Two Kinds of Fat People

Fat since 1st grade but I don't believe in any destiny.

Here we go!! Anyway, I don't think that anyone is "destined" to be fat.. Its a choice.

I boomerang up and down.. trying to stay down for good!

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..

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.

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.

I don't believe in the destined bs
http://youtu.be/0x4grRXo7W4

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)

No one is "destined to be fat". You can change yourself for the better, but only if you're committed to it!

DESTINY?!

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!

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.

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..

I don't agree.

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.