Ash regardless if you consider yourself fat or not I consider this thread to be the work of mindless heartless assholes. Every few weeks we seem to degenerate into attacks on obese people and I can't stand it and won't deal with it well.
For those of you who still believe the body was made so perfectly by Jehovah there are some glaring faults with the body. One of them is in the manner than the body stores fat. It hangs onto fat as though it was gold. As your body loses weight your metabolism slows way down. So much so that a man than weighs 180 pounds eventually cannot lose anymore fat even on a sub 1000 calorie a day diet. They will lose muscle instead. This is the main reason people quite often feel so weak while dieting. The body has a lousy design.
The diet industry is a multi billion dollar business with only a 2% success rate long term.
Dieters often feel like failures. Obese people have tried everything. I certainly did. I like many other obese people felt like a complete and utter failure. I felt weak. Everywhere I turned there were fat jokes not to mention the stares from strangers and the not so quiet comments that are always made.
The simple thoughts like eat less exercise more sounds so right. Almost like a watchtower study. But it isn't that simple. There are so many factors I won't bother listing them.
My thought is why do people attack obese people? Because they have lousy self esteem. "You are fat and I am not. I am better than you". Just like the superior minded JW.
Fat people stink and should stay home. Lovely thoughts. These threads always bring out the small minds.
Times like this I question why I bother with any forum. I also go to a Maui forum and half of the messages there are attacks. I consider this a support group but all too often it's one attack after another.
Andi was right on another thread. There is no true love here on earth. Certainly not on this board. I can feel the fade coming.