Colossal Fatties...

[dug777]

Srsly,

a) How can you let yourself get that fat?
b) If you do in all defiance of common sense, why don't you work to loose it?

I'm not talking a little paunch here, i'm talking those blimp-like people you seem to see more & more these days...usually shoving fast food down their throats at a terrifying speed.

Don't give me any of that 'genetic predisposition to getting fat crap either and making it IMPOSSIBLE to loose weight, it's essentially BS & nothing a good diet/excercise won't solve).

 

[Baked]

They're big boned.

 

[Umberger]

agreed. i have been slacking off for the past few months and have put on a few pounds. i am taking it off the old-fashioned way. eating right, riding my bike instead of driving, and going to the gym every day. some people just have no self-control.

 

[Horus]

Dug, I'm a big guy. Even when I joined the army and was eating very little, and running 15-20K per day, I STILL weighed 200 pounds. Some people gain weight VERY quickly, some cannot at all. I have a friend who has to eat about a half-dozen protein bars a day to stay at 140.

But I agree, the fast-food cramming fatties are repulsive.

 

[atybimf]

More cushion for the pushin'!

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: Umberger
agreed. i have been slacking off for the past few months and have put on a few pounds. i am taking it off the old-fashioned way. eating right, riding my bike instead of driving, and going to the gym every day. some people just have no self-control.

:thumbsup:

 

[LtPage1]

Beats me. Normally, I could care less about what stupid people do to themselves, but we'll be paying for them in 30 years when they're in the hospital sucking down our tax dollars because they can't afford their own monstrously expensive health care.

 

[Kadarin]

But.. but..

It's not their fault! It's the fault of society that glorifies McDonalds and Krispy Kreme. It's the fault of everyone who looks down upon the fitness-challenged and damages their self-esteem. It's the fault of an uncaring culture that glorifies heroin-chic.. We need to understand that people are beautiful on the inside, and that it is our standards of physical beauty that are flawed.

Oh nevermind. Morbidly obese people make me want to vomit.

 

[Nab]

get fat the good way, with :beer: and :wine:

 

[Howard]

Hey, at least they aren't starving, right?

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Nab

get fat the good way, with :beer: and :wine:

Alcohol is generally not converted into stored fat, despite the myth of "beer belly". The only thing it does do is inhibit fat stores from being burned as fuel, meaning you'll have trouble losing weight if you drink a lot of alcohol.

 

[ultimatebob]

Ummm.... cream buns.... (drool)

 

[zanieladie]

I don't think everyone can help it...

 

[iamaelephant]

Why do you care? It's their health, their appearence, why do you give a toss if someone else is a fatty?

 

[Pepsei]

how fat are we talking about here?

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Howard
Hey, at least they aren't starving, right?

Haha

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: Nab

get fat the good way, with :beer: and :wine:

Alcohol is generally not converted into stored fat, despite the myth of "beer belly". The only thing it does do is inhibit fat stores from being burned as fuel, meaning you'll have trouble losing weight if you drink a lot of alcohol.

Alcohol and weight is a subject relevant to millions of people who like to drink alcoholic beverages and who also either want to maintain or to lose body weight. It appears that drinking alcohol does not necessarily lead to weight gain. Most studies find no increase in body weight, some find an increase, and some find a small decrease among women who begin consuming alcohol. Some of these studies are very large; one involved nearly 80,000 and another included 140,000 subjects.

These findings are surprising because alcohol itself contains 7 calories per gram, and some alcoholic drinks also contain carbohydrates. The reason that alcohol may not increase weight is unclear, but research suggests that alcohol energy is not efficiently used. Alcohol also appears to increase metabolic rate significantly, thus causing more calories to be burned rather than stored in the body as fat (Klesges et al., 1994). Other research has found consumption of sugar to decrease as consumption of alcohol increases.

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Edit: Oh and in the interest of remaining somewhat on-topic...Ignore them. Both pity and anger are wasted on them. One will send them into disgusting bouts of blubbering self-pity and the other...will do the same thing.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: Nab

get fat the good way, with :beer: and :wine:

Alcohol is generally not converted into stored fat, despite the myth of "beer belly". The only thing it does do is inhibit fat stores from being burned as fuel, meaning you'll have trouble losing weight if you drink a lot of alcohol.

Alcohol and weight is a subject relevant to millions of people who like to drink alcoholic beverages and who also either want to maintain or to lose body weight. It appears that drinking alcohol does not necessarily lead to weight gain. Most studies find no increase in body weight, some find an increase, and some find a small decrease among women who begin consuming alcohol. Some of these studies are very large; one involved nearly 80,000 and another included 140,000 subjects.

These findings are surprising because alcohol itself contains 7 calories per gram, and some alcoholic drinks also contain carbohydrates. The reason that alcohol may not increase weight is unclear, but research suggests that alcohol energy is not efficiently used. Alcohol also appears to increase metabolic rate significantly, thus causing more calories to be burned rather than stored in the body as fat (Klesges et al., 1994). Other research has found consumption of sugar to decrease as consumption of alcohol increases.

link

Alcohol contains calories. If you consume more calories than you burn, then the excess is stored as fat. Sure you can get down into the nitty gritty details of metabolism but at the end of the day it all comes down to calories in vs. calories out.

 

[McGyver]

nobody said it better than Proletariat, "Having a discussion with *** is like trying to reason with a cornered cat."

the way i look at it is arguing with *** and running in the special olympics have one thing in common. even if *** wins, he's still retarded.

 

[bdww00]

me love coooookiezzzz

 

[GoingUp]

I love it when theyre carting around in the grocery store because theyre too fat to walk. Then you find their basket full of junk food.

 

[jlee]

Originally posted by: McGyver
nobody said it better than Proletariat, "Having a discussion with *** is like trying to reason with a cornered cat."

the way i look at it is arguing with *** and running in the special olympics have one thing in common. even if *** wins, he's still retarded.

Nice try, but it's better if you come up with your own material.

 

[drinkmorejava]

mmmmhhhhhmm, Krispy Kreme...good thing I'm underweight

 

[kogase]

Originally posted by: Special K
Alcohol contains calories. If you consume more calories than you burn, then the excess is stored as fat. Sure you can get down into the nitty gritty details of metabolism but at the end of the day it all comes down to calories in vs. calories out.

No, it doesn't. It depends on many factors, as evidenced here.

 

[aidanjm]

I am slim & I thank genetics, as I can eat a lot (altho I don't) and not seem to put on weight.