Fat Chick Works Out

This video strikes a nerve. I swear if I ever find out this crap is being promoted to my child, I will *kitten* pink twinkies. I have to wonder if these idiots have children. The lady on the left has to be crushing every organ she has and I'll be damned if I'm going to bow down to this nonsense and say it's okay. If society starts down this path, were going to end up with a country full of people that have an average life span of 40. As far as the person who said the morbidly obese shouldn't exist, I think I understand what they meant, in that, the world is not designed for 500lb people because it should not be the norm..... EVER. Bus seats, airplane seats, my freaking couch... were not made for people that size and if it becomes the norm, what does that mean for those of us that have enough of a brain to know that it is not and never will be healthy. At all, period. If a person needs two seats on an airplane, they should have to pay for it. Why the world should have to conform to what is blatant gluttony is beyond me. But hey... they can move so they must be healthy, right?

Very, very judgmental people here.

what the hell did I just watch?

Very, very judgmental people here.

No there are some very realistic people. Rubbish like this aimed at those who are capable of so much more and just making excuses just p****** me off. Just because your fat doesn't mean you have a disability. My wife is disabled and had been totally bedbound for 5 years. She is stuck in a Hospital bed in our Bedroom 24 hours a day. Imagine that a 28 year old unable to life her arm or head on most days. Unable to go to the toilet with out aid and enormous pain. To her exercise is lifting an arm or eating her dinner unaided. She would give the world to be able to do what a lot of people who are making excuses have the opportunity to do. Everytime I go for run I think about how lucky I am to be able to do that when many people cannot.

This program is just another way for people to make excuses to not do anything. I've made those excuses but this is just encouraging. People should just thank there lucky stars that they are in a situation where they can do something about there health and stop looking for an easy way out. It takes work commitment you got yourself into the situation there is a way out but you have to actually do something.

there is a reason this world isn't "made for fat people"....fat people are a product of an unhealthy society and really shouldn't exist in the first place

My last post on this. It's just excuses to me it's in the same league as something like Atkins. Atkins was created for people who were too lazy to actually change their life. They just wanted an easy way out and continue eating exactly the same way they were before to convince themselves they hadn't been doing anything wrong to get that way. So it just played into that. Atkins was a genius in that he realised that the way to make money was to tell people they could continue to do what they'd always done and still get healthy. Like any other fad diet it's just people trying to find an easy quick way out or just look for excuses.

We've all made excuses but there are no quick easy fixes. If you want to do it you will. People need to stop trying to find shortcuts and excuses not to do what they need to do. As long as they do the diet industry and marketing men will happily fleece them of as much money as they can get.

It's not Brain surgery eat a balanced diet and move some more. That's it

So do the work or don't do the work but stop with all the excuses and short cuts

Well honestly guys this video is bull****. There is no way people THAT fat aren't impacting their health in a pretty big way. HOWEVER!!! I absolutely am a proponent of the idea that the concept of being healthy does not involve being under 15% body fat and having 6 pack abs or whatever bull**** standard society wants to set for you. I will tell you that as someone who was very fat (40%+ body fat starting out) Society has rebounded onto fat people. Fat people always got some ribbing, name calling and discrimination. But because we are now not allowed to hate on different races or classes all the *kitten* of our society who don't want to think they are *kitten* now hate on fat people. And you only have to be a little fat to qualify. The standard is also bull****. I am still at about 27-28% body-fat and there are skinny people at the gym who WISH they where as fit and healthy as me. And that's a fact. It's true I still want to lose more weight. But if it ever get's to the point where I have to do unhealthy or unsustainable crap to keep dropping weight I am going to accept where I am. I won't ruin my health for other peoples expectations. So yes I am a big supporter of what HAES stands for. But there ARE limits and these two chicks in that video are over them. Showing an extreme video like this does nothing to undermine the notion that being a bit fat isn't really as unhealthy as everyone says it is.

That being said perhaps this video does have some place among the morbidly obese. I know when i was at my heaviest and unfit just moving around sometimes got me breaking out in a sweat. So perhaps there is room for a super low impact exercise regime. However the fact that these girls describe themselves as healthy is truly ludicrous. They are not healthy.

I think the HAES movement looks at markers like blood pressure, blood sugar, ability to sleep comfortably etc to define health. And if you're fat and unhealthy, they actually recommend things like exercise and working with fat friendly doctors to get there. Basically if a doctor can't offer solutions at the current weight short of lose weight, it's time to move on.

Actually, they were where I first heard of the "only 5% of people who lose weight keep it off permanently" statistic. Assuming those numbers are true, which is something you wouldn't want to go broadcasting on a forum like MFP, the HAES movement makes sense to me as an alternative solution, at the very least a temporary one. For example, if you're not so damn desperate to lose weight, maybe you'd wait for a solution that makes sense rather than every ****ty new fad that rolls out. Some people have the opposite view point, which is try everything at all cost to lose weight. They lose sight of what the process itself is doing to their body because having a smaller number on the scale is valued above all no matter the cost