Who cares if your kid is overweight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I love how you can pick the fat people out just by reading their responses. It's like you can just see their chubby little fingers flying over the keyboard as the grease from their big mac slowly drips onto the mouse pad.

LMAO..sorry, but it is true.

You two anorexics are a piece of work.

Signed,
Size 2-4 woman that just ran 6.5 miles in 46 minutes and lifted for 40 min currently eating a Whole Foods Salad and drinking unsweetened Green Tea.

You two mean girls sound very ugly.

Interesting that you felt the need to describe your food and workout routine in detail to a bunch of anonymous posters.

Clearly you don't have a job. Must be nice to be able to do that during the day, rather than at 5:00 am.

[Anonymous]

cuzimawesome wrote:Man. There are some mean ass bitches in this area.

Oh please. Meanness is not geographically limited.

[Anonymous]

Interesting that you felt the need to describe your food and workout routine in detail to a bunch of anonymous posters.

Clearly you don't have a job. Must be nice to be able to do that during the day, rather than at 5:00 am

I'm not the PP you're addressing, but, I can assure you it IS very nice to exercise and prepare healthy lunches from scratch during the day. One of the perks of not having an office job, that is true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I love how you can pick the fat people out just by reading their responses. It's like you can just see their chubby little fingers flying over the keyboard as the grease from their big mac slowly drips onto the mouse pad.

LMAO..sorry, but it is true.

You two anorexics are a piece of work.

Signed,
Size 2-4 woman that just ran 6.5 miles in 46 minutes and lifted for 40 min currently eating a Whole Foods Salad and drinking unsweetened Green Tea.

You two mean girls sound very ugly.

Interesting that you felt the need to describe your food and workout routine in detail to a bunch of anonymous posters.

Clearly you don't have a job. Must be nice to be able to do that during the day, rather than at 5:00 am.

wait, did you just say that it's "interesting" that she had to describe her food and workout routine to a bunch of anonymous posters? Considering that she was responding to posts that implied that anyone who disagrees with the anti-fat brigade is obese and dripping grease from a big mac onto their keyboard? LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I love how you can pick the fat people out just by reading their responses. It's like you can just see their chubby little fingers flying over the keyboard as the grease from their big mac slowly drips onto the mouse pad.

LMAO..sorry, but it is true.

You two anorexics are a piece of work.

Signed,
Size 2-4 woman that just ran 6.5 miles in 46 minutes and lifted for 40 min currently eating a Whole Foods Salad and drinking unsweetened Green Tea.

You two mean girls sound very ugly.

Interesting that you felt the need to describe your food and workout routine in detail to a bunch of anonymous posters.

Clearly you don't have a job. Must be nice to be able to do that during the day, rather than at 5:00 am.

wait, did you just say that it's "interesting" that she had to describe her food and workout routine to a bunch of anonymous posters? Considering that she was responding to posts that implied that anyone who disagrees with the anti-fat brigade is obese and dripping grease from a big mac onto their keyboard? LOL.

Yes. The irony is priceless. That is exactly why I posted what I had just done. FWI- I WAH on a flex schedule so working out means I often rise early or work after the kids are in bed to get my workouts in. Cheers!

[TheManWithAUsername]

It's just a health issue, primarily. It's no different than hygiene.

I put in the minimal effort (and it is minimal) to keep my kids fit and keep them familiar with exercise (i.e., physical play). I similar put in the minimal effort to ensure that they're reasonably clean.

There would also be social consequences for failures in these areas, but that's not the first reason I do it. I'd love them if they were ugly, but there's no need or reason to support them in being fat or dirty.

[Anonymous]

I think there is a big difference between being chubby and obese. I would never try to put a child on a diet, they are growing and need calories to grow and thrive (barring being morbidly obese). Encouraging exercise (through sports, classes, family fitness activities, etc) and promoting healthy eating habits (like eating healthy food for breakfast and dinner and packing your children's lunches) is all you can responsibly do as a parent to help your child.

[cuzimawesome]

Anonymous wrote:

cuzimawesome wrote:Man. There are some mean ass bitches in this area.

Oh please. Meanness is not geographically limited.

What?! I thought mean people only lived here!! Shit. You mean there's mean ass bitches elsewhere? Daaaaaaaaaamn.

[Anonymous]

Wow. This is a vicious thread, even by DCUM standards . . . .

[Anonymous]

Jeez! I am SO tired of people shoving health crap in my face. I am 13 years old and I am sick and tired of this. Yes I am fat, no I won't change and start eating stuff that tastes like dog turds "for my health." Yes I am very unhealthy, NO I will ESPECIALLY not change so I can live longer, because the longer I live, the longer I have to stay around the wretched human race. (I would expand, but that's another rant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez! I am SO tired of people shoving health crap in my face. I am 13 years old and I am sick and tired of this. Yes I am fat, no I won't change and start eating stuff that tastes like dog turds "for my health." Yes I am very unhealthy, NO I will ESPECIALLY not change so I can live longer, because the longer I live, the longer I have to stay around the wretched human race. (I would expand, but that's another rant.

When I was a kid I felt like you did. The people on this thread posting mean things aren't normal - you'll find as you grow older people just really don't care. A few immature people are super vocal but they'd NEVER have the guts to say it out loud.

And by the way, I eventually found that i really *liked* to exercise and liked healthy food (if the only healthy food you find tastes like dog turds, you're not getting the good stuff!). And hey, I'm still not skinny, but I really don't care! I'm a chubby gal person who can proudly run ten miles, and that makes me feel like a badass.

Keep your chin up - it gets better.

[Anonymous]

There are mean posts on here, sure.

But it is NOT good parenting to raise fat children. Just like it's not good parenting to think that tanning PREVENTS skin cancer (like a recent post on another thread). Our job as parents is to be knowledgable about these issues and to raise healthy children. Just talk to any pediatrician about this.

How does it make you feel when your child can't keep up with his/her peers? Can't participate in sports? Can't fit into clothing? Gets teased? Is ignored?

It's time to take responsibility. It's not the child's fault they're fat; it's the parent's fault.

[Anonymous]

IMO - it is not ok or normal for children to be overweight or obese. But, there is a healthy approach to things and obsessing over weight and food, creating unhealthy associations to food, and/or pointing out or insulting their weight is not a way to do it.

There is also a difference between being legitimately overweight and having a big or stocky build. Some kids are just chubby looking as infants/toddlers (for that matter, a lot of babies are chubby looking) and they thin out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are mean posts on here, sure.

But it is NOT good parenting to raise fat children. Just like it's not good parenting to think that tanning PREVENTS skin cancer (like a recent post on another thread). Our job as parents is to be knowledgable about these issues and to raise healthy children. Just talk to any pediatrician about this.

How does it make you feel when your child can't keep up with his/her peers? Can't participate in sports? Can't fit into clothing? Gets teased? Is ignored?

It's time to take responsibility. It's not the child's fault they're fat; it's the parent's fault.

Exactly. Parenting is the only factor that causes weight variation. Physiology has nothing to do with it. That's why you *never* see a family where one kid is chubby and the others are not, or vice versa. Either all kids are chubby, or all kids or skinny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are mean posts on here, sure.

But it is NOT good parenting to raise fat children. Just like it's not good parenting to think that tanning PREVENTS skin cancer (like a recent post on another thread). Our job as parents is to be knowledgable about these issues and to raise healthy children. Just talk to any pediatrician about this.

How does it make you feel when your child can't keep up with his/her peers? Can't participate in sports? Can't fit into clothing? Gets teased? Is ignored?

It's time to take responsibility. It's not the child's fault they're fat; it's the parent's fault.

Oh, and you can participate in sports if you are overweight. I was overweight in middle school/ high school and played basketball. Being thin does not mean you are in good shape.