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Today was over the top; every second person looked like Chris Farley or Rita McNeil today… 300 pounds is the new 200, evidently!
It is so fuckin gross to see a fat parent rolling down the street with a fat kid. They should be charged with neglect! —Sick of fatty
This article appears in Aug 12-18, 2010.
71 Comments
Fuck you, I’m sure you’re perfect.
This is pure hate speech and rampant size-ism. Expect to see a plus-sized blockade outside the nearest Mickey-Ds.
Supersize the Peace my Butters and Cysters!
it’s people like this that drive my self esteem into the ground.
yes, i’m fat…..but I’m still a fucking person. Have you recenlty won the mister universe contest? Are you a male model?
No? I didn’t think so….
Rita McNeil has a handy golf cart she uses to get around. It has center steering.
I agree. Its such a health hazard, and having them pass their extremely bad habits on to their kids is disgusting. You don’t see people who smoke letting their five year old smoke do you? God no, they’d be removed for neglect, but it IS ok to kill them with heart disease, just not lung disease.
How are the fat parents neglecting the fat child if he/she is obviously well-fed?
I always feel bad for the kids whose parent’s are fat. They have no chance of learning healthy eat habits. My BF is lucky, he is in the military so that keeps him in shape but his whole family is fat. We all go out to a restaurant for dinner and I’m stuffed. We go back to the parent’s house and they make even more food; chili, burgers, chips, trays of meat and cheese, etc etc and keep offering me more and more. BLEH.
well fed? with what? the big box meals at taco bell are 5 dollars. and they’re wondering why obesity is reaching epidemic levels. well fed means good stuff. yeah, i am not bashing fast food places. it’s quick and easy when you’re in a rush or want a treat. but every day? and there are these kids who are now junk food addicts and won’t eat anything else. it is possible to kill your children with kindness. obesity in youth is disgusting and there is no need for it, especially when there are other options. or if you’re going to stuff the little darlings with junk…turn the TV off in the process. it’s not the junk food that is the culprit, it’s merely a catalyst in the fight of physical activity. when is the last time you seen a school aged kid on a bike? or eating a apple? its now the schools that are cracking down to not allow this garbage in the school. they’re taking the pop machines out and the snack machines are being replaces with large amounts of wheat and granola. and you can’t put the kid on a diet and allow yourself to binge. its the significant lack of physical activity.
overweight kids are signing up for heart problems, diabetes, respiratory distress and low self esteem and depression into their adulthood. they won’t come to these conclusions on their own. they are being herded like cattle in and out of burger king. and they only physical activity they’re getting is in the play grounds in the restaurant while they’re waiting for their parents to eat. and then when the kids want to play outside we stop them. this over parenting baby worship,. cant go off the property to the park, that’s where sickos hang out. maybe if you shut the TV off and went with them…?? and then at school they’re aren’t allowed to play tag. because of the “no touch” policies. and you used to be allowed to take playground balls from the gym, but now you can’t because if they get lost the school can’t afford to replace them.
we are signing these kids up for disaster, when when these poor kids die of heart problems, or see suicide as the only collapse of the depression, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
The funny thing about poor nutritional choices combined with a sedentary lifestyle is that the numbers on the scale gradually keep increasing! Go figure! Continuance of this option has often proven fatal. Education, inner fortitute and discipline (among other things) are lacking.
Our culture with it’s all-you-can-eat buffets, eating contests and volumes of wasted, discarded food must seem excessive and selfish to those from impoverished nations. There is a weird imbalance between the obese in our society and the malnourished of thirdworld nations that does not shine an impressive light on humanity.
I saw an article last week where puberty is now hitting girls as young as 7 years and it’s accredited mainly to obesity. It’s so, so sad that the bodies of our children are so fucked up by the artificial crap parents are stuffing into them… Well-fed means healthy food… not crap. I agree that it’s a form of neglect on the parents part, and there should be more education out there on healthy choices. But if the parents can’t do it, they won’t do it for their kids either…
Oh and Rita McNeil may be a large women, but is world known for her beautiful voice.
I agree we’re to blame when it comes to our weight, but at the same time it’s WAY more expensive to eat healthily than it is to not.
I work at a grocery store, so I’m an expert I suppose ;).
Eata Bigmeal
Your body is your temple – treat it like that.
My body is an amusement park built on a toxic waste dump.
my body is a weapon, but i am only a danger to myself and others^^^
with shit like this…. not surprising.
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it does make for good pics at PoW though.
Guerilla Funk, no Fuck You. Obviously your the perfect one here. One day you might be a cashier moving up from cart-pusher.
I agree with the OP. Why are there so many obese people? Just because they make size 3XL doesn’t mean you have to grow to that size. And beaches should have weight-restrictions.
well sizes are irrelevant because really, sizes aren’t very well regulated.
who the fuck knows what a size 0 is???? every shirt I have that is XL is a different size and in some cases, the same size as some of my other L shirts.
I decided whilst on vacation to have a double-baconator… I was on vacation so I thought what the hell.
Then I read the specs. They shouldn’t be allowed to sell that poison.
http://www.wendys.com/food/Nutrition.jsp
I heard Rita MacNeil got busted for drugs at the Canada/US border, they looked in her pants and found 20 pounds of crack!
also if you shop wisely ie: flyer specials you can eat really well; if you like pork shit they’ve been practically giving that away for the last 5 yrs. i don’t know how those pig farmers survive; also eat seasonally frig beauty corn here in ON. is like .20 an ear; giant cauliflower is 1.49 /hd broccoli .69/hd. peaches are 2.99 / 3l basket!
I hate the fat bitches on the bus taking up two seats on their own while others have to stand. If they stood they’d use some calories up, but they’d probably just use that as excuse to stuff more french fries and hamburgers into their mouths.
To the OP’s original question, yes Canadians could get fatter. They’d become Americans.
Chris Farley and Rita McNeil were more successful in life than you’ll ever be.
Well, half of that pair can be considered more successful. The other can only be considered dead.
I like it when fat fucks (I assume) respond with “Oh I bet you’re built like Mr.Universe or Rita May be a fat plug who is going to need thousands of dollars worth of angioplasty but at least she had her own tv show (but fuck, who doesn’t)
I may not be built like Arny and may not belt out a sweet homogenized whitebread song in the CBC but you know what? I’m healthy, active, within an acceptable weight range, and am not going to be an unnecessary drain on our health care system.
Before you bitches get all hopped up: I said UNNECESSARY, yes I may get cancer in 3 months or get hit by a car.
I went on vacation this weekend and gained a pound and went up 0.8% body weight.
I stuffed my gob with delicious foods, and enjoyed every last bite. But…a pound and 1% body fat in three days? Yikes!
Losing weight is HARD work and maintaining that when you’re a reformed fatty is HARD work. And some people have a harder time than others losing and maintaining because we’re all different. I have PCOS and without metformin my weight won’t budge or will keep going up no matter what I eat. I remember eating 1200cals a day (and every increment between 1200 and 1700) and I actually gained weight.
Also, I’d like to point out that it’s the maritimes that’s extra fat. I see more fat people than thin here whereas I’ve always seen more thin than fat elsewhere in canada. So, OP, you might be getting a concentrated view.
As humans we all judge others, however, that fat person walking down the street or stuffing their faces at Mcdonalds really isn’t hurting you…so maybe minding one’s own business is an option? So what if someone weighs 300lbs? I mean if you’re so thin and fit then you won’t need the medical services the fatties are hogging anyway. It’s their lives and their bodies.
I honestly don’t care that much as long as fat people keep out of my way and don’t walk 3 by 3 on the sidewalk. If you’re big, do a shoulder check and let me pass because I’m tired of having to walk in the street to pass you! This goes for you slowpoke skinny people as well.
Taking up the whole sidewalk like you’re the frigging king of Siam and his entourage!
If video games had chips limiting use to 5 hr per week, maybe there’d be fewer rolly-polly kids… and adults for that matter.
I know people that play more than that a day and aren’t obese. They also go for bike rides with me. While I don’t play video games, it isn’t a simple question of tv or video games making people fat. Some people are lazy all day and night rather than being lazy 5 hours a day. You can take tv, video games, computer, etc. from some people and they will still be lazy and not do anything useful.
I eat crap too but can never get myself over 170 pounds at 6ish feet tall. It’s annoying ’cause I wanna be FUCKING HUGE! Genetics prevents that though, but thankfully it seems to also prevent me from being a big fatty.
You raise an interesting point, q: you can’t put on weight because of genetics, and that’s an accepted reason.
Yet, some people are genetically predisposed to being fat and that’s always seen as some excuse fatties throw out there because, according to the “morally superior” thin people, they’re lazy and stupid and generally slugs who are the lowest forms of life. *eyeroll*
Yes, the majority of fat people are probably fat because they ate themselves to obesity, and probably live sedentary lifestyles, but there *are* people out there who can’t lost weight for whatever reason. I thought it was all a matter of eating less calories and exercising a bit more and was SHOCKED when I did just that and still put on weight and didn’t lose any. I also know that some medications can put weight on people — cancer meds, steroids, anti rejection drugs, SSRIs, anti psychotics, mood stabilizers, etc….
I’m not saying all fat people are excused from personal responsibility for their size, I’m just saying that you never know why people are the way they are.
Plus, I’ve read articles a while back that says fast food companies put additives in their food that stimulate the brain to become “addicted” to the food — and crave it. I’m taking that with a grain of salt, but while in quebec I had a quarter pounder with cheese for the first time in months, and after I ate it I (ravenously) craved it like CRAZY for weeks afterward. So you never know. And considering some people’s lack of will power, it’s not surprising that some will subsist on fast food. *shrug*
I have gained a couple of pounds since I started a new job. I am a lot more active now than I was before this job. I was a gamer before and played maybe 7 hours or more a day. Very lazy, sedentary life, and yet I didn’t gain weight then. Oh the irony. lol
I think stress has a lot to do with weight gain too.
You also have to consider the fact that when you do physical exercise your fat becomes muscle and muscles are heavier than fat.
And who’s paying for fat people to get medical cares? everybody! I don’t mind paying for people who really need cares but fuck! don’t eat crappy food and then complain about you getting fat and ask everybody to pay for your medical problems!
Fat does not become muscle. Fat gets burned off through exercise. Exercise promotes muscle growth. Two separate forces are at work. Walking briskly, for an hour daily, especially uphill, is the best way to raise the cardio to effectively burn off calories and fat. Gym workouts are best for toning and building muscles.
I lost over 60 lbs in the 1990’s by walking without bulking up on muscle. Weight loss and body-building have gotten lumped into one confusing category by the weight-loss industry but really they are two separate things. Many people set themselves up for weightloss failure by trying to achieve weightloss and bodybuilding at the same time. First lose the fat, then build your body, if you want a toned or muscular physique. Some people only want to shed lbs and aren’t interested in bulking up on muscle. Walking is medically recognized as the best way to achieve this.
“A single woman will come home, see what’s in the fridge then go to bed…
A married woman will come home, see what’s in the bed, and go to the fridge” :p
“First lose the fat, then build your body, if you want a toned or muscular physique”
OL, I would always recommend the reverse if you’re looking for a muscular physique…
simply because the more muscle you have, the more your basal metabolism is amped and so it’s easier to shed the weight as you put on more muscle mass.
It’s also why people think fat turns into muscle and vise versa, it’s the two separate things happening but they do go hand in hand when done properly.
well that’s easy for you to say…sexy beast^^
pppfffttt…
I also meant to shed the ‘fat’… not ‘weight’ because you likely will gain a few pounds to start out.
Why do people even care about the number though?
I tossed the scale quite a while ago…. go by the mirror
(so long as you don’t live in the circus, I suppose)
i live in a circus, and i’m built like a klingon…but with nicer teeth and hair
Oh oui Pain? Comme un Klingon, très sexy. Vraiment!
Lolz.
Oooh la la. Some of those Klingon women are dead sexy!!
and wicked aggressive. 🙂
zZz: Some people are able to combine the two…for others it is too overwhelming and focusing on weightloss first can be easier for them to achieve a successful outcome. Trust me, forcing your overweight butt to walk up large hills everyday builds muscles where you need them to achieve weighloss by walking. Not everyone who wants to shed their blubber is into body building/toning. They just want to drop the fat.
zZz is right — A LOT of people don’t do resistance/weight training because they figure it won’t burn fat and just stick to cardio, but it’s both that will burn fat and make your basel metabolic rate go way up. It can also help with the loose hangy skin people who lose a lot of weight can get.
I bought a body fat scale and I go by what the percentages say, not what the “weight” is. I’ve weighed 10 pounds more than what I do now and fit into pants I can’t even get buttoned/zipped up without laying down now. heh.
Oddly, the first place I lose weight from is my feet. I have a pair of shoes that didn’t fit last year, but fit very comfortable now. Second is my belly, which is *awesome* because it’s often the last place a lot of people lose weight from. I don’t have to worry about my ass/hips/thighs because I don’t have a fat ass/hips/thighs 🙂
I’m waiting for the huge convoy of motorized scooters and their butterball riders to take over the whole downtown area, knocking over anyone under 300 pounds and cackling as they zip away to the nearest food court.
that already happens ttfn like daily 🙂
OL: resistance training isn’t always about becoming bulky and toning, it’s about fat loss. A body with muscle burns A LOT more fat A LOT faster than just doing cardio alone.
Plus, it allows you to be a bit more flexible with what you eat, which is a major downfall for a lot of people trying to lose weight — they have to restrict themselves so much they get hungry and fuck up.
I know I have a lot more freedom with the amount of food I can eat because I incorporate resistance with cardio. And the thing *is* I enjoy the resistance more than the cardio: I use the circuit at the gym. I started with one rotation, then a week later, two rotations and so on. And the thing is, I find it a lot easier to walk up the hills when I focus on weight training rather than cardio. I skipped the cardio for a couple weeks and focused only on leg resistance training and I was able to walk up hills and for longer distances (and faster) than I ever did when I focused solely on cardio.
When I lived in Ottawa, TTFN, I saw this one guy all the time on his scooter — he was clearly 350+ and he’d actually wheel his scooter onto the bus, sit in a two seater, stay on the bus for the duration of three stops and then wheel his scooter off the bus.
Apparently pressing a scooter button was too taxing.
I’m just wondering — how much food do you have to eat to maintain that kind of weight? And how can people eat that much? I ate a double whopper once and thought I was going to throw up I was so full…but some of the people you see on these “fattest women alive” or whatever, shows eat buckets of KFC a day…I don’t get it. I’m not small, but I’m certainly not even 200lbs. At my heaviest (slightly over 200) I was eating a lot…so I really don’t get it.
and it’s not just how much… but at what times….
I eat like a cow (quantity, not substance), grazing all day, but only have a couple cans of tuna and perhaps some beer after 5pm. It works well because I wake up rabidly hungry, which is when I should be scarfing most of my calories…. you just have to have that will to save the hunger for the morning for a couple weeks until your body gets used to the new schedule.
I’m also hovering around 250 but am in no way obese as a bmi of 33.9 would have you believe. (which is why it sucks ass as any form of indicator as PK has mentioned several times)
I really don’t consider 300 lbs to be too big if your body composition and the way you carry it can account for it.
Now I totally feel like a bucket of KFC. *cries* But I have heard horror stories about KFC’s around here.
zZz, Sir, you are exactly two of me. 😀 I should do some weight lifting and resistance training…right now I am the heaviest I have ever been and not from muscle mass.
do not eat the mutant chicken newt. when i had a cold i would crave it, ’cause me ma made chicken soup for me when i was wee. then we would buy it and go feck now i remember why i hate this shite
That’s the thing with all fast food…you crave them once in a while, then you eat them and remember exactly why you don’t eat that stuff all the time.
You’re right, zZz. When I asked my nutritionist how to rev up my metabolism she said “eat more frequently.”
I eat small amounts of food throughout the day, usually at 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10pm, and midnight-1am. So every three-ish hours. Part of it though is to keep my insulin levels and sugar levels stable.
Or you want more, newt.
That’s what happens when I eat the almighty quarte de livre avec fromage. *sigh*
Mcdicks can do no wrong in my eyes when it comes to taste. I could honestly live off of mcdicks if it didn’t, like, kill you.
Man… zZz is built like an effin linebacker
ok for example of cheap eating; tonight I served : tandoori chk’n brsts, basmati rice pilau ; fresh peach chutney; steamed grn. beans and for dessert more peaches w/frzn yogurt and crumbled pralines. total cost for 4 people about 12 bucks (and there’s a little leftover) 12 bucks would feed 1 adult and 1 kid at rotten ronnies 🙂
You will have to cook dinner for me someday martym. That sounds just too yummy.
well you play your cards right baby and….. umm I mean I would be honoured to cook for you AND your hubby someday NTH 🙂
Da hell! Tonight I ate Vector cereal …
You cook AND flirt? That’s just too good to be true martym. 😀 We’ll make it a potluck!
BeardedDonkey, does Vector cereal taste good?
oh shit nth servers be lov’n me cause I flirt in a harmless non-sexist/vulgar way and I for one love Vector it’s my cereal of choice actually and raisin bran 🙂
I must try Vector when it goes on sale then.
When I used to be a server, the chef and I used to bicker so much (in good humour of course…well, most of the time anyway) in front of customers that they thought we were a married couple. *chuckle*
vector cereal is the axe body spray of the cereal world, you cant beat mini mini mini mini wheats.
really LL will it help me get chicks if i keep eating it? 🙂
only if combined with an “XTREME!!!” lifestyle. Get ready to consume lots of energy drinks, watch lots of UFC and walk around ready to kick ass at all times. Lots of tight black t-shirts and affliction tshirts will help too.
let me ask you this, how loud is your car stereo? If its not loud enough to disrupt your vision we need to fix that!
red bull-nope;ufc-not into it;tight black t’s – more a sensable blouse guy; and I don’t even have a ride; guess I’ll have to stick with crack ho’s in the downtown eastside 🙂
“If its not loud enough to disrupt your vision …” I think I need a stereo like this. Something to make my suspension tremble. Vector just happened to be what was in the cupboard, so I ate it. NTH, it tastes great.
Ew, men in tight black t-shirts … juice heads.
Everyone needs a speaker system that makes the rear windshield flex. Its good for when people ride your ass, your turn it up obnoxiously loud and slow down even more bobbing your head from side to side. I think it really pisses them off but i wouldnt know becuase the music is too loud to hear the horns and the cursing!
Ooooohhh. Western Woman….
There is a reason that adolescence is worshipped in North America. It does not happen in the rest of the world.
Very sick society.