Motivation or "hate speech"?

sorry I had a TL; DR moment and just commented on the OP

HA! :laugh:

Steve is directly contradicting specific medical advice given to a poster by her physician.

Surely this has to be against the rules of MFP, right?

As long as he agrees with the OP, he's good to go.

Nope.

Just clarifying -- that wasn't a dig at you. Just the way things tend to go around here sometimes.

And mine wasn't a dig at you, either, for sure! Just didn't want to be dragged down with Steve's sinking ship. I'm totally digging your (dare I say it) wit and common sense. Great, now look what you made me do. I just complimented you. I'm going to be kicked off MFP now for sure! :laugh:

I would think that would fall under promoting unhealthy practices but that's just me.

Steve is directly contradicting specific medical advice given to a poster by her physician.

Surely this has to be against the rules of MFP, right?

As long as he agrees with the OP, he's good to go.

Nope.

Just clarifying -- that wasn't a dig at you. Just the way things tend to go around here sometimes.

And mine wasn't a dig at you, either, for sure! Just didn't want to be dragged down with Steve's sinking ship. I'm totally digging your (dare I say it) wit and common sense. Great, now look what you made me do. I just complimented you. I'm going to be kicked off MFP now for sure! :laugh:

You might be. I've been told I'm meen and rood.

sorry I had a TL; DR moment and just commented on the OP

No problem. I'll summarize for you: there's been some failure to agree on various topics.

Huh. I think I just defined the internet.

:laugh:

I understand what "Fit Mom" is trying to say; most people who are overweight or obese are that way because of their own poor choices. I know that's true of myself, and just about every overweight person I know. However, I also know a couple of people who cannot lose much weight for medical reasons. Fit Mom saying "what's your excuse?" is not taking this into consideration, because for some people, there ARE legitimate reasons why they are unable to lose weight or get toned. Also, people are supposed to have SOME fat. Are we supposed to be as big as we are? No - humankind has become increasingly sedentary while adopting a worse diet. That's not good, but to say that anyone who doesn't look like Fit Mom is ugly, unnatural, unappealing, etc., is just wrong.

Another thing to take into consideration is that many of us who are on this site - and at least as many who are not - got big over several years and many meals. When my coworkers met me, I weighed 175, which is "obese" for my height. Before I met my coworkers, I weighed 208 pounds. They could have looked at me and said, "this chick doesn't take care of herself" - and they would have been WRONG because I had changed my lifestyle and had already lost 33 pounds. I was making an effort to take care of myself. Even after a person stops "making excuses", it still takes time to find a routine that works...and THEN, after that, even if I lost two pounds a week, it would take me close to a year before I reached a healthy weight.

Finally, even if I weighed what she weighs, I wouldn't look like that. I am literally "big boned"; I have wide shoulders, a large rib cage, and wide hips. My mom and I are both 5'2" and if I weighed what she weighs (about 110), you'd see my ribs and people would think I'm anorexic. There are many factors that go into "being thin", "being thin and toned", and "being thin, toned, and shaped like a model". Frankly, I think the woman is stuck up. I get what she's saying, but asking to be treated politely and not shamed about something that's very, very hard to change is really not asking that much. She should have kept it to herself, but since she didn't, I think Facebook should have stayed out of it. There are plenty of hate groups and loads of people who use Facebook to harrass other people; if Fit Mom was just posting this opinion on her wall to her friends, this is honestly the least of Facebook's issues.

Are we still talking about hypoglycaemia?

We were just about to vote Steve off the island.

steve... you are the first person voted off this thread. please come up and bring your torch with you.

LOL!

And that from someone called "Brainy Burro!"

Not quite sure what a person's username or handle has to do with this subject? Anyways, back to my own little corner with the popcorn. Surprised this hasn't been locked yet, but maybe we'll get lucky and see it roll to a part 2. It's much more amusing than work, I'll say that much

Actually, the user name is pretty much perfect for the post he made.

But I wouldn't expect Steve to get it.

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