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twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

This strikes me as MeeGook-ian rationalization....

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laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

I agree with everything laigaiguk has said.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

Look, I am not trying to be mean, but I AM trying to offend. I am trying to counteract the West's, "You should be happy and proud of who you are." It's BS. Most people could easily lose the weight with a bit of help, encouragement and a need to. The last one is the most important. We need to make being fat BAD again. It is still not good, but it is changing to be alright. People have more energy, are happier, are less of a drain on the health care system, etc when they are healthy. This should be done constructively, but walking through Itaewon, I can see how I might of offended a lot on this board Wink

Good, that is my intention. I do not think fat people are stupid, or bad people. I haven't said this. But they are lazy (usually, I have allowed for medical reasons, like my sister when she was growing up) and to be honest, need a bit of a kick along with help to start it.

kermo · Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:48 am Post subject:

I used to think that the only way I could lose weight was if I did massive amounts of exercise. That's the way I had done it in the past, but when my situation changed and I couldn't keep up the schedule of gym visits, cycling to work, playing rugby, what-have-you, I gradually gained the weight back.

Last month, I found a reason to lose the weight, and watched my calories really carefully. It's been really really easy to lose the weight. I didn't know I could get by on 1300 calories a day, but I'm not starving or even hungry most of the time, and I look much much better.

I was being pretty accepting and loving of myself (a bit overweight, but not obese), but what I didn't realize was that not everyone is able to see me that way, and it's not actually that hard to make a few changes and find my way to my "ideal weight." Anyway, what I'm trying to say is

a) you might be more overweight than you think
b) it might be easier to lose the weight than you think

The pay-off for the effort I've made in preparing meals carefully, resisting temptation and keeping track has been significant. I'm too embarrassed to tell you anything specific about why I started, or why it's been so much better since, but you probably have your own reasons that are good enough.

Natalia · Joined: 10 Mar 2006

All I know is that a ten hour flight cramped in a window seat (not my choice) with an astoundingly enormous woman in the seat next to me was about the most unpleasant experience of my life.
While fitting on her seatbelt extension she informed me she was going to have to store all of her carry-on luggage under the seat in front of ME because her legs took up all of the space in front of her. Her arms were too big to fit into her seat space, so she rested one in my seat space and one in the seat space on the other side. I was completely unable to move for the entire flight - I was literally under a morbidly obese woman for ten hours.

How anybody - overweight or otherwise - can see no problem with this is completely beyond me. Maybe they don't want to fork out more money for more seating, but I certainly did not pay thousands of dollars for an experience like that.