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erieangel -> RE: Fat People (8/13/2011 10:41:27 PM)
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nephandi, I agree with everything you said. I've been overweight my entire life. My mother put be on my first diet when I was just 8. I've long given up "dieting" and try to eat healthy. But like LB has said, it costs much more to eat healthy than it does to eat the unhealthy foods. When my kids were small and I was on SSI I really couldn't afford to eat healthy. I tried to give them balanced meals, but sometimes I couldn't and sometimes I ended up skipping a meal because there wasn't enough food to go around and then later I would eat bread and butter or something just to stop the hunger pains. It was most important that my kids never went to bed hungry. Oddly, even when I was skipping meals, I didn't lose weight, because my body went into "starvation mode" and started storing every single excess calorie. I burned muscle but not fat and became weak and sick from doing so.
I had a client I worked with for about 1 year who is extremely overweight. At 20, he is well over 300 lbs and I find that extremely sad. This kid (anybody younger than my children is automatically a kid in my mind) has spent the better part of the 8 months sitting in his apartment playing video games and watching porn and getting even bigger. And then I saw a picture of him from only 4 years ago. He had been thin!! His psychiatric medications has a lot to do with why he has gained so much weight so quickly.
On the issue of fat Doms. I recently met one. We got along quite and the weight issues didn't seem to bother either of us. We talked every day for weeks, met for coffee a few time. And then we went for a day trip to some land he rents and uses when he hunts. We took along a meal of chicken and corn and a fruit along with diet sodas and had an enjoyable afternoon strolling through the woods. And then it came time to clean up. By the time everything was packed away and we were ready to leave, the sweat was pouring off him and he was short of breath. He tried to explain the sweating by claiming it was the humidity, but it was actually cool that day, not humid. Obviously he is really out of shape. While the weight doesn't bother me, his lack of stamina does. I tend to be active, take a lot of walks, etc., and if somebody can't keep up with me, I have a problem with it. I don't think he liked that I pointed out that it wasn't humid, either, because we've barely talked since.
I can deal with an overweight and even obese Dom--according to the BMI index and every other weight chart, I am obese myself. I don't want to deal with a Dom who is both overweight and unhealthy one who can not pack up a truck and put away a few chairs and clean up the leavings from a lunch without ending up short of breath.
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