Stop the Fat Bashing!
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I don't understand.... If you have a vagina and uterus.... Aren't you a real woman???
No, that's just a part of the equation. It's all very sciencey. We're going to have classes later on tonight to explain it all. There will be punch and cake afterwards.0 -
I don't understand.... If you have a vagina and uterus.... Aren't you a real woman???
No, that's just a part of the equation. It's all very sciencey. We're going to have classes later on tonight to explain it all. There will be punch and cake afterwards.
I feel the need to punch a cake, just saying0 -
Please explain the "Real woman" comment. I'm interested.sounds like you didnt need to rant.. You already got it figured out! You go girl!
-from a felllow REAL women.. haha
You can only be a REAL woman if you're overweight, oh wait, sorry, I mean 'curvy'. Otherwise you're 'bones' and 'need to eat a cheeseburger'.
Pretty damn sure I'm real. I sure felt real when I was busting my @$$ at the gym tonight. I sure felt real when I was choosing to eat healthy over deep fried and slathered in gravy. I get sick and tired of hearing about "real" women and how the only"real" women are those with "real" big hips, "real" big boobs, "real" big butts, and "real" high cholesterol. Rant over.0 -
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Free Hat?I don't understand.... If you have a vagina and uterus.... Aren't you a real woman???
No, that's just a part of the equation. It's all very sciencey. We're going to have classes later on tonight to explain it all. There will be punch and cake afterwards.0 -
Free Hat?I don't understand.... If you have a vagina and uterus.... Aren't you a real woman???
No, that's just a part of the equation. It's all very sciencey. We're going to have classes later on tonight to explain it all. There will be punch and cake afterwards.
You think we'll get a better attendance?0 -
Free Hat?I don't understand.... If you have a vagina and uterus.... Aren't you a real woman???
No, that's just a part of the equation. It's all very sciencey. We're going to have classes later on tonight to explain it all. There will be punch and cake afterwards.
You think we'll get a better attendance?
In for the hat0 -
I'll come to the party if you have this hat for me.
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I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.0
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Ya! When I see someone working out and they're totally built, I'm like, "what are you doing? Go home! You're already done!"0
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So much cuckoo.
OP, please stop reading minds. It is an invasion of privacy. I promise you that people are too wrapped up in their own lives to care what you eat.0 -
I get these looks from people quite often. I always assume they know I'm just at an ungodly level of awesome, and they're frustrated that they can't seem to get there themselves. Sometimes I think I should take them under my wing and show em the ropes...but eh, they probably suck, and if I'm eating...I just don't want to put down my sandwich.0
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Ya! When I see someone working out and they're totally built, I'm like, "what are you doing? Go home! You're already done!"
one is NEVER simply done.0 -
Ya! When I see someone working out and they're totally built, I'm like, "what are you doing? Go home! You're already done!"
one is NEVER simply done.
Yeah. You don't get built and that's that. It's called maintenance for a reason..lol.0 -
Done for the day, perhaps. Tomorrow, I conquer another.Ya! When I see someone working out and they're totally built, I'm like, "what are you doing? Go home! You're already done!"
one is NEVER simply done.0 -
So much cuckoo.
OP, please stop reading minds. It is an invasion of privacy. I promise you that people are too wrapped up in their own lives to care what you eat.
Exactly. I've never even noticed what strangers were eating when I'm enjoying my meal. It doesn't affect me in any way.0 -
So much cuckoo.
OP, please stop reading minds. It is an invasion of privacy. I promise you that people are too wrapped up in their own lives to care what you eat.
Exactly. I've never even noticed what strangers were eating when I'm enjoying my meal. It doesn't affect me in any way.
The only time I notice is if I'm in a restaurant trying to figure out what to eat. Sometimes I'll ogle the waiters walking by with dishes and try to figure out what's on the tray.0 -
I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.
That only applies to weight loss and running, yoga, etc. as it's generally static. Lifting on the other hand actually gets harder and harder to progress in as you go.0 -
So much cuckoo.
OP, please stop reading minds. It is an invasion of privacy. I promise you that people are too wrapped up in their own lives to care what you eat.
Exactly. I've never even noticed what strangers were eating when I'm enjoying my meal. It doesn't affect me in any way.
The only time I notice is if I'm in a restaurant trying to figure out what to eat. Sometimes I'll ogle the waiters walking by with dishes and try to figure out what's on the tray.
Yeah, me too.0 -
Hehe.. I read this title as "Stop the fart bashing" Sadly, it wasn't about farts.
...ok going back to "TOPIC: most emberassing place you've ever audibly farted".0 -
I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.
That only applies to weight loss and running, yoga, etc. as it's generally static. Lifting on the other hand actually gets harder and harder to progress in as you go.
Not correct. All sports and physical arts involve progression and further and further improvement. Also, as you get older, you simply work harder to even maintain the same level of skill and ability that you had when you were younger.0 -
Ya! When I see someone working out and they're totally built, I'm like, "what are you doing? Go home! You're already done!"
They got fit and built from working their *kitten* off and still go so tat they can keep it up. You dont just stop working out once you reach your goal, you keep going to maintain it.0 -
If I see one more "real woman" comment on the Internet, I'm going to punch a kitten.0
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I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.
That only applies to weight loss and running, yoga, etc. as it's generally static. Lifting on the other hand actually gets harder and harder to progress in as you go.
Not correct. All sports and physical arts involve progression and further and further improvement. Also, as you get older, you simply work harder to even maintain the same level of skill and ability that you had when you were younger.
Truth. The further I go in yoga the more I'm improving.0 -
Time for a rant so if you don't want to see complaining- don't read it!
I'm so sick of the looks I get because I'm trying to be healthier. At 245 lbs, if I were eating a hamburger and fries I'd get looks from people because I shouldn't be eating like that in my condition. "Try a salad fatty!" is what their eyes say. We've grown up to accept that and to expect. What I absolutely hate is the people who stare at me (and others) who are trying to do better for themselves like they're worthless too. Either way I'm screwed! If I'm fat and getting fatter I'm criticized. If I'm fat and trying to get healthy I'm a poser.
Every Tuesday and Thursday I wear fitted workout pants/capris and a t-shirt to class because I go to the gym before I go to campus. I get looks each and everyday like I shouldn't be wearing fitted clothes and at this point I really don't care. I'm wearing these clothes because I've already been to the gym burning a ton of calories before most of these people have even woken up. Get over it! I fill up my plate with tons of veggies and lean proteins at school and people look at it like me like "Why are you even trying that? You know you want that greasy pizza!"
Either way I'm rocking these pants and making my body healthy so think what you want.
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When I was obese in the 80s, when the world was still skinny, I got stared out. Now that I'm fit in 2013, while the rest of the world is gaining weight, I get the glares from women. I have a new co worker who talks about how "fat" she is and glares at me and looks me up and down. Sorry chickie but I was once heavy and you don't know it b/c you're judging me by my appearance and don't know I was once obese and I spend my spare time helping others lose weight so they don't have to feel that way anymore.
So this goes both ways. I'm a school bus driver. You should see the looks I get at the safety meetings when I'm there with 100 of my morbidly obese co-workers. I don't look at them any way except I see by their glares and their general unfriendliness to me that they don't care much for my "skinny" *kitten*. If I see you in gym clothes or the gym, I'm likely to smile at you and if you smile back, I will talk to you b/c that's who I am. If you ask me for help, I will surely do what I can to help and I pull no punches.
So, really, you're right. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Lucky for me, I don't base how I feel about myself on other people's perceptions of me.0 -
If I see one more "real woman" comment on the Internet, I'm going to punch a kitten.
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When I was fat I got snide comments (my fave was the "wow, she's even fatter than YOU!") and the occasional look when I was eating (yes, yes- it might not have been that I was fat and eating, just go with me on this...).
When I started loosing weight I got the "why are you eating THAT??? You'll stay fat!!" comments.
Now, 50 pounds later, I'm getting "ZOMG YOU'RE SO THIIIIIIIIIIIIIN STAAAAAAAHP" in spite of the fact that I'm still fat and have another 30-40 pounds to go.
Solution? Giving not one single f**k. I will eat what I want and live how I want to live, to heck with everyone else. Maybe, when I was fat there was a wake of people wondering how I was walking. Maybe there wasn't. The point is moot because there will always be someone who will judge you no matter what you look like or weigh, so why think on it? You can loose years obsessing over this kind of thing. Unless someone actually says something to you, who cares? And if they say something, you get the joy of telling them to mind their own business!
I can honestly say that the best thing about this whole getting healthy thing is that I really stopped caring about what other people think. A year ago, I'd never go into the weights side of the gym with all the 21-year-old male body builders, but now I don't care if they care. And, you know? They don't. No one cares. That's the greatest punchline of all; I finally don't care what strangers think, and the strangers don't care! The judging people are the exception, not the rule. So, I probably wasn't getting stared at when I was fat and eating after all.
TL; DR- get some self worth and think good things about yourself, then you won't look for the stares from strangers anymore. 0 -
I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.
That only applies to weight loss and running, yoga, etc. as it's generally static. Lifting on the other hand actually gets harder and harder to progress in as you go.
Not correct. All sports and physical arts involve progression and further and further improvement. Also, as you get older, you simply work harder to even maintain the same level of skill and ability that you had when you were younger.
In retrospect, I see your point. What I said wasn't necessarily fair, and I intended it more as aimed toward the 'average' than 'athlete'. Obviously, the law of diminishing returns applies to pretty much everything we do.0 -
I think when I see a person who carries more wieght and exercises you go person atleast your trying to be healthier,Im not impressed by those who are already fit running so on.Maybe they were bigger maybe not but they are already at thier goal.Good to keep it up but the first step is the hardest afte that its just upkeep.
That only applies to weight loss and running, yoga, etc. as it's generally static. Lifting on the other hand actually gets harder and harder to progress in as you go.
Not correct. All sports and physical arts involve progression and further and further improvement. Also, as you get older, you simply work harder to even maintain the same level of skill and ability that you had when you were younger.
In retrospect, I see your point. What I said wasn't necessarily fair, and I intended it more as aimed toward the 'average' than 'athlete'. Obviously, the law of diminishing returns applies to pretty much everything we do. 0 -
The only fat I bash is "trans."0
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