Just moved to the fattest state in the union!
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Mississippi is also one of the poorest states in the U.S. Many of the people who live there are struggling with a hell of a lot more than their weight.
What an insensitive and ignorant post. Please, do yourself a favor and research a little. Less judgment and more respect will take you much further.
I agree to an extent. HOWEVER, being from the south, I see first hand that all these poor people "struggling" get a ton of food stamps every month. If these people would educate themselves about the real importance of a healthy balanced diet, they could def. afford whole, clean, raw foods. There would be less obesity, and less bad crazy children running around. I strongly believe that poor diets is why ADD and ADHD are so common.
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Yes i like him too.......My favorite is...Garrius!!!0
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Only a Yankee would assume someone offering a ride means promoting laziness. It's called southern hospitality. They're trying to be nice.0
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Talk about culture shock! I moved from upstate New York where I built organic backyard gardens for a living to southern Mississippi, where 1 in 3 children are hungry but I cant find em, maybe they're hiding behind all the obese people. I know, thats insensitive, but im going to restart my business down here and im hoping it wont flop, try talking health to anyone around here and they start talking about God! Its scary, lets pray for health, while we eat only fried foods and never move anywhere! My daughter literally goes to school a 7 min. Walk away from our house and we walk, whats odd is ive been asked if we need a ride around 50 times in the month we've been here, each time I state "thank you but we like to walk" and 9 times out of 10 they argue that that cant possibly be the case! Whats worse is they send a bus around to the development directly across the street from the school, which im positive is way more expemsive than hiring a couple crossing gaurds! Idk, I need some health conscious friends online because i feel like im the only one around here who gives 1 iota about being healthy happy and staying that way for as long as possible round this place!
You are living in a place where people stop and offer you a ride instead of honking at you and screaming profanities, and you are complaining about how ignorant they are?
I've have lived in a lot of places (including the South). While there are cultural differences, not all of them my cup of tea, it's a bit arrogant to move into a place and think that you know best. Life is complicated and there is no one way to live.
Obesity is not great, and it's sad when it becomes a cultural norm. But, let's get a little perspective, okay?0 -
Yes your post sounded very insensitive, it comes across as if you look at your new neighbors and all you see is fat lazy people. That's how it comes across to me not judging you or bashing you just letting you know what I saw when I read it.
As far as looking for fit friends I am sure there is at least 1 gym, rec center, or YMCA in your town or a near by town. That sounds like a good place to start, to find friends with similar interest. Its hard moving to a new place, Maybe you will lead your community to a healthy lifestyle by example them seeing you start a garden and walking everywhere may encourage them.
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HAAA, crazy yankees!!0
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I don't mind be surrounded by fat people, makes me feel skinny.
I loved it when I I whenever I went to Florida, I was the thinnest person around :happy:0 -
I lived in a lot of states including Mississippi and New Jersey/New York area. I lived in other southern states as well. Right now I live in the midwest. I lived 19 years in Louisiana and I admit I was tired of there and moved to new jersey to get away as some young people do. I have to say is that I missed the south after a few months. There is a truth about southern hospitality. When southerns offer a ride, we just trying to be nice and hospital. Some of us even opens doors for other people. When I was in the New York/New Jersey area they also made comments about me being so polite. Like it was a bad thing or something. I saw a guy open a door for someone and they gave him withering looks. Its like no one wants to be helped or something there. I guess there is a culture shock when a person from the south or north move to opposite ends of the continent. New York and the other northern states are not the same as back home in the southern states. More past pace etc. People tend to compare the new place to the old place. Alot of people in New York people used to comment about the southern states and it seemed to be almost alien to them. Alot of the people seemed to think of us southerns as hill billies and red necks. The southern people probably has some ideas about the people in the North. Maybe we have some preconceived ideas about the northerners. I used to get comments from the people from England about our guns so i guess to them we are all rednecks and hill billies
Obesity is a problem in all states not just the southern states. Thought I admit its probably high in the southern states. One thing about the New York area and a lot of those big eastern cities is that they built their transit system pretty good. Its more advantage to walk to the subway than drive a car. The cities in the south are more spread out. So yea we are not used to walking as much. Europeans are more fit as well and they got a great transit system. Its so easy to take a train to go someplace(I been there too) America is just more spread out more. Our country decided to built the car system instead. The eastern cities not so much spread out I think and with having a subway you walk to the stations and therefore more fit. We are spread out here as well. We have some transit but not alot. The city has been trying to make bike lanes but I would not use them cause lots of bikers get hit by cars. People are trying to do something about the problem of obesity. The first lady goes on a lot of shows to promote health and fitness. School lunches are starting to offer healthy alternatives in some states. I think it is a good idea for you to try to introduce gardens to people. People don't know where to start so if you help them then they will learn and perhaps get healthier. Build your own garden then invite a few people for a BBQ to your house to advertise your garden and get people interest in one. Grill some stuff from the garden. I want to build a garden myself one day but always held back because i don't know where to start. If I get a garden, I know I will eat healthier. It will be the same for them. Good Luck with your garden.0 -
I find it very funny that the people posting about me being judgemental are assuming my ignorance to southern culture. In actuality my WHOLE FAMILY have been in the deep south for more than 30 years with my parents being the latest transplant over 15 years ago, I have 9 neices and nephews who were born and bred along the gulf coast, 5 of which are adults now. I moved here to help care for my disabled parents and make their house more accommadable to their disabilities. When I speak to people around here I am very sensitive to the trials of the area and religious and family values (that northerners also have!)!
Btw yes, I have noticed that the selection of produce and "healthy" food selection at the local supermarkets is severely lacking, but stores would go bankrupt if they tried to sell items that just dont sell.0 -
Simple, tell them the healthy, organic produce is made only with God's own ingredients and none provided by man.
It's all about marketing!
hhahaha Maybe it's because I'm in CA and the super religious people are all Catholic rather than Southern Baptist or what-have-you, but the religious people I know are really really into organic gardening and cutting out processed food... for the reasons you suggested she market and from a moral drive to take care of both one's body and the earth. Not to say the religious people round these parts are 100% the healthiest people ever... but even wine has a nice bunch of antioxidants :P0 -
Mississippi makes me hungry.0
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I find it very funny that the people posting about me being judgemental are assuming my ignorance to southern culture. In actuality my WHOLE FAMILY have been in the deep south for more than 30 years with my parents being the latest transplant over 15 years ago, I have 9 neices and nephews who were born and bred along the gulf coast, 5 of which are adults now. I moved here to help care for my disabled parents and make their house more accommadable to their disabilities. When I speak to people around here I am very sensitive to the trials of the area and religious and family values (that northerners also have!)!
Btw yes, I have noticed that the selection of produce and "healthy" food selection at the local supermarkets is severely lacking, but stores would go bankrupt if they tried to sell items that just dont sell.
well your original post didn't exactly scream sensitivity...0 -
I find it very funny that the people posting about me being judgemental are assuming my ignorance to southern culture. In actuality my WHOLE FAMILY have been in the deep south for more than 30 years with my parents being the latest transplant over 15 years ago, I have 9 neices and nephews who were born and bred along the gulf coast, 5 of which are adults now. I moved here to help care for my disabled parents and make their house more accommadable to their disabilities. When I speak to people around here I am very sensitive to the trials of the area and religious and family values (that northerners also have!)!
Btw yes, I have noticed that the selection of produce and "healthy" food selection at the local supermarkets is severely lacking, but stores would go bankrupt if they tried to sell items that just dont sell.
You are the one who call it a culture shock, thats why people think you are ignorant to the southern culture.
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wow i had no idea it was like that down there! lol,,, so not funny! ,,0
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If everyone were skinny, we'd all be trying to get fat....0
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true!0
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I find it very funny that the people posting about me being judgemental are assuming my ignorance to southern culture. In actuality my WHOLE FAMILY have been in the deep south for more than 30 years with my parents being the latest transplant over 15 years ago, I have 9 neices and nephews who were born and bred along the gulf coast, 5 of which are adults now. I moved here to help care for my disabled parents and make their house more accommadable to their disabilities. When I speak to people around here I am very sensitive to the trials of the area and religious and family values (that northerners also have!)!
Btw yes, I have noticed that the selection of produce and "healthy" food selection at the local supermarkets is severely lacking, but stores would go bankrupt if they tried to sell items that just dont sell.
Just an FYI - your first post did not come across this way AT ALL.0 -
Wow way to insult a massive group of people based on one persons individual experience. Luckily I don't find you to be a representation of most 'southerners'.Only a Yankee would assume someone offering a ride means promoting laziness. It's called southern hospitality. They're trying to be nice.0 -
Maybe you can organize a "school walk" group with the kids in your neighborhood? You could plug it as they'd be safe walking with you (and maybe other parents who want to join), and it would be a great way for your kids to make new friends. I bet the kids would love walking to school if they had other kids to walk with. They probably just don't think about it because their parents always drive them and that's the norm.
I LOVED walking to school with my friends every day. The school was about a mile from our house and took about 30 minutes since we were young and dawdled. We rode our bikes on nice days and walked in the winter. The bus wasn't even an option since we were within a mile of the school and the school district didn't bus kids who lived that close. 0 -
This thread is awesome. I love absurdity and the absurdity of complaining about fat people on MyFitnessPal is delicious.0
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Everyone should try Carl's Jr's low carb 6 dollar burger with bacon and guacamole...Guacamole: that green stuff made from avacado for you crazy northerners....... Brought to you by Carl's Jr0
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I agree with "absurdity" guy0
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Also, when I say NY I do NOT mean NYC I grew up and lived in an area that was known for agriculture where police would help a person in need, shoot I knew most of the police force (all of about 40 men and women county wide) on a first name basis and their families too! I lived in a beautiful valley between the Catskills and Berkshires! NYC accounts for less than 1/20 of the state. It was more rural there than it is here!0
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What is funny to me about this thread is that...people who were offended by what was said by the OP returned it with insults about the northern states and yankees.
I am from CT. I just moved to WA. EVERY SINGLE PERSON that I have met here has always commented, and more than once too, how polite I am. That I am always saying please and thank you, and always holding the door open for people, always going out of my way to help someone. A yankee doesn't equal an *kitten*.
OP - just be friendly to people, as I am sure you are. Offer what you know but don't shove it down their throats. Go to neighborhood events and socialize. Bring a dish to share (just don't offer to bring a southern classic like fried chicken and then make baked fried chicken, that would be like offering to bring philly cheese steaks to your neighbors in philly). Make the most out of your time there and enjoy the time with family and friends.0 -
OP be like "aint nobody got time fo dat"0
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OP be like "aint nobody got time fo dat"
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If you don't like it leave. I've never lived in Mississippi, but I can say that I do not enjoy listening to someone denigrate a place to which they have moved. I can only hope that the people you live around return the favor and treat you with similar disdain.0
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I personally think It was somewhat rude and a lil snobby, are there not fat people in Upstate NY, weird you just noticed obesity when you got to Mississippi. They maybe obese but they sure sound like they are very loving and protective people. Great Job Mississippi on that love thang.
No, there were obese people in ny, actually quite a few. The difference is that I have yet to find any even remotely healthy groups of people down here. There was a large farm to table movement in ny and there were large groups of people motivated toward creating a healthier lifestyle for their loved ones. Why are you so offended?0 -
Wow way to insult a massive group of people based on one persons individual experience. Luckily I don't find you to be a representation of most 'southerners'.Only a Yankee would assume someone offering a ride means promoting laziness. It's called southern hospitality. They're trying to be nice.
So now it's easy to understand how the OP seemed insensitive. It's ok for someone to run off about people being lazy since their from LA, but calling someone insensitive because they're from NY is not ok? No.0 -
Wow way to insult a massive group of people based on one persons individual experience. Luckily I don't find you to be a representation of most 'southerners'.Only a Yankee would assume someone offering a ride means promoting laziness. It's called southern hospitality. They're trying to be nice.
Read the OP's post. It's full of insulting a massive group of people based on one person's individual experience.0
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