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Thats such a super ridiculous thing to say. You should be ashamed of yourself.
No one wants to be fat. But many of those who ARE fat just dont want to do what it takes to lose the weight. The ones who do want to lose weight need experts to guide them. They do NOT need to listen to their 200 pounds overweight friends tell them how to lose weight and they dont need to read on discussion forms stupid stuff like "if you lose weight on the fat that protects your reproductive and internal organs, the toxins from that fat will travel through your body and brain and cause emotional issues, so to remedy this, drink dirt". That is why those of us regulars here will always comment on posts started by people who really dont know better. Because for every ridiculous post here, there are probably 30-50 people reading it who may try to follow the advice because people for some reason, just seem to think that if they read it, it must work.
I have a friend who I've known for 25 years; he needs to lose about 100 pounds. He has asked me advice over the years and I have given it to him, but he never followed it and instead kept jumping on different fads. (My way is too hard, won't work for him, bad genes, blah blah blah.) Not so long ago, I was paying him a holiday visit when his brother - also was about 100 pounds overweight - showed up for dinner. He had lost all the weight and looked fantastic.
My friend's jaw dropped down to the floor and naturally he questioned his brother: how did you do it??? His answer? Well I think you can guess. "Basically, I stopped eating crap and started exercising. I can help you to do the same." Despite the fact that the proof was staring him in the face, my friend still hasn't made any changes and continues to spend his evenings dipping tortillas chips into a block of cream cheese mixed with salsa while playing WoW. Instead of listening to his brother, he does continue to try various fads.
Most people who need to lose weight will never change. They are too lazy, have no motivation, and have no discipline.
Onglet, sorry for saying this but you are soooo wrong about overweight people. I was born with a malfunction Pituitary Gland that sends signals to your thyroid glad that controls the metabolism in your body!!!!! I had my thyroid glad killed by a nuclear pill which left me with a next to nothing metabolism!!!!! I was very active and that maintained my weight!!! It took 3 years of waiting until my levels were ready for thyroid medication.
I walked 5 miles a day just to maintain my weight and literally starved myself. Now that I have Diabetes !!, which both my mother and father had, neither of them overweight, is im my genes!!!!! I have to eat three meals a day, including snacks in between meals. My thyroid levels are all messed up again and I have gained weight since I have had my last child. Weather you believe it or not, I really don't care because I am a living testament of my life being judged by others because I might have gained 10 or 15 pounds!!!!
You can't imagine how humiliated I felt and an outcast because I was different. I have a beautiful face and body!!!! But I also have intelligence, compassion, kindness towards others, and a loving & funny personality.
Please be careful how you choose your words towards others...it might come right back at you and bite you in the ass. Remember Karma, what goes around comes around!!!!
Hey, I speak the truth. That you don't like it is your prerogative, but don't go attributing ridiculously hyperbolic statements to me. Doing so only makes YOU seem ridiculous.
Onglet, sorry for saying this but you are soooo wrong about overweight people. I was born with a malfunction Pituitary Gland that sends signals to your thyroid glad that controls the metabolism in your body!!!!! I had my thyroid glad killed by a nuclear pill which left me with a next to nothing metabolism!!!!! I was very active and that maintained my weight!!! It took 3 years of waiting until my levels were ready for thyroid medication.
I walked 5 miles a day just to maintain my weight and literally starved myself. Now that I have Diabetes !!, which both my mother and father had, neither of them overweight, is im my genes!!!!! I have to eat three meals a day, including snacks in between meals. My thyroid levels are all messed up again and I have gained weight since I have had my last child. Weather you believe it or not, I really don't care because I am a living testament of my life being judged by others because I might have gained 10 or 15 pounds!!!!
You can't imagine how humiliated I felt and an outcast because I was different. I have a beautiful face and body!!!! But I also have intelligence, compassion, kindness towards others, and a loving & funny personality.
Please be careful how you choose your words towards others...it might come right back at you and bite you in the ass. Remember Karma, what goes around comes around!!!!
Here we go again... the 1 out of 100 who gained weight due to a thyroid issues. You are an anomaly, and by going on and on about it as though you are the norm only serves to give fat people the hope that they can cling to their poor lifestyle and dietary habits and swear it isn't their fault. 99 times out of 100, it is.
What's the point of this thread? I Hope the moderators close it. It's useless.
Just as Bosco said above - its to prove that almost all of those fad diets DO NOT WORK!! If you've ever read through the Exericse and Fitness or Diet forms here you'll notice that MANY people post that they are trying some of the most ridiculous programs. Im really glad that we have other posters who are actually knowledgeable on health/fitness/exercise to post on those threads to counter the flat out sillyness of some of these programs that people post about.
As I mentioned to a poster of ridiculous diet/exercise routines - this is a forum for discussion. This is NOT a support group if you are promoting harmful or useless diet programs. If someone posts ridiculousness such as HCG, detox enemas, or something similar then they should expect to explain their ways when opposing views are presented.
This thread would serve a better purpose under the diet and weightloss forum.
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