasn’t there a study done, (of course there was because our government spends most of its money on studies and committees) showing that it is the lower income folks who were most in danger of being or becoming obese? That they can’t afford “good” food and fast food and processed foods are so much cheaper. We actually had a fast food place near my house and the name was “.39 Cent Burger” because that was all their burgers cost. They were always busy and near a high school until they burned down.

I am not saying being poor means you don’t have to take care of yourself, but it is a disadvantage when taking care of yourself.

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You know, I’ve always seen this but don’t really agree with it. I’m a college student and my parents give me $100 a week for food. I also have a part time job (maybe 10 hours a week) that I use to pay for my supplements.

Breakfast
1 cup oats (about $0.50)
3 eggs (about $0.75)
1 orange (about $0.70)
Total= about $2

Lunch
1 chicken breast (about $1.50)
Half-bag of frozen veggies ($0.60)
Total= about $2

Dinner
Cheap cut of steak (about $2)
Baked potato (about $1)
Total= about $3

Late-night snack
1/2 cup mixed nuts (about $0.50)
couple oz. cheddar cheese (about $0.50)

So my total food bill for the day is under 10 bucks and when you toss in a couple serving of Metabolic Drive and a serving of Surge that is still under $15 per day and at 215-220 I have higher caloric needs than most. Yeah it requires a little planning but I don’t think that is an excuse.

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[quote]jtrinsey wrote:

You know, I’ve always seen this but don’t really agree with it. I’m a college student and my parents give me $100 a week for food. I also have a part time job (maybe 10 hours a week) that I use to pay for my supplements.

Breakfast
1 cup oats (about $0.50)
3 eggs (about $0.75)
1 orange (about $0.70)
Total= about $2

Lunch
1 chicken breast (about $1.50)
Half-bag of frozen veggies ($0.60)
Total= about $2

Dinner
Cheap cut of steak (about $2)
Baked potato (about $1)
Total= about $3

Late-night snack
1/2 cup mixed nuts (about $0.50)
couple oz. cheddar cheese (about $0.50)

So my total food bill for the day is under 10 bucks and when you toss in a couple serving of Metabolic Drive and a serving of Surge that is still under $15 per day and at 215-220 I have higher caloric needs than most. Yeah it requires a little planning but I don’t think that is an excuse.

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Shit, $400 a month? Man, you must really be hurtin. Try doing it for a family with $30-50/week and you will be thinking more realistically. Have you ever supported yourself? Have you ever had to stretch a paycheck? My money is on your answer being “no” and thats why you dont think its a legitimate excuse. Before I go any farther, who the fuck ever said you had to have an excuse to be fat? If I wanted to get fat, then I would get fat and say fuck you to anyone who told me not to. Thats a personal choice and no one else’s decision but your own.

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
When you compare people from other countries, the biggest difference between them and us is the number of fat people here. Shit like this is not helping the situation.[/quote]

What the fuck situation are you talking about? Seriously. You guys act like there is going to be some sort of international survivor of the fittest contest coming up soon and we all have to be ready and fit to beat the other countries. Weve got FAR greater problems in this country to worry about. Were in an endless war, nearly the entire Muslim world wouldnt mind if we were wiped out, our economy is floundering, the strength of the dollar is plummeting, and we have a congress that cant get jack shit accomplished, and youre sitting at your computer bitching about FAT PEOPLE?!

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

  1. When 60% of the country is overweight or obese, I think it is now officially everyone’s problem.[/quote]

As I already said, unless they are leaching off of the healthcare system, then they are nobody’s problem but their own. We shouldnt accommodate fat people out of respect for their “condition”, but if they start putting in extra wide seats on the airlines, then dont bitch and moan about it, its just the market at work.

Put on your big girl panties and act like adults. “Ooh, well Im prejudiced against them because theyre fat and they can help it.” Well, Im prejudiced against you because youre stupid and you can help it.

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[quote]Stronghold wrote:

Put on your big girl panties and act like adults. “Ooh, well Im prejudiced against them because theyre fat and they can help it.” Well, Im prejudiced against you because youre stupid and you can help it.[/quote]

Now that’s funny!!!

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[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Shit, $400 a month? Man, you must really be hurtin. Try doing it for a family with $30-50/week and you will be thinking more realistically. Have you ever supported yourself? Have you ever had to stretch a paycheck? My money is on your answer being “no” and thats why you dont think its a legitimate excuse. Before I go any farther, who the fuck ever said you had to have an excuse to be fat? If I wanted to get fat, then I would get fat and say fuck you to anyone who told me not to. Thats a personal choice and no one else’s decision but your own.[/quote]

When did I say I had anything against fat people or that if somebody wanted to get fat I cared at all about it? I just said that someone is definitely capable of eating healthy for very little.

A big bag of frozen veggies is a dollar at the food store. London broil is about 2 dollars a pound. Take two pounds of London broil and two bags of veggies and that’s about 3000 good calories for 6 bucks.