Fat people, scourge of society or unfortunate victims?

[rouseytastic]

Don't disagree but there's no need to tar all fatties with the same brush. That's generalisation but to be insulting as well is crass.

Not tarring all fatties just as i said in my post: 'you will find that the VAST majority are the way they are'

Not insulting, just fact

 

[Badger]

Theres a bloke who walks past the window at work daily who has been designated 'sumo' and is rarely seen walking through the business park without a big mac attached to his face. Have also noticed that larger people have a taste for coca cola. As most sane people have already said...eat too much...dont excercise...and you will get fat.

I spent a few months working in McDonalds when I was 16 and it always made me laugh when a CHUBSTER came in asking for a large Big Mac meal with an Apple Pie but then ask for a DIET Coke, obviously watching their waistline.

 

[Mellotron]

I'm 26. Over the last 10 years I would say I have "fluctuated" anywhere between approx. 12st to 17st.

At the points in my life that I have been bigger, it has been 100% MY FAULT, for eating too much and exercising too little.

I am currently towards the healthier end of that 12st-17st spectrum, and that is because I have made genuine positive changes to both my eating, and the amount of exercise I do, over the last year, and I fully intend to keep that up.

It really is as simple as that. It does annoy me that I have a mate who eats worse than me, exercises less than me, but stays stick thin, but it's not a big deal. If I'm too podgy, it's because of the choices I've made, and I fully own up to that. The worst thing you can do is make excuses, every day you do that, you put off for another day making genuine positive changes to your lifestyle.

 

[Barn Door Billy]

Theres a bloke who walks past the window at work daily who has been designated 'sumo' and is rarely seen walking through the business park without a big mac attached to his face. Have also noticed that larger people have a taste for coca cola. As most sane people have already said...eat too much...dont excercise...and you will get fat.

Coke really is the devil's drink. Drink enough of that shit and you'll be a bloater in no time. One of the reasons why many Americans are so fat, they drink gallons of the stuff over there...

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

I'm 26. Over the last 10 years I would say I have "fluctuated" anywhere between approx. 12st to 17st.

At the points in my life that I have been bigger, it has been 100% MY FAULT, for eating too much and exercising too little.

I am currently towards the healthier end of that 12st-17st spectrum, and that is because I have made genuine positive changes to both my eating, and the amount of exercise I do, over the last year, and I fully intend to keep that up.

It really is as simple as that. It does annoy me that I have a mate who eats worse than me, exercises less than me, but stays stick thin, but it's not a big deal. If I'm too podgy, it's because of the choices I've made, and I fully own up to that. The worst thing you can do is make excuses, every day you do that, you put off for another day making genuine positive changes to your lifestyle.

You and all these other fattie-bashers are missing the point. Yes, the people with Mr Kipling's disease know that because calorific intake exceeds burn-up that's the reason the only trousers that can fit round their big fat arses are those grey stretch-waist jogging bottoms but there's really no need to be rude about it.

 

[The Birdman]

why is it those that hurl the most abuse toward chubby people always seem to be ugly?

because if you are looking through fat eyes anything that's not made of chocolate or dripping in animal fat probaly looks ugly to the weeble wobble brigade.

 

[Mellotron]

You and all these other fattie-bashers are missing the point. Yes, the people with Mr Kipling's disease know that because calorific intake exceeds burn-up that's the reason the only trousers that can fit round their big fat arses are those grey stretch-waist jogging bottoms but there's really no need to be rude about it.

Where've I been rude? I've been matter of fact, but I was talking about myself!

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

Where've I been rude? I've been matter of fact, but I was talking about myself!

Self-loathing. Therefore thinking nasty thoughts about being fat. Therefore being rude. I can tell, it's like a sixth sense.

 

[Mellotron]

Self-loathing. Therefore thinking nasty thoughts about being fat. Therefore being rude. I can tell, it's like a sixth sense.

Nothing self loathing. Just being honest with myself. With an issue like weight, it is PARAMOUNT that you are honest with yourself if you're becoming a chubby funster.

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

...chubby funster.

You're doing it again, taking the piss out of the lardy-bums.

 

[Woodchip]

Where've I been rude? I've been matter of fact, but I was talking about myself!

He was taking the piss.

 

[Hillian1]

Somebody's sarcasm detector is not working.

 

[Mellotron]

D'oh. Move on.

 

[pastafarian]

Somebody's sarcasm detector is not working.

of course it isnt........i ate it.

 

[NickBHAFC18]

Metabolism is another key factor...some people put on weight very easily and have to watch what they eat...others, like myself, could eat all day every day and not stick a pound on. Although, I do go to the gym 3/4 nights a week so that most likely helps. But yeah, high or low metabolism's can vary weight dramatically.

 

[Mellotron]

Metabolism is another key factor...some people put on weight very easily and have to watch what they eat...others, like myself, could eat all day every day and not stick a pound on. Although, I do go to the gym 3/4 nights a week so that most likely helps. But yeah, high or low metabolism's can vary weight dramatically.

Key point, and this will improve your metabolism.

 

[brakespear]

No Frank Black, No Minutemen, No Cypress Hill, No Beth Ditto, No Daniel Johnston, No Robert Smith, No Aretha, No Robert Wyatt, No Warren Haynes, No Biz Markie. Think I'll pass on this fatties cull, thanks.

I'd rather have a cull of people who seem to have accepted the lowest common denominator for their life choices: The Voice, Take A Break magazine, Loose Women, British Home Stores, Milton Keynes, Manchester United, Walkabout pubs, auto-tune R&B, Fearne Cotton, textspeak, Pacha nightclubs. Trust me, these people won't be missed.

And I'd prefer a cull on those who like to advertise their self-proclaimed cultural superiority

 

[looney]

Ive found over the years i put on weight in winter and lose it in the summer, nothing to do with will power. Also know a few people who ballooned due to injuries, but they lost weight when they got better.

There are some reasons why gastropods are the way they are other than glutttony but I reckon 90% are due to the fact they eat like pigs and live like slobs.

 

[beorhthelm]

Metabolism is another key factor...

the other daft excuse after cant afford better food. if ones metabolism is different, change eating to suit. i used to be in the eat all day and still be a lanky streak of piss, but hit a point were i noticed actaully i cant eat like that anymore, i have a belly in profile now. so i dont eat so much, especially at the weekends if i dont do much. have the lower calorie sandwich, pick a chocolate mousse rather than millionaire slice for pudding (wow the firt time i noted the calories...), avoid coke and other fizzy drinks, have 2 instead of four chocy biscuits etc.

 

[The Birdman]

metabolism is another key factor...some people put on weight very easily and have to watch what they eat...others, like myself, could eat all day every day and not stick a pound on. Although, i do go to the gym 3/4 nights a week so that most likely helps. But yeah, high or low metabolism's can vary weight dramatically.

when was the metabolism invented must have been in the 60's?