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- chrillen, on 07/13/2008, -114/+320Oh god, how does one even reach 530 pounds? Oh man, I don't feel the least bit of sorry for her. I'm 1.97 meters (6.3 feet) and used to weigh in at 96 kilograms (209.2lb) and I felt so bad about myself, this somehow managed to go all the way to 530 without even once on the way stop and think: "Shouldn't I try to lose weight?". These people did it to themselves, anyone can lose weight, not doing it is almost always blamed on some miniscule thing.
PS: I now weigh 85 kilograms (187lb)
PPS: Oh and weighing 500lb IS a handicap, there is nothing more I hate the insanely fat people trying to act like it's nothing strange and that they can do anything someone who isn't fat can do. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -25/+201"I absolutely believe there are people who weigh 530 pounds and are happy and healthy."
I'm going to have to disagree. I'd say weighing even half of that is extremely unhealthy, and the fact that she advocates people being unhealthy is disgusting. - basye, on 07/13/2008, -15/+149I'm digging this up because she's a good writer, she's honest and willing to take control of her life.
- kpmoore, on 07/13/2008, -20/+141You are going to get buried, but I absolutely agree with you. If you look through her blog, she writes about her diet and it is glaringly obvious that she is not making any sort of effort to lose weight.
- Theipolicy, on 07/13/2008, -3/+122Oh man, I almost hit 300 and I went running...literally outside. Now I'm almost down to less than 200. I feel good, but I realize that if it weren't for a few people and a few decisions that I made and that were made for me, I could have gone up to her weight. If you don't understand how someone could ever get that large, then you've never been fat or depressed. Yes there is a warning signal, but there is a sense of hopelessness and you end up ignoring it.
I'm happy with the weight I'm at right now. I can move around more than the smokers I work with; they can barely get their skinny asses around the entire store in the time it takes me to do two laps. I'd rather have a big ass than bad lungs I guess. - topopardo, on 07/13/2008, -33/+130There goes one of the most beautiful reads I've had in months, unfortunately it won't make the front page. That's a shame, because texts like these can change lives.
Anyway, thanks for the submission and thanks to the new the recommendation engine, or this pearl would've passed without any notice - digitul, on 07/13/2008, -2/+90i dont wipe my ass at work by choice
- chronobyte, on 07/13/2008, -19/+90The trick is to not get to that point in the first place.
I just can't fathom how one could accumulate 400+ lbs of fat. Shouldn't there be an internal alarm or siren going off at some point? Maybe at 250 lbs? Heck-- 350?
There's got to be some serious underlying issues that need to be rooted out in conjunction. - freshgrease, on 07/14/2008, -1/+72What needs to be realized is that there are those who think 5lbs is a god-awful amount to gain, and then there are those who look at it like chunk change. The perceptions, will power, and the power to loose weight/detect the need to loose weight are different.
I was 6'2" 380 as a guy until recently. It was so easy to come home after school (as a child), drop by the tv, pickup a bag of chips, and just munch away for hours till dinner. Parents worked late etc... I'd grow a bit, get mocked, and was "comforted" by the parents and was suggested to workout. The workouts didn't take care of the calorie intake. Once you get used to the mocking, feeling shameful having to wear big clothes, and etc you really don't try.
I got to the way I was by decades of being lazy. So did she. The thing is, the fatter you get, the easier it is to quit trying to loose weight. Sure you get those "OMG im fat, I need to go to the gym." moments, but it is increasingly harder to go.
My first year of college (2005) I lost 30lbs in a matter of 2 months. I didn't have the parents to interfere with my schedule, and I found that swimming laps (if what I was doing is considered "swimming") for several hours a nice way to spend time between classes instead of going all the way home. Once I got over the shame of being twice the weight of anyone else in the univeristy Rec center, I walked laps on the track and did weights.
What you'll find is, Its not that we don't want to loose weight nor is it that we don't want to do the work, its that we don't want to embarrass ourselves at public workout facilities. I know I was that way for the longest of times, but I'm getting better at letting loose that embarrassment/fear.
I would suggest you be more sympathetic and quit pushing your beliefs of perceived "don't get that way", but I know full well that only makes the problem worse. - tuxidomasx, on 07/13/2008, -34/+103fat girls give good head because they're hungry
- GoKings, on 07/13/2008, -11/+79"I believe strongly in size-acceptance and I’m electing to have my stomach sliced open and my organs rearranged. It’s something I never thought I’d do. Me? Having weight loss surgery? That’s crazy talk…I don’t even believe in dieting, for god’s sake!"
And that here is the problem with people stomping around on T.V talking about how they're fat and they're proud! Because it ends up like this. Glad she's trying to get her life together, and her body healthy, but that attitude of "size acceptance" is what got her there in the first place. Being that big will never ever be healthy, and will never ever result in a happy life. Your body just can't sustain that kind of weight. - Lavarock, on 07/13/2008, -9/+73***** this "movement", ***** being fat. ***** acceptance, if you're morbidly obese and you can't wipe your own ass and your heart is straining to keep you alive your behaviors should not be accepted. What people need to do is stop being conscious over normal amounts of excess fat lurking around, but when a person is made up mostly of fat there's a ***** mental problem, not a thyroid problem. They need to stop eating ***** even when it hurts, even when it burns, even when they're so hungry, because that pain is nothing compared to the pain of obesity and the inevitable early death when vital organs just give up and die.
- phauna, on 07/13/2008, -28/+85I think this lady is extremely dishonest, she is just trying to justify her weak will. The way she wrote this piece was so people would congratulate her on her strength, honesty, etc. when it's clearly obvious that she should be lambasted for advocating such an atrocious lifestyle as somehow glorious and normal. To get to 500 pounds you need to really be living in a fantasy world of total denial. There must have been so many warning signs that this course was perhaps not such a good idea. I get worried when my pants get too tight, because, you know, I don't want to have to buy twenty pairs of new pants, not because I'm controlled by the pro-diet social order of society. I like being able to walk.
Of course, if you have weight gain due to medical problems, physical disability etc. then it's okay to gain some weight, but just think, if it weren't for these people who gleefully revel in their greedy nature, then people who are overweight for other reasons would get a little more understanding perhaps. So many fat people love to blame it on anything other than their own weak will power. - MillionsLivio, on 07/13/2008, -20/+74"I don’t even believe in dieting, for god’s sake!"
And that's why you weigh 530 pounds, you did it to yourself. - moonboots, on 07/13/2008, -22/+70that's pretty fat
- Confuseus, on 07/13/2008, -7/+55didn't work because she didn't lose weight? or didn't work because she couldn't give up cupcakes? i think the latter
- logicalriot, on 07/13/2008, -7/+536' 3" 209lbs isn't that bad...
I mean depending on your BMI you're pretty much just a little over the norm. - akkibaba, on 07/13/2008, -34/+77Two things all fatties I know have told me :
1. "Oh I eat like a bird and still keep gaining weight. In fact, the last thing I ate was half a peanut in the early 90s."
2. "I have a thyroid condition/metabolic disorder/some other condition" that allows me to disclaim any personal responsibility. - Hegemony, on 07/13/2008, -4/+46"I absolutely believe there are people who weigh 530 pounds and are happy and healthy"
What? Who? How? She's just lying to herself. She apparently spent years saying she didn't need surgery, and is just trying not to sound like a hypocrite. Circumstances change, get over it. It just makes her come off as naive. She has no self control, or poor genetics, or whatever (I don't know or care)... but she clearly can't control her weight and if surgery is the only option, then do it. Don't bitch about how bad it will make you feel to "sell-out".
This is an old post... wonder how it turned out for her. - inactive, on 07/13/2008, -4/+44They get depressed and keep eating because they're fat and don't give a ***** anymore. A 500lb person got that way because of mental issues and easy access to food.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -1/+40A wild Snorlax has appeared!
- CCSprinter11, on 07/13/2008, -9/+48Dugg for accuracy.
- xiphy, on 07/14/2008, -3/+41Um, has no one thought to BLAME THE MOTHER here?
Clearly, it's not her that's going out and buying all the food that sustains that 530 pounds. Where is the butter popcorn and nachos coming from? MOM. Who's feeding her in addition to wiping her ass? MOM.
These people are called Feeders, it's a whole phenomenon of people who enable and encourage the ones they love to eat themselves into a state of helplessness out of an extreme psychological need for control. Very messed up. - xiphy, on 07/13/2008, -2/+39Agree, I'm digging you up. I certainly agree that life AT 500+ lbs is a handicap. And you're right, it's a question of how you arrive there. Matters of compassion aside, no one wakes up at 500+ lbs one day. It's gotta take a long long time to build up that kind of weight. That's a lot of time for something to have been done differently.
- kingmanic, on 07/13/2008, -0/+35Theory of quantum fat.
So long as you close your eyes tightly, the girl you take home is simultaneously fat and thin. It's only when you open your eyes that the probability wave form collapses. Similarly if you never weigh yourself you can never be over weight! - Llanowar, on 07/13/2008, -2/+36Guess you were wrong.
- silentb0b, on 07/13/2008, -6/+39at least she is finally trying to fix the problem. kudos.
- badfish0116, on 07/13/2008, -23/+56Wait.......So are you telling me fat people walk around with ***** all over their asses? ***** ewwwwwwwww.
- rochskier, on 07/13/2008, -19/+50MAN THE HARPOONS!!!
- Slash0, on 07/13/2008, -0/+31*Glad* you were wrong.
- sg7791, on 07/14/2008, -2/+32Won't make the first page? Did you happen to see the name of the submitter?
- phyx726, on 07/14/2008, -0/+29Exactly. Hopelessness pretty much summarizes her whole blog. I was obese and lost about 40 lbs. I'm still overweight but hopefully I'll get to my goal continuing my dieting and exercise. Just by reading some of the previous comments I can tell some of those people have never been fat before and realize how depressing it can be. When you lose hope your troubles begin to snowball. I can't say that it will snowball to 540 lbs, obviously her's is an extreme case, but sometimes it is really hard taking that first step to get control of your life. Having sympathy isn't a bad thing. One day when your health begins to decline and you think about what you did not do, you'll wish people sympathize with you instead of saying you did it to yourself.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+29That's painfully obvious when looking at some of her other food-related entries.
"Popcorn with butter, powdered nacho cheese flavoring, and red pepper flakes. This has been my midnight snack. Every. Single. Night. For months. And I still look forward to it daily." - cerealjynx, on 07/14/2008, -3/+30I know a girl who can shoot lasers out of her eyes.
- bumcheekcity, on 07/13/2008, -8/+35"Wondering if you smell, wondering if people know, wondering if they talk about it when you’re not in the room. Hoping that no one says anything so you stay as far away from everyone as possible."
This section talks about how the author was too fat to wipe their own arse after taking a *****. For free, I can tell you that yes, you smell, yes, everyone knew, yes, they talked about it when you weren't in the room, because you would clearly have stank LIKE ***** for the rest of the day.
I'm not trying to be deliberately horrible, but finding it hard, really hard, to feel anything other than pity and revulsion in equal quantities. - badfish0116, on 07/13/2008, -19/+45She's over 9000!!!
- LongShlong, on 07/13/2008, -21/+46It's a simple mathematical equation... Your body can only carry as much food as you put into it. For fat people, if they don't like to be fat, stop putting so much food in there. Albeit, it might be harder to not due to chemical cravings, but, either way, the logic still holds true.
Larger people don't somehow convert similar meals into larger amounts of fat. One of the most basic rules of physics is that you cannot create matter, however, obese people will have you think otherwise. C'mon, bury me! - omgItsJon, on 07/13/2008, -2/+26Half of that is 265... about 55 pounds above you
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+26Genetics can make you predisposed to have a larger-than-average nominal weight, but it certainly isn't going to make anyone 500 lbs. This girl's situation reeks of lack of self control, ***** diet, and no exercise.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -1/+24Good for you. Where did you see that someone was saying that 210 is unhealthy? Nowhere? Okay, back to the 500 pound chick.
- pak314, on 07/14/2008, -0/+20But do they bite?!
- samby, on 07/14/2008, -0/+20I saw a Discovery program about the really big ones - the 800 pounders. The program said that many of them are literally trying to kill themselves through food at that point.
- mohsenxp, on 07/14/2008, -1/+21What you are saying is that fat is being stored from nowhere. This is breaking the fundamental rule of thermodynamics (physics talk in a fat lady thread? Who would have thought!!).
Simply put, if she is eating (let's say) 1200 calories a day, and her body is using 1500 calories just to stay alive, then she is on a 300 calorie per day deficit. This leads to her losing weight and not functioning properly.
What you are saying is that she is eating (let's say) 1500 calories and her body is using 1500 calories, but she is still accumulating weight? Weight that is coming from fat being stored.
Impossible.
She is lying to you or to herself is she thinks she is not overeating.
Now its more likely that she has a poor metabolism and her body stores more fat than the average person, but this would still require consuming more than what your body requires. - nblsavage, on 07/13/2008, -5/+25There are all kinds of monsters. Luckily for you Pov, your ugliness is on the inside.
- eggsovereasy, on 07/14/2008, -0/+19That was insightful, thank you.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -24/+43Yea, she's so in control that she's 500lbs and her mom has to wipe her ass.
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -0/+19You can abuse anything, alcohol, drugs, and even food. Its a mental issue, a state of mind that says what you are doing is ok, when its not. I am not one of those that thinks its a disease though, its a personal choice
- inactive, on 07/13/2008, -2/+21I part agree and disagree, with most people its because they lack self control. But genetics its a big factor in this so you cannot judge. That being said dont use it as a ***** excuse "Im big bonned" "I have obesity in my family." Genetics gives potential to gain and loose wait but its all in your hands.
- amheidt, on 07/14/2008, -11/+30Frankly I'm appalled by the viciousness of these comments. ***** you guys and your negative comments. She wrote this blog to come clean. She wrote it because she wanted everybody to know how she felt. I don't pity her and I'm not saying anybody should, but you could at least respect her. You could at least commend her on having the courage to write about something so very private and personal. What ever happened to compassion and understanding? You people and your abrasive comments are part of the reason why the world is so ***** up nowadays. You guys are the sickening ones, not her.
- m0llusk, on 07/13/2008, -1/+20Disabled has to do with a loss of abilities. Judgements about what caused the loss of ability don't have any relevance.
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