So I was scrolling through facebook, and came upon a picture of the daughters of a woman I know (friend of my best friend, semi friend to me). This friend-of-friend and her husband are both obese (like, had to make everyone get up and switch places at a dinner cuz their stomachs couldn’t fit in the booth obese), and their two daughters are quickly following in their footsteps, one in particular. The older daughter is 12 or 13 and has to be well over 200lbs. Supposedly she’s been to the doctor for all kinds of weird GI issues, and they claim they eat well and only that one kid gains weight so it must be a weird fluke of her body (nope).
Well after looking at that I said “Man they really need to get her weight under control. She’s going to have diabetes before she hits 15.” And my friend was like “they’re trying! Her body is weird!’ And I said “No, she eats too much.”
“But they cook healthy food!’
“They clearly do not. They all need to lose weight.”
“Also a big part of her issue is puberty. You know how in middle school all the girls are chubby cuz their hormones haven’t settled yet?”
“Nope. That’s not a thing.”
And it went in circles like that. We ended up agreeing to disagree, but I’m cranky about it because I always assumed she low-key hated on this family for abusing their child like I did. But instead she gave me every excuse in the book!
I’ve been a broken record lately telling people “all weight changes relate back to calories. ALL it is is calories in vs. calories out. Unique factors might make it harder for someone to reduce their caloric intake, but at the end of the day calories are all it is.” And we’ve had that conversation before but apparently she was just bullshitting me and doesn’t actually believe it!
HOW DO YOU GET PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO FUCKING LOGIC???
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[–] Creggieb 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
You cant reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into. Fatlogic is feelings based so the person needs to feel bad about the situation in order to want to change.
[–] BoraxTheFungarian 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Wow, I'm remembering that line.
[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Fat people don't respond to logic because they lack the intelligence and reasoning skills to understand it. They only respond to emotion which is why shame is what they need. You need to make them feel bad because that is their only motivation. Whether or not feeling bad will make them gain or lose weight depends on just how pathetic they are, but logic and rationale are never going to do anything.
[–] cyclops1771 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Sad.
Have a niece, always been in good shape, always been proud of her for keeping in shape, her mom always made sure the kids shaped thin by having healthy food.
Kid goes to college, I see her after 3 months in college. I didn't even recognize her, as she had plopped on at least 40 extra pounds. Had a talk with her mom, who was VERY embarrassed, said she told her she can't just eat shit food all the time. Will see her this summer, wondering if it continued to pig out or return to human form. I'm not optimistic.
[–] SuckADickDumbshit 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
My apologies for your loss
[–] Convair990 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
Even if you eat healthy, eating too much of it will still get you fat😒. Then again when a fatty says it is eating healthy, when has that ever been true?
[–] roguevert 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
surely that 64oz diet coke was healthy and negligable
[–] Naught405 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
How fucking retarded does one have to be to not understand diet? Its god damn so fucking simple.
You have a body. Your body is a system. It processes food into energy. It burns that energy to run. It is like an engine, it refuels all at once and slowly burns the result. It has a tank. When you eat you are adding to the tank. At all other times you are burning from the tank. Lots of things effect the rate at which you burn fuel from the tank, and the efficiency with which you refuel. Whatever that rate may be, if you add fuel to the tank faster than you burn it, the tank will fill up. You must figure out that rate, and not put fuel in faster than that.
That is a really fucking bone simple system. Anyone should be able to conceptualize it and logically comprehend how it works. How can you be so fucking stupid that you think adjusting the burn rate is more important than matching the fuel intake rate to it? Or that all these retarded fad diet businesses accrue millions of customers every month?
Do these same people always pump an extra couple gallons of gas over the side of their car or something??
[–] Convair990 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Well fatties are stupid so lol
[–] PepperSoot 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Unless they’re willing to put down the fork and experience it themselves, you can’t convince them.
I tried it with a family member who did eat very healthily, but ate way too much. Wouldn’t listen to me about portion control, so I gave up.
[–] Fupachabra 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This kind of shit makes me excited to become a shitlord parent
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[–] MoltenFat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think they said "eating well" like a stupid grandmother does; eg. way too much.