Once we hit peak oil, we’ll all be walking.
The pig that I am wants to stuff its face in yer fat ass and root for truffles.
I think this is all true, but I also think that Roderick Femm has a point about the engineering and marketing of modern fast food/snack food. The stuff’s industrially farmed and subsidized so that you can get a LOT of calories for very little money, and it’s the most fattening stuff that’s most easily accessible.
Moreover, a lot of our leisure time activity has shifted from being actually active in some way (the bowling league, the dancing class, the bike ride) to sitting around playing with some electronic device (like all of us here right now).
Individuals certainly need to be responsible for not giving way to temptations to overeat and underexercise, but lordy, we as a society seem to be doing everything in our power to tempt them as much as possible.
No arguments there. It’s a big ol’ confluence of factors. I just personally think suburbia is the worst of it, from my own experiences; if I could walk or bike to work or even to the store, I’d be a good 20 pounds slimmer than I am, regardless of my diet.
BUTTHURT LARDASS DETECTED!! 
Oh, and 'Guns? I’m a mite late here, what with you and ivn arguing about the price already, but having seen your pic, I wondered if you would mind if I think about you while I’m rubbing one out?
You totally fucked this up. It’s supposed to go, “Yeah? We’re fat but you’re an ass and we can go on a diet.”
Kids today…
You can, but you won’t.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Aaand, I’m cured. Not only do I not want to eat anymore, but I feel the pendulum swinging towards bulimia even as I type this.
Yeah, and I can learn to play the bagpipes, but it’s not gonna fuckin’ happen, is it?
For what it is worth, I am going on a diet yet again and I will lose weight and exercise and it will be good for a while and then I will binge again and gain the weight back for no real reason. I know what to do and I am honest enough to know I am too damn lazy to stick to it.
That is most everyone’s point in this thread except the Op and Lobsang. We do know why we’re fat, really.
I’m conflicted.
I agree, on some level, with the OP. That being said, I was a fat kid, a scrawny teenager, and fat snuck up on me when my job changed. I am now fighting like hell to loose that weight, starting with actual diet control over the last 5 months or so (down 10 pounds, but at least an inch on the waist, so the weights are putting on muscle too. Yay!).
Loosing weight means controlling your diet, and making calories input<calories output. That is a simple biological fact for almost all humans. The hard part is self control (in my case, soda. My silent foe.).
And she’s cute, in a nerdy sorta way. I would certainly fuck her.
But man, if the attitude is that cunty in person… damn.
That’s a huge shame
Yup. I’ve been you before and I dare not assume I won’t be again. But then, we’re honest enough to know where the blame lies, which isn’t quite the mindset that the OP was pitting, now was it?
See that’s where I am at…
She ain’t hot enough to support the weight of her ego. Kind of ironic, it seems.
I must disagree with you on this point. It looks perfectly fine to me.
Well, that depends on your tastebuds. This is actually one of the few issues that makes me wonder if there might possibly be some serious merit in the “fatness is largely genetic” notion.
Because I absolutely LOVES me some raw veggies and fruits, with all their delicious tangy crunchy goodness, and would generally much rather eat them than brownies and cookies and chips. And sometimes I eat a lot of them.
Seriously. I sat up late last night reading and ate three large heads of romaine lettuce straight out of the bag. (Don’t worry, they were organic and pre-washed. 
) OMG what a greedy pig!!!
If I typically binged out on the same weight of food in potato chips as I do in lettuce, I’d probably weigh 300 pounds now. If I typically binged out on the same monetary cost of food in potato chips as I do in lettuce, I’d probably weigh 600 pounds. And everybody would say what a greedy and disgusting fatty I am.
However, what I really like to eat most is lettuce and cucumbers and tomatoes and peas and beans and apples and berries and pickles and plums and edamame (mmmmmm. Seriously, I’m salivating here.) And also I don’t have a car and thus get a lot of walking in, so I’m not obese and people don’t say what a greedy disgusting fatty I am. But personally, I’m not so sure my behavior is all that different from that of an obese person.
And I sometimes wonder: If I happened to really CRAVE cookies and cake and not feel much interest in veggies, instead of the other way around, would I be able to impose as much additional restraint on my eating as the calorie difference would require? Did I perhaps just get dealt a good hand genetically in terms of how much and what kind of food I instinctively want to eat most?
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but when I imagine a morbidly obese person feeling the same pleasure in eating a whole one-pound bag of potato chips (:eek: ewwww! a whole pound of potato chips! gross!) as I do in eating a one-pound head of lettuce (
mmmmmmmm, lettuce), I feel a lot more sympathetic toward them. There but for the grace of genes, or something…
Well yes, but until **Lobsang **came in and proved the Ops point, I have rarely met anyone dumb enough to think otherwise. Might as well agree with the Op now though.
I think lots of people are not even quite aware of the things that they do that make them fat. They sit on their ass all day and down junk food without even quite realizing it. It’s probably a combination of stupidity and humanity.