"You need to eat more"

[Conundrum 1]

What is with people saying this to thin people?

America is overall, an obese and disgustingly unhealthy nation and that seems to be acceptable by most people; and a lot of people who are thin and in shape are assumed to have an eating disorder or they simply don't eat enough. Maybe it's that they are healhty and not a fat pig like most people. They work out and are active instead of a lazy couch bum who eats twinkies for dinner.

Ever think that maybe all thin people aren't anorexic and they just care enough about their bodies to keep it in shape, or hell, maybe they just have a speedy gonzalez metabolism.

I'd say it's just as insulting to tell someone they need to eat more as it is to tell someone they are fat.

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[dgskydive 0]

Chelle don't eat any more!

Who ever that was is an ass. Or just doesn't appreciate a GRRREEEEAAATTTTT body like yours!!!!

Dom

[scottbre 0]

Too thin is unhealthy too. But I think that when most people say this to someone, what they're really saying is "I wish I had the metabolism that you do". This is probably why no one sees anything wrong with saying "You need to eat more" it's usually intended as a hidden compliment.

On the other hand, some people are too thin and really do need to eat more. If you're so thin that you look unhealthy or emaciated, then you need to eat more.

"Your mother's full of stupidjuice!"
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[skydiver30960 0]

Honestly, I think it's all rooted in a generation gone by. In the earlier 1900's there just wasn't as much affluence as there is now (speaking regarding the US, I know this is still happening in developing nations). People honestly didn't get enough to eat in Depression Era America. Because of this, the perception of a "healthy" person was one who WAS getting enough to eat, i.e. somebody with a few extra pounds on them.

Nowadays, the perception has shifted and skinny/athletic builds are considered "healthy", driven in part by medical science and in part by fashion. BUT, there are still people who cling to the old ways...

Elvisio "dat's what I figgur" Rodriguez

[rehmwa 2]

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I'd say it's just as insulting to tell someone they need to eat more as it is to tell someone they are fat.

Agreed - But it is more PC to slam a thin person. And not PC at all to slam an overweight person.

"you should eat more" is a thinly veiled compliment used to hide jealously (thus the PC aspect) most of the time. Unless a doctor says it.

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[Lindsey 0]

OH WOMAN!!! Of course I never get those "you need to eat more" comments because I have a propensity toward gaining weight. However, I try so hard to eat right and exercize so that I can stay in reasonable shape. It's hard. blah, blah, blah.... There are other things that I hear those "You should...." comments about though, and it DOES get on my nerves too. Be glad you're healthy. Be glad you can look good wearing anything. And by all means, don't let other folks' talk get you down....



Peace~
linz

[Slappie 9]

I was actually just reading something on the BBC about obese and thin people.



Obese people feel that society is becoming more hostile to them, a study has suggested. Their comments have given researchers an insight into how things look from the overweight's point of view.
The study into "obesity through the eyes of the obese" by Heather Pollitt of ICM Research offers fresh understanding of the attitudes of normal weight people to the overweight.

One subject said: "I used to be a normal size and extremely confident. I'm horrified and find it dreadful the way people speak to you [when you're 'obese']. I think the word lazy is equated with being fat. [When you're slim to average] you just don't realise that people just have such a thing about fat people."

Another added: "I do get quite paranoid about it. Last week my son had his open night at school and all day the sweat was lashing off me and I was thinking 'I can't do this, I can't do this, I really can't do this!' I do anything to get out of going out."
The subjects were of varied ages, from 17 to 65. One woman, whose statement was backed by others in the group, indicated that loneliness, boredom and guilt were key factors in getting overweight. Single women, Ms Pollitt says, feel they are more likely to put weight on as they had nobody to curb their eating.
One woman said: "I need someone to tell me to stop eating the teacakes. Without anyone to do so I just eat the whole box of 12. And you know what? As soon as I've finished that I could eat the same all over again."

A different subject said: "It's not that we don't want to do anything about our weight, it's that we've tried everything around, short of stomach-stapling."

And one illustrated some of the problems faced in trying to lose weight, saying: "I've been to the gym and I went to a class there. I went straight to the back of the class because I don't want everyone to see my bits bobbing and bouncing around. All the sticks, the 'thinnies' are at the front. I never went back again, it was so depressing."
Heather Pollitt says conducting the study, which is included in the State of the Nation by the Association of Qualitative Research, has made her change her own views.
"Overweight people think that other people think they're lazy, greedy, and can't be bothered to do anything about their weight.

"I suppose I used to think 'Come on, pull yourself together' - the kind of thing sometimes said to depressed people, which of course is useless. But at the end of it, I felt that they needed help, not criticism."


Attitudes may form at a young age
There are a number of reasons that society is getting more intolerant to the overweight, she says, including the often-cited criticism of thin models.

But she adds that an increased number of overweight young people might have led to intolerant attitudes developing at school, which then translates into adult society.

She concludes that one way of tackling the problem would be for obesity to be reclassified as an illness, and for people to understand that it's a type of addiction, not greed. Society should then "spend time thinking about how we can help the sufferers instead of humiliating them".

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

There is nothing wrong with being thin. Because you are small and thin, you do look unusually thin to people. (It may also be that people comment that way because your face is so slender.) If you are in good shape and being healthy about your lifestyle choices, then you will know it and feel it.

If it makes you feel healthy to exercise and diet, then do it. It's your body, and you should take care of it as you see fit. Losing or gaining a little weight is not the end of the world, either. Most people don't even notice those things. I'm surprised that people would be so rude as to comment about your size to you. Don't worry about those comments, 'Chelle.

Btw, people don't dare tell me to eat more. When you eat as much as I do, people notice.

Stay healthy, girl! See you soon...

[Conundrum 1]

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Btw, people don't dare tell me to eat more. When you eat as much as I do, people notice.

Rest assured I eat like a pig, I just work it all off.

P.S. Diet? I don't even know what that word means.

[Slappie 9]

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Rest assured I eat like a pig, I just work it all off.

You use your vibrating panties to work off the excess calories? If so can I get in line to watch

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[lawrocket 3]

I've been told this a lot over the past several months. So I'm 6'1" and 190. I don't think that's skinny by any stretch. My main problem is that all of my clothes fit me when I was weighing in at 210 a year ago. So I guess it looks like I'm a lot skinnier than I actually am.

You know, I saw a couple of pictures form a recent event and concluded I probably could use some more meat on me. Of course, I'd like to add abot 15 pounds and have a 34 inch waist, but working out is becoming problematic...

I've seen you and I certainly don't think that you need to lose any weight. On the other hand I have seen a few too many glamorized toothpicks out there. This whole anorexic chic stuff is taken too far..

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[ianmdrennan 2]

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One woman, whose statement was backed by others in the group, indicated that loneliness, boredom and guilt were key factors in getting overweight. Single women, Ms Pollitt says, feel they are more likely to put weight on as they had nobody to curb their eating.
One woman said: "I need someone to tell me to stop eating the teacakes. Without anyone to do so I just eat the whole box of 12. And you know what? As soon as I've finished that I could eat the same all over again."

Pathetic. Yes, lets hold their hands cause they're too lazy or lack self control. It's everyone else fault they're fat couldn't POSSIBLY be the fact that they STUFF THEIR FACES DAY IN AND OUT

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"I've been to the gym and I went to a class there. I went straight to the back of the class because I don't want everyone to see my bits bobbing and bouncing around. All the sticks, the 'thinnies' are at the front. I never went back again, it was so depressing."

OMG - these in shape people work out?? HOLY SHIT and there I was thinking it just naturually happened. Of course fatty over here doesn't seem to grasp that concept. Now it's the thin peoples fault she doesn't work out.

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Society should then "spend time thinking about how we can help the sufferers instead of humiliating them".

Sure - eat less. Workout more.

Take some frigging responsibility for gods sake.

Blues,
Ian
ps: Just replying, not directed at you slappy

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[Slappie 9]

Tell us how you really feel ianmdrennan!!

Glad those weren't my words, just some crap I was reading when Chelle posted her thread.

Hell I've got a spare tire around the waist and it all because I'm to lazy to work it off. I drink to much dark beer and excersize to little. So ya I've given myself a "beer belly" hell most of my friends are worse then me.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[ianmdrennan 2]

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Tell us how you really feel ianmdrennan!!

LOL - I feel much better now.

Thanks, I'll be here all week

Blues
Ian

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Hell I've got a spare tire around the waist and it all because I'm to lazy to work it off. I drink to much dark beer and excersize to little.

Yeah but you aren't bitching what a victim you are - therein lies the big difference IMO

Performance Designs Factory Team

[Ron 10]

Without pics. we can't be sure if you are the right weight....

So attach some with as little clothes as possible so we can check. We will fource ourselves to look at them, and let you know.

All in the name of your health of course

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

[Slappie 9]

perv!






Send the pics in private Chelle, I'll give you 1 on 1 consultations.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[Ron 10]

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perv!

If you even think i'll take that as an insult.....think again.

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." -- Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334

[ChrisL 2]

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twinkies for dinner.

MMMMMmmmm! twinkies

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My mighty steed

[Slappie 9]

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perv!

If you even think i'll take that as an insult.....think again.

Not really, but I was trying to take the high road and get a pic or two via PM.

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[Remster 30]

Are you sure that person was talking about food?

Remster

[ianmdrennan 2]

bwwaahahahaha

Remi is back. Thought I smelled something

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[Slappie 9]

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Are you sure that person was talking about food?

Wouldn't that comment then be "you need to get ate more" not "you need to eat more" ....

"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

[Beetlegeiss 0]

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Obese people feel that society is becoming more hostile to them, a study has suggested.

That's because they are. If I can't sit in an airline seat with my wife because their wide load trailer truck of an ass and their gunt, I'm going to be hostile. What's next, "Are you gonna eat that pickle?" Get with the cargo or sit by the wing before you fuck up the center of gravity and kill us all.

Holy shit, it reminds me of a friend who was engaged to what I would consider a female tank. She saw my wife working out and on the treadmill and said "Oh, I could never do that. I'd puke."

Gee, I never would have guessed doing ANY exercise, besides lifting the fucking fork to your god damn mouth, would make you puke. I'm actually surprised it would make you puke. God forbid any of that precious food would happen to prematurely fall out of your mouth.

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Their comments have given researchers an insight into how things look from the overweight's point of view.

How things look from the overweight's point of view: LIKE FOOD!

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One woman, whose statement was backed by others in the group, indicated that loneliness, boredom and guilt were key factors in getting overweight.

You're lonely because you're fat. Sorry, but the new found collection of cottage cheese between your folds just doesn't turn me on. You shouldn't be bored as it seems EATING has becoming your JOB and your HOBBY. And you should feel guilty...that was my fucking dinner.

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One woman said: "I need someone to tell me to stop eating the teacakes. Without anyone to do so I just eat the whole box of 12. And you know what? As soon as I've finished that I could eat the same all over again."

Retard. R-E-T-A-R-D! Find another Chunky Monkey to hang out with. Then you can fight over the whole box of 12 teacakes. Pretty good chance that you'll only be able to eat six of them.

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A different subject said: "It's not that we don't want to do anything about our weight, it's that we've tried everything around, short of stomach-stapling."

Maybe you just need to have your stomach removed and your bowels/colon place directly above your rib cage, then you can shit out of your chest.

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"I've been to the gym and I went to a class there. I went straight to the back of the class because I don't want everyone to see my bits bobbing and bouncing around. All the sticks, the 'thinnies' are at the front. I never went back again, it was so depressing."

Don't tell me...then you immediately went home and started to gorge yourself on teacakes? And those aren't "bits", they're flesh logs. They don't bob and bounce, they roll and destroy. And probably smell. Wash between your loaves.

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There are a number of reasons that society is getting more intolerant to the overweight, she says, including the often-cited criticism of thin models.

Stop looking at my lunch.

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But she adds that an increased number of overweight young people might have led to intolerant attitudes developing at school, which then translates into adult society.

Well, when the bullies skip stealing your lunch money and just go right for your lunch...

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She concludes that one way of tackling the problem would be for obesity to be reclassified as an illness, and for people to understand that it's a type of addiction, not greed.

Give me a break.

I'm addicted to heroin: stop shooting up.
I'm addicted to alcohol: stop drinking.
I'm addicted to gambling: stop gambling.
I'm addicted to sex: lucky fucker.

About a year ago I ate like a pig. What happened when I noticed my top button wasn't fastening like it should and I went from 145 to 160 pounds? I STARTED WORKING OUT! I STOPPED EATING SHIT! I STOPPED OVER EATING.

I think AIDS or cancer is a little bit more important than your over abundance of fat cells. MAYBE for a small percentage there's that hyperthyroid crap, where no matter what they do, they get fat. But I'd love to know what percentage stretched their fat asses by chugging food via the help of a cement mixer.

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"spend time thinking about how we can help the sufferers instead of humiliating them".

Put locks on the fridge and put out "You Must Be This Skinny To Eat Here" signs at restaurants.

This is right up there with the fraudulent lawsuits against the fast food restaurants. You didn't know that crap was bad for you? Do you REALLY need to see the ingredients? Face it, eating at McDonald's and giving a hoot about the nutritional value of that shit is like thinking you're going to win Russian roulette with an uzi.

If you've read this and I've offended you then maybe you should put down your fork and wobble down to Golds Gym.

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

***Rest assured I eat like a pig, I just work it all off.

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