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I am the 33%

OP: Two-thirds of U.S. workers are either overweight, obese or and Farkers

FTFY

From the land of the KFC Cheesy Bacon Bowl.

How is fatty form?

Hey, hey, now!

Someone of us are all three.

Skinny nerd Farker caucus, represent.

Is there any other kind of employee in the US?

Jesus....my company keeps hiring people who in addition to their wages need special chairs (w/ 300+lb capacity) and other aids in order to make sitting for 8 hours tolerable.

I'm wondering why we keep hiring such morbidly obese people - I mean, is that all there is in the US anymore??

Perhaps it's because some of our behemoth managers are hiring those who will make them feel less fat... who knows. All I can do is watch my health care costs go up every time a new enormous person is hired.

In before fatapolgists that think people who willingly destroy their health aren't as worthy of scorn as say, smokers.

I was 325 pounds at 15.

Right now I'm 175 at 28.

YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

/Run, fatasses. Run. Seriously. A block a day will make you lose a pound a week.
//Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.
///SLEEP LESS.
////Drink more coffee.
//Refuse to sit for at least four hours a day - standing burns 100 calories an hour when fatigue starts setting in from lactic acid.
//Pain Is WeakFATASSEDness leaving the body.
//If you're doing it to "up your sexiness" YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

The Wall Street Journal just got them a new scam.

Instead of the shortage shouters claiming they can't find any "qualified" workers now they can claim that americans are just too fat to do the jobs.

This "proves" we have to import h-1b scabs and illegal immigrant scabs to pick up the slack. It's purely coincidental that the result ends up being that the criminal business-class will make a killing while american workers get killed.

This is what happens when you hold fat people in such high esteem...



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Amurica...Fark Ya!: This is what happens when you hold fat people in such high esteem...

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Well played, sir.
I'm giving you a 9.5 for that troll.

_{/I lol'd}

It probably has nothing to do with requiring people to work 50-60 hours a week while sitting at a cubicle.

Good for you, Jedekai - you and I have similar stories.


Jedekai: I was 325 pounds at 15.

Right now I'm 175 at 28.

YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

/Run, fatasses. Run. Seriously. A block a day will make you lose a pound a week.
//Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.
///SLEEP LESS.
////Drink more coffee.
//Refuse to sit for at least four hours a day - standing burns 100 calories an hour when fatigue starts setting in from lactic acid.
//Pain Is WeakFATASSEDness leaving the body.
//If you're doing it to "up your sexiness" YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Jedekai: //Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.

that is a terrible idea for losing weight.

ph0rk: I am the 33%

I used to weigh 250#. Cutting back the junk food and biking to work every day has brought me down to 165#. I was stable at 185# for about ten years, then three years ago I went to 165# after some extra work. (We got a Wii Fit, that helped a fair bit with the chest.)

Funnily enough, my weight hasn't changed much after a year of going to the gym pretty much every lunch hour. (It's next door and I have a free membership.)

This thread needs a Venn diagram.

liam76: Jedekai: //Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.

that is a terrible idea for losing weight.

Agreed. 5-6 smaller meals is more ideal to up your metabolism and not put the body into starvation mode.

Jedekai: I was 325 pounds at 15.

Right now I'm 175 at 28.

YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

/Run, fatasses. Run. Seriously. A block a day will make you lose a pound a week.
//Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.
///SLEEP LESS.
////Drink more coffee.
//Refuse to sit for at least four hours a day - standing burns 100 calories an hour when fatigue starts setting in from lactic acid.
//Pain Is WeakFATASSEDness leaving the body.
//If you're doing it to "up your sexiness" YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

Not enough sleep = you get fatter
Chugging coffee = more heart disease
Two huge meals a day = massive blood glucose spikes

Otherwise, yeah, sound advice. Exercise and a less sedentary lifestyle.

So the 99% is actually the 66 2/3 % just weighing 50% more now.

December last year I made the decision to get my act together and the wife and I joined Weight Watchers.

Over a 20 week program I lost 30 lbs' and the wife lost ~ 20. Since then ive lost ~ 12 more pounds and I am still slowly trending down.


I did this with NO additional excersice, simply diet. If I actually got off my (somewhat less) fat ass I could get this down to my target weight (another 15-20 pounds) pretty darn quickly.

I haven't 'counted points' since week 16 of WW's, I just took the lessons and portions i learned and have stuck to it.

People need to control portions a limit (not eliminate) crap food.

That is all.

Amurica...Fark Ya!: This is what happens when you hold fat people in such high esteem...

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THAR SHE BLOWS! MAN THE HARPOONS!

This is one of the things that made me the most uncomfortable about the union I was in. The union rep guys would be hugely fat and blathering on about health benefits. If you want someone else to pay for nice things for you, the least you can do is meet them halfway.

Jedekai: I was 325 pounds at 15.

Right now I'm 175 at 28.

YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

/Run, fatasses. Run. Seriously. A block a day will make you lose a pound a week.
//Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.
///SLEEP LESS.
////Drink more coffee.
//Refuse to sit for at least four hours a day - standing burns 100 calories an hour when fatigue starts setting in from lactic acid.
//Pain Is WeakFATASSEDness leaving the body.
//If you're doing it to "up your sexiness" YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

This!... well.. I wouldn't exactly recommend this diet/fitness plan.. but the sentiment is right :)

tacks: So the 99% is actually the 66 2/3 % just weighing 50% more now.

More like 48.5%

/mathematician'd

theMagni: ph0rk: I am the 33%

I used to weigh 250#. Cutting back the junk food and biking to work every day has brought me down to 165#. I was stable at 185# for about ten years, then three years ago I went to 165# after some extra work. (We got a Wii Fit, that helped a fair bit with the chest.)

Funnily enough, my weight hasn't changed much after a year of going to the gym pretty much every lunch hour. (It's next door and I have a free membership.)

Good on you - I pretty much sit around and drink beer and stay on the low end of "normal" BMI. I avoid the out-and-out crappy food, but overall I'm lucky to have my metabolism.

LiberalEastCoastElitist: This is one of the things that made me the most uncomfortable about the union I was in. The union rep guys would be hugely fat and blathering on about health benefits. If you want someone else to pay for nice things for you, the least you can do is meet them halfway.

Huh.
I completely agree with this.

/agreeing with an east coast elitist? Has hell frozen over?

The numbers on obesity are calculated using self-reported height and weight, which means the numbers could be even higher.

Which means BMI, which is garbage if you have any muscles.

Oh yeah? My body is a temple. A big one. To Dionysus.

FTA: "Just 1 in 7 U.S. workers is of normal weight without a chronic health problem"

Thank goodness we have such high unemployment or we'd be over 90%.

/Visiting Vancouver this week
//It's staggering to see how many not morbidly obese people are here.
///Any BC farkers hiring?

liam76: The numbers on obesity are calculated using self-reported height and weight, which means the numbers could be even higher.

Which means BMI, which is garbage if you have any muscles.

Not really. Most people don't.

/The ones that do aren't stressing over their BMI

So all the skinny people are unemployed?

And occupying someplace?

I'm not really overweight, but I'm really, REALLY sick of hearing about everyone who is. I understand the biggest reasoning for obsession with another person's body is the possibility your health care costs will go up...but seriously, shaming doesn't seem to be working. Can we please try another tactic, if people are so worried about them??

I think I may be hitting the wall on fat-hate. I work with a woman in close proximity who feels the need to rip apart anyone she deems fat, calling them disgusting and lazy and smelly and just spewing (frankly, disturbing levels of) rage and hostility every time someone bigger leaves our office. I can't make her shut up and it's not doing anyone any good except for pissing me off and depressing others.

liam76: Which means BMI, which is garbage if you have any muscles.

ZOMFG! They didn't think of the bodybuilders!

Won't someone think of the bodybuilders?

While I'll bet that over on the ol' WSJ Editorial Page, someone has denounced the First Lady's "Lets Move" program as left wing social engineering?

/might not have so many fat adult office workers if you at least try to break the cycle of fat kids.

Rindred: Oh yeah? My body is a temple. A big one. To Dionysus.

rogue_L_chick: I work with a woman in close proximity who feels the need to rip apart anyone she deems fat, calling them disgusting and lazy and smelly and just spewing (frankly, disturbing levels of) rage and hostility every time someone bigger leaves our office. I can't make her shut up and it's not doing anyone any good except for pissing me off and depressing others.

I think I have located the problem.

Amazing how "fat genes" that prevent people from losing weight no matter how much they diet and exercise have become so common, within a few generations, within just one country, without presumably any positive selection for them.

Evolution is an amazing an mysterious force.

liam76: The numbers on obesity are calculated using self-reported height and weight, which means the numbers could be even higher.

Which means BMI, which is garbage if you have any muscles.

No, you are dead wrong. If you doctor has told you that you're too muscley to use BMI then you can ignore it. For the 99% of people that aren't on steroids or professional bodybuilders or athletes, then it's just fine.

I've got a BMI that's slightly higher than someone else my waist and height because I've got pretty big legs -- 22" thigh circumference -- but I'm still in the "normal" range. It's 23. I've got a really low BF%, close to 11%, and all I get is a spike of 1 on the scale. I'm 5'11", 165#, 32" waist.

So being reasonably muscled adds 1 to your BMI. That's it.

Eraic: Jedekai: I was 325 pounds at 15.

Right now I'm 175 at 28.

YOU WILL RECEIVE NO SYMPATHY FROM ME.

/Run, fatasses. Run. Seriously. A block a day will make you lose a pound a week.
//Eat two meals a day, HUGE ones, make your body's food clock reset.
///SLEEP LESS.
////Drink more coffee.
//Refuse to sit for at least four hours a day - standing burns 100 calories an hour when fatigue starts setting in from lactic acid.
//Pain Is WeakFATASSEDness leaving the body.
//If you're doing it to "up your sexiness" YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

This!... well.. I wouldn't exactly recommend this diet/fitness plan.. but the sentiment is right :)

Stimulants burn calories.
Exercise builds lactic acid, making the muscles work harder.
More stimulants slows the buildup of lactic acid, forcing the muscles to work harder and... burn the fat.

The reason for two HUGE meals is because you want the food to digest while resting, it allows the fatty acids and core proteins to enter the muscle, allowing it to build endurance, which allows it to burn more fat. It's like an engine where the more horsepower you have the more gas mileage you get.

This plan is used by The USMC to get fatties down to weight. Not that I'd know everything about it or anything... like getting hauled behind a truck in 1st gear at 4mph for 20 minutes, a 5-minute rest and then ANOTHER 40 minutes of dragging my fat ass behind a 1996 Ford Ranger.

rogue_L_chick: I'm not really overweight, but I'm really, REALLY sick of hearing about everyone who is. I understand the biggest reasoning for obsession with another person's body is the possibility your health care costs will go up...but seriously, shaming doesn't seem to be working. Can we please try another tactic, if people are so worried about them??

I think I may be hitting the wall on fat-hate. I work with a woman in close proximity who feels the need to rip apart anyone she deems fat, calling them disgusting and lazy and smelly and just spewing (frankly, disturbing levels of) rage and hostility every time someone bigger leaves our office. I can't make her shut up and it's not doing anyone any good except for pissing me off and depressing others.

Bring her some hostess cupcakes...

rogue_L_chick: I'm not really overweight, but I'm really, REALLY sick of hearing about everyone who is. I understand the biggest reasoning for obsession with another person's body is the possibility your health care costs will go up...but seriously, shaming doesn't seem to be working. Can we please try another tactic, if people are so worried about them??

I think I may be hitting the wall on fat-hate. I work with a woman in close proximity who feels the need to rip apart anyone she deems fat, calling them disgusting and lazy and smelly and just spewing (frankly, disturbing levels of) rage and hostility every time someone bigger leaves our office. I can't make her shut up and it's not doing anyone any good except for pissing me off and depressing others.


Can you suggest a tack that hasn't been tried but might work? Since the 80s there has been more and more realistic usefull information coming out. To do it at home, in a gym, even most employers offer incentive to try it there. Shaming may not work, but coddling them and finding nicer ways to describe some fatbody as a Dense-ish American or Gravitationally Challenged hasn't worked.