It's a small, small world, and you're too fat for it

[BlackLantern]

Losing 50 pounds is great, congrats on that, hope you keep it off forever.

Thanks....I keep up with the exercise and I've kept my weight pretty level....

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

A huge incentive here is sex.
That's what made me finally get off my ass when I was a fat kid...a hot chick hitting on me, seeing only my cute face and not the blubber concealed within the Kevin Smithy trench coat...and the realization that I could get with this chick, but I'd rather die than let her see/feel me naked.

Someone should pay a really hot escort to blatantly, aggressively flirt with him.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Nah, not accepted, I still try, I just put some context on the failures, which I admit.

The only way to fail to lose weight is when you fail to actually try to lose weight.

 

[jimmy]

Hot dang, I'm surprised this thread is still here. The amount of fatness in this thread will weight it down to 20K posts and the mods will have to close it.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I knew a guy in college who was OBESE. He was 5'8" and 405 pounds. He needed a cane to walk because his body couldn't support the weight he was carrying. He had the "woe is me" thing going on, depressed all the time, and some serious health issues that were guaranteed to kill him before he was 40. He finally started listening to us about how to eat right. He started walking for 30 minutes a day, every day, even though it was excruciatingly painful for him to do so. After a couple of months, the pain of walking went away and he'd shed 35 pounds. Six months later he was jogging and had lost 125 pounds. A year later he was lifting with us and going for long runs and had dropped 215 pounds and looked great. Every time I hear someone say they can't do it, I think of Brian and how he changed his life and simply have to call "bullsh1t" on anyone who says they can't change their life for the better. If he did it, anyone can.

jag

I know a lot of people like that, a good deal of my friends in college were overweight and after school they decided they didn't want to be fat anymore, started working out and eating right and are now skinny and none of them did it through surgery. Losing weight is all about willpower, anyone can be skinny if they want to be. Stories like these are the reasons I don't accept people's excuses about being fat.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Here goes:

Typical story, chubby kid(born that way, not through overeating, parents wouldn't have that), ostracized at school, teased, carried that through years growing up, success here in there, especially in athletics through hard work. Once the college years started, too busy to exercise and eat right, got larger and larger, which in turn doesn't help in the social realm, which leads to depression, which lead to more bad eating habits(no other vices in life, just enjoyment of lots of ****ty food).

Once you surpass a certain size the chances of losing it and keeping it off are like slim to none, but attempts are constantly made, lost 50 to 100 here, gain it all back there, do it again and again, always something that makes you go back to how it was before, usually a major change in life derails you. Finally got gastric bypass surgery, have kept off around 140 lbs from it(though got a good deal lower from the first initial rush), but am still a large dude, and no more attractive than I was before, but at least not in deaths range, due to the ability to exercise and such, which is nice.

So really, nothing precluding me from losing all the weight, except for history, genetics, lack of will power, and the ebb and flow of life.

You whole weight issue stems from the last paragraph, history and lack of will power, I have many friends from large families that aren't large due to exercise and diet, so I can't buy the genetics thing. If you truly wanted to lose weight you'd do it. I thought I wanted to run a half marathon for 2-3 years, but always found excuses to keep me from training, this summer I ignored whenever those excuses popped into my mind to keep me from training and I ran in the half marathon this fall and I've found since then it's just as easy to continue running as it would be to stop and am running a 8k race on Thanksgiving. Stop using excuses and you can change your life and weight, you really don't seem to be okay with your weight reading your posts, but you're not gonna change it unless you work at it.

 

[Holly]

primemover never answered my question

 

[BRUTAL]

He admits he's fat, but he wont give a number.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Maybe he was the half ton man.

 

[BlackLantern]

I remember reading about the guy in NY that passed away...he was about 1,100 pounds....they had to cut a whole in the side of the house and use a forklift....

 

[BRUTAL]

Look at that, 2 and half hours later and fat people are still gross.

 

[BlackLantern]

^^^^it would seem so....

 

[Star]

i can't even wrap my mind around people yo-yoing to the point of losing and gaining 100 lbs... 100 is just SO much weight.... how much do you have to eat to GAIN 100 lbs?!

 

[BlackLantern]

i can't even wrap my mind around people yo-yoing to the point of losing and gaining 100 lbs... 100 is just SO much weight.... how much do you have to eat to GAIN 100 lbs?!

Cupcakes, bacon fat, small children

 

[BRUTAL]

McDonalds

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Look at that, 2 and half hours later and fat people are still gross.

It's 8pm, do you know you're fat children still are gross?