[quote]eric_lacrosse wrote:
CoreyK wrote:
Side question: are there actually any legit medical conditions that make people fat?
I’ll play devil’s advocate here. I don’t know what sort of legit medical condition could cause the obesity, but I work with a woman who weighs 400 lbs if she weighs an ounce.
She’s a very smart and competent woman, puts in 12-16 hours a day on a regular basis. When I see her eating, sometimes is’s a small container of pasta salad, sometimes it’s a bag of chips, sometimes a panini sandwich. She drinks bottled diet flavored green tea.
I know what she’s doing for most of the day, and can attest to the fact that she cannot be taking in more than a couple thousand calories, I don’t see how she can be so big. She would have to eat non stop from the minute she got home until she came back to work, and yet she says she gets 6-8 hours of sleep a night. Do the math, between work & sleep, that only leaves about a few hours for eating, and I just can’t see her eating non-stop during those few hours.
There has to be some underlying medical condition here. Granted, her diet is not ideal, but she simply does not eat enough to support that kind of body weight. I feel sorry for her because I don’t think she will live many more years.[/quote]
I had a woman like this at my old job, except she wasn’t smart, and was the most horrific thing I’ve ever looked at. She didn’t seem to eat that badly until one day after she went home another secretary opened the fat woman’s desk to grab some markers for me to hand out, and there it was, the stash. Cans of pringles half empty, the GIANT FAMILY sized doritos bags, twinkies, snackie cakes, a fat persons heaven.
There’s 3 things I hate about fat people, they are disgusting to look at in public, the take up ALL the goddamn aisles at everywhere, I mean good god, I’d say suck it in but I know nothing would happen. And damnit, over 50% of americans are overweight now, I live in florida, and when I go to the beaches theres barely a decent looking woman there.
I find sanctuary at abercrombie and fitch, no fatties allowed. heh.