Fat People
29 04 2008I arrived at work today unusually pissed off. I spent about 20 minutes on the Metro trying to work on a Flash website while some idiot 3 seats behind me was listening to stupid fucking Lil’ Wayne so loud I could actually feel myself getting dumber.
Upon escaping the train, I hop on the goddamn bus. Some fat fuck forklifts herself onto the bus too, nearly flipping the goddamn thing over. The next part of this story I am not exaggerating in the least: the INSTANT the bus pulls off, this gravitron yanks the stop-request cord. The bus comes to a halt at the next stop less than 200 yards from her point of entry, and she lumbers off the bus as the vehicle’s suspension heaves a sigh of relief. As the bus pulls off, I watch in utter disbelief as she appears to be walking into a convenience store. This chick is so fat she actually defies the laws of optics and appears to get BIGGER as I get farther away from her. I turn to see the expressions on the faces of everyone else. I see a combination of rage and amusement.
Figure 1: Fat chick asking the driver to stop the bus
Fat people piss me off because of a.) the sheer number of them in this country and b.) how little they do to keep from getting fat. Fat people clog up the doors on buses and subways. Fat people sit in restaurants for hours at a time, forcing other people to wait forever to get a seat. Fat people sweat all over EVERYTHING! The sweat makes them smell absolutely atrocious. Fat people jack up the cost of health care like it’s their fucking job. It takes 100 acres of cotton to make just ONE T-SHIRT for a 350lb man. They breathe too hard. They eat too much. They refuse to walk anywhere. They get elected to congress. It’s fucking disgusting, and it has to be stopped.
I went completely fucking apeshit on Europe a few posts back, but there’s one thing they definitely have (at least in Spain and Portugal) that I’d be willing to go back for over and over again: a nearly total absence of fat people.
Figure 2: Goddammit
In Spain, you had to fucking walk EVERYWHERE, lest you wind up blowing half your salary on gasoline (which is INSANELY EXPENSIVE in Europe), cab rides, or expensive public transit. You have to WALK to work. You have to WALK to wherever you get lunch, and then WALK back to work. Then you WALK back home for the ’siesta’ or whatever the fuck it is over there. Then you WALK back to work again. Then you WALK from work to the market to get your food. Then you WALK the fuck home and cook your food. Then you WALK to wherever the hell it is you hang out with your buddies in your fruity horizontally-striped shirt, superskinny jeans and faux-hawk hairdo to talk in your fruity Euro-speak about how much you hate America despite the fact that your economy rides the waves we produce, and how cool it is that you feign a 150 fucking Euro club cover charge to anyone that even remotely resembles an American.
Figure 3: Average European male. Note the lack of fatness.
But no matter how much Europeans suck, they have this over us: they walk more, eat less, and do less sitting around, leading to a blissful absence of fatassitude. No fat people stinking up the elevators. No fat people taking up an extra 60 seconds on your bus commute. No fat people sweating on your home inspection checklist (can you tell this happened to me? CAN YA?). No fat people eating philly cheesesteaks with a DIET FUCKING GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING COCKSUCKING COKE BECAUSE THEY’RE “WATCHING THEIR CALORIES!!!” Drop the soda and pick of a big ol’ can of lipolysis, you ginormous fucking gastropod!
Figure 4: You can have a Fanta, or the Fantanas. You cannot have both. Choose wisely, you fat bastard.
Raise gas prices, goddammit. $9 a gallon for all I give a shit. Make these fat motherfuckers walk, or at least roll end over end wherever the fuck it is they have to go. Too fat to walk? MELT ‘EM. FUCKING MELT THEM! Melt them before the very eyes of the living fatties that they might behold the awful price of diet soda and a sedentary lifestyle. Melt them down, mix their remains with ethanol, and let everyone see me drive off in the first fatty/ethanol hybrid monster truck, which I will happily use to bulldoze every fast food restaurant in the country*
Figure 5: Stay Puft Fleshmallow Boy
*Except Popeyes. But you have to take a BMI test before being allowed in. Fail the BMI test, and you will be melted.
OMG!! Thanks for this!! I can’t stand fat ass kids. What I especially hate about the obese is the ones who get a disability check for it.
Melt them?! Priceless!
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Chris You have done it now, you have upset half your readership, you are brave to even think about writing against fat people. Write against fat but please let the people go easy, it is hard enough having to deal with ridicule off line.
I am losing weight myself and chris I understand you were a fat child.
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“Chris You have done it now, you have upset half your readership, you are brave to even think about writing against fat people.”-stuffgirlslike
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I’ve been waiting for this post. They breathe too hard. How is it possible to snore while wide awake? The human female body should never be over 300lbs. Sorry.
Ooooh, you done gone and done it now! You KNOW people will be telling you that you need to understand that some people have a “genetic predisposition” to being fat as fuck. I’ve got a friend who lost 150lbs and she tells me how sick she is of her stupid coworkers asking shit like, “How did you do it?” or “C’mon, you can have ONE doughnut, can’t you?” or “I couldn’t do what you did!” My sister also lost about 50lbs and she has gotten tired of her friends saying the same stupid shit (and also hating! Can you believe it?).
People really ought to read about what the fuck soda does to a person–I used to down Pepsi like a chainsmoker goes through Marlboros–I gave that shit up in January and dropped 4lbs in about a month. And fast food? Man, that shit is…well, shit!
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2008/04/29/bwe-alarm-clock-for-tuesday-april-29th/
“…and chris I understand you were a fat child.”
What?
i’ve been telling people for years that when the fat sweat, they sweat butter.
no one listens.
in all honesty, alot of people can stand to lose a few lbs (me included). but its the morbidly obese that need help. have you ever watched the first episode of the biggest loser? every season you have thousands upon thousands of people who have walked/stood upright the longest in their entire lives, just to be in that line, just to get on that show. its a shame.
and, i threw up in my mouth a lil bit with that last pic. something about obese children.
*shudders*
“This chick is so fat she actually defies the laws of optics and appears to get BIGGER as I get farther away from her.”
*dead*
It should be illegal to make thongs/spandex/halters/etc in fatass sizes.
Oh, and another thing you should’ve said about fat people, Chris:
They are FOREVER hating on skinny people. Example: Mo’Nique. Now, I ain’t got a problem with big-boned people, but come the fuck on Mo’Nique. She didn’t get that big by exercise–she got that way by diet and lack of exercise. At first, I found her “skinny bitches are evil” schtick funny…until I realized that was ALL she could yap about, and then I was all, “Girl, will you shut up about them and get your fat ass on a treadmill?”
Well Damn Chris.
Idk if I should be offended or if I should laugh. Im a big dude (6′3″, 300+ lbs), but I’m far from looking like the stay puft marshmallow kid you have up there. What do you define as fat? Those morbidly obese type of people, or anyone that’s more than 30 lbs. overweight?
Oh yea. Fuck a Fanta, gimme that Fantana in the purple so we can make our own “soft drink”
ROTFLMAO!!! The on and offloading fat woman bus story was the death of me.
creativecat - “It should be illegal to make thongs/spandex/halters/etc in fatass sizes.”
Trust me, that wouldn’t stop ‘em from going for the medium, small and extra small sizes and squeeeeeezing into them. I can NEVER find a small size at the mall anymore!!! WTF? AND I KNOW the general populace that shops there isn’t mostly small. GRRRR. Ever tried finding XS or even S size at Victorias Secret? IMPOSSIBLE! I now have to order them joints online!
“Some fat fuck forklifts herself onto the bus too, nearly flipping the goddamn thing over. The next part of this story I am not exaggerating in the least: the INSTANT the bus pulls off, this gravitron yanks the stop-request cord”.
DEAD
I cant stand those fucking fatasses that want to get on the bus and then want to sit next to you. I had this one huge ass white guy sit next to me one day on the way to work and I swear I couldnt breathe. NOt only was dude like 400 pounds sqeezing me in the seat, he was sweating. How does one sweat so much from sitting. He was sweating liek her ran a fucking marathon. I am sooo sick and tired of seeing these little fat ass babies on tv shows. Kids that arent even 7 yet weighing 100-150 pounds. GODDAMN!!! I use to have this friend that was over weight and she would drive around a parking lot looking for spaces in front of the store so she wouldnt have to walk. One day I just went on her and was like stop being so fuckin lazy, you can walk why you think you have those extra pounds on you stop eating nasty ass mickey d’s.
stuffblackpeoplehate (13:38:40) :
“…and chris I understand you were a fat child.”
What?
AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA!!!!!!
6′3″, 300lbs. male, fine. 5′3″, 300lbs. female, NO. And being a chubby kid doesn’t count. But being a fat kid, like Fig. 5 is sad, yet hilarious. Shapely fat is more acceptable than ‘all-stomach fat’. Walking/Jogging is the easiest, cheapest form of exercise. Sometimes I walk home from work (work Downtown DC, live Capitol Hill). It feels good to be moderately active and eat vegetables.
All I can say I had this one 2 year stretch that everybody that pissed me off just happened to be fat. I began disliking fat people for the longest. Now I have a lot of fat friends that are cool, I don’t hang out with them outside of school but yeah. Fat High School KIDS = GAY.
Fat Community College Moms = The Shit
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This was too funny. I’m living in Japan and it’s absolutely disgusting to see soooo many Americans walking down the street! You know who they are because their shirts are too tight and their jeans are starched and they look like they haven’t had to walk this much since they first learned to stand up.
What’s really bad is when you see a tour group of teenagers rolling down the street in too short mini-skirts exposing everything that should have been hidden! They’re always tugging on the hem! I guess the hope nobody notices that stretch marks come in two shades!
Machete, that’s probably true. Maybe we should just pass a law against anyone who’s a fatass from wearing those items.
And I totally hear you on not being able to find small sizes! It’s even worse than it used to be because all of the fatasses bitched about not wanting to be a size 300 so now extra-smalls fit like mediums should.
I’m just annoyed that I’m an adult and have to shop in the kids’ section because of all these fatasses.
hahahah just reminded me. My little cousin use to be fat and he basiclly grew up in Japan(my unlce is a cheif in the navy) and was a reall butterball.This litte boy was a fucking mess he wouldnt walk down stairs he would roll down them. NOW thats some lazy ass shit. Now that he is 15 he has lost about 50 pounds.
I’m 5′11” and around 315 pounds or so yeah, I’m a fat bigro…However, I’m kind of well-proportioned, so I don’t have to buy a second seat when I’m flying or anything like that…LOL
But you know what’s crazy? As a fat ass, I can’t stand to see other [really] fat people. I’m talmbout morbidly obese folks…Hypocrite? Yes I am! My brother and I were at a buffet one time (he’s a bigro too) and we saw a whole family of lardasses piling their plates full of various fried pieces of meat. We looked at each other, got up and left. “you know if we’re staring at them, you know what they’re saying about us!” was what he said…
However, I have been making an effort to try and lose my weight, rather than sit around complaining about it…when I go to school, I park in the farthest garage possible and walk across campus to class, park really far from my apartment, etc. There is a national park near where I live, and I walk on the trails there. However, I know I have to really adjust my eating habits, because I do like starches and whatnot. I don’t snack as much as I used to, and I try to avoid burgers and fries, and I’m finally getting over my fried chicken cravings. It’s not like I’m stirring butter in my coffee or eating deep fried bacon (yes, I’ve seen a video of that nasty shyt) wrapped around chitlins or anything like that…
I managed to lose about 60 pounds when I was in undergrad by cutting out sweets and starches and adhering to a grueling exercise regimen, but when I graduated and moved back home, I was pretty much “fuck effort” when it came to my eating habits. So not only am I trying to lose the weight I was wanting to lose, but the pounds that I gained too.
I hate Mo’Nique for many reasons.*
1. She isn’t a thick girl, she isn’t ‘pleasantly plump’, she is just big. Jill Scott is an example of a woman who is bigger, but doesn’t look unhealthy. The fact that she is gorgeous helps. Monique is pretty, but she is too big AND disses smaller women to make herself ‘look better’.
2. MO’NIQUE DOESN’T HAVE BREASTS. That is wrong on every possible level. How in the hell are you 300 pounds and an A cup? I find that offensive even.
3. She went on The View and said that Black women don’t shave their legs. No, you nasty fuck, YOU don’t shave your legs. The only time I don’t shave my legs is when I go get them waxed.
Per my standards of judging gender, hairy legs+ no breasts= man.
I don’t hate fat people, I just never want to be one. I’ve been a “bigger girl” (not ever Mo’Nique’s size, more like a Jill Scott) and I will NEVER go down that road again, it was miserable. I’m not skinny now, but I work out at least 5 days a week, eat healthy and take pride in knowing that I have large, womanly breasts and silken legs. At the end of the day, that is what matters.
*-Actually, I don’t hate her. She is a really smart and caring woman. I just hate that she celebrates an unhealthy lifestyle, cooning and hair legs. And where are her titties?
Let me start by saying I’m 5′4″, 120lbs.
*dodges bullets*
Some people are built with a larger frame - everyone on my uncle’s side of the family (women included, if not especially) are built like Amazon creatures. So my little cousin is tall and wide for her age. But even that shit needs to be monitored, because her pediatrician put her on a dietary plan as a child. That shit is not good for your heart and can kill you.
I don’t have a problem with people being shapely. But, I too, have problem with people who WHEEZE WHEN THEY FUCKING BREATHE. I wanna be like, “motherfucker, you can’t hear that shit???” Ugh, I work with this guy who does that shit on conference calls AND has the audacity to eat while he’s on the call too! I HATE THAT SHIT. And him. *Throwing dirty looks at co-worker*
But, it’s important to remember, being small does not mean you’re healthy (Lord knows I get winded for everything…I promised myself once finals were over I’m going to rekindle my love affair with the gym). But yes, Monique needs to stop the fucking madness. The shit is funny, but seriously. Bitch, you’re big. Someone was mean to you in high school. I’m not saying it was right, and I understand your angst, but let go, and let God.
I’m fascinated by European dietary habits. They eat whatever (but also walk a lot as Chris mentions)…usually smaller meals and a lot of bread during the day, but their dinner meals are NEVER ENDING. And then all the wine! I remember when my family took a trip to Paris, and we sat utterly befuddled as we watched these French people eat the biggest meal we’ve ever seen. They were probably like, “Look at these nosey and uncouth Negroes peering into our plates!” But seriously, it was almost like circus trick.
And cosign to whomever said that comment about soda. Alcohol too.
Chris sounds like one of my mornings here on the “T”! UGH! You know what I can’t stand is LAZY fat people…come on, you are fat and unhealthy, GET UP AND GET MOVING! If you are fat and trying, I am there for you, but to just sit there and be content with your wheezing and triple-chins is not what’s up!! Yeah, laziness is the real propblem here!
“Some fat fuck forklifts herself onto the bus too, nearly flipping the goddamn thing over.”-PURE COMEDY!
Figure 2.-Exposed thongs is gross, no matter the size–no one wants to see your damn underwear!
Now I like food just as much as the next person, but I really hate watching those shows on TLC about the fat people who are just OD greedy and want gastric bypass. Why the hell are you eating 4 loaves of bread in one day?!!?! What about me?! I always hate going to the supermarket and there’s no bread, and I always think to myself “some fat f***k prolly took the last loaf” Or this OD fat man who couldn’t walk down the stairs to his apt. so he would tie a string from his window and get his delivery food that way.
It blows my life, it really does.
“I’m a fat bigro…”
Dying slowly.
Chris you will inevitably get a buncha posts with the “big boned” argument.
When people say that to me I wonder in my head…why IVE NEVER SEEN A FAT SKELETON?
I mean, all the skeletons Ive seen look about the same. Width wise. They may be tall, they may be short but the bone density looks about the same to me. Then again, Im an attorney, not a doctor. Surely someone will correct me. Maybe its just me? I could be the dumb 110 llber.
MO’NIQUE DOESN’T HAVE BREASTS. That is wrong on every possible level. How in the hell are you 300 pounds and an A cup? I find that offensive even.
I am officially getting fired.
@creativecat
HAHA true! I think its called “vanity sizing” where a true size 10 is labelled a size 6, so a size 10 woman will go into that store, put that on and feel really good about themselves and buy it!
my biggest pet-peeve:
http://tinyurl.com/5sk23m
fat-girl angle shot.
I am dying, ST. I want to pay my last respects.
YES - Where are her breasts? And I’m not sure I buy that whole “pretty” thing as far a Monique is concerned…I saw her without makeup and I was confused as to what happened to her face.
Jill Scott = The most beautiful women EVER.
Re: Hairy legs - My mom tried to tell me that shit back in the day. I think it’s a generational thing, ’cause my aunts don’t do it, either… But I have casually observed some sistas on the bus/train…not all of us are getting down with the Bic.
Maya- Yo, I know dudes who never mess with chicks above a size 8 who would give anything for a chance at Ms. Scott. She is fine! Plus, she seems like she has a beautiful spirit.
I gotta disagree on the big-boned tip. I saw on Celebrity Fit Club once where they refuted the notion of bones being big. I used to think that I had a “large frame”, because I am tall, big chested, my shoulders aren’t narrow….but then I found out that my frame is actually small-to-medium. The only thing large was my consumption of alcohol and Starbucks, and consequentally, my ever-expanding waistline. I’m on some “Never Again” shit with that one.
Sister Toldja - I always said that about Mo’nique; how can you be big and have mosquito bites for boobs. She what I refer to as ‘all-stomach’.
Bigro, I mean Leoninatl, that’s wonderful that you’ve lost weight. When I cut out sodas and anything that had high fructose corn syrup -whatever that is, I trimmed down a bit, not that I needed to. But seriously, how do people get so big? It doesn’t happen overnight.
@ Creative Cat- Um, while vanity sizing is real…..if you shop at the children’s store, you are just really thin. Extra smalls are still…extra small, lol. My BFF is a size 2 and she is very slim, and curvy. I don’t think her clothes would be a medium anywhere but a third-world country experiencing a famine.
ST - Yes, I’m a big believer in presence, presentation and display. Clearly Ms. Scott is a master of all three.
This rule is a must. I know a lot of skinny girls who think because they’re skinny they can bypass these three rules - not so, I say! In fact, they usually look the worst. Everything doesn’t work for everybody or every body, for that matter. Like flat-chested chicks in TUBE TOPS. As a card-carrying member and CEO of the Tiny Titty Committee, I cannot stand for such wanton disregard of common sense! You have NOTHING holding that shit up, except the annoying lifting you keep doing to prevent that shit from falling. Or, short, round people in capri pants - usually in some nonsensical color like violet, magenta or that fake-me-out-denim. Why do you wish to look like you have a wedgie on both sides?
I don’t hate fat people, I actually feel sorry for them. A lot of my fam is from the south… A lot of overweight/obese people that I happen to love dearly. Fat people don’t want to be fat, and if they say they’re happy with themselves only 2% are telling the truth probably. What thin/average people don’t understand is that a fat person has to hear all the bullshit jokes, snickering, endure the stares day in and day out. Whether they’re fat due to lack of self control, laziness, hopelessness, etc you can be sure that they aren’t just out being fat to piss you off or fuck up your view.
Americans in general tend to be lazy, but people accept it as long as they’re not fat. My brother is thin but he’s ‘fat on the inside.’ He eats fast food every day, but since he has a 36 in waist he thinks he’s all good. There are some thin people who have high BMIs.. no lean muscle, but they’re ‘thin’. At the same time, there are some over weight people who have low cholestorol, good blood pressure and aren’t in danger of having heart attacks.
When I was younger my father thought a good way to encourage me to lose weight was to make fun of me so I wouldnt want to be fat, all it made me do is fell worse about myself, like I was less than a person. When i was in my late teens i finally did lose the weight, and I told him to go to hell. I didn’t do it for him, I did it because I like sports but I couldnt keep up so if I really wanted to play I had to get in shape. My basketball plaques/trophies mean much more to me.
Judging someone who is over weight and coming up with all this ‘they stink, they don’t exercise, they’re lazy’ shit is no better than seeing a black person and assuming he’s off to jack someone or to impregnant his 5th baby mama. It’s just more acceptable. Do you know how long it takes to lose weight? All the years it took to pack it on and you see someone fat and just assume they’re not doing anything about it.. how do you know? Did you ask?
I’m going to have to sit this one out, i still love the site but I can’t read a whole bunch of people ragging on people they don’t even know due to how they LOOK only to be in a ’screw yt’ mode later on for something that was assumed about them. Even though I’m not now, I still have the brain of a fat person and it still hurts.
ST-MO’NIQUE DOESN’T HAVE BREASTS. That is wrong on every possible level. How in the hell are you 300 pounds and an A cup? I find that offensive even.
bwhahahahah DEAD…I noticed that too hmmm..
Maya-Let me start by saying I’m 5′4″, 120lbs.
*dodges bullets*
hahahah ummm well umm Im 5′10 165 pounds…Im not skinniy skinny but I am slim. I dont have a six pack I have a small belly(from drink a lot of beer) hehe.
**looks around**
Jill Scott is beautiful in so many ways.
As for hairy legs..that bitch is lying. Hair legs is not was up on a woman. My mom was telling me how back in the day when my uncle was dating my aunt she had some chewbacca legs hahaha but she has since learned that hairy legs is not cute. I hate seeing women with hairy ass fucking legs looking like damn Teen wolf n ish and have the nerve to wear a dress or short skirt. My husband’s baby mama does that shit makes me wanna gag. Keep those underarms and legs shaved ladies! and keep up with the bikini wax PLZ!
Maya-”being small doesn’t mean you’re healthy” True. People look at me like I’m crazy because I exercise (I’m 5′3″, 135lbs). I want to improve my cardio, damnit. And not be a fatass that can ride rollercoasters and play with my future kids. I like having muscle, sorry. Cottage cheese scares me. I like bikinis. Mo’nique can’t wear a bikini. And Jill Scott, have you seen her live?; she is beautiful.
LMFAOMFOAMFAO. I couldn’t have said this better myself. Fat people are forever saying to me that I’m lucky I have a fast metabolism (I run four miles a day, lift weights, and I am a dancer…which they seem to ignore in favor of labeling me a skinny bitch.) Instead of reading up on foods that don’t inflate their fat asses, they complain that they are “unable to lose weight” as oppose to admitting that they lack the self-disciplinary skills to even rival those of a retarded Chilean sea bass.
@knaturalbeauty:
I’ve had a weight problem since I was in middle school. There’s a whole story behind that I don’t feel like telling, but moving to Mississippi when I was 13 didn’t exactly help. We went from health-obsessed Southern California to soul-food in da durty. We went batshyt crazy for Popeye’s and whatnot, because we really didn’t eat like that in Cali, very rarely.
And laziness…Plain laziness was part of it as well. I was always a bookworm when I was younger, never very athletically inclined, and when I did exercise, I was always wheezing, thanks to that good ol SoCal smog. So when I found out I didn’t have to take PE in HS in MS, I was like, cool!
The funny thing is, thanks to my mom’s health food obession, I’m not afraid of vegetables like some folks are. And I do love walking, and I like lifting weights too. But nowadays, it’s a matter of time management that I have to get a handle on. Also, I want to loose more fat before I start lifting weights. I don’t want a bodybuilder look, I want to have a swimmer’s build so to speak, but not too trim, cause you know black folks think you’re on crack if a big person gets skinny too fast! LOL.
@ knaturalbeauty -
Yes, I’ve seen her live. AMAZING. I wanted to be her. Or like, have her come home with me and make her dress me up to be pretty like her. I stan for her. It’s kinda weird…and unhealthy…
Yes, even for small people, at some point this whole “tiny” shit is gonna run its course, and it’s a saaaaaaad day when a small person starts to gain weight because you don’t know how to adapt, particularly if you’re someone used to eating whatever you want. So I’m trying to adjust my learning curve now, ’cause I don’t want to have set myself up for the fall.
One of my homeboys is about 5′6″ and normally about 130-140 pounds soaking wet. This dude can eat like a friggin vaccum cleaner, and it never seemed to catch onto him. HOWEVER, he moved to Mississippi a few months back, and I guess he’s been eating good in the neighborhood, cause when he came up here to Georgia, he looked swole as hell. I forgot how even the slightest weight gains can look on people with smaller frames versus people with larger frames…
Funny thing is what people don’t seem to realize is that this weight-consciousness thing goes both ways. I’ve heard “you’re soooo skinny” in so many variations throughout my life that it’s not only annoying, but it’s made me very aware of my body - particularly in intimate moments. I’ve looked back on childhood pics recently and said, “damn, i was small…” or “damn, my head looks huge cause my arms look so tiny.” Of course, when you’re small, people are also always concerned about how much you’re eating which is by far the most irritating thing, but you can’t spaz out, because they mean well. For me, it got to the point that I was almost over-eating just to put some weight on. No good. And since my weight fluctuates with a 15 lb differential, it’s never-ending.
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I’m still looking for a job in Paris. I worked there for a month in 2006. I NEVER ate SO MUCH or DRANK SO MUCH in my life. I lost 10 lbs while I was there without ANY effort. I do believe it is partly due to the fact that you HAVE to walk everywhere (even in the metro you gotta walk a half mile to the train!). I also think it is due to the fact that the food isn’t full of antibiotics, hormones and other unnecessary chemicals. Additionally, the fact that the entire city is a sauna in June/July also helps (why don’t they like AC there?!?!).
IVE NEVER SEEN A FAT SKELETON
OMG STOP IT!!! ALL OF YOU! My stomach hurts so bad, my eyes are so red from crying. There’s too many things to quote on here aside of Chris’ defyign the law of physics comment. I feel like I’m going to throw up now. Dammit, thanks all of you, I needed that laugh today after last night’s discussion and a fight with my girl.
Here Lies (alias) Mr. Smith
“Figure 5″
Swimmer’s build! *catches drool* *thinks about Jason Momoa*
Note to self: never move to Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, fucking anywhere in the deep South. If the racists don’t kill me, the food will.
And hairy legs - eww. You can’t be fat and hairy, that upsets the balance in the cosmos. Gross. Are these the same women who ‘accept’ their mustaches.
Some of my best friends are fat.
Come on people being fat in many societies is a priviledge, I know in Hong Kong a lot of people who were on heroine would see their friends who lost gained wait after going to rehab and converting to christianity. They would immediately want to be christian based on how healthy their friends were.
Black churches are full of women who could exercise more.
Most people are overweight because American portions are bigger than want you get in Europe, In Europe we are taxed by the socialists and cannot spend so much on food.
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@knatural: Peep my name, I live right in Jawga. LOL. In the so-called “black mecca” of Atlanta (well, the suburbs, but who’s ever heard of Marietta?). Believe it or not, it’s actually kind of hard to find good Soul Food in the Atlanta area unless you go to the hood or out in the country somewhere. People tend to like the trendy ish here…There are so many transplants here, it’s diluted the ’southern’ flavor of the area. It’s still the south, but ’southern lite’.
I moved from Mississippi in 2004 and vowed to never, ever, ever come back to live there on a permanant basis except for one of the following options:
1) In a pine box
2) In an urn (if I go to glory this way, I want folks to scatter my ashes to spell out “FUCK YOU” all over the Confederate Cemetary in Vicksburg and I want them to throw a party in remeberance of me on top of their graves)
or
3) If I find out the world is ending, I might move back to Mississippi because they’re 20 years behind everyone else…
Maya-Funny thing is what people don’t seem to realize is that this weight-consciousness thing goes both ways. I’ve heard “you’re soooo skinny” in so many variations throughout my life that it’s not only annoying, but it’s made me very aware of my body - particularly in intimate moments. I’ve looked back on childhood pics recently and said, “damn, i was small…” or “damn, my head looks huge cause my arms look so tiny.” Of course, when you’re small, people are also always concerned about how much you’re eating which is by far the most irritating thing, but you can’t spaz out, because they mean well. For me, it got to the point that I was almost over-eating just to put some weight on. No good. And since my weight fluctuates with a 15 lb differential, it’s never-ending.
Hell yeaaaaaaaaaaaa when I moved to florida i was there for 2 yrs and I lost like 20 pounds I was at 143 pounds. For 2 yrs I didnt see my mom til that December and she wanted to faint. She was concered that i was doing heavy drugs because “i was so skinny”. I’ll admit 5′10 143 wasnt all that damn cute because 1. my boobs shrank(i was pissed) and 2. my ass was disappering(extra pissed). When i moved down to florida i wore a size 10 when i came back after 2 yrs i was a size 6. When my now soon to be husband picked me up at the airport he took me straight to burger king and got me a whopper with cheese and fries and told me i needed to eat because i looked sickly ahhaha well to make a long story short… I got my beautiful figure back and I wear a size 10 and fuckig loving ittttttt. But I still work out and eat healthy now. I use to hate my skinny friends saying that i should be a size 6 not a 10…Rolls eyes. I tell then they need to stop fuckign with those guys that want sticks for gf’s and get a real man that likes a woman with a lil something something.
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Well if anyone has seen one, let me know. You cant even google fat skeleton.
Anywhoo, @MAYA. I am 5′4, 115 llbs. Bitches are always like..oooh you so skinny. oooh I would love to be your size. oooh dont complain about not being able to find clothes…oooh you make me sick.
But last nite it took me fucking 3 hours to find a pair of black slacks in a size 2. I do not starve myself, my mother is small too. I used to drink ensures, eat five meals a day, because being thin in SC is a felony. People are forever offering me biscuits and cupcakes. Damn! I EAT. A lot too! I am just thin! I exercise because my hubby and I like being fit.
Misconceptions: Thin women do not eat, Thick women eat too much
Truths: Aneorixics DONT eat, Fatties eat too damn much.
Wow wow wow, let’s not make this racial. We are talking about FAT people. Although I think they could and should be classified as a race since they fucking out number everyone in America… I LOST 3 FLIGHT SEATS GOING TO PHILLY! This FAT bastard took up my seat so I had to move to 2 aisles back, where i had to move AGAIN because some FAT woman needed my seat for her FAT child who looked to be about 5 but was still in a car seat! You think the madness stopped there?! I was in the window seat, squished against in sitting next to another FAT guy!
Are FAT people from Pennsylvania or something?
Since we’re on it,
5′10, 165lbs.
@ Iloveblkpeople
YES… WELL SAID. You see… a former manager of mine made a very good point to me a while back. He asked… “If our beef and chickens are fattened up by hormones and steroids, where do you think they go when you digest them? Its not like they just up and disappear because those same nutrients, chemicals, ions, and amino-acids all go into your body and affect your physique.”
The same goes for vegetables that look completely overgrown and unnatural: Apples bigger than my head, Tomatoes brighter than the sun, pumpkins appearing as if they will explode any minute. Those same unnatural chemicals that are used to “present” themselves as more attractive to the consumer are the devil in disguise. Remember the sayings “The bright apple might have a worm in it?” and “Never judge a book by its cover?”
Now… with those said… I would like to touch on the affect of these chemicals on not only the human body… but also the human mind. I truly wonder about all of the processed shit that goes into the food that not only goes into the mouths of middle class children, but also those who rely on welfare. Such chemicals in random over the counter medicines have caused various side effects including: dry mouth, dizziness, fatigue, upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, mud butt, Sudden infant death syndrome, heart failure, sky diving, space shuttle launch, etc… what happens with our food?
It truly makes you wonder what exactly happens to everyones food these days. Doesn’t it? Are we all test subjects… with experimental checmicals… just like doctors prescribe experimental drugs to treat illnesses. I wonder.
I can go on about this forever! I totally despise these fat, arrogant, overweight, overpaid, overfed, over-privileged, overindulged criminal asshole cocksuckers that are happy and content with being a cantankerous old fatass! I swear some of these mungangous humanoids are going to collapse into themselves if they get any bigger! I’m going to come out with an exercise video that’s going to make P90X, Richard Simmons, and Hip-Hop Abs obsolete, it’s called “Stop Eating You Fat Bastard!” It’s not audio tape, or videotape…it’s duct tape! Put it over your mouth and watch the pounds melt away!! Think about it, people have gotten so fat that they have their own term for it!?! How fat do you have to be to go from being obese, to morbidly obese!?! I’m 6’0”, 220lbs. I played FS at the Univ of Ark and I’m anorexic compared to the bovine behemoths that are grazing all over America. In the grocery store, fat ass has to use a motorized cart to load up on junk food that will increase her gargantuan girth! Then she complains the cart is too small. Waa Waa! Hey Blubber Butt! Stop eating so much crap and ‘gulp’ actually walk around. Try it. You might like it. Just don’t bump into me, or get too close. I don’t want any of the moons orbiting your equator waist to hit me! It used to be that, for bigger-sized people, they’d have to go to a “Big and Tall” specialty shop, or Layne Bryant-type for the ladies. Soon enough, anyone under a 40″ waist, or size 12 will have to go to a special store themselves. And, ok, I’m sorry to the chick with the medical condition, but seriously, if changing some eating habits helps you loose weight, despite the medical condition; you were too fat. Fat people cost us all in the long run via medical care especially. Nurses are in short supply because who really wants to strain their back while trying to roll over some 400lb mammoth to change his bedpan?
I think a lot of the overweight-problem of the U.S. can be attributed to normalizing-fatness. You used to pick on little fat kids, because it wasn’t normal, and damned if there were less little fat kids out there. There’s also not enough people making their own food, prepared food is 99% of the time worse for you, and even when it is healthy, the portions are usually more than should be eaten at 1 sitting. Next step, fat America will start blaming restaurants for being open. These are the people who drink a carry-out tray of three-thousand-calorie iced mocha cinnamon coconut coffee frappe drinks with a softball sized hunk of whipped cream on top and refuse to believe this sugary-mega- lactose bomb could have anything to do with them splitting their Banana Republic Capri pants bending over to pick up their copy of Shape Magazine. It’s only a matter of time before some 800 pound greasy urn out there decides to sue McDonald’s because his heart sounds like a one legged clogger. I’m pretty sure the only reason it hasn’t already happened is because our courts don’t have a drive thru window yet. What lifts my ass off the can is when people who have smoked for fifty years are amazed when they get lung cancer. Last week I read about someone who smoked eight packs of cigarettes a day for sixty years and then decided to sue the tobacco companies because one day he was coughing up radial snow tires. A jury awarded him 200 million dollars, and I suddenly realized that this is the only country in the world where you can make a fortune if you’re just willing to dedicate your entire life to do everything completely wrong.
I love The Voice of Reason!
I used to substitute teach, and I was always observing how elderly those children looked. I was subbing a sixth grade class one time, and I saw a couple of those students, and I thought, “Damn, did you drive up here today?” or “How many times have you been held back?”
I blame that rat milk they feed those students. If I had the money, I’d go organic, I swear…
Mr. Smith-FAT woman needed my seat for her FAT child who looked to be about 5 but was still in a car seat
Jesus cried and started choking
@ Maya: “Or, short, round people in capri pants - usually in some nonsensical color like violet, magenta or that fake-me-out-denim. Why do you wish to look like you have a wedgie on both sides?”
HELP ME OH LAWD!!!!!
I am glad that you rep the TTC well. I envy you all sometimes, because I would totally rock the thin blouse, no bra, sexy/clean hippie look if I were a member. Don’t get me started on dresses either.
@ Lady-I understand why this frustrates you. They were engraving my name on the roster of the Big Girl Club! My day was coming, I was two biscuits away. I used to go in Lane Bryant for bras and the salesladies would say “Why are you in here?” and then one day, it was like “Have you seen our dresses?” I made a change because I wanted to be healthy, and I didn’t want to be the “fun to ride” chick that Chris mentioned last week (I hate you, Chris) but that no man wants to take around the homies. That said, I do believe that most SERIOUSLY overweight people can take steps to improve their health and appearance. We aren’t dissing people with cancer or short men or women with unforuntate hairline. And we did acknowledge Jill Scott as the patron saint of sexy. I lost 35 pounds from my lifetime heaviest and about 23 pounds since late September. It can be done.
Mr Smith Im your twin dude.. I am the same height and weight…weird. either your skinny or i’m fat hahah
leoninatl-I blame that rat milk they feed those students. If I had the money, I’d go organic, I swear…
RAt milk OMGG hahahahahcsadljfm,m c.f bdsvjkdsjcdcjkscmxnJKX lMAO OMG HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
I went organic a long ass time ago..f that…I got my horizion milk taste way better than the food stores milk. I buy organic meats, eggs, all that jazz
Leoninatl,
My husband is 6″0 220 llbs and teaches 6-8. The children are bigger than him.
I think they feed them dog food and make them wrestle cows.
@Esquire:
11 and 12 year olds should NOT have fully grown beards! Some of them kids have more facial hair than I ever will!
And 11 and 12 year old girls shouldn’t have these full-grown women bodies either! All these Chesters lurking out there will be making even more dumb excuses about how they didn’t know “she was that young”
AF does make a point. A big part of why all these kids are overweight is because of all these growth hormones and other things they add to the food. Now don’t get me wrong, some parents (including mines) do over feed their kids, but I think for the most part the additives in the food and in milk play a big part in it as well. My older sister (who will be 41 this year) said “You know shit’s gettin real thick when 7 and 8 year old girls are coming on their periods and when 11 year old boys are already 6′ tall.”
I totally agree leoninatl- these little boys and girls are so damn grown. I was driving passed a middle school and saw this little girl looked about 12 and she had bigger boobs than me and i’m a 36 C i was liek goooooodddammmnnnnnnn and she looked about 16. There must be something in the water because they kids are growing taller and developing earlier.
Leonintl: I completly agree, I live in Dunwoody, and there is absolutely no place to get a good home-cooked meal unless, well, you go home! People out here are pretentious assholes, it’s become a light vrsion of California, I can’t stand it! I’m originally from Arkansas and even when I go home and overindulge, I get up and go to the gym and run after my unsuccessful bout with the Itis. People are just lazy!!
knaturalbeauty: love you too babe. *muah*
Indeed brran1….
But I’ve also got something else for everyone. When I graduated from college, I remember seeing quite a few white people (mainly white girls) who looked like they weren’t a day over 15… yet they were months older than I.
Ten years have passed and in the office I work in, I’ve noticed that these same children seem to roam the halls, tricking everyone on their age. What the hell is the deal with that?
Something is certainly not right.
@ AF: Well I mean some people have good genes that make them appear younger than they actually are. Good example of this..Stacey Azz. Oh my bad I mean Stacey Dash. Janet Jackson (even though she had that nose job) doesn’t look a day over 30. But sooner or later, in some cases that shit catches up to them and they go from looking like Nicole Ritchie to Glenn Close overnight. (only happens with most white women. The majority of the black women I know age gracefully).
@ Lady-I understand why this frustrates you. They were engraving my name on the roster of the Big Girl Club! My day was coming, I was two biscuits away. I used to go in Lane Bryant for bras and the salesladies would say “Why are you in here?” and then one day, it was like “Have you seen our dresses?” I made a change because I wanted to be healthy, and I didn’t want to be the “fun to ride” chick that Chris mentioned last week (I hate you, Chris) but that no man wants to take around the homies. That said, I do believe that most SERIOUSLY overweight people can take steps to improve their health and appearance. We aren’t dissing people with cancer or short men or women with unforuntate hairline. And we did acknowledge Jill Scott as the patron saint of sexy. I lost 35 pounds from my lifetime heaviest and about 23 pounds since late September. It can be done.
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@ ST
After my rant before i felt a little silly.. but it does frustrate me. Most of my southern fam is set in their ways, I can’t tell big mama not to put a stick of butter in her corn bread she’ll tell me to pick a switch and then force me to eat the food anyway.
After growing up hearing my dad and aunts pick at me, make fun of me, look at me in disgust i became immune to what guys think, or what classmates may think. If my own family would make fun of me, an elementary school kid who they are ultimately in charge of feeding, cause I didn’t have a job or money.. then why would what a stranger says bother me?
Overweight people can take steps to better themselves, and i know some(most) people feel that if they don’t, then they deserved to be made fun of, but I don’t feel that way and I think that’s extremely foul. So called adults can be as cruel as school kids, if not worse. If your teeth look like you were raised on a diet of bricks you can fix that too.. if your skin looks like braille you can fix that too. If you have so much facial hair people call you ’sir’ you can fix that too, but how many people make fun of people for those things like they do fat people?
If it wasnt for basketball i may still be 6ft and 294 lbs if not bigger. But i was good, and i wanted to play so i got up, put some glad bags and sweats on and ran in the morning, ate egg whites like they were going out of style and stopped eating so many carbs and by jr. year i was able to play.. i had something to work for, but not everyone has something to set a goal for..
I don’t play anymore but I got kids.. so i’m maintaining at 212. According to medical charts i shouldnt be more than 185 I think, but i’m worried about looks.. it’s for health. No one ever says look at that fat chick/dude he must be so unhealthy, they always refer to how they fat person makes THEM feel.
i know an 8 yr old girl who wears a size 14.
a woman’s size 14.
its ridiculous cause her mother still allows her to spend an insane amount of money daily at the corner store.
i have always been thick. and i dont think that i would look right skinny. (remember when kelly price got the bypass and her head was huge on that tiny body? she looked like a blow pop. not a good look for harlem)
but now that i started going to the gym, i’ve found that excercise is the best thing for me. we just need to get more fatties on treadmills instead of drinking their weight in milkshakes…
brran1-Now don’t get me wrong, some parents (including mines) do over feed their kids.
Exactly. I was over my friends mother’s house a few months ago and she was making this big ass pot of food. Like i swear I didint know they made pots that damn big. She looked lieks he was making food for a whole army. They are from Sierra Leon. OIn their country big women are beautiful and are believed to be more rich than slimmer women. So when it came time for us to eat, Her mom would make comments liek you need to eat more and she would put more foos in my bowl and stuff. I’m like damn hold uppp i’l already full and i still have food from my 1st big ass serving. Thats why her damn kids are over-weight now because of all the food she feeds them. Liek my friends sisters 1st child isnt even 4 yet and he is a butterball and dont get me started on her 15 month old, that boy is gonan be big too.
@brran: You know Black don’t Crack! The only older white women I know of that has seemed to have aged gracefully are Bernadette Peters (she’s 60, and doesn’t look a day over 45) or Sophia Loren
@ The Voice of Reason: Finding soul food in Dunwoody?! LMAO…That’s like finding a California Pizza Kitchen in Bankhead. Ain’t gon’ happen!
I’ve been living in the ATL area for the last 2 years, and while I *generally* like it, it damn sure ain’t the be-all and end-all like some folks like to portray it. I have been considering a move to Dallas (low cost of living, black folks seem to do pretty well there, midway between the coasts, not too cold) or DC (family up there, great city to me, but the cost of living is high as hell), but I’m doing my research, that’s for sure.
Checking in at 5′5″, 135 lbs (or so, I don’t really know).
I agree with Lady, and have often come to the defense of family members who were “born fat,” as it were, and can’t get slimmer than what we’d consider “plump.”
Cosign everything that’s been said about skinny girls not eating. (Though I’ve never considered myself skinny…everyone else made that judgment.)
Cosign on Mo’Nique. I don’t hate her, but I strongly dislike listening to her.
Cosign on the “if I was your size, I’d be in everything” discussion.
That said,
I also hate when bigger people sit next to me on the train (part of the reason I don’t sit anymore) and look at me like I’m supposed to move over to give them more room. (I put my [tote] bag between myself and the window, but still only take up ONE seat.) They wedge themselves in (I know my size is why they sat next to me in the first place - they never sit next to each other), find they’re having difficulty getting past the outside armrest, look at me, look at my bag, then give me a dirty look.
I shrug, as if to say “if you can’t fit in the allotted seat space, I don’t know what to tell you.”
Then they try to sit back (but usually can’t), stare ahead and accept it.
C’est la vie.
…Gravitron?
Can’t…breathe…oh…the…visuals….
Chris, you’ve done it again! This blog is like finding a tiny piece of heaven every day…
Leoninatl: My bad let me clarify my statement. I’m not looking for sould food in Dunwoody, but I havent been able to find any good food in all of Atl that I could write home about. The bbq joint across the street from Miss Ann’s Snack Bar is pretty decent. Glady’s Knights house of chicken and waffle’s should be blown up!
@ 2. MO’NIQUE DOESN’T HAVE BREASTS. That is wrong on every possible level. How in the hell are you 300 pounds and an A cup? I find that offensive even.
I have been screaming this for years!!! How can you be that big with no breasts?! I am smaller than her and I have double d’s. Its like the fat went everywhere except her breasts!
*blushes at The Voice of Reason*
There’s a fat girl in my office who’s adverse to walking four blocks to grab lunch. She only wants burgers, or something really meaty and makes fun of me because I like salads and vegetables and fish. Huh?
And why does insurance cover gastric bypass surgery but not fillings for cavities or braces?
@Lindsay, I have the same experience, and opt to stand also (I sit most of the day anyway). If I do sit, and Fattie wedges here hamhock in, I don’t budge, just to make her feel more uncomfortable. I know it’s cruel, but she’s crueler for being my age and that fat.
Being 5′8″ 195… people probably believe I’m the next stay puff marshmellow man. Well I’m not. I played football and baseball in my younger years and the bone structure of my parents is much denser than normal.
Do I appear chunky right now? Yes. My normal weight is 175… despite standards saying that I should be 140 pounds. With that said, I will now state this. In 2004 I took on the challenge to drop from 190 pounds down to 155 pounds through diet and exercise. Well… the Atkins (which is absolutely horrible for you) and South Beach diets both worked and helped got me down to 155. But when looking at pictures taken of me back then, I now understand why many of my friends asked me “Are you getting enough to eat these days?” I looked horrible… malnurished and almost alien like. This is where the flaw in that awful weight standardization comes in.
I’ve known several women who were between 5′4 and 5′6 who weighed in between 140 and 150 pounds̷