I wholeheartedly support you in your new “healthy lifestyle” changes. You are morbidly obese, and you want to get healthier. This is TOTALLY awesome! I love you, and want you to be around for a long time.
But don’t go around lying about how much weight you’ve lost and how well you are doing with this “diet” when
1) You have only switched to eating whole wheat bread (no other dietary changes, no smaller portions, no exercise)
2) You have NOT lost the 50lbs you say you have.
I know you need support, so I am keeping my mouth shut about the lying and trying to provide advice when you ASK, but stop lying to yourself and everyone else. —Get your scale checked
This article appears in Dec 5-11, 2013.
I love you. You’re a liar. Fuck off.
I’m certain these three sentiments of yours is surely motivating…
Diets don’t fucking work – none of them. Why? Because if you deviate off that diet, the weight just rolls right back on.
There’s only one way to lose weight – smaller portions, 4 small meals a day, no fast food, no junk food, no soda – most important, exercise, even if it’s just walking around the block. It doesn’t mean you can’t have a treat once in a while but it’s been my experience that if you can manage to go 6 weeks without those empty calories, you won’t miss ’em anymore. Honest to fuck.
A friend of mine got royally ripped off by a well-known diet system – frozen dinners daily – she never noticed that these meals had ridiculously high sodium levels. A colossal rip-off if I ever saw one.
You do not care about this person.
Best diet I ever was one was my own creation…
I had a huge breakfast of whatever I wanted, 2 protein shakes, a tuna cheese wrap, a slice of pizza, and can of chunky’s a day -with optional can of tuna as bedtime snack- all spaced out every couple hours.
Man, those were the days. I was a calorie furnace…
Now I couldn’t give a fuck.
They say life is short… and I sincerely hope so.
A PHILOSOPHICAL CONUNDRUM
“… but stop lying to yourself and everyone else.” Get your scale checked
I understand how one could lie to everyone else but how can one lie to oneself? To lie to oneself implies the presence of two individuals, the one doing the lying and the other listening to the lies. But, short of a serious case of schizophrenia, this is impossible. It is a special case of talking to oneself. Who’s doing the talking? Who’s doing the listening? It’s a philosophical conundrum.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Whole wheat bread doesn’t make you lose weight. There are actually more calories in whole wheat bread, to be honest.
Yes, it keeps you fuller longer, which can help, but just switching to whole grains doesn’t make you any thinner in itself.
Hey you starvin halitosis ridden bitch, you sound like a real supportive friend. You sound jelly as hail of your fat friend cuz she prolly gettin’ it and you aint.
If I was looking for diet advice, I would only ever take it from someone who was once fat, made a drastic change in diet, and is now thin.
All diets can be boiled down to one simple principle: burn more calories than you consume.
“All diets can be boiled down to one simple principle: burn more calories than you consume.”
I think it’s the belief in this idea that is keeping a lot of people fat, and enslaved to the fat, meat and sugar industries. It’s not how much you eat, it’s what you eat. I mean, of course you’re right, if you burn more calories then you consume then of course you will lose weight. The thing is, if you are eating a shitty diet, then it’s unnecessarily hard to burn more calories then you consume. Why? Because if you are eating a shitty diet, you simply aren’t getting the energy you need to be able to “burn more calories then you consume,” and so the cycle continues. It’ll just really suck for you trying to “burn more calories then you consume.” Turn the focus not to how much you consume, but rather what you are consuming. I literally eat in “excess” every single day, for every single meal.
It’s true.
You can eat 1200 calories a day and still gain weight if you have insulin resistance and eat mostly carbs. Your body will illicit an insulin response that is likely out of whack, and then you don’t use that insulin so it just stores as fat.
Often in these cases, an insulin sensitizing medication is needed.
also difficult to lose weight if one eats a marvellous diet, no junk/fast food but consisting of all home made, lovingly prepared foods. mashed potatoes with real butter and roasted garlic, pork tenderloins stuffed with spinach, feta, roasted red peppers, then drenched in au jus, broccoli and cauliflour egged, crumbed and roasted with asiago curls. planks of salmon filets rubbed with wasabi, coated in mayo, smooched in buttered crumbs and roasted, chicken breasts stuffed with a force of mushrooms, pate, smoked cheddar, wrapped in bacon, braised and gently roasted, then placed on your plate, fragrantly oozing calories. or how about heaps of fresh valley strawberries, dunked into sour cream, then darkest Demerara. asparagus spears rolled and roasted in Sicilian lemon infused olive oil, drizzled with balsamic. and how about homemade sourdough bread wallowing in fresh butter.
Molly, those meals belong in 5 star hotels, not in average homes but sure would love that smorgasbord on my table.
*smack, smack, smack*
i love food. love to cook. always have. when i was younger it just burned off me because i was a candle at both ends kind of gal. not anymore. meh.
food porn on the bitch, my house smells like gingerbread
yay! food porn! those wafer gingers again? oh gawd they were good.
i have to make cinnabons again, my dog ate the last batch.
Switched to whole wheat bread ! ! !
Are you kidding ?
You need to Cut Out Bread altogether
And instead of listening to the previous posters about ‘diets not working’ not any .
They may be correct , I don’t know enough to be able to make a blanket statement about them all. What I now know from personal experience as well as observing the results of my wife …. Dietary Change, will allow you to lose weight, coupled with an exercise program you will definately see results.
See your doctor, do it together, get sent to a nutritionist & learn how to eat properly … & at first it really is hard ! Hard to break your bad habits & unhealthy eating habits & all the garbage you put into yourself thinking its food !
But once you make the changes, & learn not only what not to do , but what great options there are, you will wonder why you ever ate like that in the first place …. Good luck
Op. If someone got overly optimistic about chemo, you’d be right there reminding them they’re actually doomed and either lying or delusional. Don’t ever be my friend. Ever.
Also meaty, giles and no fool are the only people who seem to see what a monster op is. I guess this is the fat shaming thing the facebooks are all talking about.
RWS, I don’t think you have to worry about someone wanting to be your friend. And thanks for informing us that there is more than one Facebook out there.
Anybody ever notice that fat people all kind of smell the same? What is that all about?
We smell of desperation, forced bonhomie and poutine gravy. >: (
mmmmm forced bonhomie and poutine gravy. I won’t lie, I had to google bonhomie.
mmmmmmmmmm forced poutine and bonhomie gravy
James I totally agree with what you’re saying, btw. You need to burn more calories than you consume in order to lose weight. But there are three problems with this.
1. Current north american lifestyle doesn’t allow us to burn calories the way we were meant to. Human beings are still running around with paleolithic genes but we are living an enforced sedentary lifestyle. Let’s face it, most jobs that pay well see us sitting on our asses for 8 or more hours every day. But our brains are still hard at work. While thinking DOES burn a surprising number of calories, it doesn’t provide any cardiovascular workout for the body.
So imagine that scenario. You’ve been working yourself starving all day with the thinking. But you’ve gotten no physical exercise. At the end of the day, you’re still exhausted and the temptation to want to sit down, unwind and feed the hungry brain are overwhelming. So you’re spending another 8 hours sitting on your butt recovering from the previous 8 hours of sitting on your butt. Then you go to sleep. You’re also more likely to eat more later in the day or at night as opposed to earlier in the day when your body actually needs the energy. You’re running on empty during the busiest time of the day, you’re filling up during the least busy time of the day.
2. Those same paleolithic genes are responsible for our phenomenal ability to store and crave fat. 20,000 years ago, anybody that couldn’t store fat when it was available died off. And what we were left with were packs of very efficient human fat storage units. This is great if you’re not living in the land of plenty, where food is readily available, high in fat and requires no physical work to obtain it. But when you live in the luxury of north america, where the work you DO need to do to acquire food usually requires you to sit all day, it’s pretty hard for the body to suddenly reprogram itself to reject excess fat when our fat-loving species has spent millions of years honing these genes. (more if you consider that this is not exclusive to humans and is represented across the entire mammalian world)
3. Now consider an obese person. They are not simply carrying too much weight. They have skewed their metabolism and structural system to such a degree that any significant weight loss is almost impossible without the use of dangerous fad diets. And any diet that the obese individual survives won’t work long term. Why? Because, as I mentioned in #2, the human body is just super-efficient at wanting to keep the fat it has. And will work against you if you try to lose it.
Healthy eating is certainly key. Avoiding processed foods, foods high in sugar and salt and empty calories are also key. Getting lots of exercise is, above all else, the main ingredient in weight management or weight loss.
But the problem? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
There are always answers to obesity and there is always a way to fight back. But it’s not as easy as people seem to think.
I don’t have a weight problem. I am actually considered underweight for my height so I’m not speaking from direct personal experience. I am speaking from education.
Hols, yup. Not all obese people have body odor but a lot of them do. This can be due to a few things.
If they have significantly sized fat pouches (rolls of fat that drape or hang) it is very difficult, and often painful in the super-obese, to wash them properly. Sweat also gathers under these folds because of the increase in trapped body heat. Again, in the super-obese, these areas rub together and chafe, sometimes causing chapping and bleeding and adding to the smell.
Many obese people actually DO have poor diets. This is not fat-shaming. This is due to a culture of people who were not taught to eat properly (I’ve had people try to explain to me how a can of Campbell’s soup is considered ‘healthy’ – it’s so seriously not…) As a result of eating all this sludge, the digestive system often experiences dysfunction. Causing gas, toxic buildup in the colon and things like that. Leaky gut syndrome is a rather new diagnosis and not accepted by all nutritionists and doctors yet but the idea is that the colon is so badly damaged by poor diet (other factors possibly also), that it becomes porous, causing fecal matter to enter the bloodstream. It can then be smelled all over the body.
Yup. It’s nasty. Which is why taking care of yourself is super-important. Especially if you are prone to gain weight easily. You will never be obese from genetics alone. Otherwise we’d see the obesity epidemic worldwide and not just in richer countries. But your genes DO determine how easy it is for you to become obese if you don’t take care of yourself. To add insult to injury, if you were raised in a home with poor nutrition, this programmed your childhood body. And you’ll have a harder time maintaining a healthy body as an adult.
But just let me say this. As much as I agree that people are responsible for being healthy, what good does calling someone fat do, exactly? You think they don’t know they’re fat? You think they aren’t already aware of this?
And so, in what was probably a rare moment of self-confidence and self-worth your friend felt when she shed a pound or two (and she’ll know it before you do) you start nitpicking and nagging her because she’s getting ahead of herself?
What the hell does that kind of bitchiness accomplish exactly? She’s aware she’s fat, toots. It’s not your job to pick apart all the tiny details of her body and her lifestyle. This job is something best left to professionals. It’s why professionals get paid to do this. Your job is to support her and love her. Is she trying to make a positive change? Good for her. You’re her friend if you support her. If you don’t, you’re a snake in the grass.