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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of excuses on this thread: Fat people are healthy. Fat people are depressed. [b]Thin people are jerks[/b]. It's impossible to lose weight. Exercise doesn't work. Cutting back calories doesn't work. It's my ethnicity. It's my body type. It's okay if I'm fat because I do triathalons. I overeat instead of keeping a bottle of booze in my desk drawer.

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No, the jerk PP admits she's fat. I don't think anyone else was called a jerk. Minor point, I know....[/quote]

Ah, okay. Let's cut that one off the list.

I was just struck by all the helplessness expressed here by women who are overweight: I can't, I won't, it's impossible, it's not my fault, it's inevitable. It's so defeatist. It's not everyone posting here, but it's the majority.

There was another recent thread in which an OP asked for general advice for losing a few pounds. Some people suggested exercise. And cutting calories. And several militant and rather angry posters went nuts saying that exercise does not work, running does not work, exercise makes you eat more, you'll get fatter with exercise.

It's like they firmly believe that losing weight through exercise and proper nutrition is impossible. So why bother? And how DARE you bring it up?

These are the same beliefs expressed here. Hopeless and very defensive.
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I'm the so-called "jerk pp".  :lol:  I agree with everything you said. I gained weight after a medical procedure. I knew I was gaining weight, but didn't care. Now I care and I'm doing something about it. I just don't understand why overweight people seem outraged when you point out to them that their lifestyle is unhealthy. I mean seriously, do you need someone to point that out? [/quote]

It's funny to me that you are apparently so fed up with people's excuses and yet you continue to say you gained weight "after a medical procedure." BS. That's an excuse just like any other, no more or less valid, it's an excuse. So I don't care about your medical procedure. It's just one of many excuses out there....[/quote]

I'm the poster who noticed all the excuses here. And at least she is working on losing weight and doing well with it.

What I meant by excuses is the whole "I am 230 pounds and if I ever went down to 130, I would be fainting all the time," or the "fat runs in my culture so I was destined to be this way," or the "I can't run to lose weight because then I will eat more and just gain more weight, so it's not worth trying." I wasn't referring to "I gained some weight b/c of a medical issue and now I'm losing it." Totally different. [/quote]

5'2" and 194 pounds for a long time and she finally wakes up and decides she now wants to work on it, and you don't think that's just one of the many excuses?? That's crazy! I'm sorry, but surgery doesn't' balloon a 5'2" woman up to 192 pounds without other issues at play, so I laugh my ass off at her medical procedure. Nice try, she's barking up the same tree she's criticizing. [/quote]

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