Another sad blog entry written by a poor obese:
"This morning I came right into my office & before I even realized it, without grabbing my Slim Fast, I had eaten about 13 mini candy bars left over from Halloween. I mean, is it just that I have reached a point of no return?? I cannot seem to get my willpower together at all. I KNOW I am killing myself. I feel horrible. My lower back & knees aches so much from even walking through my house. I cannot even bend over to pick something up when I drop it with this stupid stomach in my way. And this morning, as I went to button my plus size 34/36 pants I had to fight to close them around me. Sometimes ai feel like such a failure. I took a c=good look at myself in the mirror last night - you know, that naked inspection we all do from time to time. I am not really even "me" anymore, but rather just a person covered from head to toe in rolls & rolls of fat. It hangs from almost every part of my body. Ive now noticed that most of shirts are getting to the point where they are shorter, because I am wider. I guess in the past my denail went so deep that I truly thought as long as they covered my stomach, no one knew how fat I was. I know, insanity at it's best. But now my stomach seems to be hanging below the bottom almost nearly all my shirts, & there is simply no hiding it at all. Look world, I'm FAT!
I feel like Im trapped inside my own body. I know this fat is killing me. My blood pressure is through the roof. But yet, I continue to eat non stop. There has to be a way out of this madness.
"
- by
May this motivate all of us to just say no to obesity!
~~~ Yours in health, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/22
Normal Weight Doesn't Always Equal Healthy Weight
No 'weight discrimination' allowed here. ;)
Yes, it's true. At any weight, body fat is harmful!
Read this interesting aricle: |http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040100754.html|
Basically, it says that we have to pay strict attention to our body fat percentage (as opposed to weight) and strive to keep it low.
Well, for my part, I plan to keep both my weight and my body fat percentage very low!
If you're too busy to read it, I list the most important findings here:
"Despite appearances to the contrary, more than half of normal-weight Americans have a high percentage of body fat. And, like their overweight contemporaries, this makes them susceptible to heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, a new study says."
"These findings should alert doctors that body weight isn't the only way to protect against health problems caused by excess pounds, Lopez-Jimenez said. Even normal-weight people should be advised to exercise and eat a healthful diet to reduce their level of fat, especially belly fat, he added."
"Even a small amount of extra fat where it matters most can wreak metabolic havoc, increasing risk for diabetes and heart disease, while leaving you with a body weight that looks perfectly innocent," Katz said. "Excess body fat in the belly is a menace, whatever your weight. This study should sensitize patients and providers alike to this concern."
~~~ Yours in low body fat and health, Heather. ~~~
Yes, it's true. At any weight, body fat is harmful!
Read this interesting aricle: |http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/01/AR2008040100754.html|
Basically, it says that we have to pay strict attention to our body fat percentage (as opposed to weight) and strive to keep it low.
Well, for my part, I plan to keep both my weight and my body fat percentage very low!
If you're too busy to read it, I list the most important findings here:
"Despite appearances to the contrary, more than half of normal-weight Americans have a high percentage of body fat. And, like their overweight contemporaries, this makes them susceptible to heart disease, diabetes and other metabolic disorders, a new study says."
"These findings should alert doctors that body weight isn't the only way to protect against health problems caused by excess pounds, Lopez-Jimenez said. Even normal-weight people should be advised to exercise and eat a healthful diet to reduce their level of fat, especially belly fat, he added."
"Even a small amount of extra fat where it matters most can wreak metabolic havoc, increasing risk for diabetes and heart disease, while leaving you with a body weight that looks perfectly innocent," Katz said. "Excess body fat in the belly is a menace, whatever your weight. This study should sensitize patients and providers alike to this concern."
~~~ Yours in low body fat and health, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/20
Abdominal panniculus aka 'apron' (icky)
If you are curious about the 'apron' mentioned in the post of the poor obese....
Here is a link to an image....
May it motivate all of us to lose that weight!!!
~~~ Yours in health & thinness, Heather. ~~~
Here is a link to an image....
May it motivate all of us to lose that weight!!!
~~~ Yours in health & thinness, Heather. ~~~
How does it feel to be obese?
How does it feel to be obese?
Well, if you want to know, read this poor, poor, obese woman's blog (|http://gottagetthisweightoff.blogspot.com/|).
"Well, it's been a long time since I posted, & to be honest, I'm not sure anyone reads this anyway. Even I had almost forgotten about it. As of my last posting I was 438lbs. I wish I could tell you guys I have found the secret - the magic answer - or even a way to get my own eating under control. But the truth is I spent the summer on one endless food binge, & it seems to be continuing into the fall. I am now weighing in at 465lbs. Im still walking, but it's definitely a VERY slow, side to side waddle now. Resting to catch my breath is necessary after a minute or two, and the burning pain I get in my lower back from standing or walking has gotten almost unbearable. Im still gaining mostly in my stomach, which is now hanging low enough to be a huge issue with clothes, balance, etc. Ive also got the double belly syndrome - my upper roll is so big & round that its out like a beach ball, & fold over my belly button. then my lower "apron," is what is heavy & hanging. Life is not easy now. Staying home, relaxing in bed eating is the easiest thing these days. It takes forever to get up, to go anywhere, to do anything. It hurts. But still I eat. Go figure."
by toomuchfat
"A typical food day? I wont list my meals, but lets say I put away more in one day than an average man does in several days. I eat one never-ending meal. Food consumes me.Thoughts of it, when can I get it? What can I have? One breakfast is never enough. Breakfast leads to candy bars, to donuts, to chips, lunches of several burgers, fries, shakes, sometimes salads, veggies (yes, I do like healthy food,) which leads to afternoon snacks of more chips, soda (ironically the diet variety) candy bars, pastries, cookies, wich leads to a taco bell stop on the way home, followed by a dinner of steak, lasagna, pizza, chicken -c whatever it happens to be and that leads into a night of hot dogs, macaroni & cheese, ice cream, cookies, candy, frozen burritos - you get the picture. I eat all day. I work in an office. My desks are both crammed with food. I eat in the car. I eat in bed. I eat during the night. I eat I eat I eat."
by toomuchfat
And read the disgusting, vile comments by so called fat-admirers or fat-fetishists. Icky, icky, icky.
So disturbing, so sad.
I hope she is still alive.
~~~ Yours in slimness & health, Heather. ~~~
Well, if you want to know, read this poor, poor, obese woman's blog (|http://gottagetthisweightoff.blogspot.com/|).
"Well, it's been a long time since I posted, & to be honest, I'm not sure anyone reads this anyway. Even I had almost forgotten about it. As of my last posting I was 438lbs. I wish I could tell you guys I have found the secret - the magic answer - or even a way to get my own eating under control. But the truth is I spent the summer on one endless food binge, & it seems to be continuing into the fall. I am now weighing in at 465lbs. Im still walking, but it's definitely a VERY slow, side to side waddle now. Resting to catch my breath is necessary after a minute or two, and the burning pain I get in my lower back from standing or walking has gotten almost unbearable. Im still gaining mostly in my stomach, which is now hanging low enough to be a huge issue with clothes, balance, etc. Ive also got the double belly syndrome - my upper roll is so big & round that its out like a beach ball, & fold over my belly button. then my lower "apron," is what is heavy & hanging. Life is not easy now. Staying home, relaxing in bed eating is the easiest thing these days. It takes forever to get up, to go anywhere, to do anything. It hurts. But still I eat. Go figure."
by toomuchfat
"A typical food day? I wont list my meals, but lets say I put away more in one day than an average man does in several days. I eat one never-ending meal. Food consumes me.Thoughts of it, when can I get it? What can I have? One breakfast is never enough. Breakfast leads to candy bars, to donuts, to chips, lunches of several burgers, fries, shakes, sometimes salads, veggies (yes, I do like healthy food,) which leads to afternoon snacks of more chips, soda (ironically the diet variety) candy bars, pastries, cookies, wich leads to a taco bell stop on the way home, followed by a dinner of steak, lasagna, pizza, chicken -c whatever it happens to be and that leads into a night of hot dogs, macaroni & cheese, ice cream, cookies, candy, frozen burritos - you get the picture. I eat all day. I work in an office. My desks are both crammed with food. I eat in the car. I eat in bed. I eat during the night. I eat I eat I eat."
by toomuchfat
And read the disgusting, vile comments by so called fat-admirers or fat-fetishists. Icky, icky, icky.
So disturbing, so sad.
I hope she is still alive.
~~~ Yours in slimness & health, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/15
Unexpected information
Hmm, I bet many of you did not know that:
|http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/4653/lose-weight-eating-restaurant-foods|
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
|http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/4653/lose-weight-eating-restaurant-foods|
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
Icky - overweight wins 'America's Next Top Model'
Looks like the obese are finally taking over.
Today, it is acceptable for models to be overweight....
Tomorrow, it will be acceptable for models to be obese.
One wonders if this is really the future....
or
will a morally sound and healthy lifestyle return.
|link|
No wonder the obese have no more shame and wear clothes forcing their icky bodies upon others.
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
Today, it is acceptable for models to be overweight....
Tomorrow, it will be acceptable for models to be obese.
One wonders if this is really the future....
or
will a morally sound and healthy lifestyle return.
|link|
No wonder the obese have no more shame and wear clothes forcing their icky bodies upon others.
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/12
A new rule for me Or If you need to lose weight quickly...
An effective (but no fun) way to lose weight quickly is the so called 2-4-6-8 diet.
As somebody who succeeded in weight loss writes (from |http://www.steadyhealth.com/2_4_6_8_diet_t54119.html|):
"I'm not anorexic but I too have read about this diet, and in an effort to lose weight before a cruise last year, I decided to give it a try. It's extremely hard to limit yourself to 200, 300, even 400 calories a day... you get tired, you have horrendous headaches, you basically feel like crap for those few days... but in the end, you get the result you wanted if you stick to it. I lost about 15 lbs in less than a week. It was absolutely shocking to me that I could lose so much weight so quickly. All the 'experts' will tell you also that if you're losing weight this rapidly then it isn't fat, it's mostly water, and it'll reappear the moment you begin to eat normally again... but the truth is, I kept off the weight I lost permanently. I think that the rhetoric about the awful dangers of these kinds of diets are exaggerated a bit. A lot of people fast, and this is just a unique form of fasting. It's not an "all the time" thing, but If you do the 2-4-6-8 diet say, once a month or every two months, I believe that it can be a safe way to lose weight, rev up your metabolism, and cleanse your system. If you have the strength and will-power to persevere through the short period of intense discomfort, then more power to you."
I like this: " If you have the strength and will-power to persevere through the short period of intense discomfort, then more power to you". This might become a new rule for my healthy lifestyle.
~~~ Yours in strength and will-power, Heather. ~~~
As somebody who succeeded in weight loss writes (from |http://www.steadyhealth.com/2_4_6_8_diet_t54119.html|):
"I'm not anorexic but I too have read about this diet, and in an effort to lose weight before a cruise last year, I decided to give it a try. It's extremely hard to limit yourself to 200, 300, even 400 calories a day... you get tired, you have horrendous headaches, you basically feel like crap for those few days... but in the end, you get the result you wanted if you stick to it. I lost about 15 lbs in less than a week. It was absolutely shocking to me that I could lose so much weight so quickly. All the 'experts' will tell you also that if you're losing weight this rapidly then it isn't fat, it's mostly water, and it'll reappear the moment you begin to eat normally again... but the truth is, I kept off the weight I lost permanently. I think that the rhetoric about the awful dangers of these kinds of diets are exaggerated a bit. A lot of people fast, and this is just a unique form of fasting. It's not an "all the time" thing, but If you do the 2-4-6-8 diet say, once a month or every two months, I believe that it can be a safe way to lose weight, rev up your metabolism, and cleanse your system. If you have the strength and will-power to persevere through the short period of intense discomfort, then more power to you."
I like this: " If you have the strength and will-power to persevere through the short period of intense discomfort, then more power to you". This might become a new rule for my healthy lifestyle.
~~~ Yours in strength and will-power, Heather. ~~~
Interesting article in the March issue of ELLE
Finally, somebody is smart and brave enough to say the truth:
"Many men, I quickly learned, really do like frighteningly lean women, whatever they may claim to the controversy. As an average, medium-size young woman, I was unremarkable, innocuous. As a skinny slip of a thing, I was something of a sensation. In restaurants and at parties, men flirted at me extravagantly. As a male friend once put it to me, semifacetiously, a little anorexia is hot."
-- written by Amanda Fortini
Could not agree more.
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
"Many men, I quickly learned, really do like frighteningly lean women, whatever they may claim to the controversy. As an average, medium-size young woman, I was unremarkable, innocuous. As a skinny slip of a thing, I was something of a sensation. In restaurants and at parties, men flirted at me extravagantly. As a male friend once put it to me, semifacetiously, a little anorexia is hot."
-- written by Amanda Fortini
Could not agree more.
~~~ Yours in slimness, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/06
Everybody read this
|http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/3346/food-facts-that-restaurants-hide-from-you/|
From the insightful and disturbing article above:
"Sit-down chains don't want you to know that their food is actually considerably worse for you than the often-maligned fast-food fare. In fact, our menu analysis of 24 national chains revealed that the average entree at a sit-down restaurant contains 867 calories, compared with 522 calories in the average fast-food entree. And that's before appetizers, sides, or desserts — selections that can easily double your total calorie intake."
~~~ Yours in dieting, weight loss, and exuberant health, Heather. ~~~
From the insightful and disturbing article above:
"Sit-down chains don't want you to know that their food is actually considerably worse for you than the often-maligned fast-food fare. In fact, our menu analysis of 24 national chains revealed that the average entree at a sit-down restaurant contains 867 calories, compared with 522 calories in the average fast-food entree. And that's before appetizers, sides, or desserts — selections that can easily double your total calorie intake."
~~~ Yours in dieting, weight loss, and exuberant health, Heather. ~~~
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...
My brain hurts.
Apparently, today (May 6) is "international no diet day".
Yes, you read correctly... "international no diet day".
... and of course, the obese at (e.g.) |big fat blog| are all exited about it.
Which in itself is funny/sad - since everyday is "no diet day" for them.
I wonder, when is "international smoking day", when is "international let's kill ourself day", when is "let's slaughter more animals to stuff our already enormous bellies day"?
Who is behind this "international no diet day"?
The obese claim this insanity has been started by an obese woman.
This, of course, seems unlikely. In all likelihood this stupidity has been invented by the fast food industry (McDonald's et al.) - similar to that |center for consumer freedom| thing which is just a front for big food, big tobacco, and big oil (anti-health, anti-environment, anti-animals, pro-obesity, pro-smoking, pro-meat etc.).
Fortunately for our health, animals, and environment, "international no diet day" is not exactly widely known or followed (yet).
As Albert Einstein said: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Let's fight stupidity by restricting our caloric intake, exercising vigorously, and eating little to no meat!!
~~~ Yours in dieting and health, Heather. ~~~
Apparently, today (May 6) is "international no diet day".
Yes, you read correctly... "international no diet day".
... and of course, the obese at (e.g.) |big fat blog| are all exited about it.
Which in itself is funny/sad - since everyday is "no diet day" for them.
I wonder, when is "international smoking day", when is "international let's kill ourself day", when is "let's slaughter more animals to stuff our already enormous bellies day"?
Who is behind this "international no diet day"?
The obese claim this insanity has been started by an obese woman.
This, of course, seems unlikely. In all likelihood this stupidity has been invented by the fast food industry (McDonald's et al.) - similar to that |center for consumer freedom| thing which is just a front for big food, big tobacco, and big oil (anti-health, anti-environment, anti-animals, pro-obesity, pro-smoking, pro-meat etc.).
Fortunately for our health, animals, and environment, "international no diet day" is not exactly widely known or followed (yet).
As Albert Einstein said: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Let's fight stupidity by restricting our caloric intake, exercising vigorously, and eating little to no meat!!
~~~ Yours in dieting and health, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/02
Who knew.... Skinny cheeses
Read |this interesting| article on Yahoo health.
Looks like not all cheeses are junk food.
Cool.
I did not know that.
~~~ Yours in skinniness, Heather. ~~~
Looks like not all cheeses are junk food.
Cool.
I did not know that.
~~~ Yours in skinniness, Heather. ~~~
2008/05/01
True Inspiration & Role-models
Ali Vincent, the first female champ from |The Biggest Loser| is a true inspiration for all of us:
Dedication, self-control, work-ethics, iron-will, spirit.
|read about it here!|
She achieved an awe-inspiring weight loss percentage of 47.9% (234lbs to 122lbs).
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Of course, |Jillian Michaels| is another true true model.
~~ Yours in a healthy body and a healthy mind, Heather. ~~~
Dedication, self-control, work-ethics, iron-will, spirit.
|read about it here!|
She achieved an awe-inspiring weight loss percentage of 47.9% (234lbs to 122lbs).
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Of course, |Jillian Michaels| is another true true model.
~~ Yours in a healthy body and a healthy mind, Heather. ~~~
2008/04/30
Why is it immoral to be obese?
The obese who read and post in |Big Fat Blog| (!!??!?, yes I know!) seem unable to understand why so many of us consider it immoral to be obese.
To help them understand, we list some of the reasons:
'Ethical/spiritual'-type reasons:
Practical reasons:
I sincerely hope that we can help the obese to become slim, healthy, and happy!
~~ Yours in a healthy body and a healthy mind, Heather. ~~~
To help them understand, we list some of the reasons:
'Ethical/spiritual'-type reasons:
- In a world where so many suffer from hunger, it is immoral overindulge.
- In a word with so much suffering from diseases like cancer, it is immoral to intentionally destroy one's health.
- While it may not be immoral to kill animals in order to survive, it is certainly immoral to needlessly cause the slaughter of animals simply to allow for one's overindulgences (of course this does not apply to obese vegetarians).
- Obesity is a form of suicide.
- Obesity is one manifestation of a lack of self-control.
- Gluttony is a deadly sin (if you are a Christian).
- The Bible states that we should take care of our bodies ('the body is our temple') and strive to make them to be in God's image (again, if you are a Christian).
- Jesus was healthy and not obese, He only ate in moderation (again, if you are a Christian).
- The obese have no sense of modesty (anymore). They wear too-tight cloths and so expose the 'shape' (or lack thereof) of their poor bodies.
- Obesity breeds obesity (i.e. obese parents are a horrible role model for their poor children, who oftentimes will end up obese to morbidly obese themselves). Here is a |link| to a study which shows that fat also spawns fat within your own body, eeeeew.
Practical reasons:
- The obese cost the healthy much money.
- The obese take away medical resources from those who are sick due to involuntary diseases (cancer, Alzheimer, etc.). With resources we mean both doctor's time, hospital beds etc., as well as research time, effort and money. If only all the money and time spent on obesity research could be spent on cancer!
- The obese causes problems for medical personnel (poor nurses have to lift 200-plus-pound-obese; no wonder so many of our medical personnel have back and knee problems).
- The obese is usually not considerate of others and oftentimes destroys furniture, clogs toilets, and smells bad (for an example read this |poor lady's story|).
- Due to their enormous appetites and huge bodies they (the obese) are partially responsible for global warming and increased gas consumption.
- Many obese are bullies (especially since they became the majority and not ashamed anymore).
I sincerely hope that we can help the obese to become slim, healthy, and happy!
~~ Yours in a healthy body and a healthy mind, Heather. ~~~
2008/04/29
Global warming and obesity
|Link| to scary, but not-at-all-surprising, article on how the obese are partially responsible for global warming!!
|cool graphic|
|How the obese reduce passenger vehicle fuel economy|
“Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990’s, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.”
obesity => global warming => death
Yours in health, Heather.
|cool graphic|
|How the obese reduce passenger vehicle fuel economy|
“Their conclusion is in the same vein as a letter published last year in The American Journal of Public Health. Its authors, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, did a sort of back-of-the-envelope calculation of how much extra fuel airlines spend hauling around fatter Americans. The answer, they wrote, based on the extra 10 pounds the average American gained in the 1990’s, is 350 million gallons, which means an extra 3.8 million tons of carbon dioxide.”
obesity => global warming => death
Yours in health, Heather.
Deaths from Obesity
Deaths from Obesity: 300,000 premature deaths associated with obesity annually (CDC).
Death rate extrapolations for USA for Obesity: 300,000 per year, 25,000 per month, 5,769 per week, 821 per day, 34 per hour.Read all about it at http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/o/obesity/deaths.htm
obesity = death.
Yours in health, Heather.
Study casts doubt on 'fit but fat' theory
This 'fit but fat' theory has always been just an excuse of the lazy and self-indulgent.
Read all about it at http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/fitness_heart.html
For another example, let's have a look at nature... how many obese animals do you see?
Not many, I guess.
obesity = death.
Yours in health, Heather.
Read all about it at http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/fitness_heart.html
For another example, let's have a look at nature... how many obese animals do you see?
Not many, I guess.
obesity = death.
Yours in health, Heather.
2008/04/28
Fat Acceptance (?!)
Recently I read a lot (well, not a lot, but certainly more than I want to) about a very disturbing anti-health trend: so called "fat acceptance".
A extreme example of this anti-health trend is the so called "big fat blog". This website praises itself as: "for the obese, about the obese, by the obese". What makes this so immoral is that they do not even try to help people to lose weight, quite the opposite. They encourage obesity. I wonder if they are willing to pay for the (financial and moral) costs of the obesity pandemic.
I will write more about this later, off to the gym now!
Yours in health, Heather.
A extreme example of this anti-health trend is the so called "big fat blog". This website praises itself as: "for the obese, about the obese, by the obese". What makes this so immoral is that they do not even try to help people to lose weight, quite the opposite. They encourage obesity. I wonder if they are willing to pay for the (financial and moral) costs of the obesity pandemic.
I will write more about this later, off to the gym now!
Yours in health, Heather.
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