Comments on: Why Am I Fat?

By: riley

riley — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 23:03:21 +0000

hey is it normal to weigh 85 or 90 pounds at the age of 12 and be 5 foot 5 cause i think i am fat i keep getting called anorexic and to thin please help

By: worthey

worthey — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 20:29:15 +0000

Just came across this website … how’d you do on the running/weight loss?

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By: Jane Don't

Jane Don't — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:29:33 +0000

I laughed a lot reading this site and the comments. Spend less time sitting at the computer writing crap in order to make your self feel better and make the effort to loose weight. Too many fatties spend a lot of time talking about doing something but then make a half assed attempt and fail! And to Joe. I’m not sure shunning is the right way to do it, but people should be made to feel ashamed. Get rid of all these programmes and websites where they say fat is ok, its not!

By: Getz

Getz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:41:28 +0000

Thats right, shun people who already have enough self esteem issues and misguided ideas that they manifest in food/weight problems, so they will have even worse self esteem issues and bigger food/weight problems. Wow, what a prick! No, fat is not fun, big is not beautiful, plump is not pleasant, and most fat people are not happy that their fat. (I hate being fat, I am trying to lose weight and be healthy again, while there have been some negative contributing factors to my being fat I blame no one but myself, and I do fine when I’m with other people, its when I am alone that its the hardest so making me even more alone certainly isn’t going to help!) Yes, some try really hard to convince us that they are, especially those crazy “Fat Acceptance” people who talk as though it should be embraced, and yes there may be a few who actually are fat and happy; but, to actually claim that fat people should be ostracized and “outcast and made to feel bad” is ignorant, cruel, and downright idiotic. Yes, all the little platitudes such as “I’m a larger guy”, “plus size”, “a little extra baggage” are obnoxious and just ways to say fat without saying fat. I’m fat and I say I’m fat. I actually have to argue with people around me because when I say I’m fat they actually revert to all those platitudes. I don’t beleive in sugar coating being fat, but criminy, outcasting is not the answer. I’m sure there have been some wonderful people who could have contributed something good to your life, but they were fat, so you missed out. Fat AND lazy/denial/apathetic is bad, but encouragment and help go alot farther than hatred and cruelty. Lastly, if anything, Mac was blaming himself for his poor choices, stating that HE doesn’t stand firm and make good choices and instead takes the easy way out and follows the crowd. He wasn’t claiming it was a good excuse, just that it is a factor that can affect his behavior, whereas I am the reverse and it is easier for me to make healthy choices despite the crowd.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:19:58 +0000

dr x is right, you kinda blamed being fat on others and didn’t take responsibility for your own bad choices. fat people seem to take confort in others being happy about being fat. it’s a dangerous culture. fat people should be outcast and made to feel bad because it’s the only way to stop people being fat. it sounds harsh to say that but why would anyone actually want to be fat?

if you’re fat and reading this just ask yourself “am i happy being fat?” you probably want to say yes to prove others wrong but in reality i bet you hate looking in the mirror.

By: macdaddy

macdaddy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:29:11 +0000

Thanks for the really positive constructive criticism Dr. X! BUT, if you actually read my post, you should have been able to see that I wasn’t blaming people or making excuses for why I was fat. I was providing some insight and history as to how I got where I was…and saying that I was making progress and making better choices. Thanks again.

By: Dr X.

Dr X. — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:00:34 +0000

OH MY GOD!!! You’re fat because of other people!?…Wow you really blame other people because you eat too much and you’re too lazy to go for a run. I hate how FAT people don’t just accept the responsibility for their own lives and do something to change it. Just because your friends and family are fat doesn’t mean you have to copy them. If they were heroin addicts would you just do the same??? No of course you wouldn’t.

Fat people need to accept that there is no fat gene, there is no get skinny quick diet, there is just a simple difference between fat and normal (not skinny) people; normal people only eat take-out once a month, normal people will walk a mile to the shop and not drive it, normal people don’t take a nap after eating in the middle of the day!

I also hate this FAT is Fun business…If shortening your life, heart desease, certain forms of cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes and depression is fun to you, then you are stupid!

By: Greenman2001

Greenman2001 — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:23:50 +0000

Mac,

It’s true: routine is your friend. You know this as a stay-at-home Dad. The further you stray from a consistent routine, the more chaos ensues.

But for you, stress and boredom undermine your exercise and diet routines. And breaking the routine has been an important part of your ability to combat stress and boredom, and therefore are important ways of sustaining your own fitness, whether it’s frequent vacations, having family help with the kids, or frequent changes in the kind of workout you practice.

I think you’ve been smart about this. You have an intuitive grasp of what works for you. The problem I’ve observed through the blog is that breaking the routine — vacations, hanging out with family — also knocks you off your exercise and diet program almost completely. Changing things up works well for you, but the transition points are rough. I suspect that the massive fitness failures in years past, which you described in your intro, have taken place at these transition points from one settled routine to another.

So, you have two tendencies that work at cross-purposes with each other. But you seem very, very comfortable with this, and the general trend has been in the direction you want — your weight’s lower and you’re exercising more, on average, than you ever have before. So I’m not sure that you really have a problem here. It’s not happening as fast or as consistently as you set out in your goals, but I’m not sure that the speed or consistency of all of this is really very important to you — it makes for good blog fodder, but the rewards of “failure” for you — those vacations, extended family time like the wonderful-sounding hunting weekend you describe here — are significant and, frankly, don’t sound like they’re worth giving up just for the sake of “consistency.”

So, I’m going to change your headline a little. Instead of “I’m fat because it’s easier,” I think it should read, “I’m fat because it’s fun.” And, in parenthesis: (and I’m not really fat).

By: mhb

mhb — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:02:34 +0000

@ dee: Yes, I promise the couch-to-5K program works. I hadn’t run more than 3 minutes straight in the last 10 years, but I started it in early June and completed a 5K race in mid-August (slowly, but I ran the whole thing). I think it helped me to be training for a specific 5K race that all my coworkers were running in. Talk about peer pressure!

Now I’m considering running an 8K at the end of October, something I never would have thought possible before. I’m sort of modifying the run/walk/run program for that… we’ll see how it goes.