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How can people let themselves get so freaking fat?

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I just don't get it! I've seen more 300+ pound women lately than I've ever seen in my life. It's disgusting.

I'm sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. Just really annoyed right now. My work is full of fat women. Tons of them! I feel like Al Bundy.

But I really don't get it. How can somebody let themselves get to 300 pounds? I felt like a lard ass at 180.
 
I am shocked that someone that's a bastion of empathy would feel this way!

Honestly there are some people that just eat themselves that way. There are others though that have medical issues like a bad knee, severe astham, thyroid problems, etc.
 
Fucken lazy man that's how, I'm at least 25 pounds over weight at 22. Day 3 without pop right now and I'm getting headaches. Have to be strong and work on continue getting into better shape now, not please in how I look.
 
Atramental said:
Don't exercise, sit in a chair a bunch, and eat nothing but fast food.
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... I still don't get it. I used to not get any exercise, sat in a chair all day, ate terrible, and never went above 180. Then again I typically eat one meal a day, and that meal is lunch, and sometimes I'll eat some cereal for "dinner".

Although lately I've been working out, so I eat lunch and a protein shake for dinner.
 
Fat guy here, usually involves lying to yourself about how you're going to exercise, and being lazy in general. Bad eating habits are of course, a large part of it too. (Probably moreso than just being lazy)
 
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I am literally physically incapable of gaining weight. I can eat ANYTHING and I don't put on pounds. Perhaps I am in the minority, but as with a lot of other things, I can't understand how it happens because I don't have first hand experience.
 
Let's find something negative about you and nitpick.

"How did you let yourself get so _________!?"

[ ] ugly
[ ] lonely
[ ] destitute
[ ] judgmental
[ ] short
[ ] pockmarked
[ ] hairy
[ ] drunk
[ ] high
[ ] smelly
[ ] prick-ish
[ ] bald
 
SlipperySlope said:
I just don't get it! I've seen more 300+ pound women lately than I've ever seen in my life. It's disgusting.

I'm sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. Just really annoyed right now. My work is full of fat women. Tons of them! I feel like Al Bundy.

But I really don't get it. How can somebody let themselves get to 300 pounds? I felt like a lard ass at 180.
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oh fuck lolololololool
 
Only problem I have is with 1) fat people that are assholes and 2) the fat acceptance movement. No offence to anyone here.

I lift 3 times a week and make sure I eat less than 2500 cals a day. It's just discipline.
 
How can people let their lungs develop cancer by smoking every day? How can people let their liver get cirrhosis by getting wasted every night and day? etcetera etcetera
 
I always wonder to myself about that specific day that an obese person finally can't get out of their bed. How does it go down?

Just wake up one morning and all of sudden "Oh fuck....I can't get up. Shit what do I do!?" ?
 
Regulus Tera said:
How can people let their lungs develop cancer by smoking every day? How can people let their liver get cirrhosis by getting wasted every night and day? etcetera etcetera
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And this will be countered with some bs about how "they're gross to look at" revealing their truly "caring" nature.
 
SlipperySlope said:
I just don't get it! I've seen more 300+ pound women lately than I've ever seen in my life. It's disgusting.

I'm sorry, just a pet peeve of mine. Just really annoyed right now. My work is full of fat women. Tons of them! I feel like Al Bundy.

But I really don't get it. How can somebody let themselves get to 300 pounds? I felt like a lard ass at 180.
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Human beings have these things called "flaws." Yes, even you! No, really! And they're all different.

For some, it's an inability to communicate well. For others, it's chronic depression. For others, it's addiction to drugs, or alcohol. Others are short-tempered, others can't form meaningful relationships.

Others are overweight.

You, for instance, have a much more severe flaw than they do - a person is much more likely to be successful as an overweight person with the capacity for human understanding and empathy, than as a 180-lb person with no concept of how humans function, including simple things like how they use pleasure to manage stress. For instance, you seem to use other people's flaws as a way to take focus off your own, simply because their flaws are easily visible and yours are not. That's little kid stuff, and I hope you're a kid because that means you're awfully immature for an adult.

But we all have them and all have to overcome them. The key is to not get addicted to focusing on other people's trivial flaws in order to draw attention to your much more severe ones.

Hope this helped.
 
Regulus Tera said:
How can people let their lungs develop cancer by smoking every day? How can people let their liver get cirrhosis by getting wasted every night and day? etcetera etcetera
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I don't think those are really comparable. You don't look in the mirror each day and see your lungs or your liver getting increasingly damaged.
 
shinobi602 said:
I always wonder to myself about that specific day that an obese person finally can't get out of their bed. How does it go down?

Just wake up one morning and all of sudden "Oh fuck....I can't get up. Shit what do I do!?" ?
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There's that guy who was physically stuck to his chair after 8 months.
 
ronito said:
I am shocked that someone that's a bastion of empathy would feel this way!

Honestly there are some people that just eat themselves that way. There are others though that have medical issues like a bad knee, severe astham, thyroid problems, etc.
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Having a bad knee wouldn't make you fat. You'd just have to eat fewer calories, since you couldn't get much exercise. And I think he'd be able to tell if the people he's talking about that he works with had bad knees.


WonkersTHEWatilla said:
Thyroid condition.
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I doubt there's a huge epidemic of hypothyroidism that would explain the huge epidemic of obesity.


Bombadil said:
Let's find something negative about you and nitpick.

"How did you let yourself get so _________!?"

[ ] ugly
[ ] lonely
[ ] destitute
[ ] judgmental
[ ] short
[ ] pockmarked
[ ] hairy
[ ] drunk
[ ] high
[ ] smelly
[ ] prick-ish
[ ] bald
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Most of those things you listed are out of a person's control. Someone's weight isn't out of their control.
 
SlipperySlope said:
... I still don't get it. I used to not get any exercise, sat in a chair all day, ate terrible, and never went above 180. Then again I typically eat one meal a day, and that meal is lunch, and sometimes I'll eat some cereal for "dinner".

Although lately I've been working out, so I eat lunch and a protein shake for dinner.
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Congrats on the good metabolism, blessed upon you by genetics.

And by the way, your eating routine is unhealthy too.
 
Sometimes I wish I was really fat. Those that are really fat lose like 180 lbs and they keep it off.

Us normies lose like 5 lbs, think we look good, and then gain 10. Bam, then we are 5 lbs overweight and we lose 10, gain it back, lose it, gain it back. It's a vicious cycle. But those really fat guys just lose it and keep on losing it.
 
I did it to myself, and yea it sucks. Nobody to blame but myself.

My most weight gain happened after my best friend died, I was alone in a new city and should have reached out for help but didn't. Put up a brave face for my parents. I had started cooking myself (I was a bit overweight at that time) but then stopped and I would just eat and drink Soda when I was not at work.
 
Obesity makes me sad more than angry.

That said, I have trouble understanding how people become truly fat. I'm skinny now but a couple years ago I let myself go, ate total junk with no consideration for portion sizes, drank soda by the 2 liter, lived a totally sedentary lifestyle and I have a naturally slow metabolism--with all of that my heaviest weight was 235 pounds while being 6'5'' tall.

I think eating enough to weigh 300+ is simply too time consuming for me. It must take a genuine food addiction.
 
David H Wong said:
But we all have them and all have to overcome them. The key is to not get addicted to focusing on other people's trivial flaws in order to draw attention to your much more severe ones.

Hope this helped.
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True, most people lead stressful lives. And I know when I get stressed/tired, I get ravenous.

But you could never get me to go back to the way I used to be. Hitting the gym 3 times a week and cutting out pop forever, it's something everyone should at least try.
 
Regulus Tera said:
How can people let their lungs develop cancer by smoking every day? How can people let their liver get cirrhosis by getting wasted every night and day? etcetera etcetera
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Yeah I've always been thin so it has been easy for me in the past to criticize fat people. Some poor lifestyle choices can be very difficult to change after a number of years, and I don't think you can say the person is lazy and leave it at that, because it's far more than that at that point. I've got a couple of similar problems that are difficult, but weight isn't one of them
 
Cabbie said:
Only problem I have is with 1) fat people that are assholes and 2) the fat acceptance movement. No offence to anyone here.

I lift 3 times a week and make sure I eat less than 2500 cals a day. It's just discipline.
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And you have no flaws or addictions at all? None? Your relationships are all perfect? They better be, it's just discipline. Your money situation is perfect? It better be; it's just discipline. Your relationship with your parents is perfect? It better be, it's just discipline.

Nope, you're a morally perfect machine with perfect discipline with perfect control over every aspect of your life. After all, every personality flaw, every addiction, every vice, is "just discipline."
 
DominoKid said:
i dont get it. all you have to do is dedicate like an hour a day
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6.25% of your waking life is a lot, man. That time is better spent making some extra dope waffles with strawberries and maple on top. Sprinkle some confectionery sugar on that shit. It's the truth.
 
alterno69 said:
How can people let their kids get fat? How can people do that to their kids Is beyond me.
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Well as I previously mentioned, some people just inherently have slower metabolisms than others. And you can tell your kid to exercise and to stop eating crap, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they would oblige.
 
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