[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
I agree with X and others on this. I used to hate on fat people, then realized that I was wrong in doing so.
Now, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. In reality, it’s fucking EASY to be fat these days! EVERYTHING regarding the food industry is done for a reason. Taste testing and developing sugar/fat ratios that are most addictive. The fact that there are studies that have proven that sugar is not only addictive, but even toxic. Fuckin’ food at supermarkets are all placed EXACTLY where they should be in order for you to buy as much shit as possible.
Then you have those little ones you call children tugging on your shorts grabbing a box (the biggest one he can get his hands on) of delicious sugary cereal and asking you to buy it for him, too. Cause supermarker man knows that if he puts them on the lower shelves, said kids are gonna see them… and want them. Then you gotta buy more milk. Then there are gyms like planet fitness that allow you to tell friends/coworkers/SO/yourself that you “go to the gym” but enable you to not do shit while you’re there, because doing shit is, well, hard. Then you grab a slice of pizza off of the front desk on your way out from “pizza night at the gym.”
Then there’s a starbucks offering 500+ calorie drinks that people eat up like there’s no tomorrow. A fast food restaurants in every part of town, every other exit on freeways, in malls/college campuses, etc. The convenience and (often deceivingly) “low” price of fast food (we’re not talking about people who get one or two things off the dollar menu.) Would you like to supersize that? Then you have your similarly lazy/out of shape friends and family who enable you to be lazy so they don’t have to feel bad about themselves while you get up off your ass and make a change.
The whole fitness industry is fucked six ways to sunday: trainers who don’t know shit about training or diet, the worlds most beautiful woman raving about her 4 brussel sprout per day diet, “magic diet pills” that give you all the hope in the world just to let you down with zero results.
That’s only naming a few. There are TONS of reasons why it’s easy to be fat these days. You have your odds stacked against you in terms of being in great shape in america in 2013, man.
So really, I just hope they happen to stumble across something like tnation/gary taubes/mountain dog diet/a knowledable friend (O-FUCKING-P )/etc so that they can at least have a chance to get a grasp on what actual good nutrition is, because in reality, there ARE people who truly believe 1000 cal per day vegan diets or lemon juice cucumber honey 11 day cleanses are far healthier than eating a grass fed steak with a side of veggies.
Or that an egg omlette with a side of bacon and avocado isn’t going to clog your arteries and kill you at 40. There’s so much false information for these people to buy into and it’s usually the bullshit that’s so widespread. Which is pretty unfortunate.
So really, I prefer to give them the benefit of the doubt. If you can’t wish them well, at least don’t wish them poorly.
And if that’s not good enough, later that night when you get home, quietly give yourself a pat on the back for having the resolve to not befat, but still, it’s just not worth being a dick over. [/quote]
This is a really great post. I don’t get all the fattie hate. Do some of them suck? Sure, but a percentage of ALL groups suck. Sorry for being all serial in the semi weekly fat haters thread.