Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.

Lol this is pritty funny ,

I do however think its strange how culturally its ok to laff and beliitel fat people but it would be socially unacceptable to mock sum one that is anorexic.

Im pritty sure most people would rather not be fat/obise ( to the exstent that its crippling) and its due to phisoligy , depresoin , lack of education or other factors largely outside of the individuals control as to why they end up super fat.

-Yeah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck,
you got a copy on me Pigpen? C'mon.

-Ah yeah, ten-four Pigpen, for sure, for sure.
By golly it's clean clear to Flagtown. C'mon.

-Yeah, that's a big ten-four there Pigpen. Yeah, we definitely got the
front door good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy!

"The real question now is why can't she get those arms to push her on flat ground?"

How is she ever going to get to be as fat as her friend if she does that kind of exercise?

They see me rollin'. They hatin'. Tailgatin'
...and tryin' to catch me towin' fatty...

>> ^westy:

Lol this is pritty funny ,
I do however think its strange how culturally its ok to laff and beliitel fat people but it would be socially unacceptable to mock sum one that is anorexic.
Im pritty sure most people would rather not be fat/obise ( to the exstent that its crippling) and its due to phisoligy , depresoin , lack of education or other factors largely outside of the individuals control as to why they end up super fat.


I think it's the powered wheelchairs that get people past their inhibitions and gets them laughing. For some reason picturing it as taking place in a deep south state adds something too...

It's ok to laugh at fat people doing fat people things (like being this incredibly lazy). However, laughing at fat people trying to jog or get into shape is unnecessary. We should applaud their (statistically futile) attempts at gaining control over that aspect of their lives.

I never feel bad about laughing at anything. Lacking compunction is awesome.

pretty good... I reserve my laugh for a video with >2 members forming a chubby train

>> ^gwiz665:

Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.


As someone who is currently (perennially) trying to lose weight, I wish it was something as simple as running around the block a few times. I trained for a marathon two years ago and simply stopped losing weight during the process. I remained 30 lbs above my goal weight, and ran (and finished) the marathon like that. For people who are not naturally lean, it is the difficult (near impossible) combination of proper exercise with proper diet that causes them to often simply give up. It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity.

As to the video, in this particular case, laughing is totally appropriate. But when it's a fat person by themselves, I am usually just saddened. And I always remember that phrase, "Are you riding a scooter because you're fat, or fat because you are riding a scooter?"

I just watched "Fat Head" a response to "Super-size Me". It contained a lot of appealing facts that I will never bother to fact check. If you, too, are mentally lazy like me, you should watch it. It's low-budget but it's amusing.>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^gwiz665:
Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.

As someone who is currently (perennially) trying to lose weight, I wish it was something as simple as running around the block a few times. I trained for a marathon two years ago and simply stopped losing weight during the process. I remained 30 lbs above my goal weight, and ran (and finished) the marathon like that. For people who are not naturally lean, it is the difficult (near impossible) combination of proper exercise with proper diet that causes them to often simply give up. It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity.
As to the video, in this particular case, laughing is totally appropriate. But when it's a fat person by themselves, I am usually just saddened. And I always remember that phrase, "Are you riding a scooter because you're fat, or fat because you are riding a scooter?"

>> ^rottenseed:

I just watched "Fat Head" a response to "Super-size Me". It contained a lot of appealing facts that I will never bother to fact check. If you, too, are mentally lazy like me, you should watch it. It's low-budget but it's amusing.>> ^MaxWilder:
>> ^gwiz665:
Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.

As someone who is currently (perennially) trying to lose weight, I wish it was something as simple as running around the block a few times. I trained for a marathon two years ago and simply stopped losing weight during the process. I remained 30 lbs above my goal weight, and ran (and finished) the marathon like that. For people who are not naturally lean, it is the difficult (near impossible) combination of proper exercise with proper diet that causes them to often simply give up. It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity.
As to the video, in this particular case, laughing is totally appropriate. But when it's a fat person by themselves, I am usually just saddened. And I always remember that phrase, "Are you riding a scooter because you're fat, or fat because you are riding a scooter?"



I've read about "Fat Head" and it makes a compelling argument. It is theoretically possible to have a healthy weight while eating crappy food. However, we shouldn't be looking at what a single person can accomplish while on a mission to debunk a fear-mongering documentary. We should be looking at the statistics of the category of people who are obese: what is caused their obesity and what is preventing them from losing the fat?

I have no specifics to back up my current opinion. It is a position I have decided upon after many years of personal experience and reading a wide variety of books on getting in shape. It is my belief that the core ingredients of fast food are simple carbohydrates and saturated fats. These ingredients have a 1-2 punch on the metabolism, spiking the insulin response which pushes calories into formation of fat, then crashing the insulin response making the body feel hungry again. Riding this cycle over the long term creates larger and larger appetites, encouraging the consumer to purchase more and more food. Bad for the body, but good for the restaurants. Protein can help reduce the insulin spike, but fast food usually comes with very fatty protein, so that's not much of a help. And vegetables aren't very tasty, so they are easily overlooked.

What I'm saying is that people who are overweight are trapped in a cycle they don't understand, and even if they do understand it, it is very hard to break out. It is literally an addiction like smoking, except you can't quit cold turkey (pun not intended). You can't stop eating. You have to keep eating, but choosing foods you don't enjoy because your habits have been warped by the cheap food industry.

I don't think we should legislate. I'll be the first to stand up and say don't blame McDonald's for your weight problem (even though it's kinda their fault). I'm saying we need to educate. And make that education based on clinical studies, not lobbyist funding like the USDA's myplate program. Teach people the proper balance of protein, carbs, and fat. Teach them the proper forms those nutrients should come in (lean and whole, not processed and sugary). Teach them the benefits of vegetables. This information has got to be in our faces so that we can't ignore it.

But even if we do that, this generation is a lost cause. I work my ass off to get in shape, but I keep falling off the wagon because the craving for fast food gets to be too much. That "high" from a sugary insulin spike calls to me. I'm not kidding that it's an addiction. We need to teach people that, so that kids and parents can keep away and not get hooked.

They should roll it back to the ocean or at least splash it with water...

>> ^gwiz665:

Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.


Mein gott. I have a fear of being over 250 pounds again, and I'm not obese. After seeing this I'm going to run 5 marathons in one week. Shit is fucking scary.

>> ^MaxWilder:

>> ^gwiz665:
Jebus christ. I mean, seriously, they should have layed off the big macs back in school. America, you need to run your ass around the block a few times.

As someone who is currently (perennially) trying to lose weight, I wish it was something as simple as running around the block a few times. I trained for a marathon two years ago and simply stopped losing weight during the process. I remained 30 lbs above my goal weight, and ran (and finished) the marathon like that. For people who are not naturally lean, it is the difficult (near impossible) combination of proper exercise with proper diet that causes them to often simply give up. It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity.
As to the video, in this particular case, laughing is totally appropriate. But when it's a fat person by themselves, I am usually just saddened. And I always remember that phrase, "Are you riding a scooter because you're fat, or fat because you are riding a scooter?"


As polarizing as Nutrition Science is, (Whatever the fuck that means), there are three keys to losing weight. Diet, Weightlifting (or whatever muscle working exercise you do), and Cardio.

I'm not a PHD in whatever Nutritionists get PHDs in. But I do know that the best way to burn fat, over time, is getting you're Basal Rate Metabolism up. The best way to do that is to eat less more often.

The next best thing is to work the large muscle groups on your body. You don't have to be a body builder, but you want those muscles to work.

The last important thing on the fat burning trifecta is cardio. 20 minutes a day, or 30 minutes a day depending on what kind of cardio you do. I skip a day because of high impact running, and lifting.

The last thing you should always remember? You won't lose 20 pounds in a period of 2 weeks. You probably won't lose 5 pounds in a week. I went from about 270 to 255 in a year; with just cardio (boxing and running). I went from 255 to 243 in 3 months with diet, weight lifting, and cardio.

The trick is to cut all the excess fat. Then when it starts to get hard to lose weight you know you're actually making progress.

The reason you didn't lose weight when training for a marathon is because you were training for a marathon, not to lose weight. What I mean to say is that, most likely, you're body was storing up energy for the marathon.

In short three things: Diet, (Not going on a diet, but how and what you eat), Muscle Exercise, and Cardio.

What really cracks me up is the almost unheard "boing" noise that seems to break their silence and cues the laughter.

I warsh myself with a rag on a stick.

There is also mounting evidence that dieting in general won't make some people lose weight (half-assed citation). Really, the best way is to get into the habit of regular exercise. Caloric restriction will do little but make you depressed.

Oh, I feel terrible for laughing at that.

>> ^NordlichReiter:

The reason you didn't lose weight when training for a marathon is because you were training for a marathon, not to lose weight. What I mean to say is that, most likely, you're body was storing up energy for the marathon.
In short three things: Diet, (Not going on a diet, but how and what you eat), Muscle Exercise, and Cardio.


I figure the long distance training made it impossible (and unwise) for me to maintain the calorie deficit in my diet. Now I'm looking for 5k events. While still motivating, I don't feel the pressure to replenish my reserves after a training run.

These days I'm doing well with a balanced diet (calorie restricted as much as I can stand), cardio (running and walking on alternate days), and weight training (working my way up to P90X).

The video above may be funny, but it also is motivating! If I let myself go, I would end up like them by the time I'm 50.

hahah she so fat! and the wheelchairs lol! looks like gilbert grapes mom escaped! their misfortune is lol bcz its not me or someone i know! omg lololol roflcopter!


Yeah, not so much. *downvote

I kinda agree with lucky on this.

It may be ridiculous to look at, but at least the larger of the two women is out of the house. Hell, both of them are.

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to see or read about people who stay indoors because they feel they're too fat to go outside. Be it because of a lack of mobility, or be it because they're just scared of being laughed it, just like what's going on now.

I'm afraid I'll have to downvote this as well.

Thats an interesting point about caloric restriction, as someone who tends not to be able to eat or sleep I also have massive mood swings, related?

I also feel bad about this video, the angle of fat people even being afraid to go out for fear of ridicule made me think...

>> ^bmacs27:

There is also mounting evidence that dieting in general won't make some people lose weight (half-assed citation). Really, the best way is to get into the habit of regular exercise. Caloric restriction will do little but make you depressed.

I've struggled to get up to a healthy weight for most of my life but I can make one weight-loss suggestion: Get an ulcer.

In the first 2 weeks after mine first flared up I lost almost 25lbs. I was only about 145 to start with.

That will be 13 years ago in August and while I now sit comfortably around 170-175, I don't think my guts will ever work quite right.

Trying to gain 40+ lbs over those years, though, gave me a little insight into what it might be like to try to lose as much weight -- dietary adjustment, exercise, and a ton of time and patience.

Still, I never formed a battery-powered caravan with other sickly folks. Fat or not, that's kinda goofy.

I think what's scary is how easily one can devalue a fellow human being

I actually didn't find this funny so much as strange. I know everyone who has a cell phone has the ability to record a video...but come on. Maybe I am too skeptical when it comes to watching vids taken by people who just happen to be there at the right time to click record.

Is laughing at this video different than laughing at this one?

http://videosift.com/video/Worst-Playground-Idea-Ever

In both vids the intent is to present the misfortune of others as humor. I am not passing judgement on either subject matter of either vid....but it is what it is.

Damn! This commentary thread just makes me so damn HUNGRY!! Is it too late to get a Big Mac? God, I hope not!!! Big Macs are SOOO YUMMY!! (with fries, please) yom yom yom!

"It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity."


Big Mac: ~$3.50
Large fries: ~$1.89
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Can of tuna: ~$1
Box of macaroni: ~$0.79

On the contrary, it's generally much cheaper to buy and prep for yourself than to buy such convenience/fast/prepped foods. You can make an entire tuna casserole for less than the cost of the fries alone, and for 1/3 of the total cost of the fast food combo.

But can you eat it in one sitting? I bet these ladies can...>> ^viewer_999:

"It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity."

Big Mac: ~$3.50
Large fries: ~$1.89
-----
Can of tuna: ~$1
Box of macaroni: ~$0.79
You can make an entire tuna casserole for less than the cost of the fries alone.

>> ^viewer_999:

"It also an unhappy truth that the cheapest food is the least healthy, so poor people are much more likely to be malnourished into obesity."

Big Mac: ~$3.50
Large fries: ~$1.89
-----
Can of tuna: ~$1
Box of macaroni: ~$0.79
On the contrary, it's generally much cheaper to buy and prep for yourself than to buy such convenience/fast/prepped foods. You can make an entire tuna casserole for less than the cost of the fries alone, and for 1/3 of the total cost of the fast food combo.


Man, as horrific as tuna casserole already is, I would hope you put more in it than just tuna and mac.

Discipline! Or it's the wheelchair train for you!

If you look at the other videos after this, you see this is actually several minutes after the guys first saw them and started shooting video. These women are being stalked and harassed over their weight.

I'm kinda pissed I upvoted before finding that out...

Fast food is really damn expensive... up to about half the cost of a killer restaurant now to feed my crew... not worth it.. gross.. would rather eat killer restaurant food half as often

>> ^westy:

Lol this is pritty funny ,
I do however think its strange how culturally its ok to laff and beliitel fat people but it would be socially unacceptable to mock sum one that is anorexic.
Im pritty sure most people would rather not be fat/obise ( to the exstent that its crippling) and its due to phisoligy , depresoin , lack of education or other factors largely outside of the individuals control as to why they end up super fat.


I'm not referring to slightly overweight people here, disclaimer;

I'm sorry but i don't believe that. I'm fairly sure only a very small amount can blame physiology. Depression perhaps, but i'd say from my experience only a small fraction of depressed people turn to COPIOUS (and let's face it, that's what it would require) eating to help them out.

Lack of education i don't believe whatsoever - no one is gonna turn round and go "Hang on, what? Eating 3 buckets of KFC a day makes you fat? WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME! I'VE WASTED MY LIFE!" Haven't humans known about food (too much = fat, too little = starvation) almost as a basic instinct but certainly as a learned property of that thing we crave from birth? Could a human REALLY go for a day without reading, hearing or otherwise gleaning some knowledge of calories or weight gain in the current world?

Maybe i'm wrong, i find it as hard as anyone to lose weight but i just make a plan and stick to that plan. And the people who sit there (other than medical problems) i just think - not enough willpower. Just get up and do it.

@MaxWilder - i've had to lose weight in the past (due to depression, no less, but only because the tablets caused me to retain weight), and it's simple maths - if you burn more calories than you take in, you use up some of the energy that your body has stored (energy has to come from somewhere). Willpower is all you need, and exercise/diet becomes easier the longer you keep it up, it becomes habit. As for eating healthily - surely not? I can get food which would last me for 3 or 4 days of decent eating for the same price that it would cost me to get a KFC meal. And if we're talking a KFC meal suitable for someone weighing 350 pounds then i could feed myself for over a week i think. I don't think it's that hard unless you are one of the very few people who have something medically wrong with them.

Or am i wrong and "lack of willpower" is now seen as something that you can't help? Because i've always seen lack of willpower as lazyness. I feel almost like it's getting too easy to blame a label. I would get up and exercise but i've got <x>. Maybe you have willpower but it's not my fault, i have <y>. Am i a bastard for thinking that, no, i feel the same way, i don't want to move - humans like electrons want to be in their lowest energy state. But i just god damn do it anyway.