I know, right?
I have a few questions for the fat ass OP’er (call it muscle, call it ex-muscle, call it what you want, but it’s a fat whatever-you-want-to-call-it).
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Do you suppose the various genetically fat animals (ob/ob mouse, fa/fa rat, etc.) simply eat too much? Cause they don’t have the will? You’d suppose wrong/wrong. For the same amount of food ingested, they gain more weight than their genetically normal cousins. And murine will, well, you probably don’t give a rat’s ass about that.
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Do you suppose identical twins reared apart send some sort of signal to each other informing their double what to eat and how much? Maybe ‘spooky action at a distance’? 'Cause their weights will wind up almost the same, despite their environments being totally different.
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Do you suppose a group of pairs of identical twins somehow conspire when given a strictly enforced intake of (excess) calories such that within twin pairs weight gain is tightly linked, but there’s huge variation between pairs (again, for identical calories ingested). Hey, that’s what happens.
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Do you suppose previously thin people, svelte models such as yourself, who experience trauma or a tumor or stroke or whatever to their hypothalami (deep, at the base of the brain) and then double or triple their erstwhile weight, have simply an acquired disorder of “will”?
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Do you suppose that the 100% prevalence of obesity in the Pima Indians (and the not quite so insanely rates in certain other genetically defined populations) have a dominant or doubly recessive gene for “no fucking will”?
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Do you suppose there’s a bunch of other evidence I could cite (in vain, I’m sure) to try to show you that your simplified view of a complex problem is just that: simple?
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Do you suppose that maybe, just maybe, there may be other, smart people (true, not likely to be as smart as you, but no slouches either) who know a shitload about obesity and metabolism and other ‘science stuff’ (I use that simple phrasing so as not to confuse you), and conclude that, get this, it’s not just a matter of will?
Do you suppose?
I suppose there are a bunch of overweight people who got that way because of their shitty diet and sedate life style.
And, you’d be right. But you said “a bunch”, not all, or even most.
He Karlgauss, all you are proving is that it’s harder to lose wight for some people than others. No one is disputing that. The problem is with the fatties that insist it is impossible for them to lose weight–that their bodies defy the laws of physics so that they cannot lose weight no matter how little they eat.
You are next. right after Tonya Harding.
Not that you’re thinking this deeply but, “A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills.”
Initially you said the OP was pitting, “People who constantly whine about how they hate how they look but blame it on everything but the fact that they consume more calories than their bodies can use,” but later decided to drop the farce and pit fat people in general with this:
All of which, of course, is irrelevant peradventure you’re actually, exclusively concerned with whiney fatties.
Which brings me to the Q.E.D. of this thread:
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People who don’t immediately fix all/any of their problems have two choices, honesty or denial… you evidently prefer them to live in the latter.
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People have different priorities. Your question, “How the hell can you do that to yourself?” is easily answered with your own, “I’m perfectly happy with being a blunt asshole.” We all have our flaws and we all recognize them. Parody thy name is self.
Out of 100,000,000 sperm you were the fastest and strongest?
Tonya Harding? I think I must have just stepped out of that John Cusack hot tub.
It is so cute, the way you get so judgemental–how many abortions have you had now? Quite frankly, you aren’t even smart enough to prevent pregnancy, repeatedly.
Now what is it that you were saying about shot from guns?
Yep! The damnedest things happen when you actually have a desire to have sex with women who are old enough to conceive. You should try it sometime.
Seriously, riffing on you is like shooting fish in a barrel. But hey, I’m stuck on call this weekend so I can do this as long as you can. Please, come back with some more of your special brand of stupidity. No matter how many times I am offer you the chance to stop, you want more. I figure a few more comments and nobody will ever be able to see your username and not think pedo.
I fucked your mother in the ass one time and now I have to deal with you till you grow up?
Try to be the better person.
I knew that movie was based on a true story.
Oh, why the quotation marks on “nobody”?
Is there just one person behind Claude Remains? 'Cause this is an odd juxtaposition.
Maybe it was a note to himself.
Just one. As in the father, the son, and the holy spirit!
Since this is the pit and all…
I weigh ten pounds more than I should because I don’t tell myself “no” enough when it comes to eating yummy sweets. However, I’d weigh a hell of a lot more if I didn’t tell myself “no” at all because I crave sugar almost all the time and could happily eat ten times as much crap if not getting fatter wasn’t a concern. When I look around the grocery store and see someone twice my weight pushing a carriage full of junk food, it makes me wonder: how much thought does your average obese person (not currently dieting) put into what they buy and eat? I can’t help but imagine that the answer is next to none…
Do people get fat while thinking about what they’re eating but being unable to resist the impulse despite knowing better, or is the path to morbid obesity paved with a blissful lack of caring about calories and fat content as I imagine it to be?