Tee-hee… that makes it sound like he has a small penis.
And on that note, watch me fellate this ice cream. Mmmmm, ice cream… tastes good, Strawberry. It has fat molecules in it…tasty tasty fat molecules. You can’t have any though… just us fatties gets the tasties… go sweat some more.
(troll poking is fun!) 
Hey, look, Strawberry got banned.
Don’t let the door hit your size 0 ass on the way out, bitch.
And have some chocolate, it’ll (hopefully) make you actually enjoy life.
excuse me?
I have seen more than my share of sloppy fat men also, and had more than one tell me i was a fat slob despite I wasnt wearing a torn stained wifebeater with ratty bluejeans worn plumber style [i REALLY dont want to see the crack of anybodies ass except mrAru … except maybe for a few performers that I think are really hot] and was wearing a very nice mossy green dress with bolero jacket for a job interview.
If there was an availability of good looking, decently made clothing at the same walmart low cost that skinny women can get, we would dress like that also.
That being said, I have several very nice dresses and skirts, as well as my usual hanging out palazzo pants, polo shirts and a few tee shirts. Oh, and an elizabethan gown in black velvet, a cotehardie in cream linen that I wear with a peacock blue houpeland or a green and silver hellsgate. And I am making some bavarian trachte for octoberfest fun[think beermaid, german biergarten type=)]
I prefer to dress in the palazzo pants and polos though, they are way comfy. And I dont wear makeup, and my hair is just below shoulder length.
When I have my hair long, it does look nice in itself because it curls into loose ringlets on its own. However, long hair pulls down my whole face and emphasizes my generous chin. Short hair pulls the eye up and makes my face look lighter. So I think for me it actually does look better than long.
Huh. There goes my plan to ignore her (not in the literal computer sense that we can’t talk about), because I couldn’t be bothered to pointlessly argue with an asshat.
Three hours in the gym every day. shudder I know that many people enjoy that, but for me that would be living in hell. Especially if I just did it to be skinny rather then an actual desire to be healthy.
By the way, I kept forgetting to link to this yesterday. Anyone who hangs out on Livejournal might want to check out fatshionista. It’s a discussion community - all of the sales posts listed today are only allowed on Fridays, so you’re not going to be constantly deluged with them.
Damn. I always like to play with my food before I eat it.
I have my doubts that she was actually either a skinny girl or a legitimate poster…there was an air of footwear about her.
Damn, I can’t believe I fell for a sock puppet.
Live and learn, I guess.
But it’s amazing how much progress you can make while still really enjoying food - only choosing to say “I will enjoy that which I have to eat, and not eat for enjoyment’s sake, and twice-emphasised not do what I have already done far too many times, namely, eat long past enjoyment’s breaking point simply out of habit or a peculiar sense of entitlement or I’m-fucking-well-going-to-finish-this defiance” - and taking moderate, enjoyable exercise.
'Course I’ve not made myself a martyr to thinness, so I’m not in your target demographic, but I would just like to say that staying thin may well incur a price greater than you are willing to pay, but the price is not as grossly inflated as you might choose to make out.
The latter would explain the banning, at least.
Often very true, depending on your individual body and definition of thinness. I’ll never decry averaging out to healthy eating and moderate regular exercise as not being a good thing. It’s the people who count every piece of gum that get on my nerves. Not to mention the ones rude enough to judge other people’s bodies. (Not talking about you, obviously.)
Indeed. My sister, who is my weight-loss hero, has lost more than 100 pounds just by eating healthy, limiting calories and doing exercise. She allows herself one day a week as a “free day” where she can eat anything she wants, which keeps the cravings from taking over, and she still gets to enjoy food. I am trying my own version of that diet and have lost 33 pounds so far (I was actually down to 44 pounds lost, but I gained some back after my fiancee dumped me and am trying to get back on the rails.)
But neither of us are martyrs to it, nor are we doing it to keep the real-life versions of StrawberryAssbasket happy. We’re just doing it because it’s good for our own self-image and health. 
Yup. I do think moderate exercise and diet “works”.
I do not think the studies cited above are wrong, exactly - I only rather suspect that they are debunking the “I can do a crash diet” thing. Diet is an ongoing endeavour, along with exercise. There is no magic one-time thing you can do, it is a constant effort to stay in shape (not that you have to be all rigid about it).
For me, I was doing it as an overall part of my ‘getting more healthy because I now have a child and want to be there while he grows up’ plan - the really hard part was quitting smoking. Diet wasn’t fun, and I neither is exercise, but but doing both is waaaay easier than giving up tobacco was.
That was the tough part of the plan. Giving up potato chips was a lot easier than giving up smokes.
I think that the part that most people miss, though, is that just because YOUR body can do it, doesn’t mean that all or even most people’s bodies can do it. Not the get healthy part, the get thin part.
To my mind, if they are healthy and happy about it then it doesn’t matter too much if they aren’t thin.
Me, I was neither healthy nor happy about it - but again the smoking bit was far more important than the fat bit in making me unhealthy and unhappy.
OTOH - how many people who have seriously tried long-term changes to diet and adding moderate exercise have been unable to lose weight? For what it is worth anecdotally, most people I’ve known who have gone down this route do in fact lose some (as well as getting rather healthier in the process, which is more important) - again, I’m not talking about dieting as a “magic bullet”, but about permanently changing one’s habits.
Not that I’ve conducted a scientific study or anything, and I realize that what makes intuitive sense may well be wrong, but to my mind there is a relatively direct relationship between moderating one’s eating and exercising and one’s weight and health.
Being an ex-smoker I quite understand the seeming impossibility of permanently changing one’s habits. There was a time I simply could not imagine going a whole day without a smoke, because to me as a smoker, “having a smoke” = “having a break”. It would be like being condemned to never enjoying anything again, since pretty well every form of enjoyment was either accompanied by, or followed with, having a smoke.
Certainly merely appearing attractive to other people would not have been enough to get me to quit smoking - even the relatively certain knowledge of impending untimely death couldn’t do it (every adult smoker knows already the horrible risks).
See, for me this is reversed. I’ve had problems quitting smoking before, but this last time…I just quit. Cold turkey. I’ve been (relatively) smoke-free for over 3 months now (I say relatively because I had one “backslide” evening when I went to my old neighborhood bar by myself…however, it was immediately back to not smoking the next morning and I had no problem doing that). I only occasionally still have cravings. But most of the time I don’t even think about smoking.
Food, on the other hand, is nearly impossible for me to resist. I can’t get into a zone of self-denial with food…I mean, I can if I just don’t have the money at any given moment, but if I’m flush, I will end up going to Turkey Hill or Weis before work to pick up some goodies to munch throughout the day.
I quit cold turkey too (indeed I think it is the easiest method) and I have been smoke-free for four years now - but I found it very tough. Not the physical cravings part, but the breaking whole habits part - no more “smoke breaks”, no more having a glass of wine and a smoke after work …
You’re falling into the fallacy that weight is a simple equation of “food eaten - calories burned = weight”. It simply doesn’t work that way; some people burn calories more efficiently than others, and some people’s bodies will hold onto more fat then others’. If you look at that study in the pdf again, note that people doing diet and exercise, or exercise only, including permanent “lifestyle change” programs, did far better than crash dieters. And the authors recommend that as the best chance for permanent weight loss. But mostly they still gained back almost all of the weight (ultimately losing roughly half a kg on average, or just over 1 pound), and more than a third failed completely.
Like I said before, this doesn’t mean that you specifically will gain the weight back. But the numbers are solidly against you. If it does happen someday, just keep in mind that 1. it’s not a moral failure, and 2. you’re almost certainly healthier. Which is your goal anyway, so it’s good all around.
And to my dismay, they don’t ship internationally 
That makes me sad, because some of those clothes are hella cute.
Does anyone have linkity to places that do cute fatgirl clothes and ship internationally? (Already have seen torrid, thanks)