Posts by tombrokaw

Put it in guy terms.  Say something like, I'm the New York Yankees and you're the Tampa Bay Rays.

He will get it.

Original Post by muttlover:

Being extremely underweight is not healthy either. But if someone posts something remotely negative about anorexia, everyone goes crazy around here.

When did I try to promote anorexia or being underweight as being healthy? I only criticized the health of overweight people because in the original post, a show was advertised where people were "happy to be fat." That is not healthy.

I don't go crazy. I log onto this site aware that it was aimed towards people looking to lose weight. I also know that my eating disorder was my fault. The media and outside pressures had an influence, but I know that I was responsible for my unhealthy choice. Also, I worked towards getting healthier. The Fitness forum helped guide me to gaining healthy muscle, and the ED Recovery Club II in the Health and Support forum was very helpful.

I apologize if something I said offended you, but honestly, I think you're being very rude by shoving words in my mouth.

Wrong.  Nothing is anyone's fault.  If you think that then you just didn't look hard enough for a scapegoat.  If I were you I would blame Keira Knightley, specifically.

Original Post by monarch777:

Well? Anyone want to play now?

I am glad though, that some of you can see your apparant relation to Adolf Hitler. He was SO intelligent. I can see so much of his teachings in some of you. Why are you on a weight loss forum? THere are fat people here. Reading your "nice" comments. You are not being tolerant, supportive or kind. At all.

Some people are ugly on the inside...

I've seen people turned inside out.  Generally it's pretty ugly in there.

Original Post by tbds:

People never stop with this "starvation mode" myth. The problem is that they have no idea how EFFICIENT the human body is. Its hard to lose fat, especially when you are lean, as the body is highly efficient. As the article says, the "starvation mode" appears to largely be a myth, and has only a moderate effect when people are literally "starving".

The average North American fat Joe-Jane ain't starving. The reason they are not losing weight is due to not being aware of how many calories they are eating, and because they sit on their butts all day and all night.

I have lost a lot of weight recently, pretty quickly at about 3 lbs a week or so consistently, by simpy eating 3 healthy meals a day, and 3 healthysnacks a day, but mathematically making certain my calories were lower than what my body burns, by stopping eating junk foods. Its the Laws of Thermodynamics folks, the human body CANNOT violate laws of nature. As stated, if people are really STARVING, then the body might slow down other processes to conserve energy, including making you lethargic, or go to sleep 2 hrs early, etc.

So don't starve yourself! Eat healthy meals, just with fewer calories, but you have to be PRECISE. You have to count those 15 JuJubes, as they could be 250 calories. Count that Starbucks 500 calorie beast.

You have to accurately count the calories, to make sure you are not eating an extra 200 calories a day, which many people do. Then they wonder why their weight is not changing. Its not changing due to the laws of physics. Its not Magick, its not "starvation mode". People are deceiving themselves as they don't know how efficiently the human body burns energy. Its not rocket science, but its the science of thermodynamics. People are simply deluding themselves into thinking they are eating less, or exercising more than they are. http://health.howstuffworks.com/diet.htm

(this of course does not apply to those with eating disorders, who are harming themselves in a serious way, please see a doctor).

Umm. No.  Starvation mode is REAL.  Just read the anecdotal evidence on this board. 

I think I'd much rather trust the precision measurements of the average american with an average american education than this so called "law of thermodynamics" of yours.

Uh, even if Brad Pitt wanted to kill himself he'd still be hotter/more attractive/whatever than me.  I'd defy anyone to deny that on their mother's grave.

At best confidence is a tiebreaker between two people with comparable physical attractiveness.

Here is my tip, Le Village buffet is awesome. Go eat 5,000 calories there.

Eat about 5 creme brulees.  I did.

Apparently you don't "all" get it. I count zero so far.

No.  Keep eating less. 

I call B.S. 

If you were eating so few calories clearly you would be GAINING weight.

Tech raven I say this with all sincerity - you are evil.  Perhaps more evil than Hitler, but perhaps not, because I believe he once said something bad about fat women too.  And then the holocaust would be the tiebreaker.

I believe some young girls will read what you wrote today and then go home and be bulimic.  This will be your fault, 100%.  I know you think it should only be 99% or maybe at most 97% but no, 100%.

In short, the castigation you receive here is well deserved.

You need to learn that beauty is subjective.  I once saw a science show that said it wasn't, said it had to do with symmetry and health and genetic compatibility or some such thing but I don't like scientists, I'm a creationist.

Anyway, beauty is subjective.  That means the majority get to decide what is beautiful, and in my opinion that vote should be proportioned by weight.

Imagine if a race of aliens wanted to cut my head off and eat me.  Then imagine if two competing schools of thought within that alien race argued whether it would be so much crueler to let me have free use of an exercise gym before cutting my head off, or confining me to a cage.

Imagine how ridiculous that dialogue would seem to me.  Hmm..