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Study: 'Weight-ism' More Widespread Than Racism Anonymous
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=4568813&page=1

I know what you're all going to say. They're fucking wrong, and you're right. They actually have the fucking nerve to say that "It isn't as easy as eating right and exercising" to people whose weight is going to fucking kill them. You don't tell a heroin addict that "It isn't as easy as not injecting smack into your arms," because that is the fucking solution to the problem. Does it require immense willpower? Yes. Would it be easier with counseling and support? Most probably. If society makes it easier for you to be a lardass, then you say "Fuck that shit" and do something about your goddamn weight.

tl;dr Fatties BAWWWing would better spend their time DOIN SQUATZ.
>> Anonymous
If an overweight lazy lardass can't get his ass off the couch to run a couple of miles what makes you think he'll go and do the arguably most intense weightlifting exercise out there?
>> Guil
It makes sense that "Weight-ism" would be more widespread, because being overweight is a choice, while race is something you're born into.

But, you can be born into a family of fatasses and just become one yourself because that's how you were brought up, so I don't really blame kids younger than say.. 14 or so that are fat. That's their parents fault. But around that age you become more independent and realize you're able to change things about your life and can get healthy and fit, so after that if you're made fun of that's your own damn fault.
>> Anonymous
>>68879
Wait I think I misunderstood your stance. I definitely agree with you.

>>we really can't expect you to lose more than 10 percent of your body weight and be able to keep that off.

My bullshit meter went off right there. Hell, there's a guy here who lost 50% of his bodyweight.
>> Anonymous
The article said it pretty good. Making fun of anyone for any disabilities he or she has is just plain wrong, be it obesity or a big nose or whatever.

Actually to think of it, racism these days is looked down on with shock, it's illegal and all that shit, while making fun of someone who is fat is generally considered not only appropriate but fun, too.

Calling a black person a nigger is absolutely on the same level as calling an obese person a fatass, yet our dumb world will never understand it.
>> Anonymous
>>68883
>>Calling a black person a nigger
This really only applies to 16 year olds and racist rednecks. Discrimination for overweight people is everywhere.
>> Anonymous
To a degree I sympathize. The difference between say smoking and overeating. The difference I see is you have to eat so much to survive, itd be like saying you need to smoke 5 cigarettes a day to survive, but if you smoke 7 a day, you will get cancer and die.
>> Anonymous
>>68882
I'm with you mate, I lost and have kept off 25% of my body weight for over 2 years. Down from approx 200 to 150-145, so yea, fuck that 10% number.
>> Anonymous
>>68881
I would be more generous and extend that to anyone still living at home and having food provided by Mother. Although if that extends much beyond eighteen, that person's got a completely different set of issues to attend.

Also, there is the matter of human physical evolution not having caught up with modern technology (evolution takes a fuck of a long time, much longer than McDonalds has been in business) and human biology still being more or less geared towards storing up all it can get and craving high-calorie foods for fear of not knowing where the next meal is coming from. And, until fairly recently, people kept the weight off through having to perform hard physical work just to get the laundry done.

I think people will eventually evolve much faster metabolisms, but right now we have to watch what we eat and make a special effort to perform physical activity.
>> Anonymous
>>68883
>Calling a black person a nigger is absolutely on the same level as calling an obese person a fatass, yet our dumb world will never understand it.

Why?
BEING OBESE IS A CHOICE.
Being a little overweight is understandable and could be genetic, but obesity is 100% lifestyle/choice.

That person may not know how to change their behavior to make themselves not-obese, but it's still a behavioral choice that makes them the way they are, and as such they deserve to be ridiculed.
>> Anonymous
>>68884
Yes, definitely. Global racism is becoming a thing of the past while "weight-ism" is presently alarmingly widespread and accepted. It's safe to say that weight-ism in the 21st century is just as racism was in the mid 18th century, and all those persons that now make fun of obese people in any way are a present image of those rednecks that used to open "no coloreds allowed" bars and diners. In 200-300 years from now it will be the same, people will label weight discrimination as unappropriate and just find another thing they can discriminate.
>> Anonymous
>>68891

Erm...not really. I mean yes, choice/lifestyle certainly play a role, but there's lots of other factors to consider.

Socioeconomic, for one. If the person is poor and works long hours (or two jobs), then there's a good chance they'll be overweight. Why? Their jobs leave them little time to exercise, and because they're poor, they can't buy healthy food. Seriously, junk food with "empty calories" is way cheaper than healthy food.

Another factor is how they were raised. If parents raise a child to be fat, and then that kid becomes a teenager, he's not nearly as much to blame as someone who became an adult. It's way harder to lose weight if you started out fat as a kid and went through puberty fat. Especially if you're a girl, because then you have the whole droopy tits conundrum. And that's another thing. For many people, they don't know which is worse. Being overweight/obese, or having loose folds of skin hanging everywhere, so a lot of people are scared to even try.

Then of course there's bad information. Conventional weight loss "wisdom" isn't really that great, so if someone's going by what they see on TV, it might prove counterproductive.

Oh, and also, depression and other medical problems. Overweight people are often depressed, and depressed people have a really hard time getting motivated. Also, if you're a fatass and thus have a weak heart, obviously exercise will be more difficult for you.

tl;dr, obesity is like a pit of molasses that is almost impossible to crawl out of.
>> Anonymous
I always think of my little brother when this subject comes up. I'm adopted and he's not. I'm 185cm, 75kg; he's 180/135.

Every time there's discussion of health/obesity, he says he hates his body and blames our parents (who are both somewhat overweight) and the genes they gave him. And every time he does that, I point to our older brother (like me, adopted) who has dyslexia and is, nonetheless, a published author several times over. Our older brother doesn't use his dyslexia as an excuse to not read and write, because he understands that all it means is that he will simply have to work a whole lot harder than other people to achieve the same goal.

tl;dr Regardless of your innate advantages/disadvantages, if you care seriously about something, you can find a way to do it. 'Care seriously' being the operative words.
>> Anonymous
>>68902
Junk food is only cheaper in the sense of time being money. I.e., it's quicker to prepare than real food.
>> Anonymous
>>68896
In 200-300 years we'll be transhuman and our body fat won't matter.
>> Anonymous
>>68891
See, that's wrong. Either you have never been fat or have been fat but lost it off and now you think that your weight loss regime can apply to every single person alive.

In both cases, you're exerting bigotry. Just because you are not obese doesn't mean you have flaws others couldn't cling to and find it worth their ridicule.

I know a lot of persons who are fat simply because of genetics, they have been obese from their youngest years and have always been ridiculed because of that.

Many of those persons eat normally and don't exercise like a lot of people I know, yet those other people are low body fat to mild athletic. It is extremely rare that obese people don't have a genetic predisposition towards obesity.

Of course every fat person can lose weight by turning their life around, exercising like mad, having a special diet even though there was technically nothing wrong with their former and all that, but that would function only in an ideal world. Fat people lack motivation, lack support, most aren't interested in exercise at all and just want to lead normal lives, yet they can't because people think it's funny to ridicule them.
>> Anonymous
>>68905
I should also point out that when my brother complains about his 'bad' genes versus my 'good' ones, he totally dismisses the fact that I commute ~200km/week by bike and that my diet is very moderate.

I love my brother, but his attitude is so defeatist that I simply can't talk to him about food or exercise anymore.
>> Anonymous
>>68911
So what, in order to be considered a glutton you have to have the genes of Charles Atlas? That's absurd.

I'm all for not ragging on people who are obese, and as a matter of fact my room mate, who is one of my best friends, is very overweight. I got him to start working out with me, and he's started to lose weight. His diet is still shit because all he likes is salty, greasy, and sweet comfort foods but getting up and moving has given him a start. What he needed was encouragement and support in losing weight and getting his health in order, not BS about how his genes make it impossible not to be fat for the rest of his life. Will he ever have Fight Club abs? Probably not, but he can get his BMI to 25 for sure.

tl;dr It's irresponsible to equate encouraging obese people to address unhealthy weight and making fun of fat people.
>> Anonymous
>>68902
>Socioeconomic, for one. If the person is poor and works long hours (or two jobs), then there's a good chance they'll be overweight. Why? Their jobs leave them little time to exercise, and because they're poor, they can't buy healthy food.
> It's way harder to lose weight if you started out fat as a kid and went through puberty fat.

1) I'm out of the house working/commuting from 8am-7pm. Not as bad as some, but I don't have time to exercise. Ever. I'm also relatively poor. (<$40k/year)

2) I used to be faaaat when I was a teenager. I'm not scrawny now, but I'm well within my accepted weight range for my height.

It isn't hard.
>> Anonymous
>>68911
>>Fat people lack motivation

isn't it actually good to make fun of them then?

there's their motivation!
>> Anonymous
>>68911
>I know a lot of persons who are fat simply because of genetics, they have been obese from their youngest years and have always been ridiculed because of that.

Genetics or lifestyle?
I hold that they're fat from a young age because of bad learned behavior. It's much harder for someone who was fat as a child (such as myself) to ever be truly "fit" but it isn't difficult for them to get within their recommended weight range through health eating.
>> Anonymous
>>68902
>>because they're poor, they can't buy healthy food. Seriously, junk food with "empty calories" is way cheaper than healthy food.

This is bullshit right here. Oatmeal is dirt fucking cheap and lasts a hell lot longer than a bag of chips. Fruits and vegetables are also inexpensive. Eating healthy doesn't mean going to the bullshit "health aisles" to buy frozen crap at twice the usual price. I hear that water, the cheapest damn drink out there, is pretty healthy.
>> Anonymous
>>68921
I laugh at your 'relatively poor,' but I absolutely agree that working long hours is not such a huge hurdle.
>> Anonymous
>>68896It's safe to say that weight-ism in the 21st century is just as racism was in the mid 18th century

We keep fat people as slaves?
>> Anonymous
>>68928

I live in San Francisco.
My wage fluctuates.
Currently I'm working for $10/hour.
My rent is $800/month.
I spend $7/day commuting to work.

I'm pretty fucking poor.
>> Anonymous
>>68934
I stand corrected and withdraw my lol.
>> Guil
>>68921
Spending 30-60 minutes exercising after work wouldn't be that ridiculous. Or before work in the morning. Plenty of people do it.

But if you're happy with how you are then that's cool
>> JebusJuice !TK/UA49EzE
I'm obese, i don't overeat, i despise junk food; high salt, fat, sweets, etc. I like fruits and vegetables and i drink nothing but water and milk i take mutlivitamins and get the majority of nutrients i need. I've been over weight since i turn about 11~ ever since then i had to go through school overweight and alone because children ridiculed me. It's hard as a bitch to lose weight now because i really don't see the point or any alterantive to what i am because this is all i know. Oh yeah, i also work out but its kind of hard to lose weight when your fatter, you don't have the energy or motivation because you know that while your at the gym you get those looks from people who can do what your doing effortlessly.
>> Guil
>>68955
Are you studying your calories? And sure if you don't have the motivation and see no point to do it, it'll never happen
>> Anonymous
>>68955

Give me an example of your daily food intake.

I don't understand how it would be possible for someone to maintain a FUCKLARD body if they're taking in the same number of calories that I am.
>> JebusJuice !TK/UA49EzE
>>68964
Breakfast i have some oatmeal with flax seed and wheat germ, i also have a banana and some omega3 and vitamins (sometimes if in a rush a poptart) few hours later i'll grab a small snack like baked fruit crisps, lunch i'll have some pasta in a light olive oil sauce then i usually dont eat until dinner which is usually a chicken or beef meal with foods like steamed zucchini / broccoli / peas/carrots etc. throughout the day i drink alot of water...like 16 ounce an hour.

All in all i eat about 1600~ calories a day, some days i will have those little bits of junkfood though like hotwings which i'm making right now, or some homemade tacos with lean beefs and low sodium salt.
>> Anonymous
>>68955
If you are obese then you have overeaten. This is simple physics, the fat doesn't magically appear out of nowhere. The vast majority of fat people lie to themselves about how much they eat. Weigh EVERYTHING you eat in a day and calculate exactly how many calories you eat.

The same applies to skinny people, they mostly lie to themselves that they eat a lot and blame genetics just like the fatties. If they actually measured calorie intake it would be far lower than expected.
>> JebusJuice !TK/UA49EzE
>>68964

Also it really sucks lol, i'm 294lbs i can bench like nothing...i can row almost 400lbs and i'm 6'4 xD I'm a fucking giant with no arms.
>> JebusJuice !TK/UA49EzE
>>68988
Lol no shit, but i have been weighing my shit for ever, i even spent a few months tracking my calories to the point i know the calories and serving size for all the "extra" foods i eat.
>> Anonymous
>>68986

Cut carbs, eat more protein & fiber, drop your caloric intake to 1,350.
>> Pwnt !TK/UA49EzE
>>68991
Only carbs i intake are the oatmeal in the morning and some brown rice if i ever have chili or beans. Plus carbs are good for your body and brain as they add near instantaneous energy and needed sugars, so fuck your pseudo atkins diet.
>> CrossFitter !!B/qKSvIDE0V
>>68921
>1) I'm out of the house working/commuting from 8am-7pm. Not as bad as some, but I don't have time to exercise. Ever. I'm also relatively poor. (<$40k/year)
>Not as bad as some, but I don't have time to exercise.
>but I don't have time to exercise.
>don't have time


Then get your ass off of 4chan and go do some fucking squats.
>> Anonymous
>>68995

I AM AT WORK YOU STUPID SHIT.
>> Anonymous
>>68998
Does somebody want a promotion? It sounds like you want a promotion!
>> Anonymous
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FAT NIGGERS
>> Anonymous
>>68881
well choice implies he/she *knows* how to get to normal weight. those people's knowledge can be improved to allow better choices.
>> Anonymous
>>68986
Your diet could use loads of improvement, for one thing. It looks like you're getting far more carbs than you need, and too little protein. Switch to eating 6 meals a day, with EVERY SINGLE ONE consisting of a lean protein. Doing this would be a huge improvement. Eating a good amount of protein with carbs helps to control the insulin response of eating carbs, making them much less likely to be stored as fat. Eating a meal with little to no protein = fail.
>> Anonymous
imma fat ass but it doesn't hold me back from being physically active, anyone who says they can't lose weight is a dumb fat piece of shit
>> Anonymous
and diets are bullshit, eat 3 balanced meals a day, and don't eat after 6 you will lose weight
>> Anonymous
>>69208
Eating six meals a day is superior to eating 3.
>> Anonymous
>>69208
you just described a diet.
>> Anonymous
>>68989
Bullshit. There's no way you're 294 pounds and only consuming 1600 calories a day. I don't care what genetic disposition you have, you are either lying to yourself or us.

I was 225 when I was 18 at 5'8", and am genetically predisposed towards being overweight. I was fat as a baby, fat as a kid, and fat as an adolescent. Now I'm 175 with a body fat of somewhere around 7%. It's NOT hard to lose weight, and anyone who tells you, or themselves otherwise is just lazy and defeatist; plain and simple. "I don't have time" is not a sufficient excuse. If you have 30 minutes to read a paper, watch tv, or play videogames (or browse 4chan), then you have the time to get onto a treadmill, run, hit the gym for a quick workout, or hell, go for a nice walk.

When I go home from uni, my mom makes gargantuan, artery clogging meals that clock in at around 1200 on a good day. I either plan around them, or cut em in half and eat throughout the night. At uni, I subsist on 40 dollars a week, which gets me enough nutrition to maintain my needs.

There is very little in the way of a "good" excuse, for being fat. It boils down to (and I am American), old-fashioned lazy ass Americanism. People need to stop fucking bawwwwwwwwwwwwwing and using excuses. It sickens me.
>> Anonymous
I don't understand, if over half of Americans are overweight, how can we be discriminatory to the majority? Have we become South Africa?
>> Anonymous
I'm overweight and always have been. I dealt with school by fucking up a couple guys who were "alpha males", the rest fell in line. One of those guys lost partial vision in one eye thanks to his mouth.
>> Anonymous
>>69219
I so agree with you. The article the OP linked is retarded. The reason so many people fail to lose weight is that they are ignorant on how the body works, and rely on fad diets thinking that they can go back to their shitty habits after they've lost weight, and keep it off. People fail to realize you need to make lifestyle choices. There is no quick fix, and that's what everyone wants. They want to be told you can still eat junk food and be a healthy weight. Some people can, but if you're overweight you need to realize that temporary changes give temporary results. I'm gonna all caps that cause it's a great fitness mantra.

TEMPORARY CHANGES GIVE TEMPORARY RESULTS.
>> Anonymous
>>Have we become South Africa?

WHO WILL STEP UP FOR THE FATTIES AS NELSON MANDELLA DID FOR TEH NEGROS???????
>> Anonymous
>>69245
MICHAEL MOORE!
>> Anonymous
>>69248
SOMEONE EMAIL HIM
>> Anonymous
>>68896
"Get outta here piggy. We don't take too kindly to your type around here."
>> Anonymous
>>69251
thats what they tell me at the vegan smoothie shop
>> Lil Dreamer !UYwMl8CsAs
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>> Anonymous
This is bullshit, you cant say shit to a fucking fat ass without getting into shit or someone freaking out and saying you're a bitch or w/e. I weigh 92lbs and I get way more fucking shit than gross fatasses because its acceptable to criticize skinny people but not obese gross whales.
>> Anonymous
>>69213
a diet is temporary
>> Rawhide !o1IM47D3GI
Interesting shit in thread.
>> BurgundyStone !gbkUU57rKA
>>69276
Fucking true. Fat people and average people alike will 'humorously' chide a skinny person about 'never eating', as if that's the only way to be small. We can't say anything to their fatasses about all the fucking food they eat, and their poor dietary choices.
>> Anonymous
whatever shit you're eating usually, that's your diet. you can have a diet of candy bars.

temporary has no place in the definition of diet.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/diet
>> Lil Dreamer !UYwMl8CsAs
>>69277
you're a fucking idiot.
>> Anonymous
>>69277
The most literal definition of "diet" is simply what you eat.
>> Rawhide !o1IM47D3GI
>>69277
That right there signifies the diet industry as it is in America. The idea of "going on a diet" instead of changing your diet. The idea that once you're skinny, you're set.

I could put on my foil hat and say that this is all done purposely to keep people buying more and more shit when they gain the weight back, but I don't know.
>> rowerfag
>>69277
rowerfag here... go die now
>> Anonymous
Anyone can get thin, all they need to do is stop feeling sorry for themselves and just go do it.

Take me for example, I’ve been overweight, pretty much my entire life. I was fine with it, but of course I wasn’t happy with the situation. Then a month ago my girlfriend dumped me for another guy. At first I was all baaaaw “I’m a loser”, but a week later I stopped feeling sorry for my fat ass and decided I wanted to change my life around. So I started working out everyday.

I also stopped drinking, (since people were concerned I was becoming a borderline alcoholic), said goodbye to junk food and dumped all the soda in my house down the sink. Other then that, I eat the same foods I always used to (actually, I probably eat even more now).

When I first started sprinting, my fat ass couldn’t even last running at 6mph for more then 30 second. Now, 3 weeks later, I’m up to alternating between 10mph and 5mph every 30 seconds for nine minutes (then still jogging at 3mph for 16 min, with the treadmill at its max incline through the entire 25 min). The days I don’t run I spend 2 hours stretching and lifting weights. In those same 3 weeks I’ve gone from 250 pounds to 233 pounds (I’m 6’4”) and dropped 4 belt sizes. Everyone at work keeps commenting on how much thinner I look and keeps asking me what my “secret” is. There is no secret, just willpower and the determination to improve myself.

And to all those people who bitch about their genes, go watch Gattaca or something. It’s not your genes that define you, but your mind and attitude.
>> Anonymous
TBH, it's not easy. American food is the worst on planet Earth and the amount of diet quackery is fucking incredible. OTOTH you don't have 500 extra pounds creep up on you over night. Much past an extra 100 I stop being sympathetic.
>> sage !jyye8faDxg
>>68921
no time to exercise? you have plenty of time in the morning AND at night. what a fucking pussy.
>> Anonymous
I would never be rude to a fat person about their weight (and some of my friends are fat). But I sure as hell think bad things about fatties when I see them out & about.

Being fat is a stupid, lame way to live. I was fat through jr. high 'cuz I came home from school every day, sat around watching cartoons, and eating crap... cookies, ice cream, cereal, and peanut butter on graham crackers. My mom was (and is) fat too so she was all "enabler"-bitch buying the crap, and then I was the dumbshit kid eating it. Typical story; probably the same as every fat kid.

Finally, around 15 yrs old, I got a little more self-aware and actually started making an effort in Phys. Ed. class instead of just trudging around enough to pass the class. Stopped eating the bullshit and started jogging on my own outside of school, and started dinking around with some dumbbells and doing pushups and whatnot too. That was about 20 years ago and I've been progressively getting in better shape every since. Life is swell.

The problem is, you've gotta give a shit about yourself and know why you want to be a badass instead of some unhealthy, self-destructive moron. Most of our modern culture is about being a weak-willed sack of shit, inside & out, so you're not gonna find much to inspire you out there without digging.
>> Anonymous
>>69513

are you a poor, working class single parent?
>> Anonymous
>>69579
Ha ha, I was terribly self-aware BEFORE I started exercising. In fact it was one of the things that held me back, I figured I was fat and ugly so there was no point in even trying. Then I had an epiphany(which /fit/ would not like to hear about) that turned me INCREDIBLY VAIN and became a major motivating factor.
>> Anonymous
>>69597
i, for one, would love to hear about you raping a loli.
>> Anonymous
>>69606
1. I am gay

2. I was talking about being FTM, if you really want to know

3. inb4 queerbashing
>> Anonymous
>>69608
are you pregnant?
>> Anonymous
ANYONE WHO THINKS "RACISM" IS GOING AWAY IS AN OUTRIGHT FUCKING LUNATIC.

RACISM WONT EVER GO AWAY BECAUSE ITS CAUSED BY THE FACT NIGGERS ARE VIOLENT ANIMALS. MAYBE WHEN THEY STOP BRUTALLY RAPING AND KILLING PEOPLE FOR NO REASON, MAYBE THEN PEOPLE WOULDNT BE RACIST.

i doubt it though. Fucking niggers.

Also maybe if you fucking fat asses would stop eating bags of chips and sticks of butter you wouldn't be so fucking fat.

The problem is poor people tend to be stupid hence fat.
>> Anonymous
>>69609
No, and hopefully I never will be. WOULD YOU LIKE TO FUND MY HYSTERECTOMY, /FIT/?
>> Tubbeh !3uIQO01mdA
>>69597
Anon is bored. Tell us the story, vainfag.
>> Anonymous
>>69612
Poor people also tend to have to live in areas where the only affordable, available foods are bags of chips and sticks of butter.
>> Anonymous
>>69612
gb2 /b/
>> Anonymous
>>69618

And where shoe stores have $200 shoes. Pssht. Cans of tuna are anywhere.
>> Anonymous
>>69617
see>>69608

But damn it faggot I'll try to elaborate anyway.

Basically I was sitting around playing vidya one day last year when I realized I was transexual. Since I can't afford SRS and I'm fucked for therapy and hormones until I come out properly, the only way I can masculinize myself is through exercise.

A lot of the hating/ignoring my body when I was younger came from trying to see myself as a girl and having to go through female puberty. Whereas I used to think I was some hideous monstrosity(and being a chubby weeaboo that wasn't a huge stretch), I would definitely fuck me now.

/fit/ - GLBT Support
>> Anonymous
>>69640

If you had been a dude striving to become a delicious trap, that would have been a cool story. As it stands, Ick!

Still, pics of you wearing your strap-on?
>> Anonymous
HAHAHAHA fatties!
>> Anonymous
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>>69668
I'm not wearing a strap-on, but this is me and my pal Barnaby Jones.
>> Anonymous
Fat people are fat for a reason, and that reason is "natural selection". They are the weak members of society who our eventually going to die out. Nobody finds unhealthy people attractive, it's primal instincts. You want a mate who can protect you, and a fatty aint good for that. Fatsos eventually end up reproducing with other fatsos due to rejection, to create fatso kids with health problems. Great, great, great, grandchildrens eventually all die out due to shitty health.

Fat people should either lose some weight, or should rightfully be seen as the inferior members of society. If they cannot become healthy, blaming it on genes and every shitty trick in the book, then this is due to them being the inferior members of society, beat down by natural selection with an inevitable demise.
>> Anonymous
>>70160
I may not totally agree with you, however I am a strong believer of natural selection, and feel that some of the things you say actually apply to our world.

I noticed in gym class today all the fat kids were huddled together in a corner looking really scared and sheepish. I couldn't help thinking to myself "LOL THEY ARE LIKE FUCKING ANIMALS". Except without the laughing out loud obviously, because it was in my head....
>> Anonymous
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>>70160
That doesn't make sense because fat people just settle for other fatties and have litters of little fatbabies.

Here's a thought: what would this mean over thousands of generations? A species of lard-covered post-humans and a species of healthy and motile post-humans. I think that what we're selecting for is Hutts.
>> Anonymous
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>>69618

I'm pretty sure a bag of oranges is cheaper than a family-sized bag of Doritos and 2L of coke.

Instead of buying fried chicken family dinners at KFC, if a nigger saved up his money for a little while instead of blowing it on fast food or crack, he'd be able to 'invest' in bulk foods like oatmeal, rice, flour and other staples that you could cheaply make large quantites of healthy food with.

But these are niggers we're talking about. Ever heard of Zimbabwe? When Mugabe kicked out the white farmers, what did the niggers do? They slaughtered the dairy cattle for meat, and then scratched their heads wondering why there was no milk.

YES, WE'RE ALL EQUAL
>> Anonymous
>>69640
You probably already know about her, but here's Nong Toom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nong_Tum
>> Anonymous
>>70181
DO YOU REMEMBER THE PART WHERE I SAID AVAILABLE?

Low income housing is often so far from the nearest store selling real food that it isn't a financially viable option to shop there. People resort to living off the shit in corner stores and fastfood outlets because they would otherwise be spending their grocery money on transportation.

and lol racism because only black people are poor rite /fit/
>> Anonymous
>>70208

I'm sure at least one of them has a car they could carpool with. Everyone could chip in, it'd be less than three-fiddy per person. ;)

Seriously. If transportation costs are a problem, they can buy one less gram of weed a week (or chop one more). They could do it if they were smarter.
>> Anonymous
>>70213
>BOOTSTRAPS

Man I always forget all poor people are drug addicts, thanks for reminding me.
>> Anonymous
>>70181
Eating healthy isn't a priority, nor is it really a choice ( for the children ). I suppose this is because when you grow up eating fast food (because Ma's too lazy to cook and it's cheap ) and you end up in the same situation as her, you're going to do the same stuff because it's all you know.

You seem like a smart guy, throw away that fucking racism.
>> Steve Wilhite !YEUvSgmXTs
>>68911
if genetics is what makes people fat, where were all the XBAWKS HUEG people in the 1950s?
>> Anonymous
It's weird how quickly people who've lost weight turn into assholes about other people's fatness. There's some prime self inflicted mindfuckery going on there, probably not much different from whatever stupid beliefs kept them fat in the first place.
>> Steve Wilhite !YEUvSgmXTs
>>68986
you're a lying sack of shit

if you're gaining weight, it's because you're eating more than your body needs

thus, eat less

i used to eat three pretty healthy meals and work out for 45min 5x/wk

however, i stagnated at 175lbs for months until i recently began this food regimen

breakfast: oatmeal
brunch: protein shake
lumper: my homemade chili (a full meal is like 500cal)
dinner: miso soup

down to 168 now, and still going

three times a week i do 30min weightlifting and 20min HIIT

it just means i watch less tv and cruise less /b/
>> Anonymous
>>70224

K. So I'll discriminate based on class rather than race in the future.
>> Steve Wilhite !YEUvSgmXTs
>>69213
there are two meanings of "diet" (1) short-term eating change to drop weight, and (2) permanent lifestyle change eating-wise

he clearly meant (1) is shit, and suggested (2)
>> Anonymous
>>70230
We turn into assholes about fatness because we did it; suffered through the hundreds of hours of work, sweat, hunger, and doubt. Then we came out on the other side as better people. The work turns to satisfaction, the sweat a byproduct of that, hunger goes away as your stomach shrinks to meet a healthy (not 4-5 thousand calorie a day diet), and the doubt turns to triumph.

Then we see weaklings who don't even fucking TRY, or they hop on the train for a week, are surprised when they don't transform into goddamn Brad Pitt, and discouraged, give up. I don't hate on fat people. If you're 350 pounds, but in the gym every day busting your ass and trying, then you have all of my respect. If you're 350 and a sack of shit, then you can choke on a hot dog and die. It's as simple as that.
>> Guil
>>70225
mobsters
coincidentally they were also rich and could afford to eat constantly
also I'm not sure if the 50s had fat mobsters really, I'm bad with history like that
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
I swear I've heard all this utter bullshit somewhere before...
>> Anonymous
>>70260
I'm always surprised when I see Ben Stiller with a good body. He just doesn't strike me as being a jacked guy. Yet... there it is.

also in b4 been like that since Heavyweights
>> Anonymous
I'll second that. It's hard to let someone blame genetics when I'm in the gym 5 days a week busting ass. That said, a lot of change starts with ordering the salad instead of fries.
>> Anonymous
>>70263
in during been like that since Heavyweights
>> CrossFitter !!B/qKSvIDE0V
>>69589
Your fault for fucking.

Either abstain (not likely, but lolcatholic here) or use birth control.
>> Anonymous
>>70247
I completely agree with you. A fat person in a gym has my full respect because they're fucking doing something about it. Ladry McChubbenjowls who has the nerve to blame fucking genetics when the RATE of obesity is skyrocketing and just continue to feed on the greasiest most disgusting shit he can find however deserves scorn or at best pity.

What really pisses me off is that if this BS takes off as a social thing, otherwise well-meaning people will be fooled.
>> Anonymous
>>70950

like that fat british bitch trying to bring obesity in the mainsteam by winning the miss britain contest.
>> Anonymous
What pisses me off is that people can't see the difference between "overweight" and "obese" half the time. I'm around 14 stone and I don't blame anything but myself for being that way. Sure I'm nowhere near fit, but I'm happy, in a good relationship and I'm physically attractive (unless you consider being overweight to be completely unattractive).

I can't stand people who think they have the right to tell me to get thinner, insult be straight off because of my weight or scowl at me for eating something "unhealthy". Although I overeat, I don't eat junkfood or masses of fat-filled foods.

tl;dr - I'm overweight but perfectly happy with myself. It's only when other people insult me because of it that I start to get upset and feel like I should change. Why should I have to? I feel fine.
>> Anonymous
>>70950

I definitely second that. Whenever I see a fat guy working out at my gym, I give them total respect, because they're taking steps to improve themselves.
Everyone has to start somewhere.
>> Anonymous
>>71008
You're probably not fine. Seriously.
>> Anonymous
>>71008
Being overweight is an unnatural state for humans. Therefore: You are wrong, everyone who insists that you change is right. If you refuse to do this in any way, you are lazy, and if you make an argument about it, you are making excuses. End of story.