Fat-shaming More Harmful Than Racism And Sexism

Well, the latest in "Fat Blaming" is sugars. I'm not sure how reliable it is because lolbillmaher, but recently an endocrinologist interview highlighted some of the the massively negative impacts high sugar has. Just sugar in general, not a specific was on HFC (Which is only cited as a problem because of it's cheap abundance).


Personally, I think the biggest problem is just ignorance. We don't give young people the knowledge they need in order to take control of their own diets. I guess one could argue process foods as well, since you expend much less energy for a huge calorie dosage.

Finally, exercise is incredibly important, but Cardio training is actually a low time/calorie burn. If you really need to drop weight(Fat), strength and resistance training is the best time/result. That's not to say you should neglect cardiovascular health, as it's certainly more important to overall health.

Does sex qualify as cardio?

Yeah, but there is something called discipline yeah you could order more there are consequences to the chooses we all make you could *** and moan you are fat or get off your *** and work hard for the body you want

Cardio-0vascular is extremely important when doing strength training to burn calories. The kind of exercise you want to do, are tightening and toning endurance based exercises.

Otherwise you could end gaining weight via exercise instead, by replacing fat with muscle.

Again, this takes knowledge, not just a quick stint at the gym.

And people would be motivated to be in shape! Run faster or...your *** is dinner for the dinos.

It does. It's actually one of the best kinds of exercise you'll ever engage in, so do it often.

And yet I habitually spend 1000-1400 calories just commuting to work on top of who knows how much else doing my actual job. It makes balancing calories nigh impossible since trying to cut could leave me weak enough to faceplant with a 50 lb. cabinet on my back or something.

Meanwhile, the skinny guy in the office complains to me that he's fat on the basis that he has no hope in hell of matching my speed and strength and I'm getting close to agreeing with him and personally redefining "fat" to mean "athletically inept."

That seems a better classification, anyhow. I see guys weighing close to 300 lbs. who don't even scoff at the idea of hauling 75 lb. doors through construction sites for 8 hours a day, and it's not because they're muscle-bound power-lifters. They're the kind of fat that you expect to see on a scooter in Wal-Mart, but they do serious work without complaint or problem.

Wanna go get a room?

Wanna spot me?

Sure, let me stretch out my arms a little, and loosen up.

Powering through some of these posts, I’d like to weigh in (pun intended) from the standpoint of a dude that used to be fat:

Keeping with the spirit of the original post, I think people disregard, at least in the grand scheme of things, racist and sexist statements for the most part because those are traits being targeted that a person can’t control, i.e. if someone doesn’t like me because I’m a Caucasian male and only because I am a Caucasian male, then they can in no mistaken terms smooch my backside… period. I'd pay them no mind. Inversely, being “fat” is a lifestyle, it’s day-to-day choices that make a person that way, and I think hits a little closer to home for some people because they realize that they’re being mocked for something they have complete control over, yet do nothing about; sure, some people generally don’t care, but I think most people that say they don’t care when push came to shove would prefer it if they weren’t overweight, it just hasn’t gotten to the point that they’re willing to make the necessary changes is all.

My motivation is that I was always the chubby kid that played too many video games growing up, and that was pretty much me throughout my adolescence and early adulthood, and then I just got to a point where I was sick of it, so I took steps… a few years later I’m in the best shape of my life and live completely different lifestyle now, granted I still play way too many video games (I’ve got to keep sh*t real), but I exercise regularly, eat right, but don’t concern myself if and when I do cheat (and believe me, I cheat), and I’ll never look back… ever.

I think fat people need to be encouraged, not belittled or on the opposite end of the spectrum coddled or enabled, because obesity is a problem… but it's not an insurmountable one.

Anything that raises your heart rate to your target heart rate is considered cardio.

In a related note, (Vigorous) sexual activity is one of the most effective calorie burning workouts possible, often coming in at something like 2000 calories an hour. That's a sustained theoretical though, most people aren't thrusting/riding for the full hour. Position changes/foreplay, etc.

I rode on a Wal-Mart scooter one time. It was fun. <____< No regrets.

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Theoretically it should be around 2000 calories, but reality is that it's closer to 1250-1500 calories burned, between switching positions and foreplay, which granted, is still quite a lot.

Also, this link is relevant to this discussion.

And this one!

He edited it to say Saevel, but that's cute.

I found that dancing naked solves most problems.

Just don't don't do it in front of a school. Glad I wasn't 18 that one time.

I did, in fact, mean Saevel. Or whoever. The pompous *** with the old school red mage avatar.

Edit: That is to say, I don't always agree with you either, but you're a long way from that other guy.

There is a good probability it is more harmful. Reason being is over-weight individuals are already at risk for multiple health conditions. By increasing the anxiety of an overweight individual you are increasing their cortisol levels and literally pushing those at-risk health conditions "over-the-scale," no pun intended.

This is partially incorrect. Being "fat" is largely psychological, not a lifestyle. I am not condoning, being overweight whatsoever. However, you cannot disregard socioeconomic factors and how they play a roll in being fat.

Protip: If you aren't happy with your current body weight and would like to decrease it, it helps to move our of America.

Where would you suggest people move? There are more than a dozen other countries where over half of the population is overweight, and many more that are close to that.

Ethiopia.

EDIT: I know, I'm going to hell for this post.