|
| Thread: Being Overweight. |  This thread is pages long: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 · «PREV / NEXT» |
|
TheRealDeal
Promising
Supreme Hero
Foobum* of Justice!
|
posted June 15, 2005 11:18 PM |
|
|
Everything has gone the wrong way.. after a long depressing state i'm back where i started.. and can't really get myself to begin again.. This is just a whining thread, but if someone were waiting for "The Slim RD" catalog, the entire collection just burned out.
Maybe i'm looking at the wrong direction in this, maybe i shouldn't focus on getting thinner, but being happy with being overweight.
But to me that's like being happy about losing.. Which altogether doesn't tickle my fancy..
____________
*We all know the that Foobum is the class of all that is Cake.
|
|
Oldtimer
Honorable
Supreme Hero
Please leave a message after..
|
|
posted June 16, 2005 06:26 AM |
|
|
Don't give up hope.
I have been a fat guy for a long time.(6'3" 350lbs.)But I have always had a high self esteem so it never really bothered me. This last Dec my Dad had his leg amputated because of complications due to type II diabetes. (the past two years my Dad has had fingers amputated, his foot amputated a couple of times until they had to take the leg to the knee, a kidney transplant, and open heart surgery--been a tough few years what with him running from the assassin that the health insurance company has sent after him.) I see all these problems and I'm still drinking my Coke and eating my Doritos. So I decided to test my blood sugar and to my unsurprize it was really high.
So I finally realized that I too was going down that road that my dad had blazed for me, and I could see the destination.
So I did two things:
1. Changed eating habits. I don't drink pop anymore(unless diet Dr. Pepper counts) I don't eat doritos or other chips(my personal crack) and I just reduce the portion of the same food I would normally eat.
2. Exercise. I decided to quietly start walking. Its pretty much all I do, but I do it every day for an hour every day, rain or shine, hot or cold, I just do it.
I started this in the first week of Dec 04, so how am I doing?
I now weigh about 275lbs. yes that is still kinda fat but it is about 75 lbs. lighter than where I started.
My waist line went from a 46" to a 40", I am wearing 42s now but I fit into 40s and my wife has started replacing some of the clothes I cannot wear anymore. I must say it is a great feeling to stand in the middle of the room and have your clothes fall off, cant really describe it.
I really do feel better, and I just don't feel right until after I walk in the day.
If you decide to "walk it off" I have some advice. Don't tell ANYONE what you are doing. It just sets you up for failure, just start one day and then continue the next. It doesn't matter how fast or how far you walk, just start out by time, then as you work it out go farther and farther until you have an optimum pace for your ability level.
Now I know that the advice that I gave people acually works, Burn more calories than you consume and you will have no choice but to lose weight.
Good Luck-Damn what an uplifting and seriuos post, but it was all about me so I guess we can call it a little narcisistic.
____________
<PLEASE DO NOT WAKE THE OLD MAN!>
"Zzzz...Zzzz...Zzzz..."
|
|
Sir_Stiven
Honorable
Legendary Hero
banned
|
|
posted June 16, 2005 07:04 AM |
|
|
RealDeal, you will never lose any weight because you suck.
Now.. print that one out. Enlarge it and put it up on your wall.
Then take out some of that attitude again as you always do when i kik your sissy ass around and start focusing.
Im not overweight nor have i ever been so i cant give you any great advice on it.
But something thats always important is setting goals and become motivated. The motivation in this case could be to shut me up and finally prove me wrong.
Now, Good luck killing calories you foobum.
And dont even think of giving up.
|
|
VaRuAs
Famous Hero
Only The Chosen Will Survive
|
|
posted June 20, 2005 08:20 AM |
|
Edited By: VaRuAs on 20 Jun 2005
|
All i can say to TheRealDeal is you don't have to be ashame of yourself. This is how god created you even if you are fat there is anyways something special about you. You may not know what is so special about yourself but your friends,brothers,sisters your parent knows how special you are to them. People around who don't know you may think funny image of you but they don't have rite to think that way, cause they don't you and you don't have to listen to them. And at last i was to say is nobody is perfect.
____________
Quote
Aculias: WHy did Minnie Mouse break up with Mickey?
Because he was F^%$^$g Goofey.
quote
|
|
maretti
Responsible
Supreme Hero
|
|
posted June 20, 2005 01:15 PM |
|
|
The only thing that isnt nonesense in that thread is that noone is perfect.
____________
Crag rules, Orrin and Ivor suck
|
|
LadyGuenivere
Known Hero
Spam Deep-Fryer Mod-Repellant
|
|
posted June 23, 2005 10:30 PM |
|
|
i am 95 lbs. i feel fat and depressed.... 
wow. that sure ended the conversation, huh?
____________
What happened to Lady Guiniwhere anyway?
- FoG
|
|
TheAsgard
Adventuring Hero
Wise and helpful being
|
|
posted September 02, 2005 01:28 PM |
|
|
I Can understand how you feel I myself was a fat person. last year in october 2004 i weighed 117kg and I felt like i was the fattest person around. I was in a state of depression and delussion. I use to pretend that I was thin and that my friends thought I was. I was over weight for most of my life, so i forced myself to exercise and diet and now I have lost the weight. I now weight 82kg.
I do not think that I am better than fat people because i was once one and know what it feels like and i have made my friends understand what i went through.
|
|
Cannavaro
Adventuring Hero
A beer drinking madman
|
|
posted September 02, 2005 06:30 PM |
|
|
The only way to loose weight is by yourself. It does not matter if someone says do this, eat that. If you wanna loose the pounds do it yourself. Feel free to try my tuna/rice/liqour diet i lost 15 pounds in 2 months.
|
|
coldmystery
Tavern Dweller
|
|
posted September 04, 2005 12:06 AM |
|
|
Quote:
I don't dislike skinny people at all. But i hate skinny people which think that they are gods.
I am skinny and think I am a god... but not cause I am skinny... .just cause I am awesome like that.
|
|
TheRealDeal
Promising
Supreme Hero
Foobum* of Justice!
|
posted September 04, 2006 10:49 AM |
|
|
This topic still means a lot to me.. A nice re-read.
Even though i've changed my opinions on a lot of things.. Wouldn't go as far as saying i'm a changed man, i'm still large.. But..
I know where i've made mistakes, and i'm still trying to get away from my .. well overprotected childhood..
I'd like to discuss this with the 16 year old version of me.. since i'm 2 years older now.. I think that'd be nice.
Again, thanks to all who showed interest in this thread, and to the people who might want to kickstart this topic, yet again.
|
|
ruby
Promising
Known Hero
crazed swede
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 03:51 AM |
|
|
Hi hun. Long time...no see. 
Good thread, very nice indeed. Your honesty is very spectacular. I don't know many boys that actually discuss their weight so publicly and it does give you a lot of respect.
I myself worried about weight since I started high school, being at 140 pounds by my first year, but a minor case of self starvation took me down a lot and now, I am semi-healthy and feel perfectly all right. I may not eat 2000 calories a day, and I'm told I run too much, but I feel good, and that's really what matters.
Ever since my second year, I never saw weight as an issue.
____________
The Darker the Sky--
The Brighter the Stars-
|
|
Consis
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Of Ruby
|
posted September 08, 2006 06:22 AM |
|
|
Scrolling Down, Ugh . . .
I hate that post by Sir_Stiven. It should be deleted or penalized or something. I really hate it.
____________
Roses Are Red And So Am I
|
|
The_Gootch
Honorable
Supreme Hero
Kneel Before Me Sons of HC!!
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 05:32 PM |
bonus applied. |
|
I know exactly where Stiven was coming from.
There are some people who actually respond positively to that kind of motivation Consis; people like me. It wasn't meant to be a vile insult. Inflammatory yes. Insult no.
Up into my mid 20s I maintained a very healthy weight of 175-178 lbs. I had no car and thus my method of commuting was either to bike or use my inline skates. Life was good and I reveled in my chiseled body and movie star good looks.
Mid-20s came around and I went into the corps. A few things happened in boot camp that would have a profound effect on me. I gained 4 lbs of bulky muscle and I learned to perfect the art of scarfing my food down.
I long had quite an appetite. Physically fit people tend to eat more than fat people. This went to the next level though. It takes about twenty minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it's full. I was consuming 1,500-2,000 calorie meals in five minutes or less. Not coincidentally I was one of maybe two or three people that actually gained weight while in boot camp. This was fine while I was there and in a perpetual state of motion. But boot camp only lasted 14 weeks and I had a long life to live afterwards.
My first indication that my stomach had gotten stretched was when I went to a local Denny's. I consumed not one but two entrees and still was feeling hunger pangs. A part of me found that odd but I didn't pay it too much attention.
Over the next several months after boot camp I tacked on 4 more lbs. But more importantly, I added 3 inches to my waist. My eating habits had not changed but my level of activity had. When too many calories are put into the body to be effectively used fat happens. And that's what happened with me.
It was irritating and a bit embarrassing. I was actually put onto that ptp program at one point because I was 2 lbs overweight(strictly a voluntary basis though as I ran a 1st class physical fitness test). My max weight for my height was 186 and there was a commanding general's inspection coming up. Granted, the marine corps has got the dumbest way I've ever seen of measuring body fat. They take your waist measurement, your neck measurement, subtract the difference, and consult some freaking chart. The end result of my being on the ptp program was me running a perfect physical fitness test(something that doesn't happen very often in the air wing).
Slowly over the years my weight ballooned though. After I left the corps it got even worse, and I eventually got as high as 205. I played games constantly and did nothing for my body or my conditioning. My definition waned and I got one of those god awful tires around my gut. I didn't really care though because I had a level 26/10/4 paladin/CoT/Fighter in NWN and a level 60 rogue in WoW that was gearing up to raid.
Ripping two pairs of jeans didn't matter to me. I quit trying to suck in my gut. Friends and family made comments about how chunky I was getting. And it still didn't matter. I was at a point in my life where neither health nor vanity mattered much to me.
My breaking point came 6 months ago. I developed an online relationship with a woman who, upon our first meeting, turned out to be grotesquely obese. She alone inspired me to quit WoW and online gaming in general.
Shortly after I met a gorgeous woman who, after many beers, challenged me to a triathlon. Silly girl. She'd no clue I used to be a swimmer, a bike messenger, and a runner. I dusted off the ole' running shoes and every time I go to work out, I can taste how good victory is going to be. First place usually tastes like cotton candy but if she cries, I'm going to be in absolute ecstasy.
Though I was satisfied with my first response to you, it obviously shut you off to what I had to say. Alas, a wise woman once said it's better to be effective than it is to be right. So here goes.
I can no longer trust my appetite. It went haywire 6 1/2 years ago with my overeating and still plays havoc with me today. I need to eat static portions and cannot rely on feeling full.
Exercise isn't always going to be fun. It's very easy to tail off after a modicum of success and grow bored of it. The only thing that separates me from my goals is my own self-discipline.
It doesn't get any easier. The habits I've developed over the last few months are a step in the right direction. My health and my body require a lifelong commitment though. Effective habits need to be started yesterday. I've lived a life of putting things off until tomorrow and from that inestimable experience I can only quote you a line from the immortal John Fogerty.
Someday Never Comes
____________
|
|
Aculias
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Pretty Boy Angel Sacraficer
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 05:46 PM |
|
Edited by Aculias at 17:47, 08 Sep 2006.
|
There you go again COnsis, Starting stuff.
Your Opinion alone dont make it right you know, it's an opinion.
I also agree with Stiven 100%.
Ok maybe it's not right in this forum but anywhere else it would be.
Sometimes you have to really get on someones butt to motivate them.
Also sometimes you do have to be an &@# to get your point accross.
Means you care, it dont always nessarily mean you are just being a punk to make fun of.
Why dont you actually read what he said then taking it the obvious way COnsis.
This reason alone is why I agree that you should not be a mod.
You would of gave a person a -QP for no reason at all.
Edit: Somepeople make jokes but in a way to get them to lose wieght.
You think people like being overwieght?
SOmetimes you need to hear this stuff to motivate you because your tired of hearing it.
____________
Dreaming of a Better World
|
|
russ
Promising
Supreme Hero
blah, blah, blah
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 09:05 PM |
|
Edited by russ at 23:05, 08 Sep 2006.
|
I can't belive there would come a day when I'd agree with Gootch's post in which he is backing Sir_Stiven up 
The more someone talks about doing something and the more new year and other resolutions they make, the less results they'll get. Smokers are the best example. They quit smoking every week Overweight people are the second most common. They talk 24/7 about being fat: they come up with excuses of why they are fat, they bombard you with medical terms and special conditions that mysteriously put fat into their bodies, they talk about different weight loss programs, etc. But they rarely actually do something to lose weight.
Wanna know a simple way to lose weight? EAT LESS, MOVE MORE AND STOP *****ING. That's it. I won't ever belive that all that fat mysteriously appeared by itself while you were eating healthy and excercising regularly.
I've always had a slim build when I was a kid and I never cared much about how much or what I eat (come to think of it, I didn't eat all that much in general and all of it was healthy home-cooked food). About 3 years ago I was going out 3 times/week, consuming insane amounts of beer and eating junk food like pizza and McDonald's. As a result of that my weight was 91kg in only 4 months. Noone said anything, but at one point of time I realized that something is wrong. I started watching what I eat and running regularly (I did that before occasionally, but 2-3 km once in a blue moon didn't do much). After 4-5 months, my weight was down to 80-smth. At that point of time I started doing Thai Boxing. At first it was extremely difficult - I almost died during the workout in my first class. They were doing different kinds of skipping for 10 mins, doing sets of 50 pushups, squats, 100+ crunches, etc NON-STOP for ONE HOUR. I don't think the guy who led the workout knew the numbers below 50 Apparently, that wasn't it. The next hour was technique and we had to work on the pads or the bag non-stop for 3 mins in a row in several sets (and all of this came after the abovementioned workout!). Well, either way, several months later I was so ****ing ripped you could wash clothes on my abs and my weight got into 71-74kg range (71 after a workout because of all the sweating ). You wouldn't belive I was overweight only a year before that. Right now I watch what I eat, I keep running and doing Thai Boxing, my weight is at the same range and I am in the best shape I've ever been in my life and I plan to keep it up for the rest of my life.
|
|
pandora
Honorable
Legendary Hero
The Chosen One
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 10:19 PM |
|
|
Nice posts guys
To Consis - Sir_Stiven's post wasn't made in the spirit you seem to have taken it - RD and Stiven were friends, and RD knows how Stiven speaks - as well as how to take that message.
____________
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
|
|
angelito
Honorable
Undefeatable Hero
proud father of a princess
|
|
posted September 08, 2006 11:15 PM |
|
Edited by angelito at 23:16, 08 Sep 2006.
|
We have a saying here (maybe it's international..):
TOMORROW....is the day when most of the diets start.
____________
Better judged by 12 than carried by 6.
|
|
Mytical
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
|
|
posted October 20, 2007 07:22 AM |
|
Edited by Mytical at 11:07, 20 Oct 2007.
|
I was born and raised in a small town 'down south'. When we had breakfast (or lunch or ect) we had a LOT of food. Sure, we worked hard every day, but come time to eat now that was serious business. Though I have as many sisters as brothers, for the most part the sisters were all out of the house by the time I came along (Me and my brother are the youngest, I am a couple minutes older then he though). Now we would work from sun up to sun down, and I still gained weight.
For years I struggled with weight, and it was not an exercise thing. I knew how to work hard. I was a tomboy. I could out fight, out wrestle, and out run all of my brothers. Could climb a tree better too. Unfortunately I did love to eat. Always was told I had my moms appetite but my dads metabolism. Mom could pack down a 18" pepporoni pizza by herself, and she weighs 105 to this day (soaking wet in an parka maybe). My dad eats like a rabbit and though muscular (for his age) he is overweight.
Then about 8 years ago I had a serious accident, and my back was ruined. I was bed ridden for 6 months. People wanted me to get on disability, but I absolutely refused. I was told it was a good possibility I would never walk again. Well I walked, but now I can't even lift a 20lb sack of potatoes without having to soak in a bathtub for an hour. Needless to say, I gained a LOT of weight.
The only exercise I can do, and then not much of that, is swim. Now swimming is a great all body workout, but unless somebody is going to fork over enough to get a heated underground pool...that is only possible during certain times. Yet in the last 18 month I have lost 22 lbs. I still have a long way to go (no I am not going to say how much I weigh, but there are some guys I weigh more then ).
For people to come here and say. "Your just too lazy, get out and exercise." makes me kinda upset. Unless you've walked a mile in our shoes (metaphorically speaking) you have no CLUE. Now I am not one of the 'not me' generation. I know that my dietary choices are not always the greatest, I know that the weight is my fault not the accidents. Still when people who have not been there start talking out their ears..it's just really funny.
In the same accident I had a head trauma that left me with a physical problem that causes (or so the doctors claim, it could all be in my head rofl) chronic depression. I am often not the life of the party, and yes I am one of those 'fat chicks' you talk about. Yet, every relationship I've had, they have approached me. I'm working on relationship no 12 with a girl named Heather. (Who by the way is a fitness trainer, so that might work out nice *grins*).
I've got some news most of you probably won't like. If a girl wants you for your money, their not worth it. If they only like you because you are an 'adonis' remember when your old your probably not going to be that, and then where will you be? The quality girls will like you for who you are. There's quantity and quality. I prefer quality. Don't know about anybody else.
____________
Message received.
|
|
TitaniumAlloy
Honorable
Legendary Hero
Professional
|
|
posted October 20, 2007 08:10 AM |
|
|
There's no heated pool near in your town?
____________
John says to live above hell.
|
|
Mytical
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
|
|
posted October 20, 2007 08:16 AM |
|
Edited by Mytical at 10:21, 20 Oct 2007.
|
I wish *sighs*. I could live in water. Well ok, I would need a lot of things to be comfortable, but anyhow...*grins*. No heated pools (maybe in somebody's yard, but can't very well just help myself). The good thing about swimming is, unless you have severe physical issues just about anybody can swim. And it is a total body workout, but is not high impact. May be one of the most effective workouts too.
I swim under water only. So I never go to the deep side. I really need to learn how to 'swim' swim instead of just underwater hehe. I look kinda funny with the snorkle mask on. *grins*.
Oh and for what it is worth I really think a lot of people here should recieve some +QP. One to mention specifically...Nidhgrin
There are others, but imo most of his posts were top notch
____________
Message received.
|
| |
|
|
