Fat Logic and Fat Hate

[Euchale]

Just stumbled upon this Video:

 

[Rajax]

Good video and I like most of his videos that I have seen. For the longest time I only saw the ones where he flipped out, then I stumbled upon one more serious where it was...his normal personality I guess lol. I still think there are some flaws in some of the points but it is still good, especially for an opinion piece.

 

[Crake]

A major issue we have here in the U.S. is the fact that half of our food is essentially poison. Furthermore, all the high quality food is much more expensive. The government subsidizes all the wrong food, corporate corruption funds both the government's failure via lobbying, as well as the poisoning of the source via corporate buyouts of farms/patents on types of crops, GMOs, etc. The FDA is one of the most corrupt agencies out there. There is a reason why poorer populations in the U.S. suffer from much higher rates of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc. Not to mention the medical practice of defaulting to drugs and surgery instead of offering treatments and incentives based around fixing the problem.

 

[Curtech]

I feel I have grown as a person for taking the time to listen to what he had to say.

 

[Laughter]

I cook a lot of homemade meals from real food. Sometimes, especially with two kids, I will order out Pizza or perhaps make a quick frozen meal. I also believe in moderation.. enjoy what you want but don't eat the whole pie. I don't judge people because of how they look and I totally agree food is addictive I come from a family of bigger people. Not obese but they are chunky and like to eat. I try to eat healthy portions so I can maintain a decent figure.

Just go by eating portions the size of your fist.

 

[Nilf]

I can relate to this man in many ways. By the ripe age of 13 I weighed in at a whopping 238 pounds for my freshman year in highschool while only being 5'2. I will let that mental image sink in. I was fat from the age 4 and enjoyed every double cheeseburger and mint Oreo milkshake I had but I never realized what I was doing because I was always fat. When you grow up that fat it is the mentality and like Francis said they depression begins. Even to this day I suffer from depression and lack of self esteem even though I am now at a fit 180 pounds and can run a 9:00 mile pace for a half marathon. It is the emotional wounds that are the hardest struggle not the physical ones. Now I felt that I would never be skinny and that I would just live my life being fat (my father weighed in around 270 up to 295 pounds so it wasn't a stretch); however I cracked my junior year of high school.

I went to the Dark Side and thought well maybe if I just started missing a few meals I would shed some pounds and get myself pumped into working out. I stopped eating breakfast and lunch for 2 full years. I lost 15 pounds in that time span. To this day if I don't eat in a 12 hour period I get intense pains like someone is stabbing me repeatedly in the stomach and I know it was because of eating disorder. I was manorexic; however why would I care? I was losing weight even if it was in small amounts. By senior year I weighed in around 220 and thought man I don't look terrible but I am still not thin by any means. My weight in high school led to me having my first girlfriend and kiss at the tender age of 18. I felt like a shell of man compared to everyone else around who wasn't still a virgin. Hell I was scared to go to college because I knew it would be just a bigger stage than high school.

Everything changed when I went to college and I decided them college girls looked mighty fine and were not even looking my direction when they asked if I could pass the salt. So I changed. I started eating 3-5 meals a day (something natural also helped out with that) and joined the rugby and ultimate frisbee team. My second semester at college I weighed 215 with muscle replacing a good portion of fat. Now I still had rolls and ate Taco Bell and Whataburger like I was a starving Ethiopian child but I still felt better about my self image. It wasn't until my doctor told me that I was on my way to Type 2 diabetes during a physical that reality sank in. "But I exercise like once a week!" That wasn't enough. After graduating I picked up running and radically changed my diet. No more fast food. No more going home to play WoW for 12 hours straight. Now I eat lean protein and veggies for 90% of my meals and I exercise 3-4 times a week and feel like a badass. The biggest part to really really have impact on your life, is the desire to change. If you grab that slippery bitch and hold on it will take you places you never imagined! (I got hit on by college cheerleader last week OMFG!) The real wounds however are the emotional ones that refuse to heal.