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In reply to the discussion: Is it a person's "fault" if they're fat? What does that question really mean? [View all]closeupready
(29,503 posts)18. Your story is very similar to mine, though I've never been obese.
I have gotten back on a fitness kick since the New Year's, and have lost about 20% of my body weight - basically all fat. Through changing eating habits and moderately vigorous exercise every other day.
Exercise IS vital for me, as you say it is for you, since it helps suppress my appetite. I come back from a workout and I'm really not hungry. And anyway, my current diet doesn't leave me hungry at all, ever. I can even snack - on nuts and healthy things, of course.
I look good and feel good.
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Is it a person's "fault" if they're fat? What does that question really mean? [View all]
Silent3
Jun 2013
OP
A fat Southern smoker feeding Olive Garden takeout to their circumcised pit bull
Fumesucker
Jun 2013
#36
I'll take your "don't tell me it's simple" as a general comment to the world at large...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#22
While I certainly eat less sugar than before, I didn't have to go as far as elimination...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#16
I allow myself a day of indulgence every once in a while but if I allow myself lit bits of sugar too
liberal_at_heart
Jun 2013
#23
Lots of different motivations for eating/excessive caloric intake or inability to lose weight.
haele
Jun 2013
#12
Like you, I am baffled by the lack of longer inseams in the smaller sizes ...
surrealAmerican
Jun 2013
#13
Sugary sodas have a LOT of calories. Second, you are male. 3rd, you weren't morbidly obese.
Honeycombe8
Jun 2013
#14
You can control your weight in the same sense that gay people can control their sexuality
eridani
Jun 2013
#32
I certainly knew I'd been overweight, but it took a while for me to think of myself as "obese".
Silent3
Jun 2013
#21
The biggest class/income issue when it comes to exercise might be available time...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#53
And that makes you better than people who do simple cardio workouts and don't lose much
eridani
Jun 2013
#54
I get what you are saying but there are some things that need to change in our country
Arcanetrance
Jun 2013
#33
"'Dave is one in a million,' says Dr. Craig M. Phelps, Alexander's doctor for 15 years."
Silent3
Jun 2013
#48
You cited an article as if it backed up your argument against some women even trying to lose...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#58
If low body fat is so healthy, why do fat women outlive men with "ideal" body fat?
eridani
Jun 2013
#59
Did you read the link about fat women not losing weight with exercise and diet--
eridani
Jun 2013
#62
Why should one equate the frequent failure of diets with the idea that extra weight...
Silent3
Jun 2013
#64