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- Shellbait, on 07/14/2009, -3/+58I used to weigh 380 lbs- I now weigh 315 lbs and I will continue to diet until I reach my goal which is a little over 200 lbs. My point is that it can be done, folks. Weight is one issue YOU have control over. Believe me, I've tried everything to lose weight- pills, low-fat *****, nutris system etc... I found out the only way I'm going to lose weight is to eat healthy foods (meat, veges, fruit, the usual health *****) and exercise! There are NO EXCUSES TO BE OBESE- Believe me, I tried to use every excuse in the book- I just lacked the discipline and I was lazy. So all you obese people get off your asses, change your way of eating, get out of the damn house and walk, and be patient!
- jdh24, on 07/14/2009, -2/+54enjoy paying more for transportation, food, clothing, healthcare; getting less attention from the opposite sex; and not being able to escape through small tunnels from murderers.
- jfoobar, on 07/14/2009, -2/+37And Leon's getting LAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGEEERRRRR!
- RickCarstens, on 07/14/2009, -4/+39this can only be stopped by conscious mental effort and the will to quit fast food.
- schnikies79, on 07/14/2009, -7/+40It's not McDonalds and it's not corn syrup. Take some responsibility.
Obese people need to get off their ass. - rolf, on 07/14/2009, -3/+32I won't blame McDonalds, but High Fructose Corn Syrup is *****. Because of subsidies/tariffs, it was made cheaper than sugar, and it's in our drinks and food since the 1970s and that's when our obesity % really started to grow. I can drink soda in Europe because it's real sugar (and coca-cola tastes as it was originally for the most part, minus the cocaine;) but not in America - just tastes different and oversweetened.
Hell, in the supermarket I have to go out of my way and pay extra for some premium brand that offers iced tea that's unsweetened - most of what they sell is extremely oversweetened (that goes for the diet versions too, no calories but still) and it becomes a chicken and the egg problem. Do consumers demand this? Or do kids grow up getting used to this as the norm and thinking anything less sweet doesn't taste right, making the problem worse?
I would also say it's an infrastructure problem. In a lot of Germany, for example, you can ride a bike or walk to the local supermarket and a lot of other places because they have consistent sidewalks everywhere. In America, outside the cities and into the suburbs, the markets are so far away it's a car culture only (since most suburbs are built post-WW2, that was the orientation), and besides, the sidewalks tend to be a hodgepodge - you can't depend on walking to the market on one continuous line of sidewalk - it tends to be some here and there, ending unexpectantly only to start again 200 yards down the road, with walking or crossing the street half the time, where you can get run over real easy - especially on a bike. - deaftly, on 07/14/2009, -0/+22Texas speek good
- norman619, on 07/14/2009, -1/+22Wow another all or nothing post. You couldn't be more wrong. The key to maintaining a normal body weight for NORMAL people is daily physical activity and proper diet. Everything in moderation.
- ElectroOverlord, on 07/14/2009, -1/+21If I was not so lazy I would get up, kill you and then eat you.
- kelmaster1, on 07/14/2009, -5/+23That's absolute *****. Big Macs have 570 calories and an apple has 70 calories. I eat apples all the time and they barely fill me up, of course I don't eat at McDs either...
- FudgePants, on 07/14/2009, -0/+17That was really nice.
- eastwood24, on 07/14/2009, -0/+15That kinda adds a more direct meaning to the phrase 'Survival of the fittest'
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -3/+18No sympathy.
- joculator, on 07/14/2009, -2/+15It's impossible to avoid corn syrup; the *****'s in eveything.
- kaniz, on 07/14/2009, -2/+15You know, this makes me think that Gym/Physical Education should be a mandatory part of school - including all of high school.
When I was in school, Gym was only mandatory until grade 9. At which point - most people (including myself) stopped taking it. The reason most people seemed to stop taking it though, was because there was too much focus on competitive sports, less focus on fitness/personal development. So if you were out of shape / not competitive in nature, you tended to get out as soon as you could.
If Gym was made mandatory, it should be done in two-streams. Your current one that has more of a focus on team sports / competitive activity. Let the jocks and team-players keep doing their thing - they tend to be pretty active to begin with, and seem to enjoy what they are doing.
But, have a secondary Gym where it's more working out / strength training / cardio / fitness. Grades are based on personal effort and not necessarily comparative to other students or progress. Provide instruction on proper form and technique. Teach students about healthy eating, make it easy / accessible to understand.
I think getting students into gym 5x a week for a period of class a day with a focus on total body fitness : combination of full-body workout/strength training, cardio + health education would do far better at helping combat the obesity problem then anything else.
I also think that good habits gained as a teenager tend to have a better chance of carrying over into adulthood once they graduate high school.
Personally, I kick myself in the ass a bit for quitting gym class when I did, thankfully once OAC (grade 13) rolled around for me - I signed my ass up at the YMCA and got myself back into shape after gaining more weight then I'd care to admit from grade 10-12. - inactive, on 07/14/2009, -0/+13in the UK the no1 cause of bullying in Schools is calling a kid fattie fattie boom boom (and the like) stigma is there
- indianpedi, on 07/14/2009, -1/+13Not only inthe US..... I live in India and obesity is rising at an alarming rate here, too!
- xsecretfiles, on 07/14/2009, -9/+21I am proud not to be a fat American!
- ElectroOverlord, on 07/14/2009, -1/+13I take care of MY KIDS!
- mface, on 07/14/2009, -2/+14not 26 percent fat, but fully obese. yikes.
- kelmaster1, on 07/14/2009, -0/+11That's retarded, people will get fat anyway. Go to the grocery store (Walmart is a prime example) and watch what people buy, it's somewhat hilarious.
- slantyeyed, on 07/14/2009, -2/+13Michael Jordan was 6-6, 216lbs in his prime and he didn't look overweight or even obese and was one of his generation's best athletes . . . and you're 6-4, 270lbs and NOT a pro athlete? What do you do at the gym, EAT?
- bdbr, on 07/14/2009, -0/+11Actually different types of calories have very different abilities to make us feel full. Apples are so-so from that standpoint. Fat is better from that standpoint, but saturated fats aren't healty (and Big Macs are loaded with that).
- cygnus2112, on 07/14/2009, -0/+11Holy *****! I had to set down my Big Mac to express my astonishment!
- jaymzdean, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10BMI is largely useless.
- TheBifman, on 07/14/2009, -1/+11"Healthy frozen meals" I stopped reading there
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -4/+14You're supposed to be, what do you want a cookie?
***** always trying to take credit for ***** they're supposed to do.
/c.rock - crunchdigg, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10What? A story that mentions BMI and no one who says
"But but but BODYBUILDERS are overweight according to BMI!"
Do YOU look like a bodybuilder? Do the heavy people you see at the
mall or the grocery store look like bodybuilders? No? OK, then get over
the fact that it's not perfect at the individual level.
When I was a kid, I knew only one really fat guy adult, who said he weighed
"three and a quarter". He was really unusual. Now I can stroll through any
public place and see multiple people at least that big. It's real, people.
- dontreplytome, on 07/14/2009, -0/+10You're also probably way under the age of 30. After that age, your metabolism can change. Quickly. Beware.
- bdbr, on 07/14/2009, -0/+9I agree with rolf on infrastructure. Where I live, there are wide sidewalks and a park with paved paths. There are people out there walking and running all the time. A lot of American suburbs don't do this. Give people the walking infrastructure, and they will use it.
- apackofmonkeys, on 07/14/2009, -1/+10Why settle for a six pack when you can have the whole keg?
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -0/+9My babba done liek dem chili fur-eyes.
- CdnStanton, on 07/14/2009, -1/+10Good for you, Shell. Keep it up.
A little over 100lbs seems a bit on the light side for me though, but it comes down to your BMI - you can have health complications by being too heavy as well as being too light.
But, you also can't follow your BMI too strictly. Muscle weighs more than fat, so if you find you're not shedding the pounds, go for your bodyfat percentage as a scale to measure yourself on. - TheSwashbuckler, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8"Obesity will continue to rise as long as there is relatively little social stigma about it."
LOL!
There's LOTS of stigma about it. - bdbr, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8So you think the real problem is that America is full of weight-lifters?
BMI works fine for averages, because it reflects most people's life style. It just doesn't work for individuals. - rolf, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8"I get up at 6 am and lift and run before work. Again, people just need to get off their ass. Self-control and personal responsibility are to blame more than the living environment."
Well, Europe is a lot thinner (you see this in the typical clothing store, the biggest sizes there count only as the upper-medium range at a Walmart). But it's not because the typical European really goes out of their way to live much more healthy, like you do, it's just incorporated in their routines and daily lives due to their surrounding and available infrastructure.
For example, it's a lot easier for an average person to just ride a bike as a means of transit (say to a close-by neighboring grocery store) for 5-15 minutes than it is to sit on an excercise bike with no immediate tangible benefit for the 30-45 minutes straight spent. Add such small things several times a day and it makes a difference as the people get the benefit of steady excercise without ever having devoted a specific block of time to it.
I'm sure if our society was structured less around the car, it would be healthier all around. - FXNGLAS, on 07/14/2009, -3/+11I'll keep my blunt and my burger. Thanks.
- Griminald, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8Apples have some fiber and less refined sugar, but big macs have protein and fat. The latter will help you feel fuller than the apple one-on-one.
But apples have time on their side -- it often takes longer to eat apples, which means your body's got a chance to signal the brain that it's full before you've shoved 600 calories into you.
So if you eat two or three apples, you'll probably feel just as full as with the big mac. - zombiecarlin, on 07/14/2009, -2/+10What if it's all part of the evolutionary process? Perhaps we have evolved to be beer swigging bacon munching happy fatties?
- kelmaster1, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8Nice dude, daily exercise is really the key in my mind. It helps when you live an outdoors area...
- Wingin, on 07/14/2009, -0/+8People do call out the obese. However, smokers and alcoholics and the obese, can't easily change their unhealthy habits so calling them out doesn't necessarily help much and sometimes makes things worse.
I suspect you mean that not feeling you can't call them out, is the biggest problem they cause you. - inactive, on 07/14/2009, -1/+8Your comment made my morning
- Threlly1, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7If there is a "Big Book of British Smiles", can we now have a "Big Book of American Bellies" ?
- bdbr, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7Its about portion control, not just fast food. A lot of American sit-down restaurants use plates that are so huge they could be used as serving platters.
- trakie, on 07/14/2009, -1/+8ive lost about 50lbs from this time last year. i used the hackers diet so i thought i would let you all know about it: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ - its really simple and appealed to the engineer in me. good luck to anyone who wants to lose weight, its a tough journey but it is well worth it.
- SoyoKaze, on 07/14/2009, -2/+9Kind of a BS standard. I just calculated my BMI to be 28.0 and I work out every day/play college hockey. My blood pressure is normal, and resting heart rate is below 60bpm. But I'm overweight/almost obese? I guess it's time for an eating disorder or two.
- inactive, on 07/14/2009, -0/+7It's in a lot of stuff you wouldn't expect, like bread for example.
- elijahyossie, on 07/14/2009, -2/+9Obesity continues to grow.... Obesity expanding...
- Ascus, on 07/14/2009, -1/+8Excerise is BS. Do something productive, clean your house, mow you yard, scrub the bathroom or even play sports. MY Grandparents lived to their 90's never exercised in their lifetime, but always were busy doing something, one was even a pro football player (leather helmet days). They didn't watch TV until it was dark outside. My parent's now in their 70's both healthy and also do not exercise, but are also active doing things taking care of their houses and yards, in their younger days were active enjoying themselves with sports. Exercise for exercise sake is just a con to sell exercise equipment and gym membership, its not healthy (but better than eating crappy food)
- bdbr, on 07/14/2009, -1/+8The New Yorker article posted yesterday said that obesity accounts for $90 billion a year in health care costs. Think about that - that's $300 per person, $1,200 per average family. And we're all paying it, whether we're fat or not.
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