http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/being-fat-your-own-fault-2778376/video
that’s the video, from another thread, which spurred me to action. Watch that and tell me how it makes you feel.
“I’m not fat, I’m big boned” - No, you’re big A$$ed!
“I just retain water” - So does the hoover damn!
Anyone else know where these quotes came from? Kudos if you do!
My biggest pet peeve is getting stuck next to one of these lazy, lard a$$es when traveling by air… I paid for my seat, why in God’s name are his/her rolls of fat filling my seat???
[quote]Therizza wrote:
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/being-fat-your-own-fault-2778376/video
that’s the video, from another thread, which spurred me to action. Watch that and tell me how it makes you feel.[/quote]
I gasped at the part where the woman says “There are no proven ways to get weight off and keep it off”. Hello? Exercise? Eating healthy? HELLO??? When people say things like that I just want to scream. An I like it how the author of the article clarifies how the matter should be framed as “over-fat” not “over-weight”. BMI is useless.
lol now you see why I posted with such interwebRAGE!
I don’t mind overweight people, but the really really morbidly obese what the hell is wrong with you kind of people freak me out. Has anyone walked through a grocery store recently? What REALLY gets me is the people so fat they ride those freaking scooters around meant for handicap people. I see it everytime, someone so gushingly obese that the idea of walking to pick out their hostess cakes and Doritos is just too demanding, better take the handicap guys scooter. Being so morbidly obese isn’t a handicap, its a character defect.
I work as a registered nurse on a med/surg unit. More than half of our patients are orthopaedic. Mostly knee and hip replacements. I’d say 50% of them are morbidly obese who just wore out their joints. Many of them are what one little Russian nurse calls “meatballs.” That’s what they look like.
For example, we had one woman who at 5’2" weighed 365. Not uncommon. These people have many co-morbidities such high blood pressure, high cholesterol, circulation problems and diabetes. While to some degree the cholesterol and BP can be hereditary, most of it comes from being inactive and shoveling to much crap down their gullets.
It can be very difficult to get these people motivated to move and do the necessary physical therapy to recover. And this is ELECTIVE surgery. Nobody forced them to do it, it was their choice. I can’t tell you how many nurses or aides have been put on medical leave due to trying to move these people.
I get called on all the time to help move them. I don’t mind helping because I have the size and strength to move them. It may save someone else an injury. 2 months ago we had a guy who slid out of his “big-boy” bed onto the floor. He was about 5’9", 540lbs. Guess who got to Zercher him up off the floor.
We had him scoot himself until his feet were against the wall so he wouldn’t slide. I got behind and another guy was in front. Everybody else grabbed what they could and pulled. Last month we got a guy who was 665 lbs. We had to put 2 beds together to roll him and clean him. There were 9 us us doing this.
They had to put a urinary catheter in him. 1 doc and 4 nurses held his legs open, almost vomitting from the smell and couldn’t find his penis. As long as we have fatties, I guess I’ll have a job.
[quote]zinck wrote:
I work as a registered nurse on a med/surg unit. More than half of our patients are orthopaedic. Mostly knee and hip replacements. I’d say 50% of them are morbidly obese who just wore out their joints. Many of them are what one little Russian nurse calls “meatballs.” That’s what they look like. For example, we had one woman who at 5’2" weighed 365. Not uncommon. These people have many co-morbidities such high blood pressure, high cholesterol, circulation problems and diabetes. While to some degree the cholesterol and BP can be hereditary, most of it comes from being inactive and shoveling to much crap down their gullets. It can be very difficult to get these people motivated to move and do the necessary physical therapy to recover. And this is ELECTIVE surgery. Nobody forced them to do it, it was their choice. I can’t tell you how many nurses or aides have been put on medical leave due to trying to move these people. I get called on all the time to help move them. I don’t mind helping because I have the size and strength to move them. It may save someone else an injury. 2 months ago we had a guy who slid out of his “big-boy” bed onto the floor. He was about 5’9", 540lbs. Guess who got to Zercher him up off the floor. We had him scoot himself until his feet were against the wall so he wouldn’t slide. I got behind and another guy was in front. Everybody else grabbed what they could and pulled. Last month we got a guy who was 665 lbs. We had to put 2 beds together to roll him and clean him. There were 9 us us doing this. They had to put a urinary catheter in him. 1 doc and 4 nurses held his legs open, almost vomitting from the smell and couldn’t find his penis. As long as we have fatties, I guess I’ll have a job. [/quote]
holy shit. you deserve a medal for doing that stuff man.
Wow. Just wow. I really don’t know what to say. I also have to say you deserve medal for that, zinck.
This is why I LIKE to watch those shows on the discovery health channel about morbidly obese people. This motivates me to a lifetime of healthy living…
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Edit: As a side note, I feel like I’m travelling through a wormhole when I look at your avatar, zinck. Trippy!
you have a hot avatar cherry btw
you have a hot avatar cherry btw
i hate fat people…if WE didnt have to pay for their medical crap then i could care less what those fat heads do to themselves…but since its MY hard earned money being taken to pay for their medical expenses…screw them! THEY are a disease! call me what you want now…
^I’m pretty sure we’re all in some kind of agreement with you, vlandsponger. Unless you just feel like getting ripped on…
And there was some thread on here discussing an article about Rush Limbaugh (I think) talking about how fit people are actually the ones to blame for the rising healthcare costs. Not sure how exactly, given that we probably use insurance less, but hey it’s Rush so you can’t expect much in the way of concrete evidence.
I really did almost throw up watching this. Pass the roughage, please. Yes, they are honest, but still…
Ugh.
Eat up guys.
Thank God it’s in Chandler. I’d be so ashamed if it were in my city.
[quote]zoso764 wrote:
I should have shared this earlier.
mmmmmmmm…nom nom nom
Sumo Water Polo, F*ck Ya![/quote]
Anyone else hungry now?
I don’t really have a problem with fat people / obese people. Who cares what someone else is doing with their life?
The only thing that really gets me is the attitude that very commonly comes with it - excuses and mental weakness that permeates into every corner of their life. It’s not really about them being fat, it’s about a person’s personality.
Anybody who looks in the mirror day after day not liking themselves because of their weight, most likely feels horrible about it, doesn’t exercise, doesn’t eat better, and MAKES EXCUSES rather than just admitting they can’t put for the effort is incredibly obnoxious. Especially as their excuses tend to come up out of nowhere in conversations barely related to fitness.
[quote]CoreyK wrote:
One of the things that really bothers me is the whole “fat people are strong” thing.
They’re not strong, they’re just fat.
I think the South Park episode where AA makes Randy think that he has a disease applies to fat people perfectly; they’re told that they have a disease and can’t help it, so they buy into it and use it as an excuse to just eat like shit and not exercise and get fatter.
Side question: are there actually any legit medical conditions that make people fat?
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You get calories from one thing and one thing only: eating. That said, there are disorders like hypothyroidism that can really slow down a person’s resting metabolic rate, but it’s nothing that a prescription and good diet and exercise can’t solve. A hypothyroidic person would just need to a be a little more cautious… or pop an extra HOT-ROX from time to time.
[quote]dday wrote:
zoso764 wrote:
I should have shared this earlier.
mmmmmmmm…nom nom nom
Sumo Water Polo, F*ck Ya!
Anyone else hungry now?
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For the love of all that is holy…
that made me NOT want to eat.
RZA, why didn’t you post that in the beginning? This is outrageous, lol.
One thing I’d like to point out of interest is that although she’s coming from Massey University, she’s obviously from North America based on her accent. I used to live in New Zealand, so I’m familiar with that accent. It seemed the other guest was from Scotland somewhere in/near the UK.
I wish the discussion went on longer. I would have liked to see where it ended up. I also totally agree that the ‘keeping the weight off’ thing is ridiculous. I wish people weren’t so afraid to just call someone a pussy and deride their mental discipline. The discipline factor seems to be what’s really holding the overfat people back.
[quote]Yolked Up wrote:
On the other hand most obese adults are just lazy fat sacks of shit who have zero self-control and willpower.
Fat people who make no effort to not be fat are really to me, representative of the lowest point in our modern society form an evolutionary viewpoint.
Fat people that expect special treatment because of their ‘condition’ (I had no idea stuffing your face was a medical condition) also disgust me.
There is a definite problem I have with someone getting mad because some store doesn’t have a motorized rascal for them to jet around in, and ONLY has the regular wheelchairs, which weren’t meant to be used by 25 year olds who are 600 pounds, they’re meant to be used by the elderly and infirm who actually have a legit reason to use them. Get off your ass and walk a bit for once, it wouldn’t kill ya. Oh wait, it might because your arteries are so clogged with cholesterol that climbing the stairs at your apartment building makes you reach for the nearest defibrillator.
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^
agreed.
i once heard that people somewhere were trying to get obese people parking spaces near stores, beside expectant mothers and disabled peoples spots
thats such BS.
and btw on page 6 i heard mention on fat people and sex. Reminded me of this time we were watching Dr.Phil (i hate that show) and it was an episode on people that stay fat for a relationship. The husband was pretty fat himself, but the wife basically kept herself srsly fat for him. They showed the video, and then Dr.Phil asks why. His response?
Because I like the tabletop booty.