Two Kinds of Fat People

elizabethkvenegas
elizabethkvenegas Posts: 4
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Anybody remember this clip from the Breakfast Club?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33JwsIU368s

There are two kinds of fat people: fat people who were destined to be fat and fat people who were once skinny but became fat.

What kind of fat person are you?
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  • LeonCX
    LeonCX Posts: 862 Member
    Fat since 1st grade but I don't believe in any destiny.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,978 Member
    No one (barring any health/hormone issue) is DESTINED to be fat. Put any "destined" person on an island with little food and I guarantee they don't get fat.
    People get fat because of overconsumption. That's controllable, not a destiny.

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  • mrsKOrtiz
    mrsKOrtiz Posts: 949 Member
    Here we go!! Anyway, I don't think that anyone is "destined" to be fat.. Its a choice.
  • 4ever420
    4ever420 Posts: 4,088 Member
    I've been overweight as long as I can remember. At 35, this is the first time in my life I've been of "normal" weight.
  • jfmorrison
    jfmorrison Posts: 70 Member
    I boomerang up and down.. trying to stay down for good!
  • elizabethkvenegas
    elizabethkvenegas Posts: 4
    Do you think there's a difference between these two kinds of fat people? Fat people who've always been fat and fat people who were once skinny?

    Is there a difference in confidence? personality? difficulty in losing weight? resentment? willingness?
  • mrsKOrtiz
    mrsKOrtiz Posts: 949 Member
    There is a difference as we are all different people. I hate how my body looks but I'm still comfortable enough in my own body not to try hard enough to lose weight. The next fat person may differ..
  • kimnsc
    kimnsc Posts: 560 Member

    There are two kinds of fat people: fat people who were destined to be fat and fat people who were once skinny but became fat.

    What kind of fat person are you?

    What a complete crock! No one is "destined" to be fat....Ugh!

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  • Boccellin
    Boccellin Posts: 137 Member
    I don't truly think I was "destined" to be fat, since I am working on achieving a healthy weight and lifestyle now, and it is going well. However, I did have a lot working against me. Nearly every member of my mother's side of the family was fat. I was raised by an Italian family that cooked (and sometimes ordered out) copious amounts of highly fattening food. I was raised that you ate what was served and the more you ate, the better. There were healthy things, fruits and vegetables, involved, but the vegetables were almost always prepared in unhealthy ways because it made them "taste better". My family was always snacking in between large meals, and I just thought that's what everyone did. I was always either the chubbiest, or one of the chubbiest, girls in school from kindergarten to graduation.

    By the time I started learning, really learning, about proper health and nutrition, I was already much older and the bad habits firmly ingrained in me. They're still firmly ingrained in me, even now that I've been out of my parent's house for well over a year. I will always be fighting the temptation to gorge on 2-3 people's worth of unhealthy food at every meal. The temptation, the want, will never go away.

    That being said, no, I was not destined to be fat. Maybe I was destined to be fat in my youth because I didn't have a choice in how I was raised, but I certainly have a choice in how I live my life now. My childhood and genetics will not define my entire life. The temptation will always be there, but I am perfectly capable of fighting it. And now, I am choosing to be healthy.
  • chilly1470
    chilly1470 Posts: 178 Member
    I was skinny up until 21 years old. Then the weight gradually built up over the years. I do feel somewhat predestined from my mom's side, as she was heavy all her life.
  • jstein64
    jstein64 Posts: 1
    The movie quote is silly and is a sneering attempt at mild abuse. There are people who are more prone to becoming fat because they are wired differently to others. For some of us its an addiction and you can't use abstinence as a way to get over it. Unless you've lived with it, you probably can't understand. That's why the majority of personal trainers (who are well motivated) cant grasp the problem in the first place.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    This may go somewhere, so in.
  • missylectro
    missylectro Posts: 448 Member
    I don't believe in the destined bs
    http://youtu.be/0x4grRXo7W4
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    Thin but got fat later in life. I don't identify as a "fat" person. It's circumstantial, not permanent.
  • ValGogo
    ValGogo Posts: 2,168 Member
    Here we go!! Anyway, I don't think that anyone is "destined" to be fat.. Its a choice.

    Not if your name is Claire. (hahahaha)
  • forgivensins
    forgivensins Posts: 90 Member
    Never been skinny but I'd like to think there's got to be more to my destiny than fatness.
  • thehealthywitch
    thehealthywitch Posts: 13 Member
    No one is "destined to be fat". You can change yourself for the better, but only if you're committed to it!
  • Oi_Sunshine
    Oi_Sunshine Posts: 819 Member
    I'm more disturbed that the bad boy heartthrob in this movie continuously sexually harasses the princess and somehow wins her over through pity because he's had a rough life.
    Nuh uh.
    That boy should have been maced with the first word that came outta his mouth. Learn some manners, bub.
  • FitForL1fe
    FitForL1fe Posts: 1,872 Member
    DESTINY?!

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  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    What about "was skinny as a kid, got athletic, got fat, got fit, remained BAMF"?
  • stephanieluvspb
    stephanieluvspb Posts: 997 Member
    I don't know but I love the breakfast club and don't forget the character who said it was kind of an A hole!
  • elizabethkvenegas
    elizabethkvenegas Posts: 4
    @ValGogo Your response was more along the lines of what I was questioning (not destiny vs. choice, although that's a good topic, too).

    It seems to me some people view their weigh gain as temporary...just a phase they are going through. Like college kids who "experiment." They see themselves as thin people stuck in a fat person's body.

    Then there are others who identify as "fat." It's embedded in their personality and their choices. And some people immerse themselves into "fat culture" with their own set of norms, beliefs, and values.
  • fluffyasacat
    fluffyasacat Posts: 242 Member
    There are two kinds of fat people.

    There's the kind that decide they don't want to be fat anymore and do something about it.
    And there's the kind that stay fat.

    How that got that way is completely irrelevant and none of your business. Don't make someone's type, past or genetics another hurdle for them to deal with. It's hard enough as it is.
  • MB_Positif
    MB_Positif Posts: 8,897 Member
    What about "was skinny as a kid, got athletic, got fat, got fit, remained BAMF"?

    Baby you're the baddest mutherfuker I know!

    :heart: thank you!
  • trm68
    trm68 Posts: 55 Member
    There are no fat folks, but maybe they are just way fluffy. Now, get rid of fast food, rediscover walking, and if you can a bicycle. Most bikes hang in garages for years, just check it out..
  • Ninkyou
    Ninkyou Posts: 6,666 Member
    As for the topic at hand, I don't believe there is anyone destined to be fat. It's all about the choices we made/make, whether intentional or not.
  • RaspberryKeytoneBoondoggle
    RaspberryKeytoneBoondoggle Posts: 1,349 Member
    I don't agree.
  • _Terrapin_
    _Terrapin_ Posts: 4,301 Member
    page 4 is to long to wait

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  • raysputin
    raysputin Posts: 142 Member
    The ability to pile on the fat during periods of plenty and burn it during lean times is a survival feature of many creatures, humans included. It is part of our evolution. If we were still in the stone age, many of those people who did not stack on the weight during summer and autumn would die in winter. This means that people who put on fat easily are, under stone age circumstances, the survival superior to those who do not. The problem is that the lean times of the stone age no longer occur every year and the accumulated fat is not burned off. And, like it or not, genetically we are still in the stone age.

    Then we have the situation where the human body undergoes changes as we age. In the mid to late twenties, most humans finally stop growing and a change occurs in the hormonal balance. This predisposes most of us to put on weight more easily. Then there are others who never seem to put on weight. Not all of this is due to self-discipline. Some people's hormonal balance stays "young" and their body processes calories differently making it easier for them to keep their weight down. I have two sons in their early thirties. One watches what he eats all the time and struggles to keep his weight under control. The other eats everything that comes within arm's length and never puts on a kilo.

    I despair when I read young people saying how easy it is for them to keep their weight down when they haven't even stopped growing yet. Wait until you are in your mid-thirties before you assess your weight-maintaining abilities. When I was 26, I was 50Kg (under my minimum according to BMI) and I ate about 7000 calories per day (no joke). I could not put on weight no matter what. At 28 I was in the high 70KGs and only eating in the 2500 calorie region.

    So how do we combat the continual plenty and bodily changes problems? We could simulate the stone age and starve ourselves during winter. No thanks! I don't think that many of us would come at that. Or we could simulate lean times permanently by limiting our food intake. A much more acceptable technique I think.

    What I am saying is that there are those of us for whom fat accumulation is easier than others and that this ease of accumulation can change. We are all different but the solution is the same - match what comes in to what goes out.
  • Stripeness
    Stripeness Posts: 511 Member
    I think "destined" is too strong a word. Are there varying genetics and family habits? Absolutely.

    That said, you get to decide how you're going to live. You can get educated about health and fitness, and find the goals and tactics that work best for YOU.

    And, while you can't magically drop weight by "thinking thin," you CAN help yourself by having a good attitude. Example: you can beat yourself up for being overweight and for not having found the right food/exercise combo. (I failed AGAIN)
    OR
    You can choose to look at yourself as a fit person who's on her way to her goal (adjust pronoun to fit, obv). If you have a positive image of yourself (fit & healthy, just carrying some extra weight right now. Not in PR shape just YET)...then you will tend to act like that image - you'll park a little further away. Not kick yourself for a so-so workout -- hey, you DID work out! Okay, not eating after 8pm doesn't seem to be a good strategy for YOU. Maybe next month you'll try veggies w/every meal instead. It's an experiment and you're making little improvements & adjustments all the time!

    You take the long view and know you'll get there.

    And if you know you're carrying LOTS of extra weight right now...you read about how to work with a body carrying that much extra weight. Because you KNOW it's not always gonna be so and just need the information and support to get through this phase. Because that's all it is - a phase. (I guess you could wallow in it, but WHY? Life is short - be the best YOU!)
    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/training-the-obese-beginner.html/

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